This week brought us another team challenge, always a favorite with the bitchiness and cattiness they engender. Unfortunately, there were no major team meltdowns this week. Perhaps with the growing professionalism of the contestants, we’re seeing a reduction in the major ego clashes.
The one exception, of course was Ricky’s team, where Victorya showed herself to be a passive-aggressive bitchcakes. You could tell that she ducked being team captain because she didn’t want to place herself at risk of a full if the team fucked up, and installed Ricky as leader because she thought she should push him around. Whadda ya know, but when it down to it, she couldn’t be a follower and totally undermined Ricky. As far as I could tell, the other teammate, Elisa, just did her job. I used to be a Victorya fan, thinking she might have the chops to quietly go all the way, but now she’s lost me. Ricky’s a little drama queen, but I sorta like him, and I’m glad he’s sticking around for another week at least. Elisa’s a freak, but an amusing one.
Jillian, Rami and Kevin’s team clearly won. They tried to play up the drama of Kevin’s not getting his shorts done on time, but he pulled a damn good garment out of his ass at the last second. Going down the runway, I liked everything they did, and they seemed to be cohesive and work the themes. Kevin is my favorite to win it all, not because of anything he did on the show, but because he was a bartender at Fred’s, a restaurant near me, and did a lot of work on some fundraising I was involved in. Rami’s work has been uniformly good to amazing, and I wouldn’t be surprised to win. Jillian’s neither fish nor fowl to me.
Chris, Steven and Sweet P’s collection simply wasn’t a collection. Chris’s outfit was stupid, and the other weren’t much better. They were sort of screwed because they had three things that really didn’t go together, but they should have gotten creative. I’ve decided I like Sweet P, because she really seems, well, sweet. Steven seems like a nice guy as well. Chris, on the other hand, seems to have a significant inner bitch, and not much leadership. When the two losing teams were shown, I picked him to be Auf’ed and I’m glad I was right as he just doesn’t do anything for me.
As for the fourth group, they were total non-entities this week.
All in all, I was disappointed in the lack of drama this week. I wonder what the big reveal will be next week.
