Episode Report Card Jeff Long: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Mirror, Mirror
By Jeff Long | Season 11 | Episode 10 | Aired on 03.28.2013
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.Ah, bitches everywhere. Layana with her semi-compromised speech talking about how Richard should have gone home instead of Samantha. At like 5 am. And Michelle is agreeing as she’s eating. Seriously, I hate these girls. Michelle seems to think that if it were boys against girls, the boys would be all ego. As if we here anything but shit talking from these girls. WHATEVER. I don’t know if I’ve ever hated a block of people on this program like I hate these women. They just are not talented enough to act like this, but whatever. I need to pull myself together.
They go to the Guggenheim Museum to hear about their challenge. The teams are restructured and they are Stanley/Michelle, Patricia/Richard and Layana/Daniel. Of course, Layana thinks she is too good for her teammate. I hate her so much that I want an installation to fall on her. The challenge is the HP challenge. They are supposed to create wearable art, plus a commercial partner. They are making their own textiles! Please die Layana. She just edits what Daniel is saying and we don’t really hear her offer much except for protests. Stanley and Michelle are on the same page at the beginning. Richard doesn’t really tell Patricia much about what he is going to do, which is of course worrisome for her.
Patricia seems to know where she is going, but Richard doesn’t. That sucks, because I really want him to not lose this one. Tim tells them that the winner will win ten grand. Layana is, of course, super nasty about Daniel. Tim comes in to consult and gets chills from what Stanley and Michelle are making. He is really worried that Richard doesn’t have enough made when he comes in. Tim thinks that Richard is waiting for Patricia to fail, which he insists he is not doing. He thinks that Layana’s look is not enough. Of course she starts crying at any critique, which annoys me.
So, sadly, Richard looks like the weak link. Everyone else seems to be happy, but he’s not really doing much. He feels like he was looking too much for inspiration from Patricia, but that’s really no excuse. She is super frustrated by the time they make it to the runway.
Rachel Roy replaced Zac again and Tracy Reese was the guest judge. On the runway, Richard’s was really the only one that was really lacking. Heidi tells them that the these designs is what the show is all about. Nina thinks that Stanley’s look is perfection. They were not wild about Richard’s look. Daniel got kudos from all of the judges. They could see Layana’s struggles with her look. Layana cried backstage about how she thought that Daniel didn’t give her enough credit for his garment. She should be exiled. She’s the absolute worst. Remember that he gave her her first win. HATE HER. The judges hates Layana’s look when they were conferring. Yay. Ultimately, Stanley wins the challenge and Richard goes home. She’s still with us.
Want more? The full recap starts right below!Previously: The designers had to create looks for the Lord & Taylor challenge. Patricia and Stanley butted heads a little bit in the beginning. Patricia said that Stanley "looked like the asshole" and I wonder if she meant that he looked like an actual hole of the ass. I could see Patricia saying that. Daniel and Michelle got into a very weird argument and, though he's not the best at expressing himself in a concise and effective way, I'm glad that it's out in the open that at least someone is going to push back against Michelle's shitty shitty behavior. She's kind of a bully. That said, she won the challenge. Richard and Samantha were in the bottom and Samantha had to go home.
It's very early in the morning at the Atlas Building and Layana is whining to Michelle about how she thinks that it was so unfair that Samantha had to go home, because Richard had been in the bottom three times in a row and Samantha hadn't. That doesn't really matter as much because these are team challenges but whatever, I don't expect her to make reasonable points anyway, just like I don't expect her to have the sense not to sit in a cloche hat in her apartment at 5:30 am in the morning. Michelle, who is wolfing down some cereal, in the dainty way that you would expect from such a beam of sunshine, agrees with Layana. She interviews that Samantha's was the worst garment on the runway, but she would have shown a cooler collection that Richard would. You just don't really know that. She says that, if Richard makes it to Fashion Week, he will be showing twelve jersey dresses. Just like I'm sure Michelle will have at least three Janet Jackson circa Rhythm Nation jackets in her collection.
Layana whines some more about how she hopes that the judges mix up the teams. She doesn't want to work with Richard again. She thinks that the judges should make the teams girls against boys, because then she thinks that the judges would see who deserved to be there. OK, perhaps I'm not remembering something but I'm pretty sure that the only challenge that Layana actually hit out of the park without a lot of help from someone else was the flower/hardware challenge. She did a nice job there, but she's ridiculous to not consider how much help she has gotten from others. I mean, we actually saw her go to another team and ask for help once. I promise you that I know this isn't about me, but I wish someone with my temperament was on this season. I could shut all of this down. It would be ugly, but you would like it. Michelle says that, if the boys were to work together, it would be all about their egos. She must be just searching for something to say, because there has been absolutely zero evidence that that would be the case. In fact, Richard and Daniel have been two of the people that have suffered most frequently from moments of total self-doubt. I feel like that's the same as talking about a group of girls working together and being like, "Uh oh, Mee-Ow." It's lazy and tired. That's really sort of the problem I have with Michelle in a nutshell. There may be some skill to her, but she thinks she is way cooler than she actually is. People just happen to believe her for the time being. [Ed. Note: Also, both Michelle and Layana have repeatedly been down on Patricia's style, so a girls vs. boys team would still give them cause to bitch.] Meanwhile, Stanley says to Daniel that it's time for a change.