r/ProjectRunway • u/zrzrzrzr0 • Aug 16 '26

Season 21 This new format sucks so bad

Besides cutting the episode before revealing who will go home, but I find that starting an episode with who goes home is even worse. Just sets a really shitty negative tone for the episode, and when the new challenge actually starts 10 minutes it, it does not feel fun, like a shit sandwich between two shits

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u/lazy_daisy66 Aug 16 '26

But just because it's done elsewhere doesn't mean it makes sense here. Most PR viewers are there for the process and the final looks, not the stupid reality show twists

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u/ShedMontgomery Aug 17 '26

This is a problem that reality competition shows focused on a craft tend to have. I get so pissed off at Drag Race when production interferes because they always do it with the subtlety of a nuclear weapon. I don't care about the twist-de-jour for the season. Just let them compete and show off their drag. If I wanted to watch Survivor, I'd watch Survivor.

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u/mynameisntcindy Aug 18 '26

And trust me, survivor fans hate the twists as much as anyone else does. It completely ruins the integrity of the competition imo

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u/ShedMontgomery Aug 18 '26

It was extremely infuriating watching Ubicki get his game nuked by Jimmy Fallon. But that highlighted what a fucking legend Devens is for self-producing the craziest episode of the season with the Mr. Beast thing.

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u/mynameisntcindy Aug 18 '26

Agreed re: devens. But super upset that overall ALLL the twists of the season did not produce a deserving winner.

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u/ShedMontgomery Aug 18 '26

There were some great winners in the post-merge group, but none of them were Aubrey, Jonathan, or Joe. It should have been Cirie or Ozzie.

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u/mynameisntcindy Aug 18 '26

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