About time for this, I figure! Fifth season premiered yesterday.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
condragulations
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
Quite right!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
this show is kind of fascinating in a "gender is all performance!" way - everyone congratulating each other (incl the judges) on how well they achieve some kind of archetypal female-ness
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
Okay come on, I KNOW I'm not the only person on here watching.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
I promise to start now.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
Marilyn Monroe should've been in the bottom. She didn't do anything.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah that was an epic flop. I like Ivy well enough but that made me go "Whuh?"
Jinkx, Alaska and Roxy were the best overall, but Jinkx just owned it period.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
I like Ivy too and I think she was lucky she didn't have to lipsynch against Lineysha. I didn't expect her to do so well (but her Celia Cruz was unforgiveable).
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
Deep clusterfuck, that. Also what WAS Detox thinking.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
um hi I just started watching season 5 online having never watched and omg I'm hooked
I'll be caught up in no time :D
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
Don't forget to watch Untucked, an essential part of this show!
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah I just figured that out...gotta love these bitchy girls. MORE drag homework? *twists arm*
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
Very good. Join us, join us...
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
Shanté, you stay!
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
Season 2 still the best so far, I think.
I just binge-rewatched season 3 over the weekend on Netflix and I might have to vote for that one. Then again I just like Raja a hell of a lot, so.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
Yes for Raja and Manila. But the rest, not so interesting. Yara-Sophia maybe...
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
It actually came down to the right final four I thought, Alexis was a character in her own right. But yeah Yara (Xara?) was next level.
I still haven't seen season four! For some stupid reason it's not on Netflix -- it was for about two seconds and then went away again without explanation. (Already know who won, obv., but I'd like to see it happen.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
Wait what!! Can't you watch it on logo online or something? We can't in Canada but I thought you could in the US.Season 4 was pretty good, although they tried to create too much unnecessary drama. But I'll let you see by yourself.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 21:58 (eleven years ago) link
You can see the Untucked episodes from season 4 on the site but not the main shows. Since you can buy all the shows from iTunes maybe they want to go that route? Who knows!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 22:07 (eleven years ago) link
Makes sense. If RuPaul had a dollar everytime she mentions iTunes...
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 22:13 (eleven years ago) link
Hey, house payments are probably up there. (And I don't begrudge Ru ANY success and trappings.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 22:18 (eleven years ago) link
I don't either. At least she's very upfront and funny about it.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 22:25 (eleven years ago) link
Fun fact we learned during the All Stars season: Jujubee's real name is actually Airplane!
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 22:28 (eleven years ago) link
Hahaha yeah I remember thinking "Wait, what?"
I also love that Manila's real name is the none-more-Minnesota Karl Westerberg.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 22:35 (eleven years ago) link
Lol wow
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 22:58 (eleven years ago) link
Almost caught up on S5 now yay!
Every single time Alyssa glams up for the runway all I think is JOAN COLLINS JOAN COLLINS JOAN COLLINS
I don't know why but I think I like Detox. Jinkx is great but I dunno if the unglam thing is going to hold out for her or not. I love her for it, but it could wear thin.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 22:53 (eleven years ago) link
I will say this, have started following her on FB -- win or lose she seems to be having a blast and is booked for other live appearances and things and more this year already, so I like to think of her as winning already!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 23:13 (eleven years ago) link
Meanwhile, it's a little surprising to see such a mostly white group at this point. Not that I think the show is biased, appears to be more luck of the draw season by season in terms of who survives.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 23:15 (eleven years ago) link
that little edie impersonation was fuckin awesome in the last ep. too bad her fashion totally sucks.
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 28 February 2013 00:57 (eleven years ago) link
I found s2 streaming on Amazon Prime, so yaaaay
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 February 2013 02:28 (eleven years ago) link
Meantime:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/02/27/drag_race_grey_gardens_and_jinx_monsoon_why_the_queens_need_camp.html
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 February 2013 03:17 (eleven years ago) link
I do have to quibble with some of the assertions there -- while Sharon's success in 4 is great, in 3 Raja was more than a little disruptive herself -- as was Manila really; if anything Alexis was the one let go at the end precisely for being full pageant.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 February 2013 03:27 (eleven years ago) link
I haven't watched all the seasons, but I don't get the impression that they are only seeking pageant or necessarily favoring that. And while I noticed the lack of "camp history" in the S5 girls, isn't there an argument that maybe a lot of queens are trying to let go of that, like that cliche of teens not wanting to know about older music? I mean, I'm bummed that they don't know who Little Edie is but maybe when they see Jinkxs win they go find out. And it doesn't mean they're any more terrible for what they don't know of their history. If anything, it's kind of fabulous that they all came to that same place *without* it. I dunno. That article seemed a little too buttclenched.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 February 2013 05:51 (eleven years ago) link
Related but I think better expressed post, linked off the official site
http://www.newnownext.com/drag-race-jinkx-monsoon-snatch-game-little-edie/02/2013/
Oh and in checking Twitter Alyssa DID apologize to Ms. Perry.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 February 2013 06:15 (eleven years ago) link
Also this exchange is interesting (notice it's everyone else BUT Jinkx and Michelle who get riled up -- and as Michelle notes, in noting the obvious, there's always editing).
https://twitter.com/JinkxMonsoon/status/306550634079977473
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 February 2013 06:20 (eleven years ago) link
This is better than what they showed on the show:
http://www.newnownext.com/jinkx-monsoon-little-edie-rupauls-drag-race/02/2013/
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 28 February 2013 14:59 (eleven years ago) link
My Top 5 Snatch Game contestants from all seasons:
1. Sharon Needles as Michelle Visage2. Pandora Boxx as Carole Channing3. Tatianna as Britney Spears4. Jinkx Monsoon as Little Edie5. Alexis Matteo as Alicia Keys
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 28 February 2013 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
Only three eps in (S5; no previous exposure to the show). Anyone care to rank the hottest queens out of drag? So far from S5 I'm into Lineysha and, oddly, Ivy.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 February 2013 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
xpost I just watched the S2 Snatch Game, Pandora's Carol Channing was hysterical, so good.
Lineysha's gorgeous. Ivy's not a crazy answer either, that bone structure really is something else. I was thinking about her terrible Marilyn and found myself wondering why the hell she didn't do Joan Rivers. Eh. Hindsight
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 February 2013 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
Yes she would've been a great Joan Rivers!
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 28 February 2013 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I know this is probably the exact rongest angle to take on the show, but I'm finding it very interesting navigating my impressions/levels of attraction to certain contestants when they're in drag vs. when they're not in drag.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 February 2013 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
Alyssa's *almost* attractive but it's like her lips are too big for her and she keeps tripping over them when she talks. Beautiful eyes though.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 February 2013 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
Coco's blue contacts freak me out. I keep expecting them to shoot lasers
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 February 2013 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
Haha Alyssa looks like Will Arnett in AND out of drag.
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 28 February 2013 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
Hottest out of drag:
S1: JadeS2: Tyra, RavenS3: Raja, Carmen, MariahS4: PhiPhi, LashauwnS5: Lineysha
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 28 February 2013 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
xp otm
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 February 2013 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
Well, actually, in drag he often reminds me of Hugo Weaving.
xpost elmo otm! Defnitely Will Arnett out of drag. In drag as mentioned upthread I just get constant Joan Collins, lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 February 2013 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
in drag he she
Sorry.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 February 2013 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
Raven from Season 2 was pretty stunning out of drag. Tyra's crooked eyebrow drove me insane, but otherwise: gorgeous.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 February 2013 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
That Salon article is really kind of awful, though?
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 28 February 2013 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
"as far as I’m concerned, until the other ladies stop reading each other long enough to read a book" hey wow stfu
shades of Serena ChaCha
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 February 2013 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
yeah the more I think about it the more the condescension in that article really annoys me
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 February 2013 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
xxp Yeah, it was that very same strategy that earned Serena the lowest berth of the Untucked gangpile.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 February 2013 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
Still, I def agree with the recapper Ned shared, pointing out ignorance alone isn't a NAGL, but having *pride in ignorance* is kthxbye.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 February 2013 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
there is a grand heritage of cult & camp in gay culture & in drag, but i honestly don't think it's fair to set up grey gardens as some sort of shibboleth of queer culture as so many commenters seem to be doing in their reactions
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 28 February 2013 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
Interesting tidbit about Honey Mahogany's sequined kaftan-dress
http://sfist.com/2013/02/19/borrowed_kaftan_costs_sfs_only_cont.php
Though honestly anyone saying that the dresses are the only reason she went home are deluuuuuuuusional. She was beautiful but hardly a force of nature performance-wise
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 February 2013 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
oops, spoilers I guess? sorry
older queens are shocked, just SHOCKED that the new generation of gays doesn't share their choice of idols! the Salon article reminded me of this article from last year, in which the writer clutches his pearls and bemoans the waning of judy garland worship
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/arts/judy-garland-gay-idol-then-and-over-the-rainbow-now.html
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 28 February 2013 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
Meh, I wouldn't have had her pegged for the top 5 or anything.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 February 2013 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
Not at all. Good legs though.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 February 2013 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
LOL, that NYT column author's friend seems like boyfriend material to me.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 February 2013 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
I'm 3/4 the way through S2 -- I know that Tyra won but is it just me or does she give off low-level sociopath vibes? Something about the flat affect in the way she talks is just kind of 'off' for me. Or she's just super-immature. Either way, whoa.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 February 2013 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
i do love jinkx and not just for little edie but ESPECIALLY for little edie
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Friday, 1 March 2013 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
I'm especially fond of his non-aggression.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Friday, 1 March 2013 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
Really hope she wins, but Michelle Visage really has it out for Jinkx.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Friday, 1 March 2013 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
water off a duck's back
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Friday, 1 March 2013 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
OMG
http://25.media.tumblr.com/4580bd32abea1b86a72c188600e56325/tumblr_miyhfwGBYR1rhzliao1_500.gif
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Friday, 1 March 2013 17:27 (eleven years ago) link
haha there is a video on her site where jinkx talks about the formative influence of death becomes her
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Friday, 1 March 2013 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
afaic, that movie did as much to mold my camp sensibilities as anything by Paul Morrissey or John Waters (both of which I came to much later)
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Friday, 1 March 2013 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwvF3RAirVc
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Friday, 1 March 2013 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
Tyra starts the season really bitchy and defensive but ends up being really sweet. The strangest turnaround. (x-post)
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 1 March 2013 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.newnownext.com/rupauls-drag-race-preview-jinkx-monsoon-rolaskatox/03/2013/
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 4 March 2013 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
lol @ the edit, "I AM A THREAT" *snores* hee hee
I hope she goes all the way.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 4 March 2013 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
Same here!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 4 March 2013 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
I completely forgot about the narcolepsy.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Monday, 4 March 2013 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
And she survived so yay for that. Ivy deserved the win though -- the only other real singer from what I could tell but the dress was inspired.
Gotta say that the Alyssa and her dad moment in Untucked was a heavy emotional hit.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
Didn't she have immunity?
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
Ha, true re: Jinkx and immunity, I completely forgot about that. She didn't slack, though!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
They didn't mention immunity this week. I thought Alyssa was the last one to have it.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, they didn't mention anything about immunity for Ivy this week. It must just cycle out at a certain point.
The moment Jade started talking about her past and tearing up in the to-the-camera interview footage, I knew she was toast. They'd been building her up as the cutest little snake in the grass for awhile now, so the gear shift tipped their hand.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 00:03 (eleven years ago) link
Also, I've seen a couple blog recaps point this out (A/V I think?), but I'm pretty damned certain Alyssa and Coco are partially fabricating their bad blood.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 00:05 (eleven years ago) link
I'm glad I found this thread! I love Jinkx and am watching Grey Gardens in her honour right now. Most of the rest of them, however..
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 00:07 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.logotv.com/video/misc/884918/rupauls-drag-race-episode-6-season-5-can-i-get-an-amen-bonus.jhtml#id=1702953
Felt sort of bad for the queens, having to freestyle to that dirge.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 00:11 (eleven years ago) link
Almost as sorry as I am they are forced to drink Absolute cran every week.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 00:19 (eleven years ago) link
e
Yeah the song = no great shakes.
The Pointer Sisters were frickin' awesome guest judges though! Bring 'em back anytime!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 00:23 (eleven years ago) link
Love that LaToya is logging her third appearance as a guest judge and still looks afraid of everyone.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 00:24 (eleven years ago) link
I'm afraid of her! That nose/chin combination could cut steel.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 00:28 (eleven years ago) link
Meantime it was also nice to actually hear the Death Becomes Her bit.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 00:29 (eleven years ago) link
Seriously. Jinkx is my no-contest favorite in this cycle.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 00:37 (eleven years ago) link
I'm glad Jade's gone. That cute thing got old quick. And that hairy wtf getup. Bleh.
Jinkx was cool but Ivy def eclipsed everyone. She's impressing me more and more.
Holy shit @ Detox's surgery list. What the fuck would it do to you have silicon *muscles*. Jeeezus lady.Her cleavage is weird, it looks like an ass crack. But her actual ass crack is lovely, lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 05:10 (eleven years ago) link
I love Jinkx but I am a tiny bit worried. Michelle really is out for her.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 05:11 (eleven years ago) link
Holy shit @ Detox's surgery list.
First thing I thought was all of that but NOT THE NOSE??
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 05:45 (eleven years ago) link
Hahah.
Jinkx may just wear Michelle down, we'll see. Ivy did step up for sure after last week! Like 'em both, really, but Jinkx I'll make time for.
My theory is that CoCo will make the top three by default, meaning: if she ends up in the bottom 2 at any point in the future, she'll kill at lip syncing once again. So...she's going all the way.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 05:51 (eleven years ago) link
I agree re: Coco. Lip syncing's her superpower, no doubt. Honestly as batshit crazy as she is, I'd love to see her Janet show. I bet she kills it.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 05:56 (eleven years ago) link
Michelle really is out for her.
Not exactly sure if Michelle has much nice to say about any of these girls.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 13:03 (eleven years ago) link
I think in the history of judging on this show, it's MUCH more damning for a contestant if Santino is the one calling you out on the runway. Michelle always has her favorites but she's always been a tough critic.
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 14:09 (eleven years ago) link
And let's face it: she HAS a point. Jinkx is supremely talented and funny and insightful and it's been great watching her character develop this season, but the LOOK could be elevated for SURE.
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
Little Edie does indeed use a magnifying glass a lot in GG.. Good work, Jinkx! Had to turn the movie off though, it was too depressing for me. I do agree Jinkx could be a bit more glamorous. Not sure if I can ever look at Ivy the same way after that terrible Marilyn - the Snatch Game means so much to me.
Am I am mistaken in thinking that the reason her name is pronounced IVEEEEE WIINNNTTEERRRSSS was because of the way Latoya introduced Ivy onstage somewhere? Did I miss them taking advantage of this glorious opportunity in this episode?
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
ivy's marilyn was unforgivable
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
It was despicable. Ru sorta confused her by telling her to be a smart dumb blonde.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 15:19 (eleven years ago) link
there was nothing marilyn about it besides the beauty mark, least of all that horrible ice dancing costume
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 15:32 (eleven years ago) link
The part that was edited out but was shown on the Logo website where she tries to wear her tiara around her neck was kind of funny.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 17:02 (eleven years ago) link
tbh i don't really think coco has much of a chance for the final 3. she's good for a lip synch, yeah, but she's had 2 high energy dance songs versus a couple self-conscious queens. all it takes is a broadway number to take her outside her comfort zone and she's toast.
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
Hey New Yorkers
https://www.facebook.com/events/533941493295456/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
This is actually a great lineup!
Featuring Michelle Visage (head judge on the show), Pandora Boxx (Season 2), Carmen Carrera (Season 3), Mimi Imfurst (Season 3), Alaska Thunderfuck (Season 5), Jinkx Monsoon (Season 5) and Ivy Winters (Season 5). Note: lineup subject to change.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
I can't deal with Mimi. Theater kids are the worst.
― Ulna (Nicole), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I've been filling time between new EPs by catching up, and started with season 3. Mimi should've been knocked out of the running on day 1.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
Mimi is the weakest link in that bunch, yeah. Manila Luzon would have been perfect.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
I'm halfway through and had to spoil it for myself by checking the Wikipedia page to assure myself that the one I thought should clearly win actually did. I was right.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
Hey, it happens. (And yes, deservedly so.)
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 20:49 (eleven years ago) link
It's not that I don't like some of the other S3 queens. It's just that I'm basically in love with Raja, in and out of drag.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
Rewatching it the other week knowing the outcome made it seem like a royal progression for her throughout the season. Won the opening challenge, along the way, and boom at the end.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
How many votes would an ILX poll of the houses (e.g. Extravaganza, Labeija, Ninja, Overness, Pendarvis) get?
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
wow I didn't even know about houses til just now
I got some learning to do
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
I just watched Paris is Burning yesterday too. It's been a draggy week here.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
Paris is Burning is emerging as an annual view for me, alongside Do the Right Thing.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
brb gonna watch
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
Yup, watch it immediately, VG!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
eric there was a poll on 77 and house of ninja won hands down
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?action=showall&boardid=77&threadid=78800
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
HOW have I not seen this
amazing
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
The all time "I want to go to there" movie.
Re: that janked poll, I have one thing to say -- sashay, rePOLL.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Thursday, 7 March 2013 02:19 (eleven years ago) link
cosign
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 7 March 2013 05:30 (eleven years ago) link
Underrated bit from this week's episode -- Roxxy grappling with the plural of 'sequin.'
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 7 March 2013 12:46 (eleven years ago) link
see quines?http://www.philbrodieband.com/muso-top-muso-pic_robert-quine.jpghttp://www.philbrodieband.com/muso-top-muso-pic_robert-quine.jpghttp://www.philbrodieband.com/muso-top-muso-pic_robert-quine.jpg
― Half of these sound like rappers. (snoball), Thursday, 7 March 2013 12:49 (eleven years ago) link
sequence dress
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 7 March 2013 14:31 (eleven years ago) link
sequinced
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 7 March 2013 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
for VG:
http://opencity.org/archive/issue-6/the-slap-of-love
the slap of love by michael cunningham. it's a piece about angie xtravaganza in particular and the ball culture in general, including cameos by dorian corey and pepper labeija -- it involves a little more history of the balls than paris is burning
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 7 March 2013 14:52 (eleven years ago) link
omg thank you elmo!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 7 March 2013 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
I have seen sequence used as the plural of sequins at work.
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 7 March 2013 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
let's not started on paillettes then
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 7 March 2013 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
VG just you WAIT until you get to the last paragraph of that piece
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 7 March 2013 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
Phew. Some crazy intense times there tonight.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 05:31 (eleven years ago) link
goddamn
i'm going to have to start watching with a box of kleenex, these girls know how to make me cry holy shit
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 05:57 (eleven years ago) link
coco's roast was awesome, glad she won. hope Alaska keeps bringing the heat too. I like her.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 05:58 (eleven years ago) link
Jinkx takes the high road!
Dear fans, friend and supporters.I've seen some really disparaging remarks made about my fellow drag race competitors...for example: "You deserved to be left at that bus stop."Roxxxy and I may not always see eye to eye, but she doesn't deserve such things being said to her. Remember that we all play the game in different ways. Though we may feud, it doesn't mean we don't have a friendship underneath it all.Any fans of mine who think that's the way to talk to other people have completely missed my message.Haters will hate, but let it just be water off a duck's back. I love you all.xxoo
I've seen some really disparaging remarks made about my fellow drag race competitors...for example: "You deserved to be left at that bus stop."
Roxxxy and I may not always see eye to eye, but she doesn't deserve such things being said to her. Remember that we all play the game in different ways. Though we may feud, it doesn't mean we don't have a friendship underneath it all.
Any fans of mine who think that's the way to talk to other people have completely missed my message.
Haters will hate, but let it just be water off a duck's back. I love you all.
xxoo
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 March 2013 02:13 (eleven years ago) link
atta girl
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 02:17 (eleven years ago) link
Season six casting, heads up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4US2mI5gkw
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 March 2013 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
Finally Coco starts playing! Still I liked Alaska's roast the best, but they were both funny and so was Jinkxy.
A lot of people didn't seem to buy Roxxxy's tears, but I was really touched. How can you be cynical about a story like that? And when you saw Untucked afterwards it made even more sense that she was in that headspace on the runway since they had just been talking about it backstage.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 14 March 2013 03:48 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah the Untucked scene brought it home. The girls have a pretty good bond it seems - is that common? I've only seen part of S3
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 14 March 2013 04:02 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah pretty hard NOT to be moved by that. TV is TV and 'reality' TV is a production and so forth, but there's a sense I get -- taken in part from RuPaul's own thoughts and comments in interviews, he's clearly big on working out from rough times via therapy/rehab/what have you, that life isn't just sass and fun and games and glamour -- that there's a priority in the show on those kind of emotional moments beyond drama for drama's sake. That's kinda patently obvious given the still massively homophobic world out there, but something like being abandoned at a bus stop, or (say) leaving a kid brother behind with an alcoholic mom compounds that. I think it's a big reason why the show appeals -- it's 'just' a series of sometimes goofy competitions, sure, but always underscored by something more.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 March 2013 04:30 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah the heart of the show, the human element of it, is a lot stronger than in other competition shows I've watched. It's really something
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 14 March 2013 04:35 (eleven years ago) link
Like, they do use those moments to hints at a downfall or a success but on shows like PR or Top Chef that's all they're there for. I like that even though it is used for drama, that's it's still treated as something that really happened to a person, and you see it's impact on the group & not just the contestant in a vacuum
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 14 March 2013 04:37 (eleven years ago) link
Hey neat, an interview with Jinkx
http://narkmagazine.com/culture/286-jerick-hoffer
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 March 2013 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
So did Ivyyyyyy really deserve to go so early? I thought she was gonna last longer than Coco & Alyssa. And for good drama, they should've lipsynched against each other last night. Coco deserved it imo.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I was wondering. Bummer to see her go because that leaves Jinkx as the small/quieter one among five larger than life types. Still I almost think that'll pump her up a bit!
As long as Alaska's still in the running as well, I can't complain too much.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
Bummer to see Ivy go because her face was a really gorgeous canvas, but ... she really didn't have a strong enough personality to go much further in this competition tbh. (I feel the same way about Roxxxy, too, for the record.)
My rankings of the six that remain:
1. Jinkx2. Detox3. Alyssa (think she's mad underrated)4. Alaska5. Roxxxy6. Coco
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
Alyssa looks good most of the time, but she is not the sharpest or most original girl in the world.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, it's clear hers isn't a case of selective editing but of a genuine lack of comedic chops.
But her look and carriage are, to me, clearly among the best in the field.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
What happened to the Coco that was so hysterical calling out Selena in the second Untucked episode?
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
one of the judges said that alyssa walks the runway like a dressage horse which is 100% otm
― open the blood gates (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 02:02 (eleven years ago) link
Interesting that we're getting more backstory coming out now -- they just had a sneak of the first few minutes of the next show, and giving nothing away about the minichallenge, turns out Detox lost her boyfriend two years ago (as in boyfriend is dead, not just broken up with). Combined with Coco's story of her parents being gone and damn. Alaska's the only one left that isn't carrying a big backstory event that we know of (yet).
I thought it was interesting that in comparison Ivy's apparently had just a nice supportive upbringing, I guess, based on that chat with her mom. (Also, what a bummer. "Talk to you when I'm home!" *two days later* "Uh, guess what!")
I will say that the main challenge of the next episode involves telenovelas. I CANNOT wait. But for whatever reason it's not running until April 1.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 04:16 (eleven years ago) link
Oh and new Jinkx interview. But of course.
http://www.beautylish.com/a/vxrra/jinkx-monsoon-interview
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 04:17 (eleven years ago) link
Rewatched the runway presentation and the commercials and ... yeah, retroactively downgrading Alyssa and upgrading Alaska. The main reason? Alyssa looks fantastic every time, but that's partially because she looks basically the same every time. "Dressage horse" and a one-trick pony. But it's a great trick, et al.
Whatever else happens, I'm still too through with Coco. She's reading at a fourth-grade level.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 04:57 (eleven years ago) link
But her read on Aubrey O'Day was outstanding "....like she WON Celebrity Apprentice!"
Aubrey is ugh! trash! I hate that she gets on any show
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 05:02 (eleven years ago) link
but yeah, for the most part I think Coco has lost her grip completely
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 05:04 (eleven years ago) link
Aubrey is the definition of low-hanging fruit, tho.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 05:07 (eleven years ago) link
Well, maybe I should reword that.
No, you captured her perfectly well there.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 05:07 (eleven years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/d5ec601cf24bfaa63fe643fc1133002e/tumblr_mjx78nJkfJ1rosb88o6_250.gif
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 05:22 (eleven years ago) link
Low hanging fruit is right. Yeah Coco's done.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 13:31 (eleven years ago) link
Going back to watch some of the Untucked episodes from previous seasons (of which I've only watched 2 & 3, the only two available on Netflix), I'm starting to get a sense of what's sort of bugging/underwhelming me about season 5.
Chiefly, the animosity this time around seems much more capricious, which is I think symptomatic of it being more obviously and unconvincingly engineered. I don't think there's a soul left who doesn't think Coco and Alyssa have been playing up their beef for effect, but as that vehicle has been running out of gas lately, it seems Coco's been stuck in step-off mode without a focused target.
There's no dynamic here anywhere near as compelling as Heathers vs. Boogers, though admittedly pageant vs. comedy seems like it will be a forever fertile field for flamewar (and Alaska puts that into great perspective).
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
In that sense, Jinkx's transformation from comedy into potentially stunning runway queen is the true headline here.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i wouldn't be shocked to find she had some pro makeup artistry help for this shoot but holy smokes jinkxy!
http://i.beautylish.co/CiH5FGYFg4Wt_LAoJBJhtAPUBTo/orig.jpg
― open the blood gates (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
damn gurl
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
+ photoshop and a half, but still, great effect
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.jinkxmonsoon.com/images/fullscreen/44.jpg
i love her
― open the blood gates (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
my six are:
JinkxDetoxAlaskaAlyssaCocoRoxxxy
I love Alyssa look, I love the way she carries herself and how graceful she is but she is missing a depth, not even comedy but just some kind of personality that makes her MORE than her look. I dunno, she doesn't quite feel like the complete package to me.
There is just something about Detox that I love. I like that she always just throws herself 100% into whatever's given to her, challenge wise. She doesn't always rise to the top but she seems to be in the moment. Jinkx is the same way.
Alyssa's too in her own head, I think is maybe where she falls flat? If she unclenched a little she'd be great. Same with Coco.
Roxxxy's all look and no substance. And she's getting really childish about her competition, the same way Coco is. I think they're both doomed to go in the next couple of weeks unless they stop looknig over their shoulder.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
oh and Alaska's just cool. A little less finessed, but she's fun.
alaska jinkx and detox are my top 3, but i'm sorry to say that i'm a little underwhelmed by detox
― open the blood gates (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
Further re: Jinkx one of those interviews talks about how her drag name comes from Eddie Monsoon of Absolutely Fabulous and that the conceptual goal is someone always intentionally just out of sync/behind the times. So yeah, total star.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, agreed on that. Season three built up to this kinda amazing kaleidoscope towards the end; I actually think the most dramatic moment was when Alexis and Yara ended up having to face off.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
The weird thing is this season could definitely have that same sort of squaring off. RoLaskaTox was fixing to be that powderkeg of mean girls, but it disbanded before any real drama could start, and all of them look the better for it.
It's weird, but this season's presumed frontrunners (Detox, Jinkx, Alaska) are all a lot more magnanimous in their dominance than, for instance, Raja or Tyra ever were. And good on them, but it's just a shade boring in comparison. I really go for Raja's unfiltered confi-dominatrix persona.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
Really, I just treasure every moment RPDR gave me to spend time with Raja. *gush*
i was very happy to see alaska display a different look on the runway, i think she's got to start displaying more variety in her makeup & silhouettes in order to maintain the judges' interest because the big bouffant look was starting to get way too predictable
― open the blood gates (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
i think raja's punk look for the music challenge in S3 was one of the best runway moments of RPDR, i still think about it
― open the blood gates (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
Yes.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 18:07 (eleven years ago) link
You KNOW I'm going to poll that during the off-season.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
you better!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
Oh my jesus, I forgot all about Raja's Carrie dress.
― alternately mean and handsy (Eric H.), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah pretty much EVERY outfit Raja had:
1) confirmed why getting the crown was well deserved
2) insanely memorable
3) had SOMETHING out of left field
And yes as well to Raja sometimes coming out with those cutting/angry moments too -- I think that a lot of that came from her being older/more experienced/DGAF while following her own particular path earlier on in life. I half suspect Jinkx etc. would have that spark to them more clearly if they were in later on as well (Alaska definitely shows more flashes, especially now re:Detox/Roxxy). Where Coco, who IIRC is Raja's age at the time of season 3, seems in her career to have taken a way more conformist approach and is a little taken aback/does not get something that differs, thus the comedy slams. (See also Roxxy in the first episode being a little weirded out/confused by Jinkx and her eyepatch.)
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
jinkx has been in the top 3 for 6 consecutive challenges, don't think that's happened before
― open the blood gates (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, there's a lot of tumblr chatter about Jinkx's fanbase playing the victim card a little too conspicuously, when in reality, she's absolutely killing it on accumulated points.
― alternately mean and handsy (Eric H.), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/59da0fc2674a183e927e26d9d2cd406c/tumblr_mjwbv7C6WU1qhb3e2o1_500.jpg
― alternately mean and handsy (Eric H.), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 21:36 (eleven years ago) link
loool
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
Weird that I didn't recognize Santino and his Brad Pitt jawline.
― Leeena Dunham (Leee), Sunday, 24 March 2013 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
I can't believe nobody has mentioned Jessica Wild's amazing performance of "He's The Greatest Dancer"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTeQ6Fom7hA
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 24 March 2013 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
Whoa, so weird not to hear them bleep out "don't fuck it up."
― alternately mean and handsy (Eric H.), Monday, 25 March 2013 02:50 (eleven years ago) link
New episode tonight AND Julianne Escobedo Shepard interviewing Ru for Spin, with this little bit of interest:
Drag Race's fifth-season premiere scored more viewers that evening than CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight, and this season is the show's most-watched yet, marking a 33 percent increase in ratings for Logo as a network.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 1 April 2013 20:46 (ten years ago) link
in fairness, everyone hates Piers Morgan
― the pheromones of hot clothing (DJP), Monday, 1 April 2013 20:55 (ten years ago) link
Too true...
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 1 April 2013 21:36 (ten years ago) link
So I was actually sad to see Miss Edwards go. She was such a character and in the end I think she had more to offer than Coco, Roxxxy, or Detox. And probably a nicer person too.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 03:21 (ten years ago) link
Still if you're going to go, that's how to do it, because that was one crazy lip sync.
Annnnnd go Jinkx go!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 04:59 (ten years ago) link
And next week making over Marines? Like Roxxy said in the ad, "God bless America."
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 05:06 (ten years ago) link
Based on what we were shown, that lip-sync put the earlier one that gave both queens a chanté to shame. Coco had the rap down, and I understand why Alyssa had to leave this week given her ill-advised choice of words about coasting to the top on one LS4YL after another. But damn, that was not the way I wanted that rivalry to break.
I can only presume Coco's days are numbered, but the "dress up someone who doesn't normally do drag" episodes have a way of really blowing a cyclone through the presumed order of things.
After the last few Untucked episodes, I'm thinking Alaska might have Miss Congeniality wrapped up, unless Jinxx folds under pressure.
― alternately mean and handsy (Eric H.), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 23:20 (ten years ago) link
Yeah the next challenge should be interesting -- the only time Raja had to lipsync was with her equivalent episode.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 23:26 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, and Sharon also got sent to the bottom 2 on that challenge.
― alternately mean and handsy (Eric H.), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 23:26 (ten years ago) link
i want to see jinkx lip synch, not because i think she deserves to be in the bottom two ever, but because i'm certain she's so good at it
― ampersand cooper black (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 15:16 (ten years ago) link
She kind of did in that pseudo-gloryhole mini-challenge early on (she didn't win).
― alternately mean and handsy (Eric H.), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 15:19 (ten years ago) link
haha i'm obsessed, but there's some decent stuff on jinkx's YT channel, the medea diaries are pretty lol
http://www.youtube.com/user/Rosebudxxix/videos
― ampersand cooper black (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 15:45 (ten years ago) link
xpost -- she also did in that one bit on the second Untucked where the lip-sync group challenge went down. Just because I remembered the amazing looks/performance she gave on "...relying on that BODYodyodyody..."*rolls eyes*
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 15:50 (ten years ago) link
http://www.logotv.com/video/misc/894704/preview-rupauls-drag-race-510-do-ask-do-tell.jhtml#id=1700447
Whaddya know? Looks like Jinkx is about to fall on a big ol' grenade.
― cacao nibs (Eric H.), Monday, 8 April 2013 12:32 (ten years ago) link
(Oh, and Detox's military sister is really hot.)
― cacao nibs (Eric H.), Monday, 8 April 2013 12:34 (ten years ago) link
with any luck that navy daddy paired with jinkx will be the most naturally campy queen of them all
― ampersand cooper black (elmo argonaut), Monday, 8 April 2013 12:53 (ten years ago) link
Maybe, but at first blush, I think Alaska definitely picked the easy winner in that lineup.
― cacao nibs (Eric H.), Monday, 8 April 2013 12:54 (ten years ago) link
Ha, Jinkx got the best one out of the five if you ask me! Dude had stories.
Anyway Jinkx survives, SEEYA COCO.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 05:01 (ten years ago) link
Promo for next week makes it seem like RuLaskaTox trying to drive Jinkx out...I have my doubts.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 05:06 (ten years ago) link
Meantime, Little Edie returned recently...
http://www.newnownext.com/jinkx-monsoon-performs-i-dreamed-a-dream-kills-it-watch/04/2013/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 05:43 (ten years ago) link
okay Alaska's Nebraska was cute premakeover but DAMN she is a fine queen. Crappy padding or no.
Detox's Retox oh hai hott. I could watch her walk in those heels all day long. The makeup kinda bummed me out though.
Coco's Horchata looked like a kabuki actor! So bad. Didnt think she lost the lipsync but who cares BUHBYEEEE
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 06:03 (ten years ago) link
Nah, she lost. Detox's comment about having more fun on stage underscored why.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 06:05 (ten years ago) link
That's true
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 06:06 (ten years ago) link
Coco had such a stick up her ass 24/7
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 06:07 (ten years ago) link
faaaar out Detox's family-time on untucked made me bawl
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 06:13 (ten years ago) link
and Untucked made me crush on Detox's baby queen 10x more
and Alaska's. Suuuper cute. jesus.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 06:21 (ten years ago) link
OK. I want Detox's little soldier.
― cacao nibs (Eric H.), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 21:08 (ten years ago) link
Oh wait, that's not what I meant.
You can have both.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 21:16 (ten years ago) link
lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 21:31 (ten years ago) link
soldierboy is killing me
can he stay on the show, and be detox's mascot? CAN THAT BE A THING PLZ
I'd def let him kill me.
Also, I only just a few weeks ago put together that Michelle Visage was in Seduction, so it was extra sweet to hear her song put up as a LSFYL.
― cacao nibs (Eric H.), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 22:01 (ten years ago) link
I looked her up on Wiki to find out who she was supposed to be, and that was the first time I'd ever heard Seduction. V cool
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 22:04 (ten years ago) link
that whole conversation about tucking, soldier boy with his SIZE 15 FEET
*dead*
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 22:05 (ten years ago) link
sorry
Ru herself, meanwhile, schools the half-steppers and gloryhounds
https://twitter.com/RuPaul/status/321746401883193345
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 22:21 (ten years ago) link
LOL, I almost missed that ("Anaconda," r u for real?!) because I was in hysterics with Coco's guy.
"Where are your balls.""They're in my hand.""Your balls are in your hand?"
― cacao nibs (Eric H.), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 22:25 (ten years ago) link
that whole thing was so funny
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 22:29 (ten years ago) link
"Can we start with the shoes?"
*heart melts*
Fuck Mysterious Skin. Looks like Tarzan, sounds like Jane is very much AGL in this case.
― cacao nibs (Eric H.), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 22:31 (ten years ago) link
Oh, and Jinkx's mom crying was the emotional highlight for me.
― cacao nibs (Eric H.), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 22:33 (ten years ago) link
Er, Detox's.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 22:33 (ten years ago) link
xxpost totally, soldierboy worked those pumps something fierce too
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 22:34 (ten years ago) link
yeah the mom moment was basically rivers of tears on my couch
No, I meant Jinkx's stage mom crying because he long ago gave up any hope to fraternize with the younger crowd. That sort of got to me.
― cacao nibs (Eric H.), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 22:40 (ten years ago) link
oh yeah, that was really touching too. he was an interesting guy
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 22:47 (ten years ago) link
http://sharkchum2.tumblr.com/post/47559175413/can-detoxs-military-man
CAN DETOX’S MILITARY MANplease apply for season 6?!
― cacao nibs (Eric H.), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 22:50 (ten years ago) link
hell yes plz
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 23:02 (ten years ago) link
Indeed. And thanks re: which mom, I was all "Er wait." Yes, dude's a treasure.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 23:20 (ten years ago) link
And boom, top 3. And I agree Alaska won that round and as soon as I saw it was Yma Sumac for the lip sync I was all "Jinkx survives" and so it proves...
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 05:01 (ten years ago) link
Meantime hmmm indeed. Also interesting to note in this interview how Alyssa fesses up to being a Jinkx fan!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 13:30 (ten years ago) link
i'm waiting for eric to start the drag race alumnae dance singles poll, when is that going to happen eric
― ampersand cooper black (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 14:58 (ten years ago) link
i'm not saying any of the music is particularly good but if this show is pretty good at getting its fans to buy singles on itunes
― ampersand cooper black (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 15:06 (ten years ago) link
Taking advantage of the market. (Hey, why not.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 15:14 (ten years ago) link
Meanwhile Jinkx ruling every roost from over the weekend, whether solo:
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/533614_513779945324615_405291184_n.jpg
Or group:
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/73381_513779608657982_457143314_n.jpg
Though admittedly I think Raja kinda kills the entire universe there.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 20:22 (ten years ago) link
lol "not sharon"
― ampersand cooper black (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 20:26 (ten years ago) link
having more & more affection for Alaska as this thing goes on
she's really grown on me
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 21:09 (ten years ago) link
and Ru's point about her pulling off the suit/pants in drag was key
She's great! I still want Jinkx to win and then some but if it's Alaska, no complaints. (If it's Roxxy, derp.)
There were some great red carpet clips with Jinkx and Alaska in the promos for the awards last night. Alaska as Not-Sharon matched with Jinkx AS Alaska. Her imitating Alaska giving GPS directions had me roffling for a good two minutes, it was so note perfect.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 21:11 (ten years ago) link
Also c'mon, this exists:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=RWh7Yl_g63Q
"Baked Alaska Thunderfuck with Jinkx Monsoon Sauce"
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 21:12 (ten years ago) link
ned are the promo clips online? I wanna see!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 21:38 (ten years ago) link
Dunno if those specific clips exist but there's this
http://www.newnownext.com/rupauls-drag-race-queens-willam-logo-newnownext-awards-red-carpet/04/2013/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 21:42 (ten years ago) link
lol awesome
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 21:54 (ten years ago) link
And Jinkx just now on FB. Yeah, I think I'm ride or die with her for life now:
In the heat of everything. Amidst all the criticisms and all the fan adoration and all the craziness, the one thing that stays the most important to me is the texts of undying love and pride from my youngest brother, Jacob, that mean the most and give me all the strength I need.I love you Bug.
I love you Bug.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 00:33 (ten years ago) link
On the one hand, it's nice that there's still a clear villain going into the final 3. On the other hand, I hate that there has to be a villain going into the final 3.
Sort of shocked that Alaska called out Jinkx on the runway to go home, but maybe it was intended to light a fire under her going into the LSFYL.
Beautiful editing on the Untucked ep as Jinkx went from thinking Roxxy was complimenting her to realizing she was, yet again again, reading her.
― cacao nibs (Eric H.), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 04:33 (ten years ago) link
Oh, and Alaska has Miss Congeniality in the bag I think.
― cacao nibs (Eric H.), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 04:34 (ten years ago) link
Getting a big time Nancy Boys vibe from that cooking demo. (Nancy Boys being the premiere and as far as I know only drag variety show on Minneapolis public television.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NItW_Fnufc
― cacao nibs (Eric H.), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 04:45 (ten years ago) link
Alaska is growing on me. I like Jinkx the best personality wise, but I will say I don't think she's winner material. I would just prefer she were my friend above any of the other queens.
― homosexual II, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 16:58 (ten years ago) link
also Roxxxy Andrews is a pretty benign villain. Phi Phi was far more annoying.
― homosexual II, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 17:00 (ten years ago) link
eh roxxxy is just one of those people who confuses meanness for wit iirc
― ampersand cooper black (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 17:38 (ten years ago) link
There's been some image control on Rox & Detox's Twitter accounts this week, but I still blame selective editing for some of the nasty the former displayed ... or at least the amplitude of it.
― cacao nibs (Eric H.), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 18:01 (ten years ago) link
So we've got tonight, recap next week (I assume) and then the finale in two weeks...
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 April 2013 19:47 (ten years ago) link
Meantime, Jinkx news -- she's now up to a sixth night on sale in NYC with her two-person Vaudevillians act
http://www.spincyclenyc.com/index.php/liveperformances/1-live-performances/353-jinkx
While we've also got Jinkx and Alaska via podcast in Florida why because great
http://thehomohappyhour.podomatic.com/player/web/2013-04-20T05_07_30-07_00
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 April 2013 21:48 (ten years ago) link
And now -- two weeks of hacking the vote! (Maybe.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 05:06 (ten years ago) link
Geez, I thought last night was the finale. Boo. Hopefully Roxxy fans aren't tech savvy enough to push her win.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 17:24 (ten years ago) link
was super-impressed by Alaska's defend your life speech, and I liked her LSFYL performance
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 17:26 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, great stuff for sure! I am fine with it coming down to a split between Jinkx and Alaska for the win (I can't see Roxxy marshalling anywhere near enough support now after that last episode.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 17:30 (ten years ago) link
Oh BTW, Jerick aka Jinkx out of costume last night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQaBDmpcjvQ
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 17:32 (ten years ago) link
Roxxy's weird rant about all the 'comedy' in the courtroom scene was O_o ... she sounded like a 5 year old way past naptime
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 17:32 (ten years ago) link
....yeahhh, all her saying it was trying to mindgame everyone = I think not! (Besides which, if anything she didn't help herself given Alaska putting the exclamation point on it all; then again she was savvy enough to note where the other two had slipped, so the advantage of going last!)
Thing about Roxxy is that if the two had been contemporaneous Divine would have trashed her attitude completely and played the big girl card hard in return. So, like, fail on Ms. Andrews' part.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 17:39 (ten years ago) link
It amazes me that Roxxxxy is so stupid as to have no concept of drag's inherent camp value. You're dressing up as an ott fascimilie of a woman, gtfo w yr whole THIS IS V V SERIOUS AND NOT AT ALL PLAYFUL OR FUN bs
― hoda nkotb (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 13:28 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, it's just straight O_o
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 13:36 (ten years ago) link
honestly i can't even bother with roxxxy's complaints, which seem to be about how the competition should have been better suited to her style of drag (looking like a low-rent lainie kazan wearing peel-n-stick eyebrows and a tearaway bedsheet)
― ampersand cooper black (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 14:35 (ten years ago) link
<3 <3 <3 that is the best description of Roxxxy ever
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 15:07 (ten years ago) link
both roxxxy and coco had these intense rants about their competition which was basically them projecting their weaknesses and insecruties. it really was like watching a kid or a teen lash out.
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 16:30 (ten years ago) link
A roffle
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:20 (ten years ago) link
Girl I am gagging!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpOl9tld5zg
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 27 April 2013 14:34 (ten years ago) link
Recap show tonight; they've got the first part up already:
http://www.logotv.com/video/misc/904099/rupauls-drag-race-episode-13-season-5-countdown-to-the-crown-part-1-of-6.jhtml
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 April 2013 20:41 (ten years ago) link
Recap show way too busy/staged for me, rather preferred the style in older seasons. Still two moments were keepers:
* the correct pronunciation of 'brocade'
* Dave the veteran's gift to Jinkx
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 05:01 (ten years ago) link
brocade was awesome
alaska's table dance had my attention
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 05:24 (ten years ago) link
think I'm rooting for Alaska. I don't know why, just that goddammit she's fuckin adorable & hilarious
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 05:26 (ten years ago) link
preview of the opening (snicker)
http://www.logotv.com/video/misc/905778/preview-rupauls-drag-race-514-the-beginning.jhtml#id=1700447
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 4 May 2013 00:14 (ten years ago) link
roxy looks way too covered up compared to the other 2...her steez is always so Designing Women
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 4 May 2013 00:15 (ten years ago) link
Tonight!
Meantime, Jinkx lives the dream:
Peaches Christ Productions Proudly PresentsGREY GARDENSWith The Original Stage-show Premiere of Return To Grey GardensStarring JINKX MONSOON as Lil'L Edie and PEACHES CHRIST as Big EdieThe Castro Theatre, Saturday October 12th
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 May 2013 22:51 (ten years ago) link
wow
that sounds awesome!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 6 May 2013 22:55 (ten years ago) link
And! Ru in an interview with the NYT. Fascinating to see him sans makeup -- he's rocking those freckles!
http://www.nytimes.com/video/2013/05/06/arts/television/100000002210489/the-conversation-rupaul.html
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 May 2013 22:56 (ten years ago) link
xpost - and yeah, VG, you should go!
I'm seriously considering it.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 6 May 2013 22:58 (ten years ago) link
I'm content.
― siouxsan sarandon (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 03:08 (ten years ago) link
Ha, Ms. J. herself spoiled it for me, she already posted on FB and I was foolish enough to see an autoupdate. And yeah she just had to win even with Alaska's good finish in the final episodes. But if I can just say right now YYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH JINKXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX. World conquest plz.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 03:20 (ten years ago) link
Yay! Manila's Instagram spoiled me. Bugger. I'll watch it soon.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 04:26 (ten years ago) link
Also Ivy Winters as Ms Congeniality = way cool.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 04:59 (ten years ago) link
And final thing to add -- holy hell did Raja kill it there with her look! Beyond that my other faves were Sharon Needles with the Pee Wee Herman and Detox's black/white approach.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 05:33 (ten years ago) link
Sharon's Pee Wee realness was amazing
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 05:38 (ten years ago) link
Psyched for Jinks, that's a great ending. Pretty awesome season, this one I thought
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 05:39 (ten years ago) link
I have to do an Alaska tribute though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh2CcczSRQI
http://dilettwat.typepad.com/.a/6a017d3f6e48be970c01901b61d8e1970b-800wi
http://media.tumblr.com/5c0c158cf56c6c9f3db76750e366201b/tumblr_inline_mm6c1gIWWs1qz4rgp.gif
http://www.dragofficial.com/uploads/1/9/3/9/19395567/5754235_orig.gif
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 05:51 (ten years ago) link
"HIIIIII!"
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 06:11 (ten years ago) link
Hahah as posted elsewhere:
http://24.media.tumblr.com/36d4fe0db44c1d449964fcf71fbf0b10/tumblr_mmfauqUjOq1rizm6no1_500.png
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 14:28 (ten years ago) link
All hail Queen Jinkx!
http://24.media.tumblr.com/c1208ea22037fd43c017fe39e9ed1484/tumblr_mk7p9hqa441rlbvjno1_500.gifhttp://24.media.tumblr.com/3aceceb30fefa2169a53512aa6f6dbf8/tumblr_mk7p9hqa441rlbvjno2_500.gif
http://25.media.tumblr.com/ec8ebc39cea863fc9788bae1fae8cdde/tumblr_mk32wxY4CD1qcw9yjo1_500.gif
aaand drumroll
http://25.media.tumblr.com/302a68305e07776b9d18cf5660565ab6/tumblr_mmept8Zi8p1qacb1no1_500.gif
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 16:08 (ten years ago) link
Feel a little bad for Alaska, who really turned it up by the end, but this was ALWAYS the only possible outcome.
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link
yeah I think she waited a little bit too long to really show her talents. that speech she gave last week I was like WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 16:33 (ten years ago) link
I was just kinda rooting for her because she's adorable
And maybe the smartest in the bunch.
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 16:36 (ten years ago) link
Alyssa aside, overall it was a very sapiosexual season for the show.
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 16:37 (ten years ago) link
true! always nice to see
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 16:39 (ten years ago) link
Happily agreed on all fronts. (I noticed Jinkx graduated summa cum laude from college!)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 16:53 (ten years ago) link
yeah both Jinkx and Alaska had theater degrees, if I'm not mistaken?
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 16:54 (ten years ago) link
Sounds about right!
Meantime Eric H. weren't you going to do a runway look poll or something when the season was over
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 16:54 (ten years ago) link
also was it just me or was it kind of awkward and weird with the cutways to Jinkx and Alaska's moms in the audience. Like it was cool they were there but hearing them actually say how they felt reminded me SOOOO much of what my own Mom would say while you're kinda half covering your face muttering 'okay stop talking now'
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 16:56 (ten years ago) link
Oh yeah, I still wanna do that even though it will get four total votes.
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 16:56 (ten years ago) link
xpost omg yes please runway poll!
also was it just me or was it kind of awkward and weird with the cutways to Jinkx and Alaska's moms in the audience.
A little but it's also VERRRY RuPaul in terms of happiness/health/moving on. Not a complaint, it's just how he rolls. Also everyone hopes for a little closure, I guess. I was actually bummed they didn't talk to Roxxy's drag son in the audience, or maybe they did but in the final cut they decided to keep the focus on his drag mom Erica Andrews having passed.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 17:02 (ten years ago) link
The thing about the finales now (thinking last season as well) as opposed to the earlier ones was that the earlier ones were, if just as staged/edited (of course!), then more low key/intimate/isolated, while the crownings were similarly so. The shift to this kind of full-on combined presentation changes that dynamic and I think by default a lot of things are lost that might be more easily talked about in the original way of doing things, but the flipside is just the sheer fun of it all now that a fanbase has built up -- and hey, it's actually live audiences that the queens are most used to presenting in front of, so there ya go.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 17:05 (ten years ago) link
xpost hmm I didn't think of it that way. That makes more sense now. One of the things I've really loved about the show is the way her genuine concern for the girls comes out every now and then. Like even when there's total bitchfests, it's cool the way she tempers it by being kinda caring and human. I really like seeing that.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 17:07 (ten years ago) link
And of course we also now know why it's "IVYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY WINTERSSSSSSSSSSSSSS." I liked how Ivy was happy to finally know herself!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 17:50 (ten years ago) link
I love that Rupaul was giving LaToya coaching, like "no, it's Edgarrrrrrrrrrr Winterrrrrrrrrrrrrrs"
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 17:52 (ten years ago) link
Some fun here from last night's New York party. Including a kind-of cryptic hint that three coronations were filmed but nobody knew which was going to be chosen, which would make sense:
According to Jinkx, who spoke to EW over the phone this morning, there was plenty more going on backstage…“The three of us were sitting and watching the show together,” she said. “We found out who won at the same time as America did,” and Jinkx was just as relieved to hear her name as the milling fans. That said, “We were all in tears.”
“The three of us were sitting and watching the show together,” she said. “We found out who won at the same time as America did,” and Jinkx was just as relieved to hear her name as the milling fans. That said, “We were all in tears.”
As for the final three, Roxxxy delivered a surprisingly crowd-lifting lip-synch to 4 Non Blondes’ “What’s Up?” IIn stark relief to that pageant-queen polish, Alaska took the stage in garbage bag couture that put “punked-out” attendees of last night’s Met Gala to shame. Tears streaked her face as she growled a bitterly ironic rendition of Abba’s “The Winner Takes It All” before literally being dragged off the stage like… well… yesterday’s trash. Jinkx admitted that her good friend “stole the show for a second, and I completely supported it. Why not? If you’re on that stage in your trash bag gown, you go for every last minute you can get.” She did, however, say that Alaska’s eyeliner dribbles weren’t just performance art: “The tears were real. What I love about Alaska is that she works with what she’s got going on. If she’s crying, she’ll cry, she’ll let her makeup run, and she’ll go out on stage and do the most fantastic, tearful number that she can do.”Jinkx, of course, delivered the night’s final performance as America’s newest Drag Superstar. She had narrowed down her coronation anthem to three diva-approved contenders: Evita‘s “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina,” Cabaret‘s “Maybe This Time,” and “I’m the Greatest Star” from Funny Girl. In the end, she went with “Star” because “it’s certainly a song that I felt spoke to my experience on Drag Race. Funny Girl, the story of Fanny Brice, that’s something I can definitely relate to.” Plus, she added with a laugh, “‘Don’t Cry for Me Argentina’ was just a little too much for a drunk audience at 12:30 [a.m.].”Of course, not every element of Jinkx’s victory night was so well planned — her beaded champagne coronation gown, for example. “I normally have all my stuff designed by J. Von Stratton in Seattle, but I kind of totally forgot that I needed a dress for the crowning,” Jinkx confessed. “When I got into New York two days ago, Ivy and I got drunk, and she took me dress shopping — I can’t even tell you where it came from or who designed it. I just bought the first dress that spoke to me, and it ended up being perfect.”
Jinkx, of course, delivered the night’s final performance as America’s newest Drag Superstar. She had narrowed down her coronation anthem to three diva-approved contenders: Evita‘s “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina,” Cabaret‘s “Maybe This Time,” and “I’m the Greatest Star” from Funny Girl. In the end, she went with “Star” because “it’s certainly a song that I felt spoke to my experience on Drag Race. Funny Girl, the story of Fanny Brice, that’s something I can definitely relate to.” Plus, she added with a laugh, “‘Don’t Cry for Me Argentina’ was just a little too much for a drunk audience at 12:30 [a.m.].”
Of course, not every element of Jinkx’s victory night was so well planned — her beaded champagne coronation gown, for example. “I normally have all my stuff designed by J. Von Stratton in Seattle, but I kind of totally forgot that I needed a dress for the crowning,” Jinkx confessed. “When I got into New York two days ago, Ivy and I got drunk, and she took me dress shopping — I can’t even tell you where it came from or who designed it. I just bought the first dress that spoke to me, and it ended up being perfect.”
I just love that last part.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 20:45 (ten years ago) link
Ivy is in a relationship still, right? No kai kai there?
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 20:47 (ten years ago) link
Yup. They just hit it off as friends.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 20:48 (ten years ago) link
i want to see those lipsynch vids NOW
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 20:59 (ten years ago) link
Including a kind-of cryptic hint that three coronations were filmed but nobody knew which was going to be chosen, which would make sense:
they did that last season too and you can totally tell bcz there's no, like, real excitement when the winner is announced on tv; you can totally tell they're acting.
― siouxsan sarandon (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:23 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I was thinking "Hmm, Jinkx seems too...restrained?" So that doesn't surprise me at all.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:29 (ten years ago) link
Some clips from last night here
http://www.logotv.com/video/misc/906773/nnn-jinkx-and-willam-otrc-video.jhtml#id=1706933
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:40 (ten years ago) link
And hometown fun!
https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/936295_521368967899046_1413901328_n.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 17:00 (ten years ago) link
Yay, Us Weekly video interview:
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/jinkx-monsoon-of-rupauls-drag-race-on-gwyneth-paltrow-someone-should-kick-her-201385#ooid=lweGpnYjqHOym3EdchSkpyHx1U_Hi8ZF
Including more on Ivy, what she wants to do with the money, slang and Gwyneth Paltrow and Anne Hathaway.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 20:50 (ten years ago) link
lol that Alyssa impression was hilar
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 21:34 (ten years ago) link
Meantime Season 4 is finally back streaming in full through the official site so I can properly catch up:
http://www.logotv.com/shows/rupauls_drag_race/season_4/series.jhtml
And if I posted every cool thing Jinkx has been up to lately I might as well rename the thread but if you're on FB you've been getting it all there, so.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 18 May 2013 15:11 (ten years ago) link
Those fools. I have been sooo close to buying that season on iTunes for the last few weeks.
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Sunday, 19 May 2013 06:21 (ten years ago) link
Hahah you were NOT alone.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 19 May 2013 06:22 (ten years ago) link
Fasten my seat belt. It's time to discover exactly why Phi Phi O'Hara was the single most hated queen in all Drag Race history.
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Sunday, 19 May 2013 06:26 (ten years ago) link
ugh god she's awful, she's just bitchy and mean but not clever about it one bit
― siouxsan sarandon (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 19 May 2013 08:14 (ten years ago) link
ooh I want to see Season 4! yay!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 May 2013 14:48 (ten years ago) link
It's definitely fun/weird to finally see the ascent of Sharon Needles after seeing Season 5; if anything I'm more used to Alaska being her own thing rather seeing her through Sharon's lens, so the two actually come across as very individual characters as a result.
Phi Phi gives off Tatianna vibes from the get-go, I have to say.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 19 May 2013 16:09 (ten years ago) link
honestly I'm kinda interested to see Willam
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 May 2013 16:49 (ten years ago) link
i've only watched ep 1 of S4 but Sharon Needles' runway was badass. The fake blood? ugh. so awesome.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 May 2013 19:34 (ten years ago) link
then again i would expect my namesake to be nothing short of rad :)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 May 2013 19:35 (ten years ago) link
Willam I sorta liked and then hated and then adored once I realized how clever she actually is. I think Snatch Game was the turning point for me and I was like "ok I get it this queen is fucking smart"
― siouxsan sarandon (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 19 May 2013 21:18 (ten years ago) link
willam is next level. love her.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 May 2013 21:26 (ten years ago) link
I love how her general drag steez seems to be 'tired LA has-been drunk in the afternoon.' That whole bored, slightly staggering in too-high heels is the best. And I love watching her get read by Phi Phi. Nothing fazes her.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 May 2013 21:55 (ten years ago) link
Yeah that bit in the opening credits for Untucked is hilarious. Just that pause before saying anything.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 19 May 2013 22:54 (ten years ago) link
she should play nfl. that's one hell of a block
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 May 2013 23:04 (ten years ago) link
i remembered last night that I hadn't quite finished season 3, so i've now only got the finale left. Man oh man the transformation of Tyra is almost unbelievable. The speech she makes in the Diva Award episode, my jaw was on the floor. Tyra is funny! and legit sincere without being weird and awkard. I already know she won but damn I can see why. No idea why tatianna made it as long as she did, it's like if you blew in her ear, pillow stuffing would come out the other side. I loved the old-queens makeover in that season too. Some really beautiful moments in that one, such a good concept.
And I'm about 1/3 into S4. I am crushing HARD on sharon needles out of drag. jesus. She has such a good personality in general, I really like the way she is in the untucked episodes. Not at all what I expected. And I really love seeing the way Latrice is kind of taking Jiggly under her wing. Unlike Phi Phi who just turns every heartbreaking moment into a story about her, which woudl be fine if it was her moment but gaaaah would you STOP
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:14 (ten years ago) link
also this
http://24.media.tumblr.com/208929ff40be82252649d29bd6067a92/tumblr_mm5a2787qD1rcpscwo1_500.gif
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:18 (ten years ago) link
I hope you're being a good girl & reading old TLo recaps as you watch!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:26 (ten years ago) link
Phi Phi is the worst. The WORST! Sharon & Alaska out of drag both totally crush-worthy, smart & cool.
― emilys., Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:28 (ten years ago) link
I now have a term for my house-kaftans out-of-doors look: bed, bath & beyonce!
― emilys., Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:29 (ten years ago) link
xxpost what are TLo recaps?
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:33 (ten years ago) link
I've almost seen all of season 4 now and have been keeping my mouth shut about The Big Dramatic Shocker I sense VG has yet to reach. Because she'd kill me if I spoiled THAT.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:46 (ten years ago) link
If it's to do with Willam then I know it already. I spoiled it for myself by googling her ages ago :(
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:56 (ten years ago) link
I'm *very* glad I didn't do that; it made the whole thing a 'what the' moment beyond description.
Sharon & Alaska out of drag both totally crush-worthy, smart & cool.
I do like how the fact they found each other just seems so right, really. I also like the difference in their speaking voices, you get Sharon as peppy without being silly/bubbly vs. Alaska's amazing drawls, which I kinda want to imitate forever.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:57 (ten years ago) link
Ooh, gurl: http://www.tomandlorenzo.com/tag/rupauls-drag-race
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 00:00 (ten years ago) link
Oh my god, thank you for giving something to read tomorrow en route between here and my folks' place.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 00:01 (ten years ago) link
I'm happy to help!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 00:02 (ten years ago) link
weee thank u FFM!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 00:05 (ten years ago) link
Oh BTW
http://www.buzzfeed.com/saeedjones/every-outfit-rupaul-has-ever-worn-on-the-drag-race-main-stag
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 00:08 (ten years ago) link
man I need a book of Willam lines
tuckahoe episode is a goldmine -- pwns Muchnik about why Rupaul can call her Willam but he can't 'because she's holding a check for a hundred thousand dollars'
milan 'just swiffered the floor with his taint'
'i don't get why people throw their wigs. this isn't wig wars.'
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 20:50 (ten years ago) link
oh and I had my seasons mixed up. I finished s2 with the Other Tyra. And I started s3 last night. I can only watch s4 online so I don't watch that as much, but s3 is streaming for free on amazon.
um s3? raja already has me with my jaw on the floor. that girl is str8 FYAH
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 20:52 (ten years ago) link
VegemiteGrrl, have you watched Willam's Beatdown on YouTube?
― tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 23:40 (ten years ago) link
omg I just found out about it.
tonight's viewing :D
you guys I am LIVING for Willam. i can't even tell you. she speaks to my bitchy smartass soul.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 23:44 (ten years ago) link
Willam is some kinda crazy genius. I also loved his explanation in the S4 finale as to what happened.
I am pleased to see VG understand the greatness that is Raja.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 23 May 2013 01:59 (ten years ago) link
when Raja walked into the workroom wearing that pink cyclops hat I was like OMG WHO IS THAT, total love at first sight. and then she dressed up as Labyrinth Bowie in the space movie trailer, and she was Grace Jones C-3PO on the space episode runway. BOW DOWN.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 May 2013 02:34 (ten years ago) link
okay I am dooooooooooown the Willam/Stylish rabbit hole, I won't blather on but I'll just share this random thing that I found unintentionally
http://youtu.be/cpFuVOFhGoo
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 May 2013 05:28 (ten years ago) link
hmm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpFuVOFhGoo&feature=player_detailpage
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 May 2013 05:30 (ten years ago) link
better
Lollllll "I think it's named after a place in Greece or somethin"
― emilys., Thursday, 23 May 2013 06:41 (ten years ago) link
It's a fuckin Escobar party
― emilys., Thursday, 23 May 2013 06:43 (ten years ago) link
i watched so many of these goddamn videos last night I dreamed Willam was my roommate
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 May 2013 13:47 (ten years ago) link
Ha ha ha, awesome.
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 23 May 2013 14:04 (ten years ago) link
this gif for posterity
(it's vaginal deodorant spray looool)
http://24.media.tumblr.com/d859d875acf5ab32bfc301a943814863/tumblr_mllcprdE4r1rosb88o8_250.gif
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 May 2013 21:19 (ten years ago) link
she also eats elmers glue on camera and doesn't even flinch lol
Finished Season 3
Raja definitely was the shit. But man, that was one bitchy season. Not like normal bitchy, but like, embarrassing high school bitchy with all that heathers/boogers bullshit. That whole thing was pretty facepalm. I am NO fan of Shangela, she's annoying as hell...and yes Stacy Lane Matthews was 90% of the time not rising to the challenges at all, but still. That was some really junior-level stuff going on behind the scenes. I had kinda liked Delta Work's steez but the way she embraced the heathers thing, and the bitchiness from her was really offputting. Raja too.
But at the end of the day, one thing is clear. Mimi Imfurst is batshit fucking crazy.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 01:43 (ten years ago) link
Heathers vs. Boogers was an essential conflict, imo.
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 01:48 (ten years ago) link
it was good for added drama, I def agree with that. I think it's more that I still have ptsd from all the stupidly-named cliques from high school
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 02:12 (ten years ago) link
I only know Mimi Imfust from a local drag revue she hosts but her personality strikes me as deeply unpleasant. I remember one time she asked for a bunch of volunteers to come on stage and then made them totally on-the-spot take their shirts and pants off and stand their in their underwear (or look like spoilsports if they didn't want to or felt uncomfortable) and started fucking *grabbing their dicks* and I'm just like wtf is wrong with you? No one is consenting to this (except but passively to save face I guess)! What if this, I don't know, makes the participants deeply uncomfortable? Then they had to run around and people shoved money in their undies for "charity" or her tab or I don't even fucking know but it was p disgusting.
― siouxsan sarandon (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 05:32 (ten years ago) link
Also it was in front of like hundreds and hundreds of people.
― siouxsan sarandon (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 05:33 (ten years ago) link
That's fucked up. Bitch be crazy
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 05:35 (ten years ago) link
She later did a fucking incredible performance of "It's All Coming Back To Me Now" perched atop a wooden coffin that Sharon Needles was hiding in but I still think she's p rotten. I've only seen the first ep of S3 and don't wanna watch the rest til I can reliably track down all the Untuckeds.
― siouxsan sarandon (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 05:35 (ten years ago) link
so sad: Willam's Beatdown on indefinite hiatus. The Stylish channel wasn't renewed by youtube, apparently? ;_;
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 17:32 (ten years ago) link
Logo just posted all of season 4 for Memorial Day, if anyone needs to catch up.
― emilys., Tuesday, 28 May 2013 19:29 (ten years ago) link
Someone gave me an itunes card so I ended up buying season 4 + untucked. :D
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 20:49 (ten years ago) link
Meanwhile, Raja's got a new thing going:
http://www.newnownext.com/raja-web-show-makeup-tutorial-sutans-everything/05/2013/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 31 May 2013 18:01 (ten years ago) link
AND a new single coming out tomorrow
i love watching raja do makeup.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 31 May 2013 18:14 (ten years ago) link
i finished Season 4. Jesus Christ Phi-Phi was fucking CRAZY in that last untucked, I thought she was going to start pulling her hair out in clumps and hyperventilating. I mean, I felt awful that her household was so combative and horrible,that stuff about being put in the hospital was just sad as hell....but I don't think she realized that she was just spewing all that she had learned in that house all over sharon and willam.
the Dad Makeover episode I was kinda, well that was cool ...but the untucked was sooooo much better. Hearing those guys talk to each other about what they had learned, and how supportive they were of their queens was really moving.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 31 May 2013 18:19 (ten years ago) link
AND I finally got my hands on Season 1
I wanna see a Bebe/Raja runway walk off holy cow Bebe was/is FIERCE. She didn't really register with me for the first episode or two, but when she came out in that leopard catsuit with the mega-wig it was over. Everything about her is just on point.
Love Nina Flowers, and Ongina too. Shannel is like her own season of Drag Race, man that girl has the ego of 10 drag queens jesus christ. I didn't really understand why Rebecca went as far as she did, she didn't seem THAT stunning to me.
Tammie! oh lord Tammie. I loved her aesthetic but you guys, I have never seen a more terrifying drag queen in my life. She looked like a possessed puppet. And how insane was it when Rupaul let her have it in the reunion? Omg. I was kinda surprised she didn't edit that out...so I guess I kind of love Ru more for leaving it in. That was some real shit.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 3 June 2013 18:45 (ten years ago) link
so now I know all my herstory and I have only one thing to say
YOU CALL ME A LOSER? I DON'T SEE YOU OUT WALKING CHILDREN IN NATURE
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 3 June 2013 18:46 (ten years ago) link
:-D
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 June 2013 18:51 (ten years ago) link
I gotta say, I loved crazy Tammie. Wish there was more of her! Never saw the s1 reunion :(
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Monday, 3 June 2013 21:34 (ten years ago) link
she was in allstars iirc
― ⚓ (elmo argonaut), Monday, 3 June 2013 21:42 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, it was nice to see her there but she went home really early there too. Fly me to Mars! America's not ready. She had a song or two on YouTube that were just TERRIBLE.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 00:16 (ten years ago) link
The lipstick terrifies me
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 01:23 (ten years ago) link
Meanwhile VG noticed this and the whole section about behind the scenes on the show is gold:
http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/78888785.html
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 June 2013 00:00 (ten years ago) link
i wanna get Willam drunk and find out what REALLY happened.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 June 2013 01:08 (ten years ago) link
he just drops bitchy breadcrumbs wherever he goes, like Hansel and Gretel
Hell, even this season when they cracked down on the contestants security after my shenanigans, one of the top 3 girls smoked out with a producer who likes to collect the queens as friends like trading cards. That producer is still employed by them despite blasting me in social media and dressing in a way that I could only say emulates the dancing Fantasia hippos complete with ratty wigs
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 June 2013 01:09 (ten years ago) link
I just binged watched this season and omg why have I waited so long to watch this now I am fixated with Jinkx's mouth.
― Louie Althusser (Leee), Sunday, 7 July 2013 06:10 (ten years ago) link
I know that every reality program needs a villain or a center of conflict, but I think all of Roxxxy beefing with Jinkx took valuable time away from Alaska, and what could've been wall-to-wall hilariousness just devolves into typical reality tv bickering.
― Louie Althusser (Leee), Sunday, 7 July 2013 17:56 (ten years ago) link
Gah! Must go!
https://www.facebook.com/VarsityTheater/posts/10151469237565796
― Boven is het stil (Eric H.), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 18:00 (ten years ago) link
ZOMG yes, you need to be our ILX Drag Race emissary
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 18:01 (ten years ago) link
Completely.
Meantime the latest Drag Becomes Him with Jinkx was great and apparently the NY reviews have all been celebratory, so hurrah!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 18:11 (ten years ago) link
yay!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 18:13 (ten years ago) link
Also Leee's point on how more Alaska would have been even better = A+. I still like how season 3 ended after Shangela's departure more on a note of fun competition instead of angst (at least until actual sashays away).
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link
otm
Alaska was a legit fun, good-spirited competitor who could throw out the bitchy one liners without actually trying to draw blood like Roxxy et al
I do wish there had been more Alaskatimez, she's such a treat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gfpojo_xcD8
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 18:21 (ten years ago) link
Meantime, I was in Seattle when this went down but I had no chance to go. Ah well!
http://www.newnownext.com/jinkx-monsoon-as-american-as-apple-pie-in-freedom-fantasia-show-photos/07/2013/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 18:28 (ten years ago) link
Finished S4: I like Sharon, but Willam 4 ever, she pretty much sustains the early parts of the season -- her horse laugh is 2 DYE 4 -- and what an exit. HERE'S ONE FOR THE ROAD. (Working my way through Willam's Beatdowns, wonder if she ever gets around to making fun of this makeup toot.)
Now here is a challop: Phi Phi is pretty run-of-the-mill reality villain, I don't get the over-the-top vitriol directed at her? I mean, yes, she tries sabotaging her competitors (and the novel thing is it works once why because stupid), but everything else (e.g. picking fights, attention-seeking) is pretty tame stuff? I'm probably immunized to this sort of hijinks, especially when it's not directed to newborn kittens like Jinkx.
Anyway, just started S2, really amazed at the lousy production values over here: the soundtracked music mixed way too low, lots of dead air, vaseline on the camera lenses, most of the queens being earnest and not playing a Reality TV Character whenever they're on camera, etc.
― Louie Althusser (Leee), Saturday, 20 July 2013 19:38 (ten years ago) link
BTW, is S1 worth tracking down?
― Louie Althusser (Leee), Saturday, 20 July 2013 19:56 (ten years ago) link
S1 is definitely worth it - Bebe needs to be seen to be believed.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 July 2013 22:19 (ten years ago) link
I had a problem with PhiPhi mainly because a lot of the attacks she levels at her competitors are really personal. Like it feels like she legit HATES Sharon and Willam, and is trying to really do damage verbally. I mean, she's young so maybe that's a lot of it, but especially towards the end of that season she just lost control I think and it just seemed incredibly ugly to me
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 July 2013 22:23 (ten years ago) link
Will do!
Having started with S5 and then S4, it's eye-opening to see the amount of fishiness on display in S2. That said, IMHO I'm fishier than Jujubee.
― Louie Althusser (Leee), Sunday, 21 July 2013 00:00 (ten years ago) link
lol I love Jujubee
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 21 July 2013 00:22 (ten years ago) link
Pretty sure the only queen I'm fishier than is Phoenix.
― Boven is het stil (Eric H.), Sunday, 21 July 2013 07:23 (ten years ago) link
hahaha
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 21 July 2013 14:12 (ten years ago) link
More a side question about Drag Race along the way but a great interview with Lady Bunny
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/03/lady-bunny-take-me-up-high_n_3672603.html
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 3 August 2013 18:48 (ten years ago) link
An old Coco interview, which explains her "good thing I'm Dominican" remark from the first episode: http://voices.yahoo.com/coco-montrese-classy-flair-12045288.html
Also, watching first season, I keep thinking that Bebe's last name is Neuwirth.
PS Nina Flowers 4ever.
― May I Call You Jiggleee? (Leee), Saturday, 3 August 2013 19:19 (ten years ago) link
Man that's a great interview with Coco there.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 3 August 2013 19:40 (ten years ago) link
I wish Ongina could be my drag mother, I'd call myself Wongina.
― May I Call You Jiggleee? (Leee), Monday, 5 August 2013 04:31 (ten years ago) link
Big ol' new interview with her Jinkxness
http://www.towleroad.com/2013/08/towleroad-interview-jinkx-monsoon.html
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 02:37 (ten years ago) link
Finished S1 save for the reunion -- sounds like I should watch it for the SHADE OF IT ALL?
― May I Call You Jiggleee? (Leee), Saturday, 10 August 2013 21:40 (ten years ago) link
um YES
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 August 2013 21:49 (ten years ago) link
also Tammy lets loose
With that creepy creepy forehead/eyebrow combo of hers? <_<
― May I Call You Jiggleee? (Leee), Saturday, 10 August 2013 21:50 (ten years ago) link
"Downtown" Tammie Brown.
― May I Call You Jiggleee? (Leee), Saturday, 10 August 2013 21:53 (ten years ago) link
she looks like a depression-era homemade doll. she gives me nighmares
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 August 2013 21:57 (ten years ago) link
Oy, that headband covering Tammie's eyebrows doesn't help.
― May I Call You Jiggleee? (Leee), Saturday, 10 August 2013 22:19 (ten years ago) link
i like the idea behind what she's doing, and I love that era but she's just so terrifying with the lips & the scary eyebrows
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 August 2013 22:20 (ten years ago) link
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8hqnb0wPq1r1emlm.gif
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 August 2013 22:21 (ten years ago) link
This is why you need to see the reunion:
"You all called me losers and I don't see you out there walking children in nature." -Tammie Brown ...
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 August 2013 22:24 (ten years ago) link
She looks like an alien!!
I'm watching it right now! Shannel shaves her butt!
― May I Call You Jiggleee? (Leee), Saturday, 10 August 2013 22:40 (ten years ago) link
OMG Santino vs. Shannel.
― May I Call You Jiggleee? (Leee), Saturday, 10 August 2013 22:45 (ten years ago) link
shannel is kinda terrifying too, for different reasons
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 August 2013 22:51 (ten years ago) link
OK Ru's speech in response to the Tammie thing is pretty powerful.
Also: Ongina b-boying!
― May I Call You Jiggleee? (Leee), Saturday, 10 August 2013 22:53 (ten years ago) link
yeah ru lost her SHIT with tammie.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 August 2013 22:55 (ten years ago) link
Seriously, her message there is something I want to internalize. Pls teach this str8 boi 2 b feerce.
Who was it from a later season that clowned on Tammie's "walking the children in nature" line?
― May I Call You Jiggleee? (Leee), Saturday, 10 August 2013 22:57 (ten years ago) link
ru did :)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 August 2013 00:18 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzWDjQ5GbsI
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 August 2013 00:19 (ten years ago) link
...annnd Jinkx's show finally made the NYT in full
http://theater.nytimes.com/2013/08/12/theater/reviews/in-drag-for-90-years-vaudevillians-at-beechman-theater.html
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 11 August 2013 23:06 (ten years ago) link
An interesting thing catching up with all the seasons after watching Season 5 first is that Alaska has been haunting the show since the beginning in a very real way. I don't remember, but is the second season the only one where she isn't shown onscreen (whether in an audition video or in the audience cheering on Shannon Needles)?
― May I Call You Jiggleee? (Leee), Friday, 16 August 2013 04:05 (ten years ago) link
And a neat Alaska interview: http://www.whatsuppub.com/arts_culture/stage/article_b7aea012-04f8-11e3-8e54-0019bb30f31a.html
― May I Call You Jiggleee? (Leee), Friday, 16 August 2013 04:11 (ten years ago) link
Rupaul drives Henry Rollins to pick up some Clash swag.
Cryptic Willam tweet: https://twitter.com/willambelli/status/372178776748081152
― Shannon Leeedles (Leee), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 17:39 (ten years ago) link
I love just reading that in his professional Willam voice.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 17:40 (ten years ago) link
I think so -- and haunting is right! (Haus of Haunt, after all.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 17:41 (ten years ago) link
My friend invited me to a drag show on Friday night and I just looked up who's going to be there -- Honey Mahogany's on the lineup!! :D
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 August 2013 02:23 (ten years ago) link
Gods help me, I might be a fan of Tammie's now that I've watched some of All-Stars.
― Shannon Leeedles (Leee), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 04:22 (ten years ago) link
Jinkx at the summit meeting:
http://d3rm69wky8vagu.cloudfront.net/article-photos/large/1.167291.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 17:18 (ten years ago) link
And a message from La Jinkx:
Not every Drag Race winner takes the same path...Each one of us have had careers distinctly different form one and other, fitting into what we are truly passionate about.I was fortunate enough to have one of my long time dreams come true, starring in a 6 time extended, off broadway show in New York City- performing for countless audiences and many people of note.Theater is not every drag queens dream, but it's mine, and thanks to mother RuPaul and RuPaul's Drag Race, I got to live out this dream this year.I know that this has made me appear less visible in the drag world while I was singing my heart out in the underworld of Hell's Kitchen, but my devotion to my community is stronger than ever.I have tried, in my way, to shine a positive light on where we are as a community. To show that personality, love, and positivity can still trump adversity and narrow mindedness.This year I tried to prove that a drag queen is every bit a legitimate artist and entertainer for every community, not just in the gay bar scene. I have tried to build a bridge between "us" and "them" with comedy, music, and heart.I feel proud of our community, that we are STILL fighting for equality and our right to be heard and recognized.Our community is worldwide. We fight not just for ourselves here in America, but we fight for our family in Russia, Brazil, and anywhere they tell you that you can't be who you were born to be. We continue to defy the world leaders who want to squash us, and show them that as a community, we are stronger than they could have ever imagined.My year as the reigning Drag Race winner may be coming to a close, but my efforts to change this world for the better are only gaining momentum.I have many projects that have been in the works, just waiting for the right time to release unto you all, and they are right around the corner.I am excited about the work I am doing with OraQuick, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research center and the HIV Vaccine Trial Units, and of course my future Projects with World of Wonder and Logo TV.Jinkx Monsoon has not "Vanished" and she is far from done with the work she is doing for all the queer little ducks out there. Monsoon season is still in full effect, so stay tuned for all that's in store.
Each one of us have had careers distinctly different form one and other, fitting into what we are truly passionate about.
I was fortunate enough to have one of my long time dreams come true, starring in a 6 time extended, off broadway show in New York City- performing for countless audiences and many people of note.Theater is not every drag queens dream, but it's mine, and thanks to mother RuPaul and RuPaul's Drag Race, I got to live out this dream this year.
I know that this has made me appear less visible in the drag world while I was singing my heart out in the underworld of Hell's Kitchen, but my devotion to my community is stronger than ever.I have tried, in my way, to shine a positive light on where we are as a community. To show that personality, love, and positivity can still trump adversity and narrow mindedness.This year I tried to prove that a drag queen is every bit a legitimate artist and entertainer for every community, not just in the gay bar scene. I have tried to build a bridge between "us" and "them" with comedy, music, and heart.
I feel proud of our community, that we are STILL fighting for equality and our right to be heard and recognized.Our community is worldwide. We fight not just for ourselves here in America, but we fight for our family in Russia, Brazil, and anywhere they tell you that you can't be who you were born to be. We continue to defy the world leaders who want to squash us, and show them that as a community, we are stronger than they could have ever imagined.
My year as the reigning Drag Race winner may be coming to a close, but my efforts to change this world for the better are only gaining momentum.
I have many projects that have been in the works, just waiting for the right time to release unto you all, and they are right around the corner.I am excited about the work I am doing with OraQuick, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research center and the HIV Vaccine Trial Units, and of course my future Projects with World of Wonder and Logo TV.
Jinkx Monsoon has not "Vanished" and she is far from done with the work she is doing for all the queer little ducks out there. Monsoon season is still in full effect, so stay tuned for all that's in store.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 25 November 2013 20:43 (ten years ago) link
Season 6 not till Febtober. :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEygyfpawDQ
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Monday, 25 November 2013 23:50 (ten years ago) link
A monthful of Jinkx started today: http://www.logotv.com/video/misc/983419/31-days-jinkx-monsoon-december-1.jhtml
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Monday, 2 December 2013 04:46 (ten years ago) link
Annnnd the posting of upcoming season 6 contestants has begun:
https://www.facebook.com/rupaulsdragrace
http://www.instagram.com/logotv
And elsewhere, I suppose.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 December 2013 21:06 (ten years ago) link
And we got full trailer
http://www.newnownext.com/rupauls-drag-race-season-6-supertease-get-into-it-watch/12/2013/
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 December 2013 18:09 (ten years ago) link
Feb. 24: http://www.dragofficial.com/10/post/2014/01/rupauls-drag-race-season-6-premiere-date-finally-announced.html
― Neil Nosepicker (Leee), Monday, 13 January 2014 18:05 (ten years ago) link
yippeeeeeee
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 13 January 2014 18:20 (ten years ago) link
Aw yeah.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 January 2014 18:54 (ten years ago) link
Splash!
― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Monday, 13 January 2014 19:10 (ten years ago) link
New trailer!
http://www.newnownext.com/rupauls-drag-race-super-teaser/01/2014/
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 January 2014 19:12 (ten years ago) link
Have to admit I'm an early fan of Courtney's and Ben's, because they're the only ones with puntastic names.
― Neil Nosepicker (Leee), Monday, 13 January 2014 21:28 (ten years ago) link
When are episodes available on the Logo site? 24 hours after initial broadcast?
― Neil Nosepicker (Leee), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 00:56 (ten years ago) link
Usually, I think.
Roll on Monday...in the meantime, tonight...
Ice Queens stars RuPaul’s Drag Race favorites Willam Belli as Tonya Harding and Morgan McMichaels as Nancy Kerrigan, with Delta Work as an FBI agent, Yara Sofia as Oksana Baiul, Vivienne Pinay as a newsreporter, Colby Melvin as Jeff Gillooly and Christopher Adames as Shane Stant
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 February 2014 03:06 (ten years ago) link
Colby Melvin ... Christopher Adames ...
What pathetic drag names.
― Eric H., Thursday, 20 February 2014 03:53 (ten years ago) link
ooh i need to be watching ice queens obv
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 February 2014 04:50 (ten years ago) link
oh and speaking of Willam, gurl's got a new gig
http://www.dragofficial.com/11/post/2014/02/willam-belli-to-co-host-mtvs-real-world-st-show.html
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 February 2014 04:54 (ten years ago) link
Yara Sofia as Oksana Baiul
If her Oksana Baiul is anything like her Amy Winehouse, I have to watch this.
― eeeLuvium (Leee), Thursday, 20 February 2014 17:32 (ten years ago) link
Meantime a new interview with Alaska:
http://thoughtcatalog.com/michael-podell/2014/02/an-exclusive-interview-with-alaska-from-rupauls-drag-race/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 February 2014 17:32 (ten years ago) link
And two days to go! The pit crew has bulked up, as it were:
http://www.out.com/entertainment/popnography/2014/02/19/meet-rupauls-drag-races-new-bulgier-pit-crew
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 22 February 2014 17:13 (ten years ago) link
:D
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 22 February 2014 20:07 (ten years ago) link
ok that Ice Queens mini-series, that's 10 episodes or whatever? -- the episodes are 10 seconds long O_o
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 23 February 2014 04:10 (ten years ago) link
Compact storytelling.
One day to go!
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/fashion/RuPaul-Drag-Race-television.html
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 23 February 2014 20:33 (ten years ago) link
Gotta say this photo of the judging panel from the first episode tomorrow threw me because that's the most casual I think I've ever seen Santino dressed?
http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/02/23/fashion/23JPRUPAUL2/23JPRUPAUL2-articleLarge.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 23 February 2014 20:35 (ten years ago) link
Michelle got those cantilevers working overtime for the premiere
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 23 February 2014 20:59 (ten years ago) link
I wish Adam Lambert didn't look like a magician
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 23 February 2014 21:00 (ten years ago) link
The first step to Vegas.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 23 February 2014 21:35 (ten years ago) link
Don't have Logo so I couldn't watch the ep in real time. I did watch all the introductory vids for this season's cast last night before going to bed and the two that most stood out to me were Jinxx Part 2 and Olivia Newton-Minogue. Oh, and Vivacious could be some mature fun too.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 25 February 2014 14:20 (ten years ago) link
Maybe it's just that they got put on the spot, but some of those queens were extra dumb, too.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 25 February 2014 14:21 (ten years ago) link
Those three are kinda my initial favorites though I'm still getting the measure of Milk and Pandora's drag mom. Once you actually see that first episode, much will be revealed (and, vis a vis your final comment there, confirmed).
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 15:30 (ten years ago) link
Kelly Mantle looked like Christine Baranski, it was weirding me out
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 16:46 (ten years ago) link
oh and
DON'T WEAR BACON
Haha somebody mentioned Baranski during the runway segment. Rightly so.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 16:50 (ten years ago) link
i still can't get over her hideous wig
talk about going back to party city
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 19:22 (ten years ago) link
First recap I've noticed:
http://popwatch.ew.com/2014/02/25/rupauls-drag-race-season-6-premiere-react/
Waiting on Coco/Isis and Tom/Lorenzo, of course.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 21:20 (ten years ago) link
Willam posted a clip on Instagram of him & Kelly Mantle doing their acting thang on Southland <3
http://instagram.com/p/k3DEvVvCLr/
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 04:44 (ten years ago) link
Didn't expect Kelly to go home first.
Gia's voice, ugh. But then again, Ganjy's voice ♥, bless her try-har self.
How unfair is it that April is beautiful across multiple genders?
― eeeLuvium (Leee), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 05:13 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I'm sad Kelly didn't at least make it to one acting challenge. I totally said "Carol Burnett" after that photo shoot, too.
― Eric H., Wednesday, 26 February 2014 05:18 (ten years ago) link
I just realized that Adore looks like a cross between Kendra and PhiPhi
:/
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 05:30 (ten years ago) link
Based on the "meet the queens" vids, there is definitely a PhiPhi in the second-week group.
― Eric H., Wednesday, 26 February 2014 05:36 (ten years ago) link
Worse, a wanna-be PhiPhi.
Magnolia??
― eeeLuvium (Leee), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 05:38 (ten years ago) link
I thought the right one was sent home. Her photoshoot wasn't good, neither were her runway look and her lipsync. Maybe she would've done better in a comedy challenge. But that wig ugh!
I didn't really like the two-part premiere concept, but I guess you have to change it up a bit after 6 seasons.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 05:50 (ten years ago) link
some bitches better be sewin' in part 2 is all I have to say
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 05:55 (ten years ago) link
Vivacious taking minutes to try and dramatically reveal her face during her entrance was hilarious.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 06:00 (ten years ago) link
omg yes that was hilarious
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 06:15 (ten years ago) link
Her fingers seaching for that damn velcro lol
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 06:20 (ten years ago) link
Bianca
― Eric H., Wednesday, 26 February 2014 13:16 (ten years ago) link
Bianca's been in the game forever, though? And kind of in on the pisstake nature of the show?
― eeeLuvium (Leee), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 17:19 (ten years ago) link
Since I don't have logo, did they just air the one episode or were there a couple? I only saw the first group episode
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 27 February 2014 00:11 (ten years ago) link
Now that I can more closely read this thread, I think I saw all there was to see episode wise. Phew!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 27 February 2014 00:12 (ten years ago) link
The two best queens the show's ever had do a fashion ruview !
http://youtu.be/mM9_0UMz4EE
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 28 February 2014 16:01 (ten years ago) link
"I bootleg avenue that one. I poop on it."
God, I live for Raja.
― Eric H., Friday, 28 February 2014 16:10 (ten years ago) link
Hahah I had missed that, catching up with it now.
EPISODE 2...well THAT was an easy decision about who to send home. Besides which (redacted) killed her performance from the get-go whereas the loser clearly didn't know all the words, so.
Trinity is something of an initial favorite for me now because that main stage look ruled, and she had some sharp comments here and there. Be interesting to see how she mixes it up with the Gia/Laganja wing next week.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 06:44 (ten years ago) link
Not all the way through the episode just yet, but now that I've seen them all out of drag, I can commence in my shallow game of selecting my boy-queen crushes. This year's honors go to Milk, Ben and Trinity.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 4 March 2014 17:40 (ten years ago) link
I would call that a good trifecta.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 18:51 (ten years ago) link
well THAT was an easy decision about who to send home
You sure weren't whistling dixie there.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 4 March 2014 18:55 (ten years ago) link
Glad to see I was way off the mark on Bianca, too.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 4 March 2014 19:41 (ten years ago) link
The Untucked episode revealed a pronounced level of self-loathing in Magnolia, though. I kinda feel for her.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 4 March 2014 19:47 (ten years ago) link
Yeah Bianca's fun, quick and sometimes sharp but not mean. Magnolia, yeah...yeah. Hard to ascribe all that to just being a bad day or wanting the exposure. Her Watcha Packin' with Michelle will be interesting (it might be up by now).
Oh and speaking of feedback and review -- Coco and Isis have kicked in! Reviewing last week:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL33sLEnYOc
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:37 (ten years ago) link
Ughhhhhhh god Magnolia...wow...she was just gross, inside & out. The nose, the voice, that fucking hairline, every word out of her mouth...christ. To quote Bianca: "She's stupid." And Trinity: "Security! Get this bitch outta here."
This group is way better calibre! Loving Trinity, LOVE Bianca maybe the most, Milk's steez is super interesting I really love her, Courtney I love but she could easily be outshined here.
Bianca though. Already feel like she has her shit together.
Jocelyn needs some kind of penalty, yellowcard situation for "Ru-zy Q". And that toy doll giggle. yuuuuk. her rainbow saddlebags were hilarious though
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 05:06 (ten years ago) link
Maybe Magnolia saw she was totally outclassed and that's where the anger came from, but too many of her "faux" faux-narcissistic comments in the Untucked episode rang too true to be just situational.
Bianca was pretty wise dealing with her -- the whole "If you're going to be a cold, hard bitch offstage, know that it'll take a toll."
― Eric H., Wednesday, 5 March 2014 05:19 (ten years ago) link
I definitely think she was doubling down on her loser status
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 05:21 (ten years ago) link
You definitely should see her Whatcha Packin with Michelle V. She's a *little* more sympathetic but at one point when Michelle asks to see some of her other outfits she refuses saying about how she wants to keep it a surprise or something. I'm all "Hey I thought you wanted the exposure here." You can tell Michelle's a little surprised if not put out by that.
Loving next week's horror themed episode already. That should be a blast.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 05:29 (ten years ago) link
Joslyn -- I dunno, the ditz act ("act") was endearing to me!Trinity was a total surprise -- thought we were going to get another Gia -- but I guess I shouldn't have been because she knows how to present herself, and she was totally grounded in her talking heads.Courtney -- I think she'll get her chance to spread her wings a little more once the competition gets going. Milk -- going to be curious how her genderf*ck is going to play out, if she'll keep with it or if she'll tone it down (I assume the latter).Bianca -- ♥. I guess I have a thing for clowns????
Going to have to rewatch "Untucked" as I was busy playing video games with it on.
― Lee with three E's (Leee), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 05:32 (ten years ago) link
Oddly enough I've grown to like Gia a bit on rewatching just because she's SOOOOO loving herself but kinda just swishes through it all. Definitely not going to last in a battle of wits -- Trinity will take her out one way or another, I'd guess -- but even so. Laganja in contrast is like 'whoa, um, stop that.'
