You do not know how hard it was to not march into my room at 11:01 last night and post this. So angry!

So the challenge was to create a prom dress for one of a gaggle of New Jersey Catholic school girls. Sounds like fun, right? (Minus the New Jersey school girl part.) For most of the episode it WAS fun, and the very nice designers were all supportive and cheerful and delightful. And then at the runway, things went horribly wrong.

It's funny, because I was thinking when the episode started that the judges have pretty much gotten it right this season; that there haven't been any egregiously early  bootings a la Allison in Season 3. So I think I might have jinxed it. This was one of those cases where the judges got just about everything wrong, from the selections for the top to the selections for the bottom and especially in the winner and loser.

I've been saying that Kevin's getting robbed for weeks, but boy did he really get screwed last night. Admittedly his dress did suck--there wasn't a thing I
liked about it--but it was in no way worse than the monstrosity Ricky (RICKY!) sent down the runway. I started getting worried when the Hammer of Foreshadowing started pounding via Chris as poor Kevin's personal Greek chorus ("Fix the heee-eeem, fix the heee-eeem!"). I mean, it did look cheap. But it wasn't the worst thing on the runway by far and if you look at his overall body of work as compared to, oh, I don't know, RICKY's, it was a crock. A total crock.

Ricky is undeniably now the Vincent of the season. They keep dragging him along for reasons that escape me. Do they think he's good television, with all the crying and the ugly pleather hat that seems to be permanently attached to his head? Because he is not good television. I want to fast-forward whenever he's on. The judges even said last night that every week he sends down something ugly that is poorly finished. Then why is he still here? You don't like his designs, you don't like his construction--send the loser home! He's still less obnoxious than Vincent, but not by much. And he becomes more and more delusional as each week passes. He thought that hot mess looked good! That hem was INSANE!

As for Christian...I don't know. I actually didn't hate the dress, although the back was for sure a nightmare. Much like his client. I agree that he handled her with, like, zero tact, but she was straight-up obnoxious, that classic teenager who knows more than you do and has been told her entire life
that she is the most special thing EVER. Entitlement is a disease, and it is killing our country. Anyway, he handled the situation really poorly, and his defeatist attitude made him even less sympathetic. But I still kind of felt bad, because those judges let him have it. I do like Christian. I don't know why. He's totally supposed to be the bitchy villain, but...I don't know. He's oddly endearing to me.

Victorya for the win? Surely you jest. I quite liked the overall design of the dress, but that bedazzled breastplate thing looked straight out of Fashion Bug's clearance rack. Hideous. And I didn't like the color, either; way too strong for that girl's pale skin. I wasn't as enamored of Sweet P's dress as everyone
else. It was gorgeous, no doubt, but so simple that it looked like something you could have gotten right off the rack. But when it came down to the two of them for the win, I was going for Sweet P all the way.

I knew Rami was in for it as soon as I saw that color, and I agree that cut was very Woman of a Certain Age. But I thought it was well-constructed, as opposed to Jillian's, whose boobs were all over the place. It figures that the one week I like Chris March's outfit he gets completely ignored. And Kit's had some personality, but it wasn't a prom dress. I mean, what girl would actually wear that to a prom?

Overall I was really excited when I learned about the challenge (prom! I ddn't really like mine, but I love the idea of it), but mostly disappointed by the results. I'm especially annoyed at Kevin's tossing. And heaven help me, if we don't jettison Ricky within the next two episodes there will be blood. At this
point I like almost every designer left and if that hack continues to advance while others are left bruised and abused on the side of the catwalk, I
will...just sit on my ass and watch, I guess. But I will not be happy about it!