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Pure Cringe: Classic Reality Show Recaps & Book ReviewsProject Runway Season 1, Episode 11: Finale Part TwoThe fashion may not be universally great, but the petty fights and drama make up for it all.
Some highlights:
Shoegate,
Wendy's random costume change
Kara Saun's unmasking
The joy of Jay
Stick around for the categories and an announcement about Season 3 of Pure Cringe!
2025-06-082h 03
Pure Cringe: Classic Reality Show Recaps & Book ReviewsProject Runway Season 1, Episode 11: Finale Part OneIn this penultimate episode of the season, we see Tim Gunn use his chin to navigate all over America to visit the 3 finalists in their natural habitats.
Things get petty quickly, once sleeping arrangements are on the table. Kara Saun and Wendy do a soft audition for the Zeus Network, and Jay tries hard not to be anyone's whipping boy.
Fashion everywhere we look, but no shoes?
Stick around until the end to hear the categories!
2025-05-251h 16
Pure Cringe: Classic Reality Show Recaps & Book ReviewsProject Runway, Season 1, Episode 10: ReunionWe skid into the final episodes in typical Project Runway fashion: pretty and petty. This episode finds the designers reunited in NYC a few days before Fashion Week. Some highlights:
Everyone still hates Wendy
Vanessa is full of sour grapes
Even Tim Gunn has a petty side, and we love him for it!
Enjoy--stick around until the end to hear the categories!
2025-05-121h 03
Pure Cringe: Classic Reality Show Recaps & Book ReviewsProject Runway Season 1, Episode 9: Design for the Red CarpetJoin your hosts as they cringe at the work from our final four contestants. Everyone's work is ugly, and yet someone has to win, and someone is out!
Some highlights:
Tim Gunn gives tough feedback
Austin creates the same dress again
Even Kara Saun's design is weird AF
It's a horror show this week, and only Heather's presence as co-host can save us!
Stick around until the end to hear the categories!
2025-04-211h 31
Pure Cringe: Classic Reality Show Recaps & Book ReviewsBravo Book Club-Tim Gunn: The Natty ProfessorWelcome back to another meeting of the Bravo Book Club!
I hope you all have a lovely beverage and snack. This book gives us a lot to think about and put into action. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did!
Let's dive right into Tim Gunn's fabulous memoir/advice column!
Make it work!
2025-04-0221 min
Pure Cringe: Classic Reality Show Recaps & Book ReviewsProject Runway Season 1, Episode 8: Postal Uniform ChallengeJoin Maria and Heather on a fun filled trip back to Hoboken, NJ. as they watch the final 5 designers create updated looks for the U.S. Postal Service letter carriers. The fashion is mostly good, but the vibes are beyond cringe.
Some highlights:
Wendy's performance as Best Villian AND Best Victim!
Jay's creative sweat patterns.
Austin's modeling Debut & funniest one-liners!
Kara Saun's brilliant designs (once again!!).
Rob's naked butt!
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2025-03-221h 48
Pure Cringe: Classic Reality Show Recaps & Book ReviewsProject Runway Season 1, Episode 7: Design A CollectionJoin Maria for a fun solo episode as she cringes long and hard as these designers try to create a cohesive collection out of thrifted clothing. Its awkward moments are only eclipsed by the shit fashion.
Some highlights:
Rob's utter confusion at every stage of the design process
Wendy's evil side coming out in full force as her own personal grooming gets worse and worse
We say goodbye to the most annoying model, and the sign of relief still resonates almost 20 years later.
Rewatch the show and join Maria for this episode!
2025-02-2327 min
Pure Cringe: Classic Reality Show Recaps & Book ReviewsProject Runway Season 1, Episode 6: Making A SplashWelcome back to our rewatch of Project Runway Season One! This week finds the designers unsure of which ass to kiss as they create a swimsuit look!
Highlights from the episode:
We wax nostalgic over a yellow Sony Discman
Jay's swearing fit while sewing "You fat fucker!"
Tim Gunn's package check
Tricky Dick's every word and look!
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2025-01-281h 46
Pure Cringe: Classic Reality Show Recaps & Book ReviewsProject Runway Season 1, Episode 5: Model ClientsToday's episode finds our intrepid designers ready to implode as they take on their most annoying clients yet: their models! Fire up your Peacock subscriptions, watch the episode, then enjoy our commentary on some of the most boring fashion we have seen this season!
