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It's not a typical team effort, so they all try to play nice.
After a dramatic two-fer exit last week (Cecilia by choice and Danielle by auf) and the return of sweet hapless Josh C., the stage is set for one of their prodigal son challenges. IOW: Did they bring Josh C. back only to have him demonstrate why he was auf'ed in the first place?
Over in the boys' apartment, they're all deciding to put their claws back in after one of the most decidedly unpleasant team challenge episodes ever. Over in the girls' apartment, the claws are still out, since Becky has to move in with the other girls, and we learn that "it's no secret" that Laura's not fond of Becky? I have to break it to Laura that it was a secret to me, probably because the producers haven't found her interesting enough to spend much time with yet this season. Once you get past the she-wears-negligees-and-shopped-at-Nieman's-since-she-was-in-single-digits, well, there's not really much else to say.
< p>Determined to just all get along, the designers head to the runway where Heidi tells them she's going to send them back to school.[It is at this point that I just have to share: I'm a little confused how they go from a spinoff series about the models to not even bothering to show the model eliminations. And yet the show is now 90 minutes long. What did the models do to fall from favor SO dramatically? Quick, let's start a rumor.]
We learn that last week's double-winners (and some would claim inexplicable double-winners) Viktor and Joshua both have immunity. And this is the episode where Viktor starts to warm up and have a little Mondo transformation...going from being an absolute catty bitch to being nice to people he disdained a mere three episodes ago (yes, Bert). Josh, on the other hand, is a little tyrant and doesn't seem to be backing away from that, given the scenes from next week. But they do try to warm him up too by talking about his dead mother. Yup, it felt a little cheap.
So the "back to school" in question is the Harlem School of the Arts, where they are each paired with a student to create a work of art (paintings in each case) that will serve as the inspiration for an "avant-garde" look.
Courtesy of Lifetime
The students range in age from 11 to 16 or 17, and range in personality from seeming pretty withdrawn to very voluble.
We learn that Anya's parents run a foundation that works with kids using art for transformations, so she's right at home, and we learn some other choice bits too:
Bert has one of the quiet students, which pleases him: "He's quiet, so we're getting along fine." That made me laugh. Bert is just so over people...he really oughta be somewhere saying "Get off my lawn," and that's not even an age joke...he just doesn't seem to like people.
We also learn that Olivier listens to depressing music while he works. ORLY? You could never have told that by his muted, minimal designs. In all seriousness, Olivier does seem to be actually depressed. He should probably talk to Laura's art-partner, since Laura seems to be taking to the 11-year-old as her personal therapist and coach.
After they all finish their paintings, they have 30 minutes to sketch their outfit, then they'll be off to Mood.
KingJosh is not inspired by organic images, and the painting is a big old tree and its roots. He's struggling. JoshRedux, on the other hand, is really inspired by his painting that claims to be a wolf but is really just the crazy nasty-ass honey badger .
And we're off to Mood, where, as you know, I'm on SWATCH WATCH.
And there he is: SWATCH!!! I do have a question, though: Why do they feel compelled to show Tim chasing Swatch? Does Tim really show up at Mood and chase Swatch around if he sees him? Or do the producers just think it's kinda funny to show a dapper older gay gentleman chasing after a tiny French bulldog. And if they think that's funny, may I ask WHY?
While at Mood, Olivier decides that even though he has never worked with chiffon, he's going to go with it because he thinks it will look avant garde? Really? OK, point #1: Chiffon is part of every tired old as-not-avant-garde-as-possible prom or bridesmaid dress ever made...chiffon is anything but inherently avant garde. Point #2: Didn't
