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So the all-new-all-different Project Runway Season Six premiered last night in its new home on Lifetime, and aside from the new setting in Los Angeles, it really wasn't that different. Which would have been fine, it's still an entertaining show, except it was sandwiched between an additional two and a half hours of Runway -- a two-hour All-Star Challenge and a half-hour spin-off, Models of the Runway. I know we've all been missing the show, and under normal circumstances I would have been happy to get three hours of it, but when it feels like you're watching the same episode over and over again, it gets a little old.
The All-Star special was great and all -- I laughed hysterically every time Jeffrey's horseshoe mustache appeared on screen, and I fumed along with Korto when she came in second again -- but if they were always planning on airing it on the same night as the premiere, maybe they could have foregone the whole meeting-the-roommates introduction montage and rooftop champagne mixer? Because not only do we know all of these people, but the premiere did the exact same thing a scant two hours later, albeit on a different rooftop in L.A. and with a less-pregnant Heidi Klum. And while you want to include a red-carpet look in any collection, thereby making the one in the All-Star Challenge a necessity, maybe they could have come up with a different challenge for the season premiere? Because two red-carpet challenges in one night gets a little old, even if the rules for what constitutes red-carpet attire are "out the window" as Michael Kors says. (Although the rules do, apparently forbid visible underwear and silver geodesic hoodies, if the premiere's bottom two are any indication.)
Add in the Models of the Runway show -- which spent the first five minutes rehashing the pain of the model who was paired with the shittiest/craziest designer, then another five addressing the joy felt by the one who scored the winner -- and the night felt like it was on a loop. Hell, the Runway premiere even had an All-Star look-alike with its first-week winner Christopher, who could easily be Jeffrey Sebelia for Halloween (although he does have fewer tattoos, one less mustache and one more chin strap than Jeffrey does). That's not necessarily the producers' fault, of course, but it certainly emphasized the fact that the show has a formula that Lifetime is smart enough not to mess with, even if it means repeating themselves.
How about you? Did you feel a bit of deja Runway last night?
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