By Jamie Ruby
NBC's new reality competition, Fashion Star, searches for the next big name in the fashion industry. The series is hosted by executive producer Elle Macpherson, and also features celebrity mentors Jessica Simpson, Nicole Richie, and John Varvartos. Each week contestants will compete in a challenge to create designs and have them modeled on the runway for a fashion show. Representatives from America's largest retailers - Macy's, H&M, and Saks Fifth Avenue - will then bid to purchase and exclusively sell their favorites of the designs. At the end of each episode, the winning designs become immediately available for purchase online and in stores. The designers not chosen will be up for elimination. At the end of the competition, one designer will will a multi-million dollar prize to launch their collections in the three retailers.
Kara Laricks, a former fourth-grade school teacher designs androgynous clothing for women, inspired by and often reconstructed from menswear. She is also inspired by avant-garde Japanese designs.
NBC's new reality competition, Fashion Star, searches for the next big name in the fashion industry. The series is hosted by executive producer Elle Macpherson, and also features celebrity mentors Jessica Simpson, Nicole Richie, and John Varvartos. Each week contestants will compete in a challenge to create designs and have them modeled on the runway for a fashion show. Representatives from America's largest retailers - Macy's, H&M, and Saks Fifth Avenue - will then bid to purchase and exclusively sell their favorites of the designs. At the end of each episode, the winning designs become immediately available for purchase online and in stores. The designers not chosen will be up for elimination. At the end of the competition, one designer will will a multi-million dollar prize to launch their collections in the three retailers.Kara Laricks, a former fourth-grade school teacher designs androgynous clothing for women, inspired by and often reconstructed from menswear. She is also inspired by avant-garde Japanese designs.
This episode was running efficiently for about a half hour, stumbled a bit, then recovered its footing somewhat at the end. Frankly, I think that's quite an accomplishment given the narrative maze that's been created and passes for an overall plot. That's the impression the show gets when this is the first fairly straightforward episode done in a long time.
As I've come to expect from "Merlin", the really big plot developments are always saved for the finale, which generally makes them the highlight of any season of the show. Unfortunately, this has the effect of making a lot of the episodes in between feel like filler. This year was a bit better than any previous one in that regard, but it still falls well below my expectations. Still, we're at the finale now, and it's hard not to appreciate it for basically being the kind of episode that we really should be seeing a lot more of on "Merlin".
Regular readers know that I have wondered how much latitude the House of Mouse will allow “Once Upon A Time” with its treasured characters. Apparently, the producers aren't unaware of this question. The answer they provide in the opening of “Heart of Darkness” is, quite a lot, thank you very much.
The hot new movie this spring is Hunger Games, which opens today in theaters everywhere. The film is based on the first book in a series, written by Suzanne Collins. The film is set in the future in the country of Panem where the Capitol chooses a boy and girl as representatives from each of twelve districts to fight to the death on live television.
ABC Family's series Make It or Break It It follows a group of teen gymnasts, training to make it to the top. They train for the Olympics at the Rocky Mountain Gymnastic Training Center, known as The Rock.
In a world of what seems to be endless bad reality television, where the female role models lower standards in droves, NBC is changing that by putting out a comedy starring Jessica St. Clair and Lennon Parham in a new show called Best Friends Forever.
In an episode seemingly designed to bring some sense of clarity to the series, at least in terms of who is ultimately the one behind all the various threats, there was quite a bit of messiness. At least the writers managed to deal with some of the loose ends, even if it still feels like they are flying by the seat of their pants.
This episode was off to a rocky start when the writers brought in Sage, who was introduced in the previous episode, and had her interact with the characters as if she had been around the entire season. While it may make sense from the character’s point of view, to some extent, it doesn’t quite mesh and comes across as very jarring. It feels a bit like the Nikki and Paolo issue in the third season of “Lost”, and reminds me all too much of Cassidy Freeman’s abrupt introduction on “Smallville” as well.
This is the kind of episode I was expecting "Alcatraz" to make from the get-go. That it came at the very end of the season (and perhaps, the series) demonstrates how much of a disappointment this whole venture has been. The returning '63 of this week stumped the task force, seemingly for the first time since the pilot episode.