It's Tyra!!!! - ANTM Week 4

Bonjour mes amis! Let's get right to the recap!

What did we learn about Tyra this week?
OMFG...I learned aplenty about Tyra this week. She was doing the talk show rounds this week, promoting her new website typef.com. I'd recommend Tyra's website if you like watching videos of Tyra being Tyra (i.e. don't bother). When Tyra was on the dreckitude show that is Chuckles In The Night With Jimmy Fallon, she mentioned that she has been attending Harvard Business School so that she can build her brand. Her heroes are Richard Branson and Walt Disney. Best of all, SHE HAS TO LIVE IN A DORM!!!! Ladies and gentlemen: I have found the perfect topic for my first screenplay. Imagine if you had to live in a dorm...WITH TYRA! Holy crap!

So yeah, this episode has nothing on the hours I spend this week picturing dorm life with Tyra. I'm not even going to start throwing out the scenarios I came up with. Hopefully you will see for yourself on the big screen soon enough.

So what if I ate your cereal roommate? Whatcha gonna do? PS: cereal is a cheatie. 

During the episode, we learn that Tyra hates the contestants, as she orders them to be lit on fire during their challenge and has them act in the worst commercial ever for their photo shoot. It seems like this cycle the challenges and shoots are less about teaching the girls modelling skills and more about trying to have them endure as much ridiculousness as they can without snapping. Tyra must have learned these tricks in one of her Harvard classes.

During panel, Tyra is back to being wacky and ALT is back to being her straight man. It was fun while it lasted ALT! I blocked out most of Tyra's silliness this week as I kept picturing the 3 sad, crying girls that have to share a dorm with Tyra at Harvard Business School. I picture them looking like this:

"Tyra, did you really just eliminate me from the dorm?"

Tyra Quote Of The Week: "I've got my whip outfit on to-night! Whooo honey, be scared!"

What else did we learn this week?
The main thing we learned this week is that Sara is pretty awesome, which of course means that she was eliminated. They had lots of footage of her cracking jokes and having fun. She also opens up about being a feminist and coming from a poor background. She seems pretty self aware, which is a change from some of the dummies that have been on ANTM in the past.

Like Jade!!!

I got annoyed this week when the girls had a discussion about if modelling or college is more important. Sara tells the girls that she wants to have an education so that she will be able to provide for her family when her "looks run out". Alexandria is of the opinion that, even if they don't win, the girls should head to New York and pursue modelling anyway. I don't really think that either point of view is unreasonable, but I don't like how the reaction shots were edited to make Sara seem like she was talking crazy. Just because Sara is being practical about her future does not mean that she is any less qualified to win ANTM. Just don't apply to Harvard Business School Sara, or you might have to share a dorm with Tyra!

The challenge this week is a runway show where the girls have their hand set on fire. It's pretty lame, except for Miss J's Perfect 10 Lemon Meringue Pie outfit:

At this point they don't even pretend that the runway shows are in any way real. Check out the crowd! It's full of tourists and kids.

Hey green shirt, are you the new Terry Richardson?

Hey Miss Cutie, are you the new Tavi Gevinson?

Dalya wins best Fire Walk With Me, and her prizes are 2 ugly dresses by Lady Gaga's favourite designer. Great! Miss J teaches the girls in the bottom 3 of the challenge (Kasia, Hannah, and Sara) by making them walk home. Hannah is annoyed and thinks she needs pepper spray as they are walking through a "ghetto" area. I'm hoping that Miss Hannah is not equating ethnic with ghetto. I highly doubt Miss J would have them walk through Compton or anything.

Oooooo...an office building. So scary!

The photo shoot this week is actually a commercial shoot for a fake coffee invented by Tyra ("fierce roast"). It's a Mad Men-esque shoot and the girls have to act flirty in pairs. Molly (who gets her weave taken out for the challenge and photo shoot), looks almost identical to Betty Draper!

Some girls (Kasia, Jaclyn, Hannah) do an awesome job, and some girls (Britanni, Sara, Alexandria) do not. The video director, who we are supposed to think is the sexiest guy around, is annoying. He kind of reminds me of a better looking Marcel from Top Chef. Not sexy!

Alexandria is still acting rude to everyone, including the staff on set. When Francesco/Marcel calls her out for trying to take over as director, she seems surprised and tells him she's just trying to help. The girls would like Alexandria to go home because of her attitude, as would I at this point. Tyra calls her out for being rude, and she ends up in the bottom 2, but she is spared going home because of Sara.

It was great seeing lots of fun Sara footage this week, but she deserved to go home. She made a big deal about the commercial not being her thing and how she would be embarassed for her Femcore friends at home to see it. In the real world, if someone is paying you to rep their product, you have to suck it up and try your best. I'm sure all of those models in herpes cream or adult diaper commercials aren't super jazzed for their friends to see them either. Sara was unprofessional and didn't put much effort into the ad. She knew as much, and left with a classy voiceover. Bye Sara!

Next week: swears during the Cover Girl web commercial! Alexandria is bitchy! Diaries are read!

Oh...I almost forgot. Molly debuted her new weave at panel. She seems thrilled about how great it looks:

XOXO,
Emily