Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Wall of confusion
By Miss Alli | Season 3 | Episode 6 | Aired on 02.23.2005
The first guy says that if he were driving by, he'd think it was "just another nice mural." Tana flinches visibly. Most painful of all, the next guy says, "It's the stereotypical view of what Harlem looks like to some people, and not in reality what it is." The next guy says that the art is nice, but it doesn't make him interested in the game. The tape stops. Trump turns to Tara and points out that the idea of the task was to sell the game, right? Trump breaks it to Net Worth that the Sony PlayStation guys just didn't think the salesmanship they needed to see was present in the ad. So at last, Magna has won its second task. Trump tells them that their reward will be advertising-related, in that they will be meeting with "the greatest photographer in the world," Patrick Demarchelier. And you can tell he's the best ever, because he shoots the covers of big magazines like Esquire. Hm. The guy gets $60,000 to $100,000 for a portrait, and for their reward, he'll be taking a portrait of each of them. Now that is a worthwhile reward, in my opinion. It certainly beats a damn picnic on Trump's lawn or swooping around in a helicopter trying not to barf up the champagne. Trump congratulates Alex on the win and his exemption next week. Net Worth, on the other hand, is heading for the Boardroom. Dun-dun-dun!
Up in the Love Palace, Tara sulks. She says that the loss was very hard, and she needed time alone to "gather [her] thoughts," by which she means "assign blame." She basically says so herself, that she's going to sit down and analyze all the failures, and that they weren't hers. "I don't believe I own this," she says. Just once, I would love to see a project manager look into an interviewing camera and say, "My fault. Seriously. The entire fuck-up? My fault. I blew it so bad I'm surprised I wasn't fired in the middle of the task." I suppose no one can be perfectly courageous.
Photographer's studio. Models. Magna. Bren flirting with models. Models treating Bren like a pet. Alex being jealous. Trump showing up to look at the models. Pictures being snapped. Alex making a clumsy comparison between being in Harlem and being at the top of the world, because he just hasn't said enough things he'll regret this week quite yet. People smiling and showing their teeth.
The members of Magna are back at the L-Pal, where they are hanging their portraits on the wall. I do think those are nice pictures. Not exciting, perhaps, but nice. And perfectly chosen for these people, because what does a reality show contestant love more than his or her own image? Nothing, that's what. They'd only like them better if they were shinier.