Episode Report Card Potes: A- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Wuthering Heights
By Potes | Season 18 | Episode 10 | Aired on 05.09.2012
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.With interpersonal tensions continuing to heat up, the ladies head to Hong Kong and meet up with actor/action star/pop singer Nicholas Tse, who is apparently kind of like the Justin Timberlake of the East. They are challenged to do a screen test with Nicholas involving a little bit of dialogue and a choreographed martial arts fight scene. Each model gets a martial artist to practice their moves with, but Laura gets to practice with Nicholas himself since she had the most recent best photo. As will come as no surprise to those who have watched Laura express sexual feelings toward a silkworm, she is quite hot for Nicholas and eye fucks him into naming her the challenge winner. She gets to come back to Hong Kong, be featured in one of his music videos and probably bone him for real. Some of the other ladies are not happy about this development, and things get extra tense when Eboni accuses Laura of sleeping her way to the top. Au contraire, she flirts her way to the top! Laura defends her honor and then retreats to strategize about how she can dry hump Nigel during the photo shoot.
And oh, the photo shoot. In an effort to facilitate the exact nervous breakdowns that are to come later, Jay and Nigel have colluded to make the models pose on the rim of the Macau Tower, a building which is structurally similar to Toronto's CN Tower. Apparently, crazy people can bungee jump from the tower's rim, and the girls are harnessed up just in case they take a tumble. Theoretically, there are amazing views of Macau from their vantage point, but it is raining so hard that the view is compromised, to say the least. No wind machine is needed for this shoot since there are extremely dangerous looking gusts that threaten to blow these 100-pound beauties off the rim at any moment. You know that I am usually completely in favor of turns of events that seem like they could kill the contestants on this show, but even I just shook my head and muttered, "That is just too much." Laura of course thinks she's the greatest because she's not scared at all (and in fact wants to have sexual intercourse with the Macau Tower), and nails her shoot. Sophie is quite scared of the whole situation and cries a lot, but manages to pull through, pose well and not get blown off the building. Alisha also has a fear-of-heights related breakdown, which, I am sad to say, is one of two majors in the episode. Laura takes best photo at panel, while Alisha and Eboni land in the bottom two. Though it's Eboni who is eliminated, Alisha -- I think due to a combination of generally frayed nerves, almost being blown off a building, landing in the bottom two even when she thought she did well, and being annoyed to death by her itchy weave -- tells Tyra that she wants to leave. This doesn't save Eboni, but Alisha seems to think saving her soul is worth the defection.
Want more? The full recap starts right below!Previously: The models headed to Macau for their international tour of terror, and Queen Catherine was elegant, supreme and eliminated. Alisha was also in the bottom two for the umpteenth time, much to her chagrin. And now three British and two American bitches remain!
The B-roll for this episode begins with footage of some crazy person jumping off of a tall building, which we now know is a sign of deliciously traumatizing things to come! Just when you thought this show wouldn't know subtlety if it gave Tyra Banks a punch in the throat. The ladies return home from panel to see Laura's best-of-week silkworm photo displayed as digital art. This is Laura's second time receiving best photo, and while Sophie is happy for her and supportive, Laura thinks that Eboni and Alisha in particular are just waiting for her to fall. Well, after Laura flat out stated her dislike of Eboni, I can't be too upset if Eboni isn't happy on her behalf. Laura's best-of-week gift is just for her, which leads Eboni to wonder aloud if this is now becoming an individual competition. Newsflash, lady: it always was! Alisha tells us that Eboni is like a little sister to her, and she loves her. However, she thinks that Eboni needs to wake up. I mean, activate just ten brain cells and you'd have a radical improvement.
With only five girls left, Alisha tells us that things are getting intense and people, including herself, are getting catty. The first object of Alisha's cattiness is Laura, whom Alisha says is not her biggest competition. Unless it was an orgasm-having competition, in which Laura would absolutely be in contention. We rehash the enduring dislike between Laura and Eboni. Despite the fact that they had similarly rough backgrounds, Laura thinks that Eboni is a spoiled brat. As often happens, it's a little disappointing that the allegiances between the girls are so split along racial lines. Annaliese does seem to get along with everyone okay, thought that might be because the overpowering timbre of her voice wrangles them into submission. As Eboni recounts how far she's come in the competition and tells us that she and her pigtails are going to the top, we head to the ever-whack opening credits.
When we return, Alisha is talking about how much the bottom two doesn't scare her. She's been there three times! Who's scared? Not Alisha, that's for sure! It does make her sad, though, as evidenced by the sepia-toned falling tears in flashback. Alisha came in second on Cycle 6 of BNTM, and apparently was never in the bottom two. So, she didn't know what it felt like. Now, however, she knows. And it's annoying! It's pissing her off! But it doesn't SCARE her. Furthermore, Alisha says that she gives 200 percent at every photo shoot, and thinks that Sophie was the one who deserved to be in the bottom last time around. In the real world, says Alisha, she could take Sophie down as a model. But... wasn't she the one who told us that Sophie already has a contract with some sort of great agency? I mean, I love Alisha, but I think she's getting frustrated and desperate and a little crazy, which as we know is going to lead to great tragedy. Alas.