r/faceoff • u/domarco24 • Oct 20 '21
Miranda in season 5
I'm rewatching season 5 for the first time in like 10 years (randomly remembered face off existed) and I legit could have sworn Miranda was on the bottom like so many times when I watched as a kid. But now that I'm rewatching I only thought this because she repeatedly said almost every episode "I'm gonna be on the bottom" and then goes on to win the challenge lol
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u/Nillerus Oct 20 '21
Man I miss this show. And I misremembered how Miranda placed as well, funny that.
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u/shaddoe_of_truth Nov 10 '21
Miranda is amazing and season five really showcased that.
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u/domarco24 Nov 11 '21
Agreed I think that season really did have the strongest final 4 in face off history and I could justify any of the four winning (I do think Laura deserved it the most tho)
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u/shaddoe_of_truth Nov 11 '21
I loved that season five had that half and half aspect, almost experimenting with the all-star aspect before actually doing it later.
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u/domarco24 Nov 12 '21
I kinda agree but I always felt bad for most of the rookies as they were all clearly no where near as good as the vets (except maybe Eddie) and they just seemed to be there as fodder
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u/shaddoe_of_truth Nov 12 '21
Well... I kinda look at it as more of a test of their skill because make up artists who are just starting out will invariably cross paths with more experienced people in the industry. To learn from them, work alongside them and see if they can hold their own in collaboration and gel well with their ideas and work ethic.
Eddie was ok in skill, but he seemed kinda boring with a rather flat personality.
Yeah it did seem that those that ended up getting eliminated we're usually the rookies, and it ended up that a veteran won at the end.
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u/One_Swim_7702 Nov 18 '23
Man I hated her personality. I’m watching the season now, and her constant neediness just gets on nerves!
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u/Independent_Nose_385 Nov 18 '23
I came on Reddit just to see if anyone else was super annoyed by her like I am.
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u/unabashedlyabashed Dec 11 '23
It's been like a month, but I'm home today and watching S5 on Netflix. I'm sure she's very nice, but her whining just annoyed me. She literally just yelled at Tate for not helping get her mold out? Also, when she has a concept, it's good, but so often she just had no idea. In that way, her creativity was a bit lacking.
She seems like she'd be fine to have on your team, working at your direction, but not necessarily as someone who could lead a team.
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u/Successful-Foot3830 Feb 25 '24
That was my thought as well. She’s amazingly talented and an excellent sculptor. She lacks decisiveness though. If you tell her exactly what you want, she’ll bang it out perfectly.
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u/LuLuStargi Dec 01 '23
Fr!! And the fact she always begged everyone for help at all times, and she even made one of her own MODELS paint for her.
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u/mattiehond Oct 09 '24
not once but twice lol... insane. she really doesnt perform under stress at all, or is fishing for sympathy
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u/Choochy11 Jan 05 '24
The faces she makes also really irk me!
I also couldn’t stand the pressure washer scene. she seems somewhat helpless this season but it’s bc she doesn’t even try! And bless Tate’s heart for being a sweet softy but it’s at the point of enabling towards the end.
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u/dave5911 Oct 20 '21
Miranda dominated season 5, it's a shame she didn't win
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u/chilipoptart Nov 19 '23
I'm almost finished with season 5 and while I do agree that she is very talented and has done a lot of great sculptural work (some of my favorites are the mole, and the pumpkin) I can't help but feel that a lot of her work is overhyped by the judges.
In the episode of the cubism and the deadly sins for example, she got a lot of praise for those ones and the first one was incomplete and the second while well sculpted didn't seem like that big deal for all the praises that it got.
It almost feels a little like favoritism. Or maybe the constructive criticism got cut off while editing the show, idk.
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u/kathop8 Nov 23 '23
I also feel she was pretty overrated - and I think partially because she seemed to accomplish more than she actually did. She had so much physical and creative input from the other contestants, but the judges could only assume (I guess) that she did it all alone. She does have good concepts, and is incredibly talented - but the fact that she fell apart on the dark elf challenge I put down to the fact that she didn't have help from the other artists ...
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u/Psychological_Yam506 Dec 01 '23
I agree as well. The Peter Peter pumpkin eater was a great sculpt. But I thought they were looking for a whimsical character. Her character was whimsical because of a smile? I was taken aback when she won over the little miss piggy. The idea of a pig wearing a bacon bra is, to me, the epitome of hilarious and whimsical. And yet Miranda won.
I also just watched the Sins episode. Again, another great sculpt, but it doesn't capture the essence of her sin at all. There was no allure, no sexiness. Whereas Laney's depiction of greed to the point of sacrificing health, I thought, was a very apt depiction of greed. Yet Miranda was placed in top looks, and Laney was sent away as safe, neither top nor bottom.
I see that she's not really meeting the challenge entirely, but she seems to be getting away with it. Don't get me wrong, she's a great artist, but surely not meeting the challenge the entire way should place you at least lower than where she was placed. I felt the favoritism.
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u/BookishBetty Aug 07 '24
Agree completely. That pumpkin face was the stuff of my deepest, darkest, most horrifying Nightmares!!! Not Whimsical!! Tate's stuff is always too scary - like that nightmarish face he said reminded him of his mom! I did a straight up spit-take full on laughing! As a mom, i would be so sad if my kid said that freak show was me, I would totally cry!
But yes, I was shocked and horrified that she won since the pig was the perfect representation of the idea of Whimsical and reimagined concept. Like did the judges forget the definition of whimsy?! I felt like there was or had to be some behind the scene, producer manipulation or something going on to say a nightmare pumpkin head was Whimsical!!!!
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u/Nasty_Mook Mar 02 '24
I 1000% agree with this comment!! Like a demon for lust? Who’s covered up like a church lady? The judges definitely showed favoritism towards her imo. Especially of the week she failed EPICLY, they decided “not to send anyone one home”… I mean .. really?! If the judges saw just how trash her personality was when things don’t go her way, or people have the same idea as her lol. Something tells me she was a spoiled child, or is used to having people do things for her.. Maybe she can look back on herself years later and grow as a person.
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u/mattiehond Oct 09 '24
truth is, shows like this have a set number of episodes, so to blow off an entire challenge (which already had spent the budget on the make up, costumes, the real life birds and labor that involves, the venue, etc) because one contestant decided to leave is a no go for a studio that obviously wants to make money. I agree she shouldve gone home there, but it was never going to happen
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u/Baroness138 Oct 21 '21
You're also probably remembering her from season 2, when she definitely wasn't as good. She blew me away in season 5 and became one of my favorites of the whole series.
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u/Ultrajante Jul 14 '23
Miranda is def a favorite. Everyone who's watched this season gets sucked into her vortex
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u/Sudden-Ad-6201 Nov 22 '23
In one episode she literally had the model painting himself I was like damnnnn girl cmon
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u/LuLuStargi Dec 01 '23
FR THIS. and she’s alwaysss begging for help, esp to Tate specifically, she was so annoying and deserved to get off the show if she couldn’t even perform her own tasks
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u/l80magpie Oct 20 '21
She really did suffer from a lack of confidence. Working with Neville should have cured some of that.