America's Next Top Model: Cycle Shark Jump

WTF happened to this show? I can see why everyone jumped ship on Tyra except Kelly Cutrone, who I suspect had a major hand in the revamping of the format. EVERYTHING about the new version is HORRIBLE. From the new Miss Jay who thought the girl raising her leg like she's spraying a tree was "fierce". To the androgynous iPad boy whose sole job is to look ridiculous reading Twitter feeds from a teleprompter. Who cares what random people on the internet are saying? This isn't Idol where the voting public are the consumers of the end product. IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE! And the point system is total BS, not to mention completely anti-climactic.

I haven't seen a more bizarre shift in series conception since the second season of Space: 1999.

Bravo to the Jays and Nigel for getting out of this hideous mess. The series had been going downhill for a few years now, but it needed to go back to its roots when it was actually about modeling, not recording singles and music videos or audience participation.

I just...ugh. I can't even...bleagh.

---

Updated On: 9/4/12 at 01:11 PM

Kelly Cutrone is vile. I've refused to watch this season because of her. (and the sacking on the Jays and Nigel)

This show is really still on the air? I had no idea.

I was glad last season when Sophie won, and I just considered that to be a good closure for me.

That girl is a patient in Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room. She really needs to learn the art of self-love.

---

Tell that to the father of Oedipus.

---

thought it was just me being old, but then my teenage daughter and her friend both expressed disgust at the new format. Simply awful. Biggest shark jump ever.

This jumped the shark for me so long ago, I can't recall the date.

Each season keeps getting worse and worse for me. They just need to give up, they're running out of ideas, and it's just getting ridiculous.

"Well so far they've only used living girls...."

You sure of that?

---

Kelly turned into a monster? I always found to be on her side dealing with those privileged ladies on The Hills and Kell on Earth actually made her seem just hyper-competent than high-strung. What does she do on the show that is so awful?

I'm gonna hope the producers are thinking like you, Jordan. Or I may just have to go online and vote the **** out of her!

I'm sure some of you remember Jael from season 8...sad, sad update:
http://theclicker.today.com/_news/2012/09/12/13829094-former-top-model-contestant-addicted-to-meth-gets-dr-phil-intervention?

---