While I was unimpressed with the first episode of True Beauty, I found myself tremendously bored last night and it appeared to be the only thing on. The second episode, which seemed to center around how much everyone hates Chelsea, offered no real twists and turns and only proved to be mildly entertaining.
The show opens with reactions to Chelsea being sent to the “hall of beauty”, everyone seems hopeful that she will not return, and when she does people are as snarky as ever to her. “Drama” ensues when Julia (who will probably win) claims that Chelsea has stolen a pair of her Citizen jeans. The confrontation was pretty uneventful with Chelsea eventually giving up the jeans at the end.
The ‘challenge’ this week was to make the contestants buy an outfit, but the amazing twist was that they only had $100 for three peoples’ outfits, then the two people with the weakest outfit would be sent to the “hall of beauty” for possible elimination. Most of the people simply sweet-talked shop owners for the clothes they needed. C.J. and Ashley (and Chelsea but she didn’t participate) scammed hapless folks out of their clothes claiming it was for charity.
There was a ‘set-up’ challenge with an actor collecting money for children’s cancer research. Most of the contestants did end up donating. In the end, C.J. and Ashley were both sent to the “hall of beauty” and Ashley ended up going home. Controversy in sued when Ashley was sent home because she helped Chelsea put her outfit together. Everyone forgets that Ashley scammed people out of clothes by claiming it was for charity, and didn’t help the “bike messenger” up after his nasty spill during the “last straw” challenge.
Rife with petty confrontations, shallow people, and amusingly awful judges this episode didn’t really prove to be any more interesting than the last, but with the current “break” that most shows have taken I suppose it is better (slightly) than watching paint dry.
-Drew