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 05:46 (ten years ago) link
Laganga feels like she's only a few steps up from being Magnolia
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 05:49 (ten years ago) link
Let's not go that far! Lasagna's biggest sin is that for now, her persona (aside from the weed) is that she's a hollow collection of catchphrases, but without Magnolia's self-loathing defeatism. In that way, she's like a weird inversion of Alyssa (who is Lasagna's drag mom). #captainsaveanestranja
― Lee with three E's (Leee), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 05:59 (ten years ago) link
When they brought out the wrapped boxes, who else thought of seven mini-Shangelas?
― Lee with three E's (Leee), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 06:00 (ten years ago) link
xpost two steps from magnolia is a long way, fyi
:)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 06:00 (ten years ago) link
Especially with those legs! :D
― Lee with three E's (Leee), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 06:07 (ten years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 06:23 (ten years ago) link
"Do you think maybe it was in black and white because it was the '60s?"
" ... ... ... ... Noooo."
― Eric H., Tuesday, 11 March 2014 14:28 (ten years ago) link
God I love those pauses. Anyway, last night! That was a farrago. (And I didn't want Vivacious to leave that early but geesh, if that was the BEST take (and it was as Untucked showed.))
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 14:32 (ten years ago) link
Anyway I wanted more of Courtney/Bianca in their movie bit. But Gia/Adore (with a couple more takes) would have been note-perfect airheads (too perfect) and Joslyn's 'gasp!' delivery was way funnier than it should have been. No question Darienne ran away with it though.
The minichallenge was some underrated craziness. Who was Darienne paired with again, they should have won that.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 14:38 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, the entire episode basically confirmed my initial take -- that the second group far outpaced the first group, with only Ben shining through the general lack of seasoning. (Vivacious being the other technical exception, RIP.)
― Eric H., Tuesday, 11 March 2014 14:39 (ten years ago) link
I agree. Darienne's legs with whichever twig was sitting on top of her = GENIUS!
― Eric H., Tuesday, 11 March 2014 14:40 (ten years ago) link
(I think it was maybe Joslyn.)
Also,
"Age does have something to do with it.""You were nominated for an Academy Award at age 12!""Yes, but I'd been working since I was 6."
― Eric H., Tuesday, 11 March 2014 14:43 (ten years ago) link
Linda and Lena ruled. They should come back anytime.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 14:54 (ten years ago) link
Seriously wondering why there hasn't been a series of webisodes devoted to the guest judges clowning backstage.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 11 March 2014 14:57 (ten years ago) link
It's the little touches that make this show an endless joy. The pitch shift on "How in the HELL you gonna love somebody else" was sick.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 11 March 2014 15:00 (ten years ago) link
Haha yeah I was wondering how Ru really sounded saying that. Assuming the startled response was really in response!
An interesting and slightly frustrating part of the show for me is whenever they juuuust touch a little deeper into questions of stereotyping on several fronts but can't go too far without derailing the episode format (so that always makes me wonder what else was left out via editing). Last night had two instances at least -- Bianca telling Trinity how to act and Trinity going "Oh, so you mean like a black girl" and then critiques on how April was supposed to play 'butch.' It's always played for laughs and/or SHADE but it's obviously not just that.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 15:04 (ten years ago) link
yeah the second group is way, way better
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 11 March 2014 15:12 (ten years ago) link
bianca's easily the best IMO
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 11 March 2014 15:14 (ten years ago) link
xps I can only hope the show presumes some level of built-in sensitivity to these issues. Another one: Vivacious being treated as a piece of history and, consequently, a relic.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 11 March 2014 15:18 (ten years ago) link
Ok it's confirmed: I'm team bianca
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 11 March 2014 15:19 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, Bianca is in the clear. I worry that both Ben and Milk are going to eat her dust. The latter, in particular, hasn't made anywhere near the mission statement I feel she intended to make.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 11 March 2014 15:36 (ten years ago) link
I think now that the two groups are mixed up a bit it'll take a little longer for people to reemerge. And sometimes it takes a while anyway -- nobody was thinking Jinkx was anywhere near the front last year until Snatch Game kicked in.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 15:42 (ten years ago) link
Truth.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 11 March 2014 15:59 (ten years ago) link
yeah I was thinking about that too. I mean look at Tyra.
I'm interested to see how far Milk goes. I still have my eye on Courtney but I don't know if she's as all-that as I want her to be. We'll see.
I hope Gia hangs around if only for the hilariously dumb things that come out of her mouth.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 11 March 2014 17:19 (ten years ago) link
Darienne's legs with whichever twig was sitting on top of her = GENIUS!
I think it was Ben, actually!
Joslyn's 'gasp!' delivery was way funnier than it should have been.
Totally think she's playing the ditz to a tee so far, and hell HELL, it's working.
― Gibbering Hard Gibberish Soft (Leee), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 04:19 (ten years ago) link
lol I still kinda hate her but can't lie she is unintentionally hilarious.
When Bianca asked Adore what her name was, I thought it'd have been hilarious if Adore replied, "Willam."
― Gibbering Hard Gibberish Soft (Leee), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 04:26 (ten years ago) link
Racial approaches have been very ~iffy~ on this show for a while (S3 was difficult for me to watch in large part because of this), and I was thoroughly uncomfortable during the first Bianca/Trinity exchange where B said T should act ghetto.
― Gibbering Hard Gibberish Soft (Leee), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 17:59 (ten years ago) link
Mm. It's definitely of note whenever it overtly surfaces, and you have to wonder what isn't said/shown.
On a lighter note, I think we're all underappreciating Gia's moment where she doesn't know how to pronounce DeLorean or what it is. (But then again, she was born in 1988 or 1989, why WOULD she know?)
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 18:13 (ten years ago) link
there were some doozies aside from that
like the whole black and white vs color thing! lool.and what was the word she said in untucked, gaahh I can't remember but it was hilarious
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 18:16 (ten years ago) link
like the whole black and white vs color thing! lool.
Quoted upthread by Eric! :-D
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 18:19 (ten years ago) link
and what was the word she said in untucked, gaahh I can't remember but it was hilarious
"Fish"?
― Gibbering Hard Gibberish Soft (Leee), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 18:22 (ten years ago) link
Nah, she totally malapropped out some nonsense word or another.
― Eric H., Wednesday, 12 March 2014 18:42 (ten years ago) link
it was something like "intellectuate" but not that
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 18:43 (ten years ago) link
Hahaha omg that's right, one of the other queens did note it as well. I probably assumed you meant "fish" because it constitutes about 50% of what she sez.
― Gibbering Hard Gibberish Soft (Leee), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 18:44 (ten years ago) link
Also, I always lol furiously at the trainwreck performances (like Yara's Winehouse or Lynesha's "French fries"), so Vi's head-in-a-box entertained me to no end.
― Gibbering Hard Gibberish Soft (Leee), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 20:10 (ten years ago) link
INTREPRETATE.
― Gibbering Hard Gibberish Soft (Leee), Thursday, 13 March 2014 00:15 (ten years ago) link
INTERPRETATE, even.
yes!
thank you!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 13 March 2014 02:30 (ten years ago) link
Underrated regular element -- RuPaul going arch-bitchy at the end of the Untucked opening credits with some random line before introducing the specific episode trailer.
"Walk it OUT with your CHEVROLEGS!"
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 13 March 2014 04:17 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/GOwFuZQ.gif
― Gibbering Hard Gibberish Soft (Leee), Thursday, 13 March 2014 16:56 (ten years ago) link
Alright I thought the Rusical was briliant ! Lucian did an amazing job and surprisingly so did all the girls. Although Ben was my favorite. I'm sad to see April go so soon cause she's had some great looks. In past seasons, there are way worse queens that stuck around for much longer.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 04:36 (ten years ago) link
i still can't stand Adore but damn if she polished her shit up & stopped acting like a 13 year old she could be a showstopper
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 05:06 (ten years ago) link
I was really moved by Laganga's moment with her parents in untucked. Really beautiful. I hate to say it though but her whole tantrum afterwards was just ugh bitch please. They didnt fuck it up, she did. She wouldnt have been happy unless they threw a telethon in her honor
I mean i get it, but that was overkill
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 05:29 (ten years ago) link
Lucien's musical was fab, lots of fun! I thought the girls did a good job with it!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 05:35 (ten years ago) link
Agreed with about all the above. (Sorry, busy morning!)
Trinity definitely needs to...settle a bit. That's not slow burn, that's just not stepping up. That said, hell of a lip sync for your life, best of the season so far.
And yeah the musical was fun! Courtney and Adore sure can sing, it was kind of a tossup in the end for me. Did like the fake award ceremony camera editing touches there.
Gia Gia Gia. The bit with the photos of kabuki as a kid was really lovely! A little background and a little more depth. But then she doesn't know what the Tonys are and THEN she complains about ignorance in the Untucked? (Unless the editing intentionally left detail out.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 18:38 (ten years ago) link
Oh and did we all see that next week is...
SNATCH GAME
Bianca as Judge Judy, Milk (I think) as Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey, Adore as Anna Nicole, this'll be crazy.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 18:39 (ten years ago) link
it's gonna be awesome!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 18:45 (ten years ago) link
I think Trinity has a bit of that Jiggly Caliente thing of beating herself before she's even started. Like she's so focused on the 'can't' that she can't see anything else and won't accept any help or support from anyone to get where she could easily be
And the girl needs to speak up for herself - Rupaul knew that the flippers might have been a problem for her, it probably would have helped her a little in the judges eyes if she had said it too
Girl is gorgeous, she just needs a truckload more confidence in herself.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 18:47 (ten years ago) link
I want Courtenay's beefcake sweatshirt real bad.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 18 March 2014 18:48 (ten years ago) link
And yeah, this season seems crazy front-loaded with acting/talent challenges over runway.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 18 March 2014 19:03 (ten years ago) link
I'm a touch surprised Snatch Game is a little earlier than it normally is.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 20:00 (ten years ago) link
Yeah. A bigger panel hopefully equals a longer time spent on the actual game.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 18 March 2014 20:11 (ten years ago) link
Also, I too would find it very difficult to, er, perform with Lucian flashing grins at me from offstage.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 18 March 2014 20:24 (ten years ago) link
I haven't watched the Untucked episode yet, where maybe her preggo runway look gets some actual screentime/explanation, but I'm just starting to feel bad for Milk now that nothing she can do seems to be currying favor with the show editors.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 18 March 2014 20:29 (ten years ago) link
omg yeah lucian is cuuuuuuuuuute i love him
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 20:32 (ten years ago) link
April. :( Things have gotten less fishy. :( :( Definitely think that she would've gone farther in previous seasons, when the show put more emphasis on fashion.
Agree w/ Veggggg that Laganja's spotlight grabbing was nagl (what was agl was that runway look, good god). Also agree with Nedrick about Trinity. I mean, for all of her insecurity, she's done well! Like, her acting in the previous episode turned out fine, and so was her singing this episode! Maybe that's just her process: freak out, lash out, turn out.
I do wonder how much of Gia's schtick is a put-on simply to get screentime, esp. considering her defensiveness about getting called ignert. (But then, actually being dumb could also explain said defensiveness.)
loled at Bianca: "OOoh this is getting good, and this time I didn't start it."
Doesn't everybody say that every year? And then we get Detox peeing or romper room tawdriness.
― Gibbering Hard Gibberish Soft (Leee), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 04:26 (ten years ago) link
ignert looool
yeah Gia's kabuki was really interesting, kinda warmed up to her a little bit
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 05:14 (ten years ago) link
Hard: http://www.dragofficial.com/the-cher-or-chad-michaels-quiz.html
― Leeee with three E's with 3 spelled out (Leee), Monday, 24 March 2014 17:51 (ten years ago) link
Ha, nice.
Cannot wait for tonight.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 March 2014 17:53 (ten years ago) link
I only got one wrong! :D
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 March 2014 17:57 (ten years ago) link
16/20, as a straight male I now feel so oppressed.
― Leeee with three E's with 3 spelled out (Leee), Monday, 24 March 2014 17:58 (ten years ago) link
Half of my Mt. Rushmore inside a Volvo. Perfection!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4l5JDICmcI
― Eric H., Monday, 24 March 2014 17:58 (ten years ago) link
who's on the other half of yr rushmore, eric?
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 March 2014 18:22 (ten years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/12/Sophia_and_jayne.jpg
― Eric H., Monday, 24 March 2014 18:41 (ten years ago) link
outstanding
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 March 2014 19:06 (ten years ago) link
OMFG THAT EYELASH.
― Leeee with three E's with 3 spelled out (Leee), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 04:53 (ten years ago) link
i died
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 04:54 (ten years ago) link
She was bringing out my OCD something fierce.
― Leeee with three E's with 3 spelled out (Leee), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 05:01 (ten years ago) link
can we go over there right now & give lil Trinity a big hug? that girl's low confidence is killing me every week
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 05:12 (ten years ago) link
Ganga's hallway moment on untucked
bwahaha. if *gia* is telling you to "glue that bottom lash", you are backsliding
those two are like a weird drag arsenic & old lace
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 05:34 (ten years ago) link
Great snatch game. Adore was killing me with her Anna Nicole, wee bit bummed that she didn't win. Ben was great as Maggie though. Kinda wonder how much longer the old-lady schtick will hold up
what's to become of milk? is she gonna re-re-invent herself, or stick to her guns? tough road ahead imo
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 05:44 (ten years ago) link
Yeah that was a crazy evening. And Trinity dropped a bit of a bombshell there too. Liked her mom, she seemed cool!
Oh Laganja is driving me a little nuts now. Still she deserved to win the lip sync there, but I'm kinda sad to lose Gia's goofy ass ways, I dunno. At least she can't enable Laganja any more!
Top three WERE the top three, Adore is kinda the scrapper here time after time when you think about it. And I think Bianca's a little miffed at losing to Ben there but damn Ben pulled it out, and that was a great dress, so.
I KNEW someone would come out in a suit but I blanked and didn't realize it was obviously going to be Milk. Of course. (Santino's point about trying out full on glamour is well taken.) I like how you could tell Gia was really pissed about Milk skating through, even the usual 'if you didn't like that I sashayed away go bitch about it' promo moment seemed pretty sharp.
Kinda like people predicted -- that first of the two premiere teams is decimated now. The last three losses were all from that team.
And next week is a hip hop crew throwdown? Oh this could be really good or reallllly bad.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 05:45 (ten years ago) link
be afraid, lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 05:49 (ten years ago) link
Both at the same time, I think, Ned!
We should talk about Johnson Joslyn Fox. Black horse, indeed.
― Leeee with three E's with 3 spelled out (Leee), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 05:49 (ten years ago) link
ehhh joslyn's still kinda weak sauce to me. she was funny tho, give her that
i hope laganja flames out next week, she's too immature & needy for this level. she seems v messed up within herself & it's just spewing out constantly now that she can't hold back
though i hope her & bianca get one more good read session
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 05:53 (ten years ago) link
Joslyn is very likeable. She's funny, intelligent, and sweet. She's got Miss Congeniality in the bag.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 16:22 (ten years ago) link
Hmm, you think? I mean I can see that but she's still a little too anonymous to me, even in comparison with Ivy, who was a little understated but still had something more to offer. And DEFINITELY in comparison to Yara and Latrice! If anything I'd say Courtney right now.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 16:26 (ten years ago) link
I agree we still have to see more of her, but for me she's passed Ivyyyyyy already.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 16:30 (ten years ago) link
If not I would go with Ben rather than Courtney. Speaking of understated, what's going on with Milk ? She seems to be fading in the background. Or is that the editing ? During Untucked we didn't even get a word from her about her male RuPaul.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 16:36 (ten years ago) link
I'd guess the editing. If anything they CLEARLY had to be taking out all the bits in the workroom first when everyone else realized what she was doing.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 16:44 (ten years ago) link
If Trin deserves hugs, then so does Laganja, because... well, I forget why, but what you said at some point in time, vaguely in the direction of Laganja, or at least within her hearing distance, was very hurtful. Seriously though -- this season has a real deep gap between the veteran heh heh high fliers and the talented but deeply insecure, heh heh high-maintenance drag rookies.
I also want to defend Laganja to an extent: I'm wagering that a large amount of what she's learned about drag has come from the show, which has inculcated these narcissistic and melodramatic values and beliefs in her.
Kinda wonder how much longer the old-lady schtick will hold up
Wasn't this just the second time Ben went old lady? And the first time, it was one of the (limited number of) roles? Smells like the judges are fishing for a way to ding her.
OTM! The most memorable thing about Ivy was the way Ru said her name.
As for Milk, I kinda hope she goes the Tammie way, going out with weirdness a-blazing.
― Leeee with three E's with 3 spelled out (Leee), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 17:12 (ten years ago) link
I DON'T SEE YOU WALKING CHILDREN IN NATURE
best line ever
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 17:14 (ten years ago) link
You're right about LaGanga, I hadn't thought about that. She's the classic cliched drama queen reality show contestant who comes in all 'I'M NOT HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS' thinking that that how you're supposed to be and then within a week they're all 'no-one likes me i don't understand sob sob sob' ;_;
I think if LaGanga wasn't so thin skinned and reactionary Bianca could totally help her on the straight and narrow, she's been dishing out some pretty good advice in amongst the barbs.
We'll see. Maybe she'll pull a Tyra and do a 180
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 17:18 (ten years ago) link
how great was Bianca's line, 'bitch if I'm gonna come for you I'll come into room at night and cut up your wigs'
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 17:19 (ten years ago) link
I think if LaGanga wasn't so thin skinned and reactionary Bianca could totally help her on the straight and narrow, she's been dishing out some pretty good advice in amongst the barbs.We'll see. Maybe she'll pull a Tyra and do a 180
I hope it's happening behind the scenes or that it's been edited out; I think that Trinity and Bianca are pals now, for instance.
tbh for me, Tyra did a 360.
Anyway, here's Adore doing her Gia impression:
http://i.imgur.com/8mWfQKH.gif
― Leeee with three E's with 3 spelled out (Leee), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 17:29 (ten years ago) link
I never know if it's 180 or 360
becuase if you do a 360 you're back to where you started, whereas a 180 you're facing a different direction
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 17:54 (ten years ago) link
And I think Bianca's a little miffed at losing to Ben there but damn Ben pulled it out, and that was a great dress, so.
Yes Ben killed it!
“I’m unfamiliar with the work of Lady Handler. However, I did think it would be rather amusing if there were a libation flavored with citrus! Can you imagine such a thing?”
I died.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 21:55 (ten years ago) link
Gia should show up once a week just to say something dumb to the camera, for old times' sake.
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 21:59 (ten years ago) link
Well...Ivy DID win one episode before she went, so let's see Joslyn step up for that first!
-Wasn't this just the second time Ben went old lady? And the first time, it was one of the (limited number of) roles? Smells like the judges are fishing for a way to ding her.
Yeah there hasn't been any sort of real pattern there for her. Older *styles* sure, but not full-on 'old lady' per se beyond this and the horror film, unless you want to count the opening Golden Girls thing. (Which she won for!)
Gotta say that for not doing impersonations he pulled it off well. That and the 'invented the language' bit.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 22:01 (ten years ago) link
Gia's Whatcha Packin episode is kinda cool! A little less dumbed down, I think, and there are some great outfits:
http://www.logotv.com/video/misc/1014927/whatcha-packin-with-michelle-visage-episode-5-season-6.jhtml
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 23:49 (ten years ago) link
Just caught up with this week's. (Had been waiting for a night when my friend and I could watch it together and he went ahead and watched it without me. Bitch!)
It was a tight snatch (game), and I don't think they chose incorrectly. Adore and Bianca understood their characters more fully, obviously, but I think Ben showed better improvisational chops, which is first and foremost in an acting challenge.
The montage of exasperated looks from everyone to Laganga's "you hurt me with that remark; did I mention that I cried?" breakdown in the Untucked had me in stitches.
― Eric H., Thursday, 27 March 2014 22:34 (ten years ago) link
Milk's apparently on borrowed time now, to judge from this editing.
― Eric H., Thursday, 27 March 2014 22:36 (ten years ago) link
yeah it's not looking good
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 27 March 2014 22:42 (ten years ago) link
And as much as I know the editing can lead everyone by the nose, it's clear a lot of those Julia Child punchlines fizzled. Didn't we get some bonus Snatch Game clips last season?
― Eric H., Thursday, 27 March 2014 22:45 (ten years ago) link
Oh wait, never mind I found it.
i thought santino's comment about her constant inversion of drag becoming a staid version of her own self was actually perceptive
milk's bigger problem is that she's sort of invisible in challenges. her julia child was shockingly poor.
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 27 March 2014 22:47 (ten years ago) link
Jeez, just give us the raw tape, Logo. That was scarcely worth sitting through the ad.
― Eric H., Thursday, 27 March 2014 22:48 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, Julia Child is one of those "how do you fuck that up" free squares of camp.
― Eric H., Thursday, 27 March 2014 22:49 (ten years ago) link
i really wasn't feeling ben until this week. she sorta has the opposite dynamic of milk, being really standout in challenges but mostly pedestrian and competent on the runway.
i find laganja (god, i hate that name) to be pretty tiresome. objectively speaking i don't think gia tried hard enough in the lip sync to win but there was something seriously overworked about laganja's jump-splits and shit. it was like watching the drag version of the star wars kid.
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 27 March 2014 22:50 (ten years ago) link
lol @ "free squares of camp"
I think Milk's argument of stayimg true to her identity is kind of a crutch at some point. Why are you even on the show, otherwise. Sharon Needles was always getting a raft of shit for not being glam enough, Jinx too...there's a way to still kill it, adapt & not lose yr identity.
Not that Milk appears to be at that level, talentwise #juliachildyeesh
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 27 March 2014 22:53 (ten years ago) link
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon, the Death Star Drop ...
― Eric H., Thursday, 27 March 2014 22:54 (ten years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 27 March 2014 22:54 (ten years ago) link
every bianca bit is the best but her line about gia's reveal in the lip sync ("everybody knows what you're doing, just take your shit off" or whatever) was incredible
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 27 March 2014 22:55 (ten years ago) link
The difference is that Sharon Needles' scary shit WAS glamorous beyond compare. Milk's is often just ... weird.
― Eric H., Thursday, 27 March 2014 22:55 (ten years ago) link
Drinking game for next episode: healthy swig every time you catch Bianca rolling her eyes in the corner of the frame.
― Eric H., Thursday, 27 March 2014 22:56 (ten years ago) link
someone said on twitter that bianca can read you to filth with a single eyebrow, it's so true
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 27 March 2014 23:00 (ten years ago) link
yeah agreed abt Milk
the thing with the long nose, it looked like a chin dildo it was creepy
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 27 March 2014 23:01 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, Ru's made it a point to observe multiple times this season that getting the audience to like you is crucial, and I think the problem with weirdness as Milk serves it (as opposed to Sharon) is that its primary point seems to be to tell her audience "betcha didn't see this coming." Fine once in awhile, but enough times and your audience is going to think you're calling them dumb.
― Eric H., Thursday, 27 March 2014 23:06 (ten years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 27 March 2014 23:11 (ten years ago) link
First off thank you for a prime Moz/MST3K reference there, Eric.
Yeah Milk...I wonder a touch. This is one of those loaded roads to go down but given in boy life he's a clearly tall/strikingly good looking sort I get a little sense he's gone through life in a happier fashion than others and as a result his "Well I'll show THEM" moves might be a little more self-amusement than "gotta MAKE it!" Now having said that next week we'll get some hyper horrible backstory...
Speaking of which: poor Ben! I'm over three times as old as she was when she lost her mom and I'm definitely not ready to see mine go any time soon. I mean you compare that (and Trinity almost losing her mom) to Laganga's snit fits and I'm all "Count yer blessings, blondie."
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 27 March 2014 23:38 (ten years ago) link
interesting take on Milk, Ned...hmmm
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 27 March 2014 23:49 (ten years ago) link
And this is Milk's bf: music artist JbDubs.
Yup, she's got it good !
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 28 March 2014 00:26 (ten years ago) link
O_O dayum
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 28 March 2014 00:31 (ten years ago) link
I thought Milk's boyfriend was in ABT? (Or could that be the same person?)
― Leeee with three E's with 3 spelled out (Leee), Friday, 28 March 2014 00:31 (ten years ago) link
I don't know but to fully appreciate how gorgeous and hot he is I really recommend that you watch his videos on youtube, especially "Dirty Mouth" and "I Hate My Job". Milk also has cameos in some of them.
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 28 March 2014 01:16 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/RGMm6qS.gif
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 28 March 2014 02:51 (ten years ago) link
thank u
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 28 March 2014 03:07 (ten years ago) link
Lol is Bianca rolling her eyes at me or gagging at JbDubs ?
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 28 March 2014 20:59 (ten years ago) link
Nice bit on Alaska herehttp://thegaybiography.com/post/81205921193/justin-alaska-los-angeles-more-i-was
i didn't know that Alaska & Sharon broke up :(
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 30 March 2014 20:09 (nine years ago) link
Courtney on fire this episode.
― Ned Zeppelin (Leee), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 04:50 (nine years ago) link
Her face is beautiful, but I don't think she has the body to do naked drag like Carmen or Willam did. It breaks the illusion.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 05:00 (nine years ago) link
Still in the Untucked here. Surprisingly mellow main episode, I thought?
Two full episodes next week, BTW -- I will be a wreck at work on Tuesday.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 05:18 (nine years ago) link
Courtney does have a very square, waistless man body. She was very, very funny, though, especially on Untucked.
― Ned Zeppelin (Leee), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 05:23 (nine years ago) link
Milk leaving before Laganja and Trinity was kind of a surprise. But although I liked her first couple of looks, she wasn't really bringing much to the show. And Trinity killed the lipsynch.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 05:50 (nine years ago) link
yeah i was surprised milk went home but for whatever interesting things she did on the runway it never transferred to the challenges where she was always mediocre or worse
and yeah trinity was really good at lip sync, it makes a bit more understandable how she always uses that as a crutch when she fails at singing/acting/rapping/being funny
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 14:16 (nine years ago) link
adore is incredibly annoying but she's been really good in the last two challenges... she was amazing in this one in fact :(
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 14:17 (nine years ago) link
That's the thing, she's been consistently good for the past few weeks. Unlike a fair amount of the already departed she can back all the talk up. (In comparison, Laganga starting to yelp more and more about how things aren't breaking her way even when they're 'supposed' to says it all.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 14:26 (nine years ago) link
laganja is far and away my least favorite remaining contestant
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 14:32 (nine years ago) link
Darienne not too far behind for me. Girl is getting shady, and not in a funny Bianca Del Rio way.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 15:19 (nine years ago) link
Bianca not winning the reading mini challenge was like a deliberate slap to her face.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 1 April 2014 15:30 (nine years ago) link
http://queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com/wp/docs/2014/04/tumblr_n2nn96qi3p1qltkyyo1_500.gif
― Eric H., Tuesday, 1 April 2014 15:55 (nine years ago) link
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 15:57 (nine years ago) link
The only thing that could've made that gif more otm would be to have Gang doing death drop after death drop after death drop in an endless loop of drag cliche.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 1 April 2014 16:11 (nine years ago) link
I think it's Darienne who delivers that line that was in the intro to the first episode of the season growling about how she'll show versatility when Michelle does something and "Santino starts wearing a dress!" The editing made it seem like it was delivered directly to the judges and they didn't show who it actually was -- it's probably more of an Untucked grouse or something -- but she sure didn't sound like she was having fun.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
The insecurity parade between Trinity and Laganja is a, wait for it, major DRAG on this season. Trinity looked fine as hell on the runway, though. Thing with her is that she's rarely as bad as she expects to be in these performances (excepting her rap).
I'm not getting a bittercakes vibe from Darienne, even in that mini-confrontation with Ben.
― Ned Zeppelin (Leee), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 16:50 (nine years ago) link
When Michelle wears a turtle neck lol (x-post)
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 17:08 (nine years ago) link
Ben looked even more hella like Michelle when he was wearing his hip hop costume.
― Ned Zeppelin (Leee), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 17:11 (nine years ago) link
I wonder if he would've played her in snatch game if Sharon hadn't already done it (brilliantly).
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 17:48 (nine years ago) link
OMG Alaska interviews Gia!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywt7YYd82Sk
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 18:58 (nine years ago) link
I was a little behind this week, finally caught up. yay!
I have definitely turned a corner on Adore, I think she's great and I'm so glad she won...she was so on point with her rap game.
Darienne's starting to show her true colors and she is not a very nice person imo. But I dunno if Ben is as sweetness and light as she's making herself out to be.
Can I just say that one of the things I love about the Lipsync for your Life challenge is the way that Michelle always sings along to all the songs. I like that about her. Oh and I lol'd at her whole 'TRACK NINE ON THE BODYGUARD SOUNDTRACK FYI'
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 April 2014 15:20 (nine years ago) link
oh and I was a bit sad to see Milk go but it wasn't heartbreaking. I kinda think that as shitty as Trinity is at almost everything else, she'll never go home while she has to lipsync. That she can do.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 April 2014 15:21 (nine years ago) link
Coco and to a lesser extent Alyssa slayed in lipsyncs, though.
― Ned Zeppelin (Leee), Thursday, 3 April 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link
true
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 April 2014 18:15 (nine years ago) link
I'm not too bothered by Darienne, but for those who are, here's some schadenfreude for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy3w_ZsseRU
― Ned Zeppelin (Leee), Thursday, 3 April 2014 18:31 (nine years ago) link
Love the filial bianca-adore dynamic tbh, both are my picks to be finalists. ben also likely, imho.
― patron sailor, Thursday, 3 April 2014 18:33 (nine years ago) link
also adore's walk on the runway this week is one of the best walks (if not looks) of all time, loved it so much, that runway hasn't been pummeled so since raja iirc
― patron sailor, Thursday, 3 April 2014 18:39 (nine years ago) link
Thank you. I really think she should've been in the bottom instead of Milk. Her rap sucked and her runway look was boring. The judges always say they want to see versatility but apparently it doesn't apply to her. At least Milk tried something different.
I guess the producers saw more opportunity in creating drama *yawn* by keeping her.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 3 April 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link
Agreed with the idea of Bianca/Adore/Ben in the final three -- not that it will be for sure but that's looking more and more damned likely. (Bianca at least is a shoo-in unless something REALLY weird happens.)
Meantime, Alaska, Pandora and Jinkx say hi dere:
https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/t1.0-9/1978698_10152464663247985_1981107490_n.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 April 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
Red's a good look for Pandora.
― Ned Zeppelin (Leee), Thursday, 3 April 2014 21:15 (nine years ago) link
I loved that thing that Adore said in one of the cutaways about Bianca will do stuff to make you want to hug her but she'll be all 'fuck off' if you try to
<3
LeRoo otm, I didn't feel like Milk was anywhere near as bad as Darienne in the video, and Milk's runway getup was no great shakes but Darienne looked pretty off the rack*shrug*
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 April 2014 21:54 (nine years ago) link
I'm not really into Adore (and kinda not seeing what everyone else is seeing in her), but early in the episode where she cracked herself up was very endearing.
― Ned Zeppelin (Leee), Thursday, 3 April 2014 21:57 (nine years ago) link
*sigh* TWO episodes tonight plus Untuckeds for both, there is no way I'm going to make it through all of them.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 01:24 (nine years ago) link
YOU BETTAH WERK
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 01:44 (nine years ago) link
Some wine and Ben and Jerry's might help...
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 01:47 (nine years ago) link
HA I KNEW IT.
No wonder they're doing two episodes tonight.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 05:00 (nine years ago) link
And good lord this second episode is starting out with ALL the claws out.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 05:03 (nine years ago) link
My dumb DVR is recording both Untuckeds tomorrow (ffuuuu) so I get all my catfighting tomorrow lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 05:17 (nine years ago) link
also I'm gonna steal Adore's "Fuck oooffff. Fuckallthewayoff."
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 05:23 (nine years ago) link
Okay wow THAT was a crash and burn during the stand up sequence I did NOT expect.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 05:33 (nine years ago) link
yeeeeeeeesh *facepalm*
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 05:36 (nine years ago) link
also: laganja nooooooooo make it stop
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 05:38 (nine years ago) link
omg Trinity <3
she's doin a Tyra and I love it
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 05:39 (nine years ago) link
And Bianca totally in her element.
10 pm from here on in! Yikes!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 05:42 (nine years ago) link
Bianca bringin Don Rickles realness so good
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 05:43 (nine years ago) link
TEN?
Hey Logo some of us gotta sleep! WTF
did Darienne heckle DeLa? is that what happened
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 05:44 (nine years ago) link
Nah I thought it was an audience member...wasn't it?
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 05:49 (nine years ago) link
i thought so too but then i wondered
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 05:53 (nine years ago) link
And phew FINALLY a certain someone is gooooooooooooooone.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 06:00 (nine years ago) link
OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE IS OVER
CAN I GET A AMEN
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 06:01 (nine years ago) link
...okay?
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 06:03 (nine years ago) link
I can't tell you how richly satisfying it was to have Ru and Michelle both dress her down.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 06:04 (nine years ago) link
Anyway, Untuckeds for tomorrow SLEEP NOW.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 06:05 (nine years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/19e1b209a22ce8030369dc416e4442db/tumblr_n2d1odQV841qdewlro4_250.gif
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 06:34 (nine years ago) link
Ok guys, here the scoop (I go to a big viewing party hosted every week by Dela and Jinkx). The heckler was Jinkx's veteran from last season who was in the audience. Edited out was Bianca TEARING INTO HIM during her act.
So glad Laganga is out, so happy Ben stays. I was gonna flip every table in the joint if she was sent home.
― kate78, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 07:58 (nine years ago) link
You know, I *thought* I recognized that guy!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 12:46 (nine years ago) link
i wonder how much of trinity's transformation was tricky editing from the jump and how much of it was her really... transforming. anyway that was fun to see.
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 14:02 (nine years ago) link
it was hilarious in untucked when bianca and adore really went in on her but were like "we don't want you to feel picked on!"
but she definitely needed to hear it. she seems to me like someone who completely modeled herself off the idea of a Drag Queen (i.e. super minstrelsy) w/o anyone telling her that her act was really horrible
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 14:06 (nine years ago) link
I love how Bianca's turned into a sort of drag mom for Adore and Trinity. Like the two who I could have given a shit about in the first episode are now totally getting their shit together
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 15:25 (nine years ago) link
I have a question. In the talking heads everybody is dressed the same since episode one. Does that mean that they were all filmed in one sitting after all the taping was done? I don't recall it being like that in past seasons...
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 01:39 (nine years ago) link
I dunno, I think they were always mostly the same with some exceptions but maybe they just did it all in one fell swoop this time.
Caught up with the Untuckeds. Laganja, youuuu...wore out your welcome.
So! Of the original two teams the first one is decimated. Just Adore and Ben, easily the best of that bunch.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 01:58 (nine years ago) link
I still am not feeling Ben, dunno why.
I felt a bit uncomfortable with the way Bianca came for LaGanja about her story with her parents. Like, ok you think she's fake but that felt like a bridge too far & unnecessary, since they were all coming for her over that shit anyway.
Regardless, still teamBianca. go you clown
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 02:05 (nine years ago) link
It's kind of interesting for me that unlike last year I do not have a ride-or-die favorite. There's a higher tier but nobody's making me go "Oh YOU need to win," rather it's more "Hmm...who WILL win?"
Also of note: Ben, Bianca and Adore have now all won two times each.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 02:07 (nine years ago) link
Liking Courtney less and less. She seems to just assume she's going to the final bcz she's Courtney. She is talented, but she's so distant, it's gard to root for her. Her remove is v Australian, granted, it's clear she doesnt go in for the emotional soulbaring & likes to keep it light... but more & more she's seeming kinda cold. Which bums me out.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 02:12 (nine years ago) link
Mm, yeah, her dynamic with Joslyn's rather...odd. And while Joslyn still hasn't turned into a sleeper for me here, it was rather nice (and sad!) to see that clip from her fiancé as well as learning about her nephew.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 02:20 (nine years ago) link
her style is wretched tho
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 02:43 (nine years ago) link
totally. she's like Miss Rio De Janeiro every week, I honestly can't stand her.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 02:52 (nine years ago) link
I felt a bit uncomfortable with the way Bianca came for LaGanja about her story with her parents. Like, ok you think she's fake but that felt like a bridge too far & unnecessary, since they were all coming for her over that shit anyway.Regardless, still teamBianca. go you clown
I felt the same way. Laganja deserved the rest but this was a bit too much. Bianca could've just pointed out that Joslyn was taking the jokes and having fun after her emotional moment with her fiancé's video.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 03:21 (nine years ago) link
Was thinking this very same thing this week. Actually, the theme of the season is starting to materialize as "versions of previous season winners compete against each other," with Courtney Act (which many probably pegged as this year's presumptive frontrunner) even getting her own Eve Harrington, albeit a super nice one. Trinity is Tyra, Milk was Sharon, Ben is Jinxx. Stretching it a little, Bianca fills Raja's wise/hysterical drag veteran slot, tho no one feels much like BeBe.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 15:10 (nine years ago) link
No shade on Ben, but if both queens are going to shante stay, I want them to have just finished a cyclonic, glitter-teared, double-wigged lipsync battle. That was not what happened on that stage.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 15:13 (nine years ago) link
I laughed a cathartic LOL when Joslyn short-circuited Laganga's stage-pounding split without even looking. And then laughed even harder when Laganga hastily worked in another desperate split to I guess restore the imbalance?
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 15:15 (nine years ago) link
Whenever LaGanja does a deaddrop I think of that Willam line "she just swiffered the floor with her taint"
Bianca I think for the most part has done something that not a ton of other queens have really pulled off successfully...or maybe *believably* is the better word...the real-deal drag mother role. I mean, seeing how she forced herself to be patient and encouraging with Trinity despite wanting to strangle her was really something, and those sincere moments in between all the barbs in the workroom really is what has won me over with her. I'm still wondering if that will hurt Bianca in the long run though, if she's boosted up both of them to the point where they leave her for dust. I dunno. She feels like she could go all the way, but just as easily not. Idk. Just thinking out loud
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 15:31 (nine years ago) link
Bianca should have top 3 on lockdown. From there on, as we've seen in the past, it seems entirely up to Ru's whims.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 15:43 (nine years ago) link
My hope is that Adore & Bianca are in the top 3, and I don't really care who else gets there.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 15:48 (nine years ago) link
Also I'll end my biancabiancabiancaOMGbianca blather now by saying I think Bianca is v attractive out of drag
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 15:49 (nine years ago) link
Those lips!
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 16:07 (nine years ago) link
Also I had been wondering about his background idly and there ya go, Honduran/Cuban. With appropriate explanation.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 16:18 (nine years ago) link
big dick no credit etc
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 16:30 (nine years ago) link
Meantime stepping back a bit I'm thinking about the rest of the episodes -- one more singing challenge, you figure, or not? (Given we've had the Rusical and the hip hop throwdown.) In that if Courtney and Adore are going to face off again or not or... Also there's going to be the makeover episode, presumably when there are five left.
Also, I've been wondering about the end of the season. Season 4 ending with the three facing off and then being caught off guard (as were the rest of us) by the final live audience decision was an actual surprise, but with Season 5 you kinda expected it and the episode was...a little less tense? It had moments but compared to the one before it, not so much. Kinda find it hard to believe Season 6 will necessarily play out the same way.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 16:47 (nine years ago) link
http://blog.chron.com/tubular/files/2014/04/tumblr_n3ok85hT1u1qlvwnco1_500.gif
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 17:02 (nine years ago) link
All time.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 17:05 (nine years ago) link
so awesome
yeah I'm not sure what the other challenges will be
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 17:13 (nine years ago) link
Love it !!!
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 17:15 (nine years ago) link
Someone asked Dela this at the show I go to and the producers asked them to wear the same outfit at each taping.
― kate78, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 19:24 (nine years ago) link
Clarity!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
you could tell in both episodes this week that ben and laganja had been crying (in the respective episodes) which is always a classic reality show tip off that the person is about to get eliminated. so i assumed it was something like that.
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
good riddance to bad lasagna, i say
― patron sailor, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
also i'm impressed by trinity's comeback storyline. i'm losing faith in ben's ability to make it to the finals, he's obviously struggling with the vulnerability problem that various queens come up against every season but I'm not sure his increasingly brittle drag persona can survive the sort of shake up necessary to win back ru's affections -- especially since trinity is well into her own redemption storyline.
― patron sailor, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link
And Trinity's wit is underrated. She's had it from the get go, but it's quieter and emerges in unexpected contexts. Often she expresses it without saying a word!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
Kinda shady (or clever) from the editors who can then use any reaction shot for whichever episode it fits best. Like the one from Courtney after filming her commercial was so obvious. I doubt she said she did it in one take. Might have been from the singing or the rap challenge.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 20:20 (nine years ago) link
brittle
This is the perfect word to describe Ben's Achilles heel at this point in the competition.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
yeah otm
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 20:27 (nine years ago) link
I'm at least hoping the next few episodes feature individual challenges, feels like there has been a real shortage of those so far.
― patron sailor, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
I thought the same thing.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 21:50 (nine years ago) link
Finally caught up.
Brittle describes a LOT of the queens this season. Trinity's come-around is a little too pat, especially from, I unno, a real self-actualization point of view or whatever. I've watched too much reality tv to buy it wholeheartedly, but at the very least, if this means we don't have another week of her naked esteem issues, I won't complain too hard.
Can't exactly complain about Laganja going home, even if I started out on her side in the beginning and was reluctant to give up on her, she was TRYING in every syntactical sense. And everyone who noted how she was in fact ganged up on OTM -- uncomfortable viewing, there.
TBH I think she's v attractive in drag. #idonothaveaclownfetish
I'm happy to hold down the Team Joslyn fort by myself!
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Friday, 11 April 2014 04:17 (nine years ago) link
I think what courtney said about bianca in that one untucked was true, basically that she's not *unattractive* but she's not exactly Attractive either
she's... pretty in her own way (i believe courtney said this as well)
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 11 April 2014 04:38 (nine years ago) link
In the stand-up challenge for S3, only Manila outright bombed, right?
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Friday, 11 April 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
Delta kinda fell off but yeah I think Manila totally ate it after the start.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 April 2014 21:09 (nine years ago) link
Forgot about Delta, natch! Anyway, for all the hype about this being a performance-seasoned cast, the fraction that bombed this time is kind of staggering, OKUURRR? (One or two out of seven vs. three or four out of 8.)
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Friday, 11 April 2014 21:59 (nine years ago) link
rewatching S4
I totally forgot about Alisa Summers & her tragic fraggle breastplate
http://wpc.4d27.edgecastcdn.net/004D27/RPDRS4/RPDR+S4E1+22.jpg
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 12 April 2014 22:41 (nine years ago) link
also s4 untucked is like the stalingrad of drag race seasons. non-stop brutal.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 12 April 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link
The only time so far where a message from RuPaul was totally ignored AND a special guest was left hanging out in the other lounge.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 12 April 2014 23:30 (nine years ago) link
yup yup!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 12 April 2014 23:34 (nine years ago) link
may I call you Jiggly?
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 12 April 2014 23:35 (nine years ago) link
I kinda assume that Dita/RuPaul's ignored urging were added in post-production, based on nothing really.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Saturday, 12 April 2014 23:38 (nine years ago) link
I mean ... My. God.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQXVBr5Bzos
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Saturday, 12 April 2014 23:57 (nine years ago) link
phi-phi makes me want to call my therapist. how she didn't leave in a bodybag is beyond me
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 13 April 2014 00:09 (nine years ago) link
there has never been a queen with more issues, more open hate, more blind competitive fury than that girl
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 13 April 2014 00:11 (nine years ago) link
I didn't mind her...
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Sunday, 13 April 2014 01:34 (nine years ago) link
xxpost dita/ru moment def not a post-production add-on imo, i just watched the ep & it didn't play like that at all
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 13 April 2014 02:52 (nine years ago) link
INTERESTING. Just now posted via the show's FB page:
We wanted to thank the community for sharing their concerns around a recent segment and the use of the term 'she-mail' on Drag Race.Logo has pulled the episode from all of our platforms and that challenge will not appear again.Furthermore, we are removing the 'You've Got She-Mail' intro from new episodes of the series.We did not intend to cause any offense, but in retrospect we realize that it was insensitive. We sincerely apologize.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 April 2014 14:45 (nine years ago) link
a little bit more detail here
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/14/rupauls-drag-race-transphobic-slur_n_5142855.html
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 April 2014 15:41 (nine years ago) link
Oh dear at Joslyn's prep. That is all. For now.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 05:22 (nine years ago) link
That was NOT the bottom two I was expecting.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 06:41 (nine years ago) link
sorta weird that they booted trinity just as her redemption narrative was getting going but she's been pretty up and down and there's no way they were gonna let adore go just yet
joslyn probably offers a bit more friction amongst the girls so that might've been a producer's decision
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 14:06 (nine years ago) link
Maybe. Still pretty damn weird, especially if we're talking Joslyn's big biff of a question plus that outfit, which Trinity wiped the floor with.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 14:14 (nine years ago) link
yeah trinity's runway look was incredible
i feel like joslyn's prob going home next week anyway so it might not even end up mattering
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 14:19 (nine years ago) link
Next week does look fun -- makeover challenge, wedding challenge, NPH!
Am wondering more and more, though -- a lot of the regular challenges are coming a little...early? Noticed this before, how Snatch Game had ten people, the reading mini challenge was a touch early too, and now this, which usually comes when there are five people left, not six. This is all feeding into my sense that they're going to do something a little different for the end of the challenges/final winner scenario.
Meantime, Courtney now makes it four who have won twice, along with Ben, Bianca and Adore.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 14:30 (nine years ago) link
RichJuz on the whole shemail thing
http://gawker.com/heres-how-rupauls-drag-race-censored-itself-1563384141
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 16:34 (nine years ago) link
good stuff
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 17:02 (nine years ago) link
Dela was robbed.
― kate78, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 20:44 (nine years ago) link
ok i legit cannot stand joslyn, i've had all i can stands etc
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 01:49 (nine years ago) link
http://www.dragofficial.com/uploads/1/9/3/9/19395567/332286_orig.gif
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 01:51 (nine years ago) link
she stuck some feathers in her head and called it macaroni
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 01:55 (nine years ago) link
joslyn should have had to lipsync
nothing adore did was worse than joslyn's abortion bullshit
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 01:59 (nine years ago) link
What. Just. Happened.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 02:16 (nine years ago) link
If last week I came to the conclusion that this season was a confluence of prior tried-and-true types pitted against each other, now we see the result of these narratives clashing and all sense flying out the window. What other way to explain Trinity getting dismissed at this point in her storyline? What other way to explain answering Joslyn's extremely touching and genuine Untucked moment last week by casting her as the show's Tatianna (not overtly villainous but also not as seasoned and poised to send Pandora/BenDeLa packing next week)? And has anyone else coasted as far by (predominately) hanging out in the background as Darienne?
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 02:23 (nine years ago) link
Dela was robbed
As edited, it was a true dead-even sitch, though Visage's objection makes me wonder.
Both even brought out their best in$$$pector gadget drag.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 02:26 (nine years ago) link
that lipsync was badASS
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 02:27 (nine years ago) link
And WHEN is Ru gonna bring back the dunk tank?!
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 02:30 (nine years ago) link
I loved the concept of dela's runway look but the actual execution of the costume looked kinda Michael's to me, a bit too artsycraftsy construction paper
but i'm mean :)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 02:40 (nine years ago) link
I love Joslyn but yeah she should've been in the bottom. I have to agree with Courtney that she's become this season's Dida Ritz. She's sweet but lacking too much polish to have made it this far.
I think it was very close but I would've given it to Ben too. She was an INSECT !! Courtney looked more like an angel than a bird imo.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 02:43 (nine years ago) link
(x-post) I thought it looked very professionnal !
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 02:44 (nine years ago) link
Speaking of mean, I had to rewind "a meaty tuck" a few times.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 02:44 (nine years ago) link
Furthermore, it took me until this week to realize Joslyn's voice is exactly the same as the ones from all the tracheotomy patients speaking through their voice boxes in the QuitPlan commercial currently in rotation on logo.tv
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 02:47 (nine years ago) link
And has anyone else coasted as far by (predominately) hanging out in the background as Darienne?
She's probably been kept around to fill in the bitchy queen spot after Gia was eliminated. Her elephant costume was the first time she's had an interesting look.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 02:51 (nine years ago) link
darienne needs to go. she's just like a mean albatross hanging around the show's neck
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 02:53 (nine years ago) link
>=*(
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 04:48 (nine years ago) link
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m02matGwHJ1qlvwnco1_400.gif
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 05:26 (nine years ago) link
Is that Georgia Pelham's daughter?
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 05:58 (nine years ago) link
no it's her son CHAD
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 06:07 (nine years ago) link
U CHAD.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 06:12 (nine years ago) link
Sharon Needles posted this on FB today: old episode of Rikki Lake featuring Pandora Boxx & our very own Darienne Lake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyzooKeRiUQ
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 April 2014 01:49 (nine years ago) link
grrr
Nice find!
Meantime, a fun, not too academe-speak NPR article here exploring themes of identity and projection: "Drag Is Raw: Wrestlers, Queens And Gender As Performance Art"
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2014/04/16/303652716/drag-is-raw-wrestlers-queens-and-gender-as-performance-art
But there is a WEIRD glaring absence, namely no mention of the Season 4 pro wrestling challenge episode. Which given Sharon Needles is mentioned is...odd?
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 April 2014 02:01 (nine years ago) link
http://queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com/wp/docs/2014/04/tumblr_n41gsblO5d1qzqtn5o1_500.gif
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Thursday, 17 April 2014 23:47 (nine years ago) link
Me every day, really.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 April 2014 23:52 (nine years ago) link
Give yourself more credit, your hair looks better than that.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Friday, 18 April 2014 00:00 (nine years ago) link
ned you are SICKENING
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 April 2014 00:05 (nine years ago) link
Thanks Leee ! I actually rewinded that part a couple of times, now I have a gif of it.
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 18 April 2014 00:18 (nine years ago) link
str8 fyah
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 April 2014 00:20 (nine years ago) link
It's all in the delivery.
Some recent photos from all sorts of folks.
http://www.newnownext.com/courtney-act-hooks-up-with-simon-sherry-wood-carmen-hangs-with-jlo-bianca-and-adore-in-orlando-drag-race-on-social-media/04/2014/
Very sweet one of Willam there, actually!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 April 2014 00:33 (nine years ago) link
yeah Willam looks cuet
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 April 2014 00:36 (nine years ago) link
Meantime, relevant, especially given the constant Puerto Rican presence season for season (and April is briefly mentioned):
http://gawker.com/tribeca-a-gorgeous-portrait-of-puerto-ricos-trans-and-1564444087
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 April 2014 17:13 (nine years ago) link
I really hope Adore doesn't flame out now, I'm kinda worried she's getting in her head too much. Sorta wish Courtney had been in the bottom, just because I think that the way she showed up her bride was definitely on the nose.
And Darienne's bride gave me the creeps. Something about that weird flat affect to his voice or something just, yuk. and SHADY as fuck, him and darienne were two peas in a pod
I kinda liked the little arc they had with Jocelyn's bride...the things he was saying early in the show felt like he was going to maybe have a bit of a meltdown or shit was gonna get a bit tense at some point, but watching him and his wife root for her during the lipsync on untucked and how pissed he was getting at everyone cheering for adore was really cool to watch
Bianca did a bang-up job on her bride. And what a cutie!!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 20:09 (nine years ago) link
Joslyn's bball player initially didn't really seem to know what he was getting into. Did his fiance drug him to get him there or something?
― kate78, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 21:04 (nine years ago) link
this whole challenge was pretty bizarre imo
bianca looked a lot like her bride but the skin coloration was... weird
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 21:07 (nine years ago) link
she should've won tho obv
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 21:08 (nine years ago) link
It was kind of a strange one
Unless maybe the bball's player's wife was a fan and roped him into it? It seemed like a few of the couples were fans of the show already
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 21:15 (nine years ago) link
FYI - Ru and Michelle have a new podcast called 'Rupaul What's the Tee with Michelle Visage'
Only one up right now. Flagship ep they go in deep on what they are looking for in auditions etc and it's kinda cool...so far anyway
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 22:27 (nine years ago) link
also sidebar re the podcast -- listening to ru talk, and this has struck me before while watching the show, I'm really blown away by how many people in her circle have been with her for 20, 30 years. That is one loyal queen.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 22:48 (nine years ago) link
Brandon's freak out was strange since he must have known before hand was he was getting himself into. IMO his team mates would've respected him more if he had fun with it and owned it.I thought the sport jocks from season 3 had the best and most surprising attitude. I loved how protective of their girl they were and how they genuinely seemed turned on by Raja and Carmen's lip synch !
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 23:24 (nine years ago) link
I think my favorites were the older veteran queens last season, but yeah the sport jocks were pretty fun.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 23:50 (nine years ago) link
Loved those season 3 jocks, yeah.
Just caught up with yesterday. Okay, Darienne out next, please.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 00:23 (nine years ago) link
What's sad is Joslyn's guy made it clear the worst thing that can happen to a player is to be presumed gay or associated with gay people. He was so scared it made him throw up.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 00:29 (nine years ago) link
I can't believe Darienne is still here. Top 5 wtf ???
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 00:31 (nine years ago) link
RIGHT? She better be the next to go.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 03:11 (nine years ago) link
It was a very Willam moment, with much the same results.
xps Aww leave Darienne alone.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 03:29 (nine years ago) link
darienne has had her moments but she's clearly the next in line, though if it's another challenge not geared towards adore's skill set I could see her getting dropped
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 03:58 (nine years ago) link
yeah she was sweating this challenge
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 04:05 (nine years ago) link
her drag is boring tho and adore is a killer lip syncer
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 04:20 (nine years ago) link
i was vibing with the theory that bianca was gonna cruise to the finals but not win but the way adore has performed recently i dunno who else could really take it from her... ben de la? maybe? courtney? i'm skeptical
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 04:21 (nine years ago) link
adore was on some marilyn manson janet jackson shit last night, that lipsync was straight up awesome, made jocelyn look like a wax dummy
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 04:29 (nine years ago) link
yeah it was sick
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 04:31 (nine years ago) link
adore has that deep hunger/fire that ben & courtney haven't shown yet...they need it to beat her
this is like when alaska got real last season, love watching it happen
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 04:31 (nine years ago) link
this is pretty great if you are into Adventure Time at all
http://www.newnownext.com/adventure-times-lumpy-space-princess-as-adore-delano-is-lumpin-awesome-watch/03/2014/
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 04:44 (nine years ago) link
I guess Adore's lipsync wasn't bad if you like that kind of stuff.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 04:48 (nine years ago) link
http://37.media.tumblr.com/dcf6f5cca652f396ababe56342f3ea79/tumblr_n2nii3JYux1qgb5p1o1_500.gif
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 05:21 (nine years ago) link
I thought the bball guy really redeemed himself in Untucked.
― kate78, Thursday, 24 April 2014 19:44 (nine years ago) link
definitely
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 April 2014 21:40 (nine years ago) link
Okay tonight is already amusing.
Also my theory that it's going to be a final showdown of *four* not three is coming clearer. This kind of episode was ALWAYS done in the past when there were only four remaining.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 05:22 (nine years ago) link
Waiting for everybody to see it before I comment...
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 06:03 (nine years ago) link
And the promo for next week reconfirms my thought. Hmmmmmmm. I almost have a feeling something else is going to happen on top of that.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 06:07 (nine years ago) link
adore's banjee girl was SO GREAT
proud of her for burning it down tonight
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 06:19 (nine years ago) link
also lol @ dela dostoyevsky and her lipstick mirror novel jesus fucking christ
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 06:33 (nine years ago) link
Yeah Adore was killer. I'd been waiting to see that final look all season thanks to the Untucked intro bit!
And LOOOOVE the message Bianca got in the lounge. That was really sweet.
I demand we get the full mirror message somehow.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 06:33 (nine years ago) link
"Dear top 4- howz it going? I'm doing pretty good. Sometimes you have to have Mama Ru you atcha a bunch of times before it sinks in. I guess I neverreached that number of times, Darian. I knew the second I was up against you i waz out the door. You get it lady. I wish you all the luck in the world and only harbor enough resentment to write a long pointless message that you will have to clean and clean and clean and clean. But fo real tho you girlz are my heroes. XX BDLC"
― kate78, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 08:15 (nine years ago) link
*And Ned, it's a bummer you didn't stay in Seattle another 36 hours...you could sat between me and Matos at the live show hosted by Dela!
ANYWAY, Dela, once again, was robbed. That final outfit of Darienne's looked like pantyhose.
― kate78, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 08:18 (nine years ago) link
oh the sag of it all
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 13:55 (nine years ago) link
"We do not want to loose faith in Ru Paul's Drag race judging."http://www.change.org/petitions/ru-paul-s-drag-race-bring-ben-de-la-creme-back?recruiter=66699251&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=share_twitter_mobile
― kate78, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 14:11 (nine years ago) link
If Darienne weren't a) very good at lipsyncing and b) a lot more level-headed in Untucked than most after being trashed on the runway I'd be more ARGH about it all, I admit.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 14:14 (nine years ago) link
Darienne's three looks were BAD. Dela is well put together but at least two of her looks did not fit the category. Her Banjee Girl look was well off the mark, and her Executive Realness look was way too whimsical. not that they were bad looks as they stood, but compared to what the other 3 put on the table, there was no question she was going to be in the bottom. Courtney's coasting on a look but she hit the mark in at least 2 of the three categories. so that's one more category than Dela. And she lost the lipsync - Darienne owned that. I like Dela, I'm sad to see her go, but I don't think it's that much of an outrage.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 15:19 (nine years ago) link
I thought Courtney only hit the mark with her eleganza look. Her executive realness was really just Good Penny with a cellphone and a clipboard.
As for the outcome of the episode, the internet is already exploding so I'm gonna leave it at that. I will just say that I find it disapointing and unfair that a lipsync counts more than a challenge and an overall "body of work", especially at this point in the game.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link
What the.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 04:49 (nine years ago) link
OK I'm recovered a little to post an interesting discussion about the banji realness part of the ball, also, I still don't get the fuss over Adore and her executive realness look was embarrassing:
But also, how do you expect a bunch of white girls to nail banji girl realness? What do they know about being banji, besides what pop culture tells them what banji is?[...]Shea: There are so many blurred lines within the world of drag. They of course try and tap into so many different cultures and subcultures that live within the drag community, but when you’re gonna have a bunch of girls create a banji look based off of what’s in their wardrobe, it’s hard to expect a spot-on interpretation if it’s not close to their aesthetic.Chad: So, do you think it placed the queens in an awkward position?Shea: For some, yes. I think the term banji isn’t racially specific, I don’t mean to give that impression. But it does come from a place of poverty and lack of monetary comfort. Banji girls dress to excess because they want to live the life of the rich and famous, but they’re just ballin’ on a budget. That’s where a lack of taste comes in. But there are ways to interpret that exuberance and still make it polished.
[...]
Shea: There are so many blurred lines within the world of drag. They of course try and tap into so many different cultures and subcultures that live within the drag community, but when you’re gonna have a bunch of girls create a banji look based off of what’s in their wardrobe, it’s hard to expect a spot-on interpretation if it’s not close to their aesthetic.
Chad: So, do you think it placed the queens in an awkward position?
Shea: For some, yes. I think the term banji isn’t racially specific, I don’t mean to give that impression. But it does come from a place of poverty and lack of monetary comfort. Banji girls dress to excess because they want to live the life of the rich and famous, but they’re just ballin’ on a budget. That’s where a lack of taste comes in. But there are ways to interpret that exuberance and still make it polished.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 18:49 (nine years ago) link
when adore said she was dressed like a power lesbian who still has sex with men on the weekends I lost my fucking shit
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 20:25 (nine years ago) link
i'll be honest, I never really got the love for Dela in the first place. I dunno why exactly, I just didn't find her drag or her persona to be all that interesting...like, I don't mind not seeing more from her? idk. I'm mean, I guess.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 22:43 (nine years ago) link
You're Michelle Visage, in other words.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 22:45 (nine years ago) link
i guess, lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 22:51 (nine years ago) link
I always thought Ben would be in at the end, but I never saw her quite going all the way simply because I was thinking "Okay TWO retro minded drag queens from Seattle in a row -- and who know each other and are friends -- I'm not seeing that happening."
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 22:56 (nine years ago) link
And I really have grown to love Adore because she is SO SoCal yet at the same time has her talented side and as noted just above can be really fucking funny in the moment. Makes for a whole greater than the sum of the parts, and at that age, she'll be fine. If I had to rank the remaining four I'd say Bianca and Adore as top two for me, Courtney below and Darienne last.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 23:00 (nine years ago) link
yep
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 23:01 (nine years ago) link
I love the crazy mixture of Adore being fierce AND clumsy, it cracks me up
I guess Adore has a talented side but damn it's a pretty thin one. #okayI'mdonenow
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 23:02 (nine years ago) link
As shared by CoCo Montrese on FB
https://scontent-b-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t31.0-8/966567_10152392696534722_998637366578762798_o.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 May 2014 02:20 (nine years ago) link
GIRRRRRL THERES A FUCKIN BIRD ON MY HAND RIGHT NOW AND WOODS AND SHIT SND IM A FUCKIN PRINCESS....FUCKIN PARRRRRRTY!!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 May 2014 02:22 (nine years ago) link
Verbatim.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 May 2014 02:47 (nine years ago) link
in other news
Rupaul is now a chocolate bar!
http://www.dragofficial.com/1/post/2014/03/rupaul-is-so-delicious.html
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 May 2014 03:55 (nine years ago) link
Ironically Dela gets top toot of the week from Raven and Raja (these are taped without them knowing the outcome of the episode):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZc6pxTKZSA
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 1 May 2014 04:29 (nine years ago) link
xp "The bar’s ingredients include milk chocolate, sea salt and peanut butter (a subtle nod to RuPaul’s single with Lady Bunny from last year)"
Yes making a candy bar with only chocolate and peanut butter is a very subtle nod to a song called "Peanut Butter"
― funny and lolexander (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 1 May 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
"dela dostoyevsky and her lipstick mirror novel jesus fucking christ"
irl lol @ this
― funny and lolexander (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 1 May 2014 17:01 (nine years ago) link
They really shoulda milked that gag and showed her still writing on the mirror after the credits w/ like crickets chirping
― funny and lolexander (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 1 May 2014 17:02 (nine years ago) link
omg lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 May 2014 17:04 (nine years ago) link
waht is that after the main show or Untucked?
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Thursday, 1 May 2014 17:11 (nine years ago) link
it was def on untucked, they may have shown it on the main show too but I can't remember now
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 May 2014 17:15 (nine years ago) link
I gotta start paying attention to that show again!
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Thursday, 1 May 2014 17:18 (nine years ago) link
dude
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 May 2014 17:29 (nine years ago) link
You haven't been seeing Untucked all this time? I just.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 May 2014 17:34 (nine years ago) link
Also the more I think about it the more that Adore as Snow White thing is so perfect.
I'm watching! Just very distracted when I do.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Thursday, 1 May 2014 17:50 (nine years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/132cddb00951f2e8bc3b274f901815ea/tumblr_mm1l0trkDJ1riy0uno1_500.jpg
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 May 2014 18:11 (nine years ago) link
I've let you all down. ._.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Thursday, 1 May 2014 18:12 (nine years ago) link
you've let yourself down, hunty
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 May 2014 18:54 (nine years ago) link
Preach mama.
What Dela wrote was actually pretty funny and classy:
Dear top 4- howz it going? I’m doing pretty good. Sometimes you have to have Mama Ru yell atcha a bunch of times before it sinks in. I guess I never reached that number of times. Darienne, I knew the second I was up against you i waz out the door. You get it lady. I wish you all the luck in the world and only harbor enough resentment to write a long pointless message that you will have to clean and clean and clean and clean. But fo real tho you girlz are my heroes. XX BDLC.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 1 May 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
ok that is awesome
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 May 2014 21:31 (nine years ago) link
And as if we needed more confirmation that Monday's episode is just going to end with the same four going to the final event, on Tuesday we get the live taping of the reunion and coronation.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/t31.0-8/1016036_673624142673527_2326835331143666158_o.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 3 May 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
BTW I'd LOVE to see if this guy had an audition tape sent in a few years back
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/03/anti-gay-nc-gop-candidate-outed-as-former-female-impersonator-miss-mona-sinclair/
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 4 May 2014 01:04 (nine years ago) link
Courtney interviewed by Musto a few days back
http://www.out.com/entertainment/michael-musto/2014/04/28/drag-race%E2%80%99s-courtney-act-chaz-bono-and-i-have-become-very
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 4 May 2014 17:58 (nine years ago) link
Finally caught back up and, yeah, Bendela's dismissal to allow room (sic) for Darienne's three uniformly horrifying ball looks to sail into the top 4?
I've cooled off on Dela as the season's progressed and I'm not offended at the thought of her not being in the finals; I'm more offended that promoting Darienne this week is a bald-faced attempt to spice up a comparatively flat, B+ season.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Sunday, 4 May 2014 20:30 (nine years ago) link
After rolling my eyes through much of last season's tedious Alyssa/Coco rivalry, it's weird to be hungry for even that brand of fabricated drama this time around. There aren't any truly compelling villains in the house. The biggest antagonist -- Laganga -- was loathed because she was a whiny victim, not because she was a ruthless bitch on wheels. Courtney is too nice to be as self-promoting as WIllam, Bianca is too caring to be as gleefully backstabby as the Heathers.
This season, it actually IS Rupaul's Best Friend Race!
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Sunday, 4 May 2014 20:36 (nine years ago) link
Yeah it reminds me of the end of season three after Shangela was finally out -- everything felt kinda 'oh nice' in the final episodes. Which I didn't mind!
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 4 May 2014 20:44 (nine years ago) link
I didn't mind it there either. The most toxic of the Heathers and the most unpolished of the Boogers were both gone, leaving the best of both worlds.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Sunday, 4 May 2014 21:12 (nine years ago) link
I hated all that Heathers shit
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 4 May 2014 22:00 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, it was so noxious, probably why I like that season the least.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Sunday, 4 May 2014 22:27 (nine years ago) link
Raja's runway looks were so great, but all that backstage stuff was noxious
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 4 May 2014 22:33 (nine years ago) link
It was def a love-or-hate throughline. I loved it. For me, it was the only truly successful overall arc of any season.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Sunday, 4 May 2014 22:44 (nine years ago) link
Though I admit the more recaps I've encountered lead me to believe the loves were in the definite minority.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Sunday, 4 May 2014 22:47 (nine years ago) link
It certainly made for some of the most emotionally loaded lip syncs, though (Delta vs. Manila; Alexis vs. Yara)
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Sunday, 4 May 2014 22:49 (nine years ago) link
true!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 4 May 2014 22:54 (nine years ago) link
I ~love~ reality drama, but something about the cliqueyness (there's an awful construction) poisoned everything for me. Shangela rattling Mimi's cage? LIVING. Shangela picking fights with Raja? Awful. Hmm, I'm noticing a trend there.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Sunday, 4 May 2014 22:56 (nine years ago) link
yeah it mostly gave me horrible high school flashbacks
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 5 May 2014 00:25 (nine years ago) link
I didn't know you went to drag high school oh wait
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 5 May 2014 03:21 (nine years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 5 May 2014 04:25 (nine years ago) link
Rupaul's Finishing School For Girls?
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Monday, 5 May 2014 04:27 (nine years ago) link
Mama Ru's Academy for Charm Uniqueness Nerve and Talent, iirc
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 5 May 2014 04:47 (nine years ago) link
I just finished episode 2 of S3 last night and damn the drama already w like Shangela throwing a drink at mini! It bums me out to think that a Raja turns into a nasty meanie
― funny and lolexander (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 5 May 2014 10:53 (nine years ago) link
Mimi deserved a drink in her face, iirc. And Raja was at the very least smart about her MG persona. I was sad for Stacy Lane like everyone else, but Raja describing her pants/cape as the kind of outfit an uptight housewife would wear as her "fun, Christmas party cocktail outfit when she's feeling frisky" was perfect.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Monday, 5 May 2014 11:41 (nine years ago) link
wait when did she say that?? was that in the first 2 eps or is that later in the season?
Also I did not think Mimi deserved a drink in the face!! They were being waaaaay unnecessarily vicious and she did a p good job defending herself and then kinda dropped a really minor jab and then drinks were thrown, idgi
― funny and lolexander (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 5 May 2014 13:31 (nine years ago) link
I admit I wish the drink had come from just about anyone other than Shangela at that point. She was clearly flailing to make some kind of statement, any statement.
But Mimi was the worst kind of annoying theater queen. Even still, I just can't even. Congrats to her for knowing Leigh Bowery. Now ditch the beard and play proper.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Monday, 5 May 2014 13:56 (nine years ago) link
(Raja's comment came during an Untucked episode.)
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Monday, 5 May 2014 13:57 (nine years ago) link
(About halfway through the season, as the Heathers were solidifying.)
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Monday, 5 May 2014 13:58 (nine years ago) link
tbh I have seen her perform in real life and apart from a really amazing lip sync to "It's All Coming Back To Me Now" atop a wood coffin that Sharon Needles wound up popping out of, she is a really selfish and horrible human being and was doing really fucked up and invasive shit to audience members
― funny and lolexander (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 5 May 2014 13:59 (nine years ago) link
Boo, just because you have a sugar daddy...
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Monday, 5 May 2014 16:14 (nine years ago) link
"NOT TODAY, SATAN! NOT TODAY!"
At least we know what the twist is with this one, I HAD wondered. Good changeup.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 05:09 (nine years ago) link
"Nobody's safe. Get your perishables."
Fuck Bianca and her dimples. Love that bitch. She had me worried there, though
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 06:38 (nine years ago) link
darienne & courtney palling up in the untucked lounge was making me hella queasy
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 06:39 (nine years ago) link
darienne & bianca need their own show, they were killing me in untucked
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 06:41 (nine years ago) link
anyway who's ready for finale?
hashtag partay
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 06:46 (nine years ago) link
Man, both Team Bianca and Team Adore are top ten trending on Twitter right now! Works for me.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 14:16 (nine years ago) link
Also we are not appreciating Ru doing butch as much as we should. Especially Aussie butch.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 14:22 (nine years ago) link
that
was
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 14:28 (nine years ago) link
It was, of course, completely accurate, yes?
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 14:42 (nine years ago) link
100%
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 15:24 (nine years ago) link
Melbourne in the 70s must have been weirder than I realized.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 15:28 (nine years ago) link
Meantime -- Jinkx's album debut is live:
http://smarturl.it/TheInevitableAlbumiT
As is a song from it -- with Fred Schneider!
http://bit.ly/BaconShake
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 15:35 (nine years ago) link
Monsoon tells us that Schneider "wrote the song based on the idea of Jinkx having once been prim and proper; but after her first wild party, she quickly turned into a 'lady hurricane' who's ready to shake her goods for every boy at the bar." Well, that's certainly some inspiration for a good time!
Plus a full interview:
http://www.out.com/entertainment/popnography/2014/05/06/10-qs-jinkx-monsoon-b-52s-his-new-album-end-his-reign-americas
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 15:36 (nine years ago) link
re last night's episode, did Courtney's speech rub anyone else the wrong way? It kind of annoyed me, like she was basically saying 'I'm already famous so with this I can just continue being famous'?
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 15:58 (nine years ago) link
This is probably why I'm seeing more chatter about the other two.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 15:59 (nine years ago) link
Thus the title of this piece
http://blog.chron.com/tubular/2014/05/rupauls-drag-race-team-anyone-but-courtney-act/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 16:08 (nine years ago) link
I did like this from a Bianca-supporting piece:
Still, the more screen time she got — the more her personality was afforded more than a stray sound-byte — the clearer it’s been that she’s not Triumph the Insult Queen, she’s just salty. No nonsense. The kind of gal who picks a dress type that works for her and sticks with it, because fuck you. Whom you can count on to dispense unsolicited but necessary advice. Who’s long since mastered opening a beer with a lighter — and if everyone’s misplaced their lighters, she uses her teeth. My new fantasy afternoon consists of sitting roadside with her at some sidewalk café, sipping Bloody Marys in wide-brimmed sunhats and relentlessly mocking passing pedestrians. Because it’s not all piss and vinegar with Bianca — see: her helpful tips to fellow queens and her adorable letter from home (“Roy-Lady”!), proof that there is some real well-meaning personhood behind those ubiquitous statement lashes. But, in the mean time, it’s vinegar all around, and deliciously so.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 16:22 (nine years ago) link
lola + bianca (from Bianca's instagram)
http://origincache-prn.fbcdn.net/1172788_1403538683260497_1141758956_n.jpg
http://origincache-frc.fbcdn.net/10245916_246180598902827_328269935_n.jpg
http://distilleryimage6.s3.amazonaws.com/9820af60ce2911e3af140002c95597a6_8.jpg
<3 <3 <3 <3
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 16:31 (nine years ago) link
Aw! And love the bow tie.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 16:37 (nine years ago) link
Just to piss in the pot, I'm pulling for Courntey.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 03:44 (nine years ago) link
*gasface*
not even my patriotism could get me to pull for that shady queen
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 03:50 (nine years ago) link
I don't think she's shady! (Nor Darienne, as a matter of fact.) And I say that, remember, as a Joslyn fan.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 03:51 (nine years ago) link
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/newsroom/img/posts/2014/03/8e43626c9a3c47e0844c9370d230121819d2ce16_r/3089cb189.gif
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 04:07 (nine years ago) link
the biggest trick courtney act ever pulled was convincing the world that she's not shady
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 04:09 (nine years ago) link
lol talking like she's a Satan.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 04:23 (nine years ago) link
NOT TODAY
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 04:28 (nine years ago) link
xpost um she wore horns iirc
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 04:29 (nine years ago) link
Touche!
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 04:33 (nine years ago) link
And let's not forget how she was possessed.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 04:50 (nine years ago) link
get it gurl #electroshockfraggle
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 04:54 (nine years ago) link
When Courney says it comes from the heart I'm inclined to think that she's being real and that she's just so vapid and empty that it comes off as robotic because that's all she knows how to do
― funny and lolexander (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 12:44 (nine years ago) link
I'm surprised Courtney made it to the top 3, honestly. Adore too (though she's been one of my favorites the whole season). It seems 75% certain that Bianca will win though, right?
― funny and lolexander (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 12:45 (nine years ago) link
Stepford queen is pretty accurate for Miss Act.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 12:45 (nine years ago) link
I'm not surprised she made it to the top 3 though. This whole season I was betting on Bianca-Courtney-Ben as the top 3 with Adore a potential spoiler.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 12:46 (nine years ago) link
Meantime the reunion special was taped last night -- a friend was there and said this on Twitter just now:
@joebetance Attended the finale of Ru Paul's Drag Race. The opening was sickening. The 4 hour taping was sickening but in a bad way. #TeamBianca
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 16:13 (nine years ago) link
And yeah I have to think Bianca edges Adore but it's closer for me than I EVER would have thought from the premiere episodes. I knew I liked Bianca straight off the bat but Adore just kept at it. I would still be happy with either of them winning for sure.
Also at this point I have to agree with upthread comments that Joslyn's probably got Miss Congeniality in the bag, barring a surprise from Ben (which I'd be good with too!). (Courtney would be out anyway as a finalist I guess and she's long since NOT been so nice, so.)
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 16:34 (nine years ago) link
I love Bianca and I would love to see her win, but now that we're at the finale I don't feel like she's a lock. I dunno why. Something about Adore makes me think she could get it.
Either way, I mean, party. lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 16:52 (nine years ago) link
I really need to go back and rewatch the whole season after the coronation, I always like seeing how the winner starts to emerge/what the turning point is. Bianca's would be more of a Raja-like royal procession with a win from the get-go and more along the way, Adore's turning point...I'm not sure. Maybe the hip-hop challenge?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 17:04 (nine years ago) link
Maybe I'm blinded by pretty, but I really don't get this Bad Penny vibe from Courtney, at all! Nor her vapidity, really, I think her confessionals and how she deports herself on Untucked show a very grounded individual with a fair amount of self-awareness, who throws the amount of shade requisite to being a drag queen.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 17:17 (nine years ago) link
Maybe it's an Australian thing? VG said as much earlier.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 17:19 (nine years ago) link
And don't get me wrong, I don't HATE Courtney. I mean if the final three were Laganja, Madison and Darienne then you'd see me complaining a bit.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 17:20 (nine years ago) link
lol "Madison."
I like Darienne! What's wrong with me/you all?
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 17:22 (nine years ago) link
Or whatever her name was! The one with the beak!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 17:24 (nine years ago) link
Darienne got back on my good side with not having an Untucked cow last week after being read for filth by Ru etc., unlike others one could name. Even so...I dunno. Still, hearing about how her mom treated her was pretty damn rough for sure. (I'm actually intrigued by the fact that I think Bianca's NEVER directly referenced her family much.)
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 17:25 (nine years ago) link
Ahh, Milk!
Darienne never really got on my bad side; if I hadda guess, her brand of humor has a snarky streak, which is easily manipulated into seeming like a b-word. But to me, she was always funny, the smoother Swiss to Bianca's sharp Jack.
I have a lot of ~ideas~ about the emotion pr0n on this show.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 17:29 (nine years ago) link
No not Milk, I was good with Milk -- the one with the contoured-to-hell nose, went out in one premiere episode.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 17:32 (nine years ago) link
I mean I know I could look upthread BUT THAT WOULD BE EASY.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 17:33 (nine years ago) link
I'm pretty certain you mean Milk!
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 17:37 (nine years ago) link
(Magnolia Crawford, if you're dying to know, as I'm sure you are.)
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 17:38 (nine years ago) link
Thank you that was it.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link
I don't see Courtney's vapidity as airheadedness, I see it more as just playing on a certain level of cultural unawareness and a teeeeeeeeeny bit of elitism. Like that innocent wide-eyed 'oh REALLY? that's how you do that/that's what you're going to wear//you said that?' is a form of judgement akin to 'we don't do things like that back home'
and that's where 90% of her shade comes from. everyone else is gauche and emotional and laying it all on the table - she got to be a 'drag superstar' in her home country without having to do that and she's not about to start here.
like if you really think she meant what she said in untucked about Darienne being on top this week, then you have fallen for Courtney's Act :) hook line and sinker
she never gave two shits for anything Darienne did and still doesn't, but since she knows Darienne's going home she's going to play emotional good samaritan and send her a way with a good feeling in her heart about sweet little courtney act. It's COMPLETELY two faced.
Maybe I'm overanalysing but I really think that courtney's accent and her look does 90% of the work for her of creating this kind of, idk, 'glamor' in the magicking terminology that she can hide behind. she can get away with all the shady bullshit of the other queens without ever being called on it because no-one actually HEARS what she's saying
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 17:54 (nine years ago) link
but I'll leave the last word to Alaska
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLGif8ZAkVY
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:02 (nine years ago) link
xp Well when you put it like THAT.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:03 (nine years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:03 (nine years ago) link
Courtney is completely two faced! I LOVE ADORE
― homosexual II, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:06 (nine years ago) link
I love all the shit she can do with her eyes, like she can go from 0 to fierce in .01 seconds
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:11 (nine years ago) link
I'm not going to judge her sincerity/lack thereof, but the backhanded elitism bit is spot on, probably because I'm pretty much the same: That is a very good analysis, for a girl!
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:11 (nine years ago) link
http://31.media.tumblr.com/983d5051ee4a369d807c150d796f3f57/tumblr_n3s9c0mnz41t1rvzco1_500.gif
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:17 (nine years ago) link
I can't stand how they film all three people "winning" and then reveal the winner by editing the episode, and so you're not actually watching the queen win, you're watching her pretend to win, and it comes off as totally flat and totally performative and inorganic and it is just the WORST.
― funny and lolexander (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
http://31.media.tumblr.com/7604db5031f1eb6bdb7fd175eb088828/tumblr_n57p4ir9rX1r3jqyco6_250.gif
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
xpost yeah I've always been disappointed by that, it's kind of a bargain-basement way to end it
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:20 (nine years ago) link
I'm the last person to jump off the Laganja train, so don't mind me or anything! :D
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:21 (nine years ago) link
I have a problem with it too, but given the entire show is very near a satire of reality TV conventions, I'm not sure a truly genuine reaction is appropriate for the moment in the first place.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:21 (nine years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:22 (nine years ago) link
It was either that or the old way, which was a genuine coronation in a eerily empty room.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:32 (nine years ago) link
Yeah for me the real coronation moment now is when you see the three watching the actual broadcast. Last year's was intense!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:34 (nine years ago) link
Yeah here it is:
http://www.logotv.com/video/misc/906532/rupauls-drag-race-winner-reaction.jhtml
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:35 (nine years ago) link
oh god Eric otm...the old way was hella weird
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:39 (nine years ago) link
I'm not sure why they couldn't do a combination of both the pre-taped special and then split-screen the last segment with something like that video, Ned -- the queens watching the pre-taped live but allowing the audience to experience both simultaneously.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:47 (nine years ago) link
Courtney is completely two faced! I LOVE ADORE― homosexual II, Wednesday, May 7, 2014 11:06 AM
― homosexual II, Wednesday, May 7, 2014 11:06 AM
Quoting this because this reminds me that h II correctly pointed out on Facebook this important fact -- Adore quoted Phoebe Cates in Lace!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:49 (nine years ago) link
Doubtless true! But also they don't have to worry about FCC violations or whatever in the moment doing it the way they do, so.
that video was cool, ned
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:50 (nine years ago) link
apropos of nothing, am I the last person to find out that Sharon & Alaska split?
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:51 (nine years ago) link
I thought FCC violations didn't apply to non over-the-air channels.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:51 (nine years ago) link
Eric -- sorry, that's my point! IE, no broadcast split screen live of the thing. Also it would RUIN THE ILLUSION, MAN.
VG -- I thought you talked about that upthread already! The breakup that is.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:53 (nine years ago) link
...
and that proves that my brain would make a perfect colander
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 18:54 (nine years ago) link
I never see the satire! The show is self-aware to a degree that's exceptional for the genre, and funnier than almost all of them, but RPDR is fundamentally a part of that genre. I almost think reality tv is impossible to satirize without an actual script, a la the Onion's "Sex House."
I think that a lot of cable channels, although they aren't bound by FCC regs, self-censor for the sake of advertisers.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 19:15 (nine years ago) link
Ha, I see a little more clearly now, I took 'non over-the-air' to mean web clips/livestreams
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 19:19 (nine years ago) link
PS I think Ru's got the Ozzie accent down because his longtime companion is an Ozzie cowboy.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 20:41 (nine years ago) link
Ha, that's right, I'd forgotten that.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 20:44 (nine years ago) link
is RPDR the Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman of reality television programming?
― funny and lolexander (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 22:23 (nine years ago) link
I'll settle for that.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 22:29 (nine years ago) link
Untucked as the Fernwood Tonight?
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 May 2014 00:03 (nine years ago) link
Read all the way to the end for five-alarm Willam burn:
http://37.media.tumblr.com/d67dc0036e742a43756c0e262bee81ca/tumblr_n586ywgVZN1qmuh8yo1_1280.jpg
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Thursday, 8 May 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
And I can just hear his voice saying ALL that.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 May 2014 18:03 (nine years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 8 May 2014 22:55 (nine years ago) link
Doing the Lord's work: http://dragracelipsync.tumblr.com
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Saturday, 10 May 2014 23:42 (nine years ago) link
LIVING
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 May 2014 23:44 (nine years ago) link
And we all saw the Conchita victory in Europe, yes?
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 May 2014 23:45 (nine years ago) link
No :( But I saw your tweetfest, haha!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Saturday, 10 May 2014 23:49 (nine years ago) link
awesome
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 May 2014 00:21 (nine years ago) link
To think she would've been kicked off RpDR the very first week.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Sunday, 11 May 2014 01:02 (nine years ago) link
the what
― Gritty Shakur (sic), Sunday, 11 May 2014 05:33 (nine years ago) link
Georges Lebar, originally hailing from Perth
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 May 2014 05:42 (nine years ago) link
Veg
― Gritty Shakur (sic), Sunday, 11 May 2014 13:55 (nine years ago) link
oic
its the 'ozzie' huh. i let it slide bcz it's lovely ned
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 May 2014 14:34 (nine years ago) link
I am indeed a lovely Ned. What are we talking about?
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 11 May 2014 16:03 (nine years ago) link
ozzie to say out loud, aussie in written form.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 May 2014 16:28 (nine years ago) link
Oh I agree! But I wasn't the one objecting. :-D
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 11 May 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link
Bologna!
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Sunday, 11 May 2014 17:18 (nine years ago) link
Nice New Orleans newspaper story on Bianca
http://www.nola.com/tv/index.ssf/2014/05/new_orleans_native_bianca_del.html
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 May 2014 14:25 (nine years ago) link
And that in turn links back to a 2002 story by the same writer about her
http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/double-trouble/Content?oid=1240467
Which has this great bit:
One part Carol Burnett, one part Bob Mackie ("my idol!"), one part Don Rickles ("He made me pee"), but only a small sliver RuPaul ("not my cup of tea")
But which could also explain the opening of the new story too!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 May 2014 14:32 (nine years ago) link
#TeamBianca
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 04:31 (nine years ago) link
^^^
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 04:35 (nine years ago) link
but I wont cry if its Adore
I love Adore too, and I think she's going to have a great career but imo it would be a bit insulting to Bianca if she won. I think Bianca really really deserves it. She just kicked ass the whole season, challenge after challenge. She wasn't even in the bottom three once. She definitely won the Race.
This finale reminds me a bit of Chad vs Sharon, the seasoned queen vs the fresh loveable new talent. Except this time around Bianca was 100 times more interesting than Chad, while Adore is not yet as polished and fully-developped as Sharon was.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 05:34 (nine years ago) link
Are you all aware of Sharon's fondness for throwing around the n-word?
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 06:23 (nine years ago) link
Yes; Sharon is kind of awful it turns out
― funny and lolexander (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 11:09 (nine years ago) link
I kind of heard about that. Is she doing it to be controversial? She seems more intelligent than that. She was hilarious last night. Alaska and her were definitely the funniest.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 15:13 (nine years ago) link
I never did get the full details beyond the fact that it sounds like some weird misunderstanding. (Which, of course, it easily couldn't be.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 15:30 (nine years ago) link
That must be the "stupid" component of her character she was always pointing out.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 16:12 (nine years ago) link
Anyway, a little something
http://morningafter.gawker.com/rupauls-drag-race-counts-down-to-the-crown-1575769199/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 18:17 (nine years ago) link
I thought we would see some sort of finished product from last weeks improv with Ru. What was all that for ?
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 02:31 (nine years ago) link
for lols? idk
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 02:35 (nine years ago) link
Ha, this is fun -- a random rewatch of the intro/audition episode from Season 3, which has a slew of short snippets from various applicants among the actual competitors' tapes, turned up a familiar face -- Joslyn!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 03:23 (nine years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 03:51 (nine years ago) link
Guess who.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 04:03 (nine years ago) link
nice
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 04:54 (nine years ago) link
Just caught up with the recap episode and it was a clutch decision to bring back all those previous season queens for commentary the entire time, "VH1 Presents I Love The Drag Queens" tho it played.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Thursday, 15 May 2014 03:21 (nine years ago) link
Courtney's getting down...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgGJ23uys68
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 May 2014 17:48 (nine years ago) link
Or rather
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 May 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link
Taylor Swift?
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Thursday, 15 May 2014 17:56 (nine years ago) link
Well Adore's having fun:
https://scontent-a-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t31.0-8/10258031_10152132312797828_2655259498879243062_o.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 18 May 2014 23:56 (nine years ago) link
April looking great there.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Sunday, 18 May 2014 23:58 (nine years ago) link
Hahah
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 May 2014 00:47 (nine years ago) link
lololol I totally believed you that April had just dressed appropriately for the event. Sheesh.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Monday, 19 May 2014 00:50 (nine years ago) link
Ru is gonna be on Maron's WTF podcast on Monday, fyi
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 May 2014 01:10 (nine years ago) link
"No really Marc, there's this thing called dance music and electronics."
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 May 2014 02:17 (nine years ago) link
"So who are your guys?"
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 May 2014 02:18 (nine years ago) link
I hope they get deep into it, Ru is fascinating to me
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 May 2014 02:19 (nine years ago) link
Ru was great on WTF -- I swear to god Ru is maybe the only person who can do this, but like 90% of everything he says is mashed up metaphors from self-help books and I would tune it out at straight up nonsense bullshit within 5 minutes if it was anyone else...but somehow I still want to hear everything he has to say, no matter what!
and he drilled down pretty hard with Maron on the things that hold you back from enjoying yourself etc, it was p cool
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 May 2014 21:49 (nine years ago) link
Cool, might listen to it later before the finale.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 May 2014 21:49 (nine years ago) link
oh and he was playing nice, saying 'f-word' etc and then Maron asked him at the end about the word 'tranny' and hoooooly shit he went on a RANT
It was like Season 1 Tammy rant
It was kind of O_O
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 May 2014 21:50 (nine years ago) link
Haha cool
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 May 2014 21:52 (nine years ago) link
anyway Bianca posted a pic of her finale dress yesterday on Instagram and I'M SO EXCITED FOR THE FINALE
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 May 2014 21:55 (nine years ago) link
Yeah -- about to go off the Net here for the next few hours so I can be surprised by the West Coast broadcast!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 01:35 (nine years ago) link
magnoselia
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 05:35 (nine years ago) link
The LOOK on Michelle Visage's face when they cut to her when Laganja was Laganjaing. I live.
The reintroduction of the top three song also ruled like hell.
And the winner, well, who else in the end!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 06:33 (nine years ago) link
great stuff
hooray!!!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 13:50 (nine years ago) link
Loved Ben getting Miss Congeniality; if she'd been top three then Joslyn but since not, had to be Ben. (And I rather enjoyed Ru both noting general audience lust for Milk in boy mode and the protests when Ben left.)
No direct family mentions for Bianca still, I guess -- or maybe it's just him in the end? Or else the family's very private or etc. I still find it very interesting than in a show where, for all the 'we get to choose our families' rhetoric, immediate family of one form or another is so heavily emphasized (thus the Darienne redemption moment, Joslyn and hubby's moms, etc.). So having it be Lola and her mom solely as the Bianca family support stands out a bit.
Definite odd moment for me was Adore/Laganja watching the Untucked thing, because I couldn't get the exact tone.
Jiggy Caliente! Looking good! Ivy was a bit wobbly there but hey, stilts.
I also like how ALL the queens get glammed up and got up in full for these finales, it shifts from being under-pressure efforts to something else.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 14:31 (nine years ago) link
Meantime I've seen a few photos emerge from the actual finale party in Las Vegas and presumably video to follow. If they hold it there next year I am seriously thinking of going.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 14:34 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I didn't get the Adore/Laganja thing either.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 15:03 (nine years ago) link
Reaction video is super cute
http://www.logotv.com/video/misc/1045243/rupauls-drag-race-season-6-winners-reaction.jhtml
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 16:21 (nine years ago) link
Even though I was more than lukewarm on Courtney, I really liked the chemistry of the 3 of them together as a group
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 16:22 (nine years ago) link
Yeah it was fun! Loved that reaction video. Adore's shoes!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 16:30 (nine years ago) link
so can Bianca get her own show now? or an HBO special?
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 16:33 (nine years ago) link
Guess we'll see! I'm actually looking forward to Adore's album there.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 16:44 (nine years ago) link
me too!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link
post-finale instagram from Adore's feed
http://images.ak.instagram.com/profiles/profile_183093158_75sq_1400561692.jpg
I wish I could find a screenshot of little Lola's face when Bianca won. It was priceless! Standing up on her chair all O_O
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 00:41 (nine years ago) link
oops well that didn't work
here
http://instagram.com/p/oNZB2OMV-H/
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 00:42 (nine years ago) link
ooh and Adore's new single here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4TB4UdDKBM
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 01:01 (nine years ago) link
Okay last one
Nice long interview with Queen Bianca, where they mention that part of the pre-taping included a shared crown scenario with Adore & Bianca (!)
http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/television/2014/05/20/exclusive-interview-americas-next-drag-superstar
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 01:10 (nine years ago) link
Adore in a Misfits shirt? Life is wonderful.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 01:24 (nine years ago) link
And you know I was *wondering* if they'd do a joint crown thing. Hadn't heard any rumors of it.
that would've been kinda cool
though it would have been weird for Courtney
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 01:41 (nine years ago) link
If this had happened, it would've involved Laganja.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 04:30 (nine years ago) link
no lols for you, that was terrible
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 04:31 (nine years ago) link
Really disappointed that during the wedding, Joslyn didn't tear off her gown to reveal the nine white bikinis underneath.
xpost I'm just getting started!
