Cheaters Never Prosper* - 
by EdHIll
*Except When They Do
Project Runway has a hold on me. I gots the Runway fever. Last weeks cliffhanger episode was a true TVgasm. One that had better get nominated for a year end Golden Gasm or I will quit TVgasm altogether and create my own TV blog. I'll call it TVejaculation or something. Unlike fake dramatic cliffhangers, this one had real honest too goodness human drama caught by the cameras. Did Jeffrey cheat on his collection? Will he be disqualified from the show on the day of the final runway competition? Not to mention the fact that this is already the finale episode with the Fashion Week show and crowning of our new winner, so it was an episode full of drama already.
So it was with sadness to see in this weeks episode the entire drama get resolved within minutes. Very anticlimactic. Which is tough because I'm someone who loves climaxes. That aside it was still an exciting episode. Fashion Week! It was so emotional even Tim Gunn got misty.
The show starts where the last episode left off. Jeff has been accused of getting outside help on his collection and now that Tim has said the producers are investigating it he is in a panic. Laura is defending her choice by saying that it is like the athlete on steroids. You mean Jeffrey nuts are going to shrivel up and he's gonna get really bad acne? Gross. Laura tells us that of all the designers he is the only one with a full shop of designers and patternmakers there to help him. She then tries to smooth things over with Jeff, who's not really in the mood. He tells Laura that he is upset that she would "question my integrity", to which Laura quizzically says she was not doing. She was just saying you cheated, not that you don't have integrity. Two different things. But still, Jeffrey just screams integrity doesn't he? In fact it's tattooed on his back, so you know he has it.
As Jeff is stewing (that's an image for you isn't it?) he gets a phone call from Tim. Jeffrey then goes out on the terrace for some privacy. And can we just call it the roof now please? I know terraces. I've worked with terraces. You sir, are no terrace. 
You're a roof with window access. Tim says they are missing some receipts for the leather pleating that he had done on his shorts. He wants to see if he can get copies. Jeff isn't so sure because the place he got them done is kind of "Sanford and Son". When he asks Tim what will happen if he can't get them, Tim just says "I don't know". Jeffrey gets on the phone calling Park Pleating for copies if the receipts. When he gets on he says "This is Jeffrey from Apocalypse" which is funny because I forgot that he named his clothing company the name of a D.C. comics super villain. Jeff's gotta keep up with that badass image I guess. Can't really design for rock and rollers with the name "Puppy Dogs and Candy Canes LLC". Although I heard Kara Janx named her clothing line "Dahnguh LTD". Its main purpose is to warn you of dahn-guh. No tresspass!
The one thing I can take away from Jeffrey in these moments on the show is the true fear you can see on his face and in his demeanor. He tells us that "I'm scared to death I'm not going to be showing in Bryant Park" and we believe it. Of course by that he means get disqualified and only show as a decoy because we all know he showed, but for TV's sake they just say he won't show. This kind of true human sturm und drang makes for some awesome TV. Real drama, not that fake Jonathan and Victoria bullshit. Alas it was not to last.
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