Oh, how I miss the days of Nigel, Mr. Jay, and Miss Jay! I respected the opinions and judgments of those guys. These days, it seems that the show is less about fashion and more about fads. And I'm sorry, but I find Kelly Cutrone a frumpy, grumpy, lump, while Johnny Wujek just needs to take off those stupid hats and dress like a grown-up! I am willing to live with the in-house dramas [and flirtations, in this season] because I find the fashion shoots interesting; I'm not sure I'm willing to put up with the social media hype and the unimpressive "experts" on top of that. This will be my last season of being an ANTM fan—unless most of the cast is fired and the old crew brought back.

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9/10

A completely shallow show that I absolutely love.

Who could have ever foreseen that this show would last for more than 20 seasons. I think that singular fact proves how many people out there are closet ANTM fans. There is no need to be ashamed because the truth is that it is a fantastic show. How many little girls [and boys] grew up seeing images of beautiful people in magazines and on TV and wanted to be just like them when they grew up. Hell many of us still do that now. ANTM lets you live out this dream and see what it really takes to be a supermodel. The crazy fashion industry people, long photo shoot days, hair & makeup to the extreme, a lot of mirror & runway practice and the continual criticism. It kind of puts it into perspective and makes you realise that modelling is a tough job.

As the seasons have progressed we have experienced many changes in the judging panel as well as celebrity guests. None has been as controversial though as the loss of Nigel Barker, Mr. Jay Manual, and Miss Jay. Initially when it happened I was shocked and bitterly disappointed. I thought the new panel were hacks and thought the show would never be as good. Turns out the success really has nothing to do with the panel but has everything to do with the drama created by the contestants and the amazing photo shoots they do. Even Kelly Cutrone has grown on me after first thinking she was one of the most disgusting people on the planet. I do still think that she is bitter that she never was able to be a model.

America's Next Top Model is my guilty pleasure show that I refuse to feel guilty for. I will continue to watch it until the day it goes off the air just like many other people around the world. It may not be an intellectually superior show but it does entertain you.

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4/10

Trash Television at Its Finest

Alright, anyone with a brain could tell that this show is a little unfair. Who is picked and who is sent home is so contrived; everyone can see straight through it. It really is too bad a lot of them are in denial. Anyway, let's go through a typical season, or cycle, I should say, because Tyra has to be menstrual.[I stole that from someone funny.] The first episode generally starts a clip show with a Tyra-logue about modeling. How far she made me, how she struggled, how she is[or was, depending on who you favor]

1. Then we go through 30-something young girls who get flown in to some city for an in-person interview of sorts so Tyra can get a glimpse of their TV personalities and hear sob stories. The Tyra makes a series of cuts to get down to the top 10, 12, 13, or 14 contestants.

Almost all the episodes after that generally go like this: we open with the b*tches, I mean "aspiring models" in Tyra's ego-house. There's fighting, there's laughing, there's the focus[usually] on the girl who is going to be ceremoniously sacked by the end of the episode.

The girl's are then sent to a few things, sometimes in a different order. The first is usually some sort of contest to depict who can do the best at something stupid. Blah, blah, blah. Then comes the photo shoot. The photo shoots are generally the second best thing in the show, second only to the pictures that are shown during panel.

Of course, there are usually some episodes throughout the season/cycle that break the robotedness. The first is always the make-over episode, generally 3 or 4 episodes in. Everyone gets a dramatically awesome hair make-over[or not, in a lot of cases] and there's always some menstrual case whining[except for cycle 8, where when no one whined enough, they had to take out Jael's cute extensions just to really irritate].

And then there's the episode where the girls do an acting session and star in a commercial or something of the like. And sometimes we get a clip show where no one is eliminated and nothing is all that interesting. And of course, there's always the episode where the girls get sent to a foreign fashion capitol[and apparently, any big city in the world is a fashion capitol to Ty-Ty] and someone gets sent home without being there for 24 hours.

Then the final episode shakes it up a bit. Because there are only 3 contestants left, we must suffer two eliminations where Tyra reminds us what the winner gets. And it's always the same thing. A modeling contract and a magazine spread[It was with "Elle Magazine" the first few cycles, but I think when they realized this show didn't turn out any actual TOP models TyTy's winner's got dropped to "Seventeen Magazine".] So yeah, they usually do a CoverGirl shoot to pick the final two and then do a fashion show... before evaluating both finalists and usually picking [in my opinion except for Cycles 1 and 7] the worst of the duo.