Some highlights:
Morganza the Monster
Flip Phone Nostalgia
Plastic Bag Chic
Kids in the Hall
Baby Bridezillas from hell!
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2025-01-041h 23
Pure Cringe: Classic Reality Show Recaps & Book ReviewsProject Runway Season 1, Episode 4: CollaborationIn this episode of Pure Cringe, we unpack 'Edgy Edwardian Chic', Vanessa is impaled by a needle, and Austin is reduced to a blubbering mess.
Join us as we revel in an episode full of paranoia, hurt feelings, and outlandish fashion!
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2024-07-101h 11
Pure Cringe: Classic Reality Show Recaps & Book ReviewsProject Runway Season 1, Episode 3: Commercial AppealToday's episode is brought to you by the letter 'A' for anxiety. We see our cast of designers panic as they try to create a look for a major retailer.
Some Highlights:
Our brief and sweaty soccer careers
Robert coins the term, 'Banana Republican'
Snatch Patrol
Kevin is a pill
Human Origami
Tim Gunn as the Human Zamboni
Stick around until the end to hear the categories and our predictions for the next episode!
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2024-07-101h 20
Pure Cringe: Classic Reality Show Recaps & Book ReviewsBravo Book Club: Pretty Messed Up (Pretty Mess by Erika Jayne)We start our second season of the Bravo Book Club off with the prettiest mess on Bravo, Ms. Erika Jayne! Her book Pretty Mess is everything you were expecting and more!
Highlights from our review:
We see the origin of Erika's independent/icy personality
How hard is it to get fired from a strip club?
Who is Lobotomy John?
Enjoy as we chip away at Erika's ice princess veneer to find a lukewarm, semi-interesting person underneath.
Stick around to hear our hilarious recap of Erika's drunken meltdown in Aspen in Season 12 of Real H...
2024-06-261h 07
Pure Cringe: Classic Reality Show Recaps & Book ReviewsProject Runway Season 1, Episode 2: VisionOn today's episode, the remaining 11 designers try to create a garment that embodies 'Envy'.
The highlights:
Michelle and Maria gush over Robert, Austin, and Jay
We meet Baby Cries-a-Lot
Kevin is compared to both Gollum and Captain Queeg from the Caine Mutiny
It's death by a thousand bolts of cotton jersey!
Stick around until the end to hear the categories!
2024-05-151h 12
Pure Cringe: Classic Reality Show Recaps & Book ReviewsProject Runway Season 1, Episode 1: InnovationHello Bravo TV Fashion Friends. Welcome to our rewatch of the first Season of Project Runway! We hope you will join us for our unique brand of 'stitch & bitch' recap! Let's make it work, people!
In this premiere episode of the series, we:
Roll out new categories--stick around until the end to hear the winners this week!
Fight nausea during quick-cut cinematography of NYC.
Meet the contestants & models only to discover there are too many to care about.
Meet the judges, fan favorite fashion guru Tim Gunn, and our host, Heidi Klum!
Wax incredulous over early 2000...
2024-05-011h 37
Pure Cringe: Classic Reality Show Recaps & Book ReviewsPure Cringe Season 2 Coming Soon!Join your hosts, Maria and Michelle, as they 'make it work' recapping Project Runway's iconic first season. Young Heidi Klum & Tim Gunn, plus 12 dramatic designers--what could go wrong?!?
In between, join the 'Bravo Book Club' where they'll read and review books written by Bravo TV stars. They are mostly honest and always hilarious!
Buckle up buttercups--Season 2 of Pure Cringe is coming!
2024-04-1701 min
Pure Cringe: Classic Reality Show Recaps & Book ReviewsWelcome to Pure Cringe!Welcome to Pure Cringe, where two old friends have a blast recapping classic Bravo TV shows & books penned by their favorite Bravo TV stars!
Together, they’ll dissect every romance, every jaw-dropping scandal, & every hilarious moment of your favorite Bravo shows at their peak--the early seasons! In between, they explore what happens when messy Bravo TV reality stars become published authors--buckle up for candid book reviews and breakdowns of some of the most infamous moments on reality television!
Meet your hosts, Michelle & Maria, where iconic reality TV drama collides with the bookshelf, and let the bi...
