Auntie Fashion

Adejoké

The words you are about to read will not be able to express my disappointment with Project Runway Canada last night.

Everything about the show was great up until the judges made their final decision and sent Adejoké home.  After praising the former challenge winner for creating her best work in the competition, the judges declared a tie between Sunny, Jessica, Genevieve and Jason.

Sunny and Jessica were clearly the winners of this challenge.  Genevieve made a top that fit and Jason made a jacket that fit – big deal.  Forget the fact that her skirt was decorated like a Christmas tree and his cooch-grazing skirt was embarrassingly off-trend; they were rewarded for being as good as their competition.

I’ve never seen anyone get the shaft like this on a non-scripted show.  Sure, Kim deserved to go, but there was no reason to make Adejoké’s success in the competition contingent upon Kim’s questionable talent.

This is the sort of moment that makes the reality show fans jump ship.  It’s great to surprise the audience with the return of both heroes and villains, but it’s aggravating for viewers to watch as the producer’s machinations backfire and put them into a situation like this.  Genevieve and Jason didn’t deserve a second chance, especially after creating the outfits that they showed on the runway.

The situation reminds me of the season of America’s Next Top Model where Whitney won over Anya after landing in the bottom-two four times.  Anya had never been in the bottom-two.  All I could do was roll my eyes as I watched the show script a win for a non-deserving winner.  I don’t believe that Adejoké would have won if she was in the top-three, but she certainly would have appeared as if she belonged in the finale.  Unlike Kim, Genevieve and Jason, she was constantly immersed in the learning process that PRC had offered her.

Instead we get self-deluded Genevieve and taste-challenged Jason back for another few episodes.  The joké is on us.