'America's Next Top Model': Dutch Treat
Last week, Elina was just too old, too stiff, and too European to be America's Next Top Model. For those taking notes at home, we are now forced to choose between a boxer, an ice-skater, a hunchback, and um, Samantha. Almost makes you long for Saleisha, don't it.
Sam squeals in excitement at her first call in panel and subsequent photo display in the house. Nobody has the heart to tell her that she had, you know, a 20% chance of being first at this point in the competition. TyraPost! How Euro! "A model who knows how to sell makes the most sense." Get it? Sense? Cents? It's....oh, never mind. It's Tyra. Sam keeps making those obnoxious faces and voices and launching herself against walls, and I wish one of the remaining girls had the balls to shut her up. Analeigh does her weekly rounds propping up all the other girls' confidence, focusing as always on poor sad Marjorie. The girls meet Paulina, who is at an age where maybe she shouldn't pull her hair back quite so severely, and practice selling oddities: herring, toilet paper, cell phones. Paulina finds McKey to be posey, Analeigh to be a natural actress but perhaps not a natural model, Marjorie's emotions to be quite close to the surface, and Sam to be a clown. TyraPost: Your delivery better be on the Mark. Wait, are we advertising Avon's Mark collection? Wouldn't Cover Girl have an issue with that? Marjorie is trying to push her self-doubt away, but is doubtful that will work.
The girls arrive at Amsterdam Worldwide, an advertising agency, where they are auditioning for a running shoe commercial. And Mark Vanderloo is going to be modeling with them. Remember when he was married to Esther Canadas? So many lips. They were beautiful. The winner gets a $10,000 shopping spree at G-Star. That is a LOT of jeans. Sam is up first, up on the treadmill (which she pronounces "treadMEAL", one of my great pet peeves in life). Paulina thinks it went well, but I thought she was clowny and over-the-top. Lovely Analeigh is up next and she really is a natural actress. She isn't going to win this, but she is going to get quite an acting career out of it. McKey is, honestly, more of a man than Mark Vanderloo, but kind of adorably dorky. Marjorie can't run convincingly, and her snaggleteeth when she smiles make her look extra-European. Marjorie wins, which is ridiculous, and she shares her prize with Analeigh. TyraPost: something about going Dutch and giving 100%.
Ok, things get weird here. Marjorie calls the guys who drove the boats last week, and invites them over, and they bring food and fine. Marjorie, however, is the only one who avails herself of the wine. Then the party gets "messy", and Marjorie makes out with one of the guys on a dare. She then takes a bath, fully clothed, while Analeigh tries to protect her from drowning in the tub. Finally Sam and McKey join the chorus of protests and kick the boys out of the house.
Whitney catwalks in slo-mo. But, you know, through alleys and stuff. Not on actual modeling jobs, silly!
The next morning, Marjorie defends her decision to get stupid, and the girls bus out to the Dutch countryside for their shoot. The girls pose in front of windmills in extreme hair and makeup. Analeigh is creative and brilliant; Marjorie is kind of a brat; Sam is confident that she will win the whole competition despite having no discernible modeling ability until her last 5 frames; and McKey has some sort of ability to connect with the camera even though she doesn't have a whole lot in the way of personality in person. That night, Marjorie drinks alone while the other girls hang out and watch.
Panel! Judges and prizes and Nigel, oh my. McKey is, as usual, dressed like a crazy person, and everyone loves it. McKey's signature is strength plus femininity (minus, perhaps, femininity.) Marjorie looks lost in her photo, and her film was bad; Tyra thinks that by losing her nerves she's lost her personality. Sam's broken down body really works for the judges, but Tyra points out that most of her film was not good. Analeigh is flying through the air, balancing her body on a rake handle, and it's a truly amazing photo. She gets called first, and please please please wins next week. McKey is called next, which leaves Marjorie and Sam in the bottom two, and you know for some reason they aren't sending Sam home. Yep, Marjorie gets sent home for finally loosening up and doing what Tyra has been trying to get her to do since week one.
