Project Runway Season 3

So the next season of Project Runway has begun.

Hold on, you're probably wondering why I'm blogging about a reality TV show, given I've waxed poetic in the past about how awful reality TV is. Well, in general, it still is. But every statement has an exception, right?

Project Runway is interesting to me for two reasons:

• It's about designing and making clothes, which is something I have absolutely no experience in and is something that I'm amazed that people can do. Under time pressures and with artificial constraints, even.
• It's got fun characters and drama to it. Yes, of course these are characters. The people behind them are real and have personalities, but like any reality TV show, the producers want to have characters and conflicts and such and guide the show, the people, and the editors to follow suit.

So, anyway, the next season of Project Runway has begun. What's different and new about this season? By the first show's accounts, not too much (at least not yet). I'm a bit sad there's no clear Santino Rice equivalent, which essentially means there's no crazy character whose designs are usually out on a limb and tick off most of the judges. On the plus side, there's a guy from Atlanta who most of us in the group that watch every Wednesday are rooting for (since, well...a lot of us are from Atlanta).

Seattle is apparently Project Runway's biggest market. We'll see how the third season holds our interest.