America's Next Top Model - Season 11, Episode 9
It's time for the traditional go-see episode. Also traditional is the one or more girls that don't make it back on time, and get disqualified. You'd think after ten seasons of this show, the girls would make getting back to home base on time their number one priority. Well, think again. Samantha is fairly well-received by the designers, though they feel she's too commercial to work a runway. Everyone likes Analeigh, despite the fact that she's so boring, I literally forget she exists from week to week. Though I'm not proud of it, my memory files away reality show contestants with razor sharp precision, but Analeigh? She fades from my brain the second the show is over.
Marjorie has one of her trademark nerve meltdowns and fucks the whole challenge up, and by this point, LabRat and I are beyond sympathy for her, and into irritation. Elina's tattoos turn one of the designers off, which is understandable. The show makes a bigger deal of it than it actually is, because they need to make Elina look bad this week. McKey is wildly popular with everyone, but makes it back all of five minutes late. She also seems to have acquired a British accent out of nowhere. Um...OK. Though it's entirely fair that she be disqualified from the challenge, five minutes in real life would be negligible, so the judge can take the disappointed-dad tone he takes with her and shove it up his ass. This is certainly no "In some countries...THERE IS WAR!" Analeigh wins the challenge, mostly because of the others' faults than through her assets.
Marjorie is a ball of nerves. Nobody cares anymore.
For the photo shoot this week, Tyra takes two shots of each girl: One "clean" look, and one where they're all made up. Samantha blows Tyra and OJ away. She really does look good this week. Also impressive is McKey and what's-her-name. McKey's tardiness is barely mentioned at panel, because the praise from all of the designers she saw is so lavish. I have to say, I'm seeing the McKey-as-model angle a lot more these days. She's got an interesting, versatile look.
Marjorie is a ball of nerves. Nobody cares anymore.
Her timidity knocks her down to the bottom two, along with her pal Elina, who still can't break out of the controlled posing the judges have been squawking about since 1983. It seems like Marjorie is done for, but Tyra's had enough of Elina's failure to evolve, and she gets snipped. Yeah, she's going at about the right time. So, we're left with a fairly palatable final four of Samantha, McKey, Marjorie, and What's-Her-Name. Really, any of the first three would be an acceptable winner (though I'm pulling for McKey), so I like my odds of being satisfied.
Overall Grade: B+
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