ANTM REVIEW

The only reality show worth prasising. It gathers fifteen contestants from all walks of life and subjects them to innumerable "tasks" in which they must prove their "talent" in front of the camera and subject themselves not only to the now-departed Janice Dickinson (self-dubbed "American's First Supermodel") but the equally catty Jay Manuel and Nore Marin who may at one point focus on one girl not performing well and blithely ignore the other. As with many other reality shows, one contestant is voted off each week and must pack her belongings and leave immediately (a thing that they are reminded by Tyra at every turn). Of course, there is the bitchy tension between several of the more type-A females, female bonding, tears, dramatic swells of music in key moments, and some truly breathtaking pictures that transform erstwhile ordinary, pretty girls into unattainable goddesses.

Problematic at times, with a lot of controversies, nevertheless Tyra Banks showed young women how to behave in the fashion industry and how to succeed in life in terms of behaviour. Sure, at times it seemed like explotation which was as huge reality but just like any other tv reality show.

Diversity was done right, especially considering the last few seasons (VH1 not the CW) with a bigger age gap, making modelling accesible to everyone, without Tyra the show went downhill.