In all honesty, this show doesn't really turn out what you could call Big Winners, but it's entertaining when you need a guilty pleasure amount of trash in your week. Enjoy.

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7/10

Excellent, then terrible

America's Next Top Model has upwards of twenty seasons and the first 3/4 are great, and then the final 1/4 is pretty much down the drain.

Like many young women I grew up watching America's Next Top Model in the early 2000s, and then somehow or other fell out of it. Watching those early seasons again [season 1 to 15] much of it still has that popcorn eating appeal. The series is rife with drama, some insight into the modeling industry and many spectacular photo shoots enabling the series to run the gamut of the happily trashy to the highest of fine art.

As many of the winners fell quickly out of the spotlight over the years, one comes to accept America's Next Top Model as a reality show foremost and a modeling career second. As a reality show America's Next Top Model felt like one of the better ones because some of the permanent cast like the fabulous Jay Manuel reportedly did genuinely care about the models-to-be. Jay Manuel and Tyra Banks did try to keep it real, as well as some of the other judges like Andre Leon Telly and Paulina Porowitz [sp?]. For the most part the judges tried to steer the models into a good direction, sometimes into becoming commercial models, or focusing on runway, or acting or producing. They tried not to be harsh but could be right divas some of the time, which is what the public liked at the time as many watched American Idol on the same nights as America's Next Top Model.

But eventually much of the better staff and judges were fired, much to the degradation of the show. The replacement judges were terribly bitter or vapid in the worst way. This is probably around season 18 to the end, like season 23 or around.

America's Next Top Model always had a problematic message of encouraging girls to push ahead despite their discomfort for the means of capturing a good photo. However in the later seasons this message became a kind of masochism, with photographers denying the amateur models even common comforts such as in season 21 when a Guess photographer wouldn't give a cramping Jourdan a foot rest in a back twisting, knee raised photo shoot.

For me, watching season 21 was a kind of self inflicted masochism. I wouldn't recommend it because it doesn't get better. I don't know who hired Kelly Cutrone as a judge, because she's a nightmare. After a long hiatus of eight years such as I had, I was surprised by how self-destructive the show had gotten in its later and final seasons.

Considering the whole series, I have to give a 7/10 instead of the higher score I want to.

Like any long running series it gets a little worse the digger you deep behind the scenes, and I'm still registering some of what I read on reddit and beyond. But mostly I still like my childhood favorite show.

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7/10

My guilty pleasure

This show is my guilty pleasure all the way!! When I first tuned in to America's Next Top Model, I expected to be bored, and to find it very very stupid. I didn't. This show is actually serious fun. I read on one of the other reviews that it makes you wonder if you have what it takes to be America's Next top model. And it so does! Who doesn't love the glamour and excitement that come with being a model? On ANTM you get to see what it's REALLY like. And who doesn't love hearing the girls bitch about each other and get into fights? Or enjoy wanting to throw something at that Janice lady?

Give this a chance. Don't expect something intelligent or a show you can look to for a life lesson. Just enjoy it for what it is. Serious fun!

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The title speaks for itself.

It's one of those shows that you either absolutely hate or you absolutely love.

If you chose to see it as a bunch of stupid, beautiful girls competing through make up and runway tests, then yes, you will be disappointed. But it is called America's Next Top Model, did you think they would be competing for who could eat the most worms under a minute?

OR

You can see that some [to be used very strongly] have genuine personalities. Like in any reality show, you get attached to the people, this show is no exception. Elyse, Adrianne, Shannon [and G-d help me] Robyn' personalities made me come back every week. It was a fun show to relax to over the summer for an hour a week.

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UPN's salvation...

Pack your bags UPN! you may get out of last place in ratings with this new reality tv show of yours. Showing the real difficulty behind modeling is an educating, not to mention sweet eye candy, experience. Having only seen a few episodes and listening to the general buzz about the show, Top model is definitely succeeding in drawing an audience. Then again, reality tv is not for everybody and if that is the case, this isn't your cup of tea. Feminist's may have problems with it due to its promotion of an ideal image of women. Luckily, by having a female host, Tyra banks, and many of the nit picking judges and fashion designers depicted with a strong focus on their respective areas of expertise rather than simply the models measurements, most feminist issues are diverted away. Watch the show, it will get you hooked and GO Elyse Sewell!! my choice for America's next top model.