2024-04-1701 min
Pure Cringe: Classic Reality Show Recaps & Book ReviewsBravo Book Club: I Mustache You to Stop Sleeping With My Friends (Fancy AF Cocktails by Ariana Madix & Tom Sandoval)Welcome friends to our boozy review of Fancy AF Cocktails by Ariana Madix & Tom Sandoval. For this fabulous experiential episode, Michelle outdid herself with drink prep (see our IG for proof!), and we both thoroughly enjoy ourselves/get buzzed.
Cheers Everyone!
Stick around until the end to hear about our new rewatch series for next season!
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2024-04-0951 min
Pure Cringe: Classic Reality Show Recaps & Book ReviewsBravo Book Club: Truth Is Trashier Than Fiction (The Naked Truth by Danielle Staub)Welcome back to another book review--for this episode we invite you to join our discussion in progress on Danielle Staub's book, The Naked Truth.
From her meager beginnings as Beverly Merrill to fucking her way to the middle of reality TV, we talk about it all!
This slice of New Jersey heaven was a blast to record We hope you enjoy it too!
Check out Sweety Treaty Co. for some of the best candy we've ever had!
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2024-04-081h 06
Pure Cringe: Classic Reality Show Recaps & Book ReviewsBravo Book Club: If You’re Shallow & You Know It, Clap Your Hands! (The Andy Cohen Diaries by Andy Cohen)Welcome back to another book review! In this episode we discuss 'The Andy Cohen Diaries', by the Zeus daddy of the Bravoverse, Andy Cohen himself.
We'll meet you in the mythical land of ninjas and two-hour massages.
Stick around to hear us break down Andy's starring(ish) role in Lady Gaga's epic G.U.Y music video.
2024-04-0346 min
Pure Cringe: Classic Reality Show Recaps & Book ReviewsBravo Book Club: We're Too Sexy for This Book (The Big, Sexy, Sex Book by Lisa Rinna)In our next book review, we go balls deep with 'The Big, Sexy, Sex Book' by Lisa Rinna of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills fame!
This is an extra spicy episode in which we:
discover our roller derby names
the best places in your house to have sex
Stick around for the recap of one of the most iconic Lisa Rinna scenes ever...
Kim Richards vs Lisa Rinna: Amsterdam dinner from hell - YouTube
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2024-04-021h 07
Pure Cringe: Classic Reality Show Recaps & Book ReviewsBravo Book Club: Truly, Madly, Deeply, Mormon (Bad Mormon by Heather Gay)Today we take a special look behind the curtain at the Mormon Tabernacle, as we review "Bad Mormon" by Heather Gay!
In this episode we:
Talk way too long about magical Mormon undies
Applaud Ms. Gay’s faith and discipline
Share our thoughts on RHOSLC in general
Join us for the cringe or be forever excommunicated!
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2024-03-2744 min
Pure Cringe: Classic Reality Show Recaps & Book ReviewsBravo Book Club: A Place of Meh (A Place of Yes by Bethenny Frankel) Let's take a deep dive into the literary genius of one of our favorite housewives, Bethenny Frankel, and a review of her second book "A Place of Yes".
It's a vulnerable portrait of a young mogul in the making. It's advice you've heard before, packaged in the stylish, dysfunctional way that only the Skinnygirl diva can!
It's vintage advice from vintage Bethenny!
The Hilarious Highlights:
Bethenny's quest for rich dick
Early RHONY nostalgia
Michelle is outed for reallllly bad penmanship
Bethenny is still looking for rich dick
Inner voices (not the ones...
2024-03-271h 11
Pure Cringe: Classic Reality Show Recaps & Book ReviewsReal Housewives of New Jersey Season 1 Episode 10: The Lost FootageIn our final episode of our Real Housewives of New Jersey Season 1 rewatch, we enjoy cringing at the 'Lost Footage' from the season.
In an episode with very little new information, we find time to chat about so much!
Maria's inner dance kid works through costume envy
Wedding design by Rasputin
Albert Manzo Sr.: more like Foghorn Leghorn or Snuffleupagus?
Completely sexist fantasy football strategy
Oh, and we talk about that time Michelle's acrylic nails caught on fire over a pu-pu platter.
Stay tuned until the end to hear the categories!
