Ellen's Next Great Designer

Contestants were talented. Judging was inconsistent, potentially swayed by personal biases and rigged?

I am sorry but seriously the winner of this show isn't justified. This makes me think of enabling bad craftsmanship and design. Oh and let's not even start on all the whining in this show coming from the guy who won. If the show is about talent then why is this dude wining? If they are basing it on drama and personal bias then I get it but competition shows should not be about any of these things. I wouldn't waste my time.

The concept is good. The execution, not so much. The contestants and judges are so problematic. The former are whiny and self-absorbed, especially Mark, whose droning litany of perpetual exhaustion made my ears bleed. The judges are not fit to decide anything. They were all of the place.

Foley is a decent and affable host, though. Ellen is churning out trash to pursue big money for her own (very private) design projects. I have to imagine she would not buy most of the lousy stuff churned out on this series. Ellen, do better.

Ellen is just in the title. She's shown basically maybe ten minutes in the show. She's not a part of it, she lets Scott handle everything.

The judges don't seem to be that great and they have an agenda on who to keep there. In one episode everyone else builds their design, one gets 90% of it manufactured by someone else and they are applauded for it. Sure, it's not the worst thing I've seen, and this is supposedly a design competition, but still.

It's clearly just an Ellen cash grab, slap their name on something, have them show up in a couple of episodes, find people who get starstruck by Ellen and Scott regardless of their talent (most of them are talented, don't get me wrong), and you have a show. Focus on one of them whining about things, blaming their helper for breaking stuff, and then going "but he's so haaawt!"

So don't waste your time with it. It's bad. Just look up the designs and you get all you need from this show.

Designers are building pieces of furniture to win a contest.

You follow the building process and the ups and downs.

There are many of these kind of shows on television. Unfortunately the enjoyment of the show hangs on how fun the contestants are. In this case quite a few whine and moan about being tired and hard work and it is getting on my nerves. I would never ever buy something from some of these designers just based on their attitude.

Above that Ellen is hardly involved making me wonder why her name was slapped on the show.