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47 out of 59 people found the following review useful:
The title speaks for itself., 15 February 2004
Author: go_u_must

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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58 out of 82 people found the following review useful:
The Greatest Reality Show Ever!, 21 May 2005
Author: SingleAndLovinIt14 from United States

I didn't start watching America's Next Top Model until December 11, 2004. I was alone at home and I heard Vh1 say they were going to play reruns of the 3rd season (it was before the winner was annouced, and I couldn't stop watching it! I found it interesting that being a model isn't just being pretty, you have to be confident, have a good walk, and be able to act, talk for interview, deal with rumors. It's fun to see all the weird costumes and when a really good pictures comes, you start to understand why it's beautiful. I had to stop watching it to attend a Christmas party, and I was dying to keep watching it! It's a great show! The challenges, fights, sad times, posing for pictures, and watching that stupid Janice lady yell instead of speak like everyone in the room has hearing problems is all a great combo! This is a great show to watch with your teen daughter, so you can make comments and say, "She sucks" or "That's a nice picture". I give this show a 10/10! Stop watching Jessica Simpson staged her dumb blonde acts on Newlyweds and watch America's Next Top Model! You'll love it and start to wonder if YOU got what it takes to be a model!

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34 out of 48 people found the following review useful:
Oh, Tyra!, 12 July 2005
Author: Mister Lonely from London

"I had to arch my back on a block of ice and stones for 6 hours and I was freezing, my booty was aching, but I made every shot perfect. That's what a top model does" - Tyra Banks

How can anyone not love this show? It's so ridiculously camp that it's becoming a cult favourite here in the UK, as something you either love or hate. I almost wouldn't class it as a reality show because so much is staged and everyone looks too gorgeous for any kind of reality.

Tyra...oh my. I love how she loves herself so much that it's funny, and the apartment is decorated with images of her, and how her hairstyle, and sometimes skin colour changes in every scene. It's a riot! Cycle 4 is a weird one. I haven't a favourite among them yet and Tiffany is about to get kicked off...so that means the classic "Be Quiet!" episode where Tyra goes nuts!

Bring out the DVDs!!!

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39 out of 60 people found the following review useful:
Trash Television at Its Finest, 22 October 2007

Author: Jonny-boyy from Houston, TX

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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23 out of 35 people found the following review useful:
FANTASTIC-But sometimes unfair, 20 November 2005
Author: Amiee from United States

America's Next Top Model, in my opinion, is the best reality TV show on television today. It has comedy, drama, suspense, and of course reality. We're up to the 5th season now, and only, about 3 or 4 episodes left. So far, a couple of people that should still be on the show are now. they have been unfairly eliminated such as Lisa, Kyle, and Corinne. Jayla should be the one kicked off, but at least not yet she isn't. Satrring Tyra Banks as the top judge, Miss J, Jay, Twiggy, and other guest people (mostly the photographers or directors of that day) as judges. ANTM is one of UPN's channel savers, along with the always funny Everybody Hates Chris, and the suspenseful but sometimes boring Veronica Mars. UPN would probably never make it with shows like The Parkers and Girlfriends, but ANTM boosts up the views. Definitely 10 stars!!!!

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23 out of 36 people found the following review useful:
UPN's salvation..., 3 June 2003
Author: aeriz

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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18 out of 28 people found the following review useful:
It's Not Quality, But It's Fun, 12 October 2005
Author: emma brock from Fairfax, VA (USA)

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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12 out of 19 people found the following review useful:
This Is Seriously One Of The Greatest Shows I've Ever Watched!, 5 June 2008

Author: Dragoneyed363 from United States

Yes, I am ashamed to admit it, but this show is positively DEVINE!!!It's so entertaining, and I have the absolute greatest time watching it.Ever since Cycle 1 it's been great, and I haven't noticed a downfall in it's glory AT ALL.Tyra Banks as you know is the host, and as fabulous as she is, there's also the other judges and co-hosts such as J. Alexander, Jay Manuel, Nigel Barker, and Twiggy.The main point of the show is for every girl invited to become America's Next Top Model, has to work their way up to the top by completing and winning photo shoot competitions.It sounds great already doesn't it, and let me tell you IT IS GREAT!!!!!It's awesome watching all the different kinds of photo shoots the girls take, and each one is different, cool, and daring.Anybody who hates this show, doesn't have a clue, and I will tell you that this show will be on for a LONG time, so DEAL WITH IT!!!

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5 out of 7 people found the following review useful:
My guilty pleasure, 11 June 2008

Author: Mina from Greece

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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7 out of 12 people found the following review useful:
America's Next Pop Model, 12 January 2008

Author: M. O. from Brazil

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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