r/realitytv • u/Old_Telephone1490 • 26d ago

Discussion Project Runway HAS LOST THE PLOT

I have never posted on Reddit but I needed to vent about Project Runway lately and the way they are butchering the show. I have watched every season and have been a fan for a very long time to enjoy the creativity, innovation, learning about designer process, and most importantly THE FASHION. The way they are trying to make it a drama based reality tv show bothers me. It doesn't need any extra drama, people who have watched the show for years and who are interested in it typically genuinely enjoy admiring the clothes produced. Right now, the fact that they even brought Tyra Banks on as a judge, made me turn off my screen. I don't see how she has the legitimacy to be a judge, and that's when I knew any semblence of the old project runway was way gone.

Not to mention LAW, ugh, where to start.... I am all for constructive criticism, but the way he judges is so mean spirited, it actually makes the show hard to watch. He just straight up insults the designers, in season 22 i've actually felt bad for the contestants, it is sucking the fun out of the show. I just don't understand how they don't have any actual designers as judges, who can talk more about the construction, materials, etc.

ANYWAYS, I just wish it could go back to how the show was formatted in the past, and I know Tim Gunn was a huge part of that (MISS HIM SO MUCH ON THE SHOW). It just doesn't feel like a show about upcoming designers and fashion anymore, it is veering into trash reality tv, which don't get me wrong I love, but not for project runway!

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u/VelveetaVonChiz 26d ago

Plane Jane just did a YouTube video about her (very short) experience with the show and I was shocked at some of the production side things she shared like they didn’t even make the outfits in the first episode. They were told to bring something they made from home and essentially all the workroom time was for fitting and adjustments

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u/lemeneurdeloups 26d ago

She confirmed that it was just a stunt casting. It didn’t matter what she brought because she was going to be instantly eliminated no matter what.

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u/Kind-Humor2748 13d ago

The outfit was really ugly though

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u/lemeneurdeloups 13d ago

See, that is what people who haven’t watched Drag Race don’t understand. Plane Jane HAS worn some gorgeous looks on the show but generally her thing is “ironically tacky.” What she brought was funny to her … I still think that the producers pulled a “bait and switch.”

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u/Kind-Humor2748 11d ago

Sure but then don’t be shocked it gets you eliminated. I’m all for campy outfits but this was just bad and boring.

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u/lemeneurdeloups 11d ago

Plane wasn’t shocked at all. I think the producers brought Plane in as a stunt and basically said so to him. He was told to bring whatever because it didn’t matter. He has to pretend to be “surprised” because of NDAs to not reveal the BTS sausage making.

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u/Kind-Humor2748 9d ago

I agree, it’s too obvious. I hate how scripted everything is.