The Cutting Edge: Character and Criticism of Final Three Top Designers
The Cutting Edge: Character and Criticism of Final Three Top Designers by Roxanne McDonald
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Well, not so much my criticism as theirs—of each other. Will the least nasty person win? |
In the penultimate “Top Design” episode, we are left with three designers—Andrea, Carisa, and Matt—who are asked to critique and question the competition.
Obviously, as what makes for good reality TV and good televised competition is when the individual contestants rag on each other, the producers of Top Design surely urge discussion of the competition. In the confessionals, or what we see as one-sided interviews, with the person speaking to some prompt, for sure, the contestants speak freely about their fellow designers.
You know they asked Carisa what she thinks of Andrea’s design aesthetic when she says to us how she is “not sure what intention Andrea has for her space, and how she is “never sure” what Andrea does to “pull together her rooms.”
You know they likely went right to Andrea with these comments, for then we hear Andrea tell us—with a smirk—that “Carissa and I have different ideas.” And, she tells us, of course, she “would love for her [Carisa] to go home.”
In even more likely trouble-starting efforts, the host,
Jonathan Adler, is likely encouraged to pit the contestants against each other. In a sort of milder form of interrogation, the finalists are lined up facing the panel that is the firing squad, and Adler prompts each, for example, with such questions as who each considers a threat. This elicits a complimentary critique of the others who are threats, in a sense, but it also makes for the opportunity for the speaker to dis the others.
When asked who was the biggest threat, Carisa had said Matt; Andrea had said Matt; and Goil had said all three of the his fellow finalists. Goil also added that therefore, he would have to kill all three of them.
Granted, the answer to who is the biggest threat also requires some humility, and takes the power out of the speaker’s ego for a minute, but it could start something. It must have some Tv value, for Adler asks it three weeks in a row.
What could start—or finish—something, too, then, is when Adler asks the remaining three why he or she deserves to get one of the final two spots:
Carisa seems to sidestep the question by saying she has “a lot to gain,” but Adler interrupts, saying this is a “competition, not a charity.” So Carisa backtracks, saying that she is “more out of the box than anyone else.”
Matt, who is usually disengaged from the gossip,
backstabbing, and spotlight-stealing, says that he is consistent, always comes through with an underlying (recognizable) Matt style, and puts down the other two, saying how he has more than the other two, who lack experience.
And Andrea claims versatility, passion to make beauty, and a lack of fear of taking risks.
There have been comments about others as “bitches”. There has been some mild and some mean gossip. But so far, no one has “killed” anyone.
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