http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/10/04/AMERICAS-NEXT-TOP-MODEL----Series-PremiereAgain.aspx The makeover episode must be the highest rated of the season for ANTM, besides the finale. Otherwise, why would the producers delay it until two contestants have gone??? The public wants their makeover humiliations!! Now!! Instead this week we get a real filler of an episode. Firstly challenges for the sake of being challenging really bore me. Tonight’s lessons with Miss J were beyond pointless. The girls had to practice walking in straight jackets. The intent of this ridiculousness was to get them to use their legs better, but I think Tyra just wanted to put together a creepy haunted mental institution. Boring. But it did end up serving a modicum of a purpose, besides filling 7 of the 44 minutes of the show. The girls had to walk in a “couture” fashion show as their challenge. I am always amused at the judges insistence that someone is “not high fashion enough.” Like any of these girls is going to be on a real runway in Paris or Milan anytime soon. Firstly, most of them are already too old. There are very few new twenty-two year old models. Natalia Vodianova is considered an elder statesman at the ripe age of 25. But no matter. It’s still entertaining to watch Tyra and co., sitting in their LA perches far from the strum und drang of real fashion, decide who’s high fashion and who’s merely hootchie. en-US Critics Rant info@criticsrant.com Subtext Version 1.9.4.0 http://www.criticsrant.com/images/default_gravatar_bullhorn.png http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/10/04/AMERICAS-NEXT-TOP-MODEL----Series-PremiereAgain.aspx 77 60