Another dawn, another dead-eyed glare into the mirrors of The Atlas apartment bathrooms. It’s a new day on Project Runway. In the men’s apartment, Joe yanks aside the curtains. Blayne bounces up, glances at his alarm clock and lets his body fall onto his bed again. In the women’s apartment, a somewhat subdued Kenley trims her omniscient bang, and wonders what fresh hell, er, “new challenge” she actually says, awaits them.
“Nothing with innovation! Real fabric,” Korto calls out hopefully from the next room.
All that matters to Stella Leathah is kawfee. “Listen, do I do one tablespoon of kaw-fee, or do I do two?” she puzzles while holding the coffee can as if it is a UFO. Stella decides “strong” and adds a large scoop of grounds to the automated coffee pot. It looks like four spoons are in that scoop, but whatever. Glad I don’t have to drink any.
Stella’s voiceover adds that at the last challenge, landing among the bottom contestants left her ready to soil herself. (You can probably imagine Stella’s actual wording.) Best take it easy on the kawfee, then, don’t you think, Stel? Terri enters the kitchen and pronounces Stella’s coffee “kick” (very strong). Cleanup on aisle four! Or, wait. Wait, and hope. Whatever happens as a result of that strong coffee, I’m sure some network will put it on their lineup.
Speaking of which, Blayne is curled up as best he can next to a small window. The grey morning light is barely coming through. “I might be getting a little tan right here,” Blayne says. I can only hope he’s parodying himself. Suede watches Blayne’s delusional tanning session sleepily. A tight frown marks Suede’s face. Suede interviews that he wishes Keith had stayed, because the two had shared an apartment for four. Now that Keith has left, Suede has had to move in with the three men in the other apartment. Suede says that Suede feels “kinda like the first day all over again,” but that he is “definitely proud to be one of the last four standing.”
The group leaves The Atlas for Parsons and news of their upcoming challenge. With the remaining designers seated in the two rows of stackable chairs, Ms. Klum-Seal struts onto the runway. She is wearing a huge grin, and an all-black ensemble set off by a bugle-beaded long top. There’s a rather humorous closeup of Joe, who appears to be staring in Heidi’s direction, nearly drooling. If you have a DVR I encourage you to freeze-frame this show at random moments (unless of course you have something more productive to do, like rearrange your sock drawer). The group reaction shots alone are often incisive, sometimes hilarious. In this particular shot, Leanne smiles semi-sincerely, Joe’s smile is frozen beneath a thousand-yard stare, Kenley frowns sadly and Korto’s expression can only be described as skeptical. Interesting! Moving on...
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