ANTM – Tea Trays & the Marketplace

Last night, on America’s Next Top Model:

Final four in Morocco, Molly is feeling good about her top picture and Brittani feels really good about making it this far. Alexandria is glad its the four of them but she’s nervous about being the bottom two again last panel. Hannah feels like she has the power to beat the competition, and that she believes each girl comes from a different background and thats really nice. Miss Jay comes to visit, and he announces an important client they are going to have tea with, so he gives them their portfolios and they go on their way. They end up having tea with Franca and Miss Jay while showing their pictures and talking about their inspirations. Molly wants to create ads that people rip out and paste on their walls, and she asks Franca questions too. Brittani says she’s been saving all her vogues under her bed and it got to be a problem with her mother, she talked a lot without outshining anyone but definitely not fading away in the background. And then there’s another special guest, a professional tea tray dancer, Noor. She begins to teach them to balance the tea trays on their head, and Miss Jay says even if falls to keep your composure. Alexandria said the experience was cultural, but she went a little overboard with her type of dancing. Miss Jay had his last huge surprise that the girls would be dancing in performance tonight in front of a live audience, so they better be practicing.

The girls won’t be dancing alone though, they will be performing with professional dancers and lit candles! The prize is lovely though, the winner which is chosen by Miss Jay and Noor, will receive a private walk workout with Miss Jay himself. Molly is down the steps first, she says a few swears after tripping on her skirt and dropping a few things. Her face tensed up and that brought down the rest of her performance down, because Miss Jay noticed. Brittani was awesome, she used her hands and her hips and never dropped a thing. Hannah was also very good, lots of arm movements and didn’t drop anything. Alexandria was pretty good, very powerful but then dropped everything on the floor. She got too cocky and totally ruined it for herself. Miss Jay loved Alex’s confidence until everything came down, he was very impressed with Brittani. Miss Jay noticed that Hannah was trying to do the hulu or the wave and not the tea tray dance, Alexandria was runner-up and Brittani won. She got the chance to work on her runway with Miss Jay, and she got to pick a friend! She chose Hannah, because she believed she wanted it the most but also needed it the most.

Brittani and Hannah met Miss Jay at a beautiful garden, and he drilled them hard. He gave them hints saying that the final runway might be more intimate with audience and perhaps going in and out of several rooms. So he taught them a secret little move called the half turn so they could improve themselves and maneuver. They girls are getting hungry, so they go to look for food and they find a table with brains and goat heads and such. They all try a piece of brain, and it seemed like none of them liked it. The Tyra mail was ah the sweet smell of soukces and I have no idea what that could possibly refer to. Brittani got a little sick from the brain trying earlier that day and hoped her stomach ache wouldn’t carry over into what could possibly be a photo-shoot tomorrow. The next day, the girls meet Mister Jay above the market on a rooftop, and he tells the girls that they are going to be shooting in the market place, and they are going to try and continue the story from the camels. The photograph tells the girls to allow themselves to get lost in the culture, and feel the energy of the marketplace. Mister Jay wants Hannah to feel inspired by the environment, and live in her moment, in a real moment rather than a fantasy. Mister Jay thought she was getting lost, she was going for romance-meeting her lover in the marketplace. The photographer thought she was posy, and that she was pretty but not that great, Mister Jay told her to go back to what she knows and that freaks her out and makes her nervous. Molly is next, and Mister Jay tells her that this area is her playground and to not make another profile shot. The photographer thought Molly was a good editorial girl and a beautiful model, and Mister Jay was very happy with her shoot. Mister Jay had a talk with Alexandria before her shoot starts telling her to just let go and stop controlling herself today, which is meant with the best intensions but totally pisses Alex off. Her outfit made her feel like a princess, dressed as a prince, and the photograph wanted her to stop holding tension in her face, to just relax. Brittani was still feeling blah from the food sickness, and it started to rain as her shoot began. Mister Jay thought even though she had an extra challenge she really brought herself to the destination, and the photograph said Brittani gave him a lot of inspiration.

Panel is tomorrow, and Molly feels confidence that Mister Jay and the photograph liked her stuff, and she hopes Alex goes home because she didn’t think she did very well. Brittani feels confidence but she knows that doesn’t always mean something because panel likes different things than she likes. Hannah is very scared because she knows she didn’t do her absolute best at the shoot today and it makes her nervous. The guest judge is Daniella Issa Hel whose clothes were worn at the marketplace photo-shoot. Alexandria went first, Andre thought the clothes were interesting, and her face looked crazy interesting. Nigel wished she did more with her body, and Daniella liked it somewhat. Andre thought it was beautiful but it wasn’t saying anything, Nigel agreed. Brittani went next, Nigel thought it was beautiful but that she lost an arm, Tyra didn’t see high fashion but thought she was definitely closer. Daniella thought Brittani looked great in her pictures, and looked sweet but they need drama. Hannah went next and Nigel thought it was unusual, interesting and great body language, but her face could use more. Danielle thought she was beautiful and lovely, and Tyra thought she lacked extremes and that she needs to focus more on her extremes. The judges agree Hannah’s face didn’t go with her body and they need to see that control. Molly, Andre thought she was high fashion, Daniella loved her pose and face, Nigel was taken somewhere, and Tyra saw she showcased the clothes but without overdoing anything. Nigel said Molly is high fashion and dramatic, and that she can sell the clothes while being amazing, but the tough girl thing needs a little change.

Best photo this week is Molly, her second week in a row. Tyra tells her its fabulous, modeling the clothes, and selling the clothes but that the judges want to see her mix it up and not look tough in every picture. Runner up is Brittani, and you can see the thankful look in her eye, she is so happy to be staying. Alexandria and Hannah are in the bottom two, Tyra thinks they both have lovely similarities, but they have distinctive differences as well. Alexandria has too much control, and its not high fashion while Hannah lacks control, and seems as if she doesn’t know what she’s doing. Hannah stays because of her strong, breath-taking pictures but she just needs to bring it every time. Alexandria is going home, Tyra tells her she has to relax and that she doesn’t need to fight her angles, just let it be. There are only three girls left! And next week, someone is crying rivers of frustration at a photo-shoot and its making her stand out in a bad way.

Next week, the final three battle it out to see who becomes America’s Next Top Model! Who is your pick to win it all?