Skin Wars: Fresh Paint

Ive never seen such poor judging in all my life! Like wow. I will never watch this show again. Waste of time.🙄.

I watched 3 episodes and had to come to IMDB to see if anyone else thought these judges were picking the wrong winners and turns out I'm not alone. I really hate this setup with the "mentors" picking their artist, half of the time I wanna throw my remote at them because they pick someone terrible over someone with real talent just because they get along with the other one more. And then that very person who shouldn't have even advanced to the second round wins the whole thing with an equally terrible piece. Just dumb.

The only reason I kept watching this as long as I did was because of the interesting challenges and beautiful art. However, the judging absolutely ruins the show for me. At the beginning of every episode, if someone mentions some vague sob story about their life I instantly know they are going to win. And I'm right every single time. Every once in a while it just so happens that they actually deserve to win, but more often than not it seems like the winner was predetermined by their sad backstory. It's completely obvious when watching who deserves to win and who's overall concept, craft, and execution is better, but it seems to me like the "judges" have no actual say or real opinion in who gets to move on. Sometimes you can actually see the frustration in the mentors faces when their artist clearly deserved to win but instead lost to something significantly and obviously inferior. Overall this show is completely frustrating to watch as amazing artists repeatedly lose to something that is half-assed or makes no visual sense and I'm extremely disappointed in Skin Wars: Fresh Paint, as I enjoyed the original Skin Wars and was looking forward to this new spinoff.

This season is a big let down. The worst judges yet. They tell the contestants what they want. The contestants doing exactly what they asked for are the ones to lose. These judges are BLIND to art. How can judges be so clueless to what they claim to be great at? Apparently this season was based on low expectations. The greatest artist were NOT noticed as they should have been.

While I enjoy RuPaul, the judging chooses some of the worst artists. Not every skill translates to humans but why is there always a winner when clearly, at times, there is no one worthy. Just want to give away money? Can't deal with no talent evident? Just garbage with no discretion.