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Metascore

Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critics What's this?

User Score

Generally favorable reviews- based on 17 Ratings

  • Summary: Project Runway returns from a long hiatus and a move to Los Angeles to a new channel.
  • Genre(s): Reality, Health & Lifestyle, Game Show
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 12
  2. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. Tim Gunn still motherhens the designers, the dramatic arcs feel familiar (one designer is a recovering addict, another gave up a career as a surgeon), and--wonders to behold--there's even a branch of the fabric store Mood in Runway's new Los Angeles home.
  2. Though the setting has shifted from New York to Los Angeles, the look and feel of the show are essentially unchanged, with Heidi Klum and her Valkyrie manner still doing the hosting and Tim Gunn continuing to bring an Oxford don’s comportment to his sartorial mentoring.
  3. It's the miraculous simplicity of creating something from nothing that makes Runway endlessly watchable.
  4. As usual with premiere episodes, it's not until the end that we start to sense which contestants we can ignore and which ones could be around awhile. The pace will quicken once we have a better sense of the lineup.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 6
  2. Negative: 3 out of 6
  1. GrrravyX
    10
    As long as Tim and Heidi are involved, this show can do no wrong. Everything in the pilot episode was up to par with what we're used to enjoying. Bravo! (no pun intended) Expand
  2. GregK
    7
    Doesn't quite have the captivation of last season or the one before that.
  3. MartinS
    0
    Great! Another season of the vapid, self indulgent, superficial, materialistic uber-race. I guess it truly is better to look good than to feel good. Shows like this are why this country is going to hell at break neck speed. Expand
  4. Welcome in the selfish, materialistic world of fashion designers and other fashion dictators. I would rather watch paint dry than Heidi and her toe-lickers... These people smile into each others face, while stabbing each other in the back. Expand

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