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It's Not Quality, But It's Fun

America's Next Top Model is reality television without pretensions. Or, rather, it's a reality television show with pretensions that are so obvious, they're impossible to hide. It's a show about being shallow, daring, energetic, humble, and, of course, absolutely gorgeous. Led by Tyra Banks and a variety of photographers, stylists, acting coaches, directors, designers, and EX-ex-models, ANTM will go to all kinds of lengths to grab your attention.

From four blonde beauties doing a high-fashion shoot in Venice to soap-opera style acting classes with Taye Diggs, to old-fashioned nudity and sex [on- and off-camera], every season, every episode, will grab your attention. It's not quality television, but it's fun and addictive and all over the place. Don't invest money in the original series of Bankable Productions, but if you've got a free minute, check it out on VH1. They might have a marathon on. And - who knows? It might be that episode with the wet t-shirt pillow fight.

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The indefinable nature of the "talent" means that the show mostly trades on bitchy tension – watchable rubbish but nothing more than that

Under the tutelage of supermodel and chat show host Tyra Banks, a group of young hopefuls are pulled together to try and make it through a series of weeks to be offered a shot at their own modelling contract. Each week one girl will leave based on the opinion of the panel of judges and the results of their most recent modelling assignment. Of course there is also the ongoing risk of some bitchy infighting but really we're all here to try and learn how the fashion industry works.

You may have detected a hint of sarcasm in my last sentence and you would be correct in that observation because personally I find the professional fashion industry to be a vacuous waste of space whose only purpose to me seems to be to provide laughs at the clichés they embrace. And so it is with this show because really I don't know anyone who watches it in order to see the girls embrace their natural talent for modelling, no, we're pretty much all here to see and partake in just one series long bitching session. As a formula the series doesn't do much to discourage this view because it doesn't have a lot going on other than this. The modelling shoots are fairly boring affairs on their own terms and it is hard to care about a "look" that nobody can really define.

Of course this is part of the problem. Because so much of it is "indefinable" it pretty much makes whatever the judges say right or wrong, depending on how much you buy into them as experts. So they say things like "they hate that look" or they "love that look" but really it is hard to see what they are seeing and none of them bother to really explain their reasons. Of course this plays into their hands because generally the judges are fairly worthless fashion divas who are there to stir things up a bit and don't have much of value to say. The girls themselves are fairly interesting but not in a good way – they are mainly basket cases swarming to an industry that eats up young girls and spits them out. Some of them are nice and don't last long, others are bitchy and last longer – presumably because the judges know that they need the ratings more than they need to actually produce a top model. They are mostly all good looking in various different ways but there are few I would want to spend much in the way of time with.

Overall then this is a fairly pointless and vacuous show but then I suppose that is the point. With a "talent" that is so less tangible than singing or dancing, the comments of the judges and the individual performances of the contestants become less important than the bitchy histrionics between the contestants and with the tutors & judges. On this level it is amusing and distracting but never "good" television although it is worth a look if you are looking to veg in front of reality television and have no demands for anything that could be considered "good" on a tradition scale.

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8/10

America's Next Pop Model

America's Next Top Model is a great reality show in every sense. It has a great hostess, has great guests, a great production and some of the best professionals of the modeling world contributing for something they hadn't achieved yet: present a true America's Next Top Model. Of course this is not something easy to do, therefore USA and the world already would have 10 top models concurring and fighting between themselves in this cruel world.

But it's obvious that its intention is not to present the America's next top model, but yes, the America's Next Pop Model. The show gets together a bunch of models without any experience with different personalities and big personal, professional and financial problems, giving them a chance for bringing to life a dream or to make their lives something worthy. It's obvious that Tyra Banks uses all that for her advantage, she gives the dream, but in exchange for that she gains audience and more popularity. Anyway, she deserves it, because she is intelligent and, if I might say that, a pioneer to this kind of show. Tyra also is a great observer and knows how to give based opinions, differing herself of other models and hostess of foreign versions of the NEXT TOP MODEL franchise. In Brazil, as an example, Fernanda Motta is its hostess and "once-upon-a-time"-Top Model. She doesn't have even 1/10 of Tyra's professional skills, which keeps Tyra Banks on the top. Tyra have professional and personal knowledge about what she says and she's a great mentor because she not only criticizes but she points the mistake and teaches the right way with wisdom.