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 04:32 (nine years ago) link
I lied, I got nothing else. :(
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 04:51 (nine years ago) link
Oh: Jinkx's makeup was a little, let's say, minimalist.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 04:55 (nine years ago) link
There was something odd about the headpiece & the wig, it looked like it might have need to be built up with more wig? idk. made her face look very small
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 05:04 (nine years ago) link
the dress was neat though
I think she was going for a Statue of Liberty thing, with the green dress and the spiky crown.
PS the Alyssa's Secrets with Shangela are hysterical.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 05:07 (nine years ago) link
lol'd hard at Ben winning a gift certificate.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 19:39 (nine years ago) link
A couple of chin-stroking pieces
http://www.thewire.com/entertainment/2014/05/rupauls-drag-race-is-americas-best-reality-show-with-the-worst-finale/371162/
http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/rupauls-drag-race-reunited-204861
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 21:50 (nine years ago) link
I kind of agree with the wire piece, but it was probably the most fun finale they've had so I don't really care?
I sort of wish the finale was more of a two parter project runway kind of deal where they have longer to put together something for a challenge and really show their own brand of drag but it's not going to keep me up at night
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 22:21 (nine years ago) link
Yeah same here. Also, let's be frank, the ONLY reason they just don't go ahead and do it live is because of the potential for fuck-ups and raunch.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 22:24 (nine years ago) link
totally
though who doesn't want to see that, let's be honest
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 22:25 (nine years ago) link
The AVClub writer is horrible.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 22:29 (nine years ago) link
guys how did we miss this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljn84CYG5ws
― aaliyah papi (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 23 May 2014 03:50 (nine years ago) link
and this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_uPdrIF1Xw
― aaliyah papi (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 23 May 2014 03:52 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/E1lFkvX.gifhttp://i.imgur.com/E1lFkvX.gifhttp://i.imgur.com/E1lFkvX.gifhttp://i.imgur.com/E1lFkvX.gifhttp://i.imgur.com/E1lFkvX.gifhttp://i.imgur.com/E1lFkvX.gif
― aaliyah papi (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 23 May 2014 03:57 (nine years ago) link
I'd say crown Ornacia
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 May 2014 03:59 (nine years ago) link
Stevie if you don't go see this for us I will hunt you down
http://www.phillymag.com/g-philly/2014/05/22/rupauls-drag-races-alaska-debuts-stevie-nicks-show-philly/#more-2577571
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 May 2014 05:04 (nine years ago) link
omg I so want to see that
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 May 2014 05:05 (nine years ago) link
http://37.media.tumblr.com/842ea91636a682cffeca0ee0f218bf4b/tumblr_n3p5ua0mZe1qzktbuo1_250.gif
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Friday, 30 May 2014 05:39 (nine years ago) link
The Heathers are back...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGLY0Lb4yYE
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 7 June 2014 22:19 (nine years ago) link
A Stacy Lane cameo would've been EVERYTHING.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Saturday, 7 June 2014 23:03 (nine years ago) link
That's pretty painful to listen to. Drag queen music isn't very good is it. Are there any other than Divine and "Supermodel (You Betta Work)" that were succesfull ?If Boy George counts then they all have a lot of work to do.
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 9 June 2014 02:31 (nine years ago) link
Oh I forgot Sylvester and Kevin Aviance.
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 9 June 2014 02:32 (nine years ago) link
I can't think of a single RpDR alum music video that I've thought was remotely listenable.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Monday, 9 June 2014 02:36 (nine years ago) link
I like Willam & DWV's parody songs the best of any of the recent drag queen songs
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 9 June 2014 02:49 (nine years ago) link
I've heard Adore's stuff is good?
― aaliyah papi (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 9 June 2014 15:21 (nine years ago) link
but idk
I've heard that __Tatianna__'s stuff is good. I listened to a couple, and they didn't scream TURN ME OFF.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Monday, 9 June 2014 17:02 (nine years ago) link
I liked Adore's first single, I haven't heard any more yet
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 9 June 2014 18:10 (nine years ago) link
Interesting article here that Jinkx just shared out -- she's one of the interviewees.
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2014/06/25/3449462/drag-queens-trans-women/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 18:56 (nine years ago) link
As an aside, it's interesting to see Dela's boy last-name being used, since he'd been so careful about obscuring it for so long.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 19:29 (nine years ago) link
This is too adorable and gives me faith in humanity:
http://dragaholic.com/2014/06/jujubee-30th-birthday-gift-rhode-island-pride-heartwarming-story/
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 26 June 2014 14:21 (nine years ago) link
Aw neat!
And a new Jinkx interview
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2014/06/jinkx_monsoon_free_download.php
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 June 2014 16:11 (nine years ago) link
Party.
http://logo.to/1qfK1Lz
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 11:48 (nine years ago) link
I met Adore briefly at Toronto Pride! She was really sweet and went out of her way to come give me kisses even though her team was waiting for her. She said "they're gonna kill me but I don't care!"
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 16:28 (nine years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
Hey VG forgot to mention here that THE BEATDOWN IS BACK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JQeCUKovIg
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 26 July 2014 17:30 (nine years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 July 2014 17:40 (nine years ago) link
Meanwhile, good takes on wider issues
http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2014/07/24/is_drag_a_trans_identity_or_just_a_job_a_queen_explores_her_art.html
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 31 July 2014 01:35 (nine years ago) link
Jinkx, having fun with Fred
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeaVCB9qlto
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 21:50 (nine years ago) link
Flintstone or Durst?
― Hakeem Olajuwon Howard (Leee), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 21:53 (nine years ago) link
All and more. (In actuality, Schneider.)
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 22:47 (nine years ago) link
Love it !
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 20 September 2014 23:07 (nine years ago) link
http://iyorbe35.tumblr.com/post/98162519990/olicity-endgame-0hhgodpleaseshutup-i-found#notes
― Hakeem Olajuwon Howard (Leee), Monday, 22 September 2014 23:06 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/bRWtslS.jpg
― cichleee suite (Leee), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 02:33 (nine years ago) link
your makeup is terrible <3
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 02:50 (nine years ago) link
I am rolling this over from the Phrases you hate... thread -- do you think this show (which is a show w/ relatively low ratings on a niche cable network) has had a disproportionate impact on pop culture? I mean when I think abt terms like "basic" or "work" or "realness" or "serve", obviously none of them originated on RPDR but RPDR seems to be the vehicle that brought them into the mainstream
or have they even entered into ~the mainstream~? I mean I readily admit I kind of live in a v liberal and queer bubble so maybe I am not the best judge of what "normal ppl" say slang-wise but it *seems* like these things have entered into a sort of general lexicon and when I think abt it it seems like RPDR would have been the thing that accelerated their usage at a v rapid rate and moved them from very nice to somewhat common
― Belami Young (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 30 October 2014 14:37 (nine years ago) link
Good question and I don't know...I think it's a vector, definitely. I'd say Logo's strategy of putting up its shows, including all of this, via its website for free (and while that can be clunky, the actual app itself has been flawless on that front) has been key too.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 October 2014 14:39 (nine years ago) link
Ned as a straight white dude (no shade) who is also a fan of this show, you are prob a v good candidate for this discussion! Would you say that some of these phrases are used by ppl that you know who prob/def do not watch this show?
― Belami Young (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 30 October 2014 14:44 (nine years ago) link
I can't say I've noticed it big time? Familiarity with such phrases in my overall group of friends derives from already being a fan of said show, having seen some episodes, or simply being involved in/aware of drag culture (define this as widely/broadly as possible) for years upon years. I haven't been consciously surprised out of nowhere as of yet, let's put it that way, and I definitely don't know any try-too-hard Laganjas offhand.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 October 2014 14:50 (nine years ago) link
Shade almost definitely popularized by the show, based on nothing but a gut feeling, if I can interject as another straight white dude. Are some of these terms also popularized by reigning pop divas, though? Like an updated version of the Madonna Effect.
― pleeechazunga (Leee), Thursday, 30 October 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
most of the ppl i know who use these terms are rpdr fans and/or are in the queer bubble already...often both
i dont think i've heard it from..um...muggles?
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 30 October 2014 19:54 (nine years ago) link
While we wait (season 7 folks to be announced on Dec. 7), Willam, Billy B, makeup, gossip, more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIAHu_Wx5cc
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 27 November 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
Annnnnnd we got season 7's queens:
http://www.newnownext.com/all-the-queens-of-rupauls-drag-race-season-7-revealed/12/2014
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 December 2014 04:18 (nine years ago) link
I spent this morning watching all of the Meet the Queens so you don't have to!
Ginger Minj: "Cross-dresser for Christ" shtick that will wear off quickly but will be enjoyable enough while it lasts.Jaidynn Diore Fierce: v typical but depth-lacking "what honey sass mama WORK!" queen, seems friendly but straight out of central casting Jasmine Masters: jaw-droppingly inept; answers every interview question with a direct one-word answer. Clearly brought on for filler as there is NOTHING discernibly interesting abt herKandy Ho: Kandy Ho is from Puerto Rico; you know this because, in addition to "I'm from Puerto Rico", they've put zany Latin music across the whole segment.Katya: her look is like rich Russian woman and she's really clever. I'm anticipating Willam comparisons (she even threw in an incest joke for good measure). Certainly one of the more potentially interesting onesKennedy Davenport: the spacey Southern queen who might surprise everyone w/ her covert wit. She's subdued but charming and I anticipate having a lot of fun watching herMax: Max is trying very hard to let you know that she is FUNNY and WEIRD and UNIQUE by dressing like an old woman; she wears lace and talks like she's on Downton Abbey and tells very forced jokes and it's all tedious and unrelenting. I cannot wait to see her sent home.Miss Fame: "I came up with my drag name because I'm a pretty spiritual person and I read the book The Secret" and then namedrops Naomi Campbell and Karen Mulder. This one's going to be good.Mrs. Kasha Davis: middle-aged queens wears sequins, references Liza Minelli and boxed wine zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzPearl: sedate valley-girl punkish type who might be good but might be a really empty "edgy queen"Sasha Belle: rockin' Southern belle, or something.Tempest DuJour: thee-uh-tuhh queen with "weird" hair who's going to make us all yawn a lot probTrixie Mattel: i've run out of things to say about any of these peopleViolet Chachki: idk whatever i don't hate her
― fgti jaq, it's chinavision! (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 14 December 2014 18:15 (nine years ago) link
ooh i need to check these out
is it katya who has crazy swordfish nose contouring? i cant remember
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 14 December 2014 18:24 (nine years ago) link
You mean Magnolia Crawford?
― Baruch Olbermann (Leee), Saturday, 27 December 2014 03:50 (nine years ago) link
lol yeah but i meant in the upcoming new season contestants
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 December 2014 04:03 (nine years ago) link
You do know who's popping out of a box this season, right?
― Baruch Olbermann (Leee), Saturday, 27 December 2014 05:33 (nine years ago) link
i fking hope not
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 December 2014 05:38 (nine years ago) link
I only watched some of the MTQ videos, and this cast seems right now to be a real dud.
― Baruch Olbermann (Leee), Monday, 29 December 2014 18:07 (nine years ago) link
they always seem p wtf thoughi remember being like u_u over adore & gia & bianca with her crazy eyemakeup
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 December 2014 19:31 (nine years ago) link
While we wait: http://gfycat.com/GleamingUnitedHare
― Hollinger Escape Plan (Leee), Thursday, 22 January 2015 06:21 (nine years ago) link
Omg thnk u
― Jennifer 8.-( (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 22 January 2015 06:30 (nine years ago) link
Bianca is doing a comedy show here with Courtney supporting in five weeks
but I'll be in Hawaii
― bob seger's silver bullet gland (sic), Thursday, 22 January 2015 06:40 (nine years ago) link
Annnnd...
http://instinctmagazine.com/post/rupauls-drag-race-season-7-gets-first-trailer-premiere-date
Santino is out, and Carson Kressley and Ross Matthews are in as permanent new additions to the judges panel.
Debut is March 2. My birthday! How kind of them.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:04 (nine years ago) link
I'm already ready already!
― Eric H., Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:00 (nine years ago) link
oh good Carson Kressley has a job again :/
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:45 (nine years ago) link
Truth be told, I'd be fine if it were just Ru, Michelle and the Pointer Sisters every week.
― Eric H., Wednesday, 28 January 2015 19:19 (nine years ago) link
Oh good lord yes.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 19:22 (nine years ago) link
yass lawd gurl mama
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 19:43 (nine years ago) link
Finally !
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:46 (nine years ago) link
oh yaaaaasss slayyy hunty mamaahhhh gurl lawd jesus face she is serving a platter or fish sticks okurrrrrrr <sobs>
― Jennifer 8.-( (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 29 January 2015 01:45 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhVw3bY8PZ0
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 January 2015 03:14 (nine years ago) link
and this just because I need to get that LaGanja horror show out of my retinas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zps8WvVQdE
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 January 2015 03:17 (nine years ago) link
Season 3 flashback...
http://morningafter.gawker.com/i-cant-stop-watching-this-madonna-impersonators-existen-1682543939/+richjuz
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 January 2015 17:01 (nine years ago) link
omg
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 January 2015 17:21 (nine years ago) link
tbh, I got more entertainment from this comment:
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/v095mxswdydvvohgpjam.gif
― Eric H., Thursday, 29 January 2015 17:22 (nine years ago) link
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 January 2015 18:01 (nine years ago) link
Well that gif is kind of unbeatable.
― Hollinger Escape Plan (Leee), Thursday, 29 January 2015 19:30 (nine years ago) link
Next week and all. New interview!
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6480364/rupaul-drag-race-interview
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 18:40 (nine years ago) link
friend saw the RPDR7 tour last night and said it was like so sickening that it gave him life
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 18:43 (nine years ago) link
Well yes
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 19:17 (nine years ago) link
Is your friend Laganja?
― Godsleee You Black Emperor (Leee), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 19:23 (nine years ago) link
There's a thought.
Anyway some fun/interesting details in that interview. How had I missed the Pit Crew's web series?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 20:37 (nine years ago) link
Didn't realize Max was from the Twin Cities.
http://www.vita.mn/fashion/294118041.html
― Eric H., Sunday, 1 March 2015 05:01 (nine years ago) link
I am intrigued by Violet but idk if she's anything more than a look
Mrs Kasha Davis & Jasmin look like they might be fun
Kennedy Davenport is for real, her dancing is ridiculous
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 1 March 2015 20:58 (nine years ago) link
Come on Season 7 ! Let's get sickening !!!
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 01:23 (nine years ago) link
Two and a half hours to go on the West Coast...
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 02:28 (nine years ago) link
eeeeeeeee
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 02:35 (nine years ago) link
Kandy Ho is a shady bearded lady
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 06:13 (nine years ago) link
i am too tired to stay up & watch untucked online tho, will catch up tomorrow
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 06:14 (nine years ago) link
good cast thoughthat max is kinda interesting! violet chachki is fun to watch but idk personality wise she seems a bit dead in the water
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 06:15 (nine years ago) link
I'm kind of still getting them all mixed up, especially the young fishy ones. The ones that stand out for me so far are Max and Katya. I'm glad we're getting Untucked on TV right after the episode here in Canada. It's an integral part of the show for me (although this particular one was boring. I'm not sure I like how they are doing it this Season.)
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 16:33 (nine years ago) link
i was annoyed that they blurred the bodies, made it harder to tell how crappy the paintjobs really were
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 17:42 (nine years ago) link
Yeah that was really dumb. Blurring fake nudity? Ugh. At least we got to see what they looked like on Untucked. Especially Ginger lol!
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 18:44 (nine years ago) link
Delays delays, ONLY just got around to seeing the episode. (Ending up crashing out last night, just too tired from my birthday weekend.) Liked the change up for the opening challenge and how Alaska was just...there. Because why not!
I suppose they couldn't do what they did last season and break things up initially without ruining the surprise, but it did feel a little rushed this time around, especially since we only got an hour long episode instead of the older hour and a half season starters. Maybe next week will cause things to settle a bit.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 01:55 (nine years ago) link
Alaska was (brilliantly) impersonating Anna Wintour!
I rewatched the episode and it was better this time around because I could remember who was who. There were just to many new faces yesterday. After seeing it again, I thought they got the bottom two wrong. For me it should have been Jasmine and her cocoon vs Sasha and her not understanding the assignment. But I think the producers chose to have Tempest and Kandy lipsynch to continue the drama they had going since the very beginning of the episode. I'm surprised miss Ho's ageism was Ruwarded with a win.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 04:29 (nine years ago) link
god Sasha was horrible
she looked like me walking out on the runway in my spanx
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 04:41 (nine years ago) link
Yeah a second watch should help things sink in a bit more. Was catching up on the various web clips and things now, Pandora B in full effect as always...
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 04:54 (nine years ago) link
And having seen the Untucked now...hmm. It IS all different. I kinda liked seeing more of the whole behind-the-scenes in general -- like, the actual reverse side of the workroom doors, who knew! And the basic couch format is okay enough though I do miss the Ru shrines and all, plus no peekaboo moments as well, I guess.
Strange, though, how the whole episode felt very...almost elegaic. More restrained and almost melancholy in its shooting and editing, but also in the discussions. It wasn't sold as bitchy backstage drama, it's a bit of a sharp turn. But maybe that was the whole point, that they'd reached a limit?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 05:31 (nine years ago) link
Anyway, Raja and Raven back with the Ruviews tomorrow!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 05:32 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, the split premiere, for its faults, really let you get to know the contestants, and I'm still trying to remember who gave birth in their Werq Room entrance, who said they had a body of an Irish rock climber, etc.
I was surprised with Max -- flat/shallow personality judging from her MTQ video, but her looks were so far out of the box that there was plenty of room for Shangela in there. But I think she's going to be a more clueless April.
Pearl's entrance was my favorite.
Some of these girls are cinched to the gawds. Damn!
― Romo... ROMO! Bring Back Sergio Romo! (Leee), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 05:54 (nine years ago) link
I loved Max's resort retiree with the crutches, that was all up in some Sharon Needles steez, so awesome
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 05:59 (nine years ago) link
And I presume a wink to Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi" video.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 06:24 (nine years ago) link
oh yeah that too! *forehead slap*
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 06:27 (nine years ago) link
She wishes she were shady, when instead she's a garden variety a-hole.
One of the fishies -- I think Violet? -- out of drag is what I imagine Detox to look like pre-surgeries.
― Romo... ROMO! Bring Back Sergio Romo! (Leee), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 17:45 (nine years ago) link
Some further discussion
http://themuse.jezebel.com/the-best-runway-looks-from-the-season-premiere-of-rupau-1689281714?rev=1425507102067
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 22:38 (nine years ago) link
Also, I have just noticed that there's a commentary version of the episode with Alasks and Bianca Del Rio BEST IDEA EVER
http://www.logotv.com/video/rupauls-drag-race-season-7-episode-1-queens-commentary-with-bianca-del-rio-and-alaska/1734532/playlist.jhtml#vid=1174621
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 22:43 (nine years ago) link
Where's Untucked?? Is it only going to be on Youtube this season?
― Romo... ROMO! Bring Back Sergio Romo! (Leee), Saturday, 7 March 2015 03:30 (nine years ago) link
online only
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 March 2015 03:47 (nine years ago) link
I couldn't find it on Logo's site though! I ended up watching it on YouTube.
― Romo... ROMO! Bring Back Sergio Romo! (Leee), Saturday, 7 March 2015 19:06 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I think it's only on YT -- I guess the idea is try and showcase their channel there more.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 7 March 2015 19:25 (nine years ago) link
Oh and speaking of, the first RuView with Raja and Raven did go up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIayj_1a_8s
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 7 March 2015 19:26 (nine years ago) link
i love them together, they're cute
and raven is fking rad, always
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 March 2015 21:39 (nine years ago) link
They tooted the lobster dress !!
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 7 March 2015 22:29 (nine years ago) link
yeah that was the only one I was like whaaaaaaaat in the world
i guess it looks a *little* better stationary than in motion? but ugh
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 March 2015 22:33 (nine years ago) link
i have had two lines from ep1 stuck in my head all week
"come on SHOES"and "come on CHIN STRAP"
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 8 March 2015 04:14 (nine years ago) link
https://33.media.tumblr.com/aaa4a794163a338627e6e54cfc4ec22b/tumblr_nkia0uMz8T1rtprlzo2_500.gif
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 8 March 2015 04:17 (nine years ago) link
This girl from Australia has the funniest recaps on the web: http://blandcanyon.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/rupauls-drag-race-recap-season-7.html
― LeRooLeRoo, Sunday, 8 March 2015 15:46 (nine years ago) link
Oh nice (since Tom/Lorenzo seem to be slacking off at this point).
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 8 March 2015 15:52 (nine years ago) link
And Coco and Isis are back!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU3pSnahRMk
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 8 March 2015 17:40 (nine years ago) link
Episode 2! Starting! On the east coast, shortly, etc. etc.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 00:57 (nine years ago) link
LIVVY
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 02:10 (nine years ago) link
Okay that made for a great ending. (And was not the Olivia song I would have picked, even though I was just thinking about it recently!)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 05:03 (nine years ago) link
Ru is such a nerd with her special guest judges & song choices
also Sasha Belle's sad boob malfunction was hilarious and a fitting punctuation to her overall sad-drag
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 05:39 (nine years ago) link
The best thing she did was show up in the Milla Jovovich/Fifth Element knockoff right from her introduction and even that wasn't much. Combine that with the pretension that being a self-proclaimed hyperfan of the show who had 'cracked the code' was enough and yikes, crash and burn, especially after Katya pulled off the fast AND slow splits.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 14:24 (nine years ago) link
Oh and can I just say -- Moby? Out of nowhere? Getting blown? As it were.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 14:25 (nine years ago) link
yeah that was weird and awesome
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 16:23 (nine years ago) link
Also I love how in the space of six months or so Jordin Sparks has been in a Left Behind reboot and shown laughing her ass off at a group lipsync routine full of reverse cowgirl action and oral sex and etc.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 16:27 (nine years ago) link
As much as I didn't enjoy her last week, I thought Jasmine should've been in the top 3 this week. Fashion really isn't her thing, but she might keep herself on the show with her lipsynch like Coco and Trinity did. I do agree Ginger deserved the win though.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 17:48 (nine years ago) link
Yeah Jasmine did a great job. Glad Ginger got the win all the same, she's sassy!
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 18:00 (nine years ago) link
Moby should've won for his best Thom Yorke drag.
Wondering if Katya really is a former Soviet gymnast now.
― Romo... ROMO! Bring Back Sergio Romo! (Leee), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 04:50 (nine years ago) link
What.
What was Moby doing there. It was far from the stupidest thing Moby's ever done, but it was definitely the stupidest thing RPDR has ever done.
― Eric H., Wednesday, 11 March 2015 13:47 (nine years ago) link
I like to think this season he'll just be inviting his random buddies to appear each episode.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 14:32 (nine years ago) link
it really was the weirdest thing
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 15:53 (nine years ago) link
oh and stupid, no question
You know, I'm very surprised and disappointed that the pretty girls are so conceited and precious about their looks.
― Romo... ROMO! Bring Back Sergio Romo! (Leee), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:26 (nine years ago) link
stop relying on that body-ody-ody
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:41 (nine years ago) link
Building toward another boogers vs. heathers season?
― Eric H., Wednesday, 11 March 2015 18:21 (nine years ago) link
kinda feels that way a little bit
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 18:23 (nine years ago) link
Uuuughh.
Though maybe flipping the n00b/veteran alignment might make it more palatable.
― Romo... ROMO! Bring Back Sergio Romo! (Leee), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 18:26 (nine years ago) link
i really hope that violet gets read to filth by michelle visage soon, like i really want that to happen so bad
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:48 (nine years ago) link
I just realized that I'm glad Sasha Belle was eliminated because I couldn't tell her apart from Mrs. Kasha Davis.
― Romo... ROMO! Bring Back Sergio Romo! (Leee), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 23:54 (nine years ago) link
Mrs Kasha is not a hot mess, that's how you can tell her from Sasha
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 12 March 2015 00:30 (nine years ago) link
And Kasha is the one who looks like Nina Flowers out of drag?
― Romo... ROMO! Bring Back Sergio Romo! (Leee), Thursday, 12 March 2015 00:31 (nine years ago) link
also FYI Pandora Boxx is doing weekly 5 min episode recaps on Logo, they're pretty fun
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 12 March 2015 00:32 (nine years ago) link
xpost maaayyybe idk
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 12 March 2015 00:33 (nine years ago) link
Yes and yes! Not sure yet about her housewife drag esthetic though. She doesn't stand out much so far.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 12 March 2015 02:38 (nine years ago) link
Kasha's deal is that she's part of Pandora/Darienne's family from Rochester. Buuut I can't say she's as sharp as those two yet, or at least we haven't seen it.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 March 2015 02:56 (nine years ago) link
This is just awesome
http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s238/petstarr/Drag%20Race/Drag%20Race%207/pad.gif
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 12 March 2015 15:22 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, def the winning team there.
― Eric H., Thursday, 12 March 2015 15:52 (nine years ago) link
Can I just say, tho, that this was maybe the most bizarre and loosely defined runway challenge I've seen in a long while?
― Eric H., Thursday, 12 March 2015 15:53 (nine years ago) link
i really enjoyed the elimination challenge this week
i was high but..... the songs were all kinda great???
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 12 March 2015 16:06 (nine years ago) link
since i can't really remember who is who this early in any reality show, my lone thought on this season is that it seems to have a higher than normal rate of queens who are cute as boys
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 12 March 2015 16:07 (nine years ago) link
also if you can break each season's contestants into 50's queens, big diva queens, comedy queens and young high fashion socialite queens it seems like this year's big diva queens are the most talented of any of the other groups
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 12 March 2015 16:09 (nine years ago) link
a higher than normal rate of queens who are cute as boys
About the same, but the ones who are cute this season are reaaaaaaaaaaaallllllly cute. Pearl, in particular.
― Eric H., Thursday, 12 March 2015 17:12 (nine years ago) link
yeah maybe that's it
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 12 March 2015 17:17 (nine years ago) link
Perl is REALLY cute as a girl, too.
― Romo... ROMO! Bring Back Sergio Romo! (Leee), Thursday, 12 March 2015 17:23 (nine years ago) link
Right. If only he had Raja's personality, I'd be in love.
― Eric H., Thursday, 12 March 2015 17:45 (nine years ago) link
And speaking of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEHTdh02UxQ
The KLF joke near the end I did NOT expect...but it's perfect.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 March 2015 00:31 (nine years ago) link
Plus yay recap
http://blandcanyon.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/rupauls-drag-race-recap-season-7_12.html
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 March 2015 00:34 (nine years ago) link
lool Raja's face at that KLF zing
and I love how pissed off Raven was about Sasha Belle. so otm. That wig(s) was sooooo heinous
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 13 March 2015 01:16 (nine years ago) link
Perhaps inevitable. Perhaps?
http://www.etonline.com/tv/161083_rupauls_drag_race_debuts_beards_on_the_runway/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 March 2015 16:27 (nine years ago) link
Some costume spoilers there but right now I'm starting to think if I have an overall season favorite it might be a tossup between Max and Ginger. But that said...still very early days yet and honestly nobody is totally standing out for me yet as a definite winner. Whole lotta midrange.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 March 2015 16:29 (nine years ago) link
Rooting for Max because she's the hometown girl, but I really want her to blow the weird factor out waaaaay further (the same way I felt about Milk tbh).
― Eric H., Friday, 13 March 2015 16:45 (nine years ago) link
Guess Willam really was ahead of his time
― chilli, Friday, 13 March 2015 21:35 (nine years ago) link
In that he would've won any subsequent season, yeah.
― Eric H., Friday, 13 March 2015 21:36 (nine years ago) link
Katya is still up there for me even after last week's episode. I think (hope) it was just an early mistep à la Raven and she will come back stronger and last until the top 3. She seems polished enough and funny enough to get there. Take me to the intersection of glamour and comedy!
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 14 March 2015 00:14 (nine years ago) link
Yeah Katya would be in for my top three too.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 14 March 2015 01:16 (nine years ago) link
Katya def a favorite. I thonk this season's snatch game could be a real hoot given how many comedy/performer queens there are this season
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 14 March 2015 01:48 (nine years ago) link
*think
Her tumblr is hilarious too: http://momsgoldteeth.tumblr.com/
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 14 March 2015 18:30 (nine years ago) link
Something else about Katya too -- like Alaska and Joslyn, she appears in the first season 3 episode (pre-competition) via clips from her audition tape:
http://www.logotv.com/video/episode-1-season-3-casting-special/1653956/playlist.jhtml#vid=605165
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 14 March 2015 21:09 (nine years ago) link
Oh Detox too while I'm thinking of it, via the live casting call.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 14 March 2015 21:10 (nine years ago) link
And Chad too IIRC!
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 14 March 2015 21:27 (nine years ago) link
just catching up, watched the first episode.
...why did max make fun of disabled people? the crutches? or old people? wtf? kick her the fuck off, she sucks
― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Monday, 16 March 2015 02:53 (nine years ago) link
aaaand moby just showed up and made fun of homeless people within 3 seconds
ok
― who is dankey kang (Karl Malone), Monday, 16 March 2015 03:22 (nine years ago) link
This season's Untucked is pretty radical!
― Common Street Screwers (Leee), Monday, 16 March 2015 04:12 (nine years ago) link
It is, really.
And another queen down. Can't say I'll miss her.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 05:02 (nine years ago) link
yeah she never really lived up to her talk. was hoping for more from the lipsync battle but oh well
max is becoming a consistent favorite
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 05:31 (nine years ago) link
bearded runway was great, so great
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 05:41 (nine years ago) link
It was! Max winning made sense.
A friend just asked if this season seemed a little painful to watch. And I can't say I entirely disagree! There seems to have been a bit of a tone shift I still can't entirely put my finger on.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 17:44 (nine years ago) link
yeah it's strange
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 17:45 (nine years ago) link
Feels like the last season of The Golden Girls.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 17 March 2015 17:46 (nine years ago) link
Now since you're going there -- I remember the show had been renewed through this season, but hadn't heard anything beyond that. I half wonder if this is all leading to this being...it?
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 17:56 (nine years ago) link
IMO it always takes a couple of episodes to get really going and for me to get attached to the new queens. I think they put a lot of effort in making last week and this week's challenges entertaining and fun. Maybe our expectations are just really high.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 18:18 (nine years ago) link
Hahah that could be it. And they were fun!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 18:19 (nine years ago) link
I'm still adjusting to the new Untucked format though. I miss Ru's narration.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 18:28 (nine years ago) link
I kinda like the new untucked. feels less stagey, a little more natural where they just talk without ALL the edits & sipping and glancing etc
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 18:32 (nine years ago) link
also lol @ jaidynn telling pearl he's hot and that she "might need to ride your face later"
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 18:47 (nine years ago) link
I kind of loved that lol. I understand that it's more real, but I think the old Untucked made me laugh more. (x-post)
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 18:51 (nine years ago) link
Some thoughts about last night's episode:
- Max was a great team leader, so happy that she won. Still top 3 for me.- The costumes for the main challenge were beautiful. I wonder if they were provided by the production or if they were the queen's own.- Loved Mama Ru getting all Tyra Banks on team Kennedy's boring ass.- Trixie's bearded runway looked fucking amazing.- The lipsynch was limp as hell. I almost thought Ru would send both home.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 19:34 (nine years ago) link
yeah Kennedy can turn it the fuck out , but she was a total yawn! idk what the hell that was
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 19:50 (nine years ago) link
Max's MTQ video was so terrible, it completely undercut any expectations I had from her, but she's slowly turning me around. Her looks have been gorge, but improv (re: Snatch Game) might be a test for her. (But then the THEATRE background might come in handy.)
To expand on my nu-Untucked == radical comment, I love how it's breaking the fourth-wall right now, which is something that reality tv shows are anathema to. It's not just the stagehands and PAs we see on camera -- when they talk to the eliminated queens who are out of their drag and out of their personas, and given the nature of this show, it *feels* so naked. It's a remarkable technique they've hit on, and has a rather powerful, elegiac effect, IMO. Might not be sustainable, though...
I kinda liked the lip sync! Jasmine particularly, but I'm just a sucker for good dancing.
― Common Street Screwers (Leee), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 21:08 (nine years ago) link
Love Ginger's unabashed shadiness.Kennedy loves to talk, which means more dramas, which means I love her.Hahah loving the bifurcation of the pretteez, Fame is the good pretty, Violet is the evil pretty.Jaidynn turning out to be a lot of fun, i.e. quotable.
― Common Street Screwers (Leee), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 21:15 (nine years ago) link
Does anyone notice how Max's absurd 1930's vocal affectations seem to drift in and out like even in the same sentence? It's as if she has to remind herself "oh yeah that's how I'm talking right now, whoops"
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 12:47 (nine years ago) link
totally! it's v strange
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 14:07 (nine years ago) link
Strange as it may sound, it's an Adore Delano equivalent. "I'm fierce! Wait not really. Wait I am!"
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 14:45 (nine years ago) link
I went back and rewatched Raja + Raven's Ruview from the first episode...those two are so good together, I fking love them.
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 March 2015 01:17 (nine years ago) link
And speaking of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQMLYACVhO4
I refuse reticence on this one. Raja looks just plain hot here.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 March 2015 01:03 (nine years ago) link
And we have this too
http://blandcanyon.blogspot.com/2015/03/rupauls-drag-race-recap-season-7_19.html
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 March 2015 01:12 (nine years ago) link
can I just take a minute and say how much I love Jaidynn
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 20 March 2015 12:48 (nine years ago) link
she's growing on me
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 20 March 2015 14:14 (nine years ago) link
Raja and Raven look gorgeous. WTF at Raja booting Trixie and tooting Kennedy though? Those pubes!
Bland Canyon girl went crazy this week, so funny!
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 20 March 2015 14:57 (nine years ago) link
Jaidynn's a kick, more hilariously boisterous than world-wise maybe, and I'm not sure about her breakdown moment in this week's episode. But I can see her lasting for a while.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 March 2015 15:05 (nine years ago) link
Oh hey, we have some news!
http://www.thewrap.com/logo-tv-gives-rupauls-drag-race-early-season-8-renewal-exclusive/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 March 2015 15:07 (nine years ago) link
The Season 8 premiere of “RPDR” was not only one of the reality competition’s most-watched, but it earned a nearly 20 percent increase in the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demographic. Additionally, its second episode of the season saw a double-digit increase over the debut episode.“Over 6 million people have watched the show in some way, shape or form across all of our platforms just this season alone, the three episodes that were in,” McCarthy pointed out. “The audience continues to build and the demand for it and the content is so great, why not take advantage of all that energy right now? World of Wonder is such an amazing partner to work with and Ru that we want to get out there while it’s hot and get casting for the next season.”
“Over 6 million people have watched the show in some way, shape or form across all of our platforms just this season alone, the three episodes that were in,” McCarthy pointed out. “The audience continues to build and the demand for it and the content is so great, why not take advantage of all that energy right now? World of Wonder is such an amazing partner to work with and Ru that we want to get out there while it’s hot and get casting for the next season.”
Well, guess that answers that question!
Something about that blandcanyon blog kinda bugs me :/
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 20 March 2015 16:37 (nine years ago) link
It's fun...but it's not perfect. There have been some moments throughout where you can sense a lot of distance not necessarily being bridged.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 March 2015 16:40 (nine years ago) link
I think it's only intermittently funny, but once in a while http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s238/petstarr/Drag%20Race/Drag%20Race%207/jaidehrm.jpg
― Common Street Screwers (Leee), Friday, 20 March 2015 18:39 (nine years ago) link
I'm pretty sure Jiggly Caliente was in the Broad City finale the other night; working the wig shop? anyone else clock her?
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 20 March 2015 19:39 (nine years ago) link
Confirmed
http://worldofwonder.net/jiggly-caliente-broad-city/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 March 2015 19:44 (nine years ago) link
And note this from her:
OMG…it was an amazing experience…Abbi and Ilana are HUGE fans of MAMA Ru and RuPaul’s Drag Race and they want to be in the show and says its on their bucket list!
Could be fun.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 March 2015 19:45 (nine years ago) link
omg GUEST JUDGES yasss gawd
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 20 March 2015 20:31 (nine years ago) link
sidebar: rewatching season 5, holy shit i forgot how many killer queens were on this season at once. it's like an allstars season
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 21 March 2015 00:13 (nine years ago) link
and i will never
ever
get tired of this gif
https://31.media.tumblr.com/fac08c94f612bc868ad88bd117a2e81f/tumblr_mrzo64rDmX1ssd38uo2_400.gif
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 21 March 2015 02:36 (nine years ago) link
So useful at the tail end of every winter.
― Eric H., Saturday, 21 March 2015 02:43 (nine years ago) link
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 21 March 2015 02:58 (nine years ago) link
https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/11075242_903723009678903_6101159903477382130_n.jpg?oh=e92280c14b002c562acc56628d47bf2f&oe=55AC7BA6&__gda__=1437943930_ed27ebf2694388ca84a069f1be625dc6
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 21 March 2015 14:30 (nine years ago) link
Next guest judges: Lucian Piane and Jessica Alba.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 21 March 2015 14:32 (nine years ago) link
things I know rewatching s5
- ru's wigs are incredible- like HOLY SHIT AMAZING- roxxxy was a bitch on wheels but her makeup, hair + costumes were flawless every single week, I think her competitiveness overshadowed how talented she is at drag. but ughhh so cunty jesus god- ivy winters is insanely talented. if she was competing this season she'd be almost a sure thing- jade jolie's stupid rainbow hair dress might be one of the worst dresses ever - i love jinx but thank god she learned how to beat her face. that contouring in the first half of the season was seriously awful. and i dont think she had a decent wig til she left the show, lol.
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 22 March 2015 02:17 (nine years ago) link
And BAM this was the episode that fully energized the season. (And holy shit on both the lip sync song choice and the final result, on top of everything else.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 05:03 (nine years ago) link
i thought Pearl was going to sleepwalk through that lipsync then halfway through she turned into electricity...i dunno if she has the ability to summon that all the time but if she does, whoa watch outshe was giving me a little bit of gloria swanson or something for a minute
violet's adore was pretty rad, and i dug jaidynn's crazy eye bianca
miss fame is super cunty, i'm almost down to zero feeling for that one
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 05:12 (nine years ago) link
Agreed with all the above. (Yeah Pearl hitting the gear shift was all 'Wait how did THAT happen.' I honestly still didn't think it would be enough, I was genuinely surprised.)
Loved the glass of water moment near the start. And the whole episode just felt like "Okay things are actually happening now, personalities bouncing off each other." (I thought the whole self-select/no minichallenge approach worked nicely too.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 05:20 (nine years ago) link
sidenote: i noticed April Carrion was wearing a Kandy Ho tshirt in one of the s6 eps, the Rusical ep i think?
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 05:23 (nine years ago) link
trixie's lipsync was great, no shade to her at all
it is a little unfair, but i think just the slight appearance of a livelier, more animated Pearl was enough for Ru to save her, given how hard she's been flatlining.
next week could be interesting
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 05:26 (nine years ago) link
Totally agree about the song choice for the lip-sync but they kind of killed the season for me with the bottom 2 and the result. I'm getting tired of the show going out of their way to create drama instead of rewarding talent. As soon as Trixie said Pearl and her were good friends I knew they'd be lip-synching against each other. Kandy Ho really should have been in the bottom instead of Trixie. And as much as I love Pearl, she was warned to wake up last week but ended in the bottom again. Yet she gets another pass and Trixie is sent home on her first misstep...
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 05:28 (nine years ago) link
I dunno, Trixie never totally stood out for me except in flashes. Pearl's antipersonality personality is more vivid in that regard. That said I agree Kandy dodged a bullet.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 05:33 (nine years ago) link
Trixie was high-safe on all episodes so far. And Pearl was mostly low. I was and still am rooting for her though, but this felt really scripted and unnecessary.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 05:42 (nine years ago) link
"Ethel Merman and Paul Lynde had a love child" omg DYYYYING
I want to hang out with this person
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 23:43 (nine years ago) link
Ginger is top flight great when it comes to that.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 00:49 (nine years ago) link
so fking classic
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 01:02 (nine years ago) link
And she has some amazing moments in the (v. good) Untucked this week as well. Best Untucked of the season so far too, everything really is gelling, and the new tone of Untucked really is starting to work wonders.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 01:52 (nine years ago) link
i need a gif of Kennedy on Untucked this week "She's....beautiful..."*lip quiver*
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 02:48 (nine years ago) link
i thought pearl's lip sync was terrible but it's hard for trixie to hang her hat on her "talent" when she gakked on every challenge
i did think tan moms was by far the best concept tho
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 25 March 2015 02:54 (nine years ago) link
it doesn't really seem like there are any superstars in this group which is usually fairly obvious at this point. feel like you could pick some of the final few from past seasons and they would be shoo ins to win. alaska for instance is many times better than any of these queens.
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 25 March 2015 02:55 (nine years ago) link
agreed, i was just thinking about that too
but i also dont think they are necess. un-talented. i think there's just clumps of queens who are all good at similar things rn
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 03:05 (nine years ago) link
The most nonsensical results I've ever seen: first, Jaidynn should've won, and second, Trixie destroyed Pearl in the lipsync, and I was sure that Ru would say that this week would be a non-elimination. I didn't even like the Pearl Comes Alive moment, because her energy just didn't have shape to it. (Kandy should definitely have been lipsyncing, though.)
― Common Street Screwers (Leee), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 03:48 (nine years ago) link
Yeah this was the strangest elimination because it was very, very clear that Trixie was outdoing Pearl.
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 05:35 (nine years ago) link
Nu RuView!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmN5Bbbu9Js
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 23:08 (nine years ago) link
FINALLY :D
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 23:09 (nine years ago) link
Yes gaaaawd ! Along with Alaska, these 2 have to be my all time favorites.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 26 March 2015 16:24 (nine years ago) link
Matthu Andersen said on a recent ru podcast ep that Raven & Raja are his favorite for their makeup skillz
they are THE best
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 26 March 2015 16:38 (nine years ago) link
and i love Raven's speaking voice
and i love Raven's chicken voice
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Thursday, 26 March 2015 16:51 (nine years ago) link
>:(
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 26 March 2015 16:52 (nine years ago) link
Lol
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 27 March 2015 15:12 (nine years ago) link
Prophetic there about that chicken voice comment, Leee...if a different queen.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 05:07 (eight years ago) link
miss fame with the chickens. i was crying, that was so hilarious
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 05:18 (eight years ago) link
It was amazing. Highlight of the episode!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 05:20 (eight years ago) link
pearl v ru O_O .... i was waiting for the imaginary earrings to be taken off
girrrrrrrrrrl
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 05:21 (eight years ago) link
Max's reaction was kinda priceless.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 05:24 (eight years ago) link
And I know there's more to talk about but THE CHICKENS. The fact that Miss Fame has a PRIZE-WINNING CHICKEN TATTOO.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 05:26 (eight years ago) link
*the chicken noises*
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 14:21 (eight years ago) link
Chicken assholes.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 14:22 (eight years ago) link
Anyway, the new Untucked has some moments! Ups, downs, all arounds. Also the first message from a loved one to one of the queens (at least broadcast; there's a mention that Kasha got a message the previous time).
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 00:07 (eight years ago) link
I'll never look at Fame the same again.
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 05:19 (eight years ago) link
miss fame: superdork <3
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 05:28 (eight years ago) link
however: miss fame makeup is pro-levels of great. she's annoying & earnest & dorky but aaaahhh she can beat the hell out of a face
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 05:56 (eight years ago) link
i dont like her much tho. violet is a teeeeeny bit more ok. katya i think is my current fave. that bjork dress & the acceptance speech AMAZE
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 06:06 (eight years ago) link
I am now rooting for Katya to make top 3. Pearl too, but I'm probably seeing something that's just not there. By that I mean my hand in hers.
― Eric H., Thursday, 2 April 2015 03:12 (eight years ago) link
Also, the biggest LOL of the season for me thus far: https://vine.co/v/OLlewiEVBbK
― Eric H., Thursday, 2 April 2015 03:16 (eight years ago) link
My general faves are all still in there -- Katya, Ginger, Max, Jaidynn -- so bring it on. I'd be happy with them as a top four.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 April 2015 03:23 (eight years ago) link
I'm really over Jaidynn tbh. Replace her with one of the ice queen trifecta and that'd be a solid top 4.
― Eric H., Thursday, 2 April 2015 03:26 (eight years ago) link
Man, I like her because she's fun. Not as inventive visually, I grant. (Of said ice queens, if Pearl goes before Violet I will threaten something or someone.)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 April 2015 03:33 (eight years ago) link
Gotta agree with Raven and Raja. Her runway looks are just ... just ... sashay away.
― Eric H., Thursday, 2 April 2015 03:37 (eight years ago) link
Eric, I'm with you on Pearl. Too cute to be expendable. Jaidynn's fun but I feel like she's still veeeerrry middle of the pack.
Def team Katya
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 2 April 2015 04:13 (eight years ago) link
Couldn't resist one more boxed wine joke on the way out.
― Eric H., Thursday, 2 April 2015 04:29 (eight years ago) link
Katya is probably my fave too. Every week I look forward to her RuGRETS and RuFLECTIONS videos on Youtube. They are hilariously insane. I hope she will use more of her Russian character on the show.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 2 April 2015 04:37 (eight years ago) link
omg leroo otm - i had no idea about katya's youtubeness
THE BEST!!!
http://youtu.be/acxxxj4QRpI
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 2 April 2015 05:13 (eight years ago) link
She's funny, creative, and crazy. Everything I love in a queen!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-dO_B06CYs
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 2 April 2015 15:09 (eight years ago) link
this elimination was a travesty
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 2 April 2015 15:11 (eight years ago) link
kandy ho is exceptionally boring
It's become a formula.
old school padded shtick queen bad mouthing new school cleave-painting boy bodies = bitch, you're getting eliminated tonight
― Eric H., Thursday, 2 April 2015 15:22 (eight years ago) link
Kandy's lipsynch was good but she hasn't done anything otherwise. She's just there. She should've been up against Pearl two weeks ago and sent home. MKD wasn't my favorite but I think that she had more in her than they showed us. Her Joan Rivers was great. I wish they would've kept her and Trixie at least untill Snatch Game.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 2 April 2015 15:28 (eight years ago) link
Oh man, I didn't even think of that. This Snatch Game's going to be a. train. wreck.
― Eric H., Thursday, 2 April 2015 16:09 (eight years ago) link
MKD's suburban mom realness was hilarious to me... she wouldn't have made the top 5 or anything but she cracked two jokes *after* being eliminated which is more than you can say for kandy ho in the entire season
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 2 April 2015 16:12 (eight years ago) link
Right but, as I said, it was like the third or fourth time she joked about boxed wine.
― Eric H., Thursday, 2 April 2015 16:22 (eight years ago) link
But jokes about boxed wine are just like boxed wine: you can't stop at just one!
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Thursday, 2 April 2015 16:27 (eight years ago) link
BTW, Max is the last person on the show I'd expect to ever see in a backwards ball cap.
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Thursday, 2 April 2015 16:33 (eight years ago) link
Was hoping this was Ru's Yiddish Scooby Doo voice.
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Thursday, 2 April 2015 16:35 (eight years ago) link
RuView!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIHp94xmlVo
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 3 April 2015 01:49 (eight years ago) link
i still am O_o that ginger's dress cost $5k (as revealed on untucked)
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 April 2015 01:51 (eight years ago) link
I was fucking dying at "Bring back my... GIRLS???" like tf was that even?
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 3 April 2015 03:13 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/dVwzFJX.jpg
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 3 April 2015 04:21 (eight years ago) link
lolololol
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 April 2015 04:32 (eight years ago) link
was she riffing on something that just went over my head? or was it just str8-up Ru silliness w/ no reference point?
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 3 April 2015 12:28 (eight years ago) link
That's what I meant by Ru's Yiddish Scooby Doo voice!
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Friday, 3 April 2015 16:51 (eight years ago) link
like that voice + those hands + THAT FACE
thnkin u mamaru
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 3 April 2015 18:22 (eight years ago) link
Haha, was wondering about that too.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 4 April 2015 01:42 (eight years ago) link
Yesssss the right one went home bye gurl bye etc.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 05:02 (eight years ago) link
(Also you think they'll ask Miss Fame a certain question again NEXT week?)
i hope so, they're gettin good mileage so far
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 April 2015 06:02 (eight years ago) link
fame's WIG!, violet's WAIST!, max's HEART!, katya's SHARK! runway came to play tonight
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 April 2015 06:04 (eight years ago) link
snatch game next week eeeee
Totally agree, except for Kennedy's look. WTF was that ? She's lucky she was part of the winning team. Am I the only one hoping they bring back the usual top 3/bottom 3 for critique? Seems weird the way Ru announces the winner(s) and then they critique the (mostly) safe queens.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 21:31 (eight years ago) link
Miles as Shawn was funny and hot !
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 21:39 (eight years ago) link
on untucked kennedy cops to it being an outfit she had for something else & she retconned the backstory for the runway
basically a horse that fell out of a plane into a swarovsky factory
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 April 2015 21:40 (eight years ago) link
...Miles as Shawn?
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 21:48 (eight years ago) link
The pit crew guys! In the flashbacks, Miles has a mustache and fake chest hair to look like Shawn Morales who was on the pit crew when Merle was there.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 21:53 (eight years ago) link
Oh right, yeah! I did see that. :-)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 21:54 (eight years ago) link
Is top 8 be the latest Snatch Game has appeared in a season?
I did NOT enjoy looking at Violet's waist. :x
I like Miss Fame! I mean, she's totally clueless, but in a wholly endearing way. By comparison, Violet's clueless in an Internet way, which I guess means that growing up on a chicken farm prevents you from being a horrible person. (BTW what's up with Fame's boy eyebrows? They're painted on, aren't they?)
Jaidynn seriously dodged a bullet this week -- when they had her talk about her family, I immediately thought that that was her swan song, especially since Kandy didn't get much screen time otherwise.
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 04:33 (eight years ago) link
Oh and Untucked this season is making it VERY hard to actively hate any of the queens.
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 04:34 (eight years ago) link
otm, v good untuckedness going on this season
Hearing Kandy talk after elimination, I was line BITCH WHY WERENT YOU THIS REAL FROM THE START jeeez
it was the most I've liked her this whole time
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 04:43 (eight years ago) link
OMG same! Telling that PA she wanted to take him back to PR in her suitcase was cute. Maybe the conspiracy theories online about the editors subtly ("subtly") hating on the PR queens aren't so wacky??
Violet does Ginger well. I mean an impression.
Ginger should've won the challenge.
Katya burping.
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 05:02 (eight years ago) link
Max & Ginger need to throw down soon plz god let me see that
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 05:18 (eight years ago) link
xpost I dont think it was editing, I think Kandy came in trying to be 'strategic' instead of being herself & it bit her in the ass because it made her too one dimensional to even root for
yara sofia is still the best PR queen imo
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 05:21 (eight years ago) link
Nina, or rather Nina stans, would like to have a word with you!
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 06:22 (eight years ago) link
http://momsgoldteeth.tumblr.com/post/115822360816/mom-you-look-super-uncomfortable-in-this-weeks
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 06:31 (eight years ago) link
xpost
eep i totalky forgot Nina. Ok Nina then Yara
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 14:18 (eight years ago) link
it's a travesty that they brought kandy ho back for one more week only so that she could be inevitably eliminated
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 8 April 2015 15:00 (eight years ago) link
idk if travesty is the right word but ok
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 16:26 (eight years ago) link
I agree. It's so weird that she went home after Trixie and MKD or even Tempest.
My PR queens rank: Nina > Yara > Jessica > Alexis > April > Lineysha > Kandy > Kenya > Madame LaQueer.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 21:27 (eight years ago) link
haha madame laqueer ... one of the saddest drag race contestants ever
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 8 April 2015 22:06 (eight years ago) link
truth
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 23:24 (eight years ago) link
Hahaha aww I have a soft spot for her, certainly like her more than Kenya.
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 23:47 (eight years ago) link
Kenya had some fierceness
Madame LaQueer was like hanging out with a weird aunt
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 23:50 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl2bsm8mYh4
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 9 April 2015 03:23 (eight years ago) link
She's hysterical
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krIRsN-qUmg
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 9 April 2015 03:45 (eight years ago) link
Her cigarette butt necklace + sippy cup + party hat is EVERYTHING
also loooool if that leukemia thing is true. i mean fkin looooooooooool
i fkin love this bitch
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 9 April 2015 03:52 (eight years ago) link
Yes the necklace !!!
And when Ru whispers in her ear "I'm not laughing at ya, I'm laughing with ya. But only if you take off your fucking panties and stick your weenie in my mouth."
Willam, Alaska, and Bianca have some serious competition. She might be the funniest this show's seen.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 9 April 2015 04:04 (eight years ago) link
her improv is crazy good
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 9 April 2015 04:07 (eight years ago) link
katya is a goddamn scream, i can't handle it
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Thursday, 9 April 2015 12:10 (eight years ago) link
She's starting to feel more like the preordained champion (and no complaints), hits a sweet spot between fashion and comedy.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 April 2015 13:25 (eight years ago) link
i am getting a tiny bit impatient for the individual challenges, tho.
has there been a sewing challenge yet? or are we not doing that anymore.
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Thursday, 9 April 2015 14:18 (eight years ago) link
I think they've been drifting away from the arts-n-craft challenges over the last few seasons.
― Eric H., Thursday, 9 April 2015 14:26 (eight years ago) link
One big reason why I can't wait for the Snatch Game here next week.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 April 2015 14:28 (eight years ago) link
but didn't bianca sew herself a dress for 3 different challenges last season?
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Thursday, 9 April 2015 14:31 (eight years ago) link
She may have worn one dress in three different challenges, yes.
― Eric H., Thursday, 9 April 2015 14:50 (eight years ago) link
yeah i am over the group acting/singing challenges
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 9 April 2015 21:08 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EmWWjbJZVo
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 April 2015 02:05 (eight years ago) link
Whoa, they also redesigned the home page out of nowhere.
http://www.logotv.com/shows/rupauls_drag_race/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 April 2015 02:19 (eight years ago) link
Is everyone in mourning ?
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 23:59 (eight years ago) link
I have been on my phone & couldn't pull up the thread. Forced to wait for yall to bump :)
much better snatch game than i expected! kennedy killlllled it. and pearl was p hilar...i wish violet had done a bit more with her alyssa but it was kinda on point even so
max's sharon was unforgiveable wtf
ginger & katya horsing around outside in untucked had me dying
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 00:40 (eight years ago) link
ugh max is just so insufferably performative all. the. damn. time. LaGanja old hollywood style, p much
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 03:19 (eight years ago) link
Is this the first time an unabashed character queen has been eliminated in Snatch Game?
― Eric H., Wednesday, 15 April 2015 04:08 (eight years ago) link
Honestly, tho, the only two they could even conceivably bring back next week are Milk Max or Trixie.
― Eric H., Wednesday, 15 April 2015 04:09 (eight years ago) link
i think it's p obviously Trixie considering she like unianimously won the lip sync and got sent home anyway
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 04:21 (eight years ago) link
Yeah gotta be Trixie.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 04:45 (eight years ago) link
I hope it's Trixie.
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 05:58 (eight years ago) link
Max seems layers upon layers of artifice, and the covert bitchiness in contrast to the nice as pie persona just offputting to me. The more of her I saw in Untucked the less I liked
Fame & Katya was a lovely moment
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 06:00 (eight years ago) link
Also, the condragulations tie? I could think of many other snatch games that merited two winners more than this one, which Kennedy basically ran away with.
― Eric H., Wednesday, 15 April 2015 12:11 (eight years ago) link
Yeah that was weird. I also thought Dela, Adore, and Bianca could've shared the win last year then.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 16 April 2015 00:55 (eight years ago) link
who's coming back though?
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Thursday, 16 April 2015 01:54 (eight years ago) link
How will they decide who gets to come back? Last time it happened I think it was Michelle who chose and she brought back Kenya Michaels.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 16 April 2015 02:25 (eight years ago) link
who knows! if i had to guess its whoever draws the most viewers. could it be anyone but trixie? i dont see anyone begging for more mrs. kasha davis, tho it might be candy i suppose.
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Thursday, 16 April 2015 02:35 (eight years ago) link
LaGanja old hollywood style, p much
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, April 14, 2015 11:19 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
i never liked max and this is a great burn
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 16 April 2015 03:43 (eight years ago) link
max failing miserably at doing sharon was a perfect encapsulation of her specific mediocrity
i guess i'd like to see kasha davis come back. the mom thing won me over in the end. if not her then i guess jasmine
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 16 April 2015 03:47 (eight years ago) link
i thought max was great early on but idk, "there's no there there"
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 16 April 2015 03:53 (eight years ago) link
for sure
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 16 April 2015 03:53 (eight years ago) link
she's the kind of queen that makes you appreciate the true weirdo queens
the fact that she seems like a huge stick in the mud outside of drag was probably a sign
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 16 April 2015 03:55 (eight years ago) link
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 16 April 2015 03:59 (eight years ago) link
my fave drag queens are at least as interesting irl out of drag as their characters
it's gotta be more than striking a pose
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 16 April 2015 04:00 (eight years ago) link
I don't know, I agree his Snatch Game was awful but I thought Max was mostly great up until that.
And apparently his weird singing stunt was just really mean editing to make her look like a fool: https://twitter.com/MAXcollective/status/587814514231484416
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 16 April 2015 04:14 (eight years ago) link
Sorry his/her
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 16 April 2015 04:16 (eight years ago) link
call the wahmbulance
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 16 April 2015 04:21 (eight years ago) link
Raja and Raven not too impressed this week. I loved Violet!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzHN078kNj4
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 16 April 2015 04:45 (eight years ago) link
i wanted to like max because her runway looks were always so polished and specific, always high-concept without sacrificing glamour. i even admired the dedication to the grey hair. i dunno, there was a level of exacting control and tenacity that really benefited her style, but it turns out those same qualities made for an extremely stiff and mannered personality. i was hoping she'd stick around long enough to expel the cork from her ass. oh well.
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Thursday, 16 April 2015 13:35 (eight years ago) link
i'm calling katya for top 3 now, btw.
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Thursday, 16 April 2015 13:40 (eight years ago) link
Ginger and Katya are pretty seemingly locks. Third is a wild card between the three drop dead gorgeous skinny bitches.
― Eric H., Thursday, 16 April 2015 13:45 (eight years ago) link
i would like to see ginger katya and kennedy in the final 3 but ru has always showed a crippling weakness for pretty/pretty boring queens so i'm sure violet will worm her way in there
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 16 April 2015 14:16 (eight years ago) link
Other examples?
― Eric H., Thursday, 16 April 2015 14:22 (eight years ago) link
(Also, Kennedy has had exactly one good week.)
tyra, phiphi, & courtney all spring to mind for pretty/boring top 3 contestants
also tatianna but she was top 4
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Thursday, 16 April 2015 14:29 (eight years ago) link
Tyra and PhiPhi were def more pageant than glamour imo, but it's a fine line.
― Eric H., Thursday, 16 April 2015 14:33 (eight years ago) link
wtf is the diff btwn pageant and glamour?
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 16 April 2015 23:15 (eight years ago) link
like does pageant have a slightly self-aware element of like campy performativity where glamour is just STUNNING FLAWLESS FISH or whatever?
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 16 April 2015 23:16 (eight years ago) link
Pageant means they look better in drag. Glamour means they're sickening as both a boy and a girl.
― Eric H., Thursday, 16 April 2015 23:58 (eight years ago) link
Pageant usually also means "runway + lipsync and that is IT" plus big hair & GOWNS - glamour is kinda more high-fashiony
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 17 April 2015 01:54 (eight years ago) link
and glamour queens often dont really lipsync or anything, they just kinda look amazing
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 17 April 2015 01:55 (eight years ago) link
I know Ginger IRL. she is one of the most talented performers in O-Town, and I performed in Grease with her back in 2002. She was a phenomenal Tobias in Sweeney Todd too back in about 2005. Both her and her husband are very sweet, loving individuals.
obviously biased as Hell but hoping Ginger wins. gotta catch up on several eps.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, 18 April 2015 20:08 (eight years ago) link
very cool!
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 April 2015 21:28 (eight years ago) link
Nice! What role did she play in Grease ?
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 18 April 2015 22:31 (eight years ago) link
Doody (ie, "Those Magic Changes"). She also choreographed the show. fantastic singer. had also played the Emcee in Cabaret as a young teen. ridiculously talented. Orlando theatre community is going nuts over this at the moment, and naturally of course Ginger can't spill the results. :) not that anybody would want it ruined.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 19 April 2015 05:17 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I think this season we finally get a big-girl winner.
― Eric H., Sunday, 19 April 2015 05:23 (eight years ago) link
Well that was an unexpected twist for the episode and show. Not the ending, that was a hair too preordained (would have gone for Katya/Kasha to win, but it was close, while Ginger wasn't going to go, period).
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 05:05 (eight years ago) link
Best episode of the season so far I thought. From Latrice MF Royale to the mini challenge, to the twist, the runway, and the lypsynch. Very entertaining.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 20:56 (eight years ago) link
Yeah I loved Latrice! What a perfect cameo!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 00:43 (eight years ago) link
Not only probably the best ep of the season so far, but the best Untucked too, from what I've seen. Like Robert Altman came back from the grave to restage Paris is Burning.
― Eric H., Wednesday, 22 April 2015 04:14 (eight years ago) link
Felt a little bad for Tempest tho, being the first sent home and now this.
― Eric H., Wednesday, 22 April 2015 04:15 (eight years ago) link
Katya's description of the lip sync ... OMG.
― Eric H., Wednesday, 22 April 2015 04:16 (eight years ago) link
would have gone for Katya/Kasha to win
Really? Even given Kasha's umpteenth boxed wine gag?
PS Kennedy seems to love trade almost as much as Kasha loves boxed wine.
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 04:46 (eight years ago) link
Think you misspelled "shade" there.
― Eric H., Wednesday, 22 April 2015 04:55 (eight years ago) link
Hahaha.
BTW the Untucked, omg Katya and Trix were on fire. Also Jaidynn seems to be such a sweetheart, even all the production assistants were giving her a hug and a kiss when she left.
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 05:15 (eight years ago) link
kennedy gets love for those ashy knees holy shit i was dying
katya is killing me. that fucking costume
Larry Bird & Raven Simone in a permanent butffuck position omgggggggggggg
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 05:50 (eight years ago) link
Fame is really growing on me, kind of like a fouler Alyssa, what with her oblivious dorkiness.
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 06:24 (eight years ago) link
Plus her support for Katya in the previous episode was awesome.
Jaidynn is the perennial Miss Congeniality that doesn't win.
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 06:30 (eight years ago) link
I liked her but it was time to go
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 14:24 (eight years ago) link
Sad thing about Ru's Trixie engineering is that it deprived of us of her Snatch. I was daydreaming about alternatives, like eliminating Max earlier and keeping Trix and then bringing Max back after SG so that we would've been spared her Needles.
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 16:19 (eight years ago) link
Although the theme was already done to death, Fame did such an amazing job with Kandy's makeup. Most of the time I couldn't tell them apart.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 16:20 (eight years ago) link
Absoluteleeeee! I had to work to remember that Kandy is really short.
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 16:25 (eight years ago) link
I'm amazed at how the show could predict what happened with Trixie. What if people didn't care about her? It was a risk, but they must have been so happy when they saw the reaction online to Trixie's elimination knowing what was going to happen later. (x-post)
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 16:29 (eight years ago) link
OMG: http://www.logotv.com/shows/rupauls_drag_race/rupauls-drag-race-season-7-episode-8-commentary-with-alaska-and-shangela/1735587/playlist/#id=1735587
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 17:34 (eight years ago) link
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 17:41 (eight years ago) link
Oh MAN. Can't wait to watch this later!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 23 April 2015 00:25 (eight years ago) link
Shangela was born to provide commentary online streams of reality tv shows.
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Monday, 27 April 2015 17:10 (eight years ago) link
Why not, ranking the top 7:
PearlKatyaGinger MinjMiss FameTrixie MattelKennedy DavenportViolet Chachki
― Eric H., Monday, 27 April 2015 21:21 (eight years ago) link
I def appreciated Pearl's makeover on Kandy Ho a whole lot more the second time after watching shangela/alaska's commentarytoo bad the costume was a snore
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 April 2015 21:50 (eight years ago) link
this was pretty fun you guys
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 05:05 (eight years ago) link
Almost surprising John W. hadn't already been on before! (Still, given the past week, hearing Ru start the intro message with a "Hello Baltimore!" was pretty jarring.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 05:07 (eight years ago) link
I wish Katya could have won. But Ginger did great. Kennedy really went for it too!
and I know they were flat but the 3 Divines was still p lol
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 05:12 (eight years ago) link
Pretty sure Violet's dress was designed by Sandhya.
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 03:52 (eight years ago) link
Fame looked great but so not an ugly dress
lol @ untucked that Pearl was imitating Trixie's eye makeup...and katya killing me again
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 03:55 (eight years ago) link
Feel pretty bad that Fame never really got to capitalize on her oddballishness in the end.
We're all in agreement that Fame and Pearl were totally kai-kai'ing right?
― Eric H., Wednesday, 29 April 2015 04:12 (eight years ago) link
Katya deserved the prize for tackling the only non-Divine/Edie character and slaaaaaaaying.
― Eric H., Wednesday, 29 April 2015 04:13 (eight years ago) link
fame said on Whatcha Packin that she wants to bring drag to high-fashion & be a drag fashion model. She could totally pull that off. She has so much poise on the runway & her face is always goddamn immaculate.
Like, she *could* give us Raja levels of amazing but she's still kinda...undercooked? I dont think she's quite there yet but I think she is capable of killing it even if she is a complete dork inside
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 06:02 (eight years ago) link
xpost - right? she was so great
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 06:03 (eight years ago) link
Those Sonic commercials are the absolute pits, no?
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:41 (eight years ago) link
?
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:56 (eight years ago) link
The ones that play during the breaks on the Logo website!
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:57 (eight years ago) link
lol ok
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 17:02 (eight years ago) link
I actually did a season pass for the first time this year, so no commercials for me. (I was concerned the show was on the skids, financially.)
― Eric H., Wednesday, 29 April 2015 18:59 (eight years ago) link
I'm a bit late. Great episode, amazing theme!
I agree with what everyone said. Katya was awesome, so was Ginger. Fame is gorgeous and a bit clueless. The contrast is fascinating. Pearl looked amazing, not ugly at all! One of her best looks actually. Lipsynch was pretty boring though.
I liked Violet in the challenge. Anyone else thought she kind of looked like a Maya Rudolph character? And her runway is ALWAYS on point. She has really grown on me with each episode.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 30 April 2015 03:54 (eight years ago) link
Violet's a lot more enjoyable now that she's loosened up in the workroom. If Drag Race was solely runway, Violet and Fame would be top 2. Thankfully it's not that show lol.
has anyone seen Fame's new music video 'Rubber Doll'? Production is GORGEOUS...she looks amazing (she lacks a bit of conviction but hey, we knew that already). The song is ok. I don't like it as much as Alaska or Adore, but just the LOOK: holy shit, fucking sickening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG4u7FWyJH0
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 30 April 2015 06:00 (eight years ago) link
ooh and new Ruview is up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2i_XGbrXtw
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 30 April 2015 06:01 (eight years ago) link
"Rubber Doll" is surprisingly not bad! Reminds me a bit of "Toxic".
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 30 April 2015 20:47 (eight years ago) link
The lipsynch was shockingly bad. The song selection didn't help things but Pearl, honey... what are those dance moves? At least she was selling it with conviction, which is more than could be said for Fame. Yes, dear, your face is flawless. We know. Yawn.
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Thursday, 30 April 2015 21:29 (eight years ago) link
Getting a little peeved at how few good lip sync battles there have been this season. Lotta double elimination missed opportunities tbh.
― Eric H., Thursday, 30 April 2015 21:50 (eight years ago) link
If Drag Race was solely runway, Violet and Fame would be top 2. Thankfully it's not that show lol.
Thankfully it's not season 2!
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Thursday, 30 April 2015 21:52 (eight years ago) link
eric otm, lipsyncs have been super meh. esp this last one
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 May 2015 01:02 (eight years ago) link
I partially blame the song selection.
― Eric H., Friday, 1 May 2015 01:17 (eight years ago) link
i dislike when the queens have to lipsynch for a pop singer guest judge to the current song they want to promote. the songs are mostly very bad and i mostly do not care. it's boring. i know ru needs to get these checks somehow but it really fucks up the climax of the episode in my damn humble opinion.
but even so! the song was so confusingly out of step for a john waters episode. literally any other song would have been more appropriate
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Friday, 1 May 2015 01:43 (eight years ago) link
the only good one for a guest this season was Twist of Fate for ONJ
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 May 2015 01:54 (eight years ago) link
Meantime, Jinkx's full documentary premiered:
https://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2015/04/30/22141386/overheard-at-the-world-premiere-of-jinkx-monsoons-excellent-documentary-drag-becomes-him
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 1 May 2015 02:39 (eight years ago) link
Last week's was pretty great for the conjoined twins, too. But, yes, this trend of current pop divettes getting some random throwaway song no one will ever know by heart must stop.
― Eric H., Friday, 1 May 2015 06:15 (eight years ago) link
as a gay nostalgia junkie i am v embarassed to admit that this show has introduced me to a lot of mid 80's freestyle pop jams that were maybe Top 10 but didn't necessarily hit #1 and were probably all over the radio at the time but aren't played that much since. I think being born in 1987 gives me a free pass, though.
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 1 May 2015 13:59 (eight years ago) link
We'll allow it. THIS time. Next time, be born the same age as the rest of us.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 1 May 2015 14:39 (eight years ago) link
Was this week's episode a Rucap or something? This thread hasn't been bumped yet!
― Madison Dumbbarfer (Leee), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 17:15 (eight years ago) link
i have not been on my pc this week: stuck on phone cant search waiting for u guys to bump
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 17:29 (eight years ago) link
this was a great ep!!
i dont know why trixie thought she was going to win...her & ginger were p meh to me. i looooved violet & katya
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 17:31 (eight years ago) link
the untucked was good: unbelievable to me how convinced katya was that she was going home CMON GURL
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 17:36 (eight years ago) link
I'm so very in love with boy Pearl
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 18:07 (eight years ago) link
trixie's cowgirl thing was killing me, travesty she went home
their dancing was not very good though
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 6 May 2015 18:14 (eight years ago) link
i realize it's a requisite tool that every drag queen should have but i really dislike the sewing challenges so late in the season. i'm not trying to see these hobby lobby fashions.
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 18:15 (eight years ago) link
boy Pearl is <3
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 18:41 (eight years ago) link
To some degree I've danced all of the partner dances (I need to learn to vogue!), and Katya and Violet had the most technically demanding choreo and still managed to execute it the best, very well-earned win for them. I would've put Pearl/Kennedy in the bottom, though maybe because I actually do Charleston and did not like what I saw from either of them. I did agree with Carson(!) about Kennedy's energy level. Trix I thought had more energy than Ging, but that couple had a better performance since their choreo had more camp in it.
― Madison Dumbbarfer (Leee), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 19:17 (eight years ago) link
Travesty that Trixie went home? No. What's the opposite of travesty? That's what that was. What really irked me is that her boy side was so incredibly undercooked. Each of the other 5 got that the boy side had to be just as stylized as the girl side. Trixie literally half assed it. So much schadenfreude that she was literally the only one in Untucked that felt she had probably won.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Thursday, 7 May 2015 02:13 (eight years ago) link
Is next week a makeover challenge? They sort of already had that this season, no? I think Minj and Katya are looking pretty safe for the top 3 now. Third spot is a crapshoot.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Thursday, 7 May 2015 02:15 (eight years ago) link
Maybe Violet will turn it, who knows. It's getting interesting. I actually really like the whole top 5 this time
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 7 May 2015 02:18 (eight years ago) link
I like the whole top 5 too, but my top 3 is Katya, Violet and Ginger.
I thought Trixie looked better than Ginger and their lipsynchs were equally great, but I knew Ginger wasn't going home. Trixie was put in a difficult position trying to live up to huge expectations and probably feeling a bit disconected after missing several weeks of the competition.
Pearl in a tuxedo looked like Justin Timberlake. Also, flazé-dah!
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 7 May 2015 20:52 (eight years ago) link
I fully expect violet to be in the top three because she has the tidiest season-long emotional arc and Ru loves to dramatize that shit. ("i'm mostly a bitch but i'm learning how to let people in."; see also: Bianca del Rio)
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Thursday, 7 May 2015 21:20 (eight years ago) link
I agree I'm probably being manipulated but it's working! I've always been impressed by her looks though.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 7 May 2015 23:54 (eight years ago) link
Sorry, didn't comment earlier this week -- about to move and things are busy! But yes, great episode for sure. RuView fun as always.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 May 2015 02:21 (eight years ago) link
fla zay dah looool
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 May 2015 02:38 (eight years ago) link
What a weird season.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 02:55 (eight years ago) link
yuup
sigh
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 05:52 (eight years ago) link
Such a weird challenge for so late in the season but oh well. Violet's look was great!
Dont dispute Kennedy & Katya being in the bottom, and Kennedy's lipsync was THE HOUSE DOWN BOOTS etc
V sad to see Katya go though. Fking love her so much, like Bianca levels of awesomeness. Wish she could have brought more of her amazing improv to the stage, judges needed to see more of that.
Really wondering abt the top 3
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 21:38 (eight years ago) link
Well ... shit.
Katya got Ben De La Creme'd.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 03:40 (eight years ago) link
I do see how the gears are turning, tho. If they've been building to a Ginger win since basically episode 2, then they had to deep six the only one who could give her a run for her money in acting challenges.
(Tho, if I'm to be totally honest, I think everyone's quite literally sleeping on Pearl's comedic skills. I had to rewind her Madonna Hello Kitty monologue three times to get it all from laughing so hard.)
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 03:42 (eight years ago) link
But really, starting to worry for Pearl. If they want a top 3 that hits on all points, there's only room for one drop dead gorgeous, thin, couture, runway-stomping glamour queen, and they've been giving Violet the redemption buildup something fierce the last few eps.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 03:45 (eight years ago) link
Kennedy's kinda surprised me this whole time. (In a good way!)
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 04:12 (eight years ago) link
Apparently I'm always going to be a little bit biased against girls with default boring runway looks. She's likable and can clearly lip sync the house down, but ... meh.
(Her John Waters performance, I'll admit, was impressive.)
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 04:14 (eight years ago) link
Anyone else hoping that that was Shangela under the HK costume?
What was it that Violet yelled out after the lip sync? I didn't like Kennedy's performance, btw -- way too much manic/desperate energy for that song.
― Madison Dumbbarfer (Leee), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 04:30 (eight years ago) link
Same, not just for this week but quite a few times this season. Her Snatch Game is criminally underrated.
If not for Katya's elimination, this could've been my favorite season.
― Madison Dumbbarfer (Leee), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 04:32 (eight years ago) link
Also was underwhelmed by Violet's runway, definitely preferred Pearl this week.
― Madison Dumbbarfer (Leee), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 06:15 (eight years ago) link
When did you know that drag was something you really could, and should, do?I think it was the first time I did it as Katya. I was in art school, and I hosted my senior video show as the character. The makeup and the costume were absolutely terrible, but the character was fully formed and there. It got such a great reception. I was gonna try to go to grad school to teach foreign language. A philosophy teacher of mine was at the show, and she's like, 'No, you've gotta do this. This is really cool.' She's like this Yugoslavian, intelligentsia, freedom-fighting philosophy woman. And for her to say, 'You should do drag?' I think she would be so happy for me now. If not for that, I'd probably be dead, in jail or a French teacher in Sudbury, Mass.
http://www.chron.com/entertainment/tv/article/Katya-talks-RuPaul-s-Drag-Race-elimination-6264218.php
― Madison Dumbbarfer (Leee), Friday, 15 May 2015 00:08 (eight years ago) link
we need to make her president or something
seeing raven & raja loose it over her Hello Kitty Russian best friend character made me so happy, she is really something else & i hope she does amazing things
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 15 May 2015 01:31 (eight years ago) link
Untucked was at turns elegiac, silly, and heartbreaking.
― Madison Dumbbarfer (Leee), Friday, 15 May 2015 05:32 (eight years ago) link
Especially this part: http://imgur.com/gallery/EAAQLPH
― Madison Dumbbarfer (Leee), Friday, 15 May 2015 20:26 (eight years ago) link
liked when katya thanked the camera guy for panning down her catsuit
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 15 May 2015 20:29 (eight years ago) link
I thought that was a very real moment too.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Friday, 15 May 2015 20:31 (eight years ago) link
Loved that in the RuView.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 May 2015 23:51 (eight years ago) link
well i was not expecting that elimination. i watched at a bar last night and the crowd sounded as surprised as i was
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 13:15 (eight years ago) link
I didn't expect it either since Ru kept her many times when she had done worse than last night, but I think her speech condoned her.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 00:25 (eight years ago) link
*ba dum tish* Only just caught up with the episode myself and yeah, surprised but not overwhelmed surprised, I guess. Still, another odd decision in a season full of them.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 02:02 (eight years ago) link
This show has a way of setting you up to root for an elimination and then, right before it comes, making you second guess it.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 04:12 (eight years ago) link
Shoulda known, tho, when they had a 4-way lip sync that they were contorting to engineer a way to allow for a Kennedy dismissal. Ain't no way she would have walked after a head-to-head lip sync.
Also, woo, finally a super shady, near old school ep of Untucked.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 04:15 (eight years ago) link
It is a little interesting that they've set it up that the only one going into the finale that didn't take the high road is the one everyone is assuming will win it all.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 04:19 (eight years ago) link
Ginger telling Violet the fans wouldn't want a bitch to win was the most ironic thing ever and shows she really has no idea how she comes across. I don't know how the fans will react if/when she wins.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 05:10 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I don't know what the deal with the edit they've been giving Ginger lately. Bianca could be cutting and you would still never stop rooting for her. Ginger, otoh, I'm wavering.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 13:32 (eight years ago) link
I havent watched untucked yet but I was really uncomfortable with the way Ginger came for Violet in the ep. Like, do you really need to put her on blast to make yourself feel good?
That whole thing with the photos and what would you say to yourself was ;_;
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 15:16 (eight years ago) link
That's the moment I'm convinced saved Pearl.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 15:20 (eight years ago) link
I agree
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 16:43 (eight years ago) link
Especially after, once again, she turned in a C- lip sync.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 17:09 (eight years ago) link
(It looked like this year's choreography piece of the video shoot was way easier than usual.)
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 17:10 (eight years ago) link
I thought that too! No hair-eography this time. Seemed very tame over prev seasons
"Pearl Smash"cracked me up
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 17:12 (eight years ago) link
you guys NEED to see this new katya video
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 22:48 (eight years ago) link
orhttp://youtu.be/PcYdpJdTtwE
its fucking amazing
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 22:49 (eight years ago) link
oh and i am only halfway done with untucked & i am soooo team violet now (i dont hold out much hope for pearl) i want one of them to fuck ginger's shit up
fuckin pageant bitches putting those two down like that is some fucking sorryass highschool meangirls shit
and if that's what they learned from pageants then violet & pearl are right to stay away
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 23:14 (eight years ago) link
south boston perfection, right down to the iced dunkin' in the double cup
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 23:19 (eight years ago) link
right!?
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 23:23 (eight years ago) link
I especially love how the film stock went from all the gorgeous precision of the past months to this trashy look -- and perfectly starting right where the last one ended too. Genius.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 May 2015 00:42 (eight years ago) link
she gives me an amy sedaris vibe with her physicality & natural improv skillsand I love how she is happy as a clam to get ugly
she's such a talent
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 21 May 2015 00:53 (eight years ago) link
OMG YES.
― Madison Dumbbarfer (Leee), Thursday, 21 May 2015 04:01 (eight years ago) link
need a gif
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 21 May 2015 04:29 (eight years ago) link
Final RuView!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ-JsNZjCNA
Though they will come back for a finale/reunion take. AND SPEAKING OF:
http://www.newnownext.com/9-moments-from-the-rupauls-drag-race-finale-you-wont-see-on-tv/05/2015/
Some favorite shots offhand, starting with Jinkx
http://newnownext.mtvnimages.com/2015/05/474041386.jpg
Alaska goes green:
http://newnownext.mtvnimages.com/2015/05/474026180.jpg
Top three from last year:
http://newnownext.mtvnimages.com/2015/05/474027306.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 May 2015 14:32 (eight years ago) link
Katya:
http://newnownext.mtvnimages.com/2015/05/katya.jpeg
Max:
http://newnownext.mtvnimages.com/2015/05/max.jpg
Pearl:
http://newnownext.mtvnimages.com/2015/05/pearl.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 May 2015 14:33 (eight years ago) link
And Violet, which, I mean:
http://newnownext.mtvnimages.com/2015/05/violet-chachki.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 May 2015 14:34 (eight years ago) link
Plus Miley hanging out with most everybody on another night, I guess:
http://www.newnownext.com/miley-cyrus-rupauls-drag-race/05/2015/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 May 2015 14:35 (eight years ago) link
http://rpdr8.tumblr.com/post/119379492653/pearl-smash
― Madison Dumbbarfer (Leee), Friday, 22 May 2015 17:17 (eight years ago) link
violet is the best runway queen since raja, maybe?
also pearl has her charms but i am so tired of seeing the same the flesh-colored lingerie-style looks, wear 1 color plz
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Friday, 22 May 2015 17:19 (eight years ago) link
violet looked sooooo good
and i love bianca's dress
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 22 May 2015 20:31 (eight years ago) link
Can I just say "gwyneth anger" LOLLLOLL.
― Madison Dumbbarfer (Leee), Friday, 22 May 2015 20:35 (eight years ago) link
lol, tyvm
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Friday, 22 May 2015 20:41 (eight years ago) link
violet is boring as hell to me but she looks incredible in that photo
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 23 May 2015 04:08 (eight years ago) link
https://41.media.tumblr.com/3cadffef1ed21355f2455916c143e23e/tumblr_noxncvpiRz1qbypg1o1_1280.jpg
Something I've been meaning to put together forever.
― Madison Dumbbarfer (Leee), Tuesday, 26 May 2015 01:13 (eight years ago) link
love it
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 May 2015 02:29 (eight years ago) link
Haha
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 May 2015 02:55 (eight years ago) link
I did like this from Violet BTW
https://twitter.com/VioletChachki/status/602154329022300160
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 May 2015 02:56 (eight years ago) link
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 May 2015 03:28 (eight years ago) link
pearl's dancing: still terrible in that video
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 May 2015 05:08 (eight years ago) link
Just watched the recap episode.
1. Am I just exhausted or was that incredibly boring?2. What the hell does "Come through" mean?
― Madison Dumbbarfer (Leee), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 03:32 (eight years ago) link
3. Did Sharon change her voice as well as her face?
― Madison Dumbbarfer (Leee), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 03:34 (eight years ago) link
come through means YASS QUEEEN
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 03:40 (eight years ago) link
Sharon is LePore-ing herself, for better or worse
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 03:42 (eight years ago) link
Oh dear.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 04:11 (eight years ago) link
yeah, it's kind of a bummer
when raven was on ru's podcast a while ago, she said that sharon had said to her at a show once "i dont get why it takes you hours to beat your face, my makeup looks just as good as yours"* she didnt come right out & say it was sharon but michelle guessed in like nanoseconds
the more I know about sharon since drag race, the less i like. which sucks bcz she was so rad
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 04:27 (eight years ago) link
And now, helping you help yourself. If you need it.
http://logo.to/1HJ8BfA
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 17:44 (eight years ago) link
Gia's makeup game stepped up (i.e. she hired some makeup artists).
― Madison Dumbbarfer (Leee), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 17:53 (eight years ago) link
Katya, living well.
https://twitter.com/katya_zamo/status/603657238721536001
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 20:44 (eight years ago) link
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 20:51 (eight years ago) link
omg howwwling
https://instagram.com/p/3MvokLI89E/
― WE WANT FET WAP (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 28 May 2015 16:40 (eight years ago) link
so great
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 May 2015 16:45 (eight years ago) link
Live RuView from Dragcon
http://youtu.be/CVeIte7OkWc
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 May 2015 17:49 (eight years ago) link
Am glad no one has updated this thread yet. I am forcing myself to stay off social media for the day until I can watch the finale this evening.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 13:14 (eight years ago) link
boring show and unsatisfying conclusion, though i guess this season deserved an undeserving winner
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 2 June 2015 13:20 (eight years ago) link
i didn't find it boring at all!
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 13:41 (eight years ago) link
A take on it all
http://themuse.jezebel.com/what-the-hell-happened-on-rupauls-drag-race-1708447405?rev=1433259408439
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 16:09 (eight years ago) link
I hated Violet early on but I don't have a problem at all with her winning. Couldnt really say why except that Violet is young and still has the potential to become even more than she is; her fashion vocabulary is ridiculous & i have really grown to love her confidence & posi vibes in recent episodes.
I think after Bianca everyone was sure Ginger would take it but Ginger doesnt have the kindness of spirit that Bianca has, and I dunno that she has potential for growth? she feels fully formed to me, and i dont think ru necessarily is looking for that, talented though she may be
I'm prob way off base idk
And in what fuckin universe is KENNEDY Miss Congeniality?? Congenial my assShe is amazing and talented and fierce as fuck but congenial she ain't
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 16:18 (eight years ago) link
there was no way we were going to get a comedy queen crowned for the 3rd consecutive year. i pretty much stopped caring after katya was eliminated but i'm not at all surprised at violet's win.
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 19:49 (eight years ago) link
i mean, she's gorgeous, young, and confident with a strong runway game but not much else. see also: tyra sanchez
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 19:50 (eight years ago) link
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 20:13 (eight years ago) link
I loved the finale and laughed a lot!
I too had lost interest after Katya was eliminated, but of the top 3 I was definitely team Violet. She just has so much natural talent at such a young age it's very impressive. I thought her performance last night was the best and suggests she has more to offer than runway, as did her growth througout the season. The crowd at the bar I was at was definitely on her side too. Ginger should've had this in the bag but really burned herself in the last couple of episodes. It seems that even though she's a pageant queen, she's the one who couldn't handle this competition.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 22:26 (eight years ago) link
i'm not sure violet has a talent beyond "looking fierce" which is a nice talent but traditionally the winners of this show have been done a lot more than that
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 2 June 2015 22:28 (eight years ago) link
raja is basically fierce face face body face runway, tyra was 100% runway; even bebe is runway
i think the expectation that they are always going to be sharon/jinx/bianca is understandable, but i personally dont want every queen to be a one woman broadway show
and ginger was not the "all that" that everyone acts like she is
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 22:36 (eight years ago) link
& even for being a pure runway queen, violet's aesthetic is so boring
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 2 June 2015 22:43 (eight years ago) link
irl reaction
http://www.logotv.com/shows/rupauls_drag_race/watch-as-the-top-three-queens-learn-who-snatched-the-crown/1206207/video/#id=1736226?xrs=synd_facebook_rpdr
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 22:46 (eight years ago) link
also if anyine cares they just dumped a boatload of untucked bonus clips on the youtube channel
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 23:41 (eight years ago) link
I'd say that Pearl was ahead of the game in overall personality, but every once in awhile, the ruthless overachiever has to be given the crown. This final 3 was basically a dead heat, so.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 04:46 (eight years ago) link
And I keep having to question how much of my love for Pearl was based, as per the Bianca read in the recap, on how fucking hot she was as a boy.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 04:49 (eight years ago) link
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 04:54 (eight years ago) link
violet's new single is... very bad.
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 13:32 (eight years ago) link
the house in the video belongs to a friend of a friend of mine!
i thought it was ok. not great
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 15:25 (eight years ago) link
Loved this season, but Violet winning is the most wtf since the Other Tyra. (BTW Logo TV you kind of spoiled me by having a thumbnail of Violet getting crowned on the video page.) Do not at all get the reaction to Ging Is Mean movement, and I know that all reality shows boil down to popularity contests, but I don't think any of the critical things Ginger said over the course of the season was beyond the pale or at all remarkable.
The solo lip syncs were a terrible idea, I just watched the backup dancers most of the time.
― Falconetti Pot (Leee), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 18:24 (eight years ago) link
solo lip-sunch would have been worth it if ru had cleared the rights to songs people actually knew & enjoyed, rather than using original songs nobody will ever care about.
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 18:48 (eight years ago) link
yeah the songs were a bit weird
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 18:50 (eight years ago) link
SPEAKING of songs.
http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/815-the-best-and-worst-music-of-rupauls-drag-divas/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 June 2015 16:32 (eight years ago) link
And this took forever but
http://www.newnownext.com/rupauls-drag-race-all-stars-2-premiere-on-logo/07/2015/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 16:01 (eight years ago) link
awwwww yeah
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 18:05 (eight years ago) link
I wonder if they will only include queens from the last 4 seasons. I'm thinking Alaska, Alyssa, Adore, and Katya are a lock to be on it. Would love to see Ongina, Max, and Joslyn Fox too. And of course Willam, but I doubt she'd do it.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 30 July 2015 17:02 (eight years ago) link
Willam wants to do it! - but idk if Ru wants to. We'll see I guess
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 30 July 2015 17:04 (eight years ago) link
Am I nuts or does this look like Alaska? http://thehill.com/video/in-the-news/250594-strategist-says-dems-should-worry-about-kasich-rubio
― :wq (Leee), Monday, 10 August 2015 22:26 (eight years ago) link
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 10 August 2015 22:36 (eight years ago) link
Vivienne Pinay was on Face/Off this week (out of drag as Michael)
He got a makeover with his partner & got married on stage which was cool! but omg the makeover was sooooo bad. I felt awful for him! He is so gorgeous out of drag & he looked sad & gross :( He should have kicked the artists off & done it himself!
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 August 2015 05:12 (eight years ago) link
oh and it was kinda extreme drag makeup too which made it even worse.
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 August 2015 05:14 (eight years ago) link
Okay so a series-wide slew of contestants were backing up Miley yesterday?
http://www.mtv.com/news/2256541/meet-miley-vma-dancers-drag-queens/?xrs=_s.tw_news
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 31 August 2015 14:59 (eight years ago) link
House of Edwards front and center!
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 31 August 2015 23:40 (eight years ago) link
Tis the season!
http://www.newnownext.com/rupauls-drag-race-christmas-queens/10/2015/?xrs=synd_facebook_logo
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 October 2015 16:52 (eight years ago) link
who the fuck wants to listen to this
― Ina-Garten-Da-Vida (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 26 October 2015 19:30 (eight years ago) link
So G1nger M1nj dumped her husband for another guy. His ex was gracious if not hurt.
Then today his ex packed his remaining things for G1nger and told him he could come get it while my roommate and him went out.
They came back and G1nger and his new boyfriend stole all of his stuff except his clothes. TV...couch...bed. everything.
Someone was warped by being on this show.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 01:13 (eight years ago) link
Sorry for the misuse of pronouns.. I'm tired.
Just really kinda shocked. And ex-husband has gone public w it so it's getting ugly
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 01:23 (eight years ago) link
I just checked upthread and reconfirmed that you were the one who had posted that you knew her and her husband, to be sure -- and damn, what a mess.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 03:12 (eight years ago) link
yeah. I feel terrible for the hubby. His roommate also ditched out on him to move in with Ginger and a friend so now he's on the hook for the rent which he can't afford.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 03:21 (eight years ago) link
so sad
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 October 2015 05:49 (eight years ago) link
While we wait...
http://www.newnownext.com/rupaul-to-slay-christmas-with-first-ever-holiday-special-rpdr-im-dreaming-of-a-green-screen-christmas/12/2015/?xrs=synd_facebook_rpdr
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 21:18 (eight years ago) link
Yes !! While I wait I've been rewatching all the Seasons with my bf who hadn't seen any of them and it's been so much fun!! So many amazing queens, creative challenges, jaw-dropping looks, fun personnalities, hilarious quotes, and fierce lip-synchs! Needless to say he's just as hooked as I am.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 22:07 (eight years ago) link
Wouldn't RuPaul's Christmas Ball from 1993 actually be the "first-ever drag themed holiday special"?
― cory artangel (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 22:12 (eight years ago) link
Yeah I thought that too.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 22:57 (eight years ago) link
History began in the 21st century. Uh.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 23:25 (eight years ago) link
Okay finally! Season 8 contestants announced:
http://www.logotv.com/shows/rupauls_drag_race/rupauls-drag-race-season-8-meet-the-queens-acid-betty/1271420/video/#id=1739289
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 05:32 (eight years ago) link
Get ready kitty girls !!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVddfGg0laQ
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 17:07 (eight years ago) link
I see Acid Betty is following in Sharon Needles's Project Runway footsteps.
