Episode Report Card Jeff Long: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT You Keep Pulling Me Back In!
By Jeff Long | Season 7 | Episode 11 | Aired on 04.01.2010
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.Wow, all of the bitchy guys give it up for Anthony and his good run. Bye, Anthony. Heidi tells them that they will be designing for a difficult celebrity. Joan Rivers is my first thought. It's, um, Heidi. Wow. I want to shoot this show. It's a red carpet look and Heidi tells them that it needs to be "more simple." It will be for her once she is no longer with child. They have a dossier that serves as an example of what she wears. Jonathan and Mila are confused. Maya decides to leave the competition. She says she's "not ready to go all the way." Wow. I don't know what to say. She says she's not fully developed. Huh? I. Don't know what to think. I guess I'm impressed. But, really I'm just confused. Bye, boring Maya. Everyone is confused, just like moi. I just wrote "moi." Seth Aaron tells us to fuck off if we're wondering about Maya, because it's really hard to design. Anthony is brought back! Everyone seems happy for him to be back. Jonathan does his usual cut-out crazy textile. Seth Aaron's model gets a Donna Karan job and leaves the competition. That means my Irish monster Cerri is back in! Heidi looks around the workroom. She is hormonal yet accurate. There's death music when Mila shows her design. Heidi hates Jonathan's fabric. The models are shocked, SHOCKED, by the departure of Maya. Jonathan tries to start over in a really terrifying way. Everybody makes an effort to show something new to the judges. This is so miserable. We see a lot of the designers at the bluefly.com wall. It frightens me. The guest judge is Jessica Alba. She looks like an alien. All of the dresses, save maybe Mila's, look pretty good. I'm sorry, but I think Jessica Alba is completely irrelevant. The judges really love Anthony's dress! Jonathan gets grief for rushing his look -- it was his third dress for the challenge. Emilio wins the challenge. Anthony wins too! Jessica says that she would like to wear his dress. Jonathan is out, which makes me hate this season irrevocably.
Want more? The full recap starts right below!Previously: The designers got to design their own textiles. Emilio won the challenge and Maya came in second, which really bothered her. Anthony, having created yet another basic cocktail dress silhouette, was out. Jonathan didn't choose my girl Cerri for his model and she was ultimately out of the competition.
It's morning at the Atlas building and Seth Aaron and Jay are having coffee. They remark that it's quieter without Anthony around. Seth Aaron says that, without Anthony, they will missing "a lot of chatter, a lot of singing, a lot of jacked-up bullshit." Hmm. Then, because perhaps he realized that, despite stupid competitive reality show rules dictating that you always spit on the carcass of the recently departed, it's just plain rude and worthless to talk shit about Anthony, Seth Aaron adds that all of those things that they will be missing mean that they will be missing "a lot of fun." Nice cover. Emilio finds a way to do both, condescendingly noting in an interview that Anthony had "an amazing run." He says that people had written him off and he showed more than people thought he could. All that's true, but there's still an undertone of "he never stood a chance against me."
Jay says that, with only six designers remaining, the competition is getting intense. In the girls' apartment, Maya tells Mila that her toast is ready. Mila remembers that the judges were kind of brutal to everyone in the last challenge, so she's feeling very nervous. But, she notes that her age and experience have taught her that she just needs to brush herself off and move on. That and ONLY THAT is what I'm really looking forward to perhaps feeling one day with advancing age. So far, my age and experience have taught me to respond to anxiety with the fetal position and gin. Maya interviews that she's proud to be the youngest person in the competition, but she's starting to feel insecure about her lack of experience. She adds that she guesses she hasn't seen anything yet, which, OK, I guess.
At the runway, Heidi greets the designers. She says that it's getting harder and harder for the judges to decide who will go home each week. More than ever, it's important that their designs set them apart from the other designers. For this challenge, she tells them that they will be designing for a celebrity. This celebrity has a reputation for being opinionated and knowing what "they" want. Seth Aaron lets out a little groan. She adds that she's glad that she's not in the designers' shoes. Tim will be giving them the details in the workroom. And, she's off. Seth Aaron interviews that he would be "making shit up" if he said he wasn't nervous. Jay says that they are all excited.