My girlfriend spent the last hour yelling at me about the color we just painted our new apartment’s dining room walls, insisting that I should head down to Home Depot tomorrow, buy a new gallon of different colored paint (ironically, the color I originally requested), and then start the whole process over again. In light of this little dispute, writing about this week’s pathetic episode of Project Runway seemed like a welcome distraction. “But baby, I have to go blog for Film.com. They pay me money, and you like it when I have money, right?” It worked, so here I am.

Tell me something: if you spend an entire season watching a show, even a reality show like Project Runway, do you really need a so-called “reunion episode” to remind you about everything you watched during said season, why it was entertaining, and why you should definitely, absolutely, and without a doubt tune in for the season finale next week? Well, that’s what the producers gave their audiences this week – a whole lot of flashbacks, with the caveat that you’re also getting “exclusive” behind-the-scenes footage to make it worth your while tuning in. Wait, exclusive? Exclusive to whom? I mean, it’s your footage, Project Runway. Who else would have it? Besides, your exclusive footage was just a bunch of cut crap like Ricky crying in front of the camera even more than we thought.

What a marketing shame!

My girlfriend – remember, this was pre-argument – sat through the episode with a bored, distracted look in her eyes, probably, I imagine, still trying to make sense of the models chosen earlier to compete on America’s Next Top Model this cycle. I asked her if she wanted to skip Project Runway, that I could watch it myself, but she insisted she was fine. She wasn’t, oh no, no, she wasn’t. She was formulating the argument to come, while I was trying to make sense of the stupid e-mailed questions from fans that Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn were pitching at the reunited cast of Season Four.

To be honest, it reminded me of the reunion shows that followed the first couple seasons of Real World, except those were actually entertaining. Here, you just got Victorya scowling. Seriously. She scowled for the entire 60 minutes, and I’m willing to bet that was just what was aired. Shooting the reunion probably took much longer, which proves just how miserable this woman really is. The only real kick came from Carmen, who, after being voted off in week three, showed up ready to fight, whether it was with cast mates who didn’t miss her enough after she left, or with Heidi who specifically cited one of her designs as especially horrendous.

In the end, Christian won the coveted Fan Favorite Award – $10,000 (Tim announced it, practically drooling with lust). In case that wasn’t affirmation enough that the boy wonder was truly the fiercest bitch in all the land, just about every designer named him the most likely to win at Bryant Park, too. It’s nice when everyone knows you’re kind of a rock star, even if you had to tell them so week after week when your work already said it all.

Now it’s off to bed. Guess who’s repainting his dining room tomorrow?

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