Blow Out Aptly Named
Blow Out Aptly Named by Roxanne McDonald
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Jonathan Antin, celebrity hairdresser of Blowout, has another shrink? Or the shrink has re-located to another set of digs? |
I seem to recall a more monochromatic setting in earlier episodes of Blowout. But this time, Jonathan is chatting with the psychiatrist about how hairdressing is his primary means of communicating and connecting from what look like amber and brown leather dentistry chairs refurbished and used in a kind of masculine den setting.
But besides such terribly unsettling moves, the frustration and fights between Jonathan and Scott (of Zorbit Designs) and Jonathan and big wigs – the typical Jonathan-incited blowouts — continue to make for unusually entertaining reality TV.
Scott has extracted a promise from him that with the new pitch of ideas he will not go mental. However, he does. Scott has created a prototype for Jonathan’s brainchild, a water filtration system for the shower (er, for the filfthy rich). But confused by the logistics of how the rocks work in the filtration process, Jonathan flips out about what the “fu—ing rocks” have to do with anything and says that if he was asked to cut hair he wouldn’t shave the guy’s legs.
Then he is off to QVC for a two-hour sales session this time (after having a successful sellout in his premiere five minutes). His VPs of marketing, Tina and Beth Ann, are with him. He is getting coached further on the ways and manners of QVC, and he is cocky as ever. Rich, a rep at QVC, and others insist on coaching him away from doing all the selling and allowing the saleswoman to do that, and he smugly just smiles….
To be fair, we do see his anxiety and nervousness, we hear him tell his ten models he is nervous and needs their help and support, and we can logically make the inference that his cockiness is show, overcompensation, and the like.
The backstage monitors at QVC are revealing that Jonathan is talking too much, talking while the host is talking, and overselling, trying too hard. The execs backstage and Jonathan’s VPOs are watching and waiting for those phone spikes (when phone calls come in most, during commercials).
When Rich tells Jonathan during
break that they are suffering, that not only are they not spiking but are surely not selling out, Jonathan has another fit. He turns it around on Rich, not realizing that he is, as Rich tells us, “getting in the way of the selling of the product.”
While we are still reeling, or watching others reel in his wake of tantrums that started in the first few minutes of the episode when his client’s recording label studio called to give him advice on how to cut their singer’s hair, phew, we are made privy to Jonathan Antin’s upcoming “blowouts”, which promise to be just as amusing…especially in a scene where someone else calls HIM a “bitch”!
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