ANTM: 8.3
I sat poised with laptop and a cup of coffee ready for the onslaught, and cry me a river wasn’t this a better episode or what.
It started off with a montage of makeover freak outs from previous cycles and then Tyra comes out to wave her magic wand. Blondes become brunettes, long to short and vice versa. She declares that all crappy weaves and wigs sew on are to be banished from her kingdom, and she gives the modelettes a firm pep talk about how they are not restyling them just for the hell of it but to make the girls better models slash products (I am of course paraphrasing). Pretty much all the girls took the changes on the chin. Only Brittany and Jael have a bit of a weep. Out of the two Jael totally had the rights to sob her heart out. After eight hours getting a weave put in the powers that be decided that ti wasn’t working and that it would have to come out. Jael, I had a lump in my throat for you. Group hug.
So far, the girl I most want to slap is Brittany who would not stop complaining about her gorgeous red curly weave, so she shall hence forth be known as ‘The Glum One’. Then Jael gets some devastating news, but she handles it really well (just like a top model would) and sees the competition as a distraction. The challenge was okay, they needed to create their own make-up look, and the judges were tactful as they told one girl she had gone for a “strong look”. Against all odds The Glum One won.
For the photo shoot the girls got to be actual eye candy. Naked eye candy holding ice cream. Of course Glum Girl did not want to strip, a little naive me thinks in this industry, and of course she went on to nailed the shoot. She is incredibly photogenic. To make up for the muted makeover reactions Tyra commented on the outfits the girls wore to elimination - priceless. The final two were Diana and Cassandra, and after much deliberation Cassandra went home.
The CW, America’s Next Top Model, Tyra Banks


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