Which brings me to the special case of Top Design. I can't help but feel that it has nowhere to go. It's only on its second season and it's already dipping heavily into the weird for its challenges. Plus, like a drunk soap opera matron, the challenges swing from utterly normal to completely insane with no warning. One week, the contestants are designing homes for bachelors, the next they have to create a fashionable nuclear bunker for a post-apocalyptic world. Because my biggest concern for my nuclear bunker? Is that it's well-designed. This really hit me in episode seven of this year, when the designers had to create... Rooms of the Future! The show reached sublime heights when the designers had to justify their choices by describing the universe they had created for themselves. "In my world, everyone has a personalized pod. And this is mine." It just begs the question of what, exactly, is being tested by this challenge. They're not set designers, right? Or science fiction writers? Then what is going on?

Watch a short recap of "Room of the Future" below. Or, better yet, turn off the sound and watch it. Between the rooms and Kelly Wearstler's turban, it's like watching a piece of post-modern art. Then let us know what you think of the wacky challenges on this show.