The show doesn't suffer from big problems, it does and fulfills what it promises during the cycles. The models chosen to work on the show in fact are not the best unknown models of entire country because Tyra Banks bets with the difference, and she is right, because she [and also good part of her audience] believes that it's time for the modeling world to change some straight parameters. During the cycles, she and her team really makes fair deliberations, where the weakest go away and the promising ones have new chances to prove their capacities but must be fast to do that, otherwise they lose it.

Other very interesting thing is that Tyra also knows to decide who should or shouldn't win even when she's against people's opinion. She knows that whoever wins will be famous, but has a very few possibilities to truly be a worldwide recognized top model. At the same way she knows that, some times, the second place is more valuable than the first, because 1st place wins the title, but second doesn't gets the title stigma. Hardly she makes mistakes when she decides the future of any model during the show.

After 9 cycles the show is getting a little tired with some old ideas, it's time for Tyra to change some things and lines because it's getting boring and comparing to the firsts cycles we can see that she's getting bored too, so she needs to do that if she wants the show to live a little longer.

Anyway, the show explores the fashion and modeling world, but it's also entertaining for those ones that live outside all of that. It gives the opportunity for some girls and also the market, and also gives great tips for those ones from the audience who shares the same dream.

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8/10

A Guilty Pleasure

Yes, I watch this show. Because my girlfriend watches it, of course. Well, at least, that's what I tell my friends. But as nobody here ever known me, I can say this; I love it! That's excellent trash TV.

First, there's the panel; Tyra herself, who doesn't miss a single opportunity to talk about herself, yet she is to be taken seriously, as she is quite the businesswoman. Then there's Jay Manuel, A sober gay guy, very serious and amazingly professional, and Miss Jay, an extroverted one, "queen" of the catwalk and a damn funny guy, and Nigel, self-styled as the only man on the panel.

Second, the show is an in-depth look at a shallow industry, and we've got to give it to the producers for showing us the inside view, which can be informative as well as entertaining.

Finally, the edition is great; there is just the right mix of everything; The girls living together in the ego-house, their impressions on sets, the competitions themselves and the judging. All of this slides smoothly with just the right beat. There are no lenghts.

Of course, there must be other factors that led to eliminations that we don't see in the shows; The panel is made up of capricious divas, extroverted and quick on the bitching; woe to those who offends them! But that being said, as long as one contestant does not step on their toes, their judgment is usually fair - I think.

So, give your brain a break; If you can't beat them, join them, and have a good time watching this bit of reality TV with your loved ones. It will make crave for more, somehow.

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5/10

Pot ledom si hsart

Episode 17x08: America's Next Top Model was never 'good' but it was entertaining with some interesting characters and lots of pretty girls [and latterly boys]. This is all about entertainment and not a competition to find a real supermodel. It's also all about Tyra Banks. Her ego rules the show even from the start but by the end her ego is bigger than the universe! There were some horror-themed challenges for the contestants which I enjoyed. For me, this episode is where the show jumped the shark and went from legitimate entertainment to a ridiculous parody of itself. The fact that they made a song 'pot ledom' which is as imaginative as putting the name of the show backwards and tried to push this as the next big thing really shows how self-involved and totally out-of-touch Tyra and other senior producers of the show were. And it only went downhill from there. The series without Tyra almost added some model style rather than tacky cheese but it wasn't enough. Hopefully this show will never return.

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1/10

Cringy

This show seemed so toxic and uncomfortable.

It looked so rude too despite it obviously being scripted.

Tyra was a bossy pants. Her cast were ummm...awkward. Contestants were broken down souls looking to go on an eating disorder to get a modeling gig.

ANTM is a toxic show. I don't recommend sane, healthy girls to watch this hash.

Diva Davana please watch your numbers.

Verdict: America's next Toxic model.

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3/10

More toxic than modeling

I dont know how the model industry works, but watching this doesn't make it look nice either.

So much toxic and looks like it's already 'planned' who will be the winner.

So many 'bad' pictures look like someone chooses that bad picture on purpose to make the girls eliminated.

So many unnecessary drama between the judges And it makes the models look like they have no power or consent.

"Oh you are a model, so shut your mouth and do whatever we want!" "Don't you dare to speak up!!" Ppft.

The photoshoots are so so. Sometimes good sometimes look so cheap

If you want to watch it for the drama, you'll be entertained But for the talent show? Nah.

I guess this show gets old badly like milk. Watched it when i was a teenager and now i am 30, oh boy.. what a different show!

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1/10

So toxic you can't believe it actually happened.

They are so rude and mean to all of the models it is beyond believe. The only reason to watch this show is if you are a sadist that hates your fellow man. This show should be buried at the bottom of the ocean.

