“Let’s give’em lint, dull needles, three hours to make haute couture, and watch’em FREAK OUT!” seems to be the notes.

FUCK YES THIS. What really got me pissed off more than anything? The Finding Neverland competition. That musical is bullshit, and to force those poor designers to watch that bullshit, compliment that bullshit and then create a piece of clothing out of that bullshit was just so infuriating.

Wait, you mean you DON’T love watching the flummoxed designers trying to stuff three different, conflicting sets of directives into some shitty 8-hour dress to be paraded in front of the crappy, ultimately unimpressed sponsor? Well that’s just madness.

I watch on the DVR so I can FF through all the gross, blatant product placement BS. I also hate the sponsor-driven stuff. It’s too forced and weird, and doesn’t usually lend itself to actual design and creativity. Challenges with clear parameters but less constraint at least allow the designers to, you know, design.

Another major pet peeve with the Lifetime format: almost every challenge is SPONSORED by someone. I think that is the show’s ultimate undoing, unfortunately — I say this as a huge fan.

God, THIS. It drives me nuts that they repeatedly only give them one day and then are upset at the glue-gunned crap that walks the runway. Would it kill them to give them two days (a day and a half?) so that we can be properly wowed by what they managed to come up with? That is what got me hooked on the show in the…