Everyone should have learned from last week that the Face Off playground is a war zone that needs to be taken seriously. It’s not a romping station where you hang your ego up on the wall to admire it. You do that and that ego is going to lose its luster toot sweet, something glaringly evident from the two intense challenges this episode.
The first — a timed relay foundation challenge where the contestants had 15 minute increments to lay down their wares without consulting their team mates based on the type of contacts their models were wearing — was a kick to watch. Some shown brightly, others failed in their mediocrity. (Beki won this challenge, awarded by Emmy-winning make up artist and guest judge Jennifer Aspinall.)
Then things got jiggy. The spotlight challenge was noticeably stirring for some contestants as naked bodies came out and stood in front of canvases of scenery. (A few candidates really needed to steel their resolves before delving into the task.) Teams of two had to incorporate a pair models into the backdrops intelligently and innovatively … in 6 hours. Talk about “rocking a body.” This was an invitation to disaster … and certainly was for a couple of teams who flailed spectacularly in drabness. The kicker was the background of tennis shoes which wasn’t picked by anyone, instead awarded to Team Brea and Matt. In the back of my mind, they were either going to Choke Mahoney or rise to the complexity of the challenge. And the former didn’t seem too likely with Brea’s model collapsing from whatever it was he collapsed from. (The specific cause of his collapse wasn’t entirely clear, but I personally think he was overcome from hip hop artist Asher Roth’s inspiration “Is This Too Much Orange” which was the inspiration for the challenge. I mean, the dude was all dolled up in “door hinge” to the hilt. Saturate your privates in paint and something’s gonna give … you know?)
I’m not going to dissect each individual project showcased on this episode other than to state some were pretty spiffy with a couple gunmetal gray (literally). Suffice to say tears don’t make good adherent for prosthetics and Miranda — having been harshly lambasted by that Siegbarste judge Glenn Hetric (*heheheh*) — got the heave-ho for her schlocky work. And deservedly so.
Next week? Night Terrors! Hideous creatures of bad dream stuff! Creations of horror! *Woot!*
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