Tonight was the designers’ first team challenge, as they had to work in pairs to create day and night looks for a L’Oreal Paris Spring 2009 campaign.

(If these designers learned anything from Project Runway, it would be that seamlessness and cohesion are key for team challenges. Sadly, no one seemed to know this.)

To create the teams, designers names were pulled out of a hat and that designer selected the partner they wanted. Christie and Jason teamed up, Sunny and Baylor teamed up, Kim and Genevieve teamed up, Brandon and Adejoke teamed up, and Jessica and Jeff teamed up.

This episode focused largely on the evolution of the designs and the relationship between each of the teams. Which sounds better than it played out. Lots of discussion, not enough combat. I want Christie to earn those tears!!

It became immediately apparent Sunny and Baylor were going to run away with this challenge. Everyone interviewed said so and their drama in the work room was a minimum, Unlike Christie, who had a complete meltdown, “lost her spirit” and produced a pair of crappy shorts. Kim and Genevieve seemed to be doing ell, but Kim’s time control issues flared up again, as did Jeff’s overambitiousness. Jessica’s cutsieness is getting old fast, Brandon is finally seeming to get this is a competition and not the Brandon show, Jason was overwhelmed by Christie’s ridiculousness.

As for the looks that went down the runway, Sunny & Baylor’s looks were so far above and beyond everyone else’s. This wasn’t even a competition. Kim and Genevieve’s were cute, but not really cohesive. Adejoke and Brandon’s allowed them to squeak through, but that mediocre performance won’t hold in future episodes. Jason and Jessica’s dresses were cute but dated and Jeff’s and Christie’s were both complete and utter messes. In the end, the judges let Jeff stay because his spirit isn’t going to break him.

Again, Iman proved to be the greatest fashion reality show host of all time. I loved Sean’s “Addicted to Biddell” shirt. And finally, the PRC editors need to learn the element of surprise. Kim and Jeff’s design issues felt tacked on and harried, not an attempt to create a possible elimination narrative to counteract the obviousness of Christie’s elimination.

I need some growth, from the designers, from the challenges and from the show overall. This episode felt like filler. Delicious, meaningless filler.