Jerry Saltz’s Work of Art Recap: Riddle of the Spanx (New York Magazine)
Like all bad mysteries, this week’s episode begins on a cold, gray day. As the
artists are being driven to New Jersey for their challenge, I think of Ahab’s
words about Moby-Dick: “He tasks me.” I guess this makes China and Simon the
artists’ white whales. Zonked, perhaps, by the Bravo house arrest under which
they live, they peer out of the van, shell-shocked by the open spaces and real
life going on around them. Some look punch-drunk; others, strung out. Bayete
and Michelle look like they’re planning a breakout. Sarah K. cackles (ah, mute
alert, Bravo?!). Listening, I learn that some of the artists don’t like Lola.
This takes me back. In the short bursts during which I saw the group during
taping, Lola seemed moody and intense, and looked at people through her hair a
lot, but she struck me as a canny, kind, sensitive soul whose circuits had
been slightly singed from her mom’s dating Al Pacino for ten years while she
was a kid. Onscreen, Sara calls Lola “crazy” and “childish.” Kymia says that
she’s a “drama queen.” Maybe this is why Lola forlornly says she doesn’t want
Sucklord to …
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