― Sofialo Ren (Leee), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 18:18 (eight years ago) link
Based on the Meet the queens on Logo's website, my favorites so far are Bob The Drag Queen, Dax Exclamationpoint, and Thorgy Thor.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 02:53 (eight years ago) link
Meantime fun to see Shangela on The X-Files this week.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 03:46 (eight years ago) link
i was just coming here to say that!
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 04:44 (eight years ago) link
That's something I never thought I'd hear!
― Sofialo Ren (Leee), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 05:10 (eight years ago) link
Extended trailer...
http://www.logotv.com/video-clips/eh1as0/rupauls-drag-race-extended-first-look
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 February 2016 17:04 (eight years ago) link
Plus judge info
http://www.newnownext.com/amy-sedaris-marc-jacobs-debbie-harry-and-todrick-hall-tapped-as-judge-for-rupauls-drag-race-season-8/02/2016/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 February 2016 17:34 (eight years ago) link
...and finally, full marathon of all episodes from March 3 through the season premiere on March 7th:
http://www.newnownext.com/logo-is-airing-every-single-episode-of-rupauls-drag-race-ever/02/2016/?xrs=synd_facebook_logo
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 February 2016 18:24 (eight years ago) link
Debbie Harry !!!
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 19 February 2016 20:01 (eight years ago) link
And then there's this:
http://www.newnownext.com/rupaul-reunites-with-all-the-drag-race-winners/02/2016/
http://logoonline.mtvnimages.com/uri/mgid:file:http:shared:newnownext.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/RPDR-s8-1456336932.jpg?quality=0.8&format=jpg&width=1200
What brought these vivacious vixens together? We don’t want to spoil it, but we will say it has to do with the first challenge of Season 8’s premiere episode
As a friend said on FB, Quarter Quell?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 19:23 (eight years ago) link
Oh Tyra... :(
― La Lechazunga (Leee), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 19:25 (eight years ago) link
Raja looks amazing as always. Wish Raven was there for that ep.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 23:03 (eight years ago) link
raven just carries herself like a winner. i fully understand why tyra won but i am glad that raven is so fucking classy that i completely forget tyra
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 February 2016 03:30 (eight years ago) link
Loved the first episode. Lot's of great personalities. I can already remember most of them off the top of my head. Makes me excited about the new season!
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 04:51 (eight years ago) link
I am sooooo feeling Bob the Drag Queen. Like, in all aspects. And Acid Betty omggg. Loving these grown New York queens, basically. Fuck yes.
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 05:07 (eight years ago) link
Derek Barry didn't show terribly well in untucked... and Bob is packin a healthy amount of competitive shade.
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 05:09 (eight years ago) link
is derek barry the right name? britney. whatever her name was
Derrick Barry I think. He did better than I thought he would in the challenge though. I mean it was simple, but I didn't expect him to have humor.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 05:22 (eight years ago) link
And yes, Bob is god. With Kim Chi and Thorgy as my holy trinity so far.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 05:24 (eight years ago) link
Yeah catching up on everything here. Bob is pretty damn hilarious, just want him to kill the looks a hair more (not that he can't but even so). Kim is freakin' hilarious and I have soft spots for Naomi and Chi Chi too, so far.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 05:42 (eight years ago) link
Kim is adorable, looking forward to more if her
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 05:56 (eight years ago) link
I didn't watch Untucked yet but Bob and Kim Chi are my jam rn, I SQUEALED when it showed the bored-dazed photo shoot "best shot"
― police patrol felt the smell of smoke and found that goat burns (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 13:38 (eight years ago) link
also lol @ tugging hard on the heartstrings w/ Kim's parents for what will inevitably be like a super gut-wrenching Untucked at some point
How did Bob get his first name? I missed that part.
― Sorry To Be The Bearer Of Bad Poos (Leee), Monday, 14 March 2016 17:41 (eight years ago) link
"Big ole' bottom" iirc
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Monday, 14 March 2016 19:13 (eight years ago) link
YOU GUYS
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 05:55 (eight years ago) link
It felt a bit set up, but it was so deserved!!
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 14:20 (eight years ago) link
yeah, suuuuper deserved
but def set up, i agree
i thought the contrast between the two teams performances was pretty stunning, even with dax's awkard giraffe realness. chi-chi's team as a group totally killed it
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 16:32 (eight years ago) link
I was going to say, however much of a setup it was...if you're going to do, you know, THAT song, kill the damn thing.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 16:58 (eight years ago) link
they both lipsynced like it was bubblegum dreampop. it's a strong, defiant song! it's a goddamn anthem whether you like it or not. You need to stomp that shit out like Adore would
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 17:02 (eight years ago) link
I am enjoying this season a lot more than last season. I dunno if it's the influx of ny queens or the level of talent or what, but i'm diggin it
want a spinoff series where acid betty, thorgy & bob just spill the tea to camera forever
raja said on her commentary for logo that thorgy looked like a ceramics teacher out of drag & i loled so hard
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 02:09 (eight years ago) link
I am loving this season too so far. My only complaint would be all the strobelights during the runway which make it pretty much impossible to see the looks until they actually get critiqued.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 16 March 2016 04:34 (eight years ago) link
omg yes. especially since Logo is still standard def
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 04:57 (eight years ago) link
It's definitely a fun season for sure, and with the curveball now in place already, bring on whatever is next!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 March 2016 02:10 (eight years ago) link
lmao thorgy's adam duritz-ass dreads are so fn wack but i love them. Also that had to have been set up in some capacity but idk maybe saved until the first truly mediocre lip-sync? they both really sucked
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 20 March 2016 00:56 (eight years ago) link
OMG "ACID BERRY" LMAOOOOOOOOOOOO
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 20 March 2016 01:01 (eight years ago) link
Thorgy showed up this week! As did Chi Chi. Acid Butty's runway was remarkable.
Looooooved the cuts to the unimpressed judges during the lipsync!
Guesses for the returning queen are Katya or if the queen arrives in a box, what's-her-face.
― Sorry To Be The Bearer Of Bad Poos (Leee), Sunday, 20 March 2016 23:48 (eight years ago) link
Also I thought Betty was a lot taller? Wasn't she close to 7 feet when she was on Runway?
― Sorry To Be The Bearer Of Bad Poos (Leee), Sunday, 20 March 2016 23:49 (eight years ago) link
Finally, Chi Chi and Kim need to become a couple so that we can call them Kim Chi Chi.
― Sorry To Be The Bearer Of Bad Poos (Leee), Sunday, 20 March 2016 23:50 (eight years ago) link
New episode is online somehow, for those who can't wait till tomorrow to know who Ru was calling. Haven't seen it yet!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo0EtDdQQQA
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 21 March 2016 04:22 (eight years ago) link
Sorry, I tried not to embed it and it did the opposite. No spoilers thank god!
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 21 March 2016 04:25 (eight years ago) link
Bob is everything, Acid Betty's runway was awesome, and I keep finding more & more reasons to give Robbie hella side-eye.
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 05:17 (eight years ago) link
I haven't watched the first 2 eps yet but oh my god i was DYING @ this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suNNLXLbcWo
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 12:34 (eight years ago) link
she's so funny
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 17:43 (eight years ago) link
jesus, I just watched Untucked and Acid Betty is such a cruel bully, like she's not even a love-to-hate-her bitch like Phi Phi, she's just smug and mean-spirited. It's uncomfortable to watch.
Also, I just realized how much Cynthia Lee Fontaine's wackiness reminds me of Celine Dion.
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 00:57 (eight years ago) link
She's very compartmentalized, like she's all competition & not here for any kind of realness or yknow, humanity. I dunno if that will change over time, she seems v locked down
Like right now she's a fully realized version of what LaGanja attempting, minus apology or regret
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 05:33 (eight years ago) link
I like her tho?
Robbie's wigs need to be set on fire. I dunno how she can walk out on the runway with those hideous acrylic nighmares on her head each week
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 05:38 (eight years ago) link
Hahaha omg I was thinking the same thing about Cynthia and Céline. Her accent even seems more québécois than mexican.
I usually like Betty, even with her over the top bitchy moments, but I agree during Untucked I wanted her to shut the hell up. I mean she's talking on top of Kim Chi's message, saying awful things about her friend. That's really shitty. And Derrick was right, her narrownindedness seemed weird for her. Almost like the producers told her to say those things.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 13:52 (eight years ago) link
https://media.giphy.com/media/3o7WTw1BbRFfOCE5MI/giphy.gif
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 15:36 (eight years ago) link
Am I being shady if I think that Thorgy's drag look is tamer her than her boy look?
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 17:29 (eight years ago) link
Ru speaks!
http://www.vulture.com/2016/03/rupaul-drag-race-interview.html
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 19:19 (eight years ago) link
acid betty's mad max thing was cool enough but i was happy they told her to do something different. it's kind of numbing at a certain point. also i don't like her and hope she loses.
i would have given the win to thorgy for being surprisingly good, as opposed to bob who you knew was going to kill it.
also loved robbie's look and her roller lip sync was killing me, there was like a comic gracefulness to it? generally i have a soft spot for the queens who do the suburban aunt thing even tho they generally don't last that long
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 24 March 2016 03:53 (eight years ago) link
i dont mind robbie's shtick it's just her look is always so unpolished & drab & her wigs make me angry
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 March 2016 04:41 (eight years ago) link
I don't mind robbie's shtick either but that non-offended indifference is all I really feel toward her.
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 24 March 2016 13:08 (eight years ago) link
No opinions on Les Chicken Wings or Kim's runway look???
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Friday, 1 April 2016 21:16 (seven years ago) link
waiting for someone to bump cos i couldnt find the thread
loved this ep & challlenge completely, so much fun & even though robbie isnt my fave i'm glad he got the win. bob v lucien was hilar & awkward
i am starting to want derrick barry to go home. like a lot.
chris stein should be a regular judge he was awesome <3
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 April 2016 21:19 (seven years ago) link
Robbie's anecdote about the Debbie Harry poster was A+++.
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Friday, 1 April 2016 21:25 (seven years ago) link
yeah that was cool - them going backstage & meeting robbie in untucked was so cool
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 April 2016 22:17 (seven years ago) link
cool cool cool ugh @ me
It's all cool! Anyway yes to all the above.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 1 April 2016 22:56 (seven years ago) link
Loved the episode. I liked all the songs, even the synth one but I am cheesy. They just didn't sing it very well. They were basically "Rock Lobster", "Cars", and "Blitzkrieg Bop" with new lyrics.
The runway was incredible, especially Acid, Kim Chi and Bob. Too bad it lasted about half a second each.
I screamed when Derrick was announced safe, but I kind of knew they would keep her for Snatch Game.
Chichi SLAYED that lipsynch. Like she should go directly to Top 3 because of it. Amazing.
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 2 April 2016 00:03 (seven years ago) link
I'm really liking Chi Chi, sort of a harder-working version of Adore.
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Saturday, 2 April 2016 00:17 (seven years ago) link
yeah totally. you can never count out someone hungry like that, she wants it so much & i love her for it
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 April 2016 05:26 (seven years ago) link
And like Bob said, smart! She's obviously intelligent and very self-aware.
The last Untucked was great, super sweet and that PA doing some vamping was cuet.
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Sunday, 3 April 2016 23:30 (seven years ago) link
acid betty was v kind to chi-chi too which was nice to see
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 4 April 2016 02:36 (seven years ago) link
OTM! "Don't look too good, this is still a competition."
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Monday, 4 April 2016 02:40 (seven years ago) link
Kim Chi's runway was insaaaaane!!! And we didn't even get to see the judges comment on it :( Also Lucien Piane needs to fuck off and never be on this show again, he is the WORST, every time he is on he is so sooooo fucking smug and bitchy. I cannot even imagine how awful he must be to like be friends with IRL.
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 4 April 2016 11:59 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, Lucien was all, "Stop thinking B-52s" to the NY team, and what song did they end up doing?
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Monday, 4 April 2016 16:49 (seven years ago) link
I'll post more later but for now:
FOUR
GODDAMN
KIMONOS
WTF @ U QUEENS, WTF
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 23:55 (seven years ago) link
Derrick stole Chi Chi's place in the top 3; I would've even preferred to have seen Kim Chi there.
Betty's exit interview was so sad and lonely.
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 16:41 (seven years ago) link
for a runway challenge with so many options I MEAN ITS ONLY MADONNA FOR CRYIN OUT LOUD why did so many ppl choose the same look?! for fucks sake, ladies!!!
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 18:57 (seven years ago) link
that said: i love thorgy, her kimono was definitely the best of them & her michael jackson was so good! its crazy how she keeps getting overshadowed by bob, tho, because she's clearly a first rate performer -- he's just that much more attention grabbing.
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 19:03 (seven years ago) link
Yeah still puzzling over the kimono botch there. Thorgy is definitely dark horsing it more and more.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 April 2016 19:32 (seven years ago) link
kimonos pissed me off so much, I'm still mad abt it
carson's nancy grace was a+ though, lol
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 21:14 (seven years ago) link
After the fourth kimono and was all, "omg...are they all going to wear kimonos?" Not a single Madonna look prior to 1989.
― kate78, Wednesday, 6 April 2016 21:15 (seven years ago) link
fuckin travesty
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 21:16 (seven years ago) link
I am so pissed off about robbie's diana vreeland, it was such a failed opportunity. there are a couple key elements to the look and he didnt get a single one of them, you could not have even guessed who he was trying to be. and worse he was boring!!! diana vreeland was a grandiose maniac and all you could give us is "im an old fashion magazine lady." go home robbie, you didnt even rouge your ears!!!!
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 23:42 (seven years ago) link
also his wigs and makeup are consistently awful and i just want him to go already
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 23:43 (seven years ago) link
omg yes. you have to really try HARD to fuck that up.
i'm over robbie in a major way
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 7 April 2016 01:21 (seven years ago) link
this is the order I see them going home:
7. Naomi Smalls6 (or 5). Derrick Barry5 (or 6). Robby Turner4. Kim Chi3. Chi Chi DeVayne2. Bob1. Thorgy Thor
I don't think the top 3 could really be anyone else and nobody but Bob or Thorgy will win this thing.
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 7 April 2016 01:35 (seven years ago) link
agree
could happily shoot derrick barry into the sun right now tho. she gets worse every week
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 7 April 2016 01:42 (seven years ago) link
I still gotta pull for Robbie cuz she is my neighborhood queen, but ffs, she is sucha letdown after Jinx and Dela.
― kate78, Thursday, 7 April 2016 02:41 (seven years ago) link
Kim Chi looks great but she's a (barely) walking instagram profile. Looks great, but no chops otherwise.
― kate78, Thursday, 7 April 2016 02:42 (seven years ago) link
yeah i am not sure about kim chi
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 7 April 2016 03:28 (seven years ago) link
like, i love her but she feels like a universe away from chichi, thorgy & bob
Yeah, sweetly second tier, but still just that. More interesting flashes have been coming out but she's been quietly coasting all this time since her early win.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 7 April 2016 04:04 (seven years ago) link
she still cant walk for shit lol
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 7 April 2016 04:27 (seven years ago) link
against anybodys wishes i really expect derrick will be quietly escorted into the top 3 for dramatic villiany purposes. shades of phiphi o'hara
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Thursday, 7 April 2016 16:53 (seven years ago) link
nooooooooo
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 7 April 2016 17:50 (seven years ago) link
Oh dear
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 7 April 2016 17:53 (seven years ago) link
hey i'll be more than happy to be proven wrong! but there's always a bit of deliberate casting and that goes into selecting the top 3, we know this.
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Thursday, 7 April 2016 22:42 (seven years ago) link
i thought robbie's runway look was really creative especially in the wake of the kimono tsunami. i generally like her on the runway at least in the context of this season which hasn't had a lot of... whimsy on the runway. pretty much all the queens are self-serious this year so i find her appealingly disarming. she's pretty boxed in as a performer tho.
i think the top three is clearly bob, thorgy & kim chi. kim chi always slays on the runway her walking aside (rupaul's little "you better kim chi that walk" riff from the second episode still bounces around my head in idle moments) and i was impressed by her snatch game performance. she def isn't on thorgy or bob's level as a performer but she's good enough in that realm that it won't drag any of her looks down, which are usually very on point.
i'm rooting hard for chi chi but her runway looks are usually pretty tasteless and not in a good way. even her boob cone madonna was kinda... off. she always looks sexy as fuck regardless but i feel like she's perpetually one look away from being in the bottom regardless of her main challenge performance. the only thing is that as we saw in the new wave episode she can lip sync anyone off the stage so that might get her into the top 3.
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 9 April 2016 06:23 (seven years ago) link
acid betty's interviews in this episode really were pretty sad. there was that whole bit about how she feels like a lonely outcast but she never connected it back to the fact that she's appears to be a huge bitch to work with, and proud of it. (maybe that characterization is an editing thing but if she really has very few friends in drag that's probably why.)
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 9 April 2016 06:26 (seven years ago) link
bob is quite easily one of my fav queens ever on the show, maybe my second favorite after bianca or third favorite after alaska
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 9 April 2016 06:27 (seven years ago) link
in betty's whatcha packin interview with michelle, she reveals that her mom was a former dancer that battled hodgkins disease most of her life; really heartbreaking even in the few details she gave
i dont blame anyone for judging her harshly, her armor is definitely a choice... but damn i wish she could have fought against that instinct
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 April 2016 07:15 (seven years ago) link
I did like how Michelle had some very kind and supportive #realtalk with her about not being so hostile all the time
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 9 April 2016 11:52 (seven years ago) link
yeah i like Michelle being all mamabear with the queens
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 April 2016 18:06 (seven years ago) link
Alright, I'm not completely over Betty being only Top 8 and the whole Madonna fiasco but I liked this week's episode. Lots of funny stuff in the workroom and on the judges' pannel.Although I think we can agree that Chichi wasn't put in the bottom so that Britney wouldn't be sent home... They are giving her a redemption arc aren't they?
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 15 April 2016 19:59 (seven years ago) link
I'm hoping that they're giving Chi Chi the Adore arc and she makes top 3, and Derek is there to provide drama.
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Friday, 15 April 2016 20:30 (seven years ago) link
I think Chichi will make it, but her Dorothy made no sense and deserved bottom imo
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 15 April 2016 21:36 (seven years ago) link
Derek needs to get her busted ass off my tv, I am so OVER her
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 16 April 2016 02:32 (seven years ago) link
omg I thought you meant Chi Chi for a minute and I just got so upset
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 16 April 2016 02:43 (seven years ago) link
no never chichi, she's rad
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 16 April 2016 03:04 (seven years ago) link
lol she said 'busted' and your first thought was Chi.
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Saturday, 16 April 2016 03:48 (seven years ago) link
poor robbie wasn't about to beat the Vegas Britney impersonator in a lip sync
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 17 April 2016 18:43 (seven years ago) link
now i have this like horrible realization of what if derrick who is clearly SO AWFUl just like happens to be really good at lip syncing and will slay ppl clearly better than him in every other way?
has this ever happened in RPDR history? like really worthless ppl who just happen to be great at lip syncing and keep hanging on long after they should be gone?
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 17 April 2016 19:30 (seven years ago) link
though i feel like i've seen ppl basically just get sent home after their third consecutive lip sync
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 17 April 2016 19:31 (seven years ago) link
there was someone who stayed forever bcz of lipsyncing and I cant remember who
dida ritz maybe?
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 April 2016 19:32 (seven years ago) link
or maybe coco
gah why cant i remember D:
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 April 2016 19:34 (seven years ago) link
Coco and Alyssa both lip synced 5+ times.
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Sunday, 17 April 2016 19:55 (seven years ago) link
if anyone hangs around because they kill the lip sync every time i think it will be chi chi
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 17 April 2016 19:55 (seven years ago) link
xpost thank u
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 April 2016 19:56 (seven years ago) link
Trinity also lingered in the competition because she's great at lip syncing.
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Sunday, 17 April 2016 19:57 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXiL0Jp7dMk
oops spoilers
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Monday, 18 April 2016 03:58 (seven years ago) link
so, no reactions to this week's episode? are we upset?
sad to see ine of my faves go but goddamn that lip synch was top 3 of all time imho
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Friday, 22 April 2016 14:28 (seven years ago) link
that lip sync was incredible. chi chi has to be one of the best lip syncers in the history of the show.
― J0rdan S., Friday, 22 April 2016 15:40 (seven years ago) link
Chi Chi is IMO a lock for top 3 now for sending Thorgy home.
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Friday, 22 April 2016 16:22 (seven years ago) link
latrice is still the title holder for me but chichi is up there
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 22 April 2016 16:59 (seven years ago) link
I think mine would be Trinity.
Chichi was fantastic, but I was sad to see Thorgy go home for sure. It doesn't make sense that Derrick outlasted her.
Kimchi crying with the sad mime make-up was both heartbreaking and beautiful.
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 22 April 2016 23:32 (seven years ago) link
that make up was unbelievable
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 23 April 2016 04:56 (seven years ago) link
yeah her makeup skills are next-level
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 24 April 2016 01:09 (seven years ago) link
She's as good as Miss Fame, but with the imagination of Santino!
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Sunday, 24 April 2016 01:29 (seven years ago) link
Fame + Raja = KimChi
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 April 2016 01:37 (seven years ago) link
BYE BITCH BYE
Fuckin Derrick. I can't remember the last time I was so happy to see a queen go home. jfc. I'm still laughing at her "Daddy Does Drag" eyebrows etc. KimChi nailed it, you're going on Drag Race, and maybe BEFORE the show starts filming you might wanna practice carving your face and not like, an hour hour before runway.
I swear, she acted like she'd never seen the show. She knows what's expected of the queens, but somehow she thought all of that wouldn't apply to her because she's so 'on point' that everyone would just fall on the floor drooling and push the crown in her general direction. The level of her delusion was front & center in today's untucked episode. Like she's standing there in a corset that looks like a handmade birthday card next to Kimchi and Naomi and Chichi and it's like BITCH OF COURSE YOU'RE ON THE BOTTOM. LOOK AT YOURSELF.
Her britney is on point but everything else about her works my last nerve and I am glad to see her go. UGH.
I seriously can't with her. I just fucking cant.
....
Meanwhile BOB with the lipsync this week made me pretty happy.
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 27 April 2016 01:42 (seven years ago) link
This season has been so amazing (like what season 5 could've been if Roxxxy hadn't gone on her Jinkx Jihad) -- even with Derrick being the villain, he does have depths and pathos that I could empathize with (though by the end I had to stare at his chin because looking at the rest of his makeup made me cry).
Something really sad though was that in the photo of Kim's mom, they blurred out her face, which means that she didn't sign a waiver to have her likeness appear on the show. Damn.
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Wednesday, 27 April 2016 04:56 (seven years ago) link
Loving Naomi's late surge, too! In fact, of the top four, I feel that all of them belong there!
Such a great episode. Derrick and Naomi's sniping was so glorious, I was eating popcorn right next to Kim.
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Wednesday, 27 April 2016 04:57 (seven years ago) link
xp i thought that too re: Kim's mom :(
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 27 April 2016 12:27 (seven years ago) link
Kim's looks were SO GREAT this episode.
The Jerri Blank musical number was... really odd.
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Wednesday, 27 April 2016 15:13 (seven years ago) link
I am now officially team Kimchi, she's just so adorable and incredibly talented.
I think this is the first time I like every queen in the Top 4 though. I'm rooting for ChiChi to make it to the finale just over Naomi.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 27 April 2016 20:38 (seven years ago) link
Yeah the top four is all good for me. (I was down with Season 3's top four.)
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 April 2016 20:40 (seven years ago) link
I never was a big Alexis Mateo fan, too pageant for me, but her Alicia Keys was great.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 27 April 2016 20:54 (seven years ago) link
yeah this top 4 really is fantastic. it's been a blast to watch naomi and especially chi chi blossom. chi chi's last two looks in this episode were so bomb. my bf & i were gagging over that mom look and we def had never seen anything remotely that advanced from her on teh design front with that last one.
personally i think i'd like to see them two advance along w/ bob (who was so casually funny in this episode) but obv it's hard to deny the brilliance of kim chi's runway looks. i thought david sedaris was so dead on in describing the how forlorn her mom look was. i feel like kim chi should be like... doing creative direction for a broadway play or something. i feel like the avant garde queens of the milk/acid betty ilk all sort of riff on the same theme but kim chi has been so unique conceptually.
honestly i wouldn't be surprised if ru brought all 4 to the finale
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 28 April 2016 04:03 (seven years ago) link
I'm starting to think we might get that too.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 April 2016 04:20 (seven years ago) link
I wouldn't be mad at that
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 April 2016 04:25 (seven years ago) link
oh and ChiChi's puppet Bob was hilarious
JOKES JOKES JOKES JOKES JOKES
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 April 2016 04:26 (seven years ago) link
All the puppets were good!
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Thursday, 28 April 2016 05:10 (seven years ago) link
If they do a top 4 finale I'm gonna feel bad for Latrice Royale.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 28 April 2016 14:31 (seven years ago) link
I can think of contestants on other reality shows who have started out pretty middling, listened to critique, applied it successfully, and blossomed, but has anyone done it on RPDR?
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 28 April 2016 20:11 (seven years ago) link
Adore !
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 28 April 2016 21:15 (seven years ago) link
YES!! Definitely Adore.
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 28 April 2016 22:50 (seven years ago) link
Jinkx as well, I'd say.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 April 2016 22:50 (seven years ago) link
Jinkx had the performance chops all along, just her makeup was crunchy in the beginning.
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Thursday, 28 April 2016 22:53 (seven years ago) link
derek legit looked like jinkx for a second with those janky eyebrows imho
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Friday, 29 April 2016 03:48 (seven years ago) link
derrick. darien lake. whatever.
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Friday, 29 April 2016 03:49 (seven years ago) link
her makeup now is night & day compared to the pancake nonsense she was sporting in the beginning
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 29 April 2016 05:31 (seven years ago) link
jinx i mean
Really did wish that all the girls got to compete in the finale! Heart broke for Chi Chi.
First half of the episode was so good, watching them crack on each other during the video taping. But when they got onto the main stage and had to sell themselves, the show started to draaaag (pun!). Lots of cliche and trite aphorisms; only Bob said anything worth remembering.
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 04:13 (seven years ago) link
Kim made me tear up, but I wish they had a tic tac with Mama Ru instead of that talk to your baby picture thing.
I don't understand why Chichi is gone. Miss her already.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 13:10 (seven years ago) link
coming late to the game, just binge-watched all 8 seasons over the past 2 months with a friend so can finally talk with people about it in real time.
Yeah, was sad to see Chi Chi go but can understand the reasoning, the final showing wasn't quite enough to tip it over in comparison to the other three but I loved Chi Chi (loved/love all four of them) was really having a hard time trying to figure out who i'd be happy to see leave and wanted all of them to stay.
― H in Addis, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 16:23 (seven years ago) link
Good heavens I forgot to respond to your message to me on FB! Sorry, just finally did here.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 16:24 (seven years ago) link
So uh Violet kind of stole the show.
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 03:55 (seven years ago) link
that look was fuckin amaaaaaaaaaazing
i didnt clock the beetles & veins til i saw the photos goddamn she puts on a show
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 06:40 (seven years ago) link
ugh so fn tired of the canned pre-taped "wins" w/o seeing the winner's actual reaction
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 19 May 2016 02:18 (seven years ago) link
Violet did look amazing!!! I was trying to process all of what was on her head and outfit, and , well just dayumm
was a lil surprised re outcome ( just a lil, was semi-expecting too)
something that cracked me up looking at audience and at the warm-up videos with previous queens doing their runway walks was how many people came out with their purse forward.
― H in Addis, Thursday, 19 May 2016 14:36 (seven years ago) link
was "purse first" even a thing until the finale episode? I don't recall hearing it like ever
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 19 May 2016 15:25 (seven years ago) link
its def a thing - they were doing it at the beginning walk-in of almost every episode & a few untucked eps too
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 May 2016 15:35 (seven years ago) link
yeah it didn't hit me until they made a big deal of it in the finale but now that i think about it... yeha
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 19 May 2016 15:56 (seven years ago) link
Bob said purse first in every episode! I was even thinking to myself "Stop trying to make purse first happen", but then it did lolHe even made a great video about it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuogbfF6VR8
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 19 May 2016 19:04 (seven years ago) link
i mean, he made a video abt it but idk if i'd call it a great one
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 19 May 2016 19:27 (seven years ago) link
Haha I liked it!
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 19 May 2016 19:31 (seven years ago) link
The video itself was fine but Bob cannot rap on beat to save his life
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 19 May 2016 19:37 (seven years ago) link
The purse dance sequence is kind of rough too. But overall it's pretty fun and the more I see Leila McQueen, the more I think we missed out on her.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 19 May 2016 19:58 (seven years ago) link
she wasn't quite cooked yet
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 May 2016 20:07 (seven years ago) link
she looked like a mess at the finale
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 19 May 2016 22:58 (seven years ago) link
I can't say I even remember what she looked like, but she was hilarious on Untucked at Drag Con.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 19 May 2016 23:46 (seven years ago) link
All Stars 2 cast is ruvealed!
http://www.newnownext.com/logo-rupauls-all-star-drag-race-season-2/06/2016/?xrs=synd_twitter_rpdr
I'm a bit disapointed tbh. It seems boring to have the Top 6 of Season 5 (minus Jinkx) competing against each other again. Do we really need to see Coco and Alyssa in the same room again ? Replace Coco and Roxxxy with BenDeLa and Trixie and it would've been perfect!
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 17 June 2016 21:49 (seven years ago) link
Replace Coco and Roxxxy with BenDeLa and Trixie and it would've been perfect!
Pretty much. And LOL still no Willam.
BTW did Detox get more work done? I didn't recognize her in the promo pics from that link.
― Interpretive Jigglypuffery (Leee), Friday, 17 June 2016 22:12 (seven years ago) link
I had the most wonderful dream! My drag name was something like Lilian Coquette and I made it to the top 6! So many ~tearz~ of happiness.
― Pleeesiosaur (Leee), Sunday, 7 August 2016 22:36 (seven years ago) link
Hey so is AS2 tomorrow night?
― write sed fread (Leee), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 20:26 (seven years ago) link
Gurl I am GAGGING!!
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 21:38 (seven years ago) link
It will be...a thing!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 22:48 (seven years ago) link
Maybe I'm just too excited about seing all these great queens in one room but I think this may have been my favorite episode ever! Having the girls create their own number was a great idea. The new twist(s) really worked to create suspense and drama. Plus reading!!
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 26 August 2016 20:41 (seven years ago) link
adorrrrrre honeycan we emergency-parachute-drop bianca for her? i wanna hug her so hard
coco looool what was that
and true to my prediction tatianna, the original bitch on wheels, is already putting on her allweather tires
alaska & katya are my everythings. always.
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 August 2016 07:22 (seven years ago) link
the readings! ugh! so awesome
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 August 2016 07:23 (seven years ago) link
Welcome to Drag Race Thunderdome
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CqylrMmXYAAFACc?format=jpg&name=large
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 August 2016 07:41 (seven years ago) link
I kind of felt humiliated for Adore. She's one of the show's bigger stars and seing her having to ask Roxxxy for mercy was like watching Taylor Swift begging Selena Gomes to take her to the Grammys or something. Fortunately Roxxxy was great about it and seemed to genuinely want to make her feel better.
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 27 August 2016 19:20 (seven years ago) link
Otm. Glad that Roxxy took the high road
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 August 2016 19:42 (seven years ago) link
Not to be Capt. Save A Tati, but she was in a season with Morgan McMichaels, Tyra, and Raven, so.
― write sed fread (Leee), Sunday, 28 August 2016 00:55 (seven years ago) link
she has bitch in her BONES, you watch
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 28 August 2016 05:18 (seven years ago) link
I never really saw Tatianna as a bitch. Even when I didn't agree with her on her season I liked that she wasn't afraid to confront Tyra or talk back to Raven. And she defended Mystique even when she was alone.
She's the only one who doesn't have friends ont AS2. She didn't let it intimidate her and I respect her for being open about playing strategically because she knows she might have to. And her performance was a great surprise!
― LeRooLeRoo, Sunday, 28 August 2016 15:00 (seven years ago) link
She was definitely being in total control of herself!
― write sed fread (Leee), Sunday, 28 August 2016 16:13 (seven years ago) link
Haha I guess I like that kind of bitchiness!
― LeRooLeRoo, Sunday, 28 August 2016 17:39 (seven years ago) link
not me, lol
i am already loving this right out of the gate though. it's gonna be fun!
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 28 August 2016 17:41 (seven years ago) link
Okay Alaska as Britney at the VMAs:
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s---INRwWMd--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/tw5pomdrvjqkrwxgie1a.jpg
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--SfWed8dj--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/i4avoat4myimfjj0vwqh.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 August 2016 00:45 (seven years ago) link
so good
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 August 2016 01:17 (seven years ago) link
new ep was great, #s 1, 2, and 3 imo are Katya, Adore, and Alaska. I want them all to win. I'm glad to see Roxxy and Phi Phi reining it in and being human beings this time around. Coco's performance was wack af, what in god's name was she thinking?
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 29 August 2016 03:34 (seven years ago) link
idk! i think she overthinks herself. but yeah, it was real bad
and todrick was otm, you couldn't even appreciate the dancing bc the dress got in the way
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 August 2016 03:37 (seven years ago) link
Love her Lil Kim here though. Finally someone she can personify with her wacky contacts!
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 29 August 2016 04:17 (seven years ago) link
And Roxxxy looks exactly like Lana Del Rey dressed up as Kim K.
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 29 August 2016 04:21 (seven years ago) link
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 August 2016 16:44 (seven years ago) link
is it just me or did alaska like... overly pump her lips up before the season? she looks crazy
anywho, as someone who hasn't seen the first 2 seasons i was really impressed with tatiana. she looked incredible and i love a model queen who is also a genuinely funny performer.
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 31 August 2016 14:20 (seven years ago) link
ditto
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 15:09 (seven years ago) link
Alaska (and Sharon) are both perversely fascinated with plastic surgery and after their seasons got their lips filled.
BTW, is there an Untucked this season? I didn't see anything on the Logo site.
― write sed fread (Leee), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 20:42 (seven years ago) link
I was more shocked by Adore's lips tbh
There's no Untucked because it's the judges that are having cocktails while the queens deliberate. They do put a little behind the scenes thing on youtube though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktIV3REcAtI
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 20:53 (seven years ago) link
yeah adore went a bit crazy with the filler but it's ok, i still heart her with my whole heart
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 September 2016 01:45 (seven years ago) link
i was only eh on her during that season but i'm loving her whole aesthetic now
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 1 September 2016 04:34 (seven years ago) link
never seen the show
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 September 2016 04:51 (seven years ago) link
it's fun! you should watch, morbz!
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 September 2016 15:00 (seven years ago) link
adore, why u braek heart ;_;
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 September 2016 06:02 (seven years ago) link
no-one watched ep2 yet?
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 3 September 2016 04:53 (seven years ago) link
oh damn that was difficult to watch
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 3 September 2016 16:21 (seven years ago) link
adore posted a periscope thing the other day & said that that Rayven Simone said something pretty harsh in judging that set her off & she just kinda spiralled from that with michelle etcbut of course she didn't say what it was so idkbut from the rest of the periscope it also sounded like she deluded herself into thinking that the judging wouldn't be as harsh because she thought she's got her shit figured out, this time it will be easieri felt bad for her kinda, but i think she's just not that kinda queen
i think she is better off
*kinda* mad that she quit but i get it
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 3 September 2016 17:29 (seven years ago) link
Kind of makes Adore's absence from this panel a little more telling:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjU_cc1vxxA
TBH, I was never a fan of hers, but never would've expected her to leave the way she did.
― write sed fread (Leee), Tuesday, 6 September 2016 03:23 (seven years ago) link
i didn't like her that much during that season but i was fucking w/ her new aesthetic
as much as it pains me to say given how good she was in the first episode, tatiana was the right choice to go home i think. her runway look was really bad.
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 6 September 2016 04:52 (seven years ago) link
yeah. and her comebacks to ru on snatch game were pretty dull
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 6 September 2016 16:26 (seven years ago) link
i loved katya's bjork
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 6 September 2016 16:27 (seven years ago) link
so did bjork:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/518ws9/ama_im_singer_and_songwriter_bjork_and_im_here_to/d7a6kb8
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 6 September 2016 17:11 (seven years ago) link
Alaska was on fire though.
― write sed fread (Leee), Tuesday, 6 September 2016 17:19 (seven years ago) link
also has Adore been like blacklisted from the RPDR world or something???
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 6 September 2016 17:19 (seven years ago) link
Tatianna was awful but Roxxxy was downright embarassing. She didn't even get Alaska's voice right, which sould be the easiest part.I knew it wouldn't happen, but how shocking/awesome would it have been for Alaska to eliminate Roxxxy for doing such a bad job at imitating her!
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 6 September 2016 19:37 (seven years ago) link
lol I love how Phi Phi went from repugnant and conniving to sweet and kinda charismatic and conniving
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 6 September 2016 19:58 (seven years ago) link
I really do love the new Phi Phi though. I did some digging on her a while back and read how there was this awful combination of her playing up her bitchiness for the show, getting a REALLY bad edit (apparently she had a lot of great moments and friendships that didn't wind up in the show), and was also like not in the best place or something? And was really dismayed by all of the backlash she got
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 6 September 2016 19:59 (seven years ago) link
I thought the backlash on Season 4 was pretty deserved. She seemed completely nuts. Just this mad barking little dog that wasn't even really interesting drag-wise, but went after the show's two most popular queens, Willam and Sharon.
However I don't understand the fans that still hate her and won't try to keep an open mind to see how she's grown in the last 4 years. I can't say I'm really impressed so far though unfortunately.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 6 September 2016 20:11 (seven years ago) link
Also I don't buy that scene where she's supposedly trying to play mind games with Roxxxy and Alyssa. I think the production told her to go tell them her opinion or the girls asked her themselves and they edited it out to create a story. Either way it seemed really fake and obvious.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 6 September 2016 20:22 (seven years ago) link
I have NEVER understood the extent of the hate for Phi Phi. To me she was a fairly standard reality villain in her season -- unremarkable and predictable, not some all-consuming demonspawn or anything.
I do like her cosplay drags.
― write sed fread (Leee), Tuesday, 6 September 2016 20:36 (seven years ago) link
Also I don't think Tatianna was awful -- her Ariana Grande definitely didn't measure up to her Britney -- at least not compared to Roxxxy's completely unprepared, tossed off Alaska.
― write sed fread (Leee), Tuesday, 6 September 2016 20:37 (seven years ago) link
I do too. I saw her at Pride in Montréal last month and I thought she was great. She sang live and danced her ass off. Totally one of the highlights. I was hoping she'd turn it out like that on the show.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 6 September 2016 21:08 (seven years ago) link
RuPaul just won the Emmy for oustanding host for a reality program!!! This is so deserved, he really is the best, funniest, smartest, most oustanding host on reality tv. Condragulations!!!
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 12 September 2016 02:47 (seven years ago) link
hoooolyyyyyy craaaaaapppppp
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 12 September 2016 03:43 (seven years ago) link
That was a delicious Ruveal.
― rm -rf / (Leee), Saturday, 17 September 2016 20:28 (seven years ago) link
Also, I feel like an opportunity was missed not to have a Santino cameo this episode.
― rm -rf / (Leee), Saturday, 17 September 2016 20:29 (seven years ago) link
Awesome ending for sure
Thus has been a really entertaining season so far imo, enjoying the hell out of it
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 17 September 2016 20:37 (seven years ago) link
kinda annoying how they're forcing phi phi to be the "villain" in this -- nothing she's said has been any shadier than anyone else but they put scary droney bass and that woodblock noise underneath her comments
alyssa's camera dress was amazing. her and katya might be my favorite queens.
― clouds, Saturday, 17 September 2016 20:42 (seven years ago) link
confident katya is a thing to behold
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 17 September 2016 20:45 (seven years ago) link
it's my aesthetic atm tbh
― clouds, Saturday, 17 September 2016 21:01 (seven years ago) link
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 17 September 2016 21:31 (seven years ago) link
katya is w/o a doubt GOAT
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 18 September 2016 23:37 (seven years ago) link
her cutaway interviews are always the best & funniest
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 18 September 2016 23:56 (seven years ago) link
for some reason I thought UNHHHhhhh stopped after the 7th or 8th episode and it turns out it's on, like, 22 rn!!!!
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 19 September 2016 00:34 (seven years ago) link
every monday!
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 September 2016 02:13 (seven years ago) link
Great episode overall, but I was a bit frustrated with the judging. Why all of a sudden go back to a Bottom 3 and how the hell did Katya end up in it?? She was awesome in the challenge and while her runway wasn't the best, it was hilarious and was a real transformation.
At this point Alaska is so above and ahead of the competition it feels like we're having a Raja situation, which is saying a lot in an All Stars setting. Her Betty Davis and Lil Poundcake were pure genius I was screaming laughing in my living room. And that lipsynch omg!
I'm still a bit upset at who she elminated though, it really was time to break up Rolaskatox for good.
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 19 September 2016 19:09 (seven years ago) link
wow, I keep trying to figure out who's gonna go home next that it didn't even occur to me Alaska is just coasting here, but you're totally right.
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 19 September 2016 19:46 (seven years ago) link
oh ***POTENTIAL SPOILER ALERT*** next week is gonna be a stand-up comedy thing though so hopefully Katya will totally slay?!?
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 19 September 2016 19:52 (seven years ago) link
I'm in a facebook group where we pick top 2, top 1 and loser.. I pick alaska top 2 every week and I'm about to start claiming her the winner every week too.
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 19 September 2016 20:07 (seven years ago) link
ok damn
http://www.vulture.com/2016/09/phi-phi-rupauls-drag-races-edit-and-rupaul.html
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 24 September 2016 03:08 (seven years ago) link
^^ fucking hell that was real
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 September 2016 03:16 (seven years ago) link
More than might be guessed. (Had a chance to hear some...interesting background information last weekend that reconfirmed much of this on a larger front.)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 September 2016 05:26 (seven years ago) link
Oh come on don't leave us hanging!!
Yeah, I feel really sympathetic towards Phi Phi at this point
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 24 September 2016 12:00 (seven years ago) link
I genuunely do feel bad for her.However, this does kinda boil down to scorpion v frog ie why did you sting me I thought we were friendsbc i am a scorpion etc
And with Phi Phi it's still everyone else's fault but her own. Like "But the producers told me things!" "The producers asked me questions & I was upset at them" They are producers, that is their job. It's a reality show, not a retreat. They don't want you to be a better person they want you to lose your shit on camera and like leading a horse to water you gave them that
I feel bad that she didn't realize that's what happened but of course that's what happened.
Ru is not yr Mom or your Dad or your friend. And her saying all that just makes Phi Phi seem naive for being disillusioned or thinking she's pulling back a veil.
idk. Like I said I do feel bad for her but she's so high school.
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 September 2016 16:49 (seven years ago) link
i wouldn't have remembered who jayidyynnnnn dior fierce was either if i were Ru
think phi phi needs counseling, not so much publicity.
― clouds, Sunday, 25 September 2016 00:11 (seven years ago) link
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 September 2016 00:30 (seven years ago) link
I feel bad for Phi Phi too. It took her 4 years and a lot of work to redeem herself with the public so I can understand her disapointment. Unfortunately I think she's making things a lot worse by acting so defensive online. I didn't even think she looked that bad on the show before I started hearing all the drama that was happening on social media. I don't get the "fans" who take it so seriously and act 100 times worse than she ever did.
On a positive note, I'm so happy Alyssa and Tatiana are back. They both looked gorgeous and KILLED that lipsync.
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 26 September 2016 18:57 (seven years ago) link
The thing that bums me out is that being villainized on the show translates into IRL consequences like death threats and blacklisting and all of that shit, and that Phi Phi is actually a really vulnerable person who wants to grow and be better and shit
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 26 September 2016 20:40 (seven years ago) link
Which is why I think giving a pass to the producers ("of course they're going to edit things someone sez out of context") is a morally problematic argument.
― rm -rf / (Leee), Monday, 26 September 2016 21:35 (seven years ago) link
that was an INCREDIBLE lip-sync, too bad the song wasn't up to their energy
― clouds, Monday, 26 September 2016 23:35 (seven years ago) link
i have turned a corner on tati, she's kind of a badass
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 September 2016 00:52 (seven years ago) link
Yaaaayyyyy
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 27 September 2016 02:05 (seven years ago) link
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 September 2016 03:19 (seven years ago) link
BAD, RUDE, AND STUPID
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 1 October 2016 03:15 (seven years ago) link
both the winner and the loser
lost a lot of respect for alaska
katya won the challenge and the lipsync
tatianna got played
gtf home roxxxxxy
― clouds, Saturday, 1 October 2016 13:02 (seven years ago) link
yeah that was kind of nuts not sending roxy home. tatianna had one of the best products, a really solid commercial, and a great runway look so ??????
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 1 October 2016 13:43 (seven years ago) link
no fat-shaming whatsoever but there's no way that shirt fit roxxxy -_-
― clouds, Saturday, 1 October 2016 13:48 (seven years ago) link
Yeah bad calls all around. Alaska is already winning the season, would it have killed them to give Katia the win to make things a bit less predictable? She deserved it too.
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 1 October 2016 14:53 (seven years ago) link
yep kinda disappointing
how good was tati's t-boz tho
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 1 October 2016 20:49 (seven years ago) link
It was good.
― Godspeed You! Black Widow (Leee), Saturday, 1 October 2016 22:12 (seven years ago) link
can someone explain to me how roxxxy is still there? please? i dislike her less than on the original season but even there never understood how she made it to the final 3 and here, just mostly boring.
Of course loving Alaska and Katya, and Alyssa has entertained me more than expected, as did Tatianna, but feel like the season was kind of a lost opportunity in terms of who was chosen to return.
― H in Addis, Sunday, 2 October 2016 17:28 (seven years ago) link
I'm not 100% sure
Her strength is normally flawless runway & body-ody-ody, but this week even her runway was kinda boring except for good booty
It makes zero sense to me that she's still here and not Tatianna
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 2 October 2016 19:12 (seven years ago) link
I didn't even think that Tati should've been in the bottom -- Roxxxy and Alyssa were easily worse!
― Godspeed You! Black Widow (Leee), Sunday, 2 October 2016 20:02 (seven years ago) link
Tati's ad was not very good imo
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 2 October 2016 20:13 (seven years ago) link
Roxxxy is bad at doing literally anything other than looking really great sometimes.
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 2 October 2016 23:10 (seven years ago) link
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 2 October 2016 23:14 (seven years ago) link
her hosting of the Comedy challenge was straight-up BAD if not for her looks
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 2 October 2016 23:16 (seven years ago) link
Tati's product was good, but the ad not so much. The only reason that can justify eliminating her though was that she missed many challenges so she had to really bring it.Still think Katya should've won. It will be upsetting if we find out next week she was going to eliminate Roxxxy.
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 3 October 2016 01:44 (seven years ago) link
tatiana's t boz look was everything but despite being really good on stage she's sort of stiff and tentative in front of the camera for some reason. they def should have sent roxxy home but it seems like the top 4 is destined to be alaska, detox, alyssa & katya so i don't feel too terrible about that elimination
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 6 October 2016 23:45 (seven years ago) link
i was sorta feelin alaska for a bit and now she's really looking shitty - esp. when compared to alyssa and katya who have been consistently the most professional queens in this season
― clouds, Saturday, 8 October 2016 13:16 (seven years ago) link
ok wowwwwww
― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 8 October 2016 16:21 (seven years ago) link
yeah Alaska's baby temper tantrum meltdown was NOT a good look and it felt incredibly manipulative, like "oh maybe if i center myself as the victim here ppl will have pity on me and I won't go home" yo fuuuuuuck that
These last two episodes have been so weird to me. I was already thinking it last week but this week made it even more obvious, I think the producers have turned against Alaska. Her (unnecessary) win last week followed with Tati's elmination already made people upset. They could've easily let Katya win and send Roxxxy home and everybody would've been happy. Now they are just giving all the wins to Rolaskatox so that they eliminate all the other queens and piss fans off. It's obvious that they are trying to make us root for Katya and hate Alaska and it's working. Even her tantrum seemed staged. To me they have kind of ruined what was the best season ever by trying to create more drama again.
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 8 October 2016 19:39 (seven years ago) link
yeah i agree
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 October 2016 22:14 (seven years ago) link
And I love Alyssa Edwards so much.
― LeRooLeRoo, Sunday, 9 October 2016 01:29 (seven years ago) link
I sure would rather her over ole Teflon Roxxy.
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 October 2016 01:46 (seven years ago) link
Her behind the scenes elimination video is amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHSFkCuuEwc
― LeRooLeRoo, Sunday, 9 October 2016 04:41 (seven years ago) link
She's so classy & weirdly mature(?) now
I only say weirdly mature bc Alyssa is such a kook & so childlike most of the time
She's a pro, I love her
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 October 2016 22:00 (seven years ago) link
Exactly! It's a great combination.
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 10 October 2016 21:01 (seven years ago) link
I saw Alaska perform here in Sacramento on Sat night. She's so good
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 10 October 2016 21:53 (seven years ago) link
Do we all hate Alaska now and are ignoring her deserved win?
Also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZof9zcEgVY
― Pean-Juc Leeecard (Leee), Friday, 28 October 2016 20:29 (seven years ago) link
reunion was actually kinda fun, i enjoyed it! lol @ the sleeping with fans digression
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 29 October 2016 17:42 (seven years ago) link
i thought it was weirdly demure and kind of boring really.
the more i see of alaska i realize she simply steals all her jokes. even "hieeeeee" isn't her thing.
detox -- too bad she can't get personality injected into her ass. snoozefest.
katya was almost silent the entire time.
i did enjoy how ru did not even mention phi phi by name once. so cold.
― clouds, Saturday, 29 October 2016 18:05 (seven years ago) link
http://www.omgblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/time-katya.jpg
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 23:24 (seven years ago) link
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 8 December 2016 00:28 (seven years ago) link
I'm trying to watch all of the new "Meet the Queens" and they're all aggressively boring so far
http://www.logotv.com/shows/rupauls-drag-race/video-guide
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 2 February 2017 23:13 (seven years ago) link
actually eureka and nina might be good
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 2 February 2017 23:21 (seven years ago) link
Might have to wait for the premiere for it to click.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 3 February 2017 01:58 (seven years ago) link
Shea Coulee is the winner, calling it now
― clouds, Friday, 3 February 2017 13:14 (seven years ago) link
So, um ... thirsty for like half this cast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJWkzeT4nps
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Thursday, 9 February 2017 06:11 (seven years ago) link
Although lol at what Pearl hath wrought with her septum ring.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Thursday, 9 February 2017 06:13 (seven years ago) link
I've been watching Charlie Hides' videos on Youtube for some years. He does impersonations of many female legends, including recurring sketches where Madonna, Gaga and Cher compete for the biggest gay icon title. I really hope he gets to Snatch Game!
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 04:41 (seven years ago) link
Damn, this snuck up on me. Season premiere tonight!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 March 2017 23:37 (seven years ago) link
Going to Badlands in Sac tonight to see Delta Work host the premiere party -- and Raja & Aja performing after :D
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 24 March 2017 23:39 (seven years ago) link
A+
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 March 2017 23:40 (seven years ago) link
ok apparently VH1/Logo don't put it on their website or their apps even 12 hours later, and I can't find it anywhere online, aggghghghh
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 25 March 2017 13:26 (seven years ago) link
Yeah I was wondering about that. (I will therefore refrain from spoilers...for now.)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 March 2017 13:32 (seven years ago) link
I had this all worked out where I'd spend Saturday mornings for the next 3 mos watching RPDR but NooOOOOOoOOoOOOOOooooo
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 25 March 2017 13:50 (seven years ago) link
yeah can't find it anywhere still
untucked is up, lol
― clouds, Saturday, 25 March 2017 13:57 (seven years ago) link
We need VG's report from the field from last night.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 March 2017 17:49 (seven years ago) link
ok found it it was good! Does anyone else think they know who the #14thqueen is?
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 25 March 2017 18:09 (seven years ago) link
I had a couple of hunches but can't be sure.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 March 2017 18:11 (seven years ago) link
i cant type much on my phone atmbut it was good! my friend wondered if it was tatianna? delta work thought maybe coco montrese
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 March 2017 18:28 (seven years ago) link
I feel like the shoe closeup at the end of Untucked should be a massive giveaway to us but I'm still racking my brain. I can't but think it would be a recent queen, though -- say last season, MAYBE season 7.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 March 2017 19:14 (seven years ago) link
i need to rewatch - the bar had 20 small tvs with no single BIG screen so i couldn't catch a lot of detail
ps couple notes on the after-performances of Aja & Raja at the bar last night:Aja is a great performer, high energy & very polished but by the same token not terribly unique? i love her look though, hope she does well this season. Raja awesome obv. Weird to see her lipsyncing for tips, thought she didnt really go in for that? But she has grown her hair out & had a full grey blowout that looked so good I forgot it wasn't a wig. She knows how to work the crowd & they were eating out of her hand the whole time. Not high-energy, just lots of stalking & posing as you wpuld expect. Luv huh.
Also: depressing amount of Ann Taylor separates, low heels & nasty wigs among the local queens. u_u
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 March 2017 20:05 (seven years ago) link
here's my Raja pic
https://instagram.com/p/BSDOVNRgQrWCXRG0yIQQQRRJSY6S5usdvctWwA0/
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 March 2017 20:06 (seven years ago) link
ok i rewatched
what if it's jasmine masters
it's def a skinny black queen& she looked tall going up the stairs
ru loves the messed up queens & she burned the internet down about how she didnt get a fair shake or whatever
i hope it's not but also get yr popcorn dot gif
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 March 2017 23:11 (seven years ago) link
sorry for vomit
untucked, loooool at them coming for Nina. ok girls.
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 March 2017 23:34 (seven years ago) link
Yeah that turned out to be a verrrry bad prediction on their part!
Jasmine, eh? I could see that.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 26 March 2017 00:28 (seven years ago) link
reddit's insisting it's cynthia lee fontaine but I don't get any sense of that at all. I think they all think that because there was a shot of her ass as though that's some kind of clue
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 26 March 2017 01:06 (seven years ago) link
how awesome was the Gaga 'workshop' in Untucked. Holy shit that was some great stuff.
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 26 March 2017 01:09 (seven years ago) link
Yeah she was top notch in both the main episode and the Untucked. Would totally be down with her as a judge through the whole thing!
Would be happy to chat with Peppermint about whatever. She seems like a good narrator for the bunch.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 26 March 2017 02:14 (seven years ago) link
love nina and shea so far
― clouds, Sunday, 26 March 2017 02:54 (seven years ago) link
Nina is cool! And I love Sasha I think.I thought I liked Charlie before but maybe not anymore. Trinity is terrifying. That is some death's head plastic surgery jeeeezus lordEureka drives me up a wall, she needs to dial it down about 20 notches.
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 26 March 2017 03:56 (seven years ago) link
there's also an NPR "on the set" type segment where you can hear what sounds exactly like Cynthia Lee's voice
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 26 March 2017 14:47 (seven years ago) link
my thoughts:
wow I never in a million years ever thought something would endear me to Lady Gaga even a little bit esp after the Super Bowl Tiffany's commercial but I found myself kinda liking her in thisCharlie is so terrible, nothing in the episode made him seem terrible but I get the sense that he is going to be deeply terrible, just y'all waitI'm surprised Sasha gave Aja all this hype because she seems really fucking boring and forgettableEureka is trying too hard and it makes me sad, like why don't you just be nice instead of trying to be a catty assholeFarrah is already getting on my last damn nervethe weird clumpy makeup on Peachy Nina's chin was v distracting!holy shit I laughed so fucking hard at Ross Matthews this episode, actually the whole judge's panel made me laugh harder this episode than I have ever before
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 26 March 2017 16:27 (seven years ago) link
i heard charlie did a blackface character in live performances
― clouds, Sunday, 26 March 2017 16:54 (seven years ago) link
Yeah after watching Charlie I got a strong nope vibe
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 26 March 2017 19:04 (seven years ago) link
Hated how she singled out James Mansfield in untucked
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 26 March 2017 19:05 (seven years ago) link
Charlie's funniest thing was the mumble through his age bit. Beyond that, so far: *shrug*
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 26 March 2017 20:43 (seven years ago) link
Otm
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 26 March 2017 22:35 (seven years ago) link
aja's make up looks like modelling clay, yeeeikes that is some shiny trowelled on nastiness
Maybe learned some tricks from fellow queens bc she didn't look as bad on Friday night
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 26 March 2017 22:37 (seven years ago) link
I only just started watching this first episode but wow that Ronnie is fishy, I think she can go far.
― Mhysa Jar Jar Binks (Leee), Sunday, 26 March 2017 22:39 (seven years ago) link
Sasha looks like Acid Betty, Jr.
― Mhysa Jar Jar Binks (Leee), Sunday, 26 March 2017 22:42 (seven years ago) link
Kinda yeah!
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 26 March 2017 22:43 (seven years ago) link
kimora black out of drag is heart-eyes emoji
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 26 March 2017 22:44 (seven years ago) link
So what do you think of the Kimora Cheekbones DRAMA
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 26 March 2017 22:46 (seven years ago) link
Also loved how Valentina's 'coming out' wasn't being gay but being a drag queen.
I did like Gaga's advice to Aja re: just that.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 26 March 2017 22:47 (seven years ago) link
Gaga otm re that
lol @ kimora's oh wait I forgot I had my lips done, she's trolling so hard.
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 26 March 2017 23:38 (seven years ago) link
Ronnie is hella fishy <3
i almost forgot: WTF @ Farrah Moan having a reveal look and not using it!?!?GIRL. Total rookie move.
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 March 2017 00:16 (seven years ago) link
i was just thinking abt pearl's septum ring, i honestly just think it's a matter of pearl having a septum piercing back when they were idk slightly a little more punky/hipstery and now they are just common af
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 27 March 2017 00:21 (seven years ago) link
also "oh, wait, now i remember, I DID have my lips done, yeah" lmao gurl GURL stop
Okay so STILL waiting on the first Fashion Photo Ruview proper but there was this from four days back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F99zYVQ-av8
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 March 2017 00:44 (seven years ago) link
Katya: But can they ACT?Trixie: Kim almost won, she can't WALK!
https://youtu.be/LbUs_PQDAb0
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 March 2017 01:03 (seven years ago) link
I bet she got those lip injections from her mom, too.
― Mhysa Jar Jar Binks (Leee), Monday, 27 March 2017 06:55 (seven years ago) link
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 March 2017 15:57 (seven years ago) link
So Lisa Kudrow and the B52s tonight? That works.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 31 March 2017 23:43 (six years ago) link
Well, Wisconsin's pretty worthless, innit.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Saturday, 1 April 2017 04:18 (six years ago) link
Kimora seems more and more like an unlikeable boring Gia Gunn. ie Kylie Jenner
you are beautiful. Period. bye.
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 1 April 2017 06:05 (six years ago) link
Loving Valentina. And those eyebrows 😍
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 1 April 2017 06:06 (six years ago) link
Valentina feels like the epitome of regurgitated Drag Race, like kids who up watching RPDR and then started doing drag and are on RPDR performing what they imagine RPDR to be
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 1 April 2017 13:12 (six years ago) link
I don't dislike her but every time she talks it feels like she's trying to perform and it feels v weird
Theres no way shes only been doing drag for 10 months
Anyway, thishttp://www.logotv.com/video-clips/9urgmo/rupauls-drag-race-the-pit-stop-with-raja-and-katya-she-done-already-done-brought-it-on?xrs=synd_twitter_logoKatya on Kimora's white party getup: "she looked like she was going to a gang-bang with a bunch of sailors on fourth of July weekend" DYING
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 1 April 2017 19:44 (six years ago) link
Out of drag, Trinity and Charlie have surprisingly similar faces.
Valentina's makeup has been so good, I too find it odd for someone who sez they've only been doing drag for 10 months.
I think this happens to all popular reality contests that have some staying power: a show may originally be based on a subculture and aim to represent it faithfully, but its own success eventually creates distinct ethos and mores that the viewers (and future contestants) absorb.
― ...and DON'T *bleeep* IT UP! (Leee), Sunday, 2 April 2017 23:12 (six years ago) link
In the two episodes that she was on, I was puzzled by James Mansfield's under-done makeup.
― ...and DON'T *bleeep* IT UP! (Leee), Sunday, 2 April 2017 23:13 (six years ago) link
seems like there might be some decent queens. the season has been weird so far, we're two episodes in and the queens haven't actually performed yet, one lip sync aside. some of them seem cool in the interviews but hard to say anyone has stood out so far.
― J0rdan S., Monday, 3 April 2017 03:57 (six years ago) link
I play RPDR 'fantasy' lol where we pick the winner, bottom two and loser. I was the big loser this week. =|
But yeah its almost impossible to guess how people will do in the very beginning. And last season it got kinda boring predicting Katya would win everything. I made the mistake of betting on pretty with Kimora being last week's winner. WOOPS.
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 3 April 2017 17:06 (six years ago) link
How could anyone not predict Jaymes in the bottom two? (Presuming you didn't.)
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Monday, 3 April 2017 17:40 (six years ago) link
Finally caught up. That was one long drawn out Untucked ending, lemme tell ya.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 02:01 (six years ago) link
The only point I got was Jaymes bottom two. EVERYONE picked her.
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 02:02 (six years ago) link
Anyone picking otherwise, that would have been strange.
It would also be interesting in determining when the crest-point is for such a path. Presumably Season 4 in this case.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 02:04 (six years ago) link
yeah that untucked with jaymes was awful.
― clouds, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 11:24 (six years ago) link
Meanwhile, Adore Delano has hit some troubles
http://www.tmz.com/2017/04/04/rupauls-drag-race-adore-delano-manager-lawsuit/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 23:35 (six years ago) link
Plus, catching up on some ancillary stuff -- RuViews! (Of the first episode.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlJi4AMB0Iw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bgKqEC7sV8
Plus Raja and Katya talking things up, most appropriate:
http://www.logotv.com/video-clips/9urgmo/rupauls-drag-race-the-pit-stop-with-raja-and-katya-she-done-already-done-brought-it-on
And of course, Whatcha Packin'
http://www.logotv.com/video-clips/4rwq2l/rupauls-drag-race-whatcha-packin-she-done-already-done-brought-it-on
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 23:41 (six years ago) link
Whoops, the other RuView didn't make that, so:
Hey guys I'm travelling in China so I finally caught up with episode 2. Not easy with a VPN!
I thought the lipsynch was an embarassment to the B-52's and Ru should've just eliminated both queens. Especially with a returning queen and a non-elimination last week, this was the time to do it. Based solely on lipsynch though I think Kimora's generic sexy dance - to "Loveshack" of all songs - should've sent her home.
Speaking of returning queens, I was never a fan of the Cucu so meh... Justice for Serena Cha-Cha!
So far I'm loving Valentina's charm, Peppermint's spirit, Shea Coulée's sass, Sasha Velour's style and Nina Bonina's everything!
Charlie has been a bit underwhelming, but I'm not getting the bad vibe some of you have. I thought her Gaga look and her ice queen look were great. And I love that he was the first to tell Eureka to shut up.
Off to watch episode 3 now!!
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 8 April 2017 02:25 (six years ago) link
And having seen episode 3 -- oh, so much to say. But more tomorrow.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 8 April 2017 04:06 (six years ago) link
That challenge was weird af lol
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 April 2017 19:44 (six years ago) link
oh my god Ep 3 was like the most embarrassing episode of all time
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 9 April 2017 03:06 (six years ago) link
also Kimora was so appallingly bitchy that it was kind of guitlessly fun to hate her, like there was zero sympathy or pity
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 9 April 2017 03:12 (six years ago) link
otm.
the sidekicks though. my whole skeleton wanted to leave my body so many times while I was watching this. it was so weird and awkward!!
I hope Aja's makeup improves over the next few eps, if she stays that long.I think maybe part of her dilemma is just not knowing how to do on-camera makeup? That seems to be a real uphill battle for some queens each season, it takes a few episodes for them to realize there's a huge difference between doing your makeup for stage and doing it for tv. But it's way greasy, whatever the case.
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 April 2017 03:15 (six years ago) link
This episode was witless self-parody.
That seems to be a real uphill battle for some queens each season, it takes a few episodes for them to realize there's a huge difference between doing your makeup for stage and doing it for tv.
In Aja's case, she does her makeup for Instagram.
― ...and DON'T *bleeep* IT UP! (Leee), Sunday, 9 April 2017 05:16 (six years ago) link
OTOH, her lipsync was fierce.
― ...and DON'T *bleeep* IT UP! (Leee), Sunday, 9 April 2017 05:27 (six years ago) link
It was pretty good!! Kimora didnt even know the words, she was ugh lame
This is the bar for I Need A Hero though.Nothing beats death-drop from the mfing ceiling
https://youtu.be/t2s4AJW7cMo
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 April 2017 05:34 (six years ago) link
For all that: the Pulse sequence was some heavy as hell stuff.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 9 April 2017 05:35 (six years ago) link
And I suppose Kimora was pretty...stupid.
I am all for queens helping each other & trying to be mindful that Adore was kind of a pathetic crybaby when Bianca took her under her wing but Farrah Moan is just so pathetic!!!She is seriously working my last fucking nerve
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 April 2017 06:06 (six years ago) link
kimora's "monkey" was the worst fucking thing i've seen on this show
― clouds, Sunday, 9 April 2017 14:13 (six years ago) link
and aja's look was even worse than kennedy davenport's "trick set me on fire but i crystallized" look, like... what are you doing
― clouds, Sunday, 9 April 2017 14:17 (six years ago) link
Those chaps 🤣
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 April 2017 14:38 (six years ago) link
Meh, I thought the challenge was kind of brilliant.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Monday, 10 April 2017 01:11 (six years ago) link
Yeah I have to say I'm not sure why all the challenge hate. (I will also say that Peppermint is becoming a good all-arounder like I figured but Valentina kinda seems to be killing it more and more out of the gate.)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 April 2017 04:08 (six years ago) link
the cgi was just kinda weird and cheap looking, also i hate disney movies so the whole premise sucked imo
― clouds, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 00:51 (six years ago) link
I need whoever this person is to compete in a later season (identifies as a drag queen later in the interview)
http://jezebel.com/interview-with-a-man-who-has-a-tramp-stamp-that-says-ex-1794209415
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 19:50 (six years ago) link
Anyway, THAT was a one-sided lip sync. And the winner sure went for it regardless.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 15 April 2017 04:30 (six years ago) link
When was the last time a queen just up and quit like that? Yara?
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Saturday, 15 April 2017 05:10 (six years ago) link
Nah there's been a couple of demi-surrenders since, but tonight was just ridiculous.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 15 April 2017 05:26 (six years ago) link
Ru didn't even pause before making that decision
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Saturday, 15 April 2017 15:53 (six years ago) link
Charlie needs a Charlie race, obv. I dunno, I dont have much time for precious flowers
Like why even audition if there's like 90 things you dont do & YOU DONT LIPSYNC JFC HAVE YOU SEEN THE SHOW
lame
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 15 April 2017 23:26 (six years ago) link
Yeah that's for sure. Either people think they'll never have to lip sync or that they'll be able to bluff. Fail.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 15 April 2017 23:45 (six years ago) link
Yeah in untucked she was all "blah blah be like Bianca & never lipsync" Bianca was up for AN Y THING and SHE WAS A PRO that is why she was never in the bottom
You dont get to "be like Bianca" just by being a seasoned queen.
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 16 April 2017 00:07 (six years ago) link
Shade Kool-Aid.
― ...and DON'T *bleeep* IT UP! (Leee), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 00:27 (six years ago) link
Tammie Brown also refused to lipsynch on season 1, but it somehow made sense for her and made her even more memorable. I was disappointed to see Charlie giving up like that, but I thought Peppermint should've been in the bottom instead of her. They both messed up the challenge but at least Charlie looked really good on the runway.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 20 April 2017 15:22 (six years ago) link
Yeah Peppermint's runway look was no good at all
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 April 2017 01:10 (six years ago) link
OK, I watched the advanced screener for tomorrow's episode and ... I'm calling preemptive bullshit on whatever the result of this episode is.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Friday, 21 April 2017 01:32 (six years ago) link
Wish I could be less vague, but my screener link doesn't include the elimination, so I don't *know* who gets booted, but it feels like a set-up is about to happen.
OK, it wasn't a setup, but this season just lost one of its strongest personalities. :-/
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Saturday, 22 April 2017 03:38 (six years ago) link
i haven't seen the most recent episode, but regarding the one where charlie got eliminated
when she was explaining her strategy of not caring about lip syncing by saying that bianca del rio made it to the finals without ever lip syncing, i wanted to be like "oh, girl...."
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 22 April 2017 03:57 (six years ago) link
girl bye more like
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 22 April 2017 04:39 (six years ago) link
The way they set up that elimination was hokey but it tracks that she wouldnt be able to continue.
Vote of thanks to Michelle Visage for reading Farrah's highlighter abuse. A much-needed public service announcement. Girl wears SO much. she looked like fuckin tin man last night.
I am legit scared for Nina. It seems like only a matter of time before she sabotages herself out of the show, and it would suck bcz she's really talented.
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 22 April 2017 18:18 (six years ago) link
Alexis on untucked GIRL ARE YOU SERIOUS WITH THIS WHY DIDNT YOU TELL ME MY DRESS WAS BASIC come the fuck on
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 22 April 2017 18:38 (six years ago) link
that being said there were some truly lovely moments btw queens in this untucked
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 22 April 2017 18:42 (six years ago) link
fuck eureka, she's horrible. i so hate that they tried to make her a sympathetic character.
― clouds, Sunday, 23 April 2017 02:24 (six years ago) link
At first I thought that Alexis was calling the girls together so she could get a chance to finish telling her Studio 54 story, and it was hilarious.
― Bashir-Worf Hypothesis (Leee), Sunday, 23 April 2017 05:20 (six years ago) link
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 23 April 2017 05:42 (six years ago) link
and those fuckin shoes ugh yuk
Dress Barn drag makes me angry
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 23 April 2017 05:46 (six years ago) link
Okay caught up on everything (was on vacation last week) and uh...huh.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 27 April 2017 03:03 (six years ago) link
wow Alexis was extremely appalling in "Untucked"
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 27 April 2017 14:11 (six years ago) link
Was she ever!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 27 April 2017 17:13 (six years ago) link
Also Untucked did the thing where they tell you WHY there's a big emotional moment after it happened in the main program. Which can be a little frustrating.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 27 April 2017 17:14 (six years ago) link
OH MY GOD THAT LIP SYNC WAS I C O N I C
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 29 April 2017 17:30 (six years ago) link
i am fucking REELING, that is like instant top 5 of all time
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 29 April 2017 17:31 (six years ago) link
and it felt so completely effortless, like she wasn't even trying, she was just on a completely different plane
also thank fucking god Cynthia is gone ugh
Yeah that was an amazing end to a pretty great episode (I thought). And talk about Cynthia being utterly exposed. (Not as much as Valentina, though -- seriously, safe only?)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 29 April 2017 17:40 (six years ago) link
omg Peppermint crushed that lipsync from the first beat. haven't seen one that lively in a while. dita ritz-level enthusiasm & commitment, A+++++
i wanted more older madonna looks but the runway was p cool. loved valentina's look, and sasha
alexis & sasha were great in snatch game, nina's jasmine was great... but there were a helluva lot of flatliners :/ aja's alyssa was like ugh why. and her runway look was so cheap & basic, she's lucky she wasn't in the bottom
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 29 April 2017 19:21 (six years ago) link
Not feeling the amazement in that LSFYL. All of the top 5 lip syncs ever, tho, involve Alyssa Edwards imo
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Saturday, 29 April 2017 19:21 (six years ago) link
And, yes, the Dida Ritz one
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Saturday, 29 April 2017 19:22 (six years ago) link
all the best lipsyncs have been in the earlier seasons.. the reason Peppermint's is getting a reaction is because she came with the *expected* energy level that we want but havent seen in fuckin forever. she did it for her life, she was hungry.
the norm has become walking around & pointing, that's why this stood out
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 29 April 2017 19:38 (six years ago) link
omg untucked - shea dropping knowledge on trinity about edges was v funny, "i'll mail you my baby hairs for your birthday" lol
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 29 April 2017 19:39 (six years ago) link
"I will subpoena Nina."
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Saturday, 29 April 2017 19:45 (six years ago) link
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 29 April 2017 19:50 (six years ago) link
i may need Trinity & Shea to have a tv sitcom together
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 29 April 2017 19:51 (six years ago) link
Yeah the Untucked is so great, just now finishing it up.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 29 April 2017 19:53 (six years ago) link
I rewatched Raja's kimono meltdown from last season just for lols, so funny
https://youtu.be/QZOJwIXs3-w
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 29 April 2017 22:19 (six years ago) link
Hahah yeah, we did that the other night too. Cannot wait to see what she says this time around.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 30 April 2017 00:55 (six years ago) link
i was bummed that there were STILL duplicates. i bet she will be pissed
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 30 April 2017 01:03 (six years ago) link
Best episode this season, I ended up liking everybody. I think everyone has started to relax in front of the cameras and aren't so stiffly affected. Except Alexis, she's always theatrically on.
Loved Trinity for being able to read and able to take beyond read. Valentina for that runway, and for turning in a competent Snatch. Shea for the realest talk to Nina. Nina for finally turning her head around!
And loved loved loved Sasha. I'm convinced there's a way that Judith Butler could've worked, but even mentioning her is A++++ in my book. Also, her Dietrich was my favorite of the Snatches. I'm so glad the show is featuring her more now.
Peppermint's lip sync is now my favorite ever. The musicality was so in the moment and perfect.
Cynthia needed to go, but she seems like such a great person. Such a nurturer!
― Bashir-Worf Hypothesis (Leee), Sunday, 30 April 2017 18:14 (six years ago) link
Yeah I loved the fact we not only got a Judith Butler mention but an imitation. I need to share that moment with some friends.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 30 April 2017 18:42 (six years ago) link
i think this season might be the closest we've ever gotten to RuPaul's Best Friend Race?
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 30 April 2017 18:52 (six years ago) link
Absolutely. There is zero drama here. Not a terrible thing, but I could use a beef right about now
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Sunday, 30 April 2017 18:56 (six years ago) link
And then next week is all blood or something.
So containing some speculation: we've winnowed out some chaff. Who is your top three at this point?
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 30 April 2017 20:10 (six years ago) link
I think the top 3 are gonna be Sasha, Shea, and maybe Alexis. I think ppl will go home in this order:
FarrahAjaPeppermintNinaTrinityValentinaAlexisSashaShea
I do hope I'm wrong (I'd like to see Valentina, Trinity, and Alexis go home earlier and Peppermint and Nina stick around for a while) but that's my gut.
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 30 April 2017 20:27 (six years ago) link
Valentina is so inexplicably overrated. They tell queen after queen after queen to stop relying on that bodyodyody and yet
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 30 April 2017 20:28 (six years ago) link
valentinanina / sashashea
― clouds, Sunday, 30 April 2017 20:30 (six years ago) link
i'm surprised you hate valentina tbh, she's obviously done her homework w/ runways looks and has an encyclopedic knowledge of fashion houses, plus she's hilarious and witty and cute as fuck. i think she'll go far after the show if she isn't at least top 3.
― clouds, Sunday, 30 April 2017 20:35 (six years ago) link
i don't hate her, i think she's pretty great, i just think she's a weird robot and that there are like 4 or 5 better queens than her! I do enjoy the glimpses of the Real Her that we've gotten over the past few episodes. Also the fact that I find her overpraised makes me a little resentful. But I don't hate her.
I want Nina to be in the top 3 but I think she's going to sabotage herself :(
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 30 April 2017 20:43 (six years ago) link
my 3sashavalentinanina
realistically though I think Trinity & Alexis both want it bad, and they are pushing themselves competitively each week enough that either of them could easily eclipse a favorite queen and make top 3. the other queens need to be careful & not get complacent bc both these bitches are hungry af. they are both talented AND studiously working to improve & both have humor & acting talents & a generally impressive well of skills to draw from
they're not my faves but they are circling like sharks & i kinda respect that
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 30 April 2017 21:01 (six years ago) link
you think valentina and nina will outlast shea???
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 30 April 2017 21:05 (six years ago) link
i put alexis (this is the most basic pageant drag name right?) in a group with shannel and roxxy andrews of potato-y looking queens who are pretty much consistently mediocre and annoying as hell but somehow stick around waaaay after they should
― clouds, Sunday, 30 April 2017 21:08 (six years ago) link
my top 3 is just queens i love and want to win, but realistically shea is def top 3 material, she's really good & came to play
being super nitpicky here but i don't like shea's makeup, she puts way too much white on the inner corners of her eyes & it always looks a little unfinished. except for her madonna & naomi looks this week her wigs havd beem kinda shitty quality
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 30 April 2017 21:16 (six years ago) link
shea and trixie are pals and both got their start in chicago so it makes sense for shea to borrow ideas from her
― clouds, Sunday, 30 April 2017 21:23 (six years ago) link
omg this is 100%.
My top 3:SashaValentina (suck it haters)Shade Kool-Aid
More likely top 3:AlexisTrinityShea
― Bashir-Worf Hypothesis (Leee), Sunday, 30 April 2017 21:35 (six years ago) link
Yeah, Farrah and Aja are the next two to go for sure. Beyond that, I could see them going in any order. No one is the runaway winner yet for me, but it's looking pretty evenly matched beyond that. Top 3 usually covers as many bases as possible, so the smart prediction would be:
SheaValentinaSasha
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Sunday, 30 April 2017 22:14 (six years ago) link
I'm happy Peppermint gave everyone life; maybe it's the routine against the song selection that left me out of the loop.
Honestly I think I like Aja better *out* of drag. And I have no idea how Farrah has made it this far
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 30 April 2017 22:48 (six years ago) link
Had Eureka's knee held up, I'm absolutely convinced Farrah/Cynthia would've been a double elimination.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Sunday, 30 April 2017 23:08 (six years ago) link
absolutely. that was even worse than laila mcq v. dax exclamation point
― clouds, Sunday, 30 April 2017 23:10 (six years ago) link
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 30 April 2017 23:43 (six years ago) link
Which basically makes it the worst LSFYL of all time.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Monday, 1 May 2017 00:00 (six years ago) link
Jeez, I almost forgot about that one.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 1 May 2017 00:15 (six years ago) link
bc it was super forgettable
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 1 May 2017 00:22 (six years ago) link
What are the odds the worst LSFYL would have been followed by the greatest LSYFL. ;)
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Monday, 1 May 2017 00:29 (six years ago) link
odds are low bc nothing will top tatianna v alyssa in AS2 :3
― clouds, Monday, 1 May 2017 00:47 (six years ago) link
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 1 May 2017 01:11 (six years ago) link
I was wondering if these new drag Queens naming themselves Trinity were influenced by The Matrix, and then I realized they're probably too young to remember it.
― Bashir-Worf Hypothesis (Leee), Monday, 1 May 2017 06:02 (six years ago) link
Also Farrah is still here because fish.
― Bashir-Worf Hypothesis (Leee), Monday, 1 May 2017 06:06 (six years ago) link
If Mrs. Kasha Davis and Dick Tremayne had a love child, it'd be Alexis Michelle.
― Bashir-Worf Hypothesis (Leee), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 02:56 (six years ago) link
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 03:10 (six years ago) link
There's a vision.
Been catching up on Kim Chi and Naomi's M.U.G. series. It's fun!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 04:05 (six years ago) link
i love it, they have such good chemistry.
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 04:11 (six years ago) link
And all without the need for boxed wine.
― Bashir-Worf Hypothesis (Leee), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 05:46 (six years ago) link
there's always time for Franzia (tm)
― clouds, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 00:21 (six years ago) link
Trixie Mattel: "You know how Kasha Davis cums? Uhnnnn ... uhnnnn ... there's always time for a cocktail!"
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 00:24 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejTtrWLiNg0&t=4s
The ahem discussion about Trinity is a must hear.
― Bashir-Worf Hypothesis (Leee), Friday, 5 May 2017 04:29 (six years ago) link
link no work :(
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 5 May 2017 04:47 (six years ago) link
ah ahem nuts.
https://youtu.be/ejTtrWLiNg0
― Bashir-Worf Hypothesis (Leee), Friday, 5 May 2017 05:07 (six years ago) link
oh yes i watched that today "origami" lololol
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 5 May 2017 05:26 (six years ago) link
that challenge was pretty fun!!
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 6 May 2017 18:15 (six years ago) link
i think i need to revise my top 3
valentinasheasasha, but barely now - trinity is gonna kick her out if she dont work
shea killed it this week in both challenge & runway, i'm a believer
valentina's drunk donna was so fkn good, i love her
i cant keep hoping nina raises to her true level. ru saved her this week and i'm not mad but if that doesnt light a fire next week nothing will.
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 6 May 2017 19:22 (six years ago) link
What you all saw in last week's lip sync, I saw in this week's. Nina's facial expressions in those Thriller contacts were everything!
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Saturday, 6 May 2017 23:20 (six years ago) link
yeah nina killed that lipsync but sadly i think trinity will be top 3 too
― clouds, Sunday, 7 May 2017 12:53 (six years ago) link
im glad we get another week of ru riffing on nina's name
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 7 May 2017 15:48 (six years ago) link
nina bonina brown abdul-jabbar nearly killed me
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 7 May 2017 15:49 (six years ago) link
watching the episode i genuinely thought they were unloading their best ones bcuz she was going home but i guess not
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 7 May 2017 15:50 (six years ago) link
ru's reaction to farrah being born in 1993 was awesome
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 7 May 2017 15:59 (six years ago) link
now that cucu is gone the new drinking game/group suicide game can be take a shot every time farrah makes cryface
― clouds, Sunday, 7 May 2017 16:18 (six years ago) link
i didn't think that lip sync was particularly awful or exceptional but i legit could not tell who was winning and actually thought aja had it
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 7 May 2017 17:34 (six years ago) link
Nina's performance fit the song better, though they were both entertaining.
At least we got to see Aja's surprisingly neat penmanship!
― Bashir-Worf Hypothesis (Leee), Sunday, 7 May 2017 19:33 (six years ago) link
that elimination decision didn't really make such sense to me, it might have been one where the producers wanted to keep nina around for the purposes of drama.
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 7 May 2017 19:52 (six years ago) link
How many times has the winner of the first challenge not made it to the final 3?
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Sunday, 7 May 2017 21:53 (six years ago) link
The moment the two of them leaned into the note twice killed me.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Sunday, 7 May 2017 21:54 (six years ago) link
Sometimes I don't know what people want from lip syncs. Awkward bankheading and earring eating?
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Sunday, 7 May 2017 21:55 (six years ago) link
Sorry, don't mean to fun police. It's kinda true for me that if I don't particularly like the song being lip sync'd to, odds are good I won't be moved by the performances themselves, and "Music" is among my very least favorite Madonna singles.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Sunday, 7 May 2017 21:59 (six years ago) link
for me i didn't think the lipsync from either of them was nearly energetic enough for the song.
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 7 May 2017 22:19 (six years ago) link
It was a pleasant lipsync there with "Finally," but it was almost like the song was carrying the performances rather than the other way around. But yeah, fun episode all around.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 May 2017 03:26 (six years ago) link
Also it's been interesting seeing Untucked 2.0 stretch out a bit beyond its own now-established beats -- the easy-going song as Aja left the stage area instead of the full-on sad melancholia, and now for the last couple of weeks seeing the departing queen remove their makeup before going to the work area. Small changes but even so.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 May 2017 03:31 (six years ago) link
has untucked 2.0 been going longer than 1.0? tbh i prefer the old one :(
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 8 May 2017 03:39 (six years ago) link
also i just realized if you go all the way back to s1 this is prob untucked 3.0 or 4.0
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 8 May 2017 03:43 (six years ago) link
2.0 or whatever we want to call it has been going since...season 7 I think?
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 May 2017 04:31 (six years ago) link
i miss the manufactured drama of untucked, BUT i love the unselfconscious moments between queens that the new format allows
idk
i kinda want it both ways
we'll never have a BITCH AH AM FROM CHICAGO/get yr popcorn/bitches gonna brawl moment
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 8 May 2017 04:53 (six years ago) link
not a fan of the setup group-share at the same moment in every episode
like i love the content and the conversations but it's weird & offputting that they happen at the same spot in the show every week
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 8 May 2017 04:55 (six years ago) link
http://68.media.tumblr.com/922ed125e2058a121d798b51a2947466/tumblr_odryj1GyRC1ukxcv7o1_500.jpg
― clouds, Monday, 8 May 2017 13:04 (six years ago) link
xpost True but it always happens around when everyone's getting into full makeup so kinda by default they're sitting around and talking.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 May 2017 13:15 (six years ago) link
Nice interview with Valentina here
http://fusion.kinja.com/rupauls-drag-races-valentina-on-latina-excellence-in-th-1795166439
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 12 May 2017 21:37 (six years ago) link
So, we'll all talk more tomorrow I'm sure but there were a couple of points tonight when I could not look at the screen, the bombing was THAT BAD.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 13 May 2017 04:06 (six years ago) link
ya that was some of the worst bombing i think the show has ever seen
anyway ugh finally Farrah is gone, spoilers actually got leaked to Reddit earlier this week and I wasn't even mad bcz it was like "oh, duh"
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 13 May 2017 14:31 (six years ago) link
Honestly if the entire bottom three had disappeared through trap doors all at once I would have been all "Hey great!" (Trinity is the best of those three easy but 'wildly inconsistent' is an understatement.)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 13 May 2017 14:37 (six years ago) link
i think i need to revise my top 3valentinasheasasha, but barely now - trinity is gonna kick her out if she dont work
This is kinda where I'm at now, but with Peppermint (who I've always liked -- I kinda see her as the season narrator) winning and Sasha making a mark this week, I might call them a potential final four. But after Alexis finally goes soon (crossed fingers) then I'm almost happy with whatever results.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 13 May 2017 14:43 (six years ago) link
so who's going home next? I'd say at this point the next 3 will prob be Nina, Trinity, and Alexis
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 13 May 2017 14:59 (six years ago) link
Definitely could see that.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 13 May 2017 15:39 (six years ago) link
Untucked thoughts:
Valentina and Nina there at the start, that was a kind of relaxed dynamic. In a good way!
Leave it to Alexis to complain that she was hard done by.
That Shea/Nina blowup!
...and who *didn't* leave a farewell note, I wonder.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 13 May 2017 16:47 (six years ago) link
oh my god Alexis ATE ITthe green and the visible padding like whaaaat is even happening
i knew farrah would eat it, that was expected. thought for a moment she might have won the lipsync but she plateaued
but i got a perverse enjoyment out of seeing alexis look so crazy & tank so hard. i thought she had potential early on & expected her to climb up but she is so insecure, her taste is v questionable & i want to set her dress barn wardrobe on fire
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 13 May 2017 18:12 (six years ago) link
shea/nina was O_O
love shea more & more every week
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 13 May 2017 18:13 (six years ago) link
Ross Matthews made an accurate sports analogy!
I'm glad to see Pep win, even though in truth I like Sasha's routine more. Also, I thought Valentina should've been top 3 instead of Shea. I doubted she had the shade to read so hard!
― Bashir-Worf Hypothesis (Leee), Saturday, 13 May 2017 19:18 (six years ago) link
And you know, I've grown on Farrah! I'm going to miss her whining. If she could translate it into a tee-shirt catchphrase, she could go far in life.
― Bashir-Worf Hypothesis (Leee), Saturday, 13 May 2017 19:20 (six years ago) link
OMG Trinity drinking in between Shea and Nina's argument, she still can't stop stealing the scene.
― Bashir-Worf Hypothesis (Leee), Saturday, 13 May 2017 19:38 (six years ago) link
i can't tell if it was an edit designed to construct a story arch for the album (i suspect it was), but why at the beginning of this episode were all the queens talking about alexis as if she's a no doubt top 3 contender? she's like.... a decent queen? some good performances, some bad ones! she seems to have a very distorted image of her own talent
― J0rdan S., Monday, 15 May 2017 18:52 (six years ago) link
Trinity in some recent Untucked episode said she thought the two people most likely to reach the finish line (presumably alongside her) were Shea and Alexis.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Monday, 15 May 2017 18:56 (six years ago) link
Meanwhile, Katya on her Uhnnnn panel at Dragcon said that the ideal top three would be Shea, Valentina and Sasha. Seems that's what everyone more or less wants.
Alexis is the Shannel of the season, good but delusional.
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 15 May 2017 19:02 (six years ago) link
Yeah, predicted order going home from here on out:
NinaTrinityPeppermintAlexis or Sasha [could keep Alexis on for Roxxxy/Phi Phi vibes]
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Monday, 15 May 2017 19:13 (six years ago) link
Raven also said on the live Toot and Boot that she was rooting for Alexis, but she always loves pageanty queens like Roxxxy.
I could see Trinity making the Top 3. She's the only one with two solo wins so far.
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 15 May 2017 19:32 (six years ago) link
Alexis isn't living up to the fashion hype tho. Ursula was a stunner, I'll admit.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Monday, 15 May 2017 19:33 (six years ago) link
but even her Ursula, the cage dress was a weird length
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 15 May 2017 20:17 (six years ago) link
I didn't love her Ursula. I think her Gaga was my favorite from her.
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 15 May 2017 20:32 (six years ago) link
Was that the Golden Globes one? Zzzzzzzz.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Monday, 15 May 2017 20:36 (six years ago) link
Oh I agree it was dull, but she looked good.
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 15 May 2017 20:46 (six years ago) link
her makeup and hair was great but the outfit didn't really do it justice.
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 15 May 2017 21:18 (six years ago) link
also lerooleroo otm, alexis is definitely this season's shannel
she has potential but she's too nutty to pull it off
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 15 May 2017 21:20 (six years ago) link
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Monday, May 15, 2017 2:13 PM (yesterday)
Welp, called that wrong!
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 04:13 (six years ago) link
Also, this LSFYL took it out of me. ;_;
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 04:15 (six years ago) link
wait are you talking abt the episode that's not airing for another 3 days?
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 04:21 (six years ago) link
I was about to say
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 04:26 (six years ago) link
Eric you dirty rat
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 04:33 (six years ago) link
It's part of his scheme. He's the secret winner of the season.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 04:34 (six years ago) link
Don't let me be misunderstood.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 04:58 (six years ago) link
so mad at u rn
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 04:58 (six years ago) link
I'm not about to break embargo.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 05:01 (six years ago) link
I will say tho ... has Ru ever stopped a LSFYL in the middle of the LSFYL?!
!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 05:07 (six years ago) link
I'll leave you with this ... this is one crafty show, huntys.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 05:11 (six years ago) link
traitor
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 05:18 (six years ago) link
ugh fuck this thread
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 14:03 (six years ago) link
Sorry, I know I've been mostly good about not teasing spoiler-avoidant stuff to this point. But I had a drink afterward and it went straight to my head.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 14:05 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC7YnPMrhfk
(Ru = us; Willam = Eric)
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 14:51 (six years ago) link
OK, it wasn't as gaggy as THAT elimination.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:00 (six years ago) link
alexis (this is the most basic pageant drag name right?)
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 18 May 2017 04:19 (six years ago) link
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 18 May 2017 04:59 (six years ago) link
As we wait FOR WHAT ERIC H ALREADY PARTIALLY SPOILED noI'mnotbitteranyway, great new feature:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/rupaul-gets-political/524529/?utm_source=twb
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 May 2017 20:03 (six years ago) link
eric what the fuck
― clouds, Friday, 19 May 2017 12:10 (six years ago) link
omg i'm sorry FFM! i was referring to the tendency towards what trixie calls "witness protection drag names" lol
― clouds, Friday, 19 May 2017 12:12 (six years ago) link
hehehe it's okay, I'm just sensitive :) xo
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 19 May 2017 15:26 (six years ago) link
Welp, now you know what happened, right?
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Saturday, 20 May 2017 01:05 (six years ago) link
Though I guess #maskgate ended up leaking, so the spoiler was too big to be contained ... or something.
Anyway, really really sad elimination and it extra fucking sucks that now the way it happened is going to make the world hate Nina that much more.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Saturday, 20 May 2017 01:07 (six years ago) link
NO WE DONT ERIC
who let u out of the basement
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 May 2017 02:00 (six years ago) link
Wellllll...
Well well.
