Project Runway Season 7: Episode 4: Soup and Hearts

This will probably be the only "real person" challenge on this season of Project Runway. Since they've got that dumb Models on the Runway thing right afterwards, they're probably only going to have one segment where the models don't appear. At least that was the pattern last season. It wasn't a particularly exciting episode but it certainly was full of "Lifetime TV" moments with each of the real women telling their designers about their history of heart problems and how it impacted them. (Love that the word impact is now officially a verb.) I also loved that one woman who said "Out of all the women here, I'm probably the last one you would think had open-heart surgery." What the hell does that mean? Was she being competitive about her scar tissue? Or lack thereof? Also campbell's Soup wins the product placement award of the year. Lifetime must have been wracking their brains on how to get a soup company to buy ad space.

There wasn't much drama between the designers this week. I suppose because they were taken up feeling all "Lifetime"-y and making their heart women feel all special. This season and last is not as exciting as the one with Jeffrey and Laura (who I saw on the subway once) and that guy who got kicked off the show and that annoying Holly-Hobby woman and the guy who looked like Paul Lynde. I think that was Season 3.

I really thought Ana Marie would go home because she had so much camera time and her dress did not flatter her full-figured lady. Jesus did deserve to be aufed. This was the third time he was in the bottom two and his dress was kinda slutty. BTW, did you notice both Seth Allen and Ben stole Jesus's cute bow-tie look this week. And what was up with Jay's clam diggers?

I did like Amy's winning look, but didn't it remind you of the nightgown flying suit Agnes Moorehead used wear when she played Endora on Bewitched? And BTW I found a video of an old Lone Ranger cartoon from the late 1960s on YouTube where Moorehead played a villainess called the Spider Woman. That's a common villainness name (There was one on Space Ghost and I think in a 1940s Superman movie serial and of course Tallulah Bankhead played the Black Widow on Batman) and is worthy of a separate blog post.

Another thing I just realized: if there is only one "real-woman" challenge per season, that also means there will be no men's wear challenge and that means no male models. Damn, yet another drawback to this season!