Aside from those two superstars, there wasn't much about which to write home—except that the mystery guest, around whose weird collection of five baubles the designers had to design a room, was Alexis Arquette. (Weirdly, the five items included a mannequin head, a disco ball lamp, and some other wacky shit, from which I guessed the mystery guest would be David Arquette—totally out of left field, yet so bizarrely close!) Alexis Arquette is, perhaps, the most well-known transgendered actress, so it was cool that she was on the show, anyway, but what I noticed was that none of the contestants were shown registering any alarm or bemusement, that all of them referred to her as a woman with no prompting, and that there was not the slightest hint that Arquette was there to be "weird" or "funny." One might reasonably suggest that anything undermining the uneventfulness of Arquette's visit was edited out—and I'd just note that, if that were the case, it's still notable. There wasn't a single second of the show where anyone watching at home who might have been snickering or sneering had anyone on the show with whom to identify. Well done, Bravo.
As an aside, Alexis Arquette has a brilliantly expressive face—and I defy any future guest on the show to register such perfect expressions of contentment or disgust at the rooms offered up by the designers.
A face that says: "I like this room."
(That was the winning design.)
A face that says: "You're fucking kidding me, right?"
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