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Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Challenge: The Crossroads of The Finale

As our first season draws to a close, we can reflect back on JHCSC. As a baseline talent based reality show in the vein of Project Runway, it’s been a success. It didn’t try to reinvent the wheel, but stuck with the already working formula from lead in Face Off. The results were about what you would expect.

In that sense I am a little disappointed. The Muppetshave always been an irreverent…

Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Challenge: Alien Briefs

It’s the last episode before the finale. Our final four walk into the shop to see the puppet Rygel from Farscape sitting on a pedestal. We weren’t getting out of this season without having a Farscape challenge, especially with Syfy teaming back up with Henson and Co. to make a Farscape movie. Brian notes there are “almost a hundred” episodes of Farscape–nope, they didn’t quite make the…

Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Challenge: Swamped

We’re down to just five contestants this week in the creature shop, only one of whom is a woman. If Brian plans on running this show more than one season, the judges are going to have to be a little more sensitive to gender parity going forward. They are waylaid in the front lot on their way to the shop by Gigi, who leads them through a door clearly marked “Sound Stage.”

The Sound Stage is in…

Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Challenge: Life or Something Like It

We’re down to six contestants this week. As they meet with Brian and Gigi in the shop, the question we should all be asking ourselves is “Two teams of three, or three teams of two?”  As we ponder this, this week’s Shop Master, John Criswell walks in a life-sized black unicorn puppet. Gigi tells us this puppet is from Lady Gaga’s last tour, and they borrowed it back to show for this challenge.

Br…

Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Challenge: Getting A Head

Our Top Seven are also greeted by a wall of heads when they arrive in the shop. Brian tells us these are the heads the designers will be bringing to life–magical creatures who have been slain and mounted on a wizard’s wall. They will tell us how they died and how they feel about their lives now that they hang out all day.

Gigi drops the big news–this is their first solo challenge. Three days to…

Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Challenge: Junkyard Wars

It’s week three of Brian Henson’s reality show homage to his father, and we’re down to eight contestants. This week they are off to a junkyard. Gigi explains it’s not quite a junkyard, but in fact an electronic scrapyard. We won’t be finding couches or kitchen sinks here. It’s all wires and old computer parts. Brian informs us that the Creature Shop comes here regularly for pieces parts, before…

Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Challenge: Skesis Exiles

Week two of SyFy’s newest addition to their reality show line up, Brian Henson’s Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Challenge. (Yes, we can make the title more unweildy!) Our nine fresh faced and brightly scrubbed designers wander into the shop to find Skesis hanging out in the workroom.

  Gigi and Brian arrive to tell them the obvious–this is a Skesis Challenge. He makes sure to fill in some of the…