(Ariana has even been on the show as a judge! Imagine if it had been this episode.)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 May 2017 04:02 (six years ago) link
that was a shockah
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 20 May 2017 13:33 (six years ago) link
that was actually the most painful thing i've ever watched on this show, the look of panic and terror on her face the entire performance was.... ugghhh. like, to spend a whole season crafting this pristine perfection and to have it end in such a humiliating fashion
also most queens who make it even past the first 4 or 5 episodes wind up being big enough in their own right on the RPDR circuit for a few years but like how do you bounce back from this? Inevitably this will define her from here on out
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 20 May 2017 14:22 (six years ago) link
It's really tragic for both Valentina AND Nina. The elimination was the direct result of both Nina's crippling self-doubt and Valentina's blind self-confidence. And if Valentina's embarrassment was a stinging shock, Nina's going to be taking more than her share of the burden of fan fallout.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Saturday, 20 May 2017 17:41 (six years ago) link
I just don't get, like.... CLEARLY Valentina was supposed to slay Nina and send her home, and we've had people in the bottom two like this many many times before and the stronger person has always knocked it out of the park, how is this anyone's fault but V's?
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 20 May 2017 17:53 (six years ago) link
Logic doesn't exactly prevail when you're dealing with a show that trades in so much artifice.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Saturday, 20 May 2017 18:01 (six years ago) link
Anyway, you're exactly right. The untucked ep shows Nina more or less stuffing the earbud into Valentina's ear to learn the song
Next episode after this should have Ru's last warning be "Good luck...and don't make me fuck YOU up."
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 May 2017 18:03 (six years ago) link
"I thought you had what it took to go all the way." Just brutal.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Saturday, 20 May 2017 18:05 (six years ago) link
ok i havent watched untucked yet but O_O
on the one hand, shocking... on the other hand, be prepared & come to play 24/7 or your ass is going home no matter how cute or polished you are
valentina ya fucked it up. byeeeeeee
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 May 2017 18:49 (six years ago) link
I think, eventually, she'll be able to leave it behind her (Phi Phi *almost* pulled it off), because a pretty face buys a lot of leeway. It won't be easy, of course, but a lot of people are going to give her the benefit of the doubt (rightly or wrongly). All that said: entirely inexcusable. At least she owned up to it.
Any hate spilled onto Nina is entirely stupid (while she and Valentina both contributed to falling into the bottom two, nothing Nina did DURING the lipsync made Valentina unprepared), but then don't bet against stupidity on the Internet and of the people.
OK but let's talk about Sasha and Shea! Yay!
― Bashir-Worf Hypothesis (Leee), Saturday, 20 May 2017 19:25 (six years ago) link
omg they were so good
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 May 2017 19:37 (six years ago) link
Saw a comment that it was almost like an audition for their own WOW Presents series. Would watch.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 May 2017 19:59 (six years ago) link
totally. they have great chemistry
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 May 2017 20:12 (six years ago) link
I do love their chemistry a ton. Tho I do think Sasha's Russian act suffers from having to follow Katya.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Saturday, 20 May 2017 21:11 (six years ago) link
idk, that seems like a reach as a criticism
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 May 2017 21:28 (six years ago) link
https://i1.wp.com/www.towleroad.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/tumblr_oq84f72RUa1qlvwnco1_500.gif?resize=500%2C281
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 May 2017 22:15 (six years ago) link
also in other news i really like John Polly's recaps
https://youtu.be/DancDHS0o48
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 May 2017 22:20 (six years ago) link
oh no I really hate him :(
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 20 May 2017 23:00 (six years ago) link
but i have a knee-jerk hatred of hot gay men who think that they're hot/funny/interesting and also i project a lot so
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 20 May 2017 23:01 (six years ago) link
Bring back Pandora Boxx
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 May 2017 23:01 (six years ago) link
he reminds me of popular gay ppl i've met at parties and bars and stuff who I'm introduced to and are rly standoffish and snobby, did i mention i project a lot?
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 20 May 2017 23:02 (six years ago) link
he was a bit too "caricature of a flaming queen" at first but i love his references & i dig his sense of humor
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 May 2017 23:04 (six years ago) link
ugh otm stevie
― clouds, Monday, 22 May 2017 01:14 (six years ago) link
i think valentina will be ok. it was shocking and sad in the way stevie describes but i think people recognize her talent, and she wasn't defiant or arrogant about her lip sync disaster like charlie hides. it was a very human failing, people usually empathize with that. also i think i read something about her being pretty popular anyway.
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 23 May 2017 03:54 (six years ago) link
sad for the show tho. i think she was really talented and unique and i hope she gets brought back on the inevitable next edition of all stars.
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 23 May 2017 03:55 (six years ago) link
production crew makeovers in the new ep this week 😃
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 16:38 (six years ago) link
have to say i'm not dreading this episode
http://i.imgur.com/UQJvNri.jpg
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 16:56 (six years ago) link
yeah i saw a clip & the crew are all p cute
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 16:58 (six years ago) link
No one will ever top Detox's military makeover sister.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 17:11 (six years ago) link
Well, I mean, probably someone has and/or will top her *in that sense*
*badumtish*
Also if you see an advance and even breathe a word about it we will hunt you down.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 17:17 (six years ago) link
After reddit leaked #maskgate last week, I'm not sure I'll get episodes as quickly from here on out.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 17:27 (six years ago) link
oh good
― clouds, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 19:22 (six years ago) link
So now that we've all had a few days...who's your top three *now*?
(I would not be unhappy with Shea, Sasha and Peppermint.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 22:06 (six years ago) link
― clouds, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 22:13 (six years ago) link
yep to that! i wouldnt be mad if trinity was top 3, i like her more & more. I love Pep but seems like she could go either way at this point? like she could blow us all away or flame out totally
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 22:27 (six years ago) link
Alexis needs to get the heave-ho next AFAIC
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 22:34 (six years ago) link
is it just me (tm) or is the talent pool not very deep this season? I don't really love any of these queens that are left.
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 22:36 (six years ago) link
You terrible person.
Way upthread a couple of years back or so, the big change was noted in that there's very little emphasis on creating something in the work room to wear anymore. It's the one element I would change back -- you can tell people already have their costumes and things brought to bear.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 22:38 (six years ago) link
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 23:00 (six years ago) link
Blame Willow.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 23:23 (six years ago) link
Er, Willam
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 23:24 (six years ago) link
http://i.onionstatic.com/avclub/5580/49/16x9/960.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 23:27 (six years ago) link
i'm in2 Shea, Sasha, and either Peppermint or Trinity in the top 3. Alexis is terrible and I have to say I'm really fucking disappointed with Nina's shitty-ass attitude.
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 23:27 (six years ago) link
Anyone who bombs the Snatch Game is always going to be fighting an uphill battle with me, so even tho Pep has grown on me, I'm not ready to declare her top 3
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 23:45 (six years ago) link
i understand & am sympathetic to Nina but she is down *so* deep mentally that it's just translating as bad tv
i mean even Shea is giving up on her. at least Trinity K Bonet had a turning point before she went home
i still keep rooting for Nina tho. this seems like pretty much all she has & she's so good when she's performing
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 23:55 (six years ago) link
wow, that was bleak
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 27 May 2017 01:03 (six years ago) link
It was a long time coming, regrettably.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Saturday, 27 May 2017 01:09 (six years ago) link
Also, Sarge camping it up as Peppermint's sister lifted me up.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Saturday, 27 May 2017 01:10 (six years ago) link
yeah, it was a long time coming for sure, but I'm really bummed it ended *that way*
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 27 May 2017 01:11 (six years ago) link
but apart from the elimination this episode was SO FUN
And, damn, Ru only hires blazingly (if boringly) hot PA's on this show.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Saturday, 27 May 2017 01:13 (six years ago) link
Rizzo and Josh could both get it afaic
spoiler alert I was so #TeamSarge it hurts
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 27 May 2017 01:28 (six years ago) link
plot twist of the season, i know
is Untucked done for the season?
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 27 May 2017 01:36 (six years ago) link
Usually posts Saturday morning iirc
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Saturday, 27 May 2017 01:37 (six years ago) link
true but it didn't look like they sent them backstage at all??
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 27 May 2017 01:49 (six years ago) link
wait nvm yes they did, they deliberated!
Yeah there was behind the scenes stuff, we'll get our usual Untucked tomorrow.
Alexis Michelle in the top 5...yeah, I wouldn't've predicted THAT.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 27 May 2017 04:02 (six years ago) link
Backtrack to last week -- this is kinda amazing: Bob the Drag Queen, Willam and Kim Chi at a club appearance watching Valentina crash and burn for the first time. Lots of chat first, skip ahead to 16:00 for the actual disaster reaction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuJW0ftshw0
In order: Bob is all acting out his amazement, Willam is FULLL 'chew gum and act bored' mode and it's amazing (in fact I think he actually cheers Valentina saying she doesn't want to take the mask off! -- also, his platform flip-flops are next level) and Kim, of course, sits motionless but gapes and acts stunned. Couldn't be more them!
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 27 May 2017 16:17 (six years ago) link
Meantime, nice Untucked but Nina was already obviously out of the competition the moment she slumped on the couch.
Can I add that based on both the main episode and the Untucked that Sarge is my new hero. (And that the sequence of her busting up Kesha with just a series of looks was A+)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 27 May 2017 16:45 (six years ago) link
I thought it was a slightly sad indictment of the competing queens that the crew were mostly more entertaining.
In other news: Netflix Ireland has finally properly bought Drag Race and now I can watch along with other people and not have to wait a year for a legal stream. Yay!
― trishyb, Saturday, 27 May 2017 16:51 (six years ago) link
I think this would have been an even better episode without Nina, any other queen in her place. I rooted for her right up until the begginning of this ep when she said she couldnt even take something from the lipsync victory, i was like BITCH, ENOUGH *flips table*
But overall, it was such a great makeover ep, the vibe was so fun & everyone was sassing each other, I would have loved to see all the workroom footage
And yeah, all the dudes were so cute & lovely. Loved how Sasha & Duncan vibed well.
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 May 2017 17:25 (six years ago) link
xpost Hurrah for that!
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 27 May 2017 17:27 (six years ago) link
And to your point about entertaining queens in a block -- I kinda think that seasons 3-5/6 (depending on how I feel on the day) is the benchmark on that front, while at the same time enjoying aspects of where things have gone since (Untucked's shift from being a formal continuation of the show to being a much more casual affair, while it threw me at first back in season 7, now feels like a great twist all around, and one that they're still exploring). And of course there's always been great individual standouts.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 27 May 2017 17:30 (six years ago) link
<3 at how sad Nina's crew guy was backstage.Such a sweetheart, he really tried.
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 May 2017 17:43 (six years ago) link
oh shit, I forgot that i read gossip via Willam's FB page
are you guys all onto the fact that Matthu Andersen *left the show* early this season & now Raven is doing Ru's face & Delta Work is doing Ru's hair.
There's a biiiiiiig difference. It's getting better but the bar is HIGH
But I wanna know "wha happen"? Matthu's Ru's ride or die & I love love love him & it kinda bums me out!!
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 May 2017 17:54 (six years ago) link
I thought this week was the best Ru has looked this season, definitely.
while at the same time enjoying aspects of where things have gone since
As someone who enjoys very much the low-stakes world of the Bake Off, I do like how pally everyone is being this year. I get very tense when there's too much conflict in the workroom. But I just don't think they're as good, individually, as other years. I miss the craft aspects of the show, too.
But I do still love it. These complaints come from a place of love.
― trishyb, Saturday, 27 May 2017 18:14 (six years ago) link
Wow I have not noticed a diff in Ru's styling at all, I have to go back and look
I am kinda bummed how the whole sewing/crafty aspect has basically evaporated
Also "or should I finish the left cheek?" O M GGGGG
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 27 May 2017 19:42 (six years ago) link
Also how tf did Nina make it so far w just one lqqk when season after season queens have been clocked for being too one-note?
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 27 May 2017 19:44 (six years ago) link
yeah that just occurred to me this week. maybe bc her face makeup was so good it kinda disguised that somehow idk
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 May 2017 20:12 (six years ago) link
WAS IT THO???
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 27 May 2017 21:07 (six years ago) link
Untucked makes it seem like the sewing/crafty aspect is still part of the show ... just one that doesn't get included in the edit much anymore. (Alexis has talked about things she's sewn.)
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Sunday, 28 May 2017 00:09 (six years ago) link
I didn't think it was her doubt informing that reaction so much as her feeling bad for sending Valentina home. Which is still bad TV and all but a crucial difference.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Sunday, 28 May 2017 00:10 (six years ago) link
I heard something about that. Curious.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 28 May 2017 00:13 (six years ago) link
Her hair and face look great as usual, it's her padding that seems oddly off this season.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Sunday, 28 May 2017 00:15 (six years ago) link
her hair this season is a lot smaller and much more wig-looking than matthu's work. and her hairlines have not been great if you go back and look. not compared to the airbrushed wizardry of matthu's hairlines for ru that made every 3 foot high wig look like it was naturally growing out of her scalp.
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 28 May 2017 00:37 (six years ago) link
sarge was hot that is all lol
― clouds, Sunday, 28 May 2017 04:41 (six years ago) link
agree! rizzo & duncan can get it also
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 28 May 2017 05:06 (six years ago) link
Oh dear god has anyone seen this? It is baaaaaad
https://youtu.be/r0o0PK7AXFE
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 28 May 2017 13:54 (six years ago) link
But I mean all of these tie-in songs are terrible tho, aren't they?
all except for katya's verse in "read you wrote you"
the rest... blech
― clouds, Sunday, 28 May 2017 14:24 (six years ago) link
an embed btw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0o0PK7AXFE
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 28 May 2017 14:25 (six years ago) link
let me investigate Read U Wrote U
oh right this!
My boyfriend and I met Shea Coulée, Bianca Del Rio, Kim Chi, Shangela and Detox on the street in Montréal last night!!! They were all completely drunk but super sweet and having a good time. Shea even tried to speak french with us :-)
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 03:18 (six years ago) link
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 03:19 (six years ago) link
They were coming out of a strip club where they went after their show. Shangela was singing and dancing around with Detox and Bianca was laughing and talking very loud. We got hugs and kisses from everyone. Kim is very tall and has soft lips.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 03:34 (six years ago) link
Okay, you win.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 03:38 (six years ago) link
omg awesome
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 03:41 (six years ago) link
Oh and Bianca and Detox were wearing Valentina t-shirts and Shangela had her own portable selfie light that she pulled out just before we took a picture with her!
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 03:48 (six years ago) link
Pics!
― Do the Leee Roll! (Leee), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 17:50 (six years ago) link
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 18:56 (six years ago) link
I hope this works. I'm the one on the left. Sadly, we don't have Shea and Bianca because their crew came to get them before we had time to ask for a picture.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/u23ikhjnzqils2k/Detox.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/r16wvyhhsijuah2/Shangela.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tz0hv8vshnxjt5x/KimChi.jpg?dl=0
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 21:44 (six years ago) link
Ok let me try that again...
https://photos-5.dropbox.com/t/2/AACfqiGXO5SzcEyzp0_-N4PLSuxG3xx_ikYVzpG0NP04-w/12/363100339/jpeg/32x32/1/_/1/2/Detox.jpg/EMjGiO4CGJwhIAIoAg/WG3D21X91QG9gdFFSCnntXIgpmLJToclsEi9lmHxq8M?size=32x32&size_mode=5
https://photos-3.dropbox.com/t/2/AAAj1MWxs8jhwT044l34BpNgl0yy7KYtrkQKUSIb2EjwEw/12/363100339/jpeg/32x32/1/_/1/2/Shangela.jpg/EMjGiO4CGKAhIAIoAg/pwwFkfdz4dqnH5a9gU5cXpxk-2kv8iEv2odkGVzB8-E?size=1280x960&size_mode=3
https://photos-5.dropbox.com/t/2/AAA0uUzQEl-K_oL3Yvawy8wRivRnIILAyHwXl-y7964INg/12/363100339/jpeg/32x32/1/_/1/2/KimChi.jpg/EMjGiO4CGJ4hIAIoAg/GB2itWdjWLQu___PRxvLycaYPgF42x47Lb6KjYXmMck?size=1280x960&size_mode=3
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 21:50 (six years ago) link
Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Can you guys see them now?
https://image.ibb.co/nG0RLv/Detox.jpg
https://image.ibb.co/kODrna/Shangela.jpg
https://image.ibb.co/eoYkDF/KimChi.jpg
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 31 May 2017 04:10 (six years ago) link
Yup!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 31 May 2017 04:16 (six years ago) link
omg those are great!!!!
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 05:12 (six years ago) link
So cool. What an excellent night out.
― trishyb, Wednesday, 31 May 2017 08:44 (six years ago) link
Awesome!
― Do the Leee Roll! (Leee), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 17:53 (six years ago) link
cute!!!
― clouds, Wednesday, 31 May 2017 22:18 (six years ago) link
Amazing!
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 22:35 (six years ago) link
obviously it was a losing performance but i was honestly very into nina's morose bunny rendition of "cool for the summer." in a different context it would have been a really interesting spin on that song? like maybe she's playing the other half of the bi tryst and isn't ready for it to end. she was really serving like that sad gaze w/ the batting eyelashes.
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 1 June 2017 15:48 (six years ago) link
DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD
(Okay maybe too harsh but *finally*.)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 3 June 2017 04:02 (six years ago) link
Also, surely that was the first time ever it was a male-sung song in the lip sync.
Native American outfit predictably on the nose & fucking terrible BYE BITCH
Peppermint lip-syncing - it's like she becomes a human ray of sunshine! I love watching her
I lolled so hard at Sasha's "Sexy Unicorn", it was so her = completely covered, not sexy, complete with medieval tapestry referent ❤️
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 3 June 2017 07:01 (six years ago) link
I thought Peppermint's personality carried her through this week, because the silhouettes she wore for Village People and rainbow flag were identical. Her lipsync was so good, though. Neither of them really knew the words, but she knew the song. I liked her gawky walk bit.
― trishyb, Saturday, 3 June 2017 10:14 (six years ago) link
Untucked this time was definitely a good portrait of someone trying to front, getting an emotional boost and then it allllll goes south.
(Also, 8 years trying for the show and that was your A-game?)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 3 June 2017 13:30 (six years ago) link
Alexis's VO in Untucked, walking miserably back to the workroom after her elimination: "I'm my own toughest critic."
Girl, wha?
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Saturday, 3 June 2017 15:13 (six years ago) link
In packing, she seemed somewhere between not too angry, not too crushed, and not too both feet on the ground.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Saturday, 3 June 2017 15:21 (six years ago) link
Her mom and step dad are A+, at least.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 3 June 2017 15:30 (six years ago) link
So now it's a top 4 where...I'm fine with all of them? I *kinda* assume Peppermint won't make the final cut but I don't know; Trinity still irritates me a touch but she has skills. The other two, obvious slam dunks.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 3 June 2017 15:32 (six years ago) link
Yeah. It's a replay of last year where I like all of the top 4, and the least polished one with the kindest personality is the one that doesn't quite make it.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Saturday, 3 June 2017 16:26 (six years ago) link
saw Shea perform & co-host a drag race viewing party last night
she said something about how she was terrified to meet Ru bc of what she had heard from season 7 queens but that Ru was really kind and friendly towards her. she said she thinks maybe Ru just hated the s7 queens lol
and obv she slayed the house down performing. she walked past me to get on stage & her perfume smelled amazing
ps Jasmine Masters also performed! she was good too though she didnt seem to care as much about the actual lipsync at times
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 3 June 2017 16:46 (six years ago) link
Reminds me that I enjoyed these articles I found last night -- first, Shea and Sasha, from articles well before they were announced for season 9, so it's a nicely different perspective
http://design.newcity.com/2016/04/06/shea-coulee-her-life-in-drag/
http://forward.com/culture/art/318495/sasha-velours-talmud-of-drag/
And this one on Trinity, after the season had started, but a lot of background info
http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/03/trinity_taylor_rupauls_drag_ra.html
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 3 June 2017 16:50 (six years ago) link
oh and: witnessed an amazing drag queen. Chevelle Boom Boom Brooks (found out after she is Jiggly's drag mom & Kennedy Davenport's drag sister - their drag mom is Kelexis)
She looked like millie jackson in a chaka khan wig. Literally threw herself around & headbanged to a medley of live Beyonce including Formation in this incredible sequined cape. She tore the mfing place DOWN holy fuck she was good.
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 3 June 2017 17:03 (six years ago) link
ugh fuckin Alexis... she wasn't even that bad compared to some of the demons we've had in previous seasons, but the sense of like indignant and deluded entitlement really made me sad and uncomf, like "no, you don't understand, I worked hard so therefore this is good" and it's like bitch👏you👏have👏no👏taste👏
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 3 June 2017 18:02 (six years ago) link
also acc to http://www.alextheatre.org/event/world-of-wonder-presents-rupauls-drag-race-s9-grand-finale the finale is taping next week but acc to VH1's tv listings, next week is another regular episode, so I guess we have YET ANOTHER season of horrible pre-taped faux-reaction from the winner, ugh, this is the worst worst finale setup of any reality competition show ever
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 3 June 2017 18:09 (six years ago) link
Alexis deluded entitlement otm
Sasha & Shea are her biggest competition?The skirt is like what you would buy at Saks after the runway show?This will be the first of many trophies? Maybe she'll wear that dress in All-Stars????
Like I understand putting on a brave face but GURL
Also what "many trophies"? Golf?
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 3 June 2017 18:34 (six years ago) link
her taste is so BASIC but she thinks she's fuckin Linda Evangelista
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 3 June 2017 18:35 (six years ago) link
I could not stop loling @ Sasha cracking up in Untucked
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 3 June 2017 18:40 (six years ago) link
Poor Alexis. She's so unlikable. At least Shannel was always well put together (even if she wasn't my style).
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 3 June 2017 23:37 (six years ago) link
Last year they did Sylvester's "You Make Me Feel Mighty Real" which was great! There was also Fred Schneider's part in "Love Shack" this season, though I wish I could forget it. And of course, they've done numerous RuPaul songs.
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 3 June 2017 23:51 (six years ago) link
I haven't watched Project Runway in a while so maybe I'm out of touch with what's high fashion, but I thought that Sasha's cowboy look was very dowdy.
Alexis had skills, and I don't think she got to the top 5 just because the season needed a villain, but I really dislike the sort of rehearsed staginess that she brought to everything except the final moments of Untucked. Also, I love how fast she backtracked on her Native American look: AM: "I was going for more of a ready-to-wear look."S: "But the judges wanted high fashion."AM: "Oh I mean the skirt was ready-to-wear, my bustier is totally couture."And you kind of new the moment she said that she was drawn to those stones that she'd cook up something that bland. (Also also her makeup was terrible. And the hair, ugh.)
It's a shame that Peppermint said she wanted to avoid lipsyncing for her life, because every time she does she just slays me. She's a lipsync assassin.
I think I have more patience for Trinity than everyone else here (that posterior is a work of art), but it's obvious why people can find her aggravating.
― Do the eeeL Roll! (Leee), Sunday, 4 June 2017 03:49 (six years ago) link
i like Trinity. She reminds me of Kennedy Davenport, the deeeeeep pageant mindset, they compete with intensity, like it's their job to win. She listens to critique & learns from every mistake & aims a little bit higher each time... but she also doesnt take anyone down with her if she does poorly, unlike Alexis who cant fathom her own failures, however minute
I admire Trinity. That girl dont mess around.
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 4 June 2017 05:13 (six years ago) link
Alexis's hair was awful. Looked like a doll wig.
yeah trinity whom i hated at first has won me over with her fierceness. she's a bit like alyssa but with less charisma and uniqueness? i guess she's an 'nt.
― clouds, Sunday, 4 June 2017 22:28 (six years ago) link
yeah alyssa comparison is good. category is: "hella pageant queen"
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 4 June 2017 22:37 (six years ago) link
i think in the context of this season i've really enjoyed trinity's professionalism. so many amateurs in this year's crop but she knows what she's doing. i like that ru called her an old school showgirl in explaining why she did well in the crew makeover challenge.
― J0rdan S., Monday, 5 June 2017 02:49 (six years ago) link
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 5 June 2017 04:03 (six years ago) link
i think that's been the biggest change is the amount of super young queens who have maybe more look but less seriousness
those early seasons it was all the hungry experienced queens that made it exciting...now it's almost like we're watching to see which beautiful confident young queen is going to forget to look both ways while crossing the street
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 5 June 2017 04:07 (six years ago) link
That would be Valentina.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Monday, 5 June 2017 12:41 (six years ago) link
this cracked me up
At dinner-@TrinityTheTuck: what are these burrito things y'all?Me: that's an egg roll@TrinityTheTuck: *takes a bite and spits it out*— Kim Chi (@KimChi_Chic) June 6, 2017
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 18:47 (six years ago) link
Man just cast the sitcom already.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 18:48 (six years ago) link
she seriously didn't know what egg rolls were???
― clouds, Wednesday, 7 June 2017 13:03 (six years ago) link
Well she's from Birmingham and lives in Florida and (various regional/culinary stereotypes later) and that's why we're so elevated out here in San Francisco. *eats vegan hummus/black bean 'wrap' what is this burrito you speak of*
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 June 2017 13:24 (six years ago) link
the shitty little town in FL i grew up in had like 5 chinese takeout places, thai place and sushi bars...
― clouds, Wednesday, 7 June 2017 13:34 (six years ago) link
Yeah, when I was on Siesta Key, I had egg rolls flying at me from every angle.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 13:36 (six years ago) link
Carefully phrased.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 June 2017 13:39 (six years ago) link
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 22:09 (six years ago) link
maybe she's more of a country kinda florida rather than city florida
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 22:11 (six years ago) link
no, the ignorant kinda florida
still, she aight
― clouds, Wednesday, 7 June 2017 22:57 (six years ago) link
A comparison we can all get behind
http://fusion.kinja.com/bear-witness-to-katy-perrys-purposeful-flop-1795958969
If pop music was a season of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Katy Perry would be the show girl in a season of couture queens. She’s the Alexis Michelle, hellbent on serving high fashion but then walking out in a loud turquoise-encrusted corset. Katy Perry doesn’t do nuanced, so don’t make her. Let the woman be loud and “Roar” or whatever, but for the love of god, just let her have some fun.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 June 2017 18:43 (six years ago) link
Alexis Michelle isn't a show girl, IMO? Since she doesn't really do the elaborate, literally huge over-the-top looks -- she's more Broadway than Vegas.
― Do the eeeL Roll! (Leee), Friday, 9 June 2017 20:12 (six years ago) link
KNEW IT KNEW IT KNEW IT
I just had this hunch all episode.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 June 2017 04:01 (six years ago) link
Yeah, that was a very non-shocking shocker.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Saturday, 10 June 2017 13:23 (six years ago) link
I wonder what it would mean for the show going forward, though. One-off, or new pattern?
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 June 2017 13:26 (six years ago) link
Now I'm sensing a double win between Shea-Sasha.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Saturday, 10 June 2017 13:33 (six years ago) link
Yeah, REALLY feeling it's headed that direction.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 June 2017 13:41 (six years ago) link
It's pretty obvious now that Valentina's crash and burn was the last real shock moment of the season, but also the one that determined the season would end on a calmer parity note instead of a fight to the finish. After her departure, it was a question of when Nina and Alexis would be out, or rather, which would be first.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 June 2017 13:44 (six years ago) link
I was wondering all week if this would happen. Have they done this before?
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 10 June 2017 14:15 (six years ago) link
I don't think so.
I know Sasha is fab in a lot of ways, but I think her looks are very tame. In fact, I think all their looks were very tame this week. I wonder if they get a budget from the show to spend on their looks, and if that budget has been cut?
― trishyb, Saturday, 10 June 2017 14:48 (six years ago) link
Untucked was fun. Also, food! (Seriously, isn't the story that the craft services are a little sparse for the show?)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 June 2017 20:17 (six years ago) link
God almighty!
https://unicornbooty.com/bjork-bushwick-dj/
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Saturday, 10 June 2017 23:32 (six years ago) link
ok that untucked was great.
now that Alexis isnt sucking all the air out pf the room I could finally appreciate just how rad these four queens are.
really happy with the result, cant wait to see what shakes out
sidebar: holy fuck Shea slayed the house down with her rhyme, good god that was great. and with the baseball bat? in love.
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 June 2017 00:47 (six years ago) link
Yeah if there had been a designated winner for that round, Shea had it lock stock and barrel.
And how come Bjork can't DJ for me after I see an episode, I tell ya.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 11 June 2017 00:58 (six years ago) link
Ru - How ya like them apples?Peppermint - I love em girlShea- Ooh they real sweet
<3 <3
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 June 2017 01:03 (six years ago) link
Haha yes to that!
Also having been a Peppermint fan the moment she walked through the door to kick off the whole thing -- and she really did feel like the season narrator -- her ending up at the end is really great.
So is there a recap episode next week or do we just wait on the 23rd?
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 11 June 2017 01:07 (six years ago) link
reunion next week no?
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 June 2017 01:16 (six years ago) link
Grand finale is the 23rd per the graphic at the end of Untucked.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 11 June 2017 01:46 (six years ago) link
hmm
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 June 2017 01:48 (six years ago) link
oh well
They're such a crew. I would 100% watch a magazine show presented by these ladies.
― trishyb, Sunday, 11 June 2017 08:56 (six years ago) link
Poor Trinity! Gave up shotgun just so they could get that final shot in the van!
Even though we've got four girls, I have to say that the crown is Shea's to lose. /duh
In fact, I think all their looks were very tame this week. I wonder if they get a budget from the show to spend on their looks, and if that budget has been cut?
At least from seasons past, the queens bring in their own wardrobe (e.g. Willam, who has a sugar daddy, coming in with high-end stuff).
so I guess we have YET ANOTHER season of horrible pre-taped faux-reaction from the winner, ugh, this is the worst worst finale setup of any reality competition show ever
I think that the alternative -- revealing the winner on the main stage -- is a little underwhelming -- the setting is too small and familiar for such a grand announcement, the celebration so much more low-key compared to a huge theater filled with fans. A little bit of confetti dropped from above doesn't make up for the difference in scale.
I do miss the claws-out reunion though -- having that part in front of a live audience has made it tamer (although the higher profile of the show and its impact on getting gigs or getting social media hate also undoubtedly affects how much bitterness and candor can now come through).
― Leee Media Naranja (Leee), Monday, 12 June 2017 16:46 (six years ago) link
I know Sasha is fab in a lot of ways, but I think her looks are very tame. In fact, I think all their looks were very tame this week. I wonder if they get a budget from the show to spend on their looks, and if that budget has been cut?― trishyb, Saturday, June 10, 2017 2:48 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― trishyb, Saturday, June 10, 2017 2:48 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
idk you'd think the budget would go UP when switching from logo to vh1.. I do find it odd that the looks mostly seem to be BYO. the show must be a huge success because they have no expenses!
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 12 June 2017 17:01 (six years ago) link
I thought Trinity's final look was fantastic.
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 12 June 2017 17:14 (six years ago) link
yeah Trinity looked incredible. The hair, makeup, THE DRESS...so much perfection
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 June 2017 17:39 (six years ago) link
yeah Im glad trinity decided to go out with guns blazing if thats what it was going down to.
I like the top 4 but I do feel that theyre all missing some part of the complete puzzle..
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 12 June 2017 17:42 (six years ago) link
in the finale they form Voltron and become ULTIMATE DRAG QUEEN
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 June 2017 17:44 (six years ago) link
I AM BECOME C.U.N.T. DESTROYER OF WORLDS
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 12 June 2017 18:15 (six years ago) link
lol yes
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 June 2017 18:32 (six years ago) link
Peppermint's makeup was beautiful, too.
― Leee Media Naranja (Leee), Monday, 12 June 2017 19:31 (six years ago) link
I just learned that Lucian Piane had some kinda mystery illness & then ate a truckload of edibles and went cuckoo... and that's why he's not on the show this season O_o
https://www.queerty.com/lucian-piane-blames-racist-pro-trump-tweets-eating-way-much-marijuana-20170131
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 June 2017 21:12 (six years ago) link
That's...different.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 June 2017 21:15 (six years ago) link
Unfortunately I've had some friends lose their minds and ruin their lives with crystal meth and his behavior last year was definitely similar to that.
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 12 June 2017 21:55 (six years ago) link
it's still ongoing w/ him... his instagram is uh... concerning
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 13 June 2017 14:49 (six years ago) link
i think there's something deeper and more serious going on there than meth or edibles
not that todrick hall is any more tolerable onscreen, what a humorless privileged twat
― clouds, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 13:32 (six years ago) link
LOL, there isn't a single recurring judge or coach on this show who doesn't inspire catcalls from at least 3 or 4 gays in my life ... Ross first and foremost.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 13:45 (six years ago) link
I thought Todrick was much better as a coach than as a judge. He was completely useless on All Stars 2. I really enjoy Ross as a judge though. He's funny and his comments are always constructive and on point.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 20:26 (six years ago) link
I think Ross is useful primarily as an antidote to Michelle in sniffing out positives when the overall picture might be negative. Constructive tho? His time in the workroom for the roast challenge involved him saying, for about five minutes, "be funny." Thanks, Ross.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 20:32 (six years ago) link
those who can't, teach
― clouds, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 20:33 (six years ago) link
I don't want to be too harsh on him tho. Most of the slams I've heard directly pertaining to Ross are femme shaming, straight up.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 20:37 (six years ago) link
yeah, fuck that noise. i don't think he's funny but it's not because he presents androgynously.
― clouds, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 20:40 (six years ago) link
I agree he wasn't the best as a coach, but I like him behind the judging table. I guess he's the opposite of Todrick. *Sigh* at gay guys still shaming femininity in gays (while enjoying Drag Race no less).
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 20:50 (six years ago) link
yeah i enjoy Ross as a judge
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 21:31 (six years ago) link
I think Ross has gotten better -- or at least his jokes have, so that's something.
Almost feels like it's time for another changeup for next season's regular judges, though.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 21:44 (six years ago) link
Bring in Raja and Raven!
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 21:52 (six years ago) link
That would be something, but given how many queens have clearly already performed with one another over time before actually appearing on the show, probably hard to keep some direct bias out...
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 21:53 (six years ago) link
I really like him. But then, I don't know anything about him at all except for the ten minutes I see him on Drag Race. He's not exactly a major figure in Ireland.
― trishyb, Thursday, 15 June 2017 00:06 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_mOjYlrVB0
― Leee Media Naranja (Leee), Thursday, 15 June 2017 02:01 (six years ago) link
reunion episode IS airing this Friday fyi
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 15 June 2017 02:40 (six years ago) link
I cannot disagree
Idea for drag name/persona: Ginnie Vincent. Just boost this entire shtick, don't alter the look at all. https://t.co/46TVsMAWUJ— Ferris (@dxferris) June 15, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 June 2017 13:49 (six years ago) link
omg Ross has DEF gotten better, I thought his jokes were Santino-level stupid at first but he has become so cleverly self-aware w/r/t his dad-level corniness that it's made him really fn smart and endearing.
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 15 June 2017 18:18 (six years ago) link
I don't respond to it, but he's not my bete noir or anything. I save that for the guy who does the yelly ambush gamified interviews on NYC streets.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Thursday, 15 June 2017 18:23 (six years ago) link
yeah fuck that dude he's trash
― clouds, Friday, 16 June 2017 14:19 (six years ago) link
Unless it's all a deliberate riff against the "so long as it's not out in the streets in my face" cliche.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Friday, 16 June 2017 14:29 (six years ago) link
Woooh boy, tonight has been REALLY interesting.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 17 June 2017 03:22 (six years ago) link
That was ugly, that was sour, that was unnecessary.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Saturday, 17 June 2017 06:08 (six years ago) link
I can see why Valentina was so unbelievably angry during that recent Nina Bo'nina FB live.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Saturday, 17 June 2017 06:12 (six years ago) link
Oh, for god's sake. Why isn't the reunion episode on my Netflix? Stupid Ireland.
― trishyb, Saturday, 17 June 2017 07:57 (six years ago) link
But other than that!
Combine that with the live (well, at the time of taping) lipsync that's been introduced to help determine the final winner and next week suddenly gets really interesting.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 17 June 2017 16:20 (six years ago) link
Wooo this was waaaaay more popcorn than I expected
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 17 June 2017 20:47 (six years ago) link
whoaaaaa this was so claws-out
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 17 June 2017 21:37 (six years ago) link
I actually feel kinda vindicated hearing all of the other queens call Valentina out for being totally artificial and self-serving, like clearly no one really likes her
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 17 June 2017 21:40 (six years ago) link
part of me was like omg why weren't you guys like this during the show?! but it kind of makes it somehow better that they locked most of it down? idk. like I love that it alllllllll came out in the reunion. and somehow during the season they were all I wanna win i haven't got time for your shit. like a sort of professionalism set in somehow. maybe I'm wrong.
but yeah, the Valentina stuff was pretty fascinating. I was definitely taken by her from the get go, so it was great to see that she's a really just a plastic irl and that no-one really liked her.
i could watch Eureka and Trinity read each other all day, love it.
and Charlie with her 9 million excuses jesus christ that was some lameness on parade there
Kinda loved Aja taking the role of 'greek chorus' throughout the reunion and whenever the need arose just being like, "I'm sorry but [truth]" especially with that whole Fan Favorite Award. I said the same thing yesterday before I watched the reunion when I saw Valentina won! I was like in what universe is she CONGENIAL? And even then I had no idea how the other queens saw her lol
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 17 June 2017 22:25 (six years ago) link
Or they are all a bit jealous of her, which I can understand. She does have that star quality like no-other queen in the season had.
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 17 June 2017 22:29 (six years ago) link
A friend on FB called her Vilaintina and I laughed so hard. It's kind of true! Anyway, best episode of the season. Even Ru seemed to be enjoying himself more.
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 17 June 2017 22:33 (six years ago) link
Some great outfits and costumes from @RuPaulsDragRace displayed on Santa Monica Blvd in WeHo. #DragRaceFYC pic.twitter.com/0DFy9aWP8U— Matthew Gillman (@RealMattGillman) June 17, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 17 June 2017 22:55 (six years ago) link
OK, I watched it again and it doesn't seem *AS* sour as it seemed on first blush. In fact, it almost made me feel bad for Valentina again, despite mounting evidence that she was no sweetheart on set.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Sunday, 18 June 2017 02:54 (six years ago) link
i kinda turned a corner in Aja & Farrah tbh
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 18 June 2017 03:25 (six years ago) link
*on
If only Farrah had brought some of that "fuck it" attitude to the competition. Any amount. At all.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Sunday, 18 June 2017 03:34 (six years ago) link
i don't give a fuck, valentina is the breakout star of this season
everyone looked really really good in this ru-union btw, especially chad michaels and acid betty
― clouds, Sunday, 18 June 2017 03:49 (six years ago) link
xpost Eric otm
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 18 June 2017 03:57 (six years ago) link
I find the respect that Eureka and Trinity have for each other SOOO touching, like it seriously warms my heart. Trinity is legit af.
Also yeah Farrah was really great this ep! Also Valentina as Miss Congeniality seemed super inevitable and I really felt bad when everyone unanimously ganged up on her.
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 18 June 2017 04:02 (six years ago) link
The sarcasm that greeted a $5,000 prize. Hell, that queen on The Price is Right three weeks ago won like six times as much on Plinko.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Sunday, 18 June 2017 04:04 (six years ago) link
yeah... i guess there is that :/
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 18 June 2017 04:38 (six years ago) link
describing humor obv not very humorous but oh well:
Valentina implored her fans via Instagram video to put a rose emoji in the comments of every season 9 queens to show love/support w/e
so far kimchi has requested croissants instead
and Bob the Drag Queen did a parody video asking for eggplant emojis to "show that we're not all size queens"
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 June 2017 23:47 (six years ago) link
man Valentina done fucked her career up so bad, we have never come close to seeing someone with this much potential blowing it all.
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 19 June 2017 23:58 (six years ago) link
So near, and yet, etc.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 June 2017 23:59 (six years ago) link
all those people posting eggplants are dumb as fuck. really starting to hate the fandom for this show.
she shouldn't have said "i'm like selena" but i probably would have ignored farrah moan's annoying ass too.
― clouds, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 13:54 (six years ago) link
Also, as the breakout star from the show, and one facing humiliation on a grand scale, I'm willing to cut her a bit of slack for not being super quick with the texts.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 14:02 (six years ago) link
what, exactly, does her humiliation entail? working with jeremy scott and moschino?
― clouds, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 14:09 (six years ago) link
Well, now the humiliation of being called fake by virtually every single one of your castmates, I guess.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 14:15 (six years ago) link
i honestly don't see any of them apart from val going on to do anything apart from peppermint. shea is polished but she's not really that funny and her lipsyncs were boring as hell. sasha is a privileged snob who does the same silhouette for every look and think she's so ahead of gender norms because she read judith butler once.
― clouds, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 14:23 (six years ago) link
Well, Eureka does have season 10 ahead of her.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 14:28 (six years ago) link
Well,
― clouds, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 14:51 (six years ago) link
Shea's a pretty great performer live, and is pretty good with a crowd.
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 16:49 (six years ago) link
Listened to her Feast of Fun episode too awhile back, and she doesn't mince words about being woke, et al.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 16:51 (six years ago) link
That...was actually the best finale in a long time! Introducing the final lip syncs instead of stagily going through the reunion stuff (and therefore saving it for the episode we had last week) was a stroke of genius. Mind you, how will they try and upend expectations next year...
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 June 2017 04:05 (six years ago) link
yeah that was really amazing
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 24 June 2017 16:50 (six years ago) link
And somehow resulted in the queen I'd had pegged fourth most likely to win taking the crown.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Saturday, 24 June 2017 17:23 (six years ago) link
I was bummed when Trinity went first and stunned when Shea went second, this was NOT the top 2 I was expecting.
I also spent the whole episode wondering how much was predetermined, like did whoever the wheel land on have to pick the person they were already assigned? Were the lip syncs choreographed? Was the winner determined in advance or did she seriously let it all come down to these performances right here and now (bcz that seems ridic tbh)
Also did they actually announce the winner live a week ago and manage to keep it under wraps????
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 24 June 2017 17:34 (six years ago) link
I have to assume they did the usual deal where both 'won' and reactions were recorded, and then editing is where the actual decision was made.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 June 2017 17:37 (six years ago) link
Yeah that was fab
I am glad the finale was an actual competition for the crown ... and goddamn Sasha really brings it with her lipsync.
I had no idea about any of that Shea stuff with her Dad & sister. How tragic. And what a tough queen to bring it so hard. Love her
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 June 2017 18:24 (six years ago) link
Yeah that was damn sad and a half. If there is a bright side, yay her mom, and yay for her being there and being amazzing.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 June 2017 18:30 (six years ago) link
sisterly love for Sasha all the way from Sydney - check it, they all have "Sasha Brows"
https://instagram.com/p/BVudk1Kje_Z/
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 June 2017 18:33 (six years ago) link
That's like a stupid good crew right there. Drag Avengers.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 June 2017 18:35 (six years ago) link
i like that there seems to be genuine affection between the 4 - like Biancas season with Adore, Courtney & Darienne: that crew are still friends to this day which i think is cool
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 June 2017 19:47 (six years ago) link
also now that i've seen Sasha fully lipsync twice, i realized that she has an Annie Lennox vibe that I never caught before ... and I like that she has built on a variation of the Latrice school of "stand & emote" lipsyncing which is still a perennial favorite
god it was an enjoyable finale. so much more watchable & interesting & less like a yawny variety show
oh and shea's "that was a NICE car" about Black Chyna fkn killed me, hilar
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 June 2017 00:02 (six years ago) link
Nice comparison re Annie! Hadn't thought of that at all.
(Yeah too bad Sasha got the worst guest video message thanks to Katy Perry. That seemed...all too convenient. Then again, Gaga would have been not only too obvious but thanks to her being in at the start would lead to accusations of bias. :-D )
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 25 June 2017 00:27 (six years ago) link
she seems like a very nice person but i just don't feel like that was the right decision. same silhouette every outfit, not much charisma imo and a worse dancer than pearl. i thought shea was so clearly the winner from the beginning.
― clouds, Sunday, 25 June 2017 00:31 (six years ago) link
i did too tbh and i was surprised she was such a mediocre lip-syncer
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 25 June 2017 00:37 (six years ago) link
yeah Shea didn't deliver nearly as well as I expected in the lipsync
I kinda thought Peppermint was kinda flat til her wig change in the first lipsync, without those gimmicks & the late energy burst I'd have given the first round to Trinity
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 June 2017 02:27 (six years ago) link
Agreed. And yeah, weird how Shea just seemed...there in her effort. Very surprising.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 25 June 2017 02:56 (six years ago) link
in the regular show that prob would have slayed but Sasha pushed into a higher gear that Shea just didnt have or wasnt prepared for
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 June 2017 03:40 (six years ago) link
Maybe (although I'm not sure this would be Ru's decision to make) Ru reckons that Shea just has enough shit going on just now and should maybe take some time out to gather herself and chill out, and then she'll blast the hell out of everyone in the next All Stars.
I was very lukewarm on Sasha till the final, where I thought she absolutely brought it, in terms of both her looks and her performance. Her Tudor/Papal/Jurassic Park frilled dinosaur look was majestic and alien, and her lipsyncing was A+. The initial removal of the gloves was very Gypsy Rose Lee.
The most enjoyable live finale so far. I wonder if they'll pick four queens again next year to get the same end result?
― trishyb, Sunday, 25 June 2017 08:44 (six years ago) link
I wonder if Shea's recent losses took away the urgency of her lipsyncs; I expected more from her.
Yeah too bad Sasha got the worst guest video message thanks to Katy Perry.
I thought this was a lost opportunity to introduce the real Judith Butler to the masses.
― Leee Media Naranja (Leee), Sunday, 25 June 2017 17:09 (six years ago) link
lol otm
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 June 2017 17:09 (six years ago) link
Finale Reaction video (Pep & Sasha) <3
https://youtu.be/Zql6qRPOBGY
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 00:05 (six years ago) link
Ah, very nice. That's always been the bit I like the most.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 04:45 (six years ago) link
Also, this is good news
https://deadline.com/2017/06/rupauls-drag-race-season-9-finale-season-ratings-vh1-1202120297/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 04:46 (six years ago) link
Whole lotta articles summing up the season/talking about wider impacts, but this Vox one (yes, I know) is a really deep and interesting one.
https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/6/26/15845792/rupauls-drag-race-season-9-teen-fanbase
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 04:55 (six years ago) link
Sasha, music nerd! Great read and selections here:
https://www.yahoo.com/music/rupauls-drag-race-winner-sasha-velour-unveils-emotional-pride-playlist-230929013.html
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 June 2017 03:02 (six years ago) link
o m g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-cgMtSSjMY
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 29 June 2017 04:02 (six years ago) link
omg that was so gooooooooooooooooood fuck
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 June 2017 06:11 (six years ago) link
her song choices are so theatrical and awesome
that Wuthering Heights lipsync was gr8
I really appreciate Sasha more now that I've seen her lipsync. I also noticed the Annie Lennox influence during the finale performances.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 29 June 2017 19:47 (six years ago) link
yeah i feel like we only got half her steez in the show now that i've seen how good she is at the lipsync
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 June 2017 19:48 (six years ago) link
Rupaul looked like a dirty protest.
― Heavy Doors (jed_), Friday, 30 June 2017 04:44 (six years ago) link
Sharing this
https://www.out.com/popnography/2017/7/05/andrew-garfield-comes-out-gay-just-without-physical-act
Because...
Hollywood heartthrob Andrew Garfield has come out of the closet—sort of. The English actor currently stars in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America as Lewis Ironside, a man who struggles between his Jewish faith and homosexuality. During a recent panel discussion about his role, Garfield admitted preparation included watching past seasons of RuPaul’s Drag Race. “Every Sunday I would have eight friends over and we would just watch Ru," the actor said. "I mean every single series of RuPaul’s Drag Race. I mean every series. This is my life outside of this play. I am a gay man right now just without the physical act—that’s all."
Cue flashbacks to Brett Anderson 25 years ago.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 July 2017 00:34 (six years ago) link
Cue me and everyone around me not caring.
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Thursday, 6 July 2017 02:47 (six years ago) link
(About AG's PR statement, I mean. Not your contributions itt, Ned.)
so brave :/
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 6 July 2017 02:59 (six years ago) link
http://68.media.tumblr.com/45fe663f575d75bb10f72c7e8fd03447/tumblr_inline_osdq8tbHPk1sh82zd_500.jpg
― clouds, Thursday, 6 July 2017 07:42 (six years ago) link
https://www.pride.com/rupaulsdragrace/2017/7/07/ranking-drag-races-season-9-lip-syncs?utm_source=OUTFB&utm_medium=ORG
I one-thousand percent agree with their #1 choice.
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Friday, 7 July 2017 23:51 (six years ago) link
This article argues that the lip syncs in the finale shouldn't even have happened and I judge this writer to have defective ideas.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 July 2017 23:53 (six years ago) link
yeah wtf
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 7 July 2017 23:57 (six years ago) link
I only argue that there should've been more lip syncs I the finale. They should've each lip synced against the other three individually and then tallied up points.
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Saturday, 8 July 2017 00:19 (six years ago) link
ooh yeah
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 July 2017 02:03 (six years ago) link
I'm doing this at the moment, but am reminded of how much I disliked the cliqueyness of season 3. And that it featured my two least favourite queens of all time: Mimi Imfurst and Delta Work.
― trishyb, Sunday, 9 July 2017 11:50 (six years ago) link
yeah i was not a fan of the cliqueyness at all
i like raven's s2 with tyra drama
s5 contains multitudes - rolaskatox, roxxy/jinx, coco/alyssa, i always forget how much goes down in that season
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 July 2017 14:44 (six years ago) link
It seemed to come from a similar place: older queen who's been in the business for a long time feels like younger queen is unprepared and shouldn't be there, but Raven didn't try to stoke the fires in the same way (or at least it wasn't edited like that).
Although I do love Raja. Her Marie Antoinette wig is one of the greatest thing I've ever seen on Drag Race.
― trishyb, Sunday, 9 July 2017 14:59 (six years ago) link
The way season 3 used race bothered me a lot, and I also hated the cliqueyness. Funny thing is that Shangela is one of my favorite alumna, even though she stirred up a lot of the clique drama.
― Leee Media Naranja (Leee), Sunday, 9 July 2017 20:35 (six years ago) link
i love raja's runways looks so much
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 July 2017 20:37 (six years ago) link
I still have yet to watch the first 3 seasons
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 10 July 2017 14:23 (six years ago) link
They're rough around the edges. (The show really came into its own with S4 and S5.) But they've got lots of fan favorites in the mix.
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Monday, 10 July 2017 14:23 (six years ago) link
Season three is the one where "drag is not a contact sport" comes from, but yes, it's got a long way to go. Still a lot of workroom stuff, and I think it might be the last season to have footage of the queens in their little hotel rooms before coming to the workroom each day. Also, no big workroom entrances (missus!) and Ru still sits in on all the video directing stuff, which he no longer does (which I think is greatly to the detriment of the show, but hey, I guess he's just too busy these days).
― trishyb, Monday, 10 July 2017 14:46 (six years ago) link
first two seasons look very different from the rest of the series, esp the runway - lots of soft focus and there's very little in the way of set dressing
the reunion for season 1 is must-see tv. Ru lets Tammie Brown HAVE it in a way that I don't think anyone's really seen Ru do before or since. She came close with Pearl but Ru put Tammy on face-melting blast.
but there's some great contestants in the first 2 seasons - nina flowers, bebe zahara benet, ongina, raven, jujubee, morgan mcmichaels etc etc all legendary
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 10 July 2017 16:02 (six years ago) link
Nicole Paige Brooks
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Monday, 10 July 2017 16:06 (six years ago) link
YES
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 10 July 2017 16:07 (six years ago) link
and Tatianna of course
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 10 July 2017 16:08 (six years ago) link
I genuinely think that it's interesting to watch each successive season how the quality of the show overall improves in inverse proportion to the depth of the talent bench. OK, that's maybe a bit harsh, but I do think the days of having slates like S4 and S5 had are probably in the past.
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Monday, 10 July 2017 16:15 (six years ago) link
I think the point about a younger generation coming up having grown up ON the show is an unavoidable issue, though.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 July 2017 16:31 (six years ago) link
Season three is the one where "drag is not a contact sport" comes from, but yes, it's got a long way to go. Still a lot of workroom stuff, and I think it might be the last season to have footage of the queens in their little hotel rooms before coming to the workroom each day.
I remember that season 4 showed a very brief montage of the queens doing their morning preparation, specifically the Princess doing some yoga.
― Leee Media Naranja (Leee), Monday, 10 July 2017 16:59 (six years ago) link
the Untuckeds for S2 and S3 are the BEST
― clouds, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 15:33 (six years ago) link
mystique's "breakdown" omg. "i do not want this TAPED!!!!"
― clouds, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 15:38 (six years ago) link
clouds otm
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 16:23 (six years ago) link
Shante, You Stay! Polling The Greatest 'RuPaul's Drag Race' Queens
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Friday, 14 July 2017 19:50 (six years ago) link
Well, yes.
http://www.thefader.com/2017/08/23/taylor-swift-alaska-snake-emoji
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 16:43 (six years ago) link
http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/37206/1/bjork-new-album-interview
She’s recently taken this attitude with her to New York City, where she and her daughter Isadora live when they’re not in Iceland. Just a few days before our interview, she was spotted DJing, unannounced, at a RuPaul’s Drag Race afterparty in Bushwick. “I DJed with Robin Carolan from Tri Angle Records. I’d play one song, he’d play one song, back and forth. It’s the same energy as when I go out in Reykjavik – we’re just trying to make it really casual, so it’s not like people are staring at you and you’re on a pedestal.”
In previous interviews, Björk has been vocal about her love of Drag Race. As she explains, watching it has become something of an event with her daughter. The love goes both ways, too, with one contestant impersonating Volta-era Björk for a segment on the show. With the latest season’s finale taking place a week after our interview, I ask her who she’d like to win. “I’m going to get in trouble if I say,” she laughs, covering her mouth with her hand. “I keep forgetting people know who I am and if I say something, the internet goes upside down, so I’m gonna keep it a secret – but I’m going to Iceland next week and we’re all watching the finale in my cabin.”
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 20:36 (six years ago) link
Still no Willam (not surprising), but cackling at Shangela Part III:
http://www.vh1.com/news/331067/rupauls-drag-race-all-stars-3-cast/
― (I am a robot.) (Leee), Saturday, 21 October 2017 18:39 (six years ago) link
Bring Morgan McMichaels back, that's a deep cut!
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 21 October 2017 19:28 (six years ago) link
I should've called it Shangela: The Return: Part II.
And meet the queens, again!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30mvTi2MNf0
Chi Chi is unrecognizable!
― (I am a robot.) (Leee), Saturday, 21 October 2017 20:08 (six years ago) link
Pretty cool cast, but where are Ongina, Valentina, Shae Coulée and Kim Chi?
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 21 October 2017 20:38 (six years ago) link
there will be a massive chichi/kennedy lipsync explosion, just you wait
― clouds, Sunday, 22 October 2017 01:17 (six years ago) link
That will be amazing!
― LeRooLeRoo, Sunday, 22 October 2017 02:07 (six years ago) link
The hell do people think Bebe is the 10th queen?
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Sunday, 22 October 2017 02:13 (six years ago) link
I've heard Darien Lake and Manila Luzon too. Apparently they already know the elimination order on Reddit.
― LeRooLeRoo, Sunday, 22 October 2017 03:31 (six years ago) link
Psyched for Trixie! omg omg Morgaaaaaaan i love her. Her & ChiChi & Kennedy man those lipsyncs better be poppinGod I cannot express how much dont care abt Thorgy. Also Shangela wtf. the dollar store queen that wont die :/
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 October 2017 00:50 (six years ago) link
Lol I've seen Shangela at Pride and on the BOTS tour in the last couple of years and I couldn't believe how polished and entertaining she had become. She has improved so much since her time on the show, I think she totally is an All Star now.
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 23 October 2017 03:32 (six years ago) link
yeah, Chi Chi looks way different
kinda doubt they would have Manila back on as was in 1st All Stars so mebbe Darienne or Ongina then?
Bebe, if Ru follows thru on musings from What's the Tee should be back on for All Stars 4 The Winner's Cage Fight
http://attitude.co.uk/rupaul-wants-a-winners-only-season-of-rupauls-drag-race-all-stars/
if that happened only thing feel comfortable predicting is that Tyra would be first eliminated
― H in Addis, Monday, 23 October 2017 10:56 (six years ago) link
shangela strikes me as a v privileged and entitled person who plays into black stereotypes for laffs. i hate her.
― clouds, Monday, 23 October 2017 18:26 (six years ago) link
God I cannot express how much dont care abt Thorgy.
wow RUDE
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 23 October 2017 23:20 (six years ago) link
i liked her ok in her season but i don’t really need ~more~ yknow?
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 01:26 (six years ago) link
there are clear pairings with all these choices imo, mostly for drama purposes/shenanigans. thorgy and ben were brought back because they're so similar and will thus probably haaaate each other
― clouds, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 06:02 (six years ago) link
I'm just excited for the whole thing. Although historically I've always had way more trouble getting hold of All Stars episodes, because for some reason they don't show them on Netflix here. Stupid Ireland.
Yay, All Stars!
― trishyb, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 09:37 (six years ago) link
https://youtu.be/j0fpeTperh0
― Entree 3000 (Leee), Sunday, 19 November 2017 07:13 (six years ago) link
Manila's been having fun
https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-justice-league-gay-porn-parody-has-something-the-re-1820764663
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
Now here's something better on the day
https://www.gq.com/story/trixie-mattel-is-for-men-and-women-and-kids
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 19:08 (six years ago) link
Getting excited!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu8vqFaoqb0
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 15 December 2017 00:27 (six years ago) link
Big ol' new story here
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/24/magazine/is-rupauls-drag-race-the-most-radical-show-on-tv.html
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 19:01 (six years ago) link
RuPaul came into my store last month. He was nice but he didn't buy anything.
― tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:39 (six years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 25 January 2018 00:58 (six years ago) link
I was too shy to tell him we have a mutual acquaintance.
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 25 January 2018 03:02 (six years ago) link
And now
https://www.gq.com/story/make-way-for-the-queens-a-roundtable-on-the-future-of-drag
Trixie Mattel: Drag was Cheetos, and now people have discovered Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, and people don’t like Cheetos as much anymore. Drag was a Squirtle. RuPaul has been the Blastoise, but the rest of us are becoming Wartortles.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 January 2018 00:34 (six years ago) link
Damn, the first half of this talent show!
― Tarr Yang Preminger Argento Carpenter (Eric H.), Friday, 26 January 2018 01:52 (six years ago) link
That was a lot of fun. Also I wonder what the Handmaids are setting up there.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 January 2018 05:33 (six years ago) link
That was a good first ep - I was hoping Morgan would stay bcz I love her...hopefully they’ve cooked up a redemption round or somethingAlso Kennedy’s flip from the runway up ONTO the platform was stunningSTUNningChiChi shoulda gone home. But Milk couldve been in the bottom because a “concept” is not the same thing as a “talent”
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 January 2018 01:13 (six years ago) link
Aja and Kennedy were both doing the thing they do best, which was safe and entertaining in equal measure. I'm not complaining, bitch!
― Tarr Yang Preminger Argento Carpenter (Eric H.), Saturday, 27 January 2018 03:16 (six years ago) link
milk's number was hilarious
― clouds, Saturday, 27 January 2018 03:50 (six years ago) link
Trixie’s autoharp was truly magical, I could watch her all day
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 January 2018 04:17 (six years ago) link
My top 3 this episode was Kennedy, Shange, and Ben.
I wanted to see what the fuss about Morgan was, since she was getting hyped so much by the other contestants. Ah well, we'll have to wait till the episode where she comes back.
Also I wonder what the Handmaids are setting up there.
That ending was creepy!
― Joanna NEU!some (Leee), Saturday, 27 January 2018 19:51 (six years ago) link
One of them looked like Detox.
― Tarr Yang Preminger Argento Carpenter (Eric H.), Saturday, 27 January 2018 20:04 (six years ago) link
Leee you gotta watch S2!The thing I love about Morgan is that she’s plainspoken & genuine: as far as her personality goes, there’s no act. AND: Her drag mom is Chad Michaels! she came up in Scotland, which means she doesnt have a thick skin so much as a suit of armor. Bitch is tough with a capital T. I was looking forward to her squaring off against some of the queens in Untucked. i hope she gets a redemption
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 January 2018 20:51 (six years ago) link
LOL I *have* seen season 2, but it seemed like she was there for a cup of coffee and I don't have much memory of her besides the argument she had with Mystique.
― Joanna NEU!some (Leee), Sunday, 28 January 2018 00:00 (six years ago) link
:(
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 28 January 2018 00:48 (six years ago) link
the cold open was really funny
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 28 January 2018 08:04 (six years ago) link
yeah i liked it
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 28 January 2018 15:34 (six years ago) link
Short interview with Ru on NPR
https://www.npr.org/2018/01/28/580976984/flats-are-for-quitters-rupaul-talks-drag-all-stars-and-identity-politics
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 28 January 2018 18:07 (six years ago) link
Veg, thinking some more, the way you describe MM actually reminds me of Trinity Taylor, in terms of bluntness.
― Joanna NEU!some (Leee), Sunday, 28 January 2018 21:25 (six years ago) link
Yeah actually that’s not a bad parallel
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 28 January 2018 22:06 (six years ago) link
I really liked the episode, although it was not as surprising as the first episode of AS2 since we know the concept of the lipsynch for your legacy and the returning queen now.
I was sad to see Morgan leave so early, but I understand Dela's reasoning. I felt like something was off with Chi Chi's energy, and not just in her performance. Maybe she was feeling intimidated by the all stars.
― LeRooLeRoo, Sunday, 28 January 2018 22:40 (six years ago) link
Morgan’s Whatcha Packin:http://www.vh1.com/video-clips/g6quuk/rupauls-drag-race-all-stars-whatcha-packin-season-3-episode-1-all-star-variety-show
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 28 January 2018 22:49 (six years ago) link
There is a part of me that would ~love~ Bebe to crush it and win the whole thing. I mean, shit, I loved Violet but if that bitch could win a whole season from looking good just standing still then Bebe obviously got this on lock. But idk if she has the versatility to pull of these all stars challenges. It’ll be interesting. But my secret dream is for Trixie to blow the doors off. She’s got secret godzilla powers.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 January 2018 02:28 (six years ago) link
Ben vs. Trixie seems to be what everyone expects this season to boil down to. Cool, but if Trixie takes it and Katya just missed it last season, it'll sting.
― Tarr Yang Preminger Argento Carpenter (Eric H.), Monday, 29 January 2018 02:44 (six years ago) link
my final Morgan thing: I love listening to him talk bcz you occasionally get little bits & pieces of Scottish in his American accent & i luv it
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 January 2018 05:42 (six years ago) link
I'll have to listen for that more closely!
In ancillary news, Ross Mathews is going on Celebrity Big Brother along with...Omarosa? Uh, have fun over there.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 January 2018 18:51 (six years ago) link
ughhh
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 January 2018 19:37 (six years ago) link
thx to this I can only call her Morgan McDichaels in my headhttps://i.redd.it/9mxpkgy822qz.jpg
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 29 January 2018 21:24 (six years ago) link
looool
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 January 2018 23:52 (six years ago) link
CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER pic.twitter.com/NT2TYNzvN2— Kin? 🤔 (@kintoshin) January 28, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 00:19 (six years ago) link
bwahaha
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 02:18 (six years ago) link
Well, yes
pic.twitter.com/aFg28bFflG— Patrick Sullivan (@PatchNavillus) January 29, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 00:30 (six years ago) link
O_O
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 00:37 (six years ago) link
Anyway: last night's sashay victim was kinda telegraphed. But even so.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 February 2018 20:05 (six years ago) link
And WHAT was with Milk's weird breakdown there.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 February 2018 20:08 (six years ago) link
I loved the Divas challenge, and unlike Thorgy I thought the assignments were all pretty good on paper. Thorgy's whole 'Stevie Nicks is not a gay icon" whine was so weird and offbase. Alaska was doing an AMAZING Stevie thing a couple of years back (I can't remember if it was a show or just a few songs) but GIRL COME ON. And honestly Thorgy's Stevie wasn't ~bad~. It was just a little bit too normcore, like me in my bedroom being Stevie, minus the whole part where you're meant to be SELLING it to an audience/judges. ie Mugging.And it's true that Bebe didn't have to do a whole lot to convey Diana, but the choices she made were pretty on-point.Milk's Celine was mostly hurt by the outfit. And her big melodrama about wanting to be a top look is just her trying to grab more camera time, I honestly do not believe that was genuine. Or she's just HELLA needy all of a sudden.
I think if you were going solely off judging then either of them could have gone home this week, Thorgy's attitude with the judges really did not do her any favors and makes her look like a liability. Real talk though: Kennedy's performance was unforgivable for someone who has made their drag name as a capital D Dancer. Like if you are a Dancer and you can't bring Janet to the party then should you really BE at this party? And complaining about being freestyle vs choreography is fine but she has been on this show before, she knew that a challenge LIKE this would be part of the show because it always is so quit making excuses and step up. She's just so set in her ways it's really annoying that she can't embrace the challenges more sometimes. I don't see her getting to the top 3 with so much hardcore competition this time around. And if she does, her reputation and friendships are going to be what gets her through.
But I'm not much of a Thorgy fan at all, in the context of the show. I don't think competing on these kinds of shows is a good showcase for her strengths as a drag queen, because it brings out a lot of negative qualities in her that work against her success.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 February 2018 23:06 (six years ago) link
This Whatcha Packin interview puts Thorgy into context, ie the show brings out all of her worst neurosesAnd I can kinda relate because in situations where I know I'm being judged I spiral into INSANE self sabotagehttp://www.vh1.com/video-clips/2dl344/rupauls-drag-race-all-stars-whatcha-packin-season-3-episode-2-divas-lip-sync-live
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 February 2018 23:14 (six years ago) link
I like Thorgy just for her weirdness, and not having that on the show is a shame. The hypercritical self-consciousness, not so much.
Chi Chi's judging was REALLY weird. None of the judges critiqued her Patti, and the only negative things were that she should take off her jacket, and that her dress was basic.
I wonder about the wisdom of ShangeLLa proposing mutual bone throwing to both Thorgy and Kennedy, since one of them is being quasi-eliminated and has a chance to come back from limbo later in the competition.
Ben's LSFYL was genius, but that can only be a one-time thing.
― Joanna NEU!some (Leee), Saturday, 3 February 2018 05:53 (six years ago) link
ChiChi’s runway wig was terrible too, it wasnt just the dress being kinda basic
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 3 February 2018 06:15 (six years ago) link
chi chi is one of my fav queens but her taste is a little dodgy
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 3 February 2018 19:54 (six years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 3 February 2018 21:53 (six years ago) link
Dodgy is a nice way to put it tbh, but I am in her corner the same way I was in Stacy Lane Matthews' corner.
― Tarr Yang Preminger Argento Carpenter (Eric H.), Saturday, 3 February 2018 22:12 (six years ago) link
i feel that
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 4 February 2018 00:12 (six years ago) link
I thought the challenge was a little bit disapointing after last year's great Herstory of the World and it had mostly to do with the material. Using RuPaul songs was kind of lazy on the writer's part imo. They could have done so much with these divas and as a matter of fact, the queen who didn't get a RuPaul song to perform had the best part. Although I have to give a shout out to whoever did the vocals cause they nailed everyone.
I thought Chi Chi's Patty Labelle was perfect and I don't know what the side eyes and embarassed smiles from the judges were about during Thorgy's number. I'm not sure why she was complaining about getting Stevie Nicks though, since she's a huge fan and it's obvious they chose the best divas to fit each queen. I agree with VG that her excuses on the runway probably helped her land in the bottom. I'm enjoying that there is still no real elimination strategy consensus among the queens so far.
― LeRooLeRoo, Sunday, 4 February 2018 00:41 (six years ago) link
yeah it’s better when it’s a free for all
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 4 February 2018 01:27 (six years ago) link
This is playing on Comedy Central in the UK, and not only do we have to have five ad breaks per episode, but last night they put one of those ad breaks right in the middle of the diva routine. Like, just as Aja was being dragged around on a chair. FFS.
I sort of missed Trixie this episode. I feel like she's being overshadowed a little bit.
― trishyb, Sunday, 4 February 2018 16:48 (six years ago) link
We do get a fair bit of her as a talking head though, where she's been delivering the lulz pretty consistently.
― Joanna NEU!some (Leee), Sunday, 4 February 2018 16:52 (six years ago) link
Speaking of the UK, I hear Courtney Act won Celebrity Big Brother.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 4 February 2018 17:11 (six years ago) link
I was watching Fashion Photo RuView w Raven & Mariah talking about Trixie’s Dolly look Raven said “when I think of Dolly I do not think of a jumpsuit” and I nearly threw my phone out the window. Bitch Dolly literally LIVED in a jumpsuit throughout the late 70’s and 80’s. The Dolly Parton BARBIE came with a red jumpsuiti know they are shady & boot queens they don’t like and I know Raven is not a Trixie fan bcz she hates her makeup. but it still bugged me lolBut: on the upside Mariah said Milk’s Celine Dion outfit looked like Chyna from WWE and I died. BEST BURN.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 4 February 2018 20:58 (six years ago) link
Raven's makeup looked about as blended as Trixie's in that episode.
― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:21 (six years ago) link
Raven doesn't boot fair, and she knows it. And that's kind of part of the appeal I gather. That segment only works for me when Raja's there, not caring.
― Tarr Yang Preminger Argento Carpenter (Eric H.), Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:22 (six years ago) link
yeah I don’t like it as much without Raja. They have good chemistry.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 4 February 2018 22:02 (six years ago) link
I also thought Raven didn't like Trixie, but she said 2 episodes ago that her makeup was always great and that she did one of the best makeup jobs out of all the queens from Drag Race because it's extreme but always blended. I think her comment about the jumpsuit was more ignorant than shady.
― LeRooLeRoo, Sunday, 4 February 2018 22:23 (six years ago) link
Also I could totally see Mariah Carey wearing that fringed bathing suit. It didn't have to be an exact replica of something she's worn.
― LeRooLeRoo, Sunday, 4 February 2018 22:26 (six years ago) link
next week is the crossover episode with America's Next Top Model and I am TOO EXCITED
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:48 (six years ago) link
omg :D
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 8 February 2018 00:07 (six years ago) link
Well, full day buuuuut what'd folks think of last night?
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 February 2018 22:30 (six years ago) link
is there a third episode? i thought it was on on fridays?
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 9 February 2018 22:39 (six years ago) link
Broadcasts in America on Thursday nights.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 February 2018 22:42 (six years ago) link
Ta, Ned.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 9 February 2018 22:42 (six years ago) link
Out for blood, I love it. Overall a really fun & great episode. The challenge was a hoot, Bendela and Trixie and Kennedy were hilarious omg. And yknow, I am not sad to see Milk go bcz she was working my last nerve with all of her needy delusional nonsense. I mean, all things being fair sure bounce ChiChi but fuck it, Kennedy’s way def makes for more interesting tv.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 9 February 2018 23:45 (six years ago) link
Annnnnd SNATCH GAME next week!
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 February 2018 00:52 (six years ago) link
oh shit YES :Dcmon Trixie you got this 🤞🏻
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 February 2018 01:17 (six years ago) link
i keep thinking abt Kennedy The Party Girl taking off her wig in character it’s still cracking me up
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 February 2018 01:19 (six years ago) link
j0rdan and I got drinks in the West Village last night and when 8pm came I just wanted to take a baseball bat to the whole bar.
(not a comment on the show, which i couldn't hear anyway before we fled)
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 10 February 2018 01:31 (six years ago) link
i went to a bar to watch the season premiere last year & felt the same way, it was a little ~much~
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 February 2018 01:59 (six years ago) link
Bebe should've been in the bottom for totally missing the chocolate-covered cherry joke IMO.
Milk has been pure mediocrity, she didn't even make a good villain. And double poo on her for depriving us of Trixie lols.
That lipsync! So riveting, one of my favorite ever.
― Chard Michaels (Leee), Saturday, 10 February 2018 06:06 (six years ago) link
yeah I loved that Kennedy chose to stay put and give it a more emotional treatment
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 February 2018 06:16 (six years ago) link
YouTube recommended a "Bendelacreme interview" this week and I thought it was because she had somehow been eliminated, so when she talked this episode about the rollercoaster I was getting shook.
― Chard Michaels (Leee), Saturday, 10 February 2018 17:46 (six years ago) link
epic thread:
I know y’all are good with photoshop. Would y’all be kind enough to photoshop Shangela’s iconic corn wig onto every single look I wore on Drag Race?— Kim Chi (@KimChi_Chic) February 11, 2018
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 February 2018 21:14 (six years ago) link
Such a full couple of days but we had new episode last night and Snatch Game and whaddaya think?
(I think Trixie should be damn grateful and less dramatic and above all know the difference between casually brilliant imitations and overthinking them.)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 February 2018 20:09 (six years ago) link
Also, accurate.
I may never stop laughing about this. What a spectacular head fake from Shangela. Trixie saw her whole life flash before her eyes. #DragRace pic.twitter.com/ExpovzKjV5— Kevin O'Keeffe (@kevinpokeeffe) February 16, 2018
"This person had a hugely successful YouTube series, loves making RuPaul-esque puns, and is named Trixie Mattel. I chose Chi Chi."— Kevin O'Keeffe (@kevinpokeeffe) February 16, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 February 2018 23:36 (six years ago) link
John Polly said in the extra lap recap that Shangela should be a producer. She is tv READYloved Bendela’s Paul Lynde, it was so good. And Aja’s Crystal LaBeija was <3lol @ “mya” angelou
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 16 February 2018 23:39 (six years ago) link
loved Bendela’s Paul Lynde, it was so good. And Aja’s Crystal LaBeija was <3
Yeah those two were on point.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 February 2018 23:45 (six years ago) link
Shangela’s was good but it felt more Shangela than anything else, i didnt really rate it as a top performance? idk
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 16 February 2018 23:59 (six years ago) link
Yeah I didn't get that much comedy from Shangela, but I guess aside from Bendela she went for it the most.
I felt bad for Trixie. She was clearly overthinking, but I can understand how she is putting too much pressure on herself. The expectations on her are high and she's starting to freak out for not living up to them. She was good last week though.
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 17 February 2018 01:30 (six years ago) link
shangela's commentary was so funny in this episode
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 17 February 2018 18:28 (six years ago) link
Shangela’s Game of Thrones is funny but there’s a scary undercurrent of “uh she really does think she’s Khaleesi, guys, you all better watch it”
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 17 February 2018 19:10 (six years ago) link
Yeah that's a metaphor that's getting a little too played out here.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 17 February 2018 20:41 (six years ago) link
Part of the reason Trixie & Katya ie Brian & Brian became close irl is becaise their personalities are very much fueled by anxiety & self-consciousness, struggling with weight or addiction, depression etc. And with Trixie returning again to the show that was the elephant in the room, even though she’s improved & is more confident now her subconscious mantra still had to be oh god what if i fail. And when it happened she spiked through the roof bcz she thought it was over. My hope is that this moment for her was like Alaska’s breakdown in her first season, where that on-camera panic kind of breaks through the subconscious doubt & she can start embracing her full power & can stop carrying the selfdoubt everywhere.sorry maybe that was a bit too fangirly “couch moment”
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 17 February 2018 21:12 (six years ago) link
I laughed out loud when she told us Trixie's RuPaul was our fault!
― LeRooLeRoo, Sunday, 18 February 2018 00:24 (six years ago) link
I was amazed to discover that some non-RPDR-watching friends knew Shangela from Dance Moms. I wonder how much longer it'll be before she has her own show.
I assume you all saw that Irish Twitter went utterly bananas when RuPaul tweeted in Irish yesterday? Well, we did.
― trishyb, Sunday, 18 February 2018 00:27 (six years ago) link
I caught that!And now HERE’S news:
#DragRace season 10:• will feature ALL 90-minute episodes• will bring the return of Untucked to TV• will premiere March 22 — immediately after AS3🚨 Two hours of Drag Race. Every Thursday. Starting 3/22. 🚨https://t.co/22UNxEgiVj— Kevin O'Keeffe (@kevinpokeeffe) February 16, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 18 February 2018 19:53 (six years ago) link
Oh yay, I hope Netflix has Untucked too.
― trishyb, Sunday, 18 February 2018 22:16 (six years ago) link
2 hours! Definitely missing Untucked.
― Chard Michaels (Leee), Monday, 19 February 2018 06:56 (six years ago) link
I don't know how I have managed to live this long without watching this show, but I just started this month and am on Season 5. One curiosity though, the term "fish, fishiness, serving fish" to imply femininity??? I had never heard this before. I'm a little surprised that it seems to still be widely used considering that they stopped pushing she-mail.
― Yerac, Monday, 19 February 2018 20:48 (six years ago) link
I mean, everything about Drag Race will soon be overruled by the new wokeness eventually
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 00:22 (six years ago) link
Yeah, I only really started noticing it during season 4 and 5 and we both were like, why do they keep talking about fish...I really hope it doesn't mean what it seems to mean.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 00:43 (six years ago) link
Half expected Shange to say, "Cool runnings, Mon, bobsled."
https://youtu.be/MmxQDKo70fI
― Chard Michaels (Leee), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 07:33 (six years ago) link
Okay, last night! And now we have an idea as to how they'll all come back next week too...
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 February 2018 17:27 (six years ago) link
press release I just got ...
BOB THE DRAG QUEEN TO JOIN TRIXIE MATTEL AS GUEST CO-HOST OF VICELAND’S ‘THE TRIXIE & KATYA SHOW’ FOR FINAL FIVE EPISODES OF SEASON
February 22, 2018, Brooklyn, NY —“RuPaul’s Drag Race” fan favorite Bob The Drag Queen will join Trixie Mattel as guest co-host of VICELAND’s popular “THE TRIXIE & KATYA SHOW” for the remaining five episodes of the show’s first season, it was announced today. Bob’s first episode will air on Wednesday, February 28 at 10:30PM.
In making the announcement, co-host Trixie Mattel said, “For the second half of the season, we decided to get someone to make me look even more beautiful. Please welcome Bob the Drag Queen!"
On her new gig, Bob quipped, “I am so excited to be guesting on ‘THE TRIXIE & KATYA SHOW.’ I'm neither Trixie or Katya, but it is Black History Month so. . .”
Bob comes to the show to fill in for co-host Katya Zamolodchikova (aka Brian McCook) who announced earlier this year that he’s taking the year off to focus on his health.
“Everyone continues to support Brian on his path to getting healthy,” said VICELAND Executive Producer and SVP Development, Nomi Ernst Leidner, “While we will miss Katya dearly, we’re are very excited to offer fans more episodes of ‘THE TRIXIE & KATYA SHOW’ with another powerhouse from the Drag Race roster.”
“We love Katya more than words can say, " added World of Wonder co-founders Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey. "And we are so grateful to the she-larious Bob for stepping up and supporting his drag sisters.”
Trixie is currently appearing on the new season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars” and her recent single “Moving Parts” recently topped the iTunes singer/songwriter chart.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Friday, 23 February 2018 17:34 (six years ago) link
Uh, wait, what did I miss here.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 February 2018 17:39 (six years ago) link
That announcement was a month or so ago, but yes, it was a shocker. My hunch is that once the show went big, it got too far out of Katya's control. It certainly does feel different from (and in many ways inferior to) Uhhnnnn.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Friday, 23 February 2018 17:41 (six years ago) link
Yeah he said on Twitter he was struggling with his sobriety - it was just a very abrupt “this isn’t doing me any favors I gotta go like NOW” Trixie said they still stay in touch etc so there’s no falling out or anything but it can’t have been easy to pick up the pieces from that, regardless
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 February 2018 17:43 (six years ago) link
Yeah I've seen a couple of the Viceland episodes and it's...just not as good. There are moments but the sheer careening silliness, as much a product of the brilliantly unhinged post-production as to what they were doing themselves, is absent and much missed.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 February 2018 17:46 (six years ago) link
idk i liked the Viceland show
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 February 2018 17:47 (six years ago) link
I mean, it's not the Rob Lowe version of Wayne's World or anything. But it's def not the same flavor.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Friday, 23 February 2018 17:50 (six years ago) link
Oof, nothing I've typed in the last year has so effortlessly dated myself.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Friday, 23 February 2018 17:51 (six years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 February 2018 21:24 (six years ago) link
trixie's humor comes out a lot more on tT&KS
― clouds, Saturday, 24 February 2018 01:45 (six years ago) link
I agree.
I found this week to be more like an early-episode season-starter. Like, the theme was super exciting but then the actual challenge and runway were a little bit lame and disappointing? Or was it just me?
Plus the shorter run-time is really noticeable on these workroom-centric challenges, because you don't really get to see very much of what they're doing or how they're assembling their costumes etc.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 February 2018 03:24 (six years ago) link
Nah, it's not just you, I felt the same way, really underwhelming (and this is coming on the heels of what's IMO a very disappointing Snatch Game). Add the shorter runtime with the lack of Untucked, and there's more content they need to cram in.
Going back to last week, it's a mighty coincidence that after the lip sync, Ru asked Shangela second, HMMMMMM.
― Rick Wokeman (Leee), Saturday, 24 February 2018 05:23 (six years ago) link
what do you mean coincidence? assume it's obvious but the producers always know who each queen has picked to eliminate (and can make further choices accordingly - like saying both queens' choices will apply). visuals aren't the only reason they use named prop lipsticks!
this episode was dumb. the judges' critiques were unusually off-base. bebe's dress was bad, aja's outfit was great; the "history" nerddom felt arbitrary and in bad faith. aja was my favourite remaining queen so i'm sad.
confused by the end of the episode - only three of the eliminated queens were back on stage? confusing.
― sean gramophone, Sunday, 25 February 2018 02:29 (six years ago) link
One of which seemed to clearly be Aja.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Sunday, 25 February 2018 02:32 (six years ago) link
bebe is so mediocre imo. she is getting a bizarre pass in every challenge and runway.
― clouds, Sunday, 25 February 2018 04:52 (six years ago) link
the lipsync was totally set up for her to win, she’d already nailed the Diana Ross runway a couple of weeks ago
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 February 2018 05:59 (six years ago) link
Yeah, I felt really bad for Aja. She explained her outfit really well and she was right about it. She looked very chic Seventies chick, and Bebe didn't even make her own costume. Although her can was the only one I would pick off a shelf. Spicy peanut soup, yum. Mind you, some of the dullest banter with the judges I've ever seen. "Is peanut soup a thing where you come from?" "Yes". Oh, well, good we cleared that up.
Fair play to Shangie, she messed up on her costume and she owned that trainwreck of a thing she went out there in. BRAVERY.
― trishyb, Sunday, 25 February 2018 12:22 (six years ago) link
Sure, but how did they know that Shangela would bait and switch -- i.e. did the producers just luck into it? With the way reality shows tend to operate, I doubt it, meaning that there was some coordination between contestants and producers.
ANYWAY, I've also been generally underwhelmed by Beebs and was confused with her praise in the judging. The rhinestones made her look cross-eyed!
― Rick Wokeman (Leee), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:43 (six years ago) link
i watched the meet the queens for season 10 and they all seem like fucking nightmares
― J0rdan S., Monday, 26 February 2018 19:11 (six years ago) link
it seems like they collected a lot of younger girls who think that being a drag queen is just being a huge bitch? or maybe they're just playing into the reality show conceits or something but it seemed like 80% of the girls answered every question with "well i AM that bitch and that's all you need to know" and it's like "ok but you need to make a joke now or something cuz...."
― J0rdan S., Monday, 26 February 2018 19:13 (six years ago) link
That's def nothing new for the meet the queens vids. Lots of C-minus drama promising.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Monday, 26 February 2018 19:16 (six years ago) link
Has everybody seen the Behind the Elimination clip this week? It's easily the funniest this season so far. Aja really grew on me this time around.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nbm90xAhWY
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 03:27 (six years ago) link
The BTS vids are great for the "queens just hanging out and cracking jokes" vibe that isn't so present this season.
As for season 10 queens, I like Miz Cracker! Discovered her a few weeks before the cast reveal:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjkKQrNeQRc
― Rick Wokeman (Leee), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 19:34 (six years ago) link
"well i AM that bitch and that's all you need to know" honey I actually need to know a little more
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 20:22 (six years ago) link
...twenty minutes to run in tonight's episode and I thought "Wait, is she going to take herself out?" And damned if she didn't do that, icon forever, etc.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 March 2018 06:41 (six years ago) link
as someone who is deeply non-confrontational and not competitive with other ppl, i kinda felt DeLa on this one. I don’t love her generally but hats off to her for going with her gutMorgan she died for u fyi, don’t choke now bitch
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 March 2018 07:30 (six years ago) link
that whole workroom first round was a LOT
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 March 2018 07:31 (six years ago) link
that was an incredible episode
― J0rdan S., Friday, 2 March 2018 09:09 (six years ago) link
absurd drama, crying... great performances, lough out loud dramatic twist... so many ridiculous reaction shots
― J0rdan S., Friday, 2 March 2018 09:10 (six years ago) link
Ru not knowing how to act was the cherry on top. So much of her persona rests on being true to yourself and living out your inner stardom, and that’s exactly what Ben did, but at the total expense of the competition that’s become Ru’s star vehicle.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Friday, 2 March 2018 13:10 (six years ago) link
The one 'yeah but' element in terms of actual surprise -- given the clip at the end showing Bendela painting her name on the little bar, it's not like the crew didn't know. (Of course, exactly when that's filmed is another question...)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 March 2018 15:36 (six years ago) link
I really thought the eliminated queens' song was better than the top-five queens' song, even though the performances might not have been as good.
― trishyb, Friday, 2 March 2018 21:24 (six years ago) link
Aja was so damn good
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 March 2018 21:31 (six years ago) link
aaahahahaha @ milk “why did you allow me to act this way???”
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 3 March 2018 03:08 (six years ago) link
I really would love to know how she reacted watching herself on tv this season
milk irlhttps://media1.tenor.com/images/318a6b4d560639ddcc5c8b5f83d77940/tenor.gif?itemid=5447404
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 3 March 2018 03:12 (six years ago) link
Various Bendela interviews out there now, I liked this one:
http://www.vulture.com/2018/03/rupauls-drag-race-all-stars-3-bendelacreme-interview.html
And to my question above:
I worked very, very quickly. I fully hid that. I scribbled out the name on the lipstick with a Sharpie and then I wrote in mine with the Wite-Out. I totally, secretly snuck those into my bra when I knew there were no cameras on me. I was like, If I’m going to do this, it just has to happen fast. So I just pulled that Sharpie out, scrawled my name on there with that Wite-Out as fast as I could, and shoved it in my bra. The only people in the room with you are the director and the cameraman — there are some secret producers somewhere else — but they just both were staring at me, slack-jawed. So I was like, Oh great, nobody’s going to stop me because they’re all dumbfounded.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 3 March 2018 20:59 (six years ago) link
Also says here and elsewhere about how Ru keeps very private where Michelle is the more outgoing/in contact with competitors one, which makes total sense.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 3 March 2018 21:00 (six years ago) link
OMFG.
SHANGELA IS THE SAME AGE AS BEBE AND KENNEDY!!!!!!!
― Rick Wokeman (Leee), Saturday, 3 March 2018 23:18 (six years ago) link
that isnt v shocking imo, Shangy’s been around forevah
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 3 March 2018 23:29 (six years ago) link
I was about to say, it's almost ten years on from when she first appeared on the show and everything.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 4 March 2018 00:55 (six years ago) link
and like Bebe ahe didn’t seem THAT young when she first appeared
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 4 March 2018 01:06 (six years ago) link
I assumed that Bebe was already in her 30s during season 1, mostly because of her refined bearing; so putting her in the same room as Shangela, I put their ages on radically different trajectories. It's mostly how I perceived their maturity (lol Shaaange).
BTW, was Beeb's leopard catsuit the same one she wore in her first season?
― Rick Wokeman (Leee), Sunday, 4 March 2018 01:09 (six years ago) link
That's amazing. So you weren't the one that gave her the white out then?
No. Thorgy gave her the white out. Thorgy painted her nails with white out because she's a homeless, dumpster person. And then, Ben was like, "Can I use that white out?" That's literally what happened.
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/pride/8227761/trixie-mattel-adam-lambert-bendelacreme
― Rick Wokeman (Leee), Sunday, 4 March 2018 19:14 (six years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 4 March 2018 19:36 (six years ago) link
Her whole encounter with Adam Lambert was awkward city bcz he just did not get her at all and she didn’t really know how else to be got or something
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 4 March 2018 19:37 (six years ago) link
Yeah, that made me feel embarrassed for both sides.
Meanwhile, this is hilar, and Ginger has moments of genius:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvKYA6iKMEw&t=1127s
― Rick Wokeman (Leee), Sunday, 4 March 2018 23:37 (six years ago) link
Ru’s newest Guardian profile has generated some twitter discussionhttps://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/mar/03/rupaul-drag-race-big-f-you-to-male-dominated-culture?CMP=share_btn_tw
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 5 March 2018 00:21 (six years ago) link
Willam as always, on point:https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf61vPCneG1/willam: Guess who said it? Winner gets a spot on Rupaul’s Drag Race Season 11 (but if you’re trans, you’re gonna need to hide it until it’s broachable for the story producers).
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 5 March 2018 00:25 (six years ago) link
for some reason i can’t post links to tweets but this is a good thread by @shonfaye Again - I am not anti-Drag Race or drag itself but RuPaul frequently advances a vision of drag to the mainstream which he believes is more anarchic or revolutionary than it is. For example, this discussion of women's bodies is just the same old same old
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 5 March 2018 00:28 (six years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 5 March 2018 00:30 (six years ago) link
https://twitter.com/shonfaye/status/969921568439783424?s=20
arg i give up
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 5 March 2018 00:31 (six years ago) link
Yeah, when people raise objections to Drag Race based on its politics of womanhood, I can't really argue with them. (Related: I notice the queens don't talk about fishiness so much in the later seasons, and I don't think that's an accident). Like, you're amazing and to be copied, but you're also kind of gross? It's a side of the whole scene I have never been super comfortable with. And it's interesting now to see people taking RuPaul to task for his (and drag's, I guess?) attitude to trans women.
My guess is that eventually he'll do whatever proves to be good for business, or he'll gracefully retire.
― trishyb, Monday, 5 March 2018 11:41 (six years ago) link
Strikes me as a Bad Take:
You can take performance enhancing drugs and still be an athlete, just not in the Olympics. pic.twitter.com/HkJjzXzUGm— RuPaul (@RuPaul) March 5, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 5 March 2018 17:52 (six years ago) link
yikes
― clouds, Monday, 5 March 2018 18:49 (six years ago) link
My drag was born in a community full of trans women, trans men, and gender non-conforming folks doing drag. That’s the real world of drag, like it or not. I thinks it’s fabulous and I will fight my entire life to protect and uplift it.— Sasha Velour (@sasha_velour) March 5, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 5 March 2018 20:58 (six years ago) link
Double kissoff:
My partner of almost three years is trans, and #bendelachrist help anyone who tries to tell him what he can and can’t do. Just sayin’.— bendelacreme (@bendelacreme) March 5, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 00:21 (six years ago) link
Annnd walkback.
Each morning I pray to set aside everything I THINK I know, so I may have an open mind and a new experience. I understand and regret the hurt I have caused. The trans community are heroes of our shared LGBTQ movement. You are my teachers. pic.twitter.com/80Qi2halN2— RuPaul (@RuPaul) March 5, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 00:41 (six years ago) link
I mean, anyone who's listened to a few episodes of Ru's podcast knows that he is essentially fighting the same battle as Lady Bunny (albeit in a minor key, taciturn) against identity politics.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 22:42 (six years ago) link
AgreedRu still adheres to his own version of “how things are” and no matter what lipservice he pays to embracing change, you know that he resents being called out and privately will just keep right on thinking and saying a whole bunch of outdated shit that he still thinks is “edgy” bcz he stopped absorbing opinions in like 1998 I like him as a personality but the real truth is that deep down he is kind of a narcissistic wackadoodle and ppl should maybe stop seeking his opinion
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 02:04 (six years ago) link
I mean Alex in Montreal and I were saying on Twitter yesterday per his initial posts that in a perverse way Ru -- or WoW or whatever exact combination -- got what they wanted, an amazing high profile collection of American/American-based queens, performers, voices that combined with social media/technology providing ever more outlets for them at low cost. A legacy was established, but it never meant that they were going to be drones -- how could they!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 02:23 (six years ago) link
I've still never seen an episode of this show but omg this is so amazing
http://www.newnownext.com/sasha-velour-slays-all-of-brooklyn-with-le-tigre-deceptacon-lip-sync/03/2018/?xrs=synd_facebook_rpdr
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 15:16 (six years ago) link
It is and she looks stunning.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 17:01 (six years ago) link
Yes!!
