User Reviews

I originally watched this show in 2007 when it was airing. I watched A.N.T.M all of the time and assumed this would be a humorous take on the modeling business. However, I was extremely disappointed. I felt that rules were made up as the show was airing, extreme favoritism was shown towards V.J from Mary Alice, and the show did not showcase true model qualities or intelligence of any sort. V.J did shady stuff that would never be allowed on other competitive shows. On one occasion he hid an encyclopedia so that the other models could not study. Another occasion he lifted himself off the treadmill and Andre tried to notify Mary Alice and Ben Stein and they ignored him. V.J also listened in on information that was supposed to provide an "edge" to another team, he called a friend to lookup information, and he also copied every single photo Andre took during his final photo shoot. Honestly, from the very beginning you could tell Mary Alice favored him and didn't really care about anyone else involved. Mary Alice herself and extremely unprofessional as well. The entire season was a waste of my time. No wonder why they quit after the first season.

So from the title, we know that the show was going to be some kind of modeling show paired with a quiz show. I love competition shows that put creativity and smarts together so I thought this one might be fun and in the beginning, it was. Yes, there were the stupid people (there always are), and there were the smart people. I figured once the stupid people were gone it would really start to begin. However, while the questions were pretty easy and progressively got harder, I found that the show really wasn't looking for the smartest model, they were, like all competition shows, looking for someone who could play the game (and what do you know, that person won!)

The thing that really REALLY turned me off to this was the host, Mary Alice Stephenson's attitude toward everyone. Calling these women 'girls' but the guys were always 'men', she seemed to sneer at the ladies while lifting up the men for doing the same things. Her attitude was awful and short, like a teacher who had to put up with a misbehaving classroom and was at a breaking point. It just seemed through the whole show that she either didn't want to be there or wanted to prove that SHE was the "most smartest model".

At one point she even yelled at one of the contestants that the woman was too stupid to even be a model and to leave immediately. While I agree that this woman was less than intelligent, why would anyone think it's okay to yell at someone else on national television and bully them?

There was another incident where the models were told they got the night off for one of the contestants birthdays. They all got dressed up, went to dinner had too much wine then went to a party. At the party there were network officials and talent agents. One of the contestants a woman was standing talking to a group when a man she'd never met before putting a hand on her arm and started to lean in to talk to her. She pulled away and her body language was very standoff-ish. At judging which was also a shock, the man said that this model was standoffish and rude. Of course, she couldn't defend herself. When later at judging Mary Alice asked about it, the woman tried to say that he creeped her out, and as a woman, she has to be careful about strange men. Mary Alice berated her over it, telling her that excuse was BS and that Mary Alice goes to parties where she talks to men all the time. All I could think of was telling Mary Alice that yeah sure when you know you're at a party to network, of course, you don't mind men coming up to you and talking to you. This woman though had NO IDEA that's what was happening!

Through the whole competition, I really was disgusted at Mary Alice's attitude and I most definitely will not be watching or buying anything with her name attached to it anymore.

Ugh

Also, the winner was a cheater who several contestants tried to point out, but Mary Alice liked him so much that the show just didn't care that he'd cheated over and over and over.

This show had no integrity at all. Glad it only lasted one season. Hulu needs to remove it from the network. This show deserves no more money.

Since America's Next Top Model starting getting too ghetto I was on the lookout for something more professional. This filled the void. The caliber of the contestants is much higher than ANTM although I think overall the women picked were deficient in the brain department compared to men.

Mary Alice is an excellent host and Ben Stein was surprisingly very good for this role (his monotone plays well here). I liked most of the contestants. Again, some of the girls are real bimbos. As for the guys, the biggest poser was Andre who keeps saying he is Russian and Soviet to appear tough but it turned out he is neither one (presumably he is ashamed to be Romanian).

Too bad there was only one season. Overall very entertaining.