Next week: The Dethroning of Whitney!
Well, I can't say I'm devastated to see Marjorie go, but I still feel like she has more of a genuine modeling ability than Sam does. Can't wait for next week, when once again, the girl I like gets sent home, and Sam becomes America's Next Top Model...
Nothing ever makes me long for Saleisha.
Wish they would have sent 2 home this week! Sam is beyond getting on my nerves (seriously, what's up with the fountain ponytail on top of her head?), as was Hunch Back Girl. McKey is just too Mannish for me ("She's a MAN, Baby!"), and does she scare anyone else when she smiles? What's up with her teeth??? Annaleigh is just so all around perfect. She's nice, she's caring, she's fun and cute, how can you not like her? And that probably means she won't win.
Did anyone else notice that before Marjorie went out to run on the treadmill, she checked her breath first?? That was kinda funny!
Analeigh proved a caring person when she put a stop to the drunken party. She exhibited a maturity beyond most of the contestants. Now that I think of it, she's too good to be ANTM. She's also never jumped on the "badmouth" the competition bandwagon.
Analeigh should definitely win, but I'm sure they'll find something wrong with her. She's freakin gorgeous, has had several good pics (at least as many as past winners), she's a great actress (in her commercial & audition), she's stylish and walks well. So why would she win?
McKey is not a bad editorial model, although her open mouth always bugs me, but she wouldn't be good in commercials.
Sam is just really immature and a bit ditzy.
I could not believe Marjorie won that commercial audition last night! She looked like a frakkin crazy person the whole time! Can you imagine that in a real commercial. She had these crazy eyes and then just grabbed Mark for this totally awkward kiss! How in the hell did she win?? Should have be Analeigh, no doubt. She was cute and subtle and very natural.
Tyra drives me crazy constantly critiquing the girls' clothing. She herself has worn some horrible outfits, and she's never consistent season to season about what's acceptable and not. And why is the "model uniform" jeans and a plain tank top to her? I've never even seen her wear that and I've seen real models in all kinds of crazy cr@p.
I was sad to see Marjorie go home. She was really sweet; and I thought it was terrible that Anne Shoket said that she was being "condescending" when she was trying to listen to the judges critique. I really just think that none of the judges properly understood her introverted personality, seeing as they are all extroverts. Marjorie was just trying to do what Tyra and the other judges had been telling her to do all along; and she gets sent packing for that? Silly. I loved Marjorie. She was great :)
I suppose then that I was the only one who thought that the edit was trying to imply that maybe Marjorie had used a little liquid relaxation before panel. I mean we've seen her control her nerves before without losing her personality. And this was not her controlling her nerves...This was her devoid of nerves and appearing almost sedated at times. I also think the su****ious glare from Nigel is particularly telling.
Ann Shoket is an idiot.
Even though I have a feeling that McKey will take the title, GO ANALEIGH!!
Analeigh proves me wrong week after week. She has so, so, SO much talent. Love this girl!
Marjorie, you will be missed.
McKey looks the most modelesque. Kind of. I think she might win based on that.
Samantha...need I say more?
I don't think McKey will get to final 2 cause of the CG commercial. Its gonna be Sam vs Analeigh.
To quote Sam, "It's like, 'UGH!!'"
I was completely ready to see her leave this week. While it wasn't fair for Marjorie to win the commercial--I thought the kiss was cute, but the rest of it was not good--she had SO much more potential than Sam, and finally she wasn't all jittery at panel or at the shoot!! But Sam would probably provide the best video clips since Marjorie, Analeigh, and McKey don't seem to have anything controversial or noisy to say. Sam's energy, while irritating, quickens the pace. I'd still rather watch Marjorie stutter or make out with random guys than watch Sam run around and shout, and I by far prefer Marjorie's shots over Sam's. Oh well, regardless of who wins in the end, I'll certainly miss this show, and your blog!