Top Design: Season 1
  • Network: Bravo
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 31, 2007
  • Season #: 1 , 2
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67 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critics What's this?

User Score
4.7 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 28 Ratings

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  • Starring: Goil Amornvivat, Margaret Russell (II), Kelly Wearstler
  • Summary: On the heels of "Project Runway" and "Top Chef" comes Bravo's latest talent competition, which pits a dozen aspiring interior designers against one another for a chance at a large cash prize.
  • Genre(s): Reality, Health & Lifestyle, Game Show

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Jessica Shaw
    91
    The contestants are highly entertaining. [2 Feb 2007, p.116]
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  2. People Weekly
    Reviewed by: Jennifer Wulff
    75
    Top Design will make you not want to leave your TV room--no matter what it looks like. [5 Feb 2007, p.37]
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  3. Time
    Reviewed by: James Poniewozik
    60
    There are problems to work out; none of the cast really pops in the first episode, and I wish they hadn't given the competitors the help of a carpenter, which loses the hands-on, who-stole-my-glue-gun drama of Runway. But the show has good bones. There's nothing wrong with it a little furniture rearrangement wouldn't fix.
  4. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Melanie McFarland
    60
    "Top Design"... comes closer to capturing "Runway's" singular appeal than "Top Chef" ever did... Yet with each scan of the "Project Runway" blueprint, a little more of the original's crispness and clarity gets lost.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 21
  3. Negative: 8 out of 21
  1. EganM
    10
    This is the most creative, intelligent, and fun-to-watch reality show I have ever seen. I really loved the first two episodes and am eagerly awaiting the third!… Expand
  2. nancyt
    8
    its a really fun show, and everyone likes designing a room. i hope.
  3. HollieB
    6
    This show is verry cool. I have gotten some good ideas and combined them with mine and thay have turned out great.I would love to have the funding to build some of the stuff this sow does.… Expand
  4. WillA
    4
    Top Design's problems: You never become intimate with the contestant's design process and work. It's very distant. The show lacks emotion, from the absence of competition between designers to Todd Oldham's lackluster-ness. (Todd is no Tim Gunn.) There's also no design authority. Todd doesn't carry weight. . .he's a fashion designer turned product merchandiser. . . . The highlights? Definitely Margaret Russell and Kelly Wearstler. Jonny Adler is good but forced. And where are the special guest stars? Who are these people?… Expand

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