America’s Next Top Model: The New Marjorie

In this week’s episode of America’s Next Top Model, Marjorie took Tyra’s critique of her maddening twitchiness to heart and decided to relax, have fun and let out the new Marjorie. But this girl wasn’t necessarily more likable, or more interesting, she was just slightly calmer, though not less nerve-wracking. The other models watched her with an air of trepidation, unsure of whether to accept her or hide the kitchen knives.

The first challenge of the evening involved a bit of spit-swapping with the incredibly hot top male model Mark Van der Loo. A local agency was casting for a commercial where a girl who is running along the street  finds herself being followed and ogled by an incredibly handsome guy. Turning the idea of the romantic chase on its head, she stops her jog to kiss him. The prize for the most believable performance? A $10,000 shopping spree. The girls lick their lips in anticipation and prepare themselves to give America’s next top kiss. Samantha gives her best flirtation in a romantic comedy  kiss and Analiegh is sweet but I think there was a little bit of saliva string a la Cruel Intentions. McKey was flinchingly awkward which is usually Marjorie’s domain, but instead the new Marjorie came off as weird and slightly psychotic. The judges loved her saying she was the most natural and she won the challenge.  Since when did weird, scary random kisses come off as natural and believable? Even Mark looked like he wanted to run away.

Back at the house, new Marjorie decides to invite the guys who drove them around in boats during the last challenge to the house. They come bearing offerings of pizza and liquor. Few of the girls drank, besides Marjorie, and while the evening began with a bit of charades, it eventually fell into a McKey wrestling with one of the guys, Samantha and another guy do magic tricks in the kitchen and Analeigh and Marjorie making one of the guys put on a pair of high heels and play drunken cat walk. Unsatisfied with these developments, and noticing that Marjorie’s inhibitions had taken a rain check on the evening, one of the guys decided that it was time for the ritual drunken playing of truth or dare. He dared Marjorie to kiss one of the guys to which she obliged with a bit too much gusto. By the end of the night, she and the guy, end up in the jacuzzi. She fully clothed, and he in his boxer shorts trying to convince her to marry him.

Analeigh had enough at that point and decided that things had gone way too far, she, with the help of the other girls kicked the guys out and put new Marjorie to bed.

But new Marjorie was determined to hang on, and she made her way to the photoshoot that followed. The models had to wear clogs with some high fashion outfits in front of a windmill. Analiegh and McKey were excellent while Samantha was so uncomfortable in the shoes that all her pictures were horrendous except for the last 7-10 frames when Mr. Jay gave her a verbal slap. Marjorie was just completely uninspiring, and Mr. Jay asked her what the hell she was doing, which was basically not much of anything. She stood, she slumped slightly but barely posed. In bringing out this new, less spastic Marjorie, the girl lost all of her charm. The judges noticed, and she was sent home.

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