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 17:04 (six years ago) link
I was in NYC last week and went to see the episode at the bar in Brooklyn where Acid Betty hosts! It was so much fun. The place went nuts at Ben's anouncement. I chatted with Betty a bit after the show and she was really friendly and funny. She looked great too.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 17:24 (six years ago) link
Le Tigre is perhaps the most famous band to come out of the late-’90s Riot Grrl scene.
>=(
― Rick Wokeman (Leee), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 18:31 (six years ago) link
I mean is that wrong though??
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 21:37 (six years ago) link
SK are surely better known than Le Tigre! (Unless you want to dispute that SK are riot grrrl.)
Anyway, it kind of baffles me that Ru is opposed to identity politics, since his brand of gender semiotics/structuralism can only exist by acknowledging identity politics.
― Rick Wokeman (Leee), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 22:08 (six years ago) link
hm true, I guess I think of them as being in diff realms but you're prob right
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 8 March 2018 14:36 (six years ago) link
Anyway, looking ahead:
Season 10 #DragRace guest judges, in addition to @Xtina, include:• @ShaniaTwain • @abbijacobson & @ilazer • @billyeichner • @kumailn • @Courtney • @NicoTortorella • @AudraEqualityMc • @ashanti • @lizzo pic.twitter.com/cWWd5TDWeU— Ξvan Ross Katz (@evanrosskatz) March 8, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 March 2018 18:18 (six years ago) link
Oh and Halsey too.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 March 2018 18:19 (six years ago) link
Fuller list from Billboard:
In addition to Aguilera, this season’s guest judges will include Shania Twain, Courtney Love, Halsey, Abbi Jacobson, Ilana Glazer, Kate Upton, Billy Eichner, Audra McDonald, Andrew Rannells, Ashanti, Todrick Hall, Lizzo, Lena Dunham, Kumail Nanjiani, Emily V. Gordon, Padma Lakshmi, Nico Tortorella (Younger), Miles Heizer (13 Reasons Why), Logan Browning (Dear White People), Carrie Preston (The Good Wife) and Tisha Campbell-Martin (My Wife and Kids). Additionally, Stephen Colbert, Andy Cohen and Cheyenne Jackson will stop by for special guest appearances.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 March 2018 18:29 (six years ago) link
A timely story
https://jezebel.com/as-drag-becomes-more-popular-than-ever-drag-kings-refu-1823500621
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 March 2018 19:04 (six years ago) link
Kumail & Emily judging? YAY
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 8 March 2018 21:53 (six years ago) link
Okay that was a guest appearance on the show last night I didn't expect in a million years.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 March 2018 13:52 (six years ago) link
billy eichner, lena dunham, andy cohen: baaaarf
― clouds, Friday, 9 March 2018 16:05 (six years ago) link
Conversely ... Abbi Jacobson, Ilana Glazer, Padma Lakshmi, Nico Tortorella, Logan Browning, Audra McDonald: yayyyy
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Friday, 9 March 2018 16:14 (six years ago) link
This was my favorite thing from last night’s episode. I laughed so hard
The baby hand. @trixiemattel #AllStars3 pic.twitter.com/tBUPShxmff— RuPaul's Drag Race (@RuPaulsDragRace) March 9, 2018
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 9 March 2018 17:23 (six years ago) link
also i was secretly hoping soneone would finally send Bebe home but I knew it wd never happenrip Morgan :/
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 9 March 2018 17:24 (six years ago) link
You and me both, sis!
Bebe has bugged me all season tbh, and she's deluding herself as much as Milk (albeit more introspectively) if she really believes she's done well.
― MarmiteGrrrl (Leee), Sunday, 11 March 2018 19:30 (six years ago) link
yeah she has literally done nothing but ~be Bebe~ this whole time
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 March 2018 19:38 (six years ago) link
i stopped feeling like there were some shenanigans going on w/ bebe after the spice girls challenge (i'm pussy bitch)
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 11 March 2018 19:39 (six years ago) link
that was the one where i was like "ah ok you can really perform"
She can perform anything as long as she can be Bebe.
I also don't really see the point of her being a spy. Is she going to tell Ru that Shangela's been calling herself Daenerys Targaryen?
― MarmiteGrrrl (Leee), Sunday, 11 March 2018 23:21 (six years ago) link
Who are the top 5 most #iconic queens to last 3 or fewer episodes? this is my list
Tammie BrownNicole Paige BrooksMimi ImfurstJasmine MastersJaymes Mansfield
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 12 March 2018 19:26 (six years ago) link
Yeah thats a good list
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 March 2018 19:36 (six years ago) link
Kelly Mantle maybe instead of Jaymes.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Monday, 12 March 2018 19:39 (six years ago) link
If I never have to look at Milk again I will be happy.
― trishyb, Friday, 16 March 2018 15:15 (six years ago) link
what was that crotcheted nightmare she was wearing o_O
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 16 March 2018 15:43 (six years ago) link
I think you summed it up.
Anyway! Well that was pleasant enough. Honestly am shocked Shangela wasn't top two, so much for all the endless Game of Thronesing. And Trixie did kill at the lip sync.
But I'm pretty ready for next week.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 March 2018 15:58 (six years ago) link
this season got wayyyyyyyyyyy too meta imo. what happened to the best queen wins?
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 16 March 2018 18:48 (six years ago) link
Seems to me like Ru didn't want to be the bad guy by having to slide a credit card between all those queens, so he got the eliminated queens to be the bad guys for him.
― trishyb, Friday, 16 March 2018 18:58 (six years ago) link
yeah that was some Mean Girls shit, pulling the rug out from Shangy like that. Glad Trixie won though!
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 16 March 2018 19:19 (six years ago) link
Milk's dress reminded me of the knitted dissected frogs I've seen.
― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 16 March 2018 19:54 (six years ago) link
what was all over her face?
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 16 March 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link
It was genuinely impossible to tell whether or not it was supposed to look like that.
― trishyb, Friday, 16 March 2018 20:04 (six years ago) link
Had we talked about this artist before?
https://io9.gizmodo.com/this-artist-turns-the-all-star-queens-of-rupauls-drag-r-1823845260
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 March 2018 22:52 (six years ago) link
Oh my
I just fell out 💀💀💀💀💀💀 pic.twitter.com/640q8Z9FjE— Ira Madison III (@ira) March 16, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 March 2018 23:10 (six years ago) link
oh shit loooool
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 16 March 2018 23:10 (six years ago) link
And people were worried about asterisks when Dela fell on her sword!
― MarmiteGrrrl (Leee), Saturday, 17 March 2018 04:01 (six years ago) link
Weird. On the AV Club comments, people seemed to think that Thorgy picked Shangela's lipstick. I didn't see.
― trishyb, Saturday, 17 March 2018 09:02 (six years ago) link
You can see it here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCUtupzQosE
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 17 March 2018 16:35 (six years ago) link
shangela's mistake was to never have a true moment of vulnerability. when she did have one "moment" it was her bullying trixie over an innocuous note. she comes off as a quite exhausting person to be around, which is why she probably lost even though it seemed all signs were pointing to her winning.
― clouds, Saturday, 17 March 2018 17:44 (six years ago) link
I think it was really unfair of the girls not to vote her into the Top 2 though. She did win the most challenges and lip synchs. Even Thorgy knew it was the right thing to do.
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 17 March 2018 18:58 (six years ago) link
It's gotta totally suck for her. Her looks were on point through the entire season, her performances were great, she had obviously worked her ass off to get herself to this point compared to the busted shit she was peddling back in the day. If anyone deserved that crown it was her and I feel bad that she didn't get it. I mean, Kennedy pitched a good story at the last minute but no way did she show she's at the same level as Shangy. No way. Not that 'deserving' is any kind of guarantee of a crown ever but I mean and obv its show-friends not show-business... but ffs, that kind of laser-focused dedication gives you queens like Alaska and Bianca, and Shangy deserves some credit from her peers for getting herself this far.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 17 March 2018 23:00 (six years ago) link
people are overreacting so much about this. it wasn't an injustice - it was the way the TV show game played out, where other queens' opinions of you became part of the arithmetic. even if they HAD been more impressed with her work (vs kennedy's), i still don't think it would have changed the final result. to spill so many words/tweets about whether a queen came third/fourth vs second (in a contest where only 1st gets a prize) seems like a lot of wasted indignation.
kennedy's fucking amazing. her performance in the final setpiece thing ALONE made the case for her finishing ahead of shangela at the end.
― sean gramophone, Sunday, 18 March 2018 04:35 (six years ago) link
plus they are all friends irl so none of the hand-wringing matters lol
― clouds, Sunday, 18 March 2018 18:08 (six years ago) link
If I can't endlessly pick over the tiny slights and shade of who said what to whom, what am I even doing watching a drag competition?
― trishyb, Sunday, 18 March 2018 18:13 (six years ago) link
tru
comment threads on ru-girl posts are too much though lately, am fully avoiding them at this point (which i guess i should always do regardless)
― clouds, Sunday, 18 March 2018 18:17 (six years ago) link
exactly
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 18 March 2018 18:56 (six years ago) link
I want more time btwn seasons! I'm going to get RPDR burnout
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 19 March 2018 13:41 (six years ago) link
yeah I was kinda thinking the same thing
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 March 2018 18:29 (six years ago) link
I worry that "strike while the iron is hot" is going to screw up the supply-demand balance here.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Monday, 19 March 2018 19:10 (six years ago) link
The All-Stars should have been like last time -- late summer/early fall. But here we are.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 March 2018 19:23 (six years ago) link
Anyway, Katya's back and...saucy.
Hello friends, We are taping the podcast “Whimsically Volatile” right now. First episode comes out this week. Stay tuned. xx K pic.twitter.com/KYuJ3JaxM2— Katya (@katya_zamo) March 19, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 March 2018 21:56 (six years ago) link
A Katya podcast?!?! Best news ever.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 02:03 (six years ago) link
I made it 2/3 of the way through Katya’s podcast this morning (its 2 hours) and it was... challenging. It felt manic and incoherent and cringey maybe like she’s not in a good place? She discussed a meth relapse, eviction, a heart attack, a near-restraining order, an arrest, rehab, all while going off on weird unfunny wordplay tangents and stuff, like a hyperactive 10 year old. It feels like the type of stories people tell where it’s like “all this stuff happened and I was in a bad place, but now I am in a good place and that is behind me” except that it feels like she’s still in the bad place I can’t tell if somethings going on or if she’s just always been like this and we don’t know because she’s always edited well.
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 17:42 (six years ago) link
That sounds pretty much the same as what I saw in a couple of her Periscopes, tbh -- e.g. when she announced her mental health break, she did it entirely in French. Often erudite, sometimes obscure, not always funny, but always weird and stream-of-consciousness.
― MarmiteGrrrl (Leee), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 17:50 (six years ago) link
Most podcast episodes are too damn long, admittedly.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 17:51 (six years ago) link
agree with you stevie.
also maybe one of the problems/products of mania + fame: decline in (self?) discernment
― sean gramophone, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 18:06 (six years ago) link
Well this might be a cheerier listen (which I'm about to do right now)
https://jezebel.com/the-terminally-delightful-bendelacreme-tells-all-1823959014
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 21:20 (six years ago) link
And a couple of hours to go, meantime Bendela fires up a bit
https://www.facebook.com/bendelacreme/posts/822482421272294
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 March 2018 22:48 (six years ago) link
these queens are kinda fun this season. big ole crush on Monet X Change out of dragthose two alike queens, Aquarius and Cracker give me the creeps, theyre like Shining twins, idk if i can hang with themVanessa was a trip. That voice! I was hoping i’d get some Chi-Chi with her. oh well.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 March 2018 06:43 (six years ago) link
ANKH ANKH had me dying laughing
Yeah I liked Vanessa, having her go first was not fun, but someone had to go.
And yes, fun bunch in general, I'd say! I like the vibe, I think having All Stars all these past weeks was just getting to the point of overfamiliarity so everything seems even fresher. And an actual design challenge, who knew.
The Christina intro would have been great if they hadn't played up she was going to be in the episode, but I suppose it was like Gaga last year.
So Blair St. Clair would have been 12, 13 when the show started. Yup, they're definitely going to be growing up with the show now.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 March 2018 12:47 (six years ago) link
Don't @ me, but is Blair going to turn out to be FTM?
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Friday, 23 March 2018 15:26 (six years ago) link
idk. that’d be an interesting twist!!
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 March 2018 17:01 (six years ago) link
It didn't register until the fifth New York queen walked in on last night's episode, but the Big Apple's on a crazy tear right now. Season 8 and 9's winners were New York girls, and I wouldn't be surprised if this year's is too.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Friday, 23 March 2018 20:54 (six years ago) link
Could see it, yeah. Just need to shake everyone out first. I could see Eureka making it to the end, at least.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 March 2018 21:35 (six years ago) link
Hope Mayhem goes all the way, i like her
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 March 2018 21:36 (six years ago) link
those two alike queens, Aquarius and Cracker give me the creeps, theyre like Shining twins, idk if i can hang with them
:I
Aquarius is Shannon Needle's drag daughter. Miz Cracker is funny. I think you'll come around to at least one of them (as long as it's Cracker).
The Vixen feels like she's going to be Too Much at some point, but for now, I can at least drink in *that bone structure*.
I'm a little disappointed that Christina doesn't have or at least didn't show off a drop dead Farrah Groan impression.
I didn't want Vanessa to go because I've still got lots of love for Alexis, but based on her outfit and lip sync, I can't argue against the outcome. (I think maybe she was a bit traumatized at being in the bottom and it just sucked the energy out of her.)
Kameron Michaels' drag name should be Tariffs because she's about to set off a whole big trade war.
Kind of scary how much Yuhua looks like an old crush -- such perfect teeth.
― zig zag ziggurat (Leee), Saturday, 24 March 2018 19:29 (six years ago) link
I wish they would find a way to keep everyone in for the first two shows. I feel like people are only just getting their feet under them and then they're being sent home. Maybe I only feel like that this year, though, because they are all of a pretty high standard out of the gate.
― trishyb, Saturday, 24 March 2018 21:47 (six years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 March 2018 23:00 (six years ago) link
love how much Ru loves saying Yuhua Hoe
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 March 2018 23:01 (six years ago) link
this was the best opening episode of a season in about three years and it's great to be watching this for plesure again rather than any sense of obligation
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 25 March 2018 07:04 (six years ago) link
Yeah I was bummed to see Vanessa go home, she seemed capable but there were no clear clunkers (or if there are the editors were clever enough not to show it).Also I hate this dumb masc muscle queen who won’t stop talking about how muscle masc butch he is, oof
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 25 March 2018 14:05 (six years ago) link
yeah he’s cute but idk. his runway look was kinda busted.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 March 2018 14:45 (six years ago) link
She'll be gone by episode 4.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Sunday, 25 March 2018 16:01 (six years ago) link
Can't believe Eureka's "I just saw" isn't a meme yet. I need it for something.
― geoffreyess, Sunday, 25 March 2018 16:32 (six years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/BbH2P34nHEn/
― zig zag ziggurat (Leee), Sunday, 25 March 2018 17:51 (six years ago) link
living for the camaraderie/vibe on Monet + Monique Heart + Mayhem on Untucked
on a character level, Monique Heart generally just 0_0
if aquaria wants to stick around she is going to have to improve her attitude + executionin the battle of the petite funny arty new york white girls, only one shall survive
― sean gramophone, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 17:31 (six years ago) link
If Aquaria wants to stick around she just needs to serve consistent mediocrity and be strategically ~sweet and vulnerable. Thems the rules, apparently.
― Cousin Slappy, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 17:48 (six years ago) link
There's a newish BBC podcast called Unpopped, which is all about pop culture. The episode about Drag Race is a good listen.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 18:45 (six years ago) link
BTW, you all catch this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH8fQoYfZe8
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 19:26 (six years ago) link
i love this
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 19:48 (six years ago) link
And I love this too!
https://www.rollingstone.com/country/features/rupaul-drag-race-trixie-mattel-country-albums-kacey-musgraves-w518524
(I'll be at a concert tonight so I'll either catch up with tonight's episode late, or tomorrow morning.)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 March 2018 20:49 (five years ago) link
Okay no lie, can Halsey come back? She was a GREAT guest judge, that ‘defeated’ jinx moment with Michelle and so much more.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 March 2018 07:13 (five years ago) link
She was great. That was a very funny judging panel.
I know the emotions are real, but it's hard to take someone seriously when they're crying their eyes out with two big Cookie Monster googly eyes on top of their head. I'm sorry to say that I laughed at that.
Also, it was wonderful to see Alyssa.
― trishyb, Friday, 30 March 2018 10:47 (five years ago) link
jeez, the first two queens lost w such little dignity, like I cannot stand the uncontrollable sobbing and pouting. For one, it’s just unpleasant to watch someone so upset, but furthermore if your sense of validation and worth is tied so deeply to a reality show, you need to adjust something. This is not the be-all end-all, good god, ps if you’re upset that going home so early makes you look bad, carrying on like that makes you look ten times worse squirrelfriend!!!!
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 30 March 2018 12:05 (five years ago) link
Yeah, and Kalorie already tipped off her disappointment on social media earlier in the week, so.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Friday, 30 March 2018 13:01 (five years ago) link
Honestly, I haven't gone back to watch earlier seasons in awhile, but if that maxi-challenge wasn't the worst-written, most deeply unfunny waste of time this show's ever forced its contestants to try to enliven, I don't know what. I almost wanted to award Eureka my "condragulations" for not wasting her time learning those words.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Friday, 30 March 2018 13:02 (five years ago) link
that "musical" was fucking stupid
― clouds, Friday, 30 March 2018 16:42 (five years ago) link
I feel like they've been shortchanging Monique Heart. She didn't deserve bottom 3 last night and I would've put her in the top 3 last week.
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 30 March 2018 18:50 (five years ago) link
I agree. But then again, I legitimately think not a single one of them were given the chance to be good let alone great with that challenge.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Friday, 30 March 2018 18:55 (five years ago) link
i was bummed that the lipsync wasnt more energetic, that is a bouncy happy song and they just strode around emoting like it was some kinda torch song :/
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2018 20:00 (five years ago) link
Stevie otmall this grade-school wailing & neediness is exhausting. Even Eureka I was like ugh bitch suck it UP jfc
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
SHUT UP AND ACT RIGHT
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2018 20:17 (five years ago) link
Ru's been tweeting about Miss Vanjie all fucking day long I'm confused
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 30 March 2018 20:18 (five years ago) link
Yeah, it was very much a "walk around and point" lip-sync for both of them.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Friday, 30 March 2018 20:18 (five years ago) link
Miss Vanjie probably joins that list of immortal queens who didn't get much air time, but at this point I guess I wouldn't rule out Ru bringing MV back later in the season.
yeah she’s the new Pork Chop / Tammie Brown
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2018 20:19 (five years ago) link
Vaaaaaaanjie
on the upside Kalorie must have had an easy time packing cuz all she wears is bodysuits lol
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2018 20:26 (five years ago) link
I wouldn't mind. It would be more fun then when she brought back Neysha Lopez.
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 30 March 2018 21:13 (five years ago) link
I mean the season has long been in the can and they're definitely making a huge deal out of something really unremarkable so
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 30 March 2018 21:22 (five years ago) link
Maybe they're setting up all stars 4 which will run immediately after season 10 ends so we can never get sick of the show
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 30 March 2018 21:28 (five years ago) link
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― J0rdan S., Friday, 30 March 2018 21:57 (five years ago) link
who is it that the boy-version of The Vixen is reminding me of, visually? It's driving me crazy.
― DJ U OK Hun? (jed_), Saturday, 31 March 2018 00:09 (five years ago) link
i don't know but she is making this season for me so far
― clouds, Saturday, 31 March 2018 12:40 (five years ago) link
yeah she is so fiery, i love her
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 31 March 2018 17:36 (five years ago) link
Whose bright idea was it to put Watcha Packin on in the commercial break BEFORE the show revealed who the bottom 2 were??
― Ned Reggaeton (Leee), Saturday, 31 March 2018 19:18 (five years ago) link
I'm asking for a friend of course.
― Ned Reggaeton (Leee), Saturday, 31 March 2018 19:47 (five years ago) link
all this grade-school wailing & neediness is exhausting. Even Eureka I was like ugh bitch suck it UP jfc
I think this is a result of the showing being around so long and having become so popular. Rightly or wrongly, a lot of people (including the contestsants!) see the show as a way to build or reveal their true selves[1], and the way to reach those selves is through crying -- which all the contestants are also aware of. I wonder then that since they know about how the show uses narrative arcs, they all try to trade and engage in it, sometimes too "early" in the show or in inopportune places because they want to capitalize on the narrative platform offered by the show, nor do they want to be left with uncashed chips.
[1] I kind of feel that the bildungsroman format is most often used by shows where the body provides the content of the show or where the show serves as an extended audition or job interview (since Americans tend to tie up their identities so much in our jobs) -- and both strains are obviously present in RPDR.
― Ned Reggaeton (Leee), Saturday, 31 March 2018 20:29 (five years ago) link
i dont mind crying normally but between Eureka & Kalorie it was like watching a dam collapsing lolwith Eureka the crying & neediness is like its her factory default setting. she’s such an “interactive” personality, her moods are so dependent on the ppl around her giving approval & acknowledging her every word. she like a toddler in that way & i find it incredibly exhausting. the australian country girl in me just wants to shut it all down
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 31 March 2018 21:13 (five years ago) link
the way she says asia's name in the workroom, like "ay-zhuhhhhhhhh" reminded me of a kid trying to get their mom's attention, also made me feel for her
― clouds, Sunday, 1 April 2018 13:43 (five years ago) link
But on the other hand it gave us Asia’s stellar eye rolls.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 1 April 2018 14:42 (five years ago) link
https://media.tenor.com/images/3635d14bc674c6cfaa33a257e3e105ed/tenor.gifno Alyssa EYE rolls
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 1 April 2018 14:50 (five years ago) link
That episode!
"...oh COURTNEY!"
Dusty's story for the emotional gut punch but there were almost throwaway moments of "Wait, hold on, jeez!" the more the whole episode went. Miz Cracker just casually mentioning her dead friend!
I do note they saved Yuhua's emotional moments for Untucked.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 April 2018 14:04 (five years ago) link
The Vixen is absolutely killing it in Untucked.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Friday, 6 April 2018 14:46 (five years ago) link
The mini challenge was a reference to those Calvin Klein ads from the 90s, no?
― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 6 April 2018 16:10 (five years ago) link
https://media1.tenor.com/images/fa44b40296ab13fdf9cde0ddc2b09f17/tenor.gif
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Friday, 6 April 2018 16:18 (five years ago) link
Did RuPaul have a bad cold or something on the day of filming? She was so low energy during the whole episode. She couldn't even give Courtney Love a proper introduction.
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 6 April 2018 22:58 (five years ago) link
I can’t remember the last time I felt as embarrassed watching someone lip sync as I did watching Yuhua
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 7 April 2018 00:09 (five years ago) link
Yes you do, and her name is Valentina.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 7 April 2018 00:59 (five years ago) link
Asia’s Tweety was on that Raja club kid magic level that we do not get nearly enough of. That wig & the makeup, the whole thing. YES to THAT Mayhem KU RUSHED that lipsync. She needs to unleash her fierceness 24/7. On the other hand, please god let me never see lipsync air guitar ever again. I didnt know how *much* I didnt want it until I saw Yuhua do it.Yeeeeeeesh. Vixen is an Untucked godsend. Intensity in ten cities baby!
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 April 2018 06:53 (five years ago) link
oh and Dusty’s story had me weeping. Fucking tragic.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 April 2018 06:54 (five years ago) link
I haven't seen such a good lip sync in such a long time! Mayhem was fricking incredible.
― beingcutesince1980 (captain rosie), Saturday, 7 April 2018 13:42 (five years ago) link
i had seen some Mayhem performance clips before so i knew Yuhua was gonna be toast but lordy, actually seeing it happen was an experience
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 April 2018 15:51 (five years ago) link
Did RuPaul have a bad cold or something on the day of filming? She was so low energy during the whole episode.
Actually I had the same impression! Her voice sounds congested too.
Asia's Tweety is sooooo good, I don't think there's a runway look in recent memory that's as good (including All Stars). AND she also served the best face and lol this week.
please god let me never see lipsync air guitar ever again
Ugh I know!
Mayhem turned it and Yuhua into roadkill, and served the second best lol of the week with the "Have you ever felt so used up as this?" bit in the song.
― Meme Imfurst (Leee), Saturday, 7 April 2018 19:08 (five years ago) link
and the feather pulling was A+
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 April 2018 19:35 (five years ago) link
Plucked cocks tell no tales.
― Meme Imfurst (Leee), Saturday, 7 April 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 April 2018 20:18 (five years ago) link
Here’s a readhttps://www.billboard.com/articles/news/pride/8289680/shangela-shea-coulee-aja-racism-drag-race-fandom
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:35 (five years ago) link
Yuhua also did that lip sync 101 no-no of like literally acting out all the words literally
"I'm all I wanna be" *points at self*"Look at my face" *touches face*"well I'm not selling cheap" *rubs fingers together*
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 8 April 2018 15:09 (five years ago) link
OTM. Her performance was sensational. Best lipsynch in a long time.
― LeRooLeRoo, Sunday, 8 April 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
xpost yeah i recoiled so hard when i saw her doing that. STOP IT RIGHT NOW
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 8 April 2018 17:42 (five years ago) link
Let us never speak of the air guitar on RuPaul's main stage ever again.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Sunday, 8 April 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 8 April 2018 19:19 (five years ago) link
Let's never speak of air guitar anywhere ever again.
― Meme Imfurst (Leee), Sunday, 8 April 2018 19:45 (five years ago) link
blood pac
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 8 April 2018 19:51 (five years ago) link
pact
the air guitaring was so stiff and bad
― J0rdan S., Monday, 9 April 2018 05:06 (five years ago) link
From the other day
https://themuse.jezebel.com/thats-a-lot-of-emotion-for-safe-a-brief-chat-with-aqua-1825043150
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 April 2018 18:30 (five years ago) link
That Sharon Needles story feels like it’s 90% subtext
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 9 April 2018 20:41 (five years ago) link
re: the article on race, I almost posted during AS3 that the one white queen in the final four managed to win over the three African or African-American queens. Also, how the jury queens decided that Shangela didn't need their vote because she's already established herself as a star outside of the show, but then they go and vote Trixie into the final 2...
― Meme Imfurst (Leee), Monday, 9 April 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/YS01iab.gif
― Meme Imfurst (Leee), Thursday, 12 April 2018 22:52 (five years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 13 April 2018 01:23 (five years ago) link
I enjoyed every moment of that LSFYL. The good and the not good.
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Friday, 13 April 2018 02:14 (five years ago) link
i would not have expected dusty's lip sync to be so hard to watch idk why
― J0rdan S., Friday, 13 April 2018 03:05 (five years ago) link
the monet lip sync was truly iconic tho... the fake out split into the final bass drop split goes down in history
― J0rdan S., Friday, 13 April 2018 03:17 (five years ago) link
Yeah great to have a total design episode all the way along. Seem to be bringing that back in more.This Untucked is...tense.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 April 2018 04:39 (five years ago) link
This week's Ru suit is my favourite ever.
Asia really reminds me of a pretty Jordan Peele.
"That's a great skill to teach a child... to make them gay," made me laugh out loud.
― trishyb, Friday, 13 April 2018 12:14 (five years ago) link
The best part of the lipsync 💀 #DragRace pic.twitter.com/QkFBETbYaK— andrew (@wigsabducted) April 13, 2018
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Friday, 13 April 2018 16:29 (five years ago) link
This is just about as iconic a LSFYL moment as I've seen since Roxxy's wig reveal.
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Friday, 13 April 2018 16:30 (five years ago) link
It almost flew past me! But then it sunk in and I was amazed. Because lord, that look she gives.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 April 2018 16:49 (five years ago) link
Whatever that song was that made the RA tracks list a year or two ago, the one with the drop that refused to ever happen and a viral video showed crowds getting visibly agitated? That LSFYL moment was a million times better than that song.
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Friday, 13 April 2018 16:56 (five years ago) link
Monet had me cackling omg that was brilliant.
Yeah, the design challenge was a great change of pace! It gave the queens more time to breathe and be themselves -- Asia in particular, so glad we got to know her a little bit better.
― Meme Imfurst (Leee), Saturday, 14 April 2018 00:30 (five years ago) link
PS - Vanjie...
― Meme Imfurst (Leee), Saturday, 14 April 2018 00:46 (five years ago) link
Vaaaaaanjie
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 14 April 2018 04:45 (five years ago) link
Vaaaaaaaaaaaaanjie
Anyhoo yeah god that was a lipsync for the ages. Loved it. I am not mad that Aquaria won but I was favoring Miz Cracker myselfFelt bad for Asia - she’s fast becoming a favorite.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 14 April 2018 04:47 (five years ago) link
i love that they’re still saying vanjie. it’s like there are parallel meme worlds, the one within the show that happened months ago and the one happening now
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 14 April 2018 07:30 (five years ago) link
yeah its great
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 14 April 2018 16:13 (five years ago) link
Miss... Vaaaaaaanjie
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 14 April 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYt_xgLkO-s
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Saturday, 14 April 2018 19:08 (five years ago) link
Did Ru have conjunctivitis or something when they were filming this season?
― Madchen, Saturday, 14 April 2018 20:15 (five years ago) link
Vangie
Vaaaaangie.
When will those dark clouds all disappear
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 14 April 2018 22:03 (five years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 14 April 2018 22:22 (five years ago) link
my god I rewound and watched that fakeout drop like 4 times could not believe how bland DRB was was either. I really thought she’d have stayed for a lot longerI love how the muscle queen whose name I forget was like not even on screen once til the very end
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 15 April 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
I have two theories on Kameron. 1) He's so hot and so used to standing in one spot with a vaguely distracted look on his face while everyone else around him ogles that he's just too boring for words. 2) The editors of the show are mimicking what every other gay person around him would normally do in his presence: ignore him. Could be a combination of both.
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Sunday, 15 April 2018 19:33 (five years ago) link
Yet the thing about Kameron is: those ultraglam looks! The makeup! Maybe she should just be a behind the scenes person?
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 April 2018 19:51 (five years ago) link
I think Kameron suffered because the producers don't often get workroom conversation as good as that one between Monique. Monet, and Asia, about British accents. I really enjoyed how much fun they were having.
― trishyb, Sunday, 15 April 2018 20:04 (five years ago) link
Kameron is very dull, and he always looks like a dude in a hat/dude in a bathing suit etc Like his drag isn’t much once you get over his whole ~thing ~ I love Dusty so much more out of drag than in drag.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 15 April 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link
Yeah Dusty has personality, Kameron...not yet, at any rate.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 April 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
I think they just pose him in the corner like a mannequin
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 15 April 2018 20:26 (five years ago) link
RIght, I guess I'm just saying I don't know yet if that's her or the editors. She could be getting the Kandy Ho edit.
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Sunday, 15 April 2018 20:42 (five years ago) link
this was a good challenge for kameron because it was purely based on looks. clearly as a performer/actor she's far behind the real contenders
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 15 April 2018 23:37 (five years ago) link
I also keep holding out for Eureka because we’ve gotten glimpses of her sweetness and vulnerability but she is making it really, really hard to like her.
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 16 April 2018 12:14 (five years ago) link
Blair's shown a pretty sly sense of humor that you wouldn't expect from someone who looks like a Leave It To Beaver extra.
― Meme Imfurst (Leee), Monday, 16 April 2018 16:54 (five years ago) link
Ok, maybe not.
― Meme Imfurst (Leee), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 05:09 (five years ago) link
Eureka feels like the very weak link in what's been one of the better seasons in a good while, not so much because her drag is bad but her personality feels so grating and exhausting
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 07:17 (five years ago) link
Well this is ... weird ....
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/04/18/26049519/wait-did-robbie-turner-actually-have-a-brush-with-death-in-an-uber
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 19 April 2018 15:06 (five years ago) link
xpost -- well, weak link no more?
Kameron shows personality!
And yet more VAAAANGIE!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 April 2018 13:30 (five years ago) link
I don't even care how engineered the Vanjie phenomenon is being revealed to be, via its repeated use in the edit. It's still amazing.
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Friday, 20 April 2018 13:58 (five years ago) link
I JUST realized what makes Kameron Michaels' runway looks so particularly and subconsciously unnerving. Beyond the hip pads and the breastplates, which we have all come to accept as part of the illusion, Kameron is also wearing a latex piece over her midriff so as to hide her six-pack.
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Friday, 20 April 2018 14:03 (five years ago) link
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 20 April 2018 14:29 (five years ago) link
Ru did tweet about Vanjie like about a dozen times one day early on tho. She and/or her producers did somewhat will it into existence. Either that or they decided to hastily edit it into subsequent episodes after they realized it caught on.
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Friday, 20 April 2018 14:32 (five years ago) link
Robbie Turner, tho.
Is there any update on that?
I am not sorry about this week's loser. One of the most underwhelming queens whose name I can still remember.
― trishyb, Friday, 20 April 2018 17:14 (five years ago) link
Non-update update:http://seattlegayscene.com/2018/04/queerbar-announces-robbie-turner-on-personal-leave-after-uber-accident-scandal/
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 20 April 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link
So there *is* a way to air guitar in a lipsync against Mayhem and not sashay away.
I think the queens were effectively an ad hoc focus group for Vanjie, and the editors were wise enough to capitalize on it.
I don't get the hate for Eureka, sure she needs constant attention but I don't feel to any exceptional degree. That said, I also don't get how she's gotten into the top in either of the comedy challenges so far, i.e. Cracker was robbed of the win so hard.
― Meme Imfurst (Leee), Saturday, 21 April 2018 05:19 (five years ago) link
I wanted Mayhem to go home but Monet's lip sync felt like it relied too much on gags and gimmicks and wasn't actually as strong as Mayhem's?
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 21 April 2018 16:54 (five years ago) link
Neither of them were really good and Mayhem's outfit gave me flashbacks to Coco's pink child doll nightmare in Season 5.
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 21 April 2018 18:15 (five years ago) link
monet's lip sync wasn't as good as her previous one but generally the queen who pulls out the tricks/gags wins. pretty consistent formula.
it felt early for mayhem to go home to me but she's not a great actress/comedian and can turn some looks but isn't killing it on the runway every week. kinda hard to keep surviving that.
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 21 April 2018 22:18 (five years ago) link
yeah Mayhem hasn't been at the right level of intensity, she's been a bit too in her own head & secondguessing maybe.
I didn't love Monet's lipsync and I kinda though that taking off the pads might have lost her favor with ru but I guess she kept a wig on and her shoes lol.
The mimed motorcycle made me die inside though, as much as Yuhua's air guitar. TWO things we must never speak of again.
but Mayhem did leave us with a gift:HASHTAG CHOCOLATE JUDD
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 22 April 2018 00:58 (five years ago) link
I am warming up to Miz Cracker. There's something about her personality I really like. And I really have been enjoying Asia & Monet & Monique & Mayhem, and the subtle push-pull they have with Vixen where it's like she's kind of on her own trip but they kind of want to take her under their wing, like how Mayhem engineered the 'sitdown' with Eureka and Vixen.
Vixen intrigues me. I love her directness but it's clear as day how much of a wall she has up; it's a fine line to walk on a show like this.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 22 April 2018 06:22 (five years ago) link
I love Cracker! As a boy she's kind of giving me Salty from AHS Freakshow in a good way. I pretty much love the whole cast really and I think the eliminations have been mostly fair so far (minus Vaangie). The only ones I find a bit underwhelming are each other's polar opposites. Monet is all personnality but not much in the looks department and Kameron has amazing lerks, but girl is seriously lacking the C.
― LeRooLeRoo, Sunday, 22 April 2018 14:49 (five years ago) link
Yeah Cameron is the most underwhelming for me so far
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 22 April 2018 15:30 (five years ago) link
Really, this isn't the best acting class the show's ever seen. Really wonder how they would've handled "Shakesqueer."
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Sunday, 22 April 2018 15:54 (five years ago) link
So we’re getting DragCon panels this Thursday — Snatch Game next week?
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 22 April 2018 16:31 (five years ago) link
The Vixen and Asia's Craquaria thing has been the biggest missed opportunity this season, bigger even than VANGIE.
― Twyla Thwoorp (Leee), Sunday, 22 April 2018 17:09 (five years ago) link
yeah i’m bummed they didnt do it
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 22 April 2018 18:14 (five years ago) link
lol I thought they did do it, but in a colossally bad way.
― Twyla Thwoorp (Leee), Monday, 23 April 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
so veiled so as to be unrecognizable then?
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 April 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
If Asia was missing cues like the Vixen said she was, then I can imagine that they dropped all the indicators that they were sending up Craquaria.
― Twyla Thwoorp (Leee), Monday, 23 April 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
that they didn't literally play aquaria and cracker made me wonder if they weren't allowed to for some reason, because otherwise................??????????????????????????
― J0rdan S., Monday, 23 April 2018 20:42 (five years ago) link
they also said they didn't rehearse so that probably didn't help
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 23 April 2018 20:48 (five years ago) link
"Maybe we should've rehearsed" was the biggest lol coming out of that team.
― Twyla Thwoorp (Leee), Monday, 23 April 2018 21:52 (five years ago) link
yeah cmon girls
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 01:29 (five years ago) link
Unreasonably excited abt this week’s guest judges
We didn't even plan the coordinated head nods. THURSDAY THURSDAY THURSDAY!!! https://t.co/LHXmbQQoVI— Emily V Gordon (@emilyvgordon) April 24, 2018
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 03:38 (five years ago) link
Kind of hoping that Eureka and Asia get paired at some point so that we can call them Eurasia O'Hara.
And speaking of Asia, dropping some CFC science here!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us_fakjKn54
― Twyla Thwoorp (Leee), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link
Glad to see Monet get back into her groove again. Her & Eureka were great, and even Cameron was passable. Monique making her own outfits every week seems insane to me but gahblessher for having the ingenuity to pull it off. Broke resourceful queens are my favorite. ASIA omg THAT RUNWAY LOOKincredibleincredibleincrediblei died what the fuck is going on with instument miming during lipsync this season. Air trumpet now? 👏STOP 👏 IT 👏AT 👏ONCE👏
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 April 2018 16:52 (five years ago) link
I don't know what it was, but it sure wasn't a trombone (the instrument actually on the track).
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Friday, 27 April 2018 16:55 (five years ago) link
Asia's look was amazing, especially considering it's an Ikea hack.
― trishyb, Friday, 27 April 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
My trombone player friend was sitting next to me yelling at the TV "IT'S A TROMBONE!!!" completely offended hahaha
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 28 April 2018 13:10 (five years ago) link
Blair St Clair tho <3
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 April 2018 16:29 (five years ago) link
...and a Pushing Daisies hack.
― geoffreyess, Saturday, 28 April 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link
I loved Blair so much. I couldn't help but root for her, looking like she's 12 but being so polished and smart and pleasant. Her story was heartbreaking and I felt like The Vixen and wanted to find that bastard.
― LeRooLeRoo, Sunday, 29 April 2018 15:37 (five years ago) link
yeah i loved The Vixen for that
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 29 April 2018 16:34 (five years ago) link
The Vixen's primary character trait -- always looking for a fight -- paid off beautifully there.
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Sunday, 29 April 2018 18:33 (five years ago) link
I wish we got to see more of Vixen and Blair (and Cracker!) becoming friends!
PS Laganja gave me a like on Tumblr! (Not enough to reblog me though.)
― Twyla Thwoorp (Leee), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 20:39 (five years ago) link
I AM SHAKING W FURY THAT THE BEST LIP SYNC TRACK EVER WAS WASTED ON THAT LUKEWARM MESS
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 4 May 2018 01:35 (five years ago) link
How! In this post Valentina era! How!!!
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Friday, 4 May 2018 02:10 (five years ago) link
I want Asia’s double take as a GIF for much future use. That was perfect.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 May 2018 04:37 (five years ago) link
Yeah, that lipsync was terrible.
Also, I quite like The Vixen, and I bet Eureka is annoying to be around on a day-to-day basis, but the absolute neck of her, complaining about the one person who didn't try to shut anyone else down during the Snatch Game, and who actually had a progression to her character play. Drawing the pictures and finishing up by drawing on herself was excellent comedy work, and she only didn't win because her mermaid drag was the same side-panelled body suit she has worn every week, but this time with a tail on it.
― trishyb, Friday, 4 May 2018 11:25 (five years ago) link
Untucked had me all-in with The Vixen. But what works in Untucked doesn't necessarily work on the mainstage, and it's unfortunate to learn that she has no alternate strategy there other than "be even more antagonistic." Look how well that turned out for Phi Phi, The Vixen.
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Friday, 4 May 2018 12:37 (five years ago) link
ya I always appreciated The Vixen's honesty and even when she's hostile she's up front and relatively fair, but this week was soooooo nagl for her, like very childish and antagonistic and very much lashing out at others because of her own shortcomings. I was extremely disappointed with her behavior.
Also I think they should do "Cut To The Feeling" again because it really deserves an #iconic performance
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 4 May 2018 13:07 (five years ago) link
I almost kinda wonder if they're going to have Carly Rae at the finale.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 May 2018 13:14 (five years ago) link
Question: Eureka clapping back at The Vixen's reading her to filth. NAGL or merely defending herself?
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Friday, 4 May 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
Apparently there are two very divided groups of opinion on this.
Can I just say that the most infuriating thing about this episode was using the mermaid in a wheelchair drag as a tribute to Bette Midler. The mermaid drag thing originated from Jackie Curtis in her play "Damned". Bette stole the idea from Jackie. The mermaid was played by Candy Darling in its first version then by Holly Woodlawn later. All of this is documented in the Jackie Curtis biography "Superstar in a Housedress"
Talk about not knowing your HERstory.
This show is a disgrace, an absolute disgrace.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 5 May 2018 00:27 (five years ago) link
Here's some footage of Vain Victory. The mermaid idea originated in Damned and was developed for Vain Victory.
https://youtu.be/a-9SilkF4ZI
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 5 May 2018 00:29 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-9SilkF4ZI
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 5 May 2018 00:37 (five years ago) link
^are you telling me that the researchers who worked on drag race haven't seen this footage/ don't know the source of this shit?
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 5 May 2018 01:06 (five years ago) link
I am FURIOUS.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 5 May 2018 01:09 (five years ago) link
Ok the lipsync was pretty busted, Monique blew it & even though she said she didnt quit & I know she didnt quit ... it looked like she quit AND SHE TOOK HER DAMN WIG OFFVixen kills me. She’s got the heart of this hurt little kid!!! she genuinely believed that them saying she should go home = they dont like her. And therefore since she doesnt *like* Eureka= SHE should go home. It’s this sensitive world where logic has no traction & its infuriating & kinda heartbreaking bcz if she doesnt get a handle on it, it WILL be her undoing. She doesnt know/get/understand that Ru doesnt watch the show, doesnt know her story, (and tbh prob doesnt remember her name). So Vixen’s outbursts make her look small & petty. Eureka was dumb to clap back but I understand why she did. A) bcz she’s her & she doesnt know when to stfu; but b) all that ad hominem nonsense about her professionalism kinda deserved defending? i dunno. Vixen’s like a dying star in outer space, everyone just collapses around her & feeds her with energy but they dont even realize they’re doing itAnyway Monet’s Maya gave me liiiiiiiife & even if her stage look was weird she shoulda won bcz she did so much comedic heavy lifting. It was SO good. imho she was at a Jinx-Little Edie level awesome.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 May 2018 04:21 (five years ago) link
That was a grade school orchestra level mess, from beginning to end.
― Twyla Thwoorp (Leee), Saturday, 5 May 2018 20:37 (five years ago) link
Vixen and Asia teaming up a second time.
― Twyla Thwoorp (Leee), Saturday, 5 May 2018 20:53 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iGVE9n8CR4
― Twyla Thwoorp (Leee), Friday, 11 May 2018 02:48 (five years ago) link
Kameron is going somehow make it into the final having spoken the least out of all of them.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 May 2018 04:16 (five years ago) link
This could be the red herring win, like the one Ivy Winters won right before getting kicked off.
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Friday, 11 May 2018 12:08 (five years ago) link
That said, Kameron’s runway looks have been consistently very good to great, so it wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world if she did make it to the finish line.
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Friday, 11 May 2018 12:09 (five years ago) link
I loved Ru's suit in this episode, and how he has bounced back from whatever illness he had at the start of the season. The slap challenge was one of my favourite mini challenges.
― trishyb, Friday, 11 May 2018 13:07 (five years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 May 2018 13:29 (five years ago) link
Yeah, if the follow up is, like the perfume challenge in S5, where Kameron ends up wiping out, then I expect it could also be where the currently winless Miz Cracker, much like Alaska, finally gets some wind in her sails.
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Friday, 11 May 2018 13:31 (five years ago) link
Asia's lipsync was so joyful and, dare I say, delightful.
― Twyla Thwoorp (Leee), Friday, 11 May 2018 23:09 (five years ago) link
Great choice of song too -- amazed it had never turned up until now!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 May 2018 23:10 (five years ago) link
That heart-to-heart btw Asia & Vixen was wise & kind & so beautiful. Asia literally turned my face into a heart. She has such a kindness in her.I loved this mini challenge, I loved this challenge, the lipsync, the judges. Good stuff all round.Monet could be Bob the Drag Queen level great if she just polished her look. It’s like she hurries or something, every week it’s like “OH! ...oh.” The visible tape this week majorly bummed me ouuuut bcz she was SO good as Cher. My fave by far.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 12 May 2018 04:59 (five years ago) link
Sad that Vixen left bc I love her fire & she’s so rad but also my god that child is kinda exhausting too
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 12 May 2018 05:00 (five years ago) link
Bob sometimes had polish issues too iirc
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Saturday, 12 May 2018 15:38 (five years ago) link
How has Kameron been so invisible??? Like do the editors seriously have no material to work with?
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 12 May 2018 15:42 (five years ago) link
In one of her recap videos, Cracker said that Kameron made a conscious decision to not give the editors anything they might use to distort her.
― Twyla Thwoorp (Leee), Saturday, 12 May 2018 15:55 (five years ago) link
Willam said that’s exactly what Roxxxy did during AS2. Don’t give them the drama, they’ll keep you there longer, waiting for it
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Saturday, 12 May 2018 16:15 (five years ago) link
Can't say Vixen isn't making her moment work for her:
So @TheVixensworld performed at Battle on the Runway tonight and did a performance mashed up with CHUN LI like a GAWDESS pic.twitter.com/M8ne9DuNNV— Ira Madison III (@ira) May 12, 2018
Really, The Vixen fucking slayedt and WE STAN pic.twitter.com/KXOHXTC9C7— Ira Madison III (@ira) May 12, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 12 May 2018 16:52 (five years ago) link
And yeah re Kameron, it also helps that there were such big personalities playing off each other that she could more easily hide in plain sight. That Untucked discussion this week is telling in turn.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 12 May 2018 16:53 (five years ago) link
i don't usually watch michelle's segment after the show (or that plays after the show when you watch drag race online) but the vixen came off much better in that, and looked super cute w/ some stubble to boot. this is besides the point but the vixen really should model, aside from doing drag.
in any event, i find the ongoing discussion on the show about the concept of the angry black woman to be very interesting... i wonder if there's ever been another moment in reality tv history where there was a real time on camera meta conversation about how the show might portray one its contestants vis a vis a racial stereotype, and then that discussion being aired on TV and made the dominant storyline of the season? i find it hard to call heads or tails on the vixen either way bcuz of the inherent manipulation of everything we see, but i put a lot of stock in asia's analysis of the whole situation in this most recent episode.
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 12 May 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 12 May 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
that was a good post, J0rdan
very sad at the dastardly edit/ru-ception Miz Cracker is getting this season; i guess it is what happens when you follow directly after a Trixie Mattel win
final 3 looking to me like:eureka (ugh)aquaria (sigh) [or conceivably kameron (?!)]asia (go go go go)
― sean gramophone, Monday, 14 May 2018 02:09 (five years ago) link
Final four, surely, based on last year.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 May 2018 02:10 (five years ago) link
oops i skipped s9
that changes things; hmmm
― sean gramophone, Monday, 14 May 2018 02:13 (five years ago) link
I kinda hope Aquaria doesn't make it to the final 3; I want Cracker to get there instead.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 May 2018 03:19 (five years ago) link
cracker is downright wonderful
but imo it's clear at this stage that the producers/ru herself are not big fans, or at least aren't excited about another white comedy queen for s10.
― sean gramophone, Monday, 14 May 2018 11:29 (five years ago) link
Isn't that what Eureka is, too?
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Monday, 14 May 2018 13:15 (five years ago) link
"we need a big girl to win"
― sean gramophone, Monday, 14 May 2018 13:50 (five years ago) link
Miss ... Vanjie!
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Monday, 14 May 2018 13:56 (five years ago) link
You know part of me wants the final to have the top four do their thing and then Ru awards it to Miss Vanjie for the hell of it.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 May 2018 13:59 (five years ago) link
Vanjie and that sponge have already gotten more quality screen time than anyone else.
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Monday, 14 May 2018 14:00 (five years ago) link
Anyway, at this point, I'd say that yeah, Cracker and Monet seem the least likely to make the final four.
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Monday, 14 May 2018 14:03 (five years ago) link
idk cracker hasn't even lip synced yet, and comedy queens to me always have a leg up when it comes to making the final 4 even tho they can be passed up to win
― J0rdan S., Monday, 14 May 2018 15:38 (five years ago) link
Okay I sensed that coming. But it WAS a good lip sync.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 May 2018 04:32 (five years ago) link
I mean, it was very good, but so was the previous week's. The only difference last week was that there was a "villain" to dispatch.
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Friday, 18 May 2018 12:38 (five years ago) link
Agreed. Also I do wonder what it would have been like if someone had been sent home this week -- is one of next week's makeover guests on standby?
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 May 2018 12:55 (five years ago) link
God, I found that challenge painful, though. Unfunny, overlong, POOR.
― trishyb, Friday, 18 May 2018 22:47 (five years ago) link
Next week's is MUCH more interesting already.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 May 2018 22:56 (five years ago) link
It's a fine line between camp and crap, but this season's written challenges seem far more on the latter side than usual.
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Saturday, 19 May 2018 02:04 (five years ago) link
Agreed. Bearing in mind the calibre of the queens this season, I haven’t found it as entertaining as previous ones.
― Madchen, Saturday, 19 May 2018 06:19 (five years ago) link
I'm guessing that Cracker approaches her comedy analytically, so when she didn't win any of the comedy challenges, she started getting in her head and is kind of in a vicious cycle of self-doubt. And that's kind of emblematic of this bizarro season, where the look queens are outperforming the comedy queens in the comedy challenges. (Acquarium can be intentionally funny, who'da thunk?)
Loving Asia, though, a den mother who can also turn it out!
― Twyla Thwoorp (Leee), Saturday, 19 May 2018 20:50 (five years ago) link
Asia was awesome this week. I loved her old age look so much 😂
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 19 May 2018 23:17 (five years ago) link
Some great official postings from DragCon going up. Season 3 reunion's a treat.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 20 May 2018 03:13 (five years ago) link
realized i should stop watching raja and raven's photo fashion ruview when watching it became like the two-minutes hate from 1984.
― clouds, Sunday, 20 May 2018 14:01 (five years ago) link
the fact that raven wants to read someone else's looks while looking like victoria beckham crossed with lady elaine from mister roger's neighborhood is just... i can't
― clouds, Sunday, 20 May 2018 14:03 (five years ago) link
yeah I have been wrestling with that too
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 20 May 2018 15:14 (five years ago) link
Aja and Manila are both great standins -- the DragCon live RuView this year was Raja and Aja and it was funny as hell.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 20 May 2018 15:37 (five years ago) link
agreed with that. would actually love just an aja fashion review.
― clouds, Sunday, 20 May 2018 16:58 (five years ago) link
Raja, even when she’s dismissive, still has an energy that I dig.
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Sunday, 20 May 2018 17:34 (five years ago) link
Raven is very rigid & set in her ways
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 20 May 2018 19:46 (five years ago) link
Yeah. You don't like shoes with a strap, Raven. We get it!
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Sunday, 20 May 2018 20:55 (five years ago) link
Would Raven be the Clarence Thomas of Photo Fashion Ruview?
― Regreta Garbo (Leee), Monday, 21 May 2018 00:47 (five years ago) link
O_o
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 21 May 2018 01:25 (five years ago) link
Kameron's lipsynch was incredible! I didn't know she had it in her. She told Ru the stage is where she lets go and I'm glad we got to see it.
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 21 May 2018 15:31 (five years ago) link
i think kameron got lucky that she lip synced with a prosthetic face. it brought a comedy to the lip sync that i don't think she would have been able to summon otherwise
― J0rdan S., Monday, 21 May 2018 16:11 (five years ago) link
I agree it helped her facial expressions but I'm still giving her credit for her dance moves and head shakes!
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 22:17 (five years ago) link
it was v good makeup. this series is such a drag.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 22:44 (five years ago) link
I feel like as a series, it needs to try harder, because a lot of these queens seem much more talented than what they're getting to work with. Chatting with a friend the other day who pointed out that a lot of the series tropes end up feeling like chores, for example everybody gets excited for Snatch Game but the actuality of it is that it's always disappointing now.
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 16:28 (five years ago) link
― sean gramophone, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 16:53 (five years ago) link
Basically agree that the best episodes are almost always the ones where the queens get to write their own material or create their own fashions (or someone else's). Snatch Game gets a pass because they're still in charge of their own ad libbing.
But, man, the acting challenges with pre-existing scripts are just getting worse and worse.
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link
By contrast, I thought this week was a superb episode. Loads of fun workroom stuff, and loads of RuPaul gems. Good times.
― trishyb, Friday, 25 May 2018 11:35 (five years ago) link
Yeah, a truly fun episode and, at least by my estimation, an even better LSFYL match-up (tho maybe that was just editing).
That said, and as much as I actually admire Kam for being able to keep her shit on lockdown in this environment, that was the wrong call overall.
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Friday, 25 May 2018 12:36 (five years ago) link
Also, S10 without Monet and Monique is just a whole hell of a lot less fun.
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Friday, 25 May 2018 14:17 (five years ago) link
Sidebar: Frankie Grande’s eyes are terrifying.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 25 May 2018 15:13 (five years ago) link
Eureka’s macho look made me laugh til I cried
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 25 May 2018 15:14 (five years ago) link
mostly the voice is what put it over the top
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 25 May 2018 15:21 (five years ago) link
I am convinced that Rupaul is selfhating and takes it out on black contestants pic.twitter.com/MW36gs7QL5— fatty (@fatandfem) May 25, 2018
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Friday, 25 May 2018 16:25 (five years ago) link
Genuinely thought he was Cynthia Lee Fontaine for a split second.
― trishyb, Friday, 25 May 2018 17:13 (five years ago) link
The problem was that Monet didn't know the words in the lip sync, and Kameron was on every syllable. And Ru had already played the "nobody goes home this week" card.
― trishyb, Friday, 25 May 2018 17:15 (five years ago) link
I caught maybe one minor flub from Monet. The editors were clearly trying to make it look very, very close.
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Friday, 25 May 2018 17:16 (five years ago) link
Nice of Rupaul to show up.
With makeup by Bianca! The resemblance was so eerie.
I thought Manet was doing well in the lipsync up until she went offstage to prepare for a messy-as-hell splits into a slide.
Also I keep linking to Cracker's youtubes but this one has real pathos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JIPMfMMYlM
― Young Lunchy (Leee), Saturday, 26 May 2018 05:06 (five years ago) link
yeah i mean i love her to death but Monet had her back to the camera for that whole walk to the back of the stage, cmon girl know yr wordshow goid was cracker’s makeup for cookieshe looked like a more reasonable Trixie Mattel lol
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 May 2018 05:28 (five years ago) link
they telegraphed monet going home when she did that run and slide down the runway and cracked the light bulb and they cut to ru making a sort of confused and disturbed face. it was kinda poignant in a way, like the magician was out of tricks.
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 26 May 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link
miz cookie is the wintergreen of the season, also so glad cracker finally got a win
― clouds, Saturday, 26 May 2018 23:02 (five years ago) link
Ugh Aquaria was terrible this episode and I think Monet actually did a great job and shouldn’t have even been in the bottom 2!!
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 27 May 2018 10:43 (five years ago) link
Yeah Aquaria should have been in the bottom. Aquaria looked like she just threw a red duvet on Kingsley & told him to figure it out. Poor dude looked not very good at all.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 May 2018 14:53 (five years ago) link
I thought Capricia Corn's dress was boring, but she looked very pretty. I didn't expect Kingsley to make a pretty queen. Tyler Oakley on the other hand... I don't know I guess I just don't love Monét's sense of style, although she's very loveable.
The mini challenge was a lot of fun and kind of hot. Asia was giving me Tyson Beckford realness!
― LeRooLeRoo, Sunday, 27 May 2018 15:56 (five years ago) link
yeah she was great. Aquaria’s pencil mustache was ... odd
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 May 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link
So, when you do everything within your power not to cause drama or be a bitch and the show producers STILL do everything in their power to make a villain out of you.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Friday, 8 June 2018 01:42 (five years ago) link
That's what tonight's all about, pretty much.
Missed opportunities every which way.
I really thought that the main challenge was going to be so much more trenchant, a chance for a reality program to shed its superficiality and actually dramatize interiority. Instead we got some stilted acting, a top-to-bottom bad idea of editing the twins together (and why even bother with the good twins "watching" the critiques of the bad twins?), and the judge's typical caprice becoming so much more arbitrary given the subject matter.
Also, right before the season even started, I read a Youtube comment that I hoped wasn't a spoiler reporting that Cracker would be sent home by Kameron. But that's my fault for wasting time in that cesspool.
Anyway, I'm fully Team Asia now because Asians gotta stick together.
― Martin Landau Ballet (Leee), Saturday, 9 June 2018 06:16 (five years ago) link
Asia was so fucking good, I love her & this manufactured drama is v annoyingAnd the judges flipping their wigs over Aquaria was so like, really? idgialso I need an Asia app on my phone where i can just whine & get a dose of real talk™️ whenever I need it. she’s got that Bianca workroom personality, she’s old enough to see through bullshit & laser focus on what’s real & whenever she does it, it’s just such good tv
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 June 2018 07:29 (five years ago) link
Agree wholeheartedly. She is fantastic. She deserves a better season than this.
― trishyb, Saturday, 9 June 2018 10:27 (five years ago) link
Aquaria’s face bones were really weird and both face and backbones looked like a badly executed afterthought. Asia ftw.
― Madchen, Monday, 11 June 2018 20:13 (five years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 June 2018 20:15 (five years ago) link
What was up with the random splits in the lipsync? Neither of them seemed to happen to any discernible musical cue.
― Martin Landau Ballet (Leee), Monday, 11 June 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I've seen people rating Aquaria's dark-sided lewk among the series' top 10 and even top 5 all-timers and I wonder if they've even seen any Logo-era seasons.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Monday, 11 June 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
Honestly I kinda liked Asia's dark-side look more.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 June 2018 21:17 (five years ago) link
she was completely transfixing
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 June 2018 22:19 (five years ago) link
srsly some of those lipsyncs look like mini floor routines
the splits esp look perfunct asf
― vanjie wail (qiqing), Monday, 11 June 2018 22:27 (five years ago) link
This has been the worst season yet, right?
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 15 June 2018 03:46 (five years ago) link
I wouldn't say worst but there's been far too much focus on ~drama~ and not enough of actual performance. The best scenes that don't take place on stage have always been the casual chatter-in-the-workroom and the worst have been the "well I just feel this way" emotionally laborious scenes.
The queens have been very entertaining when given the chance to shine and the right material, but a lot of the musical and acting challenges have been based on woeful scripts which do the cast no favours at all. "Breastworld" is one of the worst things ever to happen in this show's history.
― boxedjoy, Friday, 15 June 2018 08:49 (five years ago) link
For me I've just found the talented queens to be profoundly unlikeable this seasonAnd the likeable queens to be profoundly underwhelmingI am finally coming around to stanning for Eureka and Aquaria based on their performances, but I would leave any party they were at
― nevertheless, he stopped (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 15 June 2018 13:33 (five years ago) link
I more or less called this the weakest season (as a show) to date, barring possibly the first All-Stars season. The overall average rating this batch of queens would be higher than some others, but there just aren't any 10.0 queens this time around.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Friday, 15 June 2018 13:42 (five years ago) link
And, yes, the quality of the writing/scoring/conceptualization of the challenges is significantly stunted this time around.
i've actually liked this season better than i thought i would even tho too many of the challenges were poorly conceived or presented... the dual personalities one from a few weeks back was a complete trainwreck. but i think there were some rly good out of drag personalities this season... i got a huge kick out of monet, asia & monique's confessionals for instance. and then as far as the onstage talent goes... in most seasons -- even the classic ones -- there's maybe three queens who can really do it all so i didn't find this season to be a let down in that regard. i don't find there to be a huge gulf in quality between the final 4 here and what it was last season.
also generally i think the show always peters out towards the end... especially because you can really feel the producers bending the show in a certain direction, as they are to aquaria here, who they clearly see as someone who can really extend the drag race brand. im thinking back to season 7 when violet chachki beat ginger minj, kennedy davenport, katya, trixie etc... it is what it is
― J0rdan S., Friday, 15 June 2018 14:08 (five years ago) link
generally i think the show always peters out towards the end
A flaw inherent the entire reality competition series model, really.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Friday, 15 June 2018 14:21 (five years ago) link
Why is Todrick always so cruel? Like is he EVER nice or fun? Or even, like, respectfully critical?
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 16 June 2018 19:26 (five years ago) link
really? I love that about him. he’s so intense, he doesnt take no nonsense.maybe it’s bcz he’s a choreographer first? he has that Debbie Allen thing likeONE AND TWO AND TURN AND KICK 👏🏻WHAT👏🏻 IS 👏🏻WRONG 👏🏻WITH 👏🏻YOUR 👏🏻FEETlike there’s no grey. get it right we move on, get it wrong i burn you with my eye lazers until u stop being a fuckup. cool? cool.maybe i just watched too much Fame as a kid lol.and omg i looooooved that dance routine.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 16 June 2018 21:07 (five years ago) link
now that I think about it I think all of S9's top 4 are better than anyone in S10
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 16 June 2018 21:17 (five years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 16 June 2018 21:19 (five years ago) link
S9 was epiccccccc
― homosexual II, Saturday, 16 June 2018 22:19 (five years ago) link
yeah this season felt more like the last allstars than a fully fierce competition
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 16 June 2018 22:39 (five years ago) link
Sorry bout it. Just not feeling this season at all. On any level. (Except Vixen.)
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Sunday, 17 June 2018 02:45 (five years ago) link
I saw him on something else recently and he seemed a lot nicer than he does here.
― trishyb, Sunday, 17 June 2018 11:24 (five years ago) link
haha i kind of love him on the show. idk this time he was being tough on queens who clearly have a lot of talent and can handle it.
― J0rdan S., Monday, 18 June 2018 02:33 (five years ago) link
I found a lot to like about this season and have been through enough of the rodeos now that every season gets nitpicked or (dare I say) dragged in ways that in future don't always hold up. (But overpraise is a thing too.) That we did see more design challenges in general was welcome.
Honestly what I'm really wondering about is with the eleventh season. We are, presumably, having another live lip sync resulting in eliminations for the crown as the final episode. But they have to find some way to change it up next year in order to avoid the understandable 'so all that matters is to make the final four' repeat process. But what direction can they go in? Go back to three? Expand to...five?
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 June 2018 03:07 (five years ago) link
But what direction can they go in? Go back to three? Expand to...five?
Something that I've waited for a reality competition to do is to have no eliminations, just have the same number of queens compete over the course of a whole season.
― Martin Landau Ballet (Leee), Monday, 18 June 2018 16:13 (five years ago) link
communist
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 18 June 2018 16:18 (five years ago) link
It could be like Taskmaster.
― trishyb, Monday, 18 June 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
Comrade thruuuu. xp
― Martin Landau Ballet (Leee), Monday, 18 June 2018 17:39 (five years ago) link
Welllll that was an intense reunion.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 June 2018 04:31 (five years ago) link
The Vixen's every moment was expected. Was not quite as aware the girls were all going to turn on Kameron, Valentina-style. There's always gotta be one, huh.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Friday, 22 June 2018 13:19 (five years ago) link
Good read, I think:https://tv.avclub.com/tears-flow-and-tempers-flare-on-an-explosive-drag-race-1827037523/amp
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 June 2018 13:44 (five years ago) link
(alfred) Soto voce: https://www.slantmagazine.com/house/article/rupauls-drag-race-recap-season-10-episode-13-queens-reunited
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Friday, 22 June 2018 14:04 (five years ago) link
Ready for Asia's Drag Race. Ready for Ru's Ru-tirement. This show as-is is harmful and stale and Ru doesn't seem to be aware just how much so.
― Cousin Slappy, Friday, 22 June 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
Um, I think we're still at the point where the show's benefits are outweighing any harm.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Friday, 22 June 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link
I'm speaking in terms of the show itself, not the online actions of its fanbase. "Stale" is a separate issue that's worth bringing up, tho.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Friday, 22 June 2018 19:06 (five years ago) link
i found the discussion between ru and the vixen to be very interesting in that it encapsulated the widening generational divide in how to deal with serious structural problems within society. ru saying “i swallowed discrimination to get here” and the vixen essentially saying “fuck that” sits next to, like, debates about appropriation or no-platformimg vs “debate”... it would perk the interest of middle aged male columnists if they had any idea
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 24 June 2018 17:26 (five years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 24 June 2018 17:47 (five years ago) link
i love when Ru loses his shit. He hasn’t been that loose & fired up since the S2 reunion with Tammie Brown “i dont see you walking children in nature” Asia was pretty otm, but Sarge is right, it def showed up the gap in thinking, generationally, between Ru & Vixen
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 24 June 2018 17:50 (five years ago) link
otm [2]
For many people, but esepecially younger generations, enduring tone-policing, bullying and outright abuse in order to 'make it' just doesn't cut it anymore. There's nothing empowering about smiling and nodding while you're forced to endure horrible behavior from someone who wields so much control over your life. Ru needs to crawl out of his ass and try to understand this new context Drag Race has found itself in, instead of fighting it. If behaving like a "professional" meant Vixen sitting there and apologizing while Eureaka wasn't reprimanded as well, then they can keep it and she had every right to walk out of there.
I don't think many writers would touch on this issue because honest self-relfelction is hard, especially when it's about your career trajectory.
― Cousin Slappy, Sunday, 24 June 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link
My next post is a SPOILER for tonight.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Friday, 29 June 2018 02:15 (five years ago) link
Has an attempted stunt ever backfired as sadly as those butterflies did?
For the record, the moribund nature of this thread this season matches my own feelings about the show at this point.It’s dead.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Friday, 29 June 2018 03:01 (five years ago) link
That...was not a good ending.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 June 2018 04:30 (five years ago) link
And yeah I was all "Was something supposed to happen?" when Asia did those moves.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 June 2018 04:40 (five years ago) link
A statement from Asia.
― geoffreyess, Friday, 29 June 2018 04:47 (five years ago) link
murdering butterflies in a failed lip sync stunt is some of the funniest shit to ever happen on this show. not for the butterflies obviously but....
― J0rdan S., Friday, 29 June 2018 06:23 (five years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Friday, 29 June 2018 06:25 (five years ago) link
When I first saw Asia’s costume I assumed her boobs were going to shoot fireworks or something. Even if the butterflies had ‘performed’ they would have been pretty invisible on a stage like that. Really bad idea (though the audience reactions were hilarious).
― Madchen, Friday, 29 June 2018 10:21 (five years ago) link
Poor Asia. She was my favourite out of the final four, and she messed that up so badly. I cannot imagine why she thought that would be a good idea. Where did she get it from? Is this a thing people do?I really hope they bring in a "no live animals of any kind" rule after this. As if they ever thought they would need one.
More than two queens lipsynching at one time is always a disaster, imho. And that final lipsync was bad. Kameron and Aquaria both looked wound up and desperate, and Eureka was way out of her league.
― trishyb, Friday, 29 June 2018 10:32 (five years ago) link
Interesting that they had picked a song with three singers for the final lip synch. It’s almost as if they knew...
― Madchen, Friday, 29 June 2018 10:53 (five years ago) link
Absolutely.
Eureka's reveals were fine, and everything, during "If." But I clocked her not knowing the lyrics multiple times during that song. It was rigged to feature 3 queens at the end.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Friday, 29 June 2018 11:09 (five years ago) link
wow yeah that was underwhelming. Filming all the queens "winning" and then not revealing it til the finale actually airs sucks ALL of the energy out of the room bcz we are left with these weak-ass feigned reactions, ugh.
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 29 June 2018 20:02 (five years ago) link
Exactly what I thought too. And that way the audience at the taping only knows about one queen who doesn't win.
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 29 June 2018 20:06 (five years ago) link
They haven't ever come up with a satisfactory way to wrap up seasons. Either they capture a genuine reaction in a studio vacuum, or they pre-tape multiple canned possible endings that are ragingly false.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Friday, 29 June 2018 20:09 (five years ago) link
This is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time.
Asia’s butterflies trying to decide who’s going to fly first pic.twitter.com/yffBcexic9— ces (@cexargaga) June 29, 2018
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 29 June 2018 20:28 (five years ago) link
the final episodes are never good
― J0rdan S., Friday, 29 June 2018 20:46 (five years ago) link
it’s surprising to me that they’ve never tried a live show
― J0rdan S., Friday, 29 June 2018 20:47 (five years ago) link
I think its too expensive for a show like this.. I think its low production value is part of its selling point to the network
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 29 June 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link
Well also you can tell ALLLL the edits that go into the finales, every time.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 June 2018 21:39 (five years ago) link
They should have done the lipsync to this version of the song at least.
https://youtu.be/UlPsybmaNmA
― Martin Landau Ballet (Leee), Friday, 29 June 2018 23:33 (five years ago) link
Yeah, the sheer number of costume changes and the like prevent a fully live show
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Saturday, 30 June 2018 00:36 (five years ago) link
what a trainwreck that was.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Monday, 2 July 2018 03:30 (five years ago) link
and a butterflywreck.
I will say though despite finding Aquaria super bland and devoid of charisma and largely uniqueness, I was genuinely surprised at how great her lip syncs were. She had a lot of subtle touches that felt really smart.
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 2 July 2018 12:12 (five years ago) link
Yeah same
This season was a lot of charismatic queens with no follow-through, and some extremely talented queens burdened with profound unlikeability
I didn't like Miz Cracker at first but she ended up being one of my all-time faves
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 2 July 2018 12:26 (five years ago) link
the best thing about that finalé was Gus Kenworthy.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Monday, 2 July 2018 20:27 (five years ago) link
https://www.buzzfeed.com/connorgarel/rupauls-drag-race-the-vixen-eureka-respectability-politics?utm_term=.oaKlvPyBA#.imAD3YeQk
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Sunday, 8 July 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
^^^^ a pretty unapologetic takedown
RuPaul’s racial philosophies, which include a classic white American “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” maxim and a generational distance from the queens who compete on her show, are indicative of her deep-seated respectability politics. The “advice” she offered the Vixen was just a stone’s throw away from the notorious language once espoused by Bill Cosby, or Charles Barkley, or Ronald Reagan — exhortations to black personal responsibility and rules of behavioral comportment; it implied that the Vixen, in her loudmouthed navigation of the world and her insistence on addressing racism, is lacking in self-discipline and respectability.
Too often the burden of civility and amenity falls on the backs of those enduring oppression. For RuPaul to demand that the Vixen engage in a culture of silence, to expect her to choreograph her anger in order to appear less dissonant, less threatening, is to rob her of her voice for the sake of disproving the white myth of black inferiority. There is no “right” way to comport oneself in the midst of inequity. Such archaic criticisms directly contradict everything the art of drag itself stands for. When has protest art, or protest at large, ever been courtly?
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Sunday, 8 July 2018 17:46 (five years ago) link
(Also floats the idea of giving Ru the axe and replacing her with Asia. Like that'll happen.)
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Sunday, 8 July 2018 19:12 (five years ago) link
One thing I've seen repeated in all these pieces is that RuPaul is promoting a culture of silence and I think that's totally misreported just to fit their narratives. When Ru said that the Vixen could chose to not say anything, she was clearly refering to the drama between Aquaria and Miz Cracker. The Vixen didn't have to bring it up, but she decided to stir the pot.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 12 July 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
I could accept that. I can not accept Ru's reaction to Asia in the reunion, though. Ru tends to conflate two seemingly similar but very different narratives of being a star and being the star of your own life. I can see the first of those two requiring you to casually throw people in your life away if they do not serve your needs, but I'm damned if I think it makes sense for the latter of those narratives.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Thursday, 12 July 2018 16:41 (five years ago) link
Mm. And good piece there too.
Now that Drag Race Thailand is on WOWPresents Plus I may take the dive there -- but in a little bit, it was almost six months of DR stuff in general this year and I need a breather.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 July 2018 16:46 (five years ago) link
Oh I agree, Asia was completely right. A lot of Ru's reactions were problematic and made me cringe. (x-post)
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 12 July 2018 16:55 (five years ago) link
I just got around to reading this in the print paper: Jinkx Monsoon on RuPaul's influence on her life and career:
https://www.thestranger.com/queer-issue-2018/2018/06/20/27819501/how-rupaul-changed-my-life
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Thursday, 12 July 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link
Willam and Alaska have a new Drag Race recap show called Race Chaser and they are starting w S1 now that it’s finally available
This week’s ep includes a brief but hilarious interview with Shannel & she confirms that her headpiece falling off during the lipsync was 100% staged <3 And she throws majestic casual shade at Alaska & it’s EVERYTHING
They also have a regular recurring Tammie Brown segment <3
http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/race-chaser/
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 4 August 2018 02:25 (five years ago) link
Oh jesus. This will be a must listen.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Saturday, 4 August 2018 02:34 (five years ago) link
it’s very enjoyable, Willam & Alaska have good chemistry
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 4 August 2018 02:57 (five years ago) link
Yeah this has been fun, caught every episode so far -- can't wait until they hit their respective seasons, but they've already been sharing a LOT of new behind-the-scenes stuff.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 4 August 2018 06:14 (five years ago) link
Where is season 1 available, please?
― trishyb, Saturday, 4 August 2018 12:06 (five years ago) link
solarmovie dot net
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Saturday, 4 August 2018 12:17 (five years ago) link
Thank you.
― trishyb, Saturday, 4 August 2018 12:52 (five years ago) link
Have we all witnessed this genius?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8acYdlbmigE
― Abercromb Metrion Finchos (Leee), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 19:26 (five years ago) link
OMG Nebraska is so hot he looks like Alexander Skarsgård.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 12:26 (five years ago) link
i just learned the most amazing bts gossipDid u guys know that Shannel & Derrick Barry used to date? how awesome is that
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 9 August 2018 01:52 (five years ago) link
Bianca generated a lot of controversy at Montreal Pride last night. During the outdoors show she was hosting, she joked about Blair Saint-Clair's rape and rape in general. I thought it was shocking in a Bianca kind of way, but a lot of the 12 000 plus crowd was offended and booed her. Fierté Montréal made an official statement today to appologise and dissociate themselves with "some of the content that was said last night".
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 17 August 2018 22:26 (five years ago) link
i was at the pride show but left before the rape comments - bianca definitely on brutally top form, making cruel/hilarious digs against all and every comer...
― sean gramophone, Friday, 17 August 2018 23:53 (five years ago) link
Per VG's comment there, Race Chasers is unsurprisingly now a totally essential listen. The episode with Ongina guesting was next level for the background detail there.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 18 August 2018 00:35 (five years ago) link
i am still kinda outraged that ongina didn’t actually get to be a spokesperson for MAC! jerksher story abt seeing Shanel for the first time & asking if she was a host was adorable
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 August 2018 02:58 (five years ago) link
Latest Race Chasers great as ever, and of course more behind the scenes stuff in general (Willam says that Sharon didn't shower on her season but that she was into it and they made out -- Alaska sounded unsurprised).
Meantime!
🚨 ALYSSA EDWARDS IS GETTING A NETFLIX SERIES 🚨 pic.twitter.com/JQV8Y0DQR8— Mike T (@majtague) August 22, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 16:08 (five years ago) link
I'm catching up Race Chasers and lol at the interview with Shannel where their connection drops and reconnects after like 10 seconds and Shannel is STILL talking.
― Cold Stone Cream Austin (Leee), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 21:11 (five years ago) link
yeah everything about that interview was pure gold
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 22:37 (five years ago) link
honestly i didnt think i could love her more but Race Chasers has given me a whole new level of appreciation
Alaska and Willam are a perfect pairing, because one is a total acolyte and the other a total skeptic and they’re both equally smart about how the biz works
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 01:28 (five years ago) link
exactly. i think as well it’s a great match bc they both seem to have a pretty amazing work ethic in life, not only for their own drag, but performing in general & gigs of any kind so it’s not like 90% of podcasts where they think the idea & their personality is enough, and then just faff through it. they’re both actually really trying to provide good content while still being themselves & it shows.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 01:42 (five years ago) link
I'm going to this https://bushwig.com/ this weekend and am gonna see Alaska, Sasha Velour, Aja, and Dida Ritz, and maybe Thorgy? also Lady Bunny
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 03:55 (five years ago) link
oh and Pearl is djing lol
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 03:56 (five years ago) link
Best quote from todays Race Chasers, was Willam on Rebecca Glasscock:“That’s not even fashion. Dont’t call it that. Those are CLOTHES.”
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 6 September 2018 01:22 (five years ago) link
Hahah yeah that was great.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 September 2018 04:14 (five years ago) link
It was interesting when they pointed out how for at least the first two seasons everyone was mostly off-the-rack with their wardrobe choices but now most queens wouldn’t even walk into the ~workroom~ in anything off-the-rack let alone on stage. (Unless you’re ChiChi DeVayne) (and I say that from a place of love)
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 6 September 2018 04:28 (five years ago) link
My god, I think I've found the most shamelessly negligible of all showbiz awards...
Yaaas!!! Thank you @GoldDerby Awards!!! #DragRace snatched the award for Reality Competition Program and Mama @RuPaul snatched the award for Reality Host!! 🏆Come through!!! pic.twitter.com/KcgWPzUO0N— RuPaul's Drag Race (@RuPaulsDragRace) September 7, 2018
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Friday, 7 September 2018 19:31 (five years ago) link
My challop: "Come through" is some weak-tea catchphrase.
― Nag Reddit (Leee), Friday, 7 September 2018 19:34 (five years ago) link
went to Werq the World last night in montrealgreat show (although give the ticket prices, i'd sure hope so)Aquaria, Valentina, Violet Chachki, Eureka, Asia O'Hara, Kameron, Kim Chi, hosted by Bob the Drag Queen
to everyone's surprise (?) violet chachki stole the showthough i gotta say that one of eureka's numbers was amazing (and i hate eureka)
aquaria was great, really inhabits herself
asia did a piece about dying butterflies
― sean gramophone, Saturday, 8 September 2018 17:13 (five years ago) link
Might have been said before but Aquaria is the Valentina dream realized. She really exposed what Valentina was lacking this last season.
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Saturday, 8 September 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link
This is where I approve of Leee’s display name kthxbye
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 8 September 2018 20:23 (five years ago) link
ha i didn’t notice that before 👍🏻
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 September 2018 21:15 (five years ago) link
Ta!
― Nag Reddit (Leee), Sunday, 9 September 2018 01:06 (five years ago) link
Also, picking up on Sean's post just above, Violet is starting to really come into her own here a couple more years down the line. She and Katya did the latest Fashion Photo Ruview and my girlfriend and I think she pretty easily stole the show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tj4z5-GxMM
My girlfriend also adding that in terms of look and absolutely cutting right to the chase and telling you what she thinks, she feels Violet has got some classic Boy George vibes about now.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 9 September 2018 02:15 (five years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 September 2018 03:36 (five years ago) link
Eureka vs... Lisa Landry from Sister Sister
that's a thing now
what a world
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 9 September 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 9 September 2018 18:55 (five years ago) link
There's no fight. Eureka inserted herself into a situation when she should've just sat there and ate her rice.
― Cousin Slappy, Sunday, 9 September 2018 19:30 (five years ago) link
She pretty easily stole the show
Violet has got some classic Boy George vibes about now.
Totally. She is doing amazing in these.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
Geopolitical impact by one of our all-stars!
"The obstacle's a four-letter word: M-I-L-K," says WH econ advisor Larry Kudlow of trade talks with Canada. In the WH driveway with reporters, he says the US wants a trade deal with Canada but has to get through their tariffs on milk and dairy, he says as high as 300%. pic.twitter.com/1JoOW5jg8N— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) September 12, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 22:19 (five years ago) link
Morgan McMichaels: no biggie, just hurt herself punching Nazis.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo0LTxVBnFP/?hl=en
― Deontology Sanders (Leee), Friday, 12 October 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
The full triptych is amazing
Morgan McMichaels wearing an "I PUNCH NAZIS' shirt during a gig, then punching an actual nazi who tried attacking her and THEN having her cast stoned is today's mood. pic.twitter.com/YfAcD1E4Mu— Ξvan Ross Katz (@evanrosskatz) October 12, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 12 October 2018 20:45 (five years ago) link
Ooh nice find. PS I wish I could wear that tee in good faith!
― Deontology Sanders (Leee), Friday, 12 October 2018 21:15 (five years ago) link
morgan is a badass bitch i love her
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 12 October 2018 22:22 (five years ago) link
Legend.
― Madchen, Saturday, 13 October 2018 06:12 (five years ago) link
AS4 cast is out, do even we care still about AS?
― Captain Hardchord (Leee), Sunday, 11 November 2018 00:06 (five years ago) link
That's a lot of Drag Race for one year.
And a Christmas special too?
― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 11 November 2018 00:26 (five years ago) link
I am excited to see Trinity again, though!
― Captain Hardchord (Leee), Sunday, 11 November 2018 00:49 (five years ago) link
g g gGia
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 November 2018 01:01 (five years ago) link
Absolutely
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 11 November 2018 02:12 (five years ago) link
oats will be felt
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 November 2018 03:51 (five years ago) link
I wish they had waited a year before AS4, the line up feels a bit lacklustre and I think part of it is simply timing
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 11 November 2018 09:18 (five years ago) link
I think it's a great cast for the most part, but I agree they are milking that cow dry. Makes it feel less special to have an AS every year.
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 12 November 2018 15:14 (five years ago) link
As much as I love them, calling back Latrice and Manila for another AS is redundant imo. Replace them and Farrah Moan with Nina Bonina, Shea, Ongina and Mariah and we've got a perfect cast (I know it's already been filmed).
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 12 November 2018 15:22 (five years ago) link
i dunno - AS 1 was weird because of the team format, i think giving them a second shot is fine
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 November 2018 16:46 (five years ago) link
I mean, keep bringing back the girls of seasons 2-6 unto perpetuity afaic.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Monday, 12 November 2018 16:55 (five years ago) link
i agree!
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 November 2018 18:01 (five years ago) link
I don't think it's chance that there are only two white contestants in this round -- or that we're getting Monet and Monique back.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 November 2018 18:04 (five years ago) link
Season 1 is so underrated. Nina Flowers, Tammy Brown, Ongina, Bebe and Shannel are classic. (x-post)
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 12 November 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link
An interesting All Stars would have a second chances theme for girls who were eliminated really early like Kelly Mantle or April Carrion.
As for this upcoming season, it looks to me like the first one without a predetermined winner in mind.
― I Got Stopped By a Lady Cop on my Automobileee (Leee), Monday, 12 November 2018 19:32 (five years ago) link
OK, so that holiday special was kind of ... really truly awful.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Saturday, 8 December 2018 04:46 (five years ago) link
Yeah I heard enough advance word about it to steer clear.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 8 December 2018 05:44 (five years ago) link
Okay so anyway
If Obama released NCAA tournament predictions, does that mean I can do the same for RPDR #AllStars4? 🤔— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) December 15, 2018
(The right one went home tonight, frankly.)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 15 December 2018 05:42 (five years ago) link
That was kind of rote. Hardly anything surprising or, unfortunately, entertaining.
― The Boorish Manners of a Yaleee (Leee), Sunday, 16 December 2018 02:29 (five years ago) link
Also the timing of it just before Xmas seems weird, honestly. Guess we'll see where it goes...
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 16 December 2018 02:54 (five years ago) link
Yeah it was kinda mehTrixie summed it up best:https://i.imgur.com/WXheujK.jpg
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 16 December 2018 03:03 (five years ago) link
This ep had the benefit of coming a week after the worst thing I've ever seen in my entire life.
It was totally fine. Tho if I'm to be totally honest I think Monique won that LSFYL.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Sunday, 16 December 2018 03:04 (five years ago) link
Also, seemed a little weird to re-introduce two previous all-stars and then both of them are merely safe the first week. Like, make at least one of them a serious threat?
(Which based on the talent show I kinda feel Manila actually was. Latrice, otoh, seemed saved in the editing room.)
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Sunday, 16 December 2018 03:07 (five years ago) link
Trixie otm. I'm ok with Monique hitting the cow stuff hard in the variety show but Monet repeating her crossing/splits-fakeout thing was very disappointing -- she can do so much better! (I wonder if going from 10 to AS4 means that she hasn't had the time to replenish her gag bag.)
― The Boorish Manners of a Yaleee (Leee), Sunday, 16 December 2018 03:14 (five years ago) link
Monique’s lipsync was a nope for me. the stupid wig flip like, 30 SECONDS into the song? and then that fake orgasm finale. ugh. wall to wall Gimmicks & jumps in your first lipsync in allstars to classic MARIAH? cmon. Trinity sold it way better imo.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 16 December 2018 03:19 (five years ago) link
Gia Gunn's haterade tho ...
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Sunday, 16 December 2018 03:33 (five years ago) link
Agreed with Trinity that it's even stronger this time around.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Sunday, 16 December 2018 03:34 (five years ago) link
(Sorry.)
― The Boorish Manners of a Yaleee (Leee), Sunday, 16 December 2018 03:44 (five years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 16 December 2018 05:21 (five years ago) link
The Race Chaser ‘very important message’ that just went up is worth a listen.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 11:45 (five years ago) link
Monet repeating her crossing/splits-fakeout thing was very disappointing
SOOOOOO otm and I felt the same way when I watched it, like "oh shit is this going to be the entire season"?
y'all, is the scripting/producer manipulation actually getting more obvious/less believable (e.g. Gia Gunn being such a bitch abt Farrah and then being like "wow she slayed me") or am I just getting more cynical and less invested?
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 14:16 (five years ago) link
OMG at the Race Chaser announcement! That was ... out of the blue!
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 16:08 (five years ago) link
i was worried for a moment, i’m so gullible lol
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 16:50 (five years ago) link
With apologies to Latrice: GGGGGIAR (good god Gia Gunn give it a rest). I didn't notice her being extra shady the first episode but she just morphed into Messy Drama Jesus.
Which naturally overshadows Valentina who definitely slayed the main challenge and lipsync and definitely is starring in her own one-woman telenovela.
Monique clearly the right choice to stay but if she had more self-awareness she'd be incredible.
― Siouxie Sioux Vide (Leee), Saturday, 22 December 2018 22:21 (five years ago) link
And the whole show is so metatextual now, I guess this is what a long-running successful reality show is bound to be in 2018.
― Siouxie Sioux Vide (Leee), Saturday, 22 December 2018 22:23 (five years ago) link
OK, I underestimated Manila's capacity for tele-genic (and not just messy, self-serving) drama.
― love craptually (Eric H.), Saturday, 29 December 2018 03:33 (five years ago) link
Top 3 are going to be Trinity, Valentina and Manila, and it kills me to see Latrice fading into the background so consistently thus far.
― love craptually (Eric H.), Saturday, 29 December 2018 03:34 (five years ago) link
Last week's episode showed the real danger of consistently going to 90 minutes because that dragged, in the bad way. Thankfully this worked better this week.
Manila rules and always has. Latrice does seem to be more...relaxed.
Top 3 are going to be Trinity, Valentina and Manila
Meaning all the black queens go? (I mean...I could see that at this point, given season 10.)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 29 December 2018 05:48 (five years ago) link
Exactly. Unless ru’s producers are getting wise to the criticisms.
― love craptually (Eric H.), Saturday, 29 December 2018 14:23 (five years ago) link
Everyone has much better teeth all of a sudden.
― Yerac, Saturday, 29 December 2018 17:02 (five years ago) link
Ha, I was thinking that too...
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 29 December 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
I seriously lol'd that Gia called out Trinity's fucked up nose.
― Yerac, Sunday, 30 December 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link
I think (hope?) that Naomi is getting a stealth edit, especially considering that she's done well in the last two challenges.
― Siouxie Sioux Vide (Leee), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 00:19 (five years ago) link
Not sure that's going to be the most popular thing that [THIS WEEK'S WINNER] will have ever done, but I hate to say it, she made the very right decision. I wish [THIS WEEK'S SASHAY-ER] had at one point really stepped her puss up.
― love craptually (Eric H.), Saturday, 5 January 2019 03:24 (five years ago) link
Yeah I don’t disagreeBut then again I don’t look at Monet & think ~she’s such an all star~I mean, she’ll go home too in a couple of episodes imo
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 January 2019 18:43 (five years ago) link
Definitely going to shift into major crunch time here -- but the tease about the big rule change next time has me wondering.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 5 January 2019 20:32 (five years ago) link
Anyway Manila Luzon posted her original Curves and Swerves look: pic.twitter.com/KbAN1K6H1z— Zeba Blay (@zblay) January 7, 2019
― love craptually (Eric H.), Monday, 7 January 2019 16:41 (five years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 7 January 2019 17:18 (five years ago) link
I was about to say, that goddamn rules. And Ru was complaining about bad taste?
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 January 2019 18:10 (five years ago) link
With visibility comes great responsitrannity.
― love craptually (Eric H.), Monday, 7 January 2019 18:21 (five years ago) link
Apparently the original name of the runway was Padded for the Gods but they changed it last minute because of this. It explains why Valentina's look seemed a bit off for the theme.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link
ohhhhhh that makes sense now!
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 00:31 (five years ago) link
Shenanigans.
― love craptually (Eric H.), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 01:49 (five years ago) link
Well this is unexpected: https://github.com/stympy/faker/blob/master/doc/v1.9.1/rupaul.md
(So that's a Ruby on Rails library for coming up with test data.)
― Oleeever St. John Yogurty (Leee), Thursday, 17 January 2019 23:29 (five years ago) link
Oh and interesting thing I heard from Monet's Youtube series is that when Manila wanted to wear her period piece, Rupaul actually said she'd be eliminated if she tried.
― Oleeever St. John Yogurty (Leee), Thursday, 17 January 2019 23:31 (five years ago) link
(FINALLY a Github project I'm qualified to submit to!)
― Oleeever St. John Yogurty (Leee), Thursday, 17 January 2019 23:37 (five years ago) link
Naomi v Gia was a lipsync for the ages
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 19 January 2019 20:01 (five years ago) link
I honestly didn't think Naomi had it in her but it was amazingLatrice vs. Monique was REALLY the show-stopper though, my fist banged the table four times
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 19 January 2019 20:47 (five years ago) link
They were a bit messier for me, but I loved how hard they were both fighting for it! Wigs left & right lol
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 19 January 2019 20:51 (five years ago) link
Ru hasn't talked this much since she laid into the Vixen atthe reunion.
― Oleeever St. John Yogurty (Leee), Sunday, 20 January 2019 00:44 (five years ago) link
John Polley mentioned something on his youtube show like maybe Ru drank too much coffee againIt was funny tho
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 20 January 2019 01:44 (five years ago) link
Season 11 promo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyiDn9YXe3g
Miss Vanjie's back!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 January 2019 22:30 (five years ago) link
vaaaaaaanjie
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 25 January 2019 02:37 (five years ago) link
It's such a gimme, but at the same time I kinda want to see her body through the entire competition, send everyone home crying, physically take the crown from somebody at the end of the day and just leave and establish an actual monarchy somewhere.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 January 2019 02:43 (five years ago) link
https://youtu.be/f1yWooQIVD8
She really is the Gilbert Gottfried of drag.