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2024-03-061h 27
Pure Cringe: Classic Reality Show Recaps & Book ReviewsReal Housewives of New Jersey Season 1 Episode 9: Reunion Part 2Welcome back to our rewatch/recap of Season 1 of The Real Housewives of New Jersey! On this episode, we recap part two of the reunion, in which your fabulous hosts:
Enjoy another helping of Jersey gold
Become Danielle's amateur psychologists
Coin the term, 'hate-dar'
Stay tuned until the end to hear the categories!
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2024-02-0850 min
Pure Cringe: Classic Reality Show Recaps & Book ReviewsReal Housewives of New Jersey Season 1 Episode 8: Reunion Part 1Welcome to the recap of part 1 of the Real Housewives of New Jersey Season 1 Reunion, in which we find ourselves deep in the midst of a hilarious, yet truly demented Color Me Beautiful session, and learn the definition of 'cleansiness'.
Once again, Michelle comes through and has some great insights on control issues, dinner etiquette, and Betty Boop! Michigan J. Frog also attends.
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2024-01-2455 min
Pure Cringe: Classic Reality Show Recaps & Book ReviewsReal Housewives of New Jersey Season 1 Episode 7: The Last SupperWelcome back to our classic rewatch series, where we watch and recap classic Bravo TV shows. Our adventure into New Jersey Season 1 continues, with a deep dive into the bonus dinner footage from this season.
Along the way, we'll:
Solve a mystery (take THAT J.B. Fletcher!!)
Fall in love with Chris Laurita
Dissect the 'table flip' at a level we never thought possible!
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2023-12-071h 20
Pure Cringe: Classic Reality Show Recaps & Book ReviewsReal Housewives of New Jersey Season 1 Episode 6: FinaleJoin us as we thoroughly and hilariously deconstruct the 'table flip heard round the world'!
We stop laughing only to cringe as we compare Caroline Manzo to Jesus Christ and learn how to properly eat an oyster. As always, there is talk of bubbies!
Check out the Bravo Docket Podcast episode on the Manzo's that we reference in this episode here!
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2023-11-031h 52
Pure Cringe: Classic Reality Show Recaps & Book ReviewsReal Housewives of New Jersey Season 1 Episode 5: Casinos & C-CupsWe hit the halfway point in our first rewatch & can't stop cringing & talking about it!
In an episode full of t*ts, we manage to quote Shakespeare and Dylan Thomas.
And finally, we ask the age-old question: How do you like your nothing burger--with or without cheese?
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2023-10-131h 30
Pure Cringe: Classic Reality Show Recaps & Book ReviewsReal Housewives of New Jersey Season 1 Episode 4: Black, White, & Read All OverNext up in our classic rewatch series-RHONJ Season 1, Episode 4, in which Maria & MIchelle:
Extole the virtues of Ballroom Dancing
Wish they were in Cyprus
Clutch their imaginary pearls when 'The Book' is revealed
Visit a skewed interpretation of the Rainforest Cafe
Revel in the fashion disasters that only the late 2000's could provide.
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2023-08-311h 26
Pure Cringe: Classic Reality Show Recaps & Book ReviewsReal Housewives of New Jersey Season 1 Episode 3: Not One of UsWe continue our rewatch/recap of Season 1 of the Real Housewives of New Jersey, in which we:
Meet a very fashionable tick
Become entangled in the mystery of the 'Chucky'
'Skeeve' the entire thing!
Fire up your Peacock subscriptions and cringe along!
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2023-08-1659 min
Pure Cringe: Classic Reality Show Recaps & Book ReviewsReal Housewives of New Jersey Season 1 Episode 2: Mama Knows BestWelcome to Episode 2 of our New Jersey rewatch, In which your intrepid hosts:
Cringe at a desperately long hug
Encounter Baby Hulk in her natural habitat
Find ourselves trapped in onyx inside a hideous French Chateau
Be sure to head over to Instagram to see the pictures we refer to in this episode--they are Jersey gold! Enjoy!
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2023-07-191h 35
Pure Cringe: Classic Reality Show Recaps & Book ReviewsReal Housewives of New Jersey Season 1 Episode 1: Thicker Than WaterJoin us as we rewatch, recap, and in most cases, re-cringe at classic Bravo TV shows!
Welcome to the first episode of our RHONJ rewatch where Michelle & Maria:
Meet our cast,
Find Waldo
Weigh in on phone sex
Cringe hard at 90's fashion
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2023-07-051h 05