Project Runway – The Complete Third Season
Picture:
B- Sound: B- Extras: C+ Episodes: C
Heidi
Klum; still amazingly gorgeous. Heidi
Klum’s fashion inspired reality series, not so much. Now available on DVD is the surprising hit
Bravo series Project Runway – The
Complete Third Season. This reviewer
just doesn’t get it, reality television continues to be going in a downward
spiral with its lack of morals and taste.
Reality TV has never been the height of entertainment or creativity, yet
year after year more series pop up. Even
this reviewer finds himself on occasion stopping on E! to watch The Girls Next Door or Dr. 90210, or even for reasons beyond
me I Love New York 2! Something must be inherently wrong with our
tastes and personalities as humans that we feel we must be obnoxiously nosey
and peer into everyone’s lives. And when
we can’t just spy on them, we create fictitious situations like that of Project Runway to ‘see what
happens.’ I guess Billy Corgan was right despite all our
rage we are still just a rat in a cage.
The
simple explanation of this series is that it follows the lives of a cast of
fashion hopefuls as they compete to be the ‘next top designer.’ 15 designers
are competing in overabundance of ridiculous challenges against the clock, all
the while doing everything to try and resist the urge to kill one another. Personally that may be more interesting. Competitions in this 3rd Season include making clothes from recycled
materials (The Derelique Collection from Zoolander
perhaps?) and evening gowns for rich folk and their dogs. Overall, this series whereas addictive once
you start watching, it is better to never start because it just leaves you
unfulfilled and wondering why such garbage is allowed on television.
The technicals
are actually very nice for such a bad series; I guess they still had to be
fashionable. The picture is presented in
a bright and clear 1.33 X 1 full screen aspect ration, the same as the original
television presentation. The sound is
crisp and clear in its Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo format, though I wish it wasn’t
at times (can anyone say Mute Button?).
The extras should please fans if no one else, presenting a nice number
of features like a “Wear are they Now?” segment, a “Wear was he then?” segment, a Blog feature from Tim Gunn, Designer
Bios and Outtakes. Though the show was
bad, at least the studio caters to the fans.
Well, I
guess if you like fashion, sewing, and distasteful reality television this set
is for you. Otherwise maybe it would
just be better to buy a picture of Heidi Klum and stare…I recommend the later.
- Michael P Dougherty II