― Oleeever St. John Yogurty (Leee), Saturday, 26 January 2019 20:28 (five years ago) link
https://youtu.be/gQTLaqvCjXs@ 4:21 Monet ours herself as an Avatar: the Last Airbender fan!
― Oleeever St. John Yogurty (Leee), Saturday, 26 January 2019 20:36 (five years ago) link
How did I completely miss that Valentina was Angel in Rent???
― Yerac, Monday, 28 January 2019 15:08 (five years ago) link
GAG.
This season has definitely picked up in the last couple weeks, and it was great to see this week's winner step up, especially since I knew, based on her original season, she had more to show than we've seen. And the high camp of her lipsync!
I did not expect to Monet in the top though...
― Stateleee, Plump Buck Mulleeegan (Leee), Saturday, 2 February 2019 23:14 (five years ago) link
Maybe the most baskstabby elimination since shangela sent thorgy home?
― forrest drumpf (Eric H.), Saturday, 2 February 2019 23:18 (five years ago) link
GOOPED, YOU GUYShttps://media.giphy.com/media/iBaYzmz4mnPPSaJz7F/giphy.gif
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 February 2019 23:33 (five years ago) link
1) how the fuck did Monet get a top vote2) how did Trinity not get a top vote3) monique & latrice’s workroom chats w Ru = 😭4) G O O P E D
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 February 2019 23:35 (five years ago) link
Book me on CNN because I am Sanjay GOOPEDTA.
― Stateleee, Plump Buck Mulleeegan (Leee), Sunday, 3 February 2019 18:28 (five years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 3 February 2019 18:44 (five years ago) link
Hahaha. Yeah that was a scene.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 3 February 2019 22:26 (five years ago) link
1) how the fuck did Monet get a top vote2) how did Trinity not get a top vote
Or even Monique. Did not get the Money love at all. Maybe she did good at the Judy number, but we can never really tell who does well in these.
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 4 February 2019 20:57 (five years ago) link
and why would that figure higher in the judging than you two judy looks & runway? monet’s judy makeover of Patty was kinda horrifying imo, his face was clown- white with hardly any contour of color anything!! compared to Trinity’s judy looks for ex
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 4 February 2019 21:14 (five years ago) link
Maybe they wanted a sacrificial lamb on the altar of Naomi's lipsync?
― Stateleee, Plump Buck Mulleeegan (Leee), Monday, 4 February 2019 21:16 (five years ago) link
Frances Bean didn't bring much to the table as a judge but, you know, being the age I am and remembering her arriving in the world in real time and all that...just a little strange. (And I do remember that bunch of photos with Kurt and Ru and etc.)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 4 February 2019 21:19 (five years ago) link
I think she was super-duper nervous
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 4 February 2019 21:29 (five years ago) link
I don't know how anybody else feels but Naomi's lip-sync was the one of the greatest things I've ever seen in my lifeI actively wondered if Monet was deliberately sitting it out to let Naomi have her win (and to remove her from having to make that toughest of decisions)Bummer though I was hard-core rooting for the individual who was eliminated (and now I'm rooting 100% for Naomi)
― froggles! (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 4 February 2019 21:47 (five years ago) link
From my spot on the couch, it looked like Monet was trying to pull one of those "let the face sell the song" bits, like what Latrice did with Aretha's "You Make Me Feel." It didn't feel anywhere near as deliberate a throw as Trinity's old suit from last week.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Monday, 4 February 2019 21:48 (five years ago) link
lol I loved Trinity's performance last week!
like what Latrice did with Aretha's "You Make Me Feel."
This sounds 100% plausible! But IMO that tactic totally doesn't fit the song.
― Stateleee, Plump Buck Mulleeegan (Leee), Monday, 4 February 2019 22:03 (five years ago) link
Exactly how I saw it too. Which I thought could've worked on it's own, but not next to Naomi's slayage.
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 4 February 2019 23:24 (five years ago) link
Book of the year already.
Darlings, it brings us JOY LIKE YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE to announce that our book: "LEGENDARY CHILDREN: The First Decade of @RuPaulsDragRace and the Last Century of Queer Life” will be published by Penguin Books in April ‘20!!!!!!!!WE'RE GAGGING, BITCHES! pic.twitter.com/kYfQsS6haf— Tom & Lorenzo (@tomandlorenzo) February 5, 2019
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 17:21 (five years ago) link
(Next year, I should say.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 17:22 (five years ago) link
Man, live your life and get paid.
Sooo @iamcardib and I are besties now...bahahaha #iwish 😂😂🙃 pic.twitter.com/URyFHhLtBZ— Monét X Change (@monetxchange) February 7, 2019
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 7 February 2019 18:05 (five years ago) link
Jesus, that Sex and the City challenge was hard work.
But I have a serious case of winter lips at the moment, so I am just obsessed with watching Naomi's mouth move.
― trishyb, Saturday, 9 February 2019 09:59 (five years ago) link
Hard to watch? That was a dud of a script. Aside from Monique, I couldn't tell who would be in the top/bottom.
Latrice needs to avoid flinging baked pastries at the other girls, it never works out well for her.
― Stateleee, Plump Buck Mulleeegan (Leee), Saturday, 9 February 2019 23:10 (five years ago) link
ugh after last week’s rollercoaster thrillride this was about as exciting kayaking in a shallow pond that challenge was bad, the script was SO bad ughand Monet looked like a CARE BEAR sex toy 😂
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 February 2019 01:00 (five years ago) link
Yeah I admit I watched last night on mute as I was catching up with some listening, as I kinda felt this was going to be a slog. From what I could tell, I was right!
I am at least glad we're getting a week's break before season 11. New Drag Race episodes run for half the year now!
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 10 February 2019 01:51 (five years ago) link
Cheeses, really? I wonder if they feel that the moment won't last for drag/Drag Race and are trying to squeeze as much out of it as possible.
― Stateleee, Plump Buck Mulleeegan (Leee), Sunday, 10 February 2019 02:47 (five years ago) link
I mean as an above-ground cultural phenomenon that the entertainment industry can make a quick buck off, of course.
― Stateleee, Plump Buck Mulleeegan (Leee), Sunday, 10 February 2019 03:10 (five years ago) link
I think the demand cycle is there, and we're seeing a general mainstreaming more and more. There's always a need for fresh faces...
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 10 February 2019 05:24 (five years ago) link
yeah, last week was a bit of a let down after the previouswas trying to remember, did Naomi ever lip-sync on her season (aside from finale when top 3 did songs, and group challenges like when the did teams on Adrenaline etc) she def impressed me on both this time and on her Judy piece, was anyone else getting serious Carol Burnett vibes from her performance?but still bummed a la Alaska, what she has done to her lips
― H in Addis, Sunday, 10 February 2019 10:20 (five years ago) link
y'all, did any of you watch the Pit Stop episode w Vanjie? I... do not think she is going to last long.
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 10 February 2019 14:58 (five years ago) link
yeah i have some misgivings, lol
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 February 2019 15:38 (five years ago) link
Naomi lipsynced against Acid Betty. Yeah, I didn't remember that either.
― Stateleee, Plump Buck Mulleeegan (Leee), Sunday, 10 February 2019 18:39 (five years ago) link
...that was bogus.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 16 February 2019 18:34 (five years ago) link
Yup.
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 16 February 2019 19:39 (five years ago) link
I love Naomi so much and she's a Virgo, so
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 16 February 2019 20:12 (five years ago) link
whut
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 February 2019 01:52 (five years ago) link
(whut re the results not fgti)
that result felt super lazy imo
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 February 2019 01:53 (five years ago) link
Based off the whole season, I would have given the prize to Trinity. But based off the final challenge, runway, and lipsync, it should have been Monet on her own. Trinity's final dress was really amazing, but you put that dress on any queen and she will look fabulous. Monet wore something that was about her, and she looked like an absolute queen in it. Also I just love Monet.
― trishyb, Sunday, 17 February 2019 11:09 (five years ago) link
Based off the whole season I would've easily given the prize to Manila.
Trinity was so unlikeable. Her entire vector seemed less about "I want to contribute to drag culture" and more about "I want to win this competition". Every speech she gave about trying to be fair with her elimination choices felt emotionally manipulative. Her dresses and wigs were exquisite but looked like money spent... basically I felt the same way toward Trinity as I did toward Aquaria: money will hack this competition.
Naomi in her lip-syncs revealed herself to be not just an assassin but, like, uh, one of the best performers I've ever had the privilege of watching? I watched her Judy Garland performance three times and will watch it again
And I love Monique so so much I wish we were friends
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 17 February 2019 12:51 (five years ago) link
Oh yes. I was only going on the four who were in the final. Definitely Manila.
― trishyb, Sunday, 17 February 2019 14:57 (five years ago) link
xpost I have been having a hard time watching all of this all stars because I dislike Trinity so much.
― Yerac, Sunday, 17 February 2019 15:27 (five years ago) link
I liked Aquaria fine tho. The queen where I thought “the money is being put to excellent use” was by far Miz Cracker, who has my favourite collection of runway looks over any other queen I’ve seen, whoever her designer is they should win an award
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 17 February 2019 16:19 (five years ago) link
oh god i HATED Aquaria!! She was the most boring
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 15:57 (five years ago) link
She made me like The Vixen more, at least
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 16:06 (five years ago) link
yeah I feel like the producers knew they had an issue with all the all star winners being white. at least they didn't split the prize money in half.
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 16:59 (five years ago) link
Echoing that!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 February 2019 17:04 (five years ago) link
Lotta good points here:
https://www.dailyxtra.com/how-can-rupauls-drag-race-become-great-and-gay-again-144820#.XG77vEeokK4.twitter
Also it was interesting to hear Race Chaser grapple more directly with race in the wake of last week's ending. And Jinkx, who was on the line, was particularly pointed on that! As was Willam, who's close with Latrice.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 February 2019 19:31 (five years ago) link
Now this is great.
Shangela performed at the fucking #SpiritAwards. I loved it almost as much as Barry Jenkins does <3 pic.twitter.com/rIZstgrqEA— Jarett Wieselman (@JarettSays) February 23, 2019
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 24 February 2019 00:45 (five years ago) link
fuck she is the best
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 24 February 2019 00:47 (five years ago) link
There we go.
Drag queens are at the #Oscars because a movie they’re in is nominated for Best Picture. That is so fucking epic. So proud of Shangela and Willam 💕 pic.twitter.com/8oiwKn6UdM— Jarett Wieselman (@JarettSays) February 24, 2019
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 24 February 2019 22:06 (five years ago) link
Must admit I haven’t had a chance to catch up on @RuPaulsDragRace, but wishing Ben all the best in raising money for a great cause @SandsUK. https://t.co/9WtToSrsFb— Theresa May (@theresa_may) February 28, 2019
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Thursday, 28 February 2019 16:26 (five years ago) link
I appreciate how the first response is Aquaria trashing her.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 February 2019 17:10 (five years ago) link
Anyway, not a bad first episode all in all -- an actual sewing challenge from scratch, more or less! -- but both it and Untucked sure felt like "The Miley Reclamation Project" at times.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 1 March 2019 21:26 (five years ago) link
I got diagnosed with tendonitis
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 March 2019 06:27 (five years ago) link
i have literally now heard everything
i’ve been a Miley stan from the Disney channel days, i love her so much & i thought she was awesome <3(just quietly tho she should maybe get a restraining order against silky nutmeg bc jesus)the hannah montana lipsync was hilar, such a weird shitshowi love all the davenport girls but esp Honey, i love nina west, i’m into Canadian Detox Brooklyn whatever i am here for themi already hate Scarlet Envy she looks like the nightmare child of Tammie Brown & Violet Chachki.and she’s Pearl’s drag daughter so it’ll be negligeès all the way down i guess
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 March 2019 06:49 (five years ago) link
I’d have put Ms 3rd Last in the bottom two because her photoshoot was such a disaster and what a booooring outfit she made. But she probably would have stayed because it would be hard to do worse than that dire lipsynch.
― Madchen, Saturday, 2 March 2019 16:33 (five years ago) link
I really, really, really wanted to love Silky but she makes it v hardI did not hate Ariel nearly as much as I thought I would based on the 15 min previewI really loved the *idea* of Soju and wanted her to stay for a minute but it was clear she is just not that good, also lmao at those overdrawn lips???
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 2 March 2019 19:21 (five years ago) link
yeah, Soju seemed cool but was really just not ~together~ or ready enough for the show. I enjoy Vanjie & her look but lord she needs a body glitter intervention. girl looks like she’s doing Goldfinger cosplay - she could use half as much & still look good
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 March 2019 19:39 (five years ago) link
i was getting a good Nicole Byers vibe off Silky when she walked in. i def want to like her! i just hope she doesnt get booted before she eases up on the gas pedal
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 March 2019 19:44 (five years ago) link
I have a feeling La Visage will say something about the Vanjie body glitter if it continues.
― Madchen, Saturday, 2 March 2019 20:20 (five years ago) link
The conspicuous desperation is so off-putting, though, like if you're gonna play the game try to maybe be a bit more clever about it? It feels so artificial
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 2 March 2019 20:21 (five years ago) link
wait so.....
it was very clear that soju was not ready to be on the show. the other queens were calling it out on air etc. they tried to edit into a storyline -- soju attempts to prove that she's an actual drag queen! -- but she's prob the least prepared queen in the show's history. i found it embarrassing and i feel bad for her... i see she's trying to make a meme out of going on national tv and talking about how a cyst on her taint exploded while she was on an airplane, and like yeah you can certainly make that kinda thing your brand but i don't think that's how she saw this going. anyway i find it hard to believe the producers didn't realize all of this beforehand and though i don't *think* they cast her with the intention of making a fool out of her, i wonder what they really thought was going to happen
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 3 March 2019 07:12 (five years ago) link
also i find it extremely lame that they cast a fuckin RECAPPER to be on the show. drag race has this myopia about its own mythology that i find to be kinda suffocating at this point & between soju and vanjie and the summoning or invocation of like two dozen old queens this episode really started to push the limit for me
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 3 March 2019 07:19 (five years ago) link
oh & the cast is like a third queens whose drag mothers are old drag race queens. it's just a lot
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 3 March 2019 07:20 (five years ago) link
I sometimes wonder if the ultimate goal of the show is to create a mega All-Stars season where it's all the past champions in a fight to the death, and then Ru finally retires.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 3 March 2019 08:16 (five years ago) link
Yeah, the show's reached peak Marvel Cinematic Universe monocultural insularity. I too don't know what they were getting at with Soju.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Sunday, 3 March 2019 14:57 (five years ago) link
Also, have a feeling its trajectory is going to mirror The Simpsons'.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Sunday, 3 March 2019 14:58 (five years ago) link
Pretty sure the producers decided to say fuck saturation we’re riding this thing into the ground.
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Sunday, 3 March 2019 15:58 (five years ago) link
Ru's early career certainly gives her all reason to make the most when the iron's hot.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Sunday, 3 March 2019 16:22 (five years ago) link
I mean we've already reached the 'people who grew up on the show win' stage with Aquaria. Next season should just be recappers, and then Ru sends them all home immediately and then it does finally become the Best Friend Race with Ru and the main three judges just sitting around talking trash.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 3 March 2019 16:41 (five years ago) link
the producers are tanking the show, intentionally or not. imo.
― clouds, Sunday, 3 March 2019 17:54 (five years ago) link
i still watch project runway and top chef so it's not like im gonna stop watching this... at its core it's still an amazing show. any show that makes it that long eventually worms its way up its own ass. but drag race is coming out the other side at this point
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 3 March 2019 20:24 (five years ago) link
I still watch Top Chef and PR too (love Top Chef so much still). I didn't watch the last regular season or finish the All Stars that Trinity And Trixie won (I am not a fan of either of them). I saw the holiday special in its entirety (terrible). I may just wait until the british version comes out before picking this back up.
― Yerac, Sunday, 3 March 2019 20:57 (five years ago) link
Has anyone seen the Thai version? I really should.In many ways, the ancillary programming the show has resulted in is where the real fun is these days.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 3 March 2019 21:45 (five years ago) link
What’s a Recapper? Who was it?
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Tuesday, 5 March 2019 15:44 (five years ago) link
Has anyone seen the Thai version? I really should
I feel like instead of maxing out the brand with more all stars and more regular seasons they should just air the international versions of the show
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, 5 March 2019 16:13 (five years ago) link
yeah the thai version is surpassing the american one at this point
― clouds, Monday, 11 March 2019 14:51 (five years ago) link
That was a mess -- but a thought provoking mess because it broke certain conventions, and breaking points illustrate the rules of reality tv as a genre.
Reality tv hates ambiguity, and narratively important moments need to demonstrate clear causality. I think that's partly why Mercedes's reticence to talk about her religion feels so frustrating; in a genre where everything needs to be legible, not be forthcoming is undermines audience expectation. And legible causality is also why the fight between Silky and her team doesn't feel rewarding -- we don't really get a chance to hear Silky explain herself (and that's something I noticed in the previous episode, too, where people cut her off before she's done talking), which is then capped off by the non sequitur of her saying that she's ready to lipsync. When people on reality tv fight, we usually want to know who's in the right and who's in the wrong so that we can take a side, but when that's not clear, we're left confused and unresolved.
Sorry for waxing critical, I'd rather think about the above than gay Urkel or budget Aquaria.
Vanjie was awesome though.
― LEOPLOD BLOOMPS (Leee), Saturday, 16 March 2019 22:26 (five years ago) link
Vanjie is such a joy to watchThat lipsync was bananas. In a bad way
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 16 March 2019 22:39 (five years ago) link
i felt bad watching untucked when honey collapses in tears immediately after getting offstage bcuz i was crying laughing watching that lip sync like “damn this show still has it!”
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 17 March 2019 03:16 (five years ago) link
poor honey. that made me tear up
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 March 2019 03:37 (five years ago) link
I thought that the script the Britney team came up with was much funnier than any script they've been provided with for an acting challenge in a long time
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 17 March 2019 09:52 (five years ago) link
also I felt that Mercedes reluctance to speak about her religion was more like the beginning of a chapter in her narrative, and over the next few weeks we'lll see a story unfold relating to how her faith affects her
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 17 March 2019 09:53 (five years ago) link
Honey has got to be the most excruciating elimination reaction in the history of the show. I thought she was great and promising and I'm amazed she went home so early???
also otm that the Britney thing was actually funny and not fake hammy RuPaul funny
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 17 March 2019 17:10 (five years ago) link
yeah they did a great job with that!
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 March 2019 17:18 (five years ago) link
Vanjie deserves the win. I don’t care what her runway looked like.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Sunday, 17 March 2019 20:28 (five years ago) link
i love how open Vanjie is, like she just seems born to improv. and her cutaways are always hysterical.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 March 2019 21:21 (five years ago) link
i love that Ru puts a real fine point on it: this challenge is designed to see of you can put on a show. And Nina definitely lighted the way for her group. Love seeing her rise up finally.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 March 2019 21:22 (five years ago) link
Hands up anyone else who just fast-forwarded through the Rusical to get to the runway and commentary? I just hate those things.
― trishyb, Friday, 22 March 2019 11:03 (five years ago) link
They're getting worse
― boxedjoy, Friday, 22 March 2019 14:20 (five years ago) link
it was weird af as alwaysSilky’s Oprah was everything though. EVERYTHING.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 23 March 2019 19:01 (five years ago) link
and I couldve watched a whole episode of choreo rehearsal. RajaI AM A DANCER I CAN DANCE ALL THE DANCEStoi danced 15 years agotoi knew a dancertoi saw Step Up briefly when i walked past a tv display in Best Buy one time
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 23 March 2019 19:05 (five years ago) link
I was convinced the RPDR subreddit would be echoing the twitter reaction I've seen to Joel McHale's guest judge stint but, surprisingly, it's the opposite. That or they're all just thirsty bitches.
Whatever, I thought it was amusing (after initially hating it).
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Saturday, 23 March 2019 19:10 (five years ago) link
I appreciate full on straight bro positivity just dropped into the usual mix for hilarious purposes.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 23 March 2019 23:51 (five years ago) link
and I couldve watched a whole episode of choreo rehearsal.
Lord Rajah was hilarious. Looks only get you so far...
The main challenge was middling, but that's in the context of the last X seasons with limp scripted challenges.
This was OTM even before this episode! Wanted to call that out. I'm not really enjoying the season so I'm a little reluctant to give it the benefit of the doubt.
― LEOPLOD BLOOMPS (Leee), Monday, 25 March 2019 21:47 (five years ago) link
Also, Yvie is like a mix of Naomi Smalls and the Vixen.
― LEOPLOD BLOOMPS (Leee), Monday, 25 March 2019 22:22 (five years ago) link
i enjoyed the rusical but maybe i'm so terrified by the idea of learning choreography that i'm always impressed by the final number
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 26 March 2019 00:35 (five years ago) link
― LEOPLOD BLOOMPS (Leee), Monday, March 25, 2019 6:22 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark
i like yvie... her runway looks are novel and editorial but not amateurish. she'll come up w some amazing stuff once she has drag race money. but i do agree that one thing that grates about the show now is that you can really see the machine that connects the show to the cottage industry that has sprouted up around it. so when michelle visage says "no one is doing what yvie oddly is doing right now" i think "well that's a patently ridiculous even if you only know drag queens who have been on drag race." that having been said it *is* the type of thing that you would air on television if say you also have a year round worldwide traveling brigade of drag queens to constantly promote and refresh. in the second episode when ru was chastising the losing group for doing so poorly, she said "we're looking to see if you can host a show"... of course what she didn't say but should've said was "we're looking to see if you can host a show... for us"
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 26 March 2019 00:44 (five years ago) link
"you can really see the machine that connects the show to the cottage industry that has sprouted up around it"
i mean tot say that you can see this machine working in real time now
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 26 March 2019 00:45 (five years ago) link
I thought this main challenge was one of the best turnouts all around, well-written and well-done by all participants. Brook Lynn is far and away the front-runner here imo and I'm head-over-heels in love with Vanjie and Silky. Rajah is an assassin, btw, that was amazing
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 00:53 (five years ago) link
There’s a running theme of male vocalists yielding astonishing LSFYL moments, tho this and Peppermint’s “Macho Man” are the only ones coming to mind rn
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 02:53 (five years ago) link
Brook Lynn is boring so far. In any other season she'd be mid-pack.
I just thought of a great drag name but you have to be Chinese to appreciate it: Tanya Bing (which puns on diabetes in Mandarin).
― LEOPLOD BLOOMPS (Leee), Friday, 29 March 2019 20:20 (four years ago) link
That was a tepid, dull ball episode. Seriously, have NONE of these queens lived through a Halloween?
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Friday, 29 March 2019 20:36 (four years ago) link
Kinda loved that by far the scariest thing in the whole episode was Silky and Nina locking lips.
god some of those looks, jesusseriously loled my head off at Scarlet. that Fire Island witch like girl wtf are you doing. and her leigh bowery gimp from the black lagoon. rofland these references they are coming with. what the fuck. “Giving you charlize theron from snow white and the huntsman” like girl no-one saw that stupidass fucking movie. cmon watch a movie more than 10 years old
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 31 March 2019 07:24 (four years ago) link
33 looks was far too many, this challenge definitely could have waited til there were fewer contestants
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 31 March 2019 08:04 (four years ago) link
also Vanjie is cracking me up, every time there's a bit where they cheer collectively you can hear her voice over everyone else's and I find it hilarious whenever it happens
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 31 March 2019 08:06 (four years ago) link
This episode made me miss dance. ;-;
Untucked was the nicest and sweetest its been in a while. I couldn't track what was going down with Wig-gate but the other stuff was a nice break from the amped up drama.
― I've been starving them, teasing them, singing off Leee (Leee), Monday, 8 April 2019 00:15 (four years ago) link
I enjoyed the episode a lot!Have seen fan comments on insta etc that Scarlet was robbed but anyone who knows Ru and the show knows that Raja had it in the bag. she lipsynced like she meant it, you could see it in her face. Glitter & scissors & gimmicks only go so far.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 8 April 2019 01:29 (four years ago) link
I need all the uncut footage of Vanjie & Brooklyn’s choreo, they were SO goodoh and how awesome was the Love Connie mini challenge?!?
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 8 April 2019 01:31 (four years ago) link
Yeah that was a treat and a half.
We seem to finally be getting past the chaff stage here. It's felt longer than it has in a while.
Also, emotional/sensitive Vanjie! Never would have predicted THAT.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 April 2019 01:48 (four years ago) link
Glitter & scissors & gimmicks only go so far.
Rose petals are pretty effective though!
― I've been starving them, teasing them, singing off Leee (Leee), Monday, 8 April 2019 02:09 (four years ago) link
yes but Sasha gave emotion WITH gimmick, she was not a onetrick pony. and obv operating on a higher level than scarlet anyway
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 8 April 2019 04:34 (four years ago) link
evie oddly’s whole story this week was really moving, def puts chronic pain into perspective when she just has adjusted to life going through her days at a constant 5 pain level. and the fact that she chose drag as a career, which is like varying forms of physical pain for ppl without chronic conditions! like, damn. respect. i loved the dolls talking her through her blunt/unhelpful “advice giving” in Untucked without turning it into a dramatic screaming match. also can i say i am really enjoying Akiria. her cutaways are so dry & hilarious.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 8 April 2019 04:42 (four years ago) link
I love all these queens
I am tired or Michelle telling Asian queens that they lack personality, Plastique is so so so good
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 8 April 2019 05:23 (four years ago) link
yeah and there's a very defined idea of what "personality" means in the context of drag race i.e. complete over the topness. or for instance that "personality" includes a certain base level of (often sometimes kind of obscure!) pop culture knowledge which can be an inherent disadvantage for the non-american or non-american born queens.
somehow the show remains great even tho i feel like you can spot which queens have really had their idea of drag "personality" shaped by drag race ahem yvie oddly (who is very good). almost in spite of itself it feels like a lot of the time. but this season has been pretty great.
― J0rdan S., Monday, 8 April 2019 05:45 (four years ago) link
Yeah I agree, this is one of the strongest seasons I've seen. I wasn't at all excited by the roll-out but I was WRONG these queens are terrific.
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 8 April 2019 12:00 (four years ago) link
Not in the same boat. And I blame the extra half hour. I wouldn’t have wanted that even in season 5 tbh.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Monday, 8 April 2019 12:22 (four years ago) link
Can we talk about Nina? I love that she's doing well, especially since camp queens haven't been doing well for several seasons now.
― I've been starving them, teasing them, singing off Leee (Leee), Monday, 8 April 2019 17:44 (four years ago) link
will she be allowed to go where ginger minge was not ?
― J0rdan S., Monday, 8 April 2019 19:36 (four years ago) link
Ginge was a pageant queen!
― I've been starving them, teasing them, singing off Leee (Leee), Monday, 8 April 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link
Also, she should've won that season.
― I've been starving them, teasing them, singing off Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 02:49 (four years ago) link
Well, Katya should've won that season.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 03:22 (four years ago) link
Well, of the top 3 that we got...
― I've been starving them, teasing them, singing off Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 06:13 (four years ago) link
https://imgur.com/a/bFs8pPb
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 14 April 2019 14:41 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/BFhsrzH_d.jpg
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 14 April 2019 14:42 (four years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 14 April 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link
I approve.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlFN-2cmpzA
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 April 2019 22:33 (four years ago) link
Awesome !
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 19 April 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link
So wait, were we all just so slain by that lip sync on the latest that we didn’t have anything to say? Because goddamn.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 April 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
You could see the double save coming from a mile away, not just because the show telegraphed it by putting two ostensible fan favorites in the bottom, but because that was the blast radius, to torture a metaphor.
IMO this was the weakest top 3 for a Snatch Game. I thought Plastique would make it for the shade she and Silky were throwing at each other.
― Audrey Tautoulogy (Leee), Saturday, 20 April 2019 20:58 (four years ago) link
I was worried Plastique would choke but she was fine! Silky was so so funny.
I am frustrated for Yvie. She didn't actually call Silky "untalented", and what she did say was in anger after Silky made that weirdly ableist comment that everybody is just OK with? Anyway. Brook Lynn is a superstar and I'm blown away and I like that she sits through the Untuckeds sipping her drink with her eyebrows raised and not getting involved
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 20 April 2019 22:07 (four years ago) link
Brooklyn is amazing. That WIG that RUNWAY those LEGS that MUG Silky was awesome at Snatch Game & her runway was gorgeous but goddamn she is a petty salty bitchSo glad they didn’t send Vanjie home. I was worried for a minute
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 April 2019 23:22 (four years ago) link
Silky was awesome at Snatch Game & her runway was gorgeous but goddamn she is a petty salty bitch
She ought to change her name to Silky Sea Salt Ganache.
― Audrey Tautoulogy (Leee), Sunday, 21 April 2019 02:15 (four years ago) link
You could see the double save coming from a mile away
Yeah true. It's almost to the point where I'm like "I dunno...do we have to send anyone away?" (Which says something about how they finally got rid of the chaff.)
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 21 April 2019 02:16 (four years ago) link
to me yvie's beefs with both vanjie and silky stem from remarks that were basically just like "im giving an unserious answer to the reality show gambit of stirring drama by asking who should go home" yet lo and behold the drama was stirred!
as far as yvie goes there's this specific thing in reality shows where the person is like "i'm sorry but i'm just telling it like it is!" which usually is just code for "i'm being a rude asshole". that of course is always one's prerogative but you can't really go thru life that way
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 21 April 2019 02:17 (four years ago) link
yeah i think i would have flipped like vanjie too if i had to go through days of yvie’s “observational advice”
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 21 April 2019 02:28 (four years ago) link
Also, a new concept
Bram Stokers Drag Race— Sarah Gailey (@gaileyfrey) April 21, 2019
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 21 April 2019 02:47 (four years ago) link
Brooke Lynn's Celine accent veered straight into Jamaica during SG.
― Audrey Tautoulogy (Leee), Monday, 22 April 2019 22:20 (four years ago) link
it was weird af, especially since she’s Canadian irl
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 April 2019 23:20 (four years ago) link
definite flashbacks to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOJNk7YiE7c
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 08:24 (four years ago) link
for all Brooke Lynn seems to be winning lots of challenges and doing very well I continually forget that she is even there.
If you ever needed proof that this show is beholden to its own history its the fact they persist with Snatch Game every season despite the fact it hasn't provided any genuine entertainment for a good few years now
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 08:26 (four years ago) link
Brooke Lynn quoting an overrated Simpsons line and the judges praising her for it/laughing at it was rmde.
― Perfect Leee Cromulent (Leee), Monday, 29 April 2019 18:46 (four years ago) link
which line?
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 01:04 (four years ago) link
Level 4 vegan.
― Perfect Leee Cromulent (Leee), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 01:18 (four years ago) link
i didnt know it was a simpsons linei loled too, sorry
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 02:00 (four years ago) link
this week's challenge seemed designed for Nina West, and that group's act showed again that the queens themselves are able to come up with scripts better than the ones provided by the production team for the acting challenges. I also thought Shuga did much better in the lipsynch and really shouldn't have been up for elimination anyway.
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 4 May 2019 08:15 (four years ago) link
I didn’t even have big problems with shuga’s runway looks other than the reveals should’ve crescendoed instead of just being one B+ look after another.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Saturday, 4 May 2019 14:35 (four years ago) link
This week def should’ve been Vangie vs. Silky, but they clearly aren’t ready to send Vangie home, tho her fan favorite status has certainly attained some tarnish from the “failing to live up to expectation” edit.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Saturday, 4 May 2019 14:37 (four years ago) link
Brooke Lynn seems like she was made in a lab, the product of years of research into "how to win at Drag Race". I find her inspiring like I find an athlete inspiring, i.e. I really like her and want her to win. I like her even more after watching Untucked, sipping her drink with raised eyebrows and staying out of the drama entirely
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 4 May 2019 14:43 (four years ago) link
i thought Vanjie’s lipsync was great.Akeria’s kaf-pants made me lol.i know they want to keep Silky around but jeez, at least Vanjie & Shuga can hold a look together with more than Silky’s wing & a prayer. her janky hip pads in the main challenge was like O_o. and the way Silky stared down the judges when they told her she was safe....your time is coming
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 4 May 2019 16:17 (four years ago) link
I get why the judges like Silky more than Vanjie, but I don't think it's fair of them to have a go at Vanjie for not showing any range when Silky doesn't either.
I really enjoyed Nina and Shuga and Brooke Lynn's show. I would watch them do a Tommy Cooper-style magic show.
I also laughed at Ross's critique of the various kaftans.
― trishyb, Saturday, 4 May 2019 20:52 (four years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 4 May 2019 21:16 (four years ago) link
so they didn't judge this as a team challenge simply cuz they wanted to send shuga home right?
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 5 May 2019 08:01 (four years ago) link
neither her nor vanjie are going to win so i don't really think it's here or there either way... you could understand why they'd rather keep vanjie around
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 5 May 2019 08:04 (four years ago) link
shuga's main role in the season seemed to be saying stuff in confessionals like "we walked into the room and there was a magician in there honey"
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 5 May 2019 08:08 (four years ago) link
silky is extremely endearing and personally speaking i find it endearing that she seems insistent on sabotaging her success by being lazy
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 5 May 2019 08:09 (four years ago) link
er... silky is extremely funny
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 5 May 2019 08:10 (four years ago) link
i foundher v enjoyable early on but her pettiness is v unappealing to me
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 5 May 2019 16:14 (four years ago) link
this whole season feels the most lackluster, like 10 episodes in and I still feel like I'm not really connecting with any of these queens, I barely even have a sense of who Shuga ishowever that magic challenge was prob the most enjoyable challenge I've seen in the past several seasons
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 5 May 2019 17:22 (four years ago) link
Vanjie made me cry with her lipsync. God that was beautiful. I still don't love this season but the lipsyncs have been epic.
Really really hoping that Nina can win this, but am afraid that they're going to give it to Brooke Lynn instead.
― Lars Ulriac Quintet (Leee), Sunday, 5 May 2019 22:29 (four years ago) link
yeah same re: vanjie
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 5 May 2019 22:44 (four years ago) link
Brooke Lynn after Aquaria is ... not gonna age well.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Monday, 6 May 2019 02:01 (four years ago) link
No it goddamn won't.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 May 2019 02:02 (four years ago) link
(As winners, I mean.)
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Monday, 6 May 2019 02:02 (four years ago) link
Same here.
Woulda thrown Sasha in there too but her humanities major empathizing with the winds certainly cleared some space around herself
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Monday, 6 May 2019 02:04 (four years ago) link
i want Nina to snatch the crown, (or a surprose run from Vanjie maybe)
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 6 May 2019 02:28 (four years ago) link
If Nina doesn’t win, I wonder if the show will hire her as a writer, because god knows they need some fresh jokes.
I thought that Vanjie’s magic team should have thrown in a CLUB 96 during their performance.
― Soccer Team's Philosophies and Hypotheses (Leee), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link
That was a bullshit result. How can you not know the words to Scrubs, but still stay in the competition?
― trishyb, Friday, 10 May 2019 08:40 (four years ago) link
Should’ve been a double sashay. Instead, Ru set up everyone to hate not only Silky, but kinda also Brooke Lynn. I expect Akeria to win.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Friday, 10 May 2019 11:48 (four years ago) link
What the shenanigans! Hope Nina doesn't face into obscurity.
Vanjie should've won that, and oh hi Mrs Vanjie. Obvious where Ms Vanessa got her looks from. Seriously thought that was her sister at first.
― Soccer Team's Philosophies and Hypotheses (Leee), Saturday, 11 May 2019 05:56 (four years ago) link
That lipsync was some hot garbage jfc
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 May 2019 05:57 (four years ago) link
I spoiled myself and expected nothing but silky terror but wow Nina’s outfit was terrrrible and the lip sync was terrrrible
I wish people would stop picking on Yvie she is great
I loathe Scarlet but it was nice to see her be an odd cheerleader
Brooke Lynn of course should win and is farrrrr more of an obvious front runner and staying power etc than Aquaria and I love Aquaria. I haven’t felt so sure of a front runner since Bianca tbh
― twink infinitives (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 11 May 2019 06:10 (four years ago) link
those boot covers on Nina & Shuga were so weirdly chunky! made their lower legs look like they were in plaster castsand the actual look on both of them reminded me of when Robin Williams dressed up as a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader :( i love yvie & how blunt but sensitive she ismama vanjie, jesus does she just wear an instagramfilter on the reg or
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 May 2019 06:25 (four years ago) link
the workroom hijinks over soju not being able to walk in heels and them all falling out at silky’s dismay was hilarious
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 May 2019 06:45 (four years ago) link
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/05/12/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-drag-race-nina-west/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Buffer&utm_campaign=PN
― Soccer Team's Philosophies and Hypotheses (Leee), Monday, 13 May 2019 22:30 (four years ago) link
Quite.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 May 2019 22:34 (four years ago) link
Sometimes this world is good.
Sometimes I think to myself...what would @MariahCarey do???— Mayhem Miller (@TheOnlyMayhem) May 11, 2019
Eat, drink, dance, rob a bank, whatever honey! https://t.co/62nwABqRLo— Mariah Carey (@MariahCarey) May 13, 2019
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 May 2019 22:59 (four years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 02:55 (four years ago) link
that was a bizarre challenge.. of all the makeover challenges it was by far the least interesting & they didn't even make them choreograph a performance or anything. if the challenge had called for that there's no way nina would've been lip syncing even w that outfit, which was truly god awful.... her understanding of proportion seems really off.
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 14 May 2019 03:11 (four years ago) link
brooke lynn seems like the obvious favorite but she would be a pretty similar winner to aquaria and i always feel like each year's winner is in some way a reaction against the previous one. personally i think they've been laying the groundwork for yvie to win (the vixen walked so yvie could run)
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 14 May 2019 03:15 (four years ago) link
That Branjie situation was so inevitable but what a great lip synch and that exit is probably my favourite ever from any series.
I know when you watch reality tv shows like this there is always a narrative being constructed from the editing but the obviousness of it has been a huge problem this cycle.
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 18 May 2019 13:17 (four years ago) link
Yeah, it’s been clunky. Anyway, Vanjie as season narrator hands down. Roll on the reunion.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 18 May 2019 13:35 (four years ago) link
I did appreciate how Vanjie and Brooke Lynn were just a pair of pros during the lip sync. No drama, no histrionics. Just solid work.
― trishyb, Saturday, 18 May 2019 13:59 (four years ago) link
i do feel like the producers would prob have rather dragged that storyline into the final but vanjie was the clear one to go... RIP queen
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 18 May 2019 16:27 (four years ago) link
yeah Vanjie’s exit was great, so bummed to see her go. I hope someone gives her a tv show or something. That is one light that should not be hidden under a bushel!
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 May 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link
The queens are really good at doing Vanjie, so Brooke Lynn better watch out.
― Tormund Giantsbabe (Leee), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 04:22 (four years ago) link
Nina’s Vanjie is great
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 05:19 (four years ago) link
That was an amazing exit, I love Vanjie. Part of me was watching Brook Lynn fall back on her ballerina bullshit and I'm thinking despite myself "this is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen on this show".
I kind of wish Silky had got the boot earlier, I really felt like the producers were leaning into pitting Vanjie and Brook Lynn up against each other for dramadramadrama, but oh well. Brook Lynn is my runaway favourite but I hope she loses to Yvie and comes back to win All Stars with a thousand new eye-popping tricks up her sleeve
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 14:38 (four years ago) link
Yvie is really so incredible
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 14:41 (four years ago) link
I love that Brooke Lynn is a ballerino and a ballerina, but ... you do not perform "A Deeper Love" on pointe. You just don't.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 14:42 (four years ago) link
WELL YOU DO NOW
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
Don’t mind me. We’re just coming off of three straight weeks where I strongly disagreed with the shantay/sashay decisions (based solely on the lip sync performances)
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 16:25 (four years ago) link
I agree. Pointe work doesn't fit with disco or really anything with a very strong rhythm.
― Tormund Giantsbabe (Leee), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 16:59 (four years ago) link
plus she’s already done her whole on pointe thing & much as i love it, the nature of the show is just we need to see something new or stepped-up
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 17:27 (four years ago) link
I don't mind that she did pointe more than once, it's her thing so why not. But my complaints come more from being a ballet snob than anything else.
― Tormund Giantsbabe (Leee), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 23:35 (four years ago) link
Well, I thought it was exquisite
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 23 May 2019 03:09 (four years ago) link
Especially after the previous week's disaster
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 23 May 2019 03:10 (four years ago) link
I thought Vanjie’s actual rap was great, like the best of all of them but she was so off her game in the video performance & even the runway her dress was weird ugh she just broke my heart
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 May 2019 03:21 (four years ago) link
Right, I couldn't figure out whether you were supposed to be able to see the black boob cups or not. They were neither one thing nor the other.
Also, greatest exit ever. I love Vanjie so much.
― trishyb, Thursday, 23 May 2019 12:39 (four years ago) link
god yes
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 May 2019 13:46 (four years ago) link
There's some benefit there to knowing, more or less, that it's your time to go home.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Thursday, 23 May 2019 14:03 (four years ago) link
aside from whatever the prize money etc is i think it would be hard to say that vanjie hasn't "won" drag race in a more... existential sense
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 23 May 2019 14:33 (four years ago) link
i want her to have a reality show or something - dont let her interview gold from this season go to waste
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 24 May 2019 01:21 (four years ago) link
Well there’s one big heartbreaker in the reunion. Except not really because I’m glad for it.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Friday, 24 May 2019 02:19 (four years ago) link
True, that wig shouldn’t have ended up on the floor but at least Ariel got it back as you say.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 May 2019 05:32 (four years ago) link
LOL
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Friday, 24 May 2019 12:13 (four years ago) link
I hope no one ever feels some type of way ever again. (Am I turning into Old Man Yelling at Cloud? I'm not even a "use your words" type of person but this turn of phrase bugs the hell out of me.)
I was kind of expecting at least a few of the flashpoints to get straightened out or at least explained, but everything remained a muddle of walkbacks and qualifications.
― Tormund Giantsbabe (Leee), Saturday, 25 May 2019 05:35 (four years ago) link
IF I NEVER HEAR ABOUT ANOTHER FUCKING WIG AGAIN IT WILL BE TOO FUCKING SOONi dont caaaaaaaaaaaaaare about Ariels fkn wigs and i dont think anyone else does either god shut uuuup
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 May 2019 06:19 (four years ago) link
For some reason, Netflix UK/Ireland hasn't put this episode up. I don't feel like I'm missing anything. This is almost always the worst episode of the season, and it definitely sounds like this time round it was more tedious than usual.
― trishyb, Saturday, 25 May 2019 10:23 (four years ago) link
I will be an Old Man with you. I hate feel some sort of/type of way so much and my former coworkers would use it alllllll the time.
― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 25 May 2019 13:12 (four years ago) link
Now that it’s been a couple days, I’m glad that Vanjie is now free (if maybe not psychologically yet) from the apparently narcissistic Brooke.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Saturday, 25 May 2019 13:17 (four years ago) link
Black Swan II
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 May 2019 14:51 (four years ago) link
Thorgy and Yvie werq the world tour 2019 https://t.co/iC8fZk4c1e— mr pretzels (@mrzenitram) May 24, 2019
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 May 2019 15:07 (four years ago) link
xpost yeah i am inclined to agree, re Vanjie/Brooke
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 May 2019 15:38 (four years ago) link
I really enjoyed the finale this year. The video packages were way more fun than either the choreographed numbers or the onstage interviews of previous years. The final two queens had great outfits, and the right queen won on the day. I also enjoyed Vanjie's segment (missus). The only thing I didn't get was the parade of alumni during Christine and the Queens' performance. What was the unifying theme there, or was it just "previous contestants we could get"?
― trishyb, Friday, 31 May 2019 13:26 (four years ago) link
Yes, this is the most satisfying winner since Bob the Drag Queen.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Friday, 31 May 2019 13:55 (four years ago) link
I just learned that Nina West’s gown was a tribute to Tom Tierney! In fact, it literally says so on the back.
― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 31 May 2019 14:19 (four years ago) link
Agreed on the quality of show and the right winner chosen. I also appreciate how Twitter immediately celebrated Yvie's dad to be worthy in numerous aspects of life, if you will.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 31 May 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
Okay this is what I was needing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6NLdrTIaaA
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 31 May 2019 21:32 (four years ago) link
Silky seemed so nervous and defeated the entire time she was on stage didn't she?
There was a real self-congratulatory tone to this season I just could not warm to. It's great that Ru can say a show by and for queer people has had all the Emmy nods but the show seems *straighter* than it has ever been and I think it has lost a lot of the magic it ever had.
― boxedjoy, Friday, 31 May 2019 21:38 (four years ago) link
Very RuPaul of the show to have a tribute to Stonewall without mentioning trans or Johnson/Rivera, which is pretty much 101 shit at this point? (yes, I know that what happened at Stonewall is disputed but still)
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 31 May 2019 21:49 (four years ago) link
They showed a still of Johnson in the montage.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 31 May 2019 22:07 (four years ago) link
Also, more DRAMA etc.
https://www.etonline.com/rupauls-drag-race-season-11-finale-5-things-you-didnt-see-on-tv-126030
I think it has lost a lot of the magic it ever had
My gf said last night that it had long since jumped the shark and on several levels that's hard to argue. (At least they didn't jump further last night.) But mostly it's just become so all encompassing -- it's been almost six months of weekly episodes and with Drag Race UK en route there's barely going to be any break here.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 31 May 2019 22:09 (four years ago) link
Anyway, from that link above:
Yvie's win had to be filmed twice, because her original final words upon being condragulated were, "Um, stay odd. And does anyone have a baby I can eat?"
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 31 May 2019 22:12 (four years ago) link
xxp well gee thanks Ru - next time say their names, explicitly mention trans folk, I promise you doing these things won't alienate the straight audience
anyway, I also could have done without the hour long clip package lead-in to the lip syncs - can't imagine actually being in the audience and having no choice but to watch, at least at home I could be distracted by any number of other things going on
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 31 May 2019 22:23 (four years ago) link
I know they've always done those but it felt esp egregious this year
pretty sure their game plan is to burn the franchise into the ground vs. rationing it to avoid overexposure
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 31 May 2019 23:27 (four years ago) link
omggggggggggggggg Yvie in that INSANE headdress and doing a fucking backflip and not revealing a single goddamn thing except that she is badassthe work that must have gone into making it stay on her head!even the three-headed mirror concept + front-back two face was just breathtaking before you even see her move in it HAIL HAIL QUEEN YVIE
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 1 June 2019 05:25 (four years ago) link
her obligatory song is actually kinda great toohttps://youtu.be/KcUiEBORgh4
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 1 June 2019 05:32 (four years ago) link
Veg as usual OTM about Yvie not gimmicking with reveals too hard. The flashing her panties kind of was, though, and so was the back of the mask, but they were both subtle and awesome and demonstrated the creativity she's been talking about this whole time. And put everyone else and their obnoxious stunting and tired reveals to shame.
Agreed that Silk look terrified onstage.
Stunned that Vanjie didn't win Miss C. Her video was the only remotely entertaining one. Actually Yvie's was as well. I just realized what she reminds me of: a box of syllables falling down metal stairs.
Despite my surprise, I'm quite happy with Nina getting More C.
Too bad about the baby eating being cut.
― In a station of the metro / My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard (Leee), Saturday, 1 June 2019 06:15 (four years ago) link
Another thing about the lipsyncs: the other three were consumed with doing tricks and working flash into their routines. Yvie was the only one who PERFORMED. It wasn't even close in my book.
― In a station of the metro / My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard (Leee), Saturday, 1 June 2019 06:19 (four years ago) link
yeah totally
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 1 June 2019 06:49 (four years ago) link
The added sound effects during the stunts such as the crash noises timed to the death drops, they were so distracting and really highlighted how obviously pre-recorded the whole set-up was
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 1 June 2019 06:55 (four years ago) link
sure... but the finale’s always been pre-recorded since they first started doing it “live”. this isn’t really the format to be craving that kind of authenticity.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 1 June 2019 07:36 (four years ago) link
Oh yeah 100%, I still miss the days where it was the last scene of the last episode in the same set etc and I think this season has been such an obvious construction of narrative that I'm just being sensitive to the artifice of that
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 1 June 2019 13:35 (four years ago) link
idk i think the in-studio finales were a bit anti-climactic. 3 judges & a few crew clapping for the winner always felt a little sad lol
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 1 June 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
the show seems *straighter* than it has ever been and I think it has lost a lot of the magic it ever had.
Several articles (and possibly people in this thread) have suggested that this the VH1 influence. They want things to be a bit cleaner. Which is why they don't do the puppets anymore, I read. No more glory holes.
― trishyb, Saturday, 1 June 2019 19:12 (four years ago) link
xpost Yeah, that always made Raja's win a bit anticlimactic. And made the season 4 reveal that there WASN'T going to be a final decision on the runway that much more of an honest surprise.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 1 June 2019 21:05 (four years ago) link
I think the live ones are anticlimactic as well in a different way though. You can tell they film alternative results and so everyone's energy seems off
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 1 June 2019 23:04 (four years ago) link
Also all my boyfriend has spoke about today is how nobody at all was able to give Yvies mirrors a polish before she walked out and how distracting the greasy marks on them were
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 1 June 2019 23:05 (four years ago) link
I assume we have all seen Simpsons Drag Race on Facebook btw?
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 1 June 2019 23:06 (four years ago) link
Some blick-and-you-miss-'em cameos (Jiggly among others):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcdLl_udbew
― Shoegazi (Leee), Friday, 14 June 2019 19:47 (four years ago) link
My new coworker is a Drag Race fan, so at least we have something to talk about when things are slow!
Did anyone watch the Jaymes Mansfield video with Contrapoints? It's great.
― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 16 June 2019 22:54 (four years ago) link
Speaking of Jiggly, did you guys see the Vulture list where they rank the most powerful queens ? The whole thing is very questionable, but I wonder when or how Jiggly became more "powerful" than Sharon Needles ? They don't explain the ranking below 20 so maybe I missed her big breakthrough.
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 17 June 2019 23:01 (four years ago) link
They don't explain the ranking below 20 so maybe I missed her big breakthrough.
They do, it's alphabetical by first name.
― Shoegazi (Leee), Monday, 17 June 2019 23:29 (four years ago) link
Ooops sorry, didn't see the extra layers!
― Shoegazi (Leee), Monday, 17 June 2019 23:40 (four years ago) link
Alaska and WIllem going IN on that disgusting article on their podcast last week is crucial listening.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 02:11 (four years ago) link
I just remembered Jiggly was a regular character in Pose.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 13:41 (four years ago) link
xpost -- yeah that was a hell of a thing.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 14:07 (four years ago) link
Any link to said episode?
― Shoegazi (Leee), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 18:11 (four years ago) link
here you go dawling https://megaphone.link/HTX2514271013
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
or spotify linkthe ep is Hot Goss #3 https://open.spotify.com/show/2pJvYcYBD6A4MPkWagUtb7
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 18:33 (four years ago) link
WERQ QUEEN YAAASSS thankyew.
― Shoegazi (Leee), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 18:45 (four years ago) link
S12 and All-Stars S5 just announced.
I would carp that calling basically half the queens who have ever been on RPDR "all stars" is a bit rich, but whatever gets Shea Coulee more screen time is fine by me.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Monday, 19 August 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
Quite!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 August 2019 21:11 (four years ago) link
Is there a confirmed lineup of All Stars?
― Coelacanth Green (Leee), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:04 (four years ago) link
Sorry to interrupt, but is there a Pose thread on this board? Surprised that I haven't seen one. Does it have a weird title or something?
― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 10:35 (four years ago) link
The UK line-up has been announced. Good luck finding a queen from north of the border or over 30 among them. I was hoping for a Blackpool Pier eyeshadow-to-the-brows Lily Savage throwback to be in there somewhere too.
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 13:26 (four years ago) link
No confirmed lineup of All Stars 5 yet, but some educated guesses are posted on the RPDR wiki...
https://rupaulsdragrace.fandom.com/wiki/RuPaul%27s_Drag_Race_All_Stars_(Season_5)
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 13:54 (four years ago) link
If that's accurate, then I'll make the obvious joke: I hope that you-know-who picks that queen and throws her out of the competition again.
― William Tao Overture (Leee), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 19:59 (four years ago) link
I've been wondering about that myself. Given the second season just wrapped, it's kinda overdue.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 20:42 (four years ago) link
So Race Chaser's been on a hell of a roll -- the Manila guest appearance the other week was great, but this latest one with Alessandra Torresani is next-level genius. If she didn't have her own podcast I say she should just join this one!
https://megaphone.link/HTX5936455511
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 21:16 (four years ago) link
Another must-listen Race Chaser the other day with Delta Work -- got into a LOT of backstage stuff from recent seasons. Delta takes over the episode and it's practically a monologue -- and she admits she can talk a little too much -- but still:
https://megaphone.link/HTX7409826732
Meantime, this happened last night:
In the press room at the @TheEmmys, I asked @RuPaul to address the diversity or lack thereof in his show @RuPaulsDragRace. And... pic.twitter.com/kL1EYxJQXK— Danielle Young (@RhapsoDani) September 23, 2019
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 September 2019 20:41 (four years ago) link
I admit I don't even want to watch that clip. However, Delta's hour-long monologue is in itself Emmy-worthy.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Monday, 23 September 2019 21:24 (four years ago) link
Delta's right that it's impossible to know the target that's on RuPaul's back at this point in her career. But she also seems basically right that what she's selling when, say, she hugs Plastique Tiara in the workroom and tells everyone they're "family" is not coherent with the seemingly closed-off person she seems to be in real life.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Monday, 23 September 2019 21:29 (four years ago) link
Trudat.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 September 2019 21:41 (four years ago) link
I hedged with a lot of "seem"s there.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Monday, 23 September 2019 21:49 (four years ago) link
apparently the UK Drag Race is very good! I'm not in the UK atm so I can't watch it. If I catch a way to let you (and I) see it i'll let you know. Please do the same.
― What a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers (jed_), Thursday, 3 October 2019 22:53 (four years ago) link
Just saw the first episode -- thought it was pretty good! No spoilers for now but it's interesting catching the at times subtle differences between the American version and this one. (One of the biggest ones -- zero prizes! The grand prize as such is getting your own WOW+ series in Hollywood.)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 October 2019 02:09 (four years ago) link
Its good in a way that the original hasn't been for a long long time. But its not great. The show wants to translate American styling on to a British heritage. I thought it was very telling that they were all pretty and under 35 and there were no Lily Savage type end-of-the-pier queens. Alan Carr was worse than when Twiggy did ANTM - no real insight or critique and clearly there because Britain doesn't have enough high-profile gays to choose from.
― boxedjoy, Friday, 4 October 2019 07:17 (four years ago) link
Also that lip synch, yikes. I would have sent them both home - one being truly awful shouldnt let the other one away with not knowing the words at all
― boxedjoy, Friday, 4 October 2019 07:19 (four years ago) link
That said i feel a lot more enthused about watching it than i have in a long long time. One of the queens has already been gaining negative traction outside the show for being an open and proud Tory and she seems to be one of the strongest contestants so that might pan out curiously.
― boxedjoy, Friday, 4 October 2019 07:24 (four years ago) link
Interesting, which one?
btw, if you're not within the iPlayer zone you can watch this on WOW TV's subscription service. First month is free, then it's $3.99 a month, I think. I am happy to support them, and also could not get any downloads of episode 1.
― trishyb, Monday, 7 October 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link
MAGA Chipz
― boxedjoy, Monday, 7 October 2019 18:36 (four years ago) link
That fits.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 October 2019 18:36 (four years ago) link
MAGA was my favourite. I enjoyed this and I haven't enjoyed a DR for a few years now. Ru looks heartily sick of the whole thing though and her abilities to pretend that she's enjoying herself at straining at the seams.
― What a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers (jed_), Monday, 7 October 2019 20:44 (four years ago) link
yeah MAGA seemed like the most convincingly talented out of the lot of them based on one episode, it's unfortunate
― boxedjoy, Monday, 7 October 2019 21:42 (four years ago) link
Second episode was much better but fuck me the script for "Downton Draggy" was painfully unfunny even by the standards of the acting challenges that are always dismally unfunny in this show
― boxedjoy, Friday, 11 October 2019 05:21 (four years ago) link
It hasn't occurred to me until lately that it's possible, if not quote plausible, that the acting challenges are always written terribly so that it's a lot easier to separate the stars capable of transcending the material from the ones who need to be fed good jokes.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Friday, 11 October 2019 12:52 (four years ago) link
That'd be some 4D chess, and we're talking reality TV writers here. Fun to think about, though.
― HELLA FITZGERALD (Leee), Friday, 11 October 2019 17:17 (four years ago) link
One can dream. Good episode all around otherwise though I will miss Scaredy; still, pretty evident in the lip sync why she went.
Hilarious follow-on from last week this morning -- on Race Chaser/Hot Goss, they got hold of a Gothy Kendoll nude somehow and Willam was, how you say, verrrrrrrry loudly appreciative of the package on display. There was a line in there about how Gothy really shouldn't worry about his teeth.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 October 2019 18:14 (four years ago) link
I will miss Scaredy
I certainly will not.
― What a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers (jed_), Saturday, 12 October 2019 15:53 (four years ago) link
How on earth Blu and Baga were safe over Cheryl is beyond me. Baga's was so poorly assembled and Blu's was painful to look at it. It was nice to see fashion icon and living legend Twiggy being a mediocre judge a decade on from being a mediocre judge on ANTM though.
― boxedjoy, Friday, 18 October 2019 13:06 (four years ago) link
Hahah (belated).
Snatch Game tomorrow...could be good.
Meantime, uh (reminds me of Ellen/W on a different scale):
#DragRace Queens @NinaWest & @monetxchange celebrate @MeghanMcCain's birthday on @TheView, making her an “Official Ru girl” https://t.co/nDZ9T20AsZ— Logo 🏳️🌈 (@LogoTV) October 23, 2019
This is gross. She’s an unrepentant fascist and you guys are ultra disappointing.— Liz Roscher (@lizroscher) October 23, 2019
Just ultra? Not totally?— Nina West (@NinaWest) October 23, 2019
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 23:18 (four years ago) link
Katya ain't impressed:
Gross https://t.co/navSlS3ajr— Katya (@katya_zamo) October 24, 2019
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 October 2019 16:58 (four years ago) link
Did the other queens really not know that gay marriage is illegal in Northern Ireland (well, at time of recording). I mean, I know English people aren't great at knowing about Northern Ireland, but I guess I always think drag queens are going to be a bit more aware of issues affecting gay people.
― trishyb, Friday, 25 October 2019 14:17 (four years ago) link
I have to think that was realllly played up for the cameras. But I also think that was kinda nicely funny timing given what DID happen this week in real life.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 October 2019 14:37 (four years ago) link
despite the reading mini-challenge being pretty awful, I thought that was one of the best episodes this franchise has ever had?
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 31 October 2019 23:17 (four years ago) link
The song was no "but your dad just calls me Katya", but it was very good, and the whole episode was very warm and human.
― trishyb, Friday, 1 November 2019 00:48 (four years ago) link
Yeah that was a real treat!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 1 November 2019 02:57 (four years ago) link
Yeah, that was a great one. But did the lip synch winner really deserve to win? To me she was just strutting up and down, waving her arms around. Surely kept in because of previous and potential future performances.
― Madchen, Friday, 1 November 2019 11:10 (four years ago) link
I did think it was a mistake. There was a lot of facing-the-back-wall dancing
― boxedjoy, Friday, 1 November 2019 14:16 (four years ago) link
I am still LOLing over Blu not knowing THAT word...but then recovering perfectly.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 1 November 2019 16:06 (four years ago) link
So it wrapped up! Thoughts?
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 November 2019 00:05 (four years ago) link
They had The Vivienne pegged as the winner from the start. I’d suspected it for a while - nobody else would have been praised for an outfit that looked like the Blair Witch draped in tacky crystals with only a tiny bit of blue face showing. But the editing last night really confirmed it for me. Still, it was the best series of DR I’ve seen for ages.
― Madchen, Friday, 22 November 2019 07:51 (four years ago) link
It was the right winner I guess. She was the most polished of the three and Ru likes that. But I had a bit more affection for DDC overall, although I think they made her win the makeover challenge just so the 3 queens would have an equal amount of badges going in the finals.
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 22 November 2019 14:36 (four years ago) link
I hope I never have to hear DDC laugh ever again. That screamy fake laugh annoyed the shit out of me.
I assume one of the major aims of the show from the BBC's side was to get a new audience to engage with the BBC. The cross promotion between Drag Race and Strictly definitely felt like that ("What's our gayest show? How can we make it gayer so that gay people will actually watch it and make it cool?") with having Michelle on Strictly and then having AJ put the queens through their Latin dance paces on the finale. I don't think I'd registered just how tiny AJ is when you stand him next to a bunch of drag queens in actual heels as opposed to dance heels.
― trishyb, Saturday, 23 November 2019 14:02 (four years ago) link
the last episode of this is always a real slog and this was no exception but the format was much better than the pre-recorded live ones
I knew The Viv was gonna win when the other two spoke about needing support/validation from other people and she spoke about finding it in herself, RuPaul/the show loves all that self-empowerment nonsense, which in the context of overcoming addiction feels almost irresponsible
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 24 November 2019 22:18 (four years ago) link
Meantime, per Wikipedia at least:
The second series of RuPaul's Drag Race UK was confirmed and casting was closed on 15 November 2019
Willam mentioned some names the other week about people who should have been in the first season so I'm guessing some of them will be en route.
Am I...wrong or is All-Stars not happening soon? I seem to remember it kicking in around late December last year so maybe they're finally taking a slight break in the cycle? (Which I think would be good.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 November 2019 18:46 (four years ago) link
Race Chaser podcast now well into into Season 4 (yay!) & Sharon as phone in guest for ep 4 is so meta & cool & kinda weird & i just love it that is all
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 December 2019 02:34 (four years ago) link
Yeah they've been on a crazy roll these last few episodes. All KIIIINDS of stories. Having this extended peek-on-the-nside, especially given Willam's healthy DGAF approach, has been amazing.
Also, just realized that Trixie has her own YT channel for the cosmetics and this was hilarious:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oeklm-MsqAs
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 December 2019 02:38 (four years ago) link
Great Katya interview from yesterday:
https://themuse.jezebel.com/drag-race-alum-katya-zamolodchikova-revels-in-the-embar-1840902410
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 23 January 2020 16:59 (four years ago) link
As mentioned in the interview, Trixie and Katya now have ANOTHER series, which is an amazing sponcon effort of all things. Netflix get them on board to do a thing called I Like to Watch, where they review various offerings on their own service. Happily, they do not hold back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cznrcf5u-TY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLy3F5OdM_w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI0h288usl0
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 23 January 2020 17:05 (four years ago) link
Plus these two (and the latter, well, of course)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iogEXKuYD0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1DcpANmSQg
Oh and! New season full on starts Friday Feb. 28:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2scwC2sT1a0
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 January 2020 05:45 (four years ago) link
We got guest judges (read the whole thread)
Welcome to the Ru-nited States of America! 🏳️🌈🇺🇸 Pledge allegiance to the drag FRI 2/28 at 8/7c on @VH1! 👑✨#DragRace pic.twitter.com/WkI6gn4j4m— RuPaul's Drag Race (@RuPaulsDragRace) February 13, 2020
I am amused to note that this is not in fact the first sitting congressperson to appear on the show -- indeed, the current second person in line of succession to the entire executive branch already did.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 13 February 2020 19:18 (four years ago) link
Also, the best Valentine's tweet
Time out, hold up. Hold up, sweetheart. Let’s get it together before you wanna read. I don't have a valentine. I've never had a valentine. If I wanted a valentine, yes, I probably can go out and get one, because I AM WHAT? SICKENING.— Britt Stephens (@brittsteps) February 14, 2020
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 February 2020 17:58 (four years ago) link
Alternately:
Today is the day hot gays tweet about how no one wants to be with them.— Trixie Mattel (@trixiemattel) February 14, 2020
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 February 2020 19:10 (four years ago) link
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 15 February 2020 06:27 (four years ago) link
Getting the Criterion Paris is Burning this week and watching every last thing on it was a good thing to enjoy in and of itself AND get ready for tonight.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 29 February 2020 00:02 (four years ago) link
I love all these queens already and I want them to make my clothes for me.
― trishyb, Saturday, 29 February 2020 13:24 (four years ago) link
Great 1st episode!The main challenge was pre-finale worthy. We called the outcome, but didn't expect it to happen that way. And what an amazing lipsynch!
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 29 February 2020 17:01 (four years ago) link
omg that was epic. love these queens!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 29 February 2020 19:08 (four years ago) link
Heidi giving me those ChiChi Devayne feels <3
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 29 February 2020 19:53 (four years ago) link
also: this moment in untucked
skfhksdhks nicki’s face after heidi asked her question is SENDING me lmao #dragrace pic.twitter.com/WS2BKTAxJY— sinthia (@damnitsinn) February 29, 2020
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 29 February 2020 20:36 (four years ago) link
I did love that. Good start to the season, nice way to revisit the season six approach but in a way that was both a surprise and far more of a good way to get to know everyone a little better.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 1 March 2020 05:36 (four years ago) link
Are they going to make Heidi change her name?
― Charlotte Brontesaurus (Leee), Sunday, 1 March 2020 05:55 (four years ago) link
god i hope so lol
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 1 March 2020 07:45 (four years ago) link
I like the sass that Nicky Doll threw back at the producer over hummus. Also, I'm probably going to mistakenly call her Nicky/Nikki Cox at some point this season.
― Feminism-Appropriating Regressive Transphobe (Leee), Monday, 2 March 2020 19:29 (four years ago) link
i love her already, she’s the coolest
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 04:03 (four years ago) link
I want Jackie Cox's glasses so badly.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 10:41 (four years ago) link
Hmmm. Widow’s neoprene outfit was *really* badly fitting round the arse and her final runway look was terribly proportioned. Other queens have been in the bottom two for less.
― Madchen, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 22:33 (four years ago) link
Ended up not really mattering in the best-friends-race edit.
― crusty but malignant (Eric H.), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 22:36 (four years ago) link
Well, we already have a queen eliminated before they even set foot in the workroom:
JUST IN: Sherry Pie has been disqualified from @RuPaulsDragRace after my story in BuzzFeed News containing allegations from five men of catfishing https://t.co/FZap9iuWu9 pic.twitter.com/YUkRHxNfzb— David Mack (@davidmackau) March 6, 2020
― crusty but malignant (Eric H.), Friday, 6 March 2020 20:43 (four years ago) link
Makes it sound like she actually made it pretty far in the competition tho, huh.
― crusty but malignant (Eric H.), Friday, 6 March 2020 20:44 (four years ago) link
Insane. Cannot WAIT for next week's Race Chaser episodes about all this.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 March 2020 20:44 (four years ago) link
if you read the comments on the fb apology it seems like this had continued on until as recently as dec of this year
― J0rdan S., Friday, 6 March 2020 21:52 (four years ago) link
Well, seeing the new episode with all that as background, whew. This is going to be one discordant viewing experience this season. (Like this new batch otherwise, and of course Robyn = A+.)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 7 March 2020 21:30 (four years ago) link
i get that they can't edit her out of the show wholesale but i was sorta surprised to the degree with which they leaned on her confessionals, it felt off to me. maybe they'll adjust.
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 7 March 2020 22:38 (four years ago) link
It's very possible they simply didn't have time to edit around her given everything that happened. Let's see where things go next week, but if she has a long run on the show, then she'll be in those segments no matter what.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 8 March 2020 00:34 (four years ago) link
idk i think i want to send all six of these queens home. i like the first group way better?
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 8 March 2020 00:47 (four years ago) link
aiden’s low heels & tuck make me SO sad but i like her facedahlia is like a bad imitation of AjaJada makes great clothes jan needs to quit it w the ponytailsrockem is like a room full of ppl talking sherry pie ... welp
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 8 March 2020 00:52 (four years ago) link
VG for guest judge
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 8 March 2020 01:31 (four years ago) link
I HATE YOUR HAIR AND YOUR MAKEUP
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 8 March 2020 01:38 (four years ago) link
Definitely. Maybe that's deliberate.
Sherry Pie makes those gurning, cross-eyed, drag queen faces that I hate (I get that they're part of the craft and the tradition, but I hate them anyway), so I won't be sorry to see her go. It will be interesting to see how she's written out.
― trishyb, Sunday, 8 March 2020 10:29 (four years ago) link
i like jan
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 8 March 2020 21:10 (four years ago) link
she seems headed for a break down at some point tho you can't care that much about drag race
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 8 March 2020 21:11 (four years ago) link
I like Jan surprisingly as well, and Rock M and Jaida (that bone structure!).
I looked up the cast just now because for the life of me I couldn't remember Dahlia's name, and noticed that this cast is incredibly young: no one over 34, and a total of four contestants in their 30s.
― Feminism-Appropriating Regressive Transphobe (Leee), Sunday, 8 March 2020 21:18 (four years ago) link
Yeah, when Jan first falls short this season it's going to make a hell of a thud.
― crusty but malignant (Eric H.), Sunday, 8 March 2020 21:40 (four years ago) link
Maybe I've got too narrow a notion of what Fosse should be, but I didn't really get Fosse from a one of them. Also, what Jan was suggesting for choreo was so much closer to the mark than the cheerleader explosion she pulled out on the main stage.
― crusty but malignant (Eric H.), Sunday, 8 March 2020 21:42 (four years ago) link
Oh yeah I never want to hear "Fosse" again after that episode.
― Feminism-Appropriating Regressive Transphobe (Leee), Sunday, 8 March 2020 22:04 (four years ago) link
Fussy.
Anyway: no LA DragCon:
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/rupauls-dragcon-la-2020-canceled-185728716.html
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 19:47 (four years ago) link
quote of the weekJada: CHILE I AM NOT GOING TO BE THIS DAMN ORANGE. NO.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 14 March 2020 17:25 (four years ago) link
Wost episode of RPDR ever ?
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 14 March 2020 18:02 (four years ago) link
definitelyaside from Jada’s quote that was a wasteland of lazy bullshit
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 14 March 2020 19:08 (four years ago) link
Yeah, that was awful. How bad must it have been if this is the best hour they could cobble together out of it?
― trishyb, Saturday, 14 March 2020 20:00 (four years ago) link
What was interesting is how they CLEARLY took this past week to do a major minimizing job on Sherry Pie. No confessional appearances whatsoever, the fact that they had to show her winning the episode was almost grudging.
I did like the El Debarge moment.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 14 March 2020 20:11 (four years ago) link
Yeah that was fun. I just realised the episode is called World's Worst lol.
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 14 March 2020 21:03 (four years ago) link
believe the hype
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 14 March 2020 21:06 (four years ago) link
I was thinking that a low-effort but still shady way to deal with Sherry's presence was to replace all shots and onscreen interactions with her with excerpts from the Buzzfeed episode.
― Feminism-Appropriating Regressive Transphobe (Leee), Saturday, 14 March 2020 23:33 (four years ago) link
*article
― Feminism-Appropriating Regressive Transphobe (Leee), Saturday, 14 March 2020 23:34 (four years ago) link
I'm a big fan of lip-synchs that don't rely on death drops and the splits but that was so... nothing. Just like the rest of the episode.
Given that Ross was really laughing hard through their improv sketch and she won the challenge I'm guessing there was a LOT edited out from Sherry Pie.
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 15 March 2020 21:19 (four years ago) link
also I cannot unsee Aiden as Shirley Manson
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 15 March 2020 21:20 (four years ago) link
The judges cracking each other up tonight was exactly the thing we all needed tonight.
― coronoshebettadontvirus (Eric H.), Saturday, 21 March 2020 01:49 (four years ago) link
Very. But as I just muttered on Twitter, above and beyond whatever Sherry Pie’s done...a *1972* Olympics reference?
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 21 March 2020 04:38 (four years ago) link
Leslie Jones keeping it 100 was everything. And then getting REALLY REAL with Aiden? She's got a permanent spot on the judging panel if she wants it as far as I'm concerned.
― Archaeopteryx Morgan M.D. (Leee), Saturday, 21 March 2020 22:16 (four years ago) link
Yeah, she was great. But the show is really awkward now that it's trying to edit around someone who was obviously a very strong contender. All I could see for the last two weeks was how absent Sherry Pie was from the whole thing.
― trishyb, Saturday, 21 March 2020 22:30 (four years ago) link
Yeah this is going to be *real* interesting the longer it goes, especially if she turns out to be a final competitor. (On the flip side, it lets other voices stand out all the more and I increasingly think Heidi is a hell of a dark horse because she is FUNNY.)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 21 March 2020 22:42 (four years ago) link
Agreed. There was something she said under her breath in the v/o and I can't remember what it was, but it was sharp as a tack.
― trishyb, Saturday, 21 March 2020 22:45 (four years ago) link
Last night's episode had one or two downright shoddy edits (noticeable in the audio) in it and moments of absolutely slack pacing, I assume the result of them doing whatever they could to minimize Sherry.
― coronoshebettadontvirus (Eric H.), Saturday, 21 March 2020 22:50 (four years ago) link
Cosign on Leslie Jones lighting up the whole show - i cried laughing so many times during the runway, her & the judges were vibing! . and her meeting the queens. What she said to Aidan was so right-on, love that about her. oh And her signing Widow’s yellow shoe omg dying idgaf about sherrie’s edit tbh, there’s so much talent here even without her it’s not like the episodes are suffering
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 22 March 2020 00:54 (four years ago) link
Underrated bit -- Leslie's voice singing along with "Covergirl" on the main stage intro.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 22 March 2020 01:17 (four years ago) link
oh And her signing Widow’s yellow shoe omg dyingidgaf about sherrie’s edit tbh, there’s so much talent here even without her it’s not like the episodes are suffering
idgaf about sherrie’s edit tbh, there’s so much talent here even without her it’s not like the episodes are suffering
YESSSSS OMG!!!!!! IMO the only thing that comes close to topping that from recent seasons was Yvie's finale performance.
Jury is still out for me about how good this cast is but otherwise I agree on the Sherry stuff.
― Archaeopteryx Morgan M.D. (Leee), Sunday, 22 March 2020 01:36 (four years ago) link
Nobody's pissed about the obvious manipulation of the bottom 2 ?
― LeRooLeRoo, Sunday, 22 March 2020 17:55 (four years ago) link
pissed how?
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 22 March 2020 20:14 (four years ago) link
I didn't get how the eliminated queen was even close to the bottom and it totally felt like she was used to get a reaction from fans.
― LeRooLeRoo, Sunday, 22 March 2020 22:21 (four years ago) link
i dunno, it seemed plausible to me. She really did look like a cat toy in the final look & her padding for the first two was soooo bad - her ass had CORNERS
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 22 March 2020 23:28 (four years ago) link
HAHA well I love cat toys and I might be a bit biased by her appearance out of drag. I dunno, all my group was outraged too. That cup and ball game was genius and her basketball wife was spot on to me.
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 23 March 2020 03:50 (four years ago) link
Her hair for that first look was amazing! But like the judges said, from the neck down it was like, zero look. I never really took to her that much, all she seemed to ever do was cry or be like TOO excited, she just came off as manic depressive to me
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 March 2020 03:59 (four years ago) link
Nice basket tho.
― coronoshebettadontvirus (Eric H.), Monday, 23 March 2020 04:14 (four years ago) link
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 March 2020 05:51 (four years ago) link
LeRoo you are not alone, Alaska & Willam both thought Rockem got unfairly dogwalked so what do i know lol
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 26 March 2020 22:54 (four years ago) link
Oh yeah I should've mentioned that I didn't think Rock M should've been lipsycning either! I liked her last look from the knees up, too. Aiden should've been bottom 2 IMO, but I think she's a central figure in the "picked-on noob" edit so will probably hang around a while longer.
― Archaeopteryx Morgan M.D. (Leee), Thursday, 26 March 2020 23:44 (four years ago) link
Unfortunatly, I've heard Aiden is getting a lot of hate and backlash online for Ru's decision.
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 27 March 2020 03:05 (four years ago) link
that really sucks, he doesnt deserve that
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 March 2020 03:58 (four years ago) link
I do wish some of the shows fans would catch up that it's the show producers who need to be dragged.
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Friday, 27 March 2020 12:57 (four years ago) link
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 March 2020 15:04 (four years ago) link
Well, in combination with who won, how the episode ended and the whole incredibly bad timing of a medically themed episode -- down to a spitting moment -- this easily has to be the episode WoW wishes most that it didn't actually exist.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 28 March 2020 18:07 (four years ago) link
last week was the nadir for methis one was not that great either but i am not up in arms over it or anythingaidan’s mae west made me wish i didnt have eyes or ears tho
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 March 2020 18:33 (four years ago) link
Do you mean 2 weeks ago (World's Worst) ? I thought the Ball Ball was very good, aside from the bottom 2 shenanigans.
Yesterday was one of the better (or more tolerable) acting challenges I thought, but they are never great. I can see SP going very far. She has the chops and the polish. They might have pegged her to win the whole thing when they were filming. Must be a nightmare to re-edit.
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 28 March 2020 20:58 (four years ago) link
oh yeah oops sorry i meant the Worlds Worstuntucked was a thing to see this week. Brita is morphing into ego-godzilla like bitch your name & reputation only GOT you here. it doesn’t count for anything else once the competition starts & i feel like she will get herself eliminated before she understands thatIt was interesting to see them all feed on Aidan too. I like him & i feel bad but he doesnt help himself either. I don’t think anything Leslie said sunk in at all, or Jackie. He’s building a one room persecution complex & its just gonna get bigger & bigger til they prove him right. I dont see him rising above it? idk
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 March 2020 21:20 (four years ago) link
Brita is morphing into ego-godzilla
Or maybe the velociraptor that spray acid in Wayne Knight's face.
― Triceratops Vowell (Leee), Saturday, 28 March 2020 22:18 (four years ago) link
Brita did have one VERY good moment thanks to the editors, though -- namely when some judge said on the runway to Crystal that she looked like a "Polynesian princess." Cut to Brita, whose background is Tongan, looking...not very pleased.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 28 March 2020 22:22 (four years ago) link
That was Ru herself who said that!
― Triceratops Vowell (Leee), Saturday, 28 March 2020 22:34 (four years ago) link
Ha, even WORSE.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 28 March 2020 22:35 (four years ago) link
Also is he going to mention the mullet and El DeBarge on a recurring basis now?
(She, my mistake, but usually offering that up in boy drag.)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 28 March 2020 22:36 (four years ago) link
I'm gonna miss Nicky Doll's confessionals. Best of the season now that Sherry Pie's largely on the cutting room floor.
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Sunday, 29 March 2020 01:11 (three years ago) link
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 29 March 2020 01:29 (three years ago) link
the acting challenge wasn't awful as it usually is but the script, wow, truly dismal
Sherry Pie had easily the most obvious character outline and best lines to deliver so I wasn't surprised she won but even without the allegations hanging over her she definitely has that Eureka/Silky Nutmeg quality of being loved by the judges for reasons that seem totally unclear
― boxedjoy, Monday, 30 March 2020 17:03 (three years ago) link
also Ru's excessive amount of accessories in the workroom chat was distractingly striking
― boxedjoy, Monday, 30 March 2020 17:04 (three years ago) link
I know this is the result of retconning the shit out of episodes that undoubtedly focused heavily on Sherry, but the editing of this season is just ... awful.
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Monday, 30 March 2020 17:23 (three years ago) link
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 March 2020 17:53 (three years ago) link
has anyone watched Trixie’s Moving Parts doc since it went up on Netflix recently?i watched last night - the Katya stuff is brief but brutal & really sad, I am glad they reconciled
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 March 2020 17:59 (three years ago) link
Need to catch that! And more from her own channel and I Like to Watch too.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 March 2020 19:37 (three years ago) link
Oh, I didn't know that was up. Must watch it.
Yeah, I think this season is really suffering from them trying to cut around Sherry.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 17:39 (three years ago) link
I can only assume it'll get worse the longer it goes. (I have to assume Sherry's at least top 5.)
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 17:42 (three years ago) link
lol I didn’t notice your DN until just now
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 18:05 (three years ago) link
the fact she's been "disqualified" and not just naturally eliminated suggests that she was final four. I saw a post via a pal's facebook suggesting that the producers were originally planning to have this look like a two-horse Gigi/Sherry race and they've had to really work around it because if it does seem there's only one frontrunner... well, what's the point?
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 20:45 (three years ago) link
I was sad to see Nicky go, but blaming it on a language issue was kind of bogus. Her English is incredible. Better than any French person I know, and living in Montréal I know A LOT of people from France. There have been many Puerto Rican queens before that made it far into the competition speaking half as well as she does. I think it's a very strong cast this season. I couldn't really predict who's going home next.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 19:18 (three years ago) link
With Nicky, it seems it was a pretty clear-cut case of the judges telling her to do one specific thing, and her repeatedly failing to improve that one thing.
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 19:31 (three years ago) link
feel like after the sasha-aquaria-yvie line of winners the stage was absolutely being set for sherry to win one for the classic drag, bigger, old gay culture references, purely comedic queen set... aka the title that should’ve gone to ginger minj but would’ve felt too repetitive after bianca so they gave it to violet insteadfeel like gigi winning two seasons after aquaria would be pretty inconvenient for them but maybe they just bite the bullet bcuz she’s so obviously good. maybe jackie will win?
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 7 April 2020 17:15 (three years ago) link
That was the first Snatch Game in a long time that made me properly laugh and not just feel that the trope needs retired. Gigi and Jackie were so good.
Also Vanjie's ten minute appearance being more memorable than some of the girls in this series!
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 17:32 (three years ago) link
And that brocoli costume being in more episodes than Rock M, stop trying to force a meme on us
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 17:33 (three years ago) link
I was gonna say, stop trying to make sexy broccoli happen !
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 17:40 (three years ago) link
well nothing will be more tired than monet x change and the sponge
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 7 April 2020 18:08 (three years ago) link
oh that was truly awful
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 18:48 (three years ago) link
Yeah, if the top 3 or even 4 are already basically set in stone by this point, I can't really imagine a scenario where Gigi doesn't end up winning. Jackie's very good but everything she does well it feels Gigi does better (right down to the Snatch Game performance last week tbh).
Ru's workroom advice for Snatch Game this season was ... downright awful to the point of being borderline sabateur-ish? Don't tell someone who has no idea who El Debarge is to do El Debarge when most of the show's viewers at this point also don't have any idea who El Debarge is ffs!
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 18:52 (three years ago) link
the El Debarge thing also feels like a contrived meme, it reminds me of when Tyra had the girls sing "Pot Ledom" on ANTM
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 19:06 (three years ago) link
the debarge thing cracks me up i have to say
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 7 April 2020 19:39 (three years ago) link
i think crystal's reaction being like "i honestly don't know what to tell you" every time ru brings it up instead of trying to sponge it makes it work for me.... incidentally crystal is great
between debarge and heidi's name ru actually has two good bits going this season
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 7 April 2020 19:40 (three years ago) link
https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/rupauls-drag-race-patricia-quinn-aiden-zhane.html/
Yikes.
― Triceratops Vowell (Leee), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 21:33 (three years ago) link
I thought this was the best episode of the season so far, challenge and runway. The top 3 killed it, but they pretty much all did. Heidi is the funniest cutest most adorable thing ever and I don't think she belonged in the bottom 2. The right person went home.
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 11 April 2020 21:49 (three years ago) link
Yeah this was an awesome episode. I wasnt mad at Heidi being in the bottom: she performed great but her Madonna gave mostly Heidi, and the Michelle look was kinda weirdAm glad to see Brita go but I have reconsidered her a little since hearing Racechaser talk about her being trolled by the producers & i dont think they’re wrong. The whole earrings discussion on the runway was a real OH COME ON moment. But: her madonna was weird & those ugly dance pants she wore with her cone bra bugged the hell out of me lol. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP WIDOW WITH HER SHOES. those black shits she wore on the runway looked SO bad. Jada should have been top 3 I am ok with Gigi winning, she kinda killed it start to finish, but Jan did great too. i think Jada was waaaay better than Crystal but i get that her improvement is the story they’re after Jackie’s bride madonna was really bad - she didnt get the reference at all I dont think. She is lucky her Bridge & Tunnel Michelle runway was so on-point.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 April 2020 22:17 (three years ago) link
in other news have spent all day listening to Madonna :D
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 April 2020 22:18 (three years ago) link
So this Super Celebrity short series they teased -- notice how it runs where Untucked normally would? I have to wonder if there's some MAJOR editing or worry that as the season goes on they're really trying not to have to focus on Sherry Pie at all.
Semi-related, a question that Willam and Alaska talked about this week on the podcast -- what, exactly, is the plan for the finale at this point? Forget about Sherry, just, everything else.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 12 April 2020 00:49 (three years ago) link
Maybe they will do a Valentina "I'd like to keep it on please" mask challenge.
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 17 April 2020 19:44 (three years ago) link
Funny how they never criticize Gigi for having the exact same Fifties silhouette every week.
― trishyb, Saturday, 18 April 2020 10:40 (three years ago) link
(Well, except for Michelle week, I guess.)
god that shared moment between Widow & Chaka Khan in untucked completely undid meso lovelyjust getting that intense boost from your idol in that moment wow
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 April 2020 17:40 (three years ago) link
and her lipsync was magic
That really was something all around. And Jan does demonstrate once again that psyching yourself up with the idea that you've unlocked 'the secret' to Drag Race doesn't mean you'll actually succeed.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 18 April 2020 18:39 (three years ago) link
On a lighter note, Chaka learning what merkins are and her reaction to that was gold.
amazing. she’s so cute
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 April 2020 19:16 (three years ago) link
I can't believe how much I am enjoying this season, Heidi is just so adorable <3
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 18 April 2020 20:07 (three years ago) link
I didn’t know until today that Jan’s drag mom is Alexis Michelle. Maybe ~intensity~ is a family trait?Sad to see her go, she seemed like at least top4 material
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 April 2020 20:59 (three years ago) link
House Tryhard.
― Triceratops Vowell (Leee), Sunday, 19 April 2020 00:12 (three years ago) link
the underdogs this season (heidi, jaida, crystal) are really very likable and also talented. gigi is already in sam smith music videos she'll be fine one way or another. would love to see one of those three other girls win it. heidi and crystal both seem like two who would really be able to benefit from increased exposure/money/opportunity.
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 23 April 2020 06:58 (three years ago) link
I think Heidi as a winner wouldn't make sense - her charm is her self-deprecating underdog status and being crowned the winner I think would undo that. She has the Alyssa/Vanjie fan favourite factor though, and I think a run on an All-Stars season in a year or two when she's got a bit more money supporting her ideas would be excellent for her.
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 23 April 2020 09:05 (three years ago) link
Given the success of designing/sewing competitions, and the success of Drag Race, I wonder if there's room for a drag design competition. Especially now that most of the queens get their clothes made for them by someone else. Or some kind of crossover: I'd love to see aspiring designers try to produce a drag collection. Even if it's only for one episode.
― trishyb, Thursday, 23 April 2020 10:28 (three years ago) link
Jaida is so polished it's difficult for me to regard her as an underdog.
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Thursday, 23 April 2020 12:56 (three years ago) link
i think she’s impressed/surprised in the comedy challenges in a way that wasn’t rly expected but i feel you. to me the favorites are/were gigi, sherry, brita and jan—obv we throw sherry out now but in the context of the contained narrative of the already filmed season i would still put gigi and sherry in their own tier in terms of most likely to win.
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 23 April 2020 14:23 (three years ago) link
Also, I kind of wish they would've just kept Sherry in the mix? Surely catfishing isn't as terrible as fracking, right?
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Thursday, 23 April 2020 14:28 (three years ago) link
(Kidding.)
Something about the way Sherry paints her face really puts me off.
― Judd Apatowsaurus (Leee), Thursday, 23 April 2020 15:22 (three years ago) link
After Dusty Ray's dots, I'll pretty much accept anything.
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Thursday, 23 April 2020 15:28 (three years ago) link
In non-RPDR-but-related news, Alaska is a talking head in the great Circus of Books documentary that appeared yesterday on Netflix. (I've known Rachel, whose parents were the owners and who directed the film, for a few years, and she did great.). Meantime up on HBO starting today:
We could all use a little love. #WereHere, a real-life series starring @thatonequeen, @itsshangela, & @eurekaohara premieres April 23. pic.twitter.com/qNGEK8mUmV— HBO (@HBO) March 20, 2020
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 23 April 2020 16:43 (three years ago) link
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Thursday, April 23, 2020 10:28 AM (three hours ago)
the week to week mood swings from world of wonder about how much sherry pie should be in the show is really fascinating to watch
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 23 April 2020 17:58 (three years ago) link
she appeared on the runway suddenly after two weeks of being practically edited out?
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 23 April 2020 17:59 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I rewound the runway to make sure I hadn't missed something.
WoW, messy.
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Thursday, 23 April 2020 18:04 (three years ago) link
The We're Here debut was fun enough -- pretty clearly a 'what if Queer Eye but RPDR veterans' premise, and I was mildly surprised it was NOT a WoW production simply because there was a lot of Ru-like personal growth and struggle and emotion themes. But kinda nice to see the three of them just doing something that wasn't competition or specifically a drag tour related thing, even though it kinda is. Though I was amused by the fact that it seemed like it was just the three of them (and a camera crew) at first and then suddenly there's a slew of other people around too.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 April 2020 17:00 (three years ago) link
I love Eureka in drag terms but I wish it was someone other than her in We’re Here. She makes everything end up being about her :/I love Bob & Shangy forever tho
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 24 April 2020 17:19 (three years ago) link
(Spoiler)
Widow getting axed for playing the angry black woman ... kinda proves The Vixen right?
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Saturday, 25 April 2020 03:47 (three years ago) link
You’re onto something there.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 April 2020 06:02 (three years ago) link
Jeff Goldblum & Rachel Bloom were awesome judges!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 April 2020 07:54 (three years ago) link
Im not saying the Vixen was wrong, but the Widow just always seemed lost, in every challenge. Like she never got over her first-week nerves or something.
― trishyb, Saturday, 25 April 2020 10:20 (three years ago) link
Do the Drag Race producers not know about Jeff Goldblum's reputation, or do they not care, I wonder?
― trishyb, Saturday, 25 April 2020 10:31 (three years ago) link
Crossed my mind more than once. Did make the sauciness feel more like sleaziness.
As for Secret Celebrity etc. etc., fine, an amusing fillip, but sure seemed like something that would have worked better as a short standalone thing later in the year just to stretch out the brand a bit while nothing is being filmed at all. Also having to stay awake until 11:30 even on a Friday did my head in.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 April 2020 15:11 (three years ago) link
Having only seen Nico in (hot) photos up to now, finally seeing him in (perpetual) motion was ... yeah, the crush is tempered somewhat.
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Saturday, 25 April 2020 15:38 (three years ago) link
I too had this thought: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jeff-goldblum-faces-social-media-backlash-islam-comments-rupauls-drag-race-1291882?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Saturday, 25 April 2020 15:41 (three years ago) link
And, yes, Widow was flailing to be sure. But for a judge to actually explicitly call out the quality The Vixen was fighting so hard against made my ears perk up.
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Saturday, 25 April 2020 15:42 (three years ago) link
xpost yeahhhh I thought that was a little...I don't know if gauche is the word, but chancy, or at least, oddly singled out.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 April 2020 15:49 (three years ago) link
“Look over there!”
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Saturday, 25 April 2020 16:10 (three years ago) link
Jackie Cox being told her joke was too repetitive while Jaida got a pass for doing the exact same thing twice really annoyed me
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 25 April 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
Also i have never seen Jeff Goldblum in anything so I don't really *get* what the deal is there but the whole episode being deferential to his appearance was a real buzzkill
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 25 April 2020 20:37 (three years ago) link
I get the sense that if Jackie had had more than one schtick the judges would've complained that she was all over the place and needed to focus her jokes more.
― Judd Apatowsaurus (Leee), Saturday, 25 April 2020 20:57 (three years ago) link
Jackie Cox being told her joke was too repetitive while Jaida got a pass for doing the exact same thing twice really annoyed me― boxedjoy, samedi 25 avril 2020 20:22 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― boxedjoy, samedi 25 avril 2020 20:22 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Same. I thought she did pretty good. I was surprised Heidi was safe. She was barely shown in the debate at all, which made me think she didn't do so well.
― LeRooLeRoo, Sunday, 26 April 2020 14:31 (three years ago) link
Maybe she had a lot of interaction with Sherrie that had to be chopped.
