As season one of Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn's Making the Cut comes to a close on Amazon Prime Video, a list of reasons why the reality series paled in comparison to Project Runway
, and while the show filmed in Paris, all four joined Klum in deciding the winning and losing looks. But once the show left France for Japan, suddenly Roitfeld and Richie were nowhere to be found, taking their interesting and entertaining commentary with them, leaving Campbell to do much of the heavy lifting while Altuzarra remained a rather bland presence.
And then there's the show's trope, repeated ad nauseam, that one conversation can change everything, forcing the designers on the bottom to plead their case to the judges to see if minds can be changed and a stay of execution received. It often led to cringeworthy moments where contestants were forced to grovel, and it never even paid off. In the first eight of 10 episodes, only one designer was spared through the gimmick. And then he was dismissed the following challenge.
We get that Amazon threw a ton of money at this show. The proof is right there in the grand prize. But something about flying contestants from around the world into New York City, where the premiere began, only to tell them they were immediately leaving for Paris felt gross and wasteful, not to mention incredibly tone-deaf in a time of great climate change.
That's not to say the show was all bad--for instance, Campbell was revelatory as a judge, by far the most interesting point of view on the panel and the capability for viewers to shop winning looks immediately in the same place they're used to ordering everything else is a novel idea--but in a world wherealready exists and Netflix beat Amazon to the punch with a fashion competition of their own (the charming, but not without faults of its...
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