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2/10

Well, at least Tyra wants to give back....

In watching this off and on for a few seasons, two things come to mind: One - wondering what kind of girl wants to be a "model" and two - run to the nearest ice cream store and have a low fat sundae.

I tried to be a fan because I liked the idea of this reality show competition. No other "famous" model thought of this, and it is very admirable for Tyra Banks to do so. But as the series goes on and on I've come to the conclusion that this is a sorry lot of folks trying to make a mountain out of a molehill. Women shouldn't watch this, teens should stay clear of it unless they're doing book reports on the subject.

Many women try out for slots to compete for "Americas Next Top Model". They live together, cat fight together, cry together, get put through pointless modeling shoots with pointless modeling people and fashionatas and get eliminated and almost all of them claim, "You will see me again". Heck, I'm trying to see what happened to the ones that DID win, actually.

This is the dream of some girls, and good for them. In watching this I hope the other girls that see this and run like Hades the other way - like to college.

I just happened to watch more of this recent season because of the "ploy" of full figured models joining the group. That even made me think more of this as a sorry lot of folks. The "full figured models" were no more than average sized ladies competing with what I think is the thinnest group of models they ever chose - so of course that would make them look even fatter - a "ploy" fashionatas use all the time. Bad, bad, Tyra and crew.

But to be fair, "Americas Next Top Model" is not about "full figured" models, it's about projecting an imagined image a beauty that can be mass marketed and sold as the ultimate in beauty - and this show is just looking for the next fresh piece of meat to add to the mix. Hence the name of the show. Hence the sorry lot of judges, photographers, associations. Hence Tyra and her consistent "this was me" plugs every camera angle you can get. But then again, that IS the one thing I like about this show - the ex-model giving others who wouldn't have the chance -- a chance to enter the doors. But after that...everything else is status quo for that industry which is why there are no surprises or week to week interest in the program.

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1/10

Tyra Banks...who died and made her a deity?

This is by far the most vapid, idiotic, insanely stupid show that has EVER been on the air, and this is coming from someone who remembers "San Pedro Beach Bums".

My wife loves watching reality shows--and there was one episode of this drivel where the wannabes had to develop a "walk". The end result was straight out of Monty Python's "Ministry of Silly Walks" sketch. I couldn't laugh hard enough.

And then there's the ubiquitous Ms. Banks [as in laughing all the way to the...]. She has to be the most annoying self-important woman on TV since Rosie O'Donnell left "The View". As if modeling was doing great things for mankind. Please. I've never found her attractive, and I don't find her intelligent now that she has the temerity to open her mouth.

Someone needs to tell these human clothes hangers to eat a healthy diet and actually look like real women.

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9/10

One of my favourite TV shows

I loved this show when it came out! It was very engaging to follow all of the contestants and all their drama. The challenges were also very fun!

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8/10

ANTM is a Better Show

This is ten times better than "Who Wants To BE A Super Model" on Bravo I think it is more true to the business. Tyra is strong and sensitive at the same time and is able to get the most out of each aspiring model. The photos look for depth in each of the models, in personality and beauty, strength and demure attributes, and the ability to endure and work for what they want. I enjoy seeing Tyra's personal experience brought into the photo shoots and on the runway. I don't always agree with the judges decision's or Tyra's comments and at least one of the winners, I feel did not deserve to win. But this is just a show and every girl on there is very lucky to have this chance.

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Can Anyone Think Of Anything That Eva The Diva Did To Deserve Becoming America's Next Top Model? What A Bullshit Ending To A Great Third Season.

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I thought that Eva was the least deserving out of all the final 3 contestants to win that CG cosmetics contract. She truly didn't do anything to deserve being named America's Next Top Model. Both Eva and Yaya are selfish people. Neither one deserved to be in the final two much less did they deserve to be named America's Next Top Model. Sure Miss Eva is a very pretty girl but Amanda, I think, had a very novel reason that she wanted that CG Cosmetics contract and that's so that she could buy a house and make her life and the life of her son better. Blindness aside I think Amanda should have won the whole thing because she had the face to be a model.

