I've just finished bingeing this and didn't watch it week to week. It was mostly good to watch and had some funny moments. I pretty much liked it, some of the designs were great, but there were quite a few faults that brought it down for me. Mostly with the format and judging though. I was also put off by some of the contestants and their backbiting.
It often seemed a bit too geared to the drama/conflict angle and it never made sense to me at points why they were in teams or why they were suddenly given random things in the brief (chocolate themed hotel rooms?!). I would have preferred to have seen more of them designing, working with their clients and talking about how and why they were doing things as they did in the GIDC.
The judging seemed really weird as well. They were conflicting themselves all the time. Telling someone to listen to the client more and design for them and then the next minute telling another contestant to push the client more and show their off their own style. There were multiple episodes where it seemed unfair on who got sent home. People were kept in when they had a bad week, but then got sent home later when there were worse than theirs. Not sure if it was the judging or the editing or both, but it was a little frustrating. I was pretty surprised by who made it to the final. It kind of made the end result a bit meh...
On the plus side I thought Fearne was a great presenter and brought it up a bit. Not sure if it was just the judges it would have been as good.
Will be interesting to see if there's another series. I would no doubt watch it again, but hopefully they tweak the format a bit!
It often seemed a bit too geared to the drama/conflict angle and it never made sense to me at points why they were in teams or why they were suddenly given random things in the brief (chocolate themed hotel rooms?!). I would have preferred to have seen more of them designing, working with their clients and talking about how and why they were doing things as they did in the GIDC.
The judging seemed really weird as well. They were conflicting themselves all the time. Telling someone to listen to the client more and design for them and then the next minute telling another contestant to push the client more and show their off their own style. There were multiple episodes where it seemed unfair on who got sent home. People were kept in when they had a bad week, but then got sent home later when there were worse than theirs. Not sure if it was the judging or the editing or both, but it was a little frustrating. I was pretty surprised by who made it to the final. It kind of made the end result a bit meh...
On the plus side I thought Fearne was a great presenter and brought it up a bit. Not sure if it was just the judges it would have been as good.
Will be interesting to see if there's another series. I would no doubt watch it again, but hopefully they tweak the format a bit!