Ricky is gone. The fact that Project Runway still has three episodes remaining is greatly cushioned by this fact. And though we can never get back the months lost to this Bravo Network waterboarding, we're taking the teensiest victories where we can find them.

The only real takeaway from this week's show is not that producers finally tired of Ricky's sucky ways but that the glittery mess that is Sweet P's was graciously granted a stay of execution. By most rights, she probably should have gone home instead. But no matter: it makes the math easier. Of those who are left—Sweet P, Rami, Christian, Jillian, and Chris—it's quite obvious who's talented enough to be in the final two. Which of course doesn't presume actual talent at all.

Our predictions: Sweet P is going next week. Rami and Jillian's devotion to mediocrity will pit them in the third and fourth spots, and whoever avoids self-detonating will slide into Fashion Week and end up at the bottom of the top three tier. Chris and Christian will vie for the number one spot, and since Christian is the more irritating of the two, he's sure to take the whole crap-pile—in all its hour-long glory—at the end of the three weeks.

Or who knows? Three episodes doesn't really mean three weeks with this bunch. Three months from now wouldn't be too surprising as Bravo seems determined to drag this floundering season out by arbitrarily airing episodes every other week. Is this to imply that the show is still making the network money? Elle has already jumped ship, so how much milk could possibly be left in this emaciated cow anyway?