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1/10

Was fun to watch in the beginning, but it took a turn for absurdity

Several people have told me I should be a model. I'm tall and skinny [well, I'm 5'10", so I'm not really that tall]. Even if I wanted to model right now it's too late. For one thing I'm too old. I'm 30, and I've gained some weight within the last couple of years. The appearance of my body isn't noticeably larger, but I'm not the same size I was in my early 20s. I'm sure I wouldn't be considered thin enough in the beauty world. I have no regrets about not pursuing a modeling career. I don't think it's something that would've given me personal fulfillment, seeing as how I wanted to have a job where I could help people. I still love fashion. I'd rather look at other people model, instead of doing it myself. I enjoyed America's Next Top Model when it first came on TV. It started out as a decent show. But unfortunately, it went down a bizarre path and just became too outrageous. That is common with reality programs, but ANTM had potential, so to see it become garbage was a major let down. It wasn't even so much about the petty drama that was between the girls/participants [when you have nearly twenty females living under the same roof, there's bound to be arguments]. I had a problem with the competition's rules and procedures. Cutting or in some cases even shaving off the girls' hair. If ANTM was supposed to be a show about rocking your look and being confident with who you are, wasn't giving them a makeover sending the wrong message??? The photo shoots had also gotten inappropriate. The girls were instructed to lick something off the floor. They had to pose naked for another one. I lost respect for Tyra Banks. I admired her as a preteen. But when this show came along, I saw her for the psychopath that she is. I was done when she went berserk on a girl who was being sent home because she wasn't crying. Some people aren't criers. Just because they don't shed tears doesn't mean they don't care. She came from an under-resourced neighborhood. After being poor all of her life, she was probably accustomed to disappointments and didn't see any point in crying. I feel like Tyra just used that as an opportunity to jump into attack mode. The show went from being exciting and happy to an environment of intimidation, where, as a participant, you were made to feel like you had to do anything that was asked of you, no matter how degrading it was. I don't even bother watching the reruns. That's just negative energy I don't need.

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1/10

Top Model has lost it!

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Tyra Banks needs to teach these girls that it's not all about being beautiful on the outside. The inside counts for something too. A lot of the past winners have looked semi decent but are horribly cruel and starting trouble for the other girls. I see Tyra less involved with the girls in every season. About the only thing worth watching Top Model for is Mr. Jay Manuel. Recently, Tyra had a contestant who was a pre-op transsexual. I felt that she should have done more to encourage her. It was obvious that she had insecurities about her original anatomy showing through her feminine look. Tyra should have given her tips or perhaps she could have sent resident Trannie Ms. Jay to help the girl out. Instead, the contestant was met with harsh criticism and not enough positive criticism. It's a shame because I truly enjoyed the first 3 seasons. There's a reason why Project Runway has all 4 seasons out on DVD and Top Model only has 1 season on DVD. It's called taste. Top Model seriously needs a lot of revamping an some more humanity.

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10/10

Models in the making

I have always been intrigued by this television show to go beyond and above and that modeling has always been in my favor, I love this show I have met some of the contestants that have participated as models on this show Laurael Len James, Britteny Sharaun, and Don Benjamin I have had the pleasure of meeting all of these wonderful models and I continue to pursue my own life as well in the modeling and acting industry . Thank you!

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Like all reality TV series, gets old after a while

"America's Top Model" is a television show created by superstar model Tyra Banks, which details the search for the next "top model" -- they will be awarded with money and a photo shoot for a popular magazine if they win.

The cast is obviously all-women and they go through "Survivor"-style tests to determine who is the best and who has what it takes to be the winner.

Overall this is intriguing at times but the whole reality TV thing has grown really old and after one or two episodes, the point is taken and we don't need any more. It's not something that will last very long, or at least I hope not. [Right now it's airing in the UK, but apparently it's been around since 2003.]

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1/10

Horrified

I watched the first episode of Next Top Model, for one thing no Tyra. Second they forced girls to change their hair whether they liked it or not. They forced a redhead to have redder hair even tho her hair was striking already then they fired her the same day. Also a black girl didn't want to look masculine and they made her appear very male. That was tasteless, forced and also for ratings. What is your motto? Make them go further than they want till they cry? WTH?

So very disgusted with that aspect not to mention the nudity. They made all the models pose nude on television. I imagine if one didn't want to do it they would have been sent home so they're under a lot of pressure to comply.

I won't ever watch this stupid show again. How many girls on that show are under 21 and photographed naked? That can ruin a person for life. I don't care what your stupid excuses are. It's for ratings & the almighty DOLLAR. It's not art. It's a disgusting display for your ratings and it should be stopped. Gratuitous nudity is UNCALLED for. Poor girls I feel bad for them being FORCED to be photographed naked. Bad call. Never watch again.