A Lesson in Geography from Top Design

It looks like Project Runway and sounds like Project Runway... there's a blond woman with an accent kicking people off the show at the end. There's a gay guy giving advice and mentoring the designers. Inanimate objects are draped with fabric and judged within an inch of their lives. Only on Top Design its India Hicks instead of Heidi Klum, Todd Oldham instead of Tim Gunn, and sofas instead of models. Tomato, Tomahto.

The challenge this second week of the second show of the second season of Top Design had the contestants work in teams to remodel fallout shelters. This was a great challenge separating the designers with actual talent from those who are just filling space until the finale.

Two designers went home last night (um, just like Project Runway!) So next week there will be less contestants to keep track of and more to write. However, I'll leave you with this gem from Natalie. Quite possibly one of the dimmest bulbs on "smart" reality TV. If this doesn't make you want to vote for serious education reform, I don't know what will:

While describing the challenge, Natalie said this - verbatim:

"If the world was to end, and I could plan it because I was God, it would have to be something stupid like the Chinese have built the Transformers to bomb us back because they were pissed about the Hiroshima bombing."

Last night before I went to sleep, I knelt by my bed, placed my hands together and prayed to God that s/he knew where Hiroshima was.