― trishyb, Monday, 27 April 2020 17:32 (three years ago) link
Last night's episode was kinda sweet, as in earnest, in the best way. And of course it had to end that way. Daisy was a fun judge.
WAAAAY better Super Celebrity episode too, thank goodness. And the second We're Here was engaging as well.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 2 May 2020 20:01 (three years ago) link
Such a great episode & the untucked was v lovely tooAll the feels!!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 May 2020 20:36 (three years ago) link
For a season that started indifferently for me, I would have no problem with anyone* winning. The queens still around all have something that stands out for them that could take them all the way.
LOVED the superfans, and even before that lipsync I was thinking that an episode involving them should not end in an elimination. Glad to see both Heidi and Jackie make it another week, I couldn't imagine this season without either of them.
Obviously Jaida dotted her i's and crossed her t's and earned the win (and she has been on fire), but Opal charmed the hell out of me. If you blink when she's on stage, you could easily forget which one was the drag queen and which one was the superfan. JTP too performed the hell out of her routine too.
― Judd Apatowsaurus (Leee), Saturday, 2 May 2020 22:10 (three years ago) link
PS I hope that Afrodite is the name that Heidi finally settles on, though I bet there's still some juice left in this running gag.
― Judd Apatowsaurus (Leee), Saturday, 2 May 2020 22:12 (three years ago) link
Yeah otm I love all these queens
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 May 2020 22:35 (three years ago) link
Ep 2 of Celebrity Drag Race was def better than ep 1. Loved all three of these women, they did so great. Vanessa announcing her drag name is Vanquisha slaaaaaaayed me i could not breatheso great
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 May 2020 22:37 (three years ago) link
Agreed that the remaining queens (Sherry I guess being Sherry) are all pretty great. Hell, why have a season finale at this point, it would have to be some weird remote thing anyway. In any event I am glad this is stretching out for, presumably, at least two more weeks of episodes, if not three.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 3 May 2020 00:52 (three years ago) link
Good gravy, they're really going the Project Runway route with an All-Stars EVERY YEAR.
https://youtu.be/H2dXou6v8gA
― git stash hunks (Leee), Friday, 8 May 2020 17:04 (three years ago) link
You'd think networks might want to start keeping a few aces in their sleeves for the years to come.
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Friday, 8 May 2020 17:13 (three years ago) link
lol at the YT comment saying, more or less
Derek: On my season I fell into the Britney box.Also Derek: *walks into workroom in extremely famous Britney look*
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Friday, 8 May 2020 17:27 (three years ago) link
xpost I mean as I muttered re Super Celebrity, you pile it all on now when nobody's sure when 'Hollywood' as such starts working again and that'll leave you high and dry sooner rather than later.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 May 2020 17:31 (three years ago) link
And I am STILL unclear exactly how the finale for this season is supposed to happen.
Well, I think Prince would have enjoyed that lipsync. I really liked this episode. The choice of winner was 100% correct.
― trishyb, Saturday, 9 May 2020 09:57 (three years ago) link
Yes to all of the above !
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 9 May 2020 19:51 (three years ago) link
And I am STILL unclear exactly how the finale for this season is supposed to happen.― Ned Raggett, vendredi 8 mai 2020 17:31 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― Ned Raggett, vendredi 8 mai 2020 17:31 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
I've heard they filmed the reunion on Zoom. Not sure if that means the finale too.
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 9 May 2020 19:53 (three years ago) link
Whoopi <3
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 May 2020 19:57 (three years ago) link
Yeah that was a pretty solid episode. I am still sad to see Heidi go, she's just so frickin' FUNNY. Ah well.
Super Celebrity this time not as good as ep 2 but still good. 3rd We're Here a very interesting one.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 9 May 2020 20:44 (three years ago) link
Sherry was doing some subliminal messaging between being a cat and a fish
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 9 May 2020 20:46 (three years ago) link
I loved all the things Ru said to Heidi during gbe elimination. That queen is really somethin! I loved Crystal’s character, so fuckin funny & weird & awesome. I quite enjoyed this Celebrity Drag episode too
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 May 2020 21:06 (three years ago) link
The celebrities all killed the roast and the lipsynch !
I will miss Heidi too. She should be so proud. She's got to be a lock for Miss Congeniality.
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 9 May 2020 23:10 (three years ago) link
And AllStars
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 May 2020 02:20 (three years ago) link
OK that Ru Roast really was all killer no filler.
Unlike the faces on the judges' panel.
― git stash hunks (Leee), Sunday, 10 May 2020 22:15 (three years ago) link
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 May 2020 23:13 (three years ago) link
Good mentor lineup for the final episode next week too; if that sticks the landing then I can see why they put the first episode where they did because lord that sucked.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 10 May 2020 23:16 (three years ago) link
Anyway, Shangela gets a Texas Monthly profile, as is deserved:
https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/shangela-drag-queen-hbo-show/
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 May 2020 20:47 (three years ago) link
Nice little "lucky bitches" shout-out to the classic French & Saunders sketch.
― trishyb, Saturday, 16 May 2020 10:03 (three years ago) link
That was a little TOO much Rusical but. Am mildly surprised they didn’t just have Jackie be part of the actual top four for the next couple of episodes but here we are.Final Secret Celebrity was fun! But I’m glad I don’t have to stay up to 11:30 anymore.And separately We’re Here continues carving out its own interesting space. Two episodes to go.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 16 May 2020 13:16 (three years ago) link
The very start of the episode, where Jaida came stalking back into the workroom in her amazing dress, and just want to say again I don't think she got enough props for how she managed to effortlessly honour Whoopi and Prince together in one look.
― trishyb, Saturday, 16 May 2020 18:52 (three years ago) link
Her runway look this episode was INCREDIBLE. Carson’s Nolan Miller comment was on the money. Plus I think in addition to having an amazing drag career after this, she should be tapped to create gowns for Ru, she’s at that level of impeccableness imo.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 16 May 2020 19:15 (three years ago) link
Surely she's the front runner to win. Nothing against the other two.
Also, LOL at the very start of the episode where the warm Heidi thoughts are flowing and...the lights go out.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 16 May 2020 20:10 (three years ago) link
"Condragulations to my final four! Who do you want to be America's next drag superstar? Are you Team Crystal? Team Gigi? Or Team Jaida?"
― So buttons. (Leee), Saturday, 16 May 2020 22:11 (three years ago) link
I realized watching this Untucked that I just dont like Gigi Goode. Love her looks, sure - but she just seems so insincere all the time
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 16 May 2020 22:52 (three years ago) link
Jamal Sims was a TERRIBLE coach in that episode. Absolutely nothing to offer but vague platitudes about energy. Also my eyes hurt at Carson's outfit.
Crystal is really endearing but just isn't good enough to beat Jaida at this. Gigi would be a fine winner, dully competent I guess, if they're going to give the prize to another white slim young fashion queen then they might as well forego any pretence of casting any diversity for the next season.
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 17 May 2020 09:54 (three years ago) link
I was genuinely surprised they didn't read Crystal over her boots on the runway. They were not good.
― trishyb, Sunday, 17 May 2020 18:13 (three years ago) link
They usually seem incapable of doing anything other than fawn for the last challenge episode.
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Sunday, 17 May 2020 23:19 (three years ago) link
Reunion was fun. But what I wouldn't give for the obviously-never-going-to-be-broadcast chat they all must have had about Sherry. (A true level of nonpersoning at this point.).
Did love that Lisa Renna -- and Harry -- have a good sense of humor.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 23 May 2020 14:34 (three years ago) link
Meantime so we're getting the next All Stars, Canadian Drag Race in July, new season of Werq the World and Race Chaser discussed a rumor that Drag Race UK already filmed season 2 so I guess we'll have plenty of CONTENT to tide us over?
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 23 May 2020 14:35 (three years ago) link
Anyway, fully deserving winner, but they were all good -- I suspect if Yvie hadn't won last year Crystal might have been in but there ya go. Not a bad way to handle the episode all around and the individual lipsync choices were all killer.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 30 May 2020 15:17 (three years ago) link
I was rooting hard for Crystal but I felt like she was the weakest in all 3 lip syncs :(
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 30 May 2020 15:30 (three years ago) link
the baby bird thing was SO smart but it just kinda lacked momentum and stalled, and idk if it was too much makeup or her just not being as expressive but her face thing didn't seem as dynamic as the other two, idk Crystal is so incredible but Gigi and Jaida are just better performers imo
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 30 May 2020 15:31 (three years ago) link
Yeah, fair. But it was absolutely something she would do so you know, credit for being yourself all the way down the line.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 30 May 2020 15:37 (three years ago) link
I think that's the most enjoyable lockdown programme I've watched. I don't know what treatment Ru can't access at the moment that is leading her to cover her face, but I love that it resulted in the big floating eye.
― trishyb, Saturday, 30 May 2020 16:59 (three years ago) link
RuPaul just doesn't know how to do make-up any more is the theory I'm sticking with
Crystal is a great drag queen. But she isn't someone who could ever have won the show, based on the metrics it measures success by. I can't wait to subscribe to her YouTube channel because her creativity and charm will thrive there. And based on the lip-synchs, I couldn't imagine her being exceptional in a club stage performance.
I was really glad to see Jaida win, even more so with everything going on this week. The tribute to Wilson was lovely too. It's been a much better season than the show has had in recent years. None of the queens seemed like obvious filler material. I think having a gaping hole in the shape of Sherry Pie forced production to abandon the pre-set narrative and it felt a lot less predictable this time around, even if some of the victories felt contrived.
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 30 May 2020 20:27 (three years ago) link
I think Ru is just playing on “wear a mask” but mb I’m wrongLove Jada, thrilled that she won but would have been happy with any of themCrystal’s bird was a great concept but she should have revealed into a full glam bird costume lipsync to keep the momentum - it stalled out having just the single concept imoHoly shit at Gigi’s Take On Me - art direction, everything so incredible. But my only tony note is that she needs to maybe expand her choreo a bit she has a lot of crutches she falls back on imo.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 30 May 2020 21:16 (three years ago) link
Jada’s final lipsync was unstoppable tho. Just plain fire.
Jaida clinched it in the final lip sync -- she stood out by far among the three.
the baby bird thing was SO smart but it just kinda lacked momentum and stalled
Yeah, it was a charming and cute concept that needed one more hook to elevate it.
I don't know what treatment Ru can't access at the moment that is leading her to cover her face
I think Ru just wants to avoid a repeat of the last time she went on TV without the benefit of a professional makeup artist.
― Swoler Bear (Leee), Saturday, 30 May 2020 21:23 (three years ago) link
Ouch, that clip. Yes, I guess that could well be it, although I also like the "wear a mask" theory. I hadn't thought of that.
At one point my mam came into the room while the big floating eye was talking to Crystal. My mam asked me if it was Sesame Street.
― trishyb, Sunday, 31 May 2020 08:54 (three years ago) link
lol!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 31 May 2020 14:28 (three years ago) link
Hahah Crystal would take that as a total compliment.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 31 May 2020 20:18 (three years ago) link
What a great finale! I thought Gigi won the close-up and the home-made lip synch and Jaida won the 3-way. So maybe added with her track record from the season Gigi should've won? But I'm not mad at all, they were very close and Jaida is a drag superstar. Crystal's pinata was my favorite thing to come out of season 12.
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 1 June 2020 13:53 (three years ago) link
https://youtu.be/3PTSqpHpIF4
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 1 June 2020 13:55 (three years ago) link
Oops did that not embed?? It’s the reaction video where we see the queens seeing who won
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 1 June 2020 13:57 (three years ago) link
I saw it. It is so great!!
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 1 June 2020 14:03 (three years ago) link
All Stars 5 started last night - who all watched?I cannot tell you how much I live for JujubeeHaving her back on my tv reading queens for filth was like a gift from the godsLots of goop-gaggery & engineering for maximum drama. Sure it’s gimmicky but I am into itOh and Yvie Oddly in that short spiky yellow wig gave me the fully realized Dennis Rodman drag that I have needed for ~25 years. She’s fucking incredible
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 6 June 2020 19:49 (three years ago) link
Yeah Yvie was fire. Really hope that Peppermint comes in at some point.
Weird that 3 of the 4 safe queens were all tops for me -- Mariah and Shea especially.
― Shade Kool-Aid (Leee), Saturday, 6 June 2020 20:13 (three years ago) link
Mariah for sure, so good!!Shea looked amazing but that pole routine was pretty mediocre imo. She said she only started training 10 days prior and i hate to say it showed. I still love her though, she’s pure fire
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 6 June 2020 20:19 (three years ago) link
I forgot how much I love Alexis. BAM.
― Shade Kool-Aid (Leee), Saturday, 6 June 2020 20:34 (three years ago) link
Yes! Her routine was a total delight!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 6 June 2020 21:45 (three years ago) link
Compiling a list of lip sync assassins I can't wait to see return this season.
― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 7 June 2020 01:29 (three years ago) link
Rooting for either Shea or Juju to win the whole thing tho.
samebut honestly i am ALL IN for Jujubee
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 7 June 2020 01:30 (three years ago) link
Shea for me but Jujubee would be absolutely great -- especially since *thinks* the only queen of Asian background to win it all has been Raja, so far. Anyway, yes, some fun changeups, and we get an Untucked with a LOT more actual behind the scenes randomness in those B&W interstitials.
Oh and Ricky Martin was a smart choice for starting judge. He was loving it.
Part of me has to wonder if the show was planning on a season-long Derrick/India thing and then whoops!
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 7 June 2020 03:09 (three years ago) link
Ricky was fantastic
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 7 June 2020 03:11 (three years ago) link
Willam released his “Derrick” music video & it’s v funny & great & of course, perfectly timedhttps://youtu.be/UVKOBplS0Xg
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 7 June 2020 15:03 (three years ago) link
Derrick was painful and it felt cruel to watch, like she clearly has nothing to offer and watching her flounder is just cringey
Shea and Jujubee are the only real stars here for me, Miz Cracker is also great and I was impressed with Mariah, also Blair has had QUITE a glow-up, good for her
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 7 June 2020 18:56 (three years ago) link
Ongina's fears about how much tougher this competition has gotten since her season seem, at this point, well founded. Also, love seeing Alexis Mateo in the mix again.
― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 7 June 2020 21:45 (three years ago) link
Thinking about the list of LS assassins I'd like to see, imagine if they bring in SHANGELA. I'd fully expect her to go S8 Daenerys.
― Shade Kool-Aid (Leee), Monday, 8 June 2020 17:20 (three years ago) link
ImagineguysIf Shea Coulee gets a win and they bring in Sasha as the assasinIMAGINE
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 8 June 2020 17:39 (three years ago) link
People I expect to see at some point or another:ManilaPeppermintBrookeCocoPrrrrrrobably not Ben tho.
― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Monday, 8 June 2020 17:58 (three years ago) link
Hopefully we will see Alyssa & maybe Roxxxy?
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 8 June 2020 19:07 (three years ago) link
If Shea Coulee gets a win and they bring in Sasha as the assasin
And Sasha shows up wearing a flower pot on her head.
― Shade Kool-Aid (Leee), Monday, 8 June 2020 20:44 (three years ago) link
Well, not Sasha last night, but Alyssa indeed. Shea pretty much owned the entire episode and made it seem easy, which is probably why we got so much Ongina meltdown and Cracker heel turn.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 13 June 2020 16:35 (three years ago) link
this season seems pretty clearly Shea's to lose, like she is just on a completely different level than everyone else. I could totally see another Manila situation where she gets sent home for being too big of a threat. That lip sync could easily slide into the GOAT canon.
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 13 June 2020 18:20 (three years ago) link
I could totally see another Manila situation where she gets sent home for being too big of a threat.
As much as Naomi saying "Life's not fair" was iconic, this is where the format fails for what the show's trying to do. But so long as it doesn't end in another tie, fine.
― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 13 June 2020 18:28 (three years ago) link
I just realized the last 2 seasons of All-Stars had the clear winners going home way too early
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 13 June 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link
Exactly. In the old-school All-Stars, Ben and Manila would be in the pantheon.
― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 13 June 2020 18:44 (three years ago) link
It's like Cracker never got over Asia saying that she's not a star -- the first opportunity that Cracker got to turn the tables, she greedily dished it out. At least she seems to have the self-awareness to know how she's coming across.
Alyssa coming in after the vote to comfort Ongina was sweet.
― Shade Kool-Aid (Leee), Saturday, 13 June 2020 20:45 (three years ago) link
Alyssa seemed kinda low enery (for her) on that lipsync? both of them were awesome though, obv. I need Alyssa’s gold boots in my lifeShea’s runway though! Jaw drop, heart stop, iconic.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 13 June 2020 23:43 (three years ago) link
Yes, Alyssa didn't seem like her usual self. I wondered if the outfit she had on was not comfortable, or was about to fall apart. Or if she just wanted Shea to have $20,000? Not to take away from Shea, though, who was fantastic. Her runway look was timely, fashionable, and funny but dignified. And her lipsync was well worth $20,000.
― trishyb, Sunday, 14 June 2020 10:34 (three years ago) link
I do wonder tho, like what is driving the lip sync assassins? they're not competing for a prize and nothing's at stake for them
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 14 June 2020 13:51 (three years ago) link
TV exposure, brand awareness, plus theyre getting paid
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 14 June 2020 14:17 (three years ago) link
Sure, that gets them on the stage, but once they’re there they’re not really FIGHTING for anything, you know?
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 14 June 2020 18:59 (three years ago) link
hmm yeah i guess that’s true! it’d be cool if the assassin watched the whole episode backstage and then was arbitrarily given their own vote #ChaosRule
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 14 June 2020 19:02 (three years ago) link
Just caught an ep of AS2 on Pluto and, man, they'll never accumulate a season with a bench of talent that deep ever gain.
― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Monday, 15 June 2020 13:17 (three years ago) link
Seemed to me me like Alyssa was asked to phone it in on purpose. Shea slayed it anyway.
Sad my little Ongina couldn't find her confidence back.
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 15 June 2020 13:20 (three years ago) link
Just caught an ep of AS2 on Pluto and, man, they'll never accumulate a season with a bench of talent that deep ever gain.― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), lundi 15 juin 2020 13:17 (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), lundi 15 juin 2020 13:17 (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Yeah biggest cast ever. Imagine if Ben had accepted the invitation and had been there instead of Coco.
AS5 in comparison does seem like Some Stars (save a few obvious superstars).
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 15 June 2020 13:26 (three years ago) link
Ohhh some drama!So is Alexis gonna steal Cracker’s lunch money next week? Stuff her into a locker? She is gagging for a fight The challenge felt a bit weird & dumb but Juju was cracking me up so I am glad she won.Loved the Untucked scene between Juju, Blair & Mayhem talking about struggles with addiction & alcohol. it was v moving to see Mayhem open up to them. I like it when this show can do thatAlexis as a circus tent on the runway made me think of Beetlejuice https://i.gifer.com/2LBe.gif
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 June 2020 21:15 (three years ago) link
I knew when they showed not one but two people picking [redacted]'s lipstick that they were trying to build up some big-time drama about sending [redacted] home way earlier than expected. I've watched this show enough that I wasn't worried.
― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 20 June 2020 21:19 (three years ago) link
Yeah no way THAT result was going to happen. Still mildly surprised at who did go, though.
Loved the Untucked scene between Juju, Blair & Mayhem talking about struggles with addiction & alcohol. it was v moving to see Mayhem open up to them. I like it when this show can do that
Yes, that was notable. (Mind you, I think they used every last variation of the 'sad piano music' they have for those sequences.)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 June 2020 21:20 (three years ago) link
This elimination hurt, because the queen who left is so classy and wise. Like, I wish she could be my mentor!
― Learned Leeegue (Leee), Saturday, 20 June 2020 21:31 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I was not thrilled with any of the outcomes of this ep tbh, outside of Juju finally getting a main challenge win!
― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 20 June 2020 21:44 (three years ago) link
Sad to see Mariah go for sureBob the Drag Queen said in his recap show that he wishes these original queens like Mariah & were elevated more for making the show what it is now, for inspiring so many queens to DO drag after their seasons
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 June 2020 22:12 (three years ago) link
I wanted India to get the chop, she’s SO bland
You said it so I don't have to. I don't disagree with her winning week 1 but I think we've seen the full extent of her talents.
― Learned Leeegue (Leee), Saturday, 20 June 2020 22:28 (three years ago) link
Hard agree. Ugh.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 June 2020 23:37 (three years ago) link
Here's my power rankings from who's currently left...
SheaJujubeeAlexis (tho she's poised to plummet thanks to workroom buffoonery; still wins me over with shit like losing the aerosol can's cap)BlairCrackerIndiaMayhem
― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 21 June 2020 03:51 (three years ago) link
I have heard stories about my last-placer from people who've worked with her (or, rather, tried to), and her unabashedly picking you-know-who's lipstick this week was the final straw confirming what I'd heard.
― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 21 June 2020 03:53 (three years ago) link
Agree with yr top 2 for sureI dunno if Alexis is top 3 - she’s insanely talented but her taste level is her worst enemy.But, maybe she is. i dont really care at all about Blair.while I love Cracker I think she is beginning to spiral. If there is a god, she’ll pull out of the freefall & make it into top 3. But I dunno. Alexis is def hungrier. ... Mayhem feels like she coasts too much on the esteem she supposedly has in the drag world without actually living up to the talent they say she has. Or maybe tv just fucks with her head too much. India must go. Please. If there is a god
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 21 June 2020 04:14 (three years ago) link
I've always looked at Cracker and said "potential." But it more often than not ends there.
― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 21 June 2020 04:28 (three years ago) link
Fair
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 21 June 2020 04:40 (three years ago) link
This season feels like it's Shea's to lose, nobody else seems to be coming close to her
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 21 June 2020 07:25 (three years ago) link
Jujubee is funnier, but I think that's the only area where anyone beats Shea.
I actively dislike Cracker at this stage. She is so me-me-me that I just can't stand it. Instead of concentrating on the challenge, all she does is concentrate on how she's coming across in the challenge.
― trishyb, Sunday, 21 June 2020 16:25 (three years ago) link
I can see that. I personally find her neurosis relatable & give her more rope because of it. She’s SO funny to me though as a performer.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 21 June 2020 17:26 (three years ago) link
y'all this lip sync was SO bland, I could not believe how bland it was!!!! It felt like neither of them were trying and I definitely wondered if Juju was losing on purpose so she didn't have to be the bad guy who sent someone home, like that's how lifeless it was
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 21 June 2020 17:50 (three years ago) link
yeah it was pretty underwhelming
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 21 June 2020 18:02 (three years ago) link
that's not the first time Alexis has been compared to beetlejuice iirc!!
― here 1st (roxymuzak), Monday, 22 June 2020 19:20 (three years ago) link
in her original season, Alexis was described by Michelle as looking "like Beetlejuice" with her hair pulled back, but the context led me to believe she actually meant this character from beetlejuice
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Wqfsk6DGsG8/WOReJ_kSVxI/AAAAAAAAADM/tE6J-BdKb5wXHneKSg4XBuA37c10-fYZwCLcB/s1600/Images-for-beetlejuice-shrunken-head.jpg
― here 1st (roxymuzak), Monday, 22 June 2020 19:23 (three years ago) link
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 June 2020 19:24 (three years ago) link
Roffle.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 June 2020 22:18 (three years ago) link
As we get ready for tonight: the new season of Werq the World is three episodes in, all pretty good. Asia O'Hara's was more a fun slice of life, but the Yvie and Detox episodes got really heavy -- Detox with extended thoughts and footage about returning to Orlando and visiting Pulse, Yvie with blunt talk about her condition and the pain it causes. Something that really sunk in with me in light of this year is that -- maybe, hopefully not -- that tour might have been Yvie's only chance to really showcase what she does nationwide, all depending on whatever happens with how long it takes live shows to come back and how quickly things will start to affect her.
Lighter note -- so it turns out Race Chaser now has a related spinoff show The Chop which will cover Canada's Drag Race and it's hosted by Manila and Latrice, which, of course (and I'm guessing it may just also become their own podcast for all kinds of things). First episode on Monday, probably just covering the run up to next week's premiere.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 June 2020 23:43 (three years ago) link
Color me tickled that [this week's winner] could turn out a lip sync like THAT!
― Juanita was robbed (Eric H.), Saturday, 27 June 2020 01:49 (three years ago) link
Yeah that I did not expect!
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 27 June 2020 04:29 (three years ago) link
I also gotta say them being totally butched up bros for the SheMZ studio part was goddamn hilarious.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 27 June 2020 04:34 (three years ago) link
I just realized that the lipsync assassin ruveal reminds me of The Chase.
― trishyb, Saturday, 27 June 2020 08:06 (three years ago) link
IIRC this week's winner competed with a broken foot in her original season.
None of the groups were any good, though I laughed the most with Alexis (stepped-on lines and all).
The runway was much better though! Who knew that India could pull off editorial? And Blair's mug!
― AxoLOLtl (Leee), Saturday, 27 June 2020 21:53 (three years ago) link
Blair looked like a couture version of being the tree in the school play lolLipsync was so good!! I could watch Morgan slay every day
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 June 2020 23:15 (three years ago) link
Something that's baffling me is how India isn't catching any votes.
― AxoLOLtl (Leee), Sunday, 28 June 2020 21:34 (three years ago) link
i feel like maybe it's because people don't see her as a threat?
― here 1st (roxymuzak), Sunday, 28 June 2020 23:47 (three years ago) link
she's also getting generally good critiques
Nothing India's done so far has struck me as egregiously bad, either.
― Juanita was robbed (Eric H.), Monday, 29 June 2020 17:07 (three years ago) link
Okay, first episode of Canada's Drag Race is up, anyone else watch? (Would have picked a different lip sync song, but yes of course, that artist.)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 3 July 2020 02:35 (three years ago) link
I haven't seen it yet because they're playing it on Crave here, which I don't have. But our homegirl Rita Baga's in it, so it'll be difficult to open Facebook without getting any spoilers. Hopefully the bars will start viewing parties soon (or I could just subscribe to Crave I guess.)
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 3 July 2020 13:39 (three years ago) link
I like how harsh the judges were. and Jeffrey Bowyer Chapman trying to imitate Ru's mannerisms
Is it filmed at the same location/stage as Ru's Drag Race?
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 3 July 2020 16:44 (three years ago) link
Didn't look like it at all, honestly. Similar to how the UK set clearly wasn't the US one!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 3 July 2020 16:48 (three years ago) link
Stacy was brilliant, but she was brilliant on ANTM too. Brooke Lynn's mediocre competence is really highlighted in how unpresent she seemed as a host.
― boxedjoy, Friday, 3 July 2020 20:18 (three years ago) link
Stunning episode of All Stars. Jujubee, Shea, Alexis, and Run were all amazing and very funny. I properly laughed at both Eartha Kitt and Flavor Flav. Ru's dress and makeup were so beautiful. And so much DRAMA! I loved it.
― trishyb, Saturday, 4 July 2020 09:19 (three years ago) link
that was honestly the hardest I've laughed during Snatch Game..... maybe ever?
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 4 July 2020 14:19 (three years ago) link
like Alexis's Walter Mercado was funnier than anything we get out of most Snatch Games and it was only the 3rd best performance
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 4 July 2020 14:20 (three years ago) link
All the drama, all the laughs, what a ride. And yeah, Alexis couldn't've pulled off being pre-publicity for the Mercado doc on Netflix next week if she and they had planned it.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 4 July 2020 14:52 (three years ago) link
I don’t know if anyone follows YouTube drama, but bad timing for picking Jeffree Star!
― Notes on Scampo (tokyo rosemary), Saturday, 4 July 2020 16:22 (three years ago) link
it is ALWAYS bad timing to pick Jeffree Starr!!!!
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 4 July 2020 16:35 (three years ago) link
True!!!
― Notes on Scampo (tokyo rosemary), Saturday, 4 July 2020 17:00 (three years ago) link
I had no reference for Walter Mercado & Alexis slayed me... and Shea’s Flav...and Juju’s Eartha... i laughed til I criedAnddd omg the DRAMZGreat episode
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 4 July 2020 17:27 (three years ago) link
also real talk India Farrah was a total snore for me in this series & i am glad she’s gone but bless her for that stunt
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 4 July 2020 17:35 (three years ago) link
My favourite moment was Jujubee in her prom gear taking a quick sip of her drink and heading off to get the Goss, just like at a real prom!
If Shea doesn't win this whole thing now, with Jujubee a close second, well... I just don't know.
I felt so bad that anyone is laughing at Shea for losing out to Sasha in their series, and I love her for reclaiming that moment for herself.
― trishyb, Saturday, 4 July 2020 21:19 (three years ago) link
It's also interesting how drag itself has changed over the years. Those massive fake boobs that India favours are so old-fashioned.
― trishyb, Saturday, 4 July 2020 21:21 (three years ago) link
I felt so bad that anyone is laughing at Shea for losing out to Sasha in their series
Yeah that was *fucked up* to learn about.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 4 July 2020 21:27 (three years ago) link
I'm watching Canada episode 2 right now (just started so I won't be spoiling anything) but if Jimbo a) doesn't make it to snatch game or b) play a kids in the hall character what are we even doing up here
― TRANCED INTO RADIOACTIVE PUREE (Will M.), Friday, 10 July 2020 05:46 (three years ago) link
Quite right. Fun episode but both those skits took way longer than I figured. Pacing!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 July 2020 18:29 (three years ago) link
Good lip sync assassin choice, that.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 11 July 2020 04:32 (three years ago) link
slayed. literally no-one else on stage but her
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 July 2020 05:05 (three years ago) link
I genuinely did not recognize her.
― trishyb, Saturday, 11 July 2020 15:17 (three years ago) link
It took me a couple of seconds too.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 11 July 2020 15:38 (three years ago) link
i am annoyed that they sent alexis homei kinda get why but i just dont rate blair that much. she hasn’t done anything this season except SAY how much she wants to win i think alexis is better but thats obv not what they are voting on
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 July 2020 18:02 (three years ago) link
Definitely was a shocker, and I do love Blair. She's usually stunning and gives her all in the challenges, but last night she failed in both runways. Alexis's pageant kiddie pool gown was awesome.
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 11 July 2020 18:39 (three years ago) link
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 July 2020 19:25 (three years ago) link
I do think Shea is objectively the best of them all, but man, I just love Jujubee and I wish she could win.
― trishyb, Saturday, 11 July 2020 19:51 (three years ago) link
same same
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 July 2020 19:54 (three years ago) link
lol I had no idea that was Roxxy until someone said her name
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 12 July 2020 03:26 (three years ago) link
i knew it was her right awaybut she does her eyemakeup v weird now, i get that she is harder to recognize
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 July 2020 03:41 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I wish the All Stars tie hadn't already been used up last time around. Juju + Shea is a tie I can fully endorse.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Sunday, 12 July 2020 06:04 (three years ago) link
Speaking of eye makeup, I ... died for Blair's mug this week.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Sunday, 12 July 2020 06:05 (three years ago) link
her mug was gorgeous, it is true
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 July 2020 06:15 (three years ago) link
blair's runway walk and general way of moving is so awkward and gawky, it's kinda antithetical to the level of glamour she seems to be attempting to project
― here 1st (roxymuzak), Monday, 13 July 2020 17:25 (three years ago) link
so otmher walk is very “Mother/Daughter Fashion Show at the mall”
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 13 July 2020 17:26 (three years ago) link
I like her very much, but she is not in the same league as the others. She should have gone home instead of Alexis. Alexis could maybe have bought herself another week if she'd been as generous with her sewing expertise as Shea was. I actually can't remember if India was telling the truth about Alexis campaigning against Shea or not.
― trishyb, Monday, 13 July 2020 17:50 (three years ago) link
also: can anyone link me to proof of miz cracker ever actually being funny? please don't act like the pickle thing counts. the pickle thing being funny is a psy op
― here 1st (roxymuzak), Monday, 13 July 2020 18:21 (three years ago) link
she's like the bill hicks of drag at this point
― here 1st (roxymuzak), Monday, 13 July 2020 18:22 (three years ago) link
Miz was good with the TMZ scene, tho Juju still ran circles around her in bringing the funny.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Monday, 13 July 2020 18:24 (three years ago) link
Cracker is funnier on Youtube, though she's been noticeably absent from it for the AS5 run.
― AxoLOLtl (Leee), Monday, 13 July 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link
i have no clue about the whole India vs Alexis drama except that I think that the truth is somewhere in the middle also i am tired of it already lol
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 13 July 2020 18:59 (three years ago) link
cracker is funny in the way that you likely have a friend who is a laff riot when you're at dinner or drinks or w/e but it's not like they're planning on becoming a professional comedian anytime soon
― clouds, Monday, 13 July 2020 20:29 (three years ago) link
India you're a liar, and this is why Derrick don't like you.
It was after I voted.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 13:45 (three years ago) link
Oh yeah seeing all the truth tea about how it was post-vote removes any shred of possibility that this wasn’t completely disingenuous and dishonest. What an asshole.
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 23:44 (three years ago) link
And for WHAT?? Like surely in your heart of hearts you must know that after 4x in the bottom, you’re not going to win, so why would you pull such a desperate hail-mary to stay if it’s going to fracture a working relationship/friendship??Like I really did want to believe this was India being like “hey I know I’m going home, so just between us girls, blah blah blah” but now that no longer makes sense
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 23:48 (three years ago) link
India is the worst
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
Meanwhile there was also this from the other day
https://screenrant.com/alexis-mateo-rupauls-drag-race-mistreating-latinx-queens/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 01:12 (three years ago) link
Maybe she's hoping that her messiness makes her "the bitch you love to hate" which gets her invited back? Although that sort of person is always "the bitch who makes me sorry to see her taking up a space", but I don't cast reality TV series, so what do I know?
― trishyb, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 09:19 (three years ago) link
Don’t get me wrong. I love Reba McIntyre, and I LOVE “Fancy”But they chose THAT songFor THAT assassin? Or maybe it was chosen before the assassin was idkBut that was a real non starter of a lipsync and a waste of a song because they couldnt do anything with it! neither of them are that kind of performer.That’s a Sasha Velour or Latrice or Chad Michaels track. DRAMA. Not dancin.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 July 2020 19:18 (three years ago) link
Plus Kennedy did not know the words.
Oh god, why do I dislike Cracker so much? If she wins, I swear to God I will tear this place down with my bare hands, you watch me.
― trishyb, Saturday, 18 July 2020 20:21 (three years ago) link
Still putting all my hopes on Shea or JujuPlus it looks like the singing/dance challenge so its Shea’s to loseAlso: REUNION! :D
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 July 2020 20:34 (three years ago) link
Yeah that was a...weird lipsync, to put it mildly.
Surely Shea's to lose.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 18 July 2020 20:50 (three years ago) link
lol Blair going hard for deluded Valentina vibes, she is so far from reality what did she say, something like how winning allstars isnt based on winning? and how the problem w her standup was that her nails made it hard to turn the pages of her not book*in skywriting over the studio* BITCH! PLEASE!i am glad she’s gone. she should have been kicked off ages ago.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 July 2020 21:27 (three years ago) link
*note book
that lipsynch was dreadful, and especially as the one happening on this week's Canada Drag Race was spectacular (even if the episode of CDR itself was otherwise rubbish)
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 18 July 2020 21:56 (three years ago) link
Yeah, they really pushed the "there are 29,000 words to this song" angle in Untucked but that was a pretty low energy final (?) lip sync for the season.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Saturday, 18 July 2020 22:58 (three years ago) link
lmao what an absurd song to pick for a lip sync
watching Blair post-judging was unbearable bcz it's someone who is clawing in desperation against the fully inevitable, they know it's inevitable, they know they can't change it, they're just kinda panicking
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 20 July 2020 15:49 (three years ago) link
especially as the one happening on this week's Canada Drag Race was spectacular
Yes, forgot to mention that earlier, it was prime stuff.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 20 July 2020 16:58 (three years ago) link
Willam's last two recap eps on the Race Chaser pod have been ... testy. Delightfully testy, but testy for sure.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 18:06 (three years ago) link
Rather!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 July 2020 18:15 (three years ago) link
new uhhhHHHHHhh ft trixie and katya coming august 5, hopefully captures some of the old magic
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 18:19 (three years ago) link
Both are also equally perplexed by the LYFYL song choice this week too. (Willam: "World of Wonder should issue an apology for wasting the talents and the time of Miss Kennedy Davenport! This is like Nina West to do a wet T-shirt contest! Wrong queen!")
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 18:20 (three years ago) link
(like ASKING Nina)
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 18:22 (three years ago) link
And they were right about it all.
Canada's Drag Race settling into a good groove. Crazy/ridiculous drama, a good design challenge, stuff and things! The personalities and approaches are all coming clearer too -- and Snatch Game next week!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 July 2020 03:00 (three years ago) link
Yay the right queen won yay!
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 July 2020 04:31 (three years ago) link
Anyway so we’re getting another series only they’re going full reality TV for the Vegas revue? Definitely a different full-on VH1 tone than the Werq the World documentaries, and I’m not sure it’ll work but we’ll see...
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 July 2020 04:39 (three years ago) link
a good finale but not like, super memorableglad the winner won bc i love her forever
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 July 2020 05:33 (three years ago) link
I truly wish the tie hadn’t gotten used up last season. That was an absolutely deserved winner but at this point I wanted a crown for a particular one of the other two too.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Sunday, 26 July 2020 00:55 (three years ago) link
Juju’s runway look was UHMAZING
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 26 July 2020 00:58 (three years ago) link
Yeah that was beyond next level. Maybe just a crown via popular acclaim?
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 26 July 2020 01:03 (three years ago) link
I'd love to see Juju and Shea do something together. They have really good chemistry and seem genuinely kind and interested in other people. Plus Juju is one of the funniest queens they've ever had.
I teared up when Shea talked about her dad and how proud he would be of his son.
― trishyb, Sunday, 26 July 2020 08:36 (three years ago) link
always my fav moment of the season:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UI2IfC3pws
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 00:18 (three years ago) link
Aww, poor Juju.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 02:15 (three years ago) link
Yeah you can see her heart breaking for a second before she starts clapping.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 13:24 (three years ago) link
Canada version is really difficult for me - the contestants are all exciting in different ways and the runways have been incredible. But the judging has been a disaster. I've got a lot of goodwill for Stacey but she isn't doing much and JBC is actively unlikable, while Brooke's unease is palpable and all their collective decisions have been... questionable.
Really happy with the AS5 winner though!
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 30 July 2020 08:00 (three years ago) link
Yeah it's kinda clear not having a real central judge personality for the Canada version is an issue. I can understand Ru not wanting to do more on top of everything else but still. The contestants do make it, though.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 July 2020 14:38 (three years ago) link
Anyway I have to salute tonight's episode of CDR for the lip sync and for introducing me to this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dildo,_Newfoundland_and_Labrador
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 31 July 2020 03:35 (three years ago) link
Also to Mary Walsh, who was probably the best guest judge so far. Snatch Game was often very good but nobody impersonated a Canadian!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 31 July 2020 03:37 (three years ago) link
I wish someone had done kd Lang or maybe even Grimes. Or Moira Rose.
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 31 July 2020 04:10 (three years ago) link
But although I had no idea who JoJo is, I thought Lemon killed it and would have won if her Céline hadn't sucked so bad.
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 31 July 2020 13:03 (three years ago) link
JoJo is her own universe.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/jojo-siwa-glitter-covered-empire-849071/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 31 July 2020 14:35 (three years ago) link
Brooke's unease is palpable and all their collective decisions have been... questionable.
Brooke needs to lean into the "those who can't... judge" instead of appearing vaguely apologetic about it all the time.
Lemon is the spit of Andrew Rannells.
― trishyb, Monday, 3 August 2020 09:41 (three years ago) link
New episode from Canada tonight, but also there's this:
https://aux.avclub.com/sasha-velour-previews-nightgowns-forever-talks-digital-1844613173
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 August 2020 21:00 (three years ago) link
Last night's Canada episode was pretty good in general but yeah, the judging's getting weirder/worse? Can they just give it to Stacy to handle, maybe?
Next week's the makeover challenge and this is a very interesting thing to learn!
Next week on Canada’s Drag Race!We are so excited to announce that several newcomers we assisted to safety will participate in the iconic Makeover Challenge on next week's episode of Canada's Drag Race! Catch us Thursday at 9 EDT on @CraveCanada #CanadasDragRace https://t.co/wSynSPmy9F— Rainbow Railroad (@RainbowRailroad) August 14, 2020
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 August 2020 17:02 (three years ago) link
How awful -- I'd heard she was sick:
https://ew.com/tv/rupauls-drag-race-queen-chi-chi-devayne-dead/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 August 2020 20:53 (three years ago) link
As much as I love seeing Chi Chi perform “And I Am Telling You”, this lip sync to Blondie’s “Call Me” IN FRONT OF DEBBIE HARRY always gives me the most energy pic.twitter.com/0ao46LIoFO— Punani Dasani (@MicahTheModest) August 20, 2020
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 August 2020 21:06 (three years ago) link
I'm so devastated. She was incredibly sweet when I chatted with her out of drag on a street in Toronto after Season 8. A great queen and a great soul gone way too soon. RIP.
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 21 August 2020 23:06 (three years ago) link
On a much less serious (and less consequential note all around), that Vegas Revue series starts tonight:
http://www.vh1.com/shows/rupauls-drag-race-vegas-revue
Surprised they didn't call it the RuVue.
Meantime last night's Canada's Drag Race was simultaneously the best episode and the most annoying judging, which is saying something. They've GOT to revamp for next season. But the makeover guests were fantastic and what a lovely grand prize. (And given I was guessing that Ru might show up at the end of the series I guess we're getting Michelle instead -- that is if next week's episode is the final one.)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 August 2020 23:56 (three years ago) link
I remember reading that Chi Chi was diagnosed with an illness with a very pessimistic diagnosis a few years ago, but can't remember what it was. Was it kidney-related?
― Ruth Bae Ginsburg (Leee), Friday, 21 August 2020 23:58 (three years ago) link
It was, yes. She had been put on dialysis last month. A friend in Shreveport knew her through mutual friends and the grief there is profound.
Lovely posts from the Vixen:
When I first saw Chichi on tv it made me believe that one day I could be there too. I first met her as a fan and I burst into tears. She hugged me, then we smoked!😉 We’ve traveled together a lot since then. it’s an honor to call her sister. Zavion will forever be missed.😔 pic.twitter.com/JTK3eRKzVF— The Vixen (@TheVixensworld) August 20, 2020
I remember making such a big deal about bringing her onstage. I just wanted her to feel the love that so many have for her. She’s incredibly humble & deserves more than the world gave her. I’m glad she’s free from pain. I hope she feels the love today. Rest In Peace sister... pic.twitter.com/NldCB7HevZ— The Vixen (@TheVixensworld) August 20, 2020
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 22 August 2020 00:12 (three years ago) link
Sclerodermia, which caused her skin to shrink and harden on her body and affected her internal organs. In the worst cases the kidneys give up, which is what happened.(x-post)
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 22 August 2020 00:16 (three years ago) link
Terrible. What a horrid way to go.
Again, maybe a little light here in contrast -- the new Erasure video from the other week (good song too), with many a familiar face:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8NqwW0hJ9w
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 22 August 2020 00:51 (three years ago) link
Meantime last night's Canada's Drag Race was simultaneously the best episode and the most annoying judging, which is saying something. They've GOT to revamp for next season. But the makeover guests were fantastic and what a lovely grand prize.
I agree, the episodes are fantastic and the judging keeps making them unsatisfying in the end. There's no way Scarlet should've won the puppet mini challenge and I thought she should have been in the bottom 2 instead of Lemon. The refugees were so amazing and inspiring.
― LeRooLeRoo, Sunday, 23 August 2020 18:13 (three years ago) link
So something I missed from a few weeks ago is that we're getting Drag Race Holland starting next month, on Wow Presents+ so it'll be easy enough to track. (Manila and Latrice will continue the Chop by commenting on that.). Could be fun!
The Vegas Revue series is definitely a bit of a strange bird -- especially coming after the second season of Werq the World, a much different approach. I guess they decided to go all in to Real Housewives approaches for the Vegas stuff! A bit of a weird fillip but sure I'll keep watching it.
Plus looks like we get a doc on the Drag Race UK queens tour, with bonus Alyssa, next month as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzKj8r-wpfA
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 00:14 (three years ago) link
Oh and season 13 and All Stars 6 confirmed, big surprise, etc:
https://ew.com/tv/rupauls-drag-race-renewed-season-13-all-stars-6/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 00:15 (three years ago) link
Whew so that Vegas series really turned messy last night, in a not really interesting way I think. Kinda hope they don't do something like this again, though I have a FEEEELING that whenever Vegas itself comes back in full they'll do an inevitable second series.
Also Canada's Drag Race ended on a solid enough note! Rita Baga a more consistent winner for me frankly but no problems with Priyanka. Kinda liked how they just had a combination reunion episode/grand finale in studio, felt more right, really.
Revelation for me these last couple of days -- I finally am getting around to watching Drag Race Thailand (for some reasons WOW Presents + just has season 2 now?) and honestly this may be my actual favorite *format* of the whole shebang. Only four episodes in but the big difference is -- so far at least but I can't see them changing too much -- they pretty much throw aside any kind of 'let's create an emotional moment/talk about how society doesn't understand' discussions, whether honest or shaped by a production team, so none of the therapy, in brief. I'm not going to speculate on the reasons why, having zilch expertise on Thai culture, expectations, etc. and what an audience in general expects in turn, but the resultant focus of the episodes is on the competition as such, with occasional little background comments here and there but mostly on a sharp but still somehow good-spirited back and forth in the confessional edits and in the Werk Room (which is really nicely designed in turn, and I like what they do with the changing screens, the little miniature stage, etc.). There's a lot of nuances I'm sure I'm missing, I'll add, and there are occasional comments that reflect this -- it could well be things are being said/conveyed in ways that a non-Thai audience just won't get or understand the full impact of. Also the two main hosts/judges are very entertaining, and the judging itself is noticeably different as well -- no 'say nice/witty things initially, then talk/critique on the return,' more just straight up reactions positive and negative right in the moment and then a summary when they're all back out. Yeah it's reality TV, expectations, etc, but really it almost feels like a breath of fresh air in general.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 5 September 2020 23:16 (three years ago) link
None of them would have made a bad winner but I'm still in disbelief that neither Lemon nor Jimbo made the final. The judging on this was really bad - not just the decisions but the critiques they were based on were not following any internal logic, people were getting praised for real weaknesses and sent home for minor quibbles. Priyanka having a TV background really helped her - she obviously knew how to play the game and ensure she got good screen time with a fairly neutral edit.
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 6 September 2020 07:59 (three years ago) link
Yeah, built in advantage. And if they had Scarlett Bobo out, Lemon and Jimbo in and then made a final decision from those four, that would have been solid enough.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 6 September 2020 16:22 (three years ago) link
More thoughts on Drag Race Holland soon -- been pretty good, I thought! -- but notable news today that Crystal from Drag Race UK has just filed a libel suit against a truly horrible man, Laurence Fox.
Here we go. pic.twitter.com/jLE2jTOdOn— Crystal | Black Lives Matter (@crystalwillseeu) October 6, 2020
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 15:52 (three years ago) link
iiuc crystal just posted a screenshot, the statement is from simon blake, a deputy chair of stonewall UK:https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/10/05/laurence-fox-stonewall-simon-blake-defamation-lawsuit-sainsburys-paedophile-twitter/
― scanner darkly, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 19:26 (three years ago) link
I never did follow up on Drag Race Holland, it was pretty great, and if Envy Peru was essentially the obvious person to beat after a certain point, it was pretty clear why. (The combo with her mom was amazing.)
Meantime we have things coming up on individual levels -- Jinkx/Ben Dela Creme holiday special tomorrow:
https://www.jinkxanddela.com/
And a big ol' New Years thing:
https://sessionslive.com/NewYearsQueens
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 November 2020 21:05 (three years ago) link
I have to say DRH was a bit frustrating to me. Kicking off Sedergine after her 1st misstep, keeping Abby OMG again and again for no apparent reason, and really subpar LSFYLs. I did enjoy a lot of the looks though.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 14:35 (three years ago) link
Season 13 cast ruveal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJRlvMURe_0
― On average, this critic grades 8.3 points lower than other critics (Eric H.), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 19:01 (three years ago) link
IT BEGINS (again!)
On the podcast front, the Trixie/Katya empire now having one has been kinda great precisely because they don't replicate Unnhhh (to be fair, how could they) and keep the general focus on their guests when they have them. Smart!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 19:15 (three years ago) link
Did they shoot in a bubble for this season?
― Stone Cold Steve Ostentatious (Leee), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
Presumably. Anyway, here's an intro playlist for the UK Season 2 contestants:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhgFEi9aNUb0MTbw-MzfVJtYVa1EedJeg
Good lord it's all about to get busy again -- US season starts tomorrow, UK in two weeks' time.
I should also say that Trixie/Katya are owning the week again -- first, amazing podcast episode this week with Violet Chachki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FTDLQJEGkY
LOTS of behind the scenes stuff from Drag Race itself as well as a not-surprising vent about kids at drag shows.
Meanwhile also this insane treat from their Netflix promo series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxCC6a-POGI
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 31 December 2020 16:50 (three years ago) link
Well that was an interesting start to things!
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 2 January 2021 05:31 (three years ago) link
RuPaul’s Stanford Prison Experiment— Rahul Kothari (@rahkothari) January 2, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 2 January 2021 14:34 (three years ago) link
lmaoTrixie said on the aftershow that it was the first time in a first ep that she felt like she got to know all the queens, and breaking them down into their mini groups made them easier to root for which i def agree with! usually they’re all a bit of a blur in that first ep with maybe a couple of standouts Symone & Tamesha have the best confessionals i hope they stick around for a long timetamesha “i’m the only black girl here so i know you’re not voting me off” YES so greatDenali lipsyncing in the skates i died omg her poor ankles
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 January 2021 18:19 (three years ago) link
I did not enjoy this format at all to be honest. It felt so contrived and unnatural "we are going home?" you are clearly not. And I know that this par for the course in the Runiverse but it just seemed scripted in a joyless way.
Also it means that there will be no surprises in the lip-syncs. We've seen who is and isn't good already so there's not going to be any unexpected moments of assassination or anything.
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 2 January 2021 21:00 (three years ago) link
Eh there's enough off-kilterness that I'll allow for nerves (either way! you can be good at something at a moment's notice and still psych yourself out when a moment comes). But as an icebreaker per VG's comments, it was kinda great.
That said, it was probably obvious that the queens had been alerted as to what to expect as a lip-sync possibility for the first episode (SOP, I'm guessing) but that they'd also been paired up on that basis without them knowing -- unless they were alerted they had to prep for all six choices? (I *AM* glad we didn't get the same song over and over.)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 2 January 2021 21:10 (three years ago) link
Trixie OTM, and it's nice that every girl gets more shine than they would in a more typical first episode, but the result is a LOT of repetition that made the experience feel like a bit of a marathon. Does that make a me a Drag Race tourist (touRUist?)?
I am happy to see so many comedy queens, though, as opposed to having wall-to-wall Instagram girls!
― Stone Cold Steve Ostentatious (Leee), Sunday, 3 January 2021 03:25 (three years ago) link
the first episode werk room runway walks + the queens sizing each other up is one of the most fun moments of every season, so i disliked the concept of this episode just based off losing that alone. drag race is certainly not the first or last reality show to take a beloved concept and beat it into the ground and down to the core of the earth (top chef and restaurant wars etc) but this felt overboard even by those standards. some of the manufactured storylines had some tension (rose vs the younger nyc queen) but it was undercut by the fact that we know the stakes are ultimately pretty low. also leading a queen who was cast on the show only to get stage 3 colon cancer and make it all the way back to believe she was going home after 10 mins on set is kinda cruel, again even by the standards of reality tv.
"the pork chop" did make me laugh every time tho so i guess there was that
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 3 January 2021 08:08 (three years ago) link
Elsewhere:
Go Farrah, go! pic.twitter.com/lSqPxhwsVm— Ξvan Ross Katz (@evanrosskatz) January 3, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 3 January 2021 17:39 (three years ago) link
tampa logic
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 3 January 2021 18:05 (three years ago) link
I basically echo all of J0rdan's observations. The joy of cacophony and overall muchness replaced by cringe and cruelty. One could argue there's a way to get to know all the queens better out of the gate, but this isn't the way to do it. What did we learn about anyone other than they see a raw deal when they see one?
― On average, this critic grades 8.3 points lower than other critics (Eric H.), Sunday, 3 January 2021 20:13 (three years ago) link
I will say that I think they were edited by and large to make each matchup look too close to call, whether that meant they undercut the assassins' screen time or overplayed the good moments of the Katyas of the group remains to be seen.
― On average, this critic grades 8.3 points lower than other critics (Eric H.), Sunday, 3 January 2021 20:14 (three years ago) link
(Which, btw, I absolutely think Katya won some of her lip-syncs. Just making light of the fact that she has an epic LSFYL losing streak.)
― On average, this critic grades 8.3 points lower than other critics (Eric H.), Sunday, 3 January 2021 20:15 (three years ago) link
― On average, this critic grades 8.3 points lower than other critics (Eric H.), Sunday, January 3, 2021 3:13 PM (five minutes ago)
also for the people who want to learn more about the queens, they have been doing pre-season interviews w/ each queen for years. and they certainly give you better insight than the 30 second long back and forths that were the basis of this episode
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 3 January 2021 20:20 (three years ago) link
lol @ "never let anyone tell you you're a loser" after eliminating her 3 times over, this season is a fucking disaster even by recent Drag Race standards
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Saturday, 9 January 2021 20:12 (three years ago) link
Man, I can't agree -- I think this is a feeling of slow TV at work in a strangely engaging way. As a friend pointed out last night this separation into two teams also makes sense from a health point of view right now, and I think it's having an interesting effect.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 9 January 2021 20:25 (three years ago) link
we never got to see anything from Sherry Pie last year and rightly so but they've already made up for it by forcing Tina Burner and Kandy Muse on us
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 9 January 2021 20:30 (three years ago) link
I am enjoying this season, I get the complaints but so far I’m not mad at it I love Kandy - her drag needs polish but her energy & personality is great. To me she’s like one of those Kid Mero’s female characters brought to life in drag, just like talkin a mile a minute & dont-fuck-with-me attitude- i live for all all that big Dominican-American Bronx energy, she’s good tv. Tina I could take or leave, but I think she needs some bigger characters in the room with her - i’d rather see her play off Rose bc she kinda sucks all the air out of the room currently. And this “i was in a boy band” shit is tired already
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 January 2021 20:51 (three years ago) link
Does this mean there won't be an elimination next week either ?
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 9 January 2021 21:29 (three years ago) link
Guessing not at this rate!
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 9 January 2021 21:56 (three years ago) link
“no losers” was foreshadowing of a season of no eliminations and a 13-way tie for the crown
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 10 January 2021 16:02 (three years ago) link
as far as gimmicky twists go I like this season so far! showing everyone's lip sync chops from episode 1 definitely removes some of the surprise/anticipation but it was still incredibly compelling, it kind of felt like opening an entire advent calendar on Dec 1
I remember seeing Kandy Muse at Bushwig a few times and have been excited to see her this season, she's such a shit stirrer but I'm enjoying her so far. I feel like on paper I SHOULD like Tina Burner, but I just.... don't. I hate her Ronald McDonald color scheme her red hair looks so so so bad w her skin, like all of her outfits just feel incorrect. Also, have we talked abt the fact that she used to date Graham Norton????
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 10 January 2021 16:13 (three years ago) link
The "top 7" from this past episode felt really strong across the board, and I wonder if this division btwn the two groups is going to extend throughout the whole season even after they're all united, it feels like they really have been accurately corralled into the top and bottom halves in terms of talent.
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 10 January 2021 16:14 (three years ago) link
omg yes re Graham Norton - i googled trying to find out what “boy band” Tina was in (still no idea btw) & ended up finding 9 million photos of him w Norton instead
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 January 2021 16:31 (three years ago) link
He reminds me so much of someone, but I can't figure out who. There, that was super helpful and informative.
― trishyb, Sunday, 10 January 2021 16:35 (three years ago) link
it feels like they really have been accurately corralled into the top and bottom halves in terms of talent
Would disagree based on Utica and Tamisha alone.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 10 January 2021 16:38 (three years ago) link
Tamisha perhaps but Utica gives me pause, I can’t get a good read on her yet and I’m worried she might be one of those big-fish-little-pond edgy small-town queens who’s way out of her league (a la Aiden, who is probably peak RPDR cringe along side Laganja and All-Stars Derrick)
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 11 January 2021 04:14 (three years ago) link
As a Minnesotan, agreed.
― i'm so into fping right now (Eric H.), Monday, 11 January 2021 05:19 (three years ago) link
Utica is very clearly cut from the Katya cloth, but Midwestern, I found her interviews extremely charming not to mention hilarious.
I like Nina Burger! I will say that she's coming off VERY calculated and has been self-producing herself like a pro.
― Sammy Agar-Agar (Leee), Monday, 11 January 2021 19:16 (three years ago) link
Funny, I look at Utica and I see Thorgy Thor.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 14:34 (three years ago) link
yes, but a less bitter version so far
― scanner darkly, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 20:43 (three years ago) link
but just as annoying
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 20:55 (three years ago) link
well, we hardly got to know her yet.
i wonder if there will be an elimination in the next episode - because that would mean by voting elliott w2ts off they gave them an immunity (and it would justify the otherwise ridiculous twist of having to vote for somebody you just met).
― scanner darkly, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 21:15 (three years ago) link
Okay soooooo Drag Race UK Season 2 has now kicked in as well! That was a pretty great opening episode. Lawrence Cheney better be top 3 at the end of it.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 January 2021 02:21 (three years ago) link
this had all the excitement missing from season 13 opening (including the pit crew which season 13 haven’t even introduced yet)this must’ve been filmed a while ago since there are no screens between the judges?
― scanner darkly, Friday, 15 January 2021 18:11 (three years ago) link
Different UK standards?
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 January 2021 18:26 (three years ago) link
there is an old article saying they had to pause production due to the pandemic, so we might see more precautions taken in the future episodes.
― scanner darkly, Friday, 15 January 2021 18:45 (three years ago) link
Oh yeah, that's right, I vaguely remember hearing about that.
Meantime I'm sure word was floating around but confirmation on today's Race Chaser/Hot Goss episode via a Courtney Act guest turn that Ru and a bunch of Australian queens are filming the first season of Drag Race Australia about now. In New Zealand, apparently. I await VG's thoughts on it all.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 January 2021 18:58 (three years ago) link
I really like the UK girls! I thought Joe deserved better. Her Bowie look was a great interpretation of Life On Mars and her "God, Glenn Close looks rough" made me laugh out loud.
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 16 January 2021 21:13 (three years ago) link
Joe deserved a lot better. Great Life On Mars look, which should have been spotted and acknowledged, and a better lip synch than that try-too-hard that she was up against. But if she’s 30, I’m 25!
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 16 January 2021 22:03 (three years ago) link
...yeah I was wondering about that.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 16 January 2021 22:04 (three years ago) link
OMG yes !!
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 16 January 2021 22:43 (three years ago) link
while I do think the judging of that Bowie look was wayyyyyy off, I didn't think they were robbed. They had given up before the lip-syncs started. I imagine that a working drag queen in the unofficial gay capital of the UK has accumulated lots of fans over the years, but being a good drag queen is not the same as being a good competitor on RPDR.
I can't stop thinking about Tia's amazing interpretation of Alan Turing. And Asttina has the same fearless beauty energy as Tyre Sanchez, only much more endearing.
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 17 January 2021 06:42 (three years ago) link
It's tough this year. Although Glasgow is the obvious city for me to root for, I do have a soft spot in my heart for both Dundee and Newport, because of having lovely mini-breaks in both. Decisions, decisions.
Did anyone else notice that Ru says "may the best drag queen win" and not "may the best woman win"? Is this the way forward, I wonder, or is this some UK-only thing?
― trishyb, Sunday, 17 January 2021 11:56 (three years ago) link
It’s the same over here now too.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 17 January 2021 14:43 (three years ago) link
I thought it was due to Gotmik being a trans man. But then the other contestants are also men. Did Ru still say "Gentlemen start your engines" when Gia was on All Stars ? I can't remember.
― LeRooLeRoo, Sunday, 17 January 2021 16:58 (three years ago) link
They had given up before the lip-syncs started.
I just saw her interview in PopBuzz and she said she could barely walk in the dress, much less dance in it unfortunately.
― LeRooLeRoo, Sunday, 17 January 2021 17:06 (three years ago) link
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― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 21 January 2021 19:40 (three years ago) link
OK, this week's LSFYL was pretty titanic on the winner's half. A song like that just begs getting in there and getting UGLY. Also clocked a rare non-frontal shot when [winner] synced the "I'm gonna be there til the end" with a throat cutting gesture aimed at the rest of the girls upstage.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Sunday, 24 January 2021 03:56 (three years ago) link
Denali killed it, god she dances so well & that dressssss fuck so good. i felt bad for Kahmora trapped in her beautiful prison dress. i was a little sad that they had to go up against each other, the untucked exchange btw them was v <3that whole porkchop group are so tight now, i love them
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 24 January 2021 04:05 (three years ago) link
Denali was great in the lip-synch but is very unlikeable in a way that reminds me of Jan.
Symone is so obviously the frontrunner this season and Tamisha has got Miss Congeniality in the bag.
Meanwhile in the UK I've decided that I really dislike Chaney and I want Asttina to win but I know that will not happen.
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 24 January 2021 08:00 (three years ago) link
You dislike Chaney? Aw man. One of my faves for sure.The UK lip sync was an obvious song choice but kinda sucked the energy out of the room. But in a real shock the actual Rusical was...good?
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 24 January 2021 13:37 (three years ago) link
at first I thought it was just that thing where Scottish people make me cringe on TV as a Scot... but then I realised that Chaney is needy beyond belief and happy to dish out shade but unable to handle any criticism or sense they're flawed.
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 24 January 2021 14:57 (three years ago) link
THAT IS ONE OF THE BEST LIP SYNCS IN DRAG RACE HISTORY— Jan (@jansportnyc) January 23, 2021
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 24 January 2021 17:15 (three years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 24 January 2021 17:16 (three years ago) link
Denali fuckin killed it, Kahmora didn't even try, it was really sad to watch.
boxedjoy OTM abt Symone, can't remember the last time we had such a clear frontrunner so early. Maybe Bob? It feels like this season is pretty stacked, like usually you can kinda deduce which handful of queens are going home first, which are going home in the middle, and which are poised for top 3/4, but this feels like a lot of talent across the board.
I'm delighted with Utica, she has grown on me a lot and completely nixed my fears that she's all talk/no talent.
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 24 January 2021 17:20 (three years ago) link
Also I looooove Joey Jay as a human being but less so as a drag queen and it seems clear they're headed home in the next episode or two. But I think they are the closest I've come to having a crush on a RPDR contestant?
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 24 January 2021 17:29 (three years ago) link
oh man I just rewatched that lipsync twice, I have more thoughts:
* it is rare that we get a song as exciting as "100% Pure Love" and much rarer that we get a performance that lives up the caliber of a song like this, so this one really felt extra-special
* the queens in the back are going HAM, there are multiple shots of a slack-jawed Kandy, the energy in the room is palpable and a bunch of them start dancing along which happens sometimes but not all the time
* even though brilliantly executed, Denali's performance did recycle a few things (jerky arm movements, bouncy duckwalk, goofy physicality) in a way that makes me worried this won't be as fresh the second time around
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 24 January 2021 17:49 (three years ago) link
also wtf was up with the Rose-Denali exchange in Untucked, like are they fucking already or???
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 24 January 2021 17:50 (three years ago) link
it is rare that we get a song as exciting as "100% Pure Love" and much rarer that we get a performance that lives up the caliber of a song like this, so this one really felt extra-special
Yeah as soon as the song credits popped up I was all "Oh this'll be GOOD." Still sounds like the future, somehow.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 24 January 2021 17:59 (three years ago) link
yeah I feel like for every time I go "Oh this'll be GOOD" when the song credits pop up, it's only actually amazing like... 1 of 5 times. OTM re: it's longevity tho, this has been a fav since childhood and I still listen to it regularly and am surprised at how fresh and almost timeless it sounds
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 24 January 2021 18:01 (three years ago) link
Anyway this isn't wrong, really
Drag Race is just 3 50 year olds getting progressively angrier that 20 year olds don't understand their references— Super Darrio Galaxy (@fuckyeats) January 23, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 24 January 2021 18:37 (three years ago) link
xxxposts i was wondering the same thing re denali & rose, surprisingly intimate/tender also i said this on FB but when Rose flattens down her hair out of drag it gives me a real Corky St Clair / Simple Jack vibe that I just can’t unsee lol
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 24 January 2021 18:48 (three years ago) link
50? Try 60.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Sunday, 24 January 2021 20:35 (three years ago) link
Denali did go back to the same well a few times during the sync but it was all within the voguing-as-combat approach the song begged for (the finger slash across the neck gesture).
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Sunday, 24 January 2021 20:40 (three years ago) link
Which is, I think, the reason I’m seeing so many people going nuts over this one in a particular way. Obv we’ve seen bigger showstoppers (“Sorry Not Sorry” comes immediately to mind), but Denali made it a point to enter the song’s DNA and let it dictate her performance.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Sunday, 24 January 2021 20:42 (three years ago) link
also i said this on FB but when Rose flattens down her hair out of drag it gives me a real Corky St Clair / Simple Jack vibe that I just can’t unsee lol
also Eric you are v otm about how all of her tricks happened to align perfectly w the song and she embodied its essence so well, like she just breathed the song
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 24 January 2021 23:58 (three years ago) link
It's sort of how I also dance to my favorite songs, sort of "manifesting" my favorite sounds/changes from the song, tho I'm sure when I do it I look more like Elaine to "Shining Star."
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Monday, 25 January 2021 02:26 (three years ago) link
Last thing I'll say about the performance and then I swear I'll shut up about it. The fact that she waits to bust into what I guess I'm just gonna call the Australian toilet flush squat-stomp until the moment the song gets to its most industrial beats is ... well, it's chef's kiss.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Monday, 25 January 2021 02:39 (three years ago) link
say what now
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 January 2021 02:45 (three years ago) link
Do you protest at this contribution your country has made to world culture, apparently?
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 25 January 2021 04:52 (three years ago) link
Obv we’ve seen bigger showstoppers (“Sorry Not Sorry” comes immediately to mind)
"Sorry Not Sorry" is packed to the gills with tricks and splits, but Denali's was a complete, beginning-to-end to end performance. Definitely some right song/right queen synchronicity, but she also paced it so well that I'm convinced she choreographed the whole damn thing. It was both stately in its restraint (not an escalating gauntlet of tricks, as thrilling as "SNS" is) but also a generous ton of fun.
I clocked that too, but even though I thought she outclassed Rosé, I have a hard time remembering that lip sync. Not so with this barnburner, obviously.
― Sammy Agar-Agar (Leee), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 06:29 (three years ago) link
I like how Tanisha has kids who'd be considered old on the show.
― RandPaul's Drag Race (Leee), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 19:11 (three years ago) link
Now that was not the result I would have guessed last night on Drag Race UK
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 January 2021 18:09 (three years ago) link
...WHEW.Not since Season *FOUR* in terms of that level of pure fucking Untucked meltdown.But that bee was well timed.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 30 January 2021 05:47 (three years ago) link
the continual sense of Chaney being The Apppointed One: they weren't even the best person with the gold box, never mind the entire workroom. The British cast is infinitely more likeable than the US one, and the fact we've lost three queens who all had potential while the US version moves slowly with an obvious filler queen sent home first...
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 30 January 2021 06:52 (three years ago) link
fuck i am exhausted, all those looks and all that drama a bitch needs a lie down
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 30 January 2021 07:04 (three years ago) link
Agreed that the UK cast vibes are way friendlier overall, even with all the sharp edges.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 30 January 2021 07:04 (three years ago) link
also god this x 100
Tamisha following Kandy around the room reminds me of when I said something smart under my breath in front of my mom #DragRace— Taylor H. (@TaylorAHemp) January 30, 2021
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 30 January 2021 07:06 (three years ago) link
aside from untucked, LaLa’s lip sync was fantastic, the way she’d pick UP props & use them as well as take them off, just so in the moment - picking up joey’s bills was LMAO AWESOME so effervescent! love her so much
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 30 January 2021 07:23 (three years ago) link
See, this is why I often don't bother with Untucked. I don't need to watch twenty minutes of some not-very-bright person screeching about how she doesn't care that she was called arrogant, when she clearly cares very much. It's not entertaining.
― trishyb, Saturday, 30 January 2021 15:33 (three years ago) link
I have zero desire to see Untucked and I wish the main show would move away from this contrived drama and focus more on the art/craft/performance of drag. It's also really hard to watch when they bring in so much context from out of the show, who's following who on Instagram etc, I want to enjoy a TV show not live inside a self-contained universe.
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 30 January 2021 15:59 (three years ago) link
LaLa’s lip sync was fantastic,
I loved how she carried herself throughout the whole critique and lipsync process, from her mock-shock at being in the bottom for having paper bags glued to a bodice, to agreeing with the judges' critiques without breaking down, to just going for it in the lipsync. She was a star.
The one thing I did like about Untucked was the observation that if you keep being safe, you get no face time with the judges, no chance for your little moment on the runway, and those moments are a very important part of the show.
― trishyb, Saturday, 30 January 2021 16:10 (three years ago) link
LaLa has definite star power and I would have been gutted to see her go so soon, that lipsync was also one for the ages, how lucky we have been!!
Now that Joey's gone, the rest of the cast truly feels filler-free and I cannot for the life of me figure out who's going to go home next, like all of them feel like they could be top 5 and none of them feel like they deserve to go home 3rd.
Kandy is clearly stressed out and does not know how to handle stress v well, like... if someone calls you out, they're wrong, but if people DON'T call you out, they're also wrong??? Tamisha also went a little too hard, she's not wrong but she's also old enough to know better and should know when to cool it. She too feels like she's stressed out and taking a bit of it out on Kandy, it was nagl for either of them.
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 30 January 2021 16:27 (three years ago) link
(as a person who hates confrontation in all forms i love watching Tamisha & Kandy just plant their feet & go at each other with full direct eye contact, no flinching)reading btw the lines here a lot so thiis isnt in any way known just me speculatinobv Tamisha is playing out her anger at “Kandy thinks I’m not competition” from last week by picking the fight this week. Shes in her feelings being in the bottom & then Kandy + Tina running the room as soon as she walks in clearly worked her last nerve. She is prob panicking a little because the competition is harder than a pageant, and calls for a vitality & energy level that she’s maybe worried she can’t draw from as much as she used to. And Kandy is in her feelings about being safe, because she is surrounded by competition & the only thing she knows how to do when she’s scared is be loud & attack. She knows deep down that improving ~slightly~ is NOT enough to make you a top queen & she knows she’s self-deluding & Tamisha calling her out for being arrogant cuts to the heart of her fear - that she’s not enough.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 30 January 2021 18:03 (three years ago) link
i love watching Tamisha & Kandy just plant their feet & go at each other with full direct eye contact
Worth noting though that on the couch Kandy was looking everywhere BUT at Tamisha.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 30 January 2021 18:06 (three years ago) link
vg v otm imo
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 31 January 2021 01:24 (three years ago) link
My impression is that Untucked was all about Tamisha feeding producers drama so that she wouldn't be in the bottom two.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Sunday, 31 January 2021 04:16 (three years ago) link
Oh btw Joey Jay's nudes went up this week.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Sunday, 31 January 2021 04:17 (three years ago) link
Honestly, tho, if Symone can survive the sewing challenge without even knowing how to sew, she's got it ... all sewn up.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Sunday, 31 January 2021 04:29 (three years ago) link
i see what you etc
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 31 January 2021 06:03 (three years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/dgG6W8uluO— UticaQueen Stan Account 💜 (@companerode5) February 4, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 February 2021 00:55 (three years ago) link
lmao
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 4 February 2021 01:10 (three years ago) link
reflecting on last week's episode... joey jay struck me as this year's jan -- tryhard new york white gay w/ questionable taste and median talent level who had zero chance of actually winning. it prob reflects well on this season that joey went home so early while jan made it to episode 8. joey wasn't nearly as detestable as jan (who could be, really?) but i'm happy to no longer see her dumb hair or stupid headbands
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 4 February 2021 01:47 (three years ago) link
fact check joey is from phoenix but you get my gist
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 4 February 2021 01:50 (three years ago) link
i have complicated personal relationships w/ the freaky queens but utica's sleeping bag look was completely stunning ... i had the same reaction as michelle and now i'm borderline obsessed w/ her
lala ri is a perfect successor in line in the very important drag race archetype that is "queen w/ no fashion sense who kind of flops every challenge but should be kept around as long as possible just for her confessionals" (monet x change we acknowledge your contributions) so i was glad to see her win that lip sync ... i liked it better than denali's bizarrely celebrated lip sync from the previous episode
symone is immediately one of the most captivating queens in the history of the show -- her every movement is art. she's also lovable in a real way like you'd want to legit hang out w/ her compared to some other legends like alaska or bianca who i'm very fond of but would not want to spend more than 10 mins around
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 4 February 2021 01:54 (three years ago) link
idk Joey seemed way more devoid of talent than Jan who could kinda do pretty much anything Joey could:a) dance and b) be Gay
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 4 February 2021 02:00 (three years ago) link
I feel like LaLa is like the newer sleeker model of ChiChi DeVayne (RIP)LaLa has a naive & kinda country way about her like ChChi but she comes readymade with a huge amount of confidence that ChiChi had to work to achieve just a fraction ofLike they said on RaceChaser pod today, she walks out in those fkn gift bags & acts like its no big deal. Doesnt even remotely acknowledge her trash-ass outfit. Naomi-ing down the runway like she’s in Chanel. THAT is her secret weapon. Idk how long it’ll work before her polish becomes a problem,but i will watch the hell out of everything she does bc she is charming as fuck
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 4 February 2021 02:10 (three years ago) link
she’s much more interesting in her talking head segments, she needs to bring that energy to her runways somehow.like, she could’ve played more just how utterly ridiculously horrible her bag outfit was, make it even more ridiculous,she’d get read anyway but at least she could play it for laughs.
simone is like the opposite of denali, effortless charm.
― scanner darkly, Thursday, 4 February 2021 02:22 (three years ago) link
I actually didn’t hate Jan and don’t find her hateable?? And she’s way more talented than Joey, who was clearly out of her league and really didn’t have a ton to offer
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 5 February 2021 02:44 (three years ago) link
Anyway based on the UK episode today I must assume, VG, that all Australian weather reporters are like that.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 5 February 2021 04:08 (three years ago) link
And uh...THAT was an ending.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 5 February 2021 04:21 (three years ago) link
ftr i am not watching UK drag race it’s all just too much! . esp when theyre running simultaneously, it’s nuts! choosing to limit my bandwidth to just one #oldVGyellsatclouds
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 5 February 2021 04:40 (three years ago) link
tia kofi and awhora developing friendship was a delight to watch
― scanner darkly, Friday, 5 February 2021 06:30 (three years ago) link
I cheered when Ellie Diamond pointed out RuPaul's blatant favouritism, and I was creased at Sister's rendition of the opening credits to Veronica's Drag Race.
― boxedjoy, Friday, 5 February 2021 08:00 (three years ago) link
Yes to both of those!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 5 February 2021 13:53 (three years ago) link
OK, these queens CAN'T BE THIS OBLIVIOUS ABOUT DISCO SONGS AND ARTISTS!
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Saturday, 6 February 2021 05:07 (three years ago) link
Yes but what about Charles Nelson Reilly?
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 6 February 2021 05:46 (three years ago) link
That I'll let slide...
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Saturday, 6 February 2021 06:33 (three years ago) link
Yeah I am with Eric, that aspect was v hard to take. ❗️‼️⁉️❓
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 6 February 2021 09:15 (three years ago) link
I was a bit whelmed by the disco fashions too, I think I was expecting more?
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 6 February 2021 09:16 (three years ago) link
I agree that the challenge winner was so clearly out front that even a meh runway look couldn’t hold her back.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Saturday, 6 February 2021 16:22 (three years ago) link
god that challenge and the contestants performance in that challenge was really fucking abysmal, so underwhelming, and Kandy was so clearly not the second-worst of the week, the thing abt egregious producer manipulation is you're supposed to be able to frame it as like remotely plausible and they completely failed to do so here, and also she also clearly should have lost that lip sync??? The whole thing felt like such a dumb charade.
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 6 February 2021 19:26 (three years ago) link
also incredibly sad to see Tamisha go, it feels way too soon, but it seems we've (quite prematurely) already gotten to the point where it's shifted from sending home the worst to sending home the least-great and I mean given the episode it made sense. Also prob one of the most graceful departures in the show's history, what a fucking professional
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 6 February 2021 19:31 (three years ago) link
I can get behind who won the lip sync based on the facial expressions, but ... the LSFYL song clearly should've been a disco song? So much so that I wouldn't be surprised if the producers pulled out one of their patented last-minute song switches once they realized who the bottom two were going to be.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Saturday, 6 February 2021 19:32 (three years ago) link
CLEARLY should have been a disco song!!! And the winner had no restraint or nuance, it was just like, uncomfortable desperation
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 6 February 2021 19:46 (three years ago) link
I was not aware of these patented last-minute song switches!!
I was v sad to see the loser go home.But what she revealed in interview & afterwards about her physical situation definitely showed how hard she had pushed herself to be on the show. Like, to a crazy degree imo! And you could see how much it meant to her to just get there.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 6 February 2021 20:06 (three years ago) link
I'm not really sure HOW often it's happened, but the story of how they switched the song to Yma Sumac just the day Detox and Jinkx had to go head-to-head -- a song Jinkx had done many times before in her routine, when the song (can't recall which now) they were originally told to prepare would easily have been Detox's to lose -- is now Drag Race folklore.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Saturday, 6 February 2021 20:28 (three years ago) link
yeah jinx talked about it on the Race Chaser pod
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 6 February 2021 20:41 (three years ago) link
I definitely got the impression that the situation had been manipulated to give someone a graceful exit.
― trishyb, Saturday, 6 February 2021 21:01 (three years ago) link
And to keep Utica's upswing storyline intact for at least one more episode.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Saturday, 6 February 2021 21:21 (three years ago) link
this was a terrible, terrible episode.
- The machinations of production hands are so obvious. I don't watch Untucked but from the first five minutes of this episode I knew Tamisha and Kandy were going to be bottom two.- Gottmik's outfit would have been annihilated in previous seasons.- Olivia's runway dress was really basic too.- The LSFYL song was not just completely out-of-place for the theme, but blatantly obvious a ruse to keep Kandy in. It was barely minutes after Michelle said that Kandy's drag relies on the persona that "Hit Em Up Style" inhabits.- The girls not knowing disco that well is fair enough - they're mostly 20-somethings who work full-time to entertain current audiences, I wouldn't expect them to have a deep detailed knowledge of a culture that's now nearly 50 years old. I do think that RuPaul's ability to read the room and adapt with the times is lacking, and I think the show suffers from the narrow parameters of what RuPaul and Michelle think drag must be. That said, it was embarassing watching the queens struggle to fake even a basic knowledge of Diana Ross and Donna Summer.- I hated that they framed disco as Studio 54 and completely skipped over Paradise Garage, and the part about Disco Sucks being borne of discrimination felt like an afterthought. I know I shouldn't come to this show looking for deep detail and politics but there's a disconnect between how they want to celebrate sisterhood but they don't want to acknowledge class and racism.- Of course the team who were given the hula hoop to dance with was the team with the member with physical limitations. At least in ANTM when they're being actively cruel to contestants they make everybody do the same level of challenge.
I feel like I'm at the point with this show where I don't really enjoy it but I feel obliged to watch it so I have a clue what anyone I know is talking about.
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 7 February 2021 08:42 (three years ago) link
I think running both the US and UK seasons at the same time — which, networks in two different countries have their own obligations and don’t need to work to stagger them — has ended up making the US one look worse as well. Much as I liked the slow TV start of this season here it’s really starting to feel like there’s just too many people in the room still. Meantime UK started later but is just keeping up a crisp no-nonsense pace and the dynamic between everyone is more fun to hang around with at this point.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 7 February 2021 15:10 (three years ago) link
I'm only watching the UK version, but from what I've read here, it sounds like the most recent endings of both shows have a marked similarity....?
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 7 February 2021 17:11 (three years ago) link
Weirdly enough there is a connection!
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 7 February 2021 19:33 (three years ago) link
If only
Prior to tonight you were asked to prepare a lip sync performance of “Silent Shout" by The Knife.— Liam Walds (@LiamWalds) February 6, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 7 February 2021 20:02 (three years ago) link
Goddammit
Six queens stand before me. Ladies, this is your last chance to impress me and save yourself from elimination. pic.twitter.com/iwNICXj4di— jay bee (@mexicanpony) February 8, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 18:25 (three years ago) link
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 20:17 (three years ago) link
omg I just caught up with UK!!!
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 11 February 2021 00:06 (three years ago) link
I think in the UK there's a much greater atmosphere of really needing the money about the whole enterprise. Ginny might not have wanted to do it, but Ginny's bank manager is certainly going to be happier about it.
The whole Lawrence thing is so weird. I like him, but Ru really does seem to have latched on to that accent in a big way. It's getting uncomfortable at this point.
― trishyb, Thursday, 11 February 2021 00:11 (three years ago) link
But they don’t win money in the Uk version, no?
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Thursday, 11 February 2021 00:19 (three years ago) link
No, but they do massively increase their profile and their chances of getting on other TV shows.
― trishyb, Thursday, 11 February 2021 00:20 (three years ago) link
that challenge was the worst in recent memory to me... it seemed like it had good intentions but the choreography was extremely boring. runway was whatever... after the disco performance was such a snooze i didn't mind the lip sync being blu cantrell, at least we knew no one was going to be dancing while pointing into the air. (i wonder if the producers realized this too)
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 11 February 2021 00:44 (three years ago) link
I also just remembered that the show has a history of disco songs yielding ho-hum LYFYL's if not outright double eliminations.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Thursday, 11 February 2021 03:16 (three years ago) link
the UK episode tonight really laid bare how important it is to have financial stability if you want to do well in this competition. I hated that outfit as much as Ru did but there was a definite "just don't be poor" vibe to the critiques.
― boxedjoy, Friday, 12 February 2021 00:35 (three years ago) link
The Gottmik Principle
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Friday, 12 February 2021 01:09 (three years ago) link
Which kinda made the inclusion of some actual talk about no money coming in between Bimini and Laurence all the more noticeable!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 12 February 2021 05:17 (three years ago) link
Yikes what an unpleasant critique, Ru and Michelle were clearly in a terrible mood, like I didn’t think anyone was THAT bad?? I didn’t think Tia’s dress was abysmal?? It all seems particularly rich when they made a whole thing abt Asttina winning in an ASOS jacket, like what the actual fuck
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 12 February 2021 12:45 (three years ago) link
On the funnier side
Can't believe we're top of the charts! I've never topped in my life!— BIMINI! (@biminibabes) February 12, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 12 February 2021 13:22 (three years ago) link
This is fake news btw— BIMINI! (@biminibabes) February 12, 2021
Hmm and umm are going thru my mind.First, in terms of UK Race - jumping 2 weeks back, to the Who wore it best challenge - am I the only person who thought Laurence Chaney’s padding was deeply off? I kept looking at the hips and seemed lopsided to me so was surprised won for that. Also much preferred Tayce’s look to A’Whora’s (Adore 2.0) who also just looked like Sharon’s Dog Ball look. And more of the looks seem repetitive, even this week’s Tayce look was a better Tempestt naked look.In re the ‘don’t be poor’ comment I feel yes but – back on s8 US when Michelle read Chi-Chi for her bathing suit look, the untucked footage added some nuance to what was said from main stage. She said no excuse – but did add the go to your sisters and beg and borrow what you need. (Steal not stated but as michelle did use to walk the balls was something more used to ppl doing.)I think part of what Ru was saying (aside from her comments to Tia Kofi of – well if you had a team of 50 you could look like me) was ‘this is not season 1 of Drag Race when it was a throwaway show on a channel few watched. If you are auditioning to get here after so many seasons, you should know what you are getting yourselves into and as you (UK queens) had an additional 7 months to pause and reset, I will be harsher’ – which seems kinda fair to me?Overall tho, how do you make it fairer? Some sort of budgetary restriction on what you could bring in seems unrealistic, giving a budget for those who need it seems undefinable and sure producers don’t want to deal with that. A return of more sewing challenges seems fair to even out those who have teams and seriously ppl showing up not knowing how to sew should count against them
― H in Addis, Friday, 12 February 2021 13:56 (three years ago) link
I would love to see a return of the sewing challenges too. Even if sometimes queens worked in pairs, with one sewing and one walking, maybe?
For all the harsh words, there's an informality to the way that Ru talks to the UK queens this week. I don't know if it's COVID or because they're kind of not in the same universe as her, but she almost talks to them more like they're equals? Or like they're all in on the same joke? I can't put my finger on it.
― trishyb, Friday, 12 February 2021 14:29 (three years ago) link
seriously ppl showing up not knowing how to sew should count against them
It remains baffling that this always comes up every year without fail!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 12 February 2021 15:49 (three years ago) link
i suddenly hit a wall on untucked tonight like I love Kandy but my god can she ever shut the fuck up? the whole thing was mostly her or Tina talking ffs. who died & made Kandy fucking UN Ambassador of Drag Race.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 13 February 2021 08:27 (three years ago) link
v bummed about the loser, i wish it had gone the other way
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 13 February 2021 08:36 (three years ago) link
and I am going to say it bc i dont care anymore.the winner is lovely & all & her improv was great but i dont think i have been in love with or impressed remotely by a single one of her runway looks i dont get Kandy being in the top three bc her improv was not good! Rosé could have EASILY been in the top.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 13 February 2021 08:42 (three years ago) link
yeah kandy’s improve was bad. surprised at them praising it.
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 13 February 2021 17:44 (three years ago) link
I thought Rosé was very funny as well. And Utica was lucky not to be in the lip sync. She was awful in the improv.
― trishyb, Saturday, 13 February 2021 17:53 (three years ago) link
Yeah Utica looked so good but just completely overdid her improvI think the only thing that hindered Rose’s improv was that Denali was basically mirroring her character, and then with La La not finding the groove the balance was off ... but I honestly thought their group was the funniestI could hardly stand watching Tina. I hate it when an improv-er starts at a hyperactive 10 and has nowhere to go, it’s worse than death.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 13 February 2021 18:05 (three years ago) link
I'm figuring Snatch Game not next week but the week after, when we're down to eight. (US specifically; UK is already announced as next week.)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 13 February 2021 18:07 (three years ago) link
Kandy's improv was a total dud for me too. And I'm sure that Olivia is a lovely person, but as a contestant on this show, underdone and unrefined -- I thought her improv was fine enough for safe but top 3 and then winning? Baffling.
― Mike Mignola Electric Co. (Leee), Saturday, 13 February 2021 23:13 (three years ago) link
I wonder if the idea is to try and make it not seem like Symone is still on the clear track for it all. (That runway look, good lord that was something.)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 13 February 2021 23:35 (three years ago) link
Yeah I am wondering that too
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 14 February 2021 01:40 (three years ago) link
Is there a Snyder cut that makes Olivia's recent performance explicable? And how did she not get read for her boxer look?
― Mike Mignola Electric Co. (Leee), Sunday, 14 February 2021 16:01 (three years ago) link
idk how it happens but she did the same hair this week that Kandy had last week lmao
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 14 February 2021 16:07 (three years ago) link
Yeah I thought that too. Olivia is the unintentional (?) leftovers look queen of the season.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Sunday, 14 February 2021 16:54 (three years ago) link
They’re setting something up for her via the edit (eg Tina calling her out for being a diva)
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Sunday, 14 February 2021 16:55 (three years ago) link
Dont get why she doesnt get called out on her lumpy padding & wrinkled clothes. She’s pretty & charming & talented so maybe they let the other stuff slide? but she has a janky rookie vibe to me that i can’t really get with yet
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 14 February 2021 19:09 (three years ago) link
the judges assessment of the challenge was def relative and not objective, like Kandy showed surprising range in being able to pass off a slightly-above-so-so performance w/o resorting to her typical shtick, but she was clearly not one of the top 3 funniest performers. Given the show's penchant for this though I wasn't really all that miffed and thought she did a decent job considering.
Tina and Rose strike me as the type of seasoned queens who come in with lots of talent and skate through the first half of the season but aren't able to display any growth or range or anything.
I feel like at this point things are starting to get a little clearer in terms of who's going to last how long. My guess is that Utica, Elliott, and Kandy will go home next, then maybe Gottmik/Tina/Rose, with the top 3 or 4 being Symone, Olivia, Denali, and then idk... Gottmik? Rose?
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 15 February 2021 00:12 (three years ago) link
I dunno if Denali will go that far
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 15 February 2021 00:57 (three years ago) link
I have a sneaking suspicion she'll be the black horse who turns it tf out but who knows
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 15 February 2021 01:00 (three years ago) link
Symone, Tina and Gotmikk feels like the likely top 3 at this point
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Monday, 15 February 2021 01:01 (three years ago) link
Meantime, a joy of course:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z70aJRq9pp0
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 February 2021 02:31 (three years ago) link
breakout star
TUESDAY on “Tamron Hall,” one of the breakout stars of “RuPaul's Drag Race” @sherrypienyc booted from the show after being hit with lewd accusations of catfishing men. For the first time Sherry Pie comes clean. Don’t miss it. pic.twitter.com/6OlCViyoSt— Tamron Hall Show (@TamronHallShow) February 15, 2021
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 01:03 (three years ago) link
oh dear
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 17:28 (three years ago) link
Yeah that's garbage.
Not garbage: Trixie/Katya's latest podcast episode, where Priyanka is the guest. Near wall to wall hilarity (and a rude title, which was Priyanka's original drag name idea)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vbZp-tY1_w
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 17:33 (three years ago) link
So delayed but I was sad to see yesterday's UK contestant go, one of the better 'season narrators' -- but given who she was up against, no way was said other person leaving!
Meantime I see our own VG has been busy in her secret political life uh wait do I have that right
So last year @RuPaulsDragRace had to move production of Drag Race Down Under to NZ. Turns out the NSW Govt. did NOTHING to keep production in Sydney! For shame! #dragrace #rupaul #dragracedownunder #NSW #nswpol pic.twitter.com/I58co4IwyB— Rose Jackson (@RoseBJackson) February 17, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 February 2021 01:05 (three years ago) link
So, THAT was a fakeout ending, especially since the winner clearly won.Also they’re going on pause next week for a production dealing with COVID special episode? Or is this just going to be one crazy long night?
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 February 2021 05:33 (three years ago) link
I've railed against commandant Ru enough at this point to rail against this softening of the "heart."
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Saturday, 20 February 2021 06:50 (three years ago) link
Also, I want to seek Gotmikk fail on the runway just one to know that she's now massively bankrolled.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Saturday, 20 February 2021 06:55 (three years ago) link
but given who she was up against, no way was said other person leaving!
Yet more proof that, unlike Bakeoff, this is not all down to the performance on the day. Although when the eventual sashay-awayer came out in a totally shoddy outfit for the runway, I did think they were almost trying to tank their chances.
― trishyb, Saturday, 20 February 2021 11:04 (three years ago) link
UK: she was one of my favorites but it felt very clear to me that this was "her time", that she was pushing herself to her limits and the best that she could deliver was great but not winner-of-Drag-Race great. I was SO delighted w Bimini this week, I had not thought much about the top 3 or 4 besides Lawrence Cheney but she seems like a shoo-in and I think she's my favorite now. OTOH I really despise post-lockdown Sister Sister, she seems so much more cocky and mean. I also thought Jessie Ware was a surprisingly good judge in that she gave legit critiques instead of just fawning praise, also also I love Gemma Collins and I thought she was v funny.
US: that was really unexpected, I didn't think the lip sync was like super neck and neck and I didn't think the saved contestant going home would have been much of a shock, she's had a great run but is clearly towards the bottom of the remaining pack, why a double-save for someone who's almost certainly just going to go home in the next episode or two anyway??? idgi. Rose killed it this week, I could def see her in the top 3/4, Tina I am so bored with and want to go, Gottmik I genuinely love but have come to really resent the $$$ thing, like okay she clearly has taste and skill when it comes to these runway looks but she is so obviously by on having tons of money to spend on this shit, and she absolutely should have been read for the similarity to the anal beads outfit. I don't think this concept has ever really occurred to me, who else on Drag Race has had like conspicuously expensive costumes?
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 20 February 2021 16:05 (three years ago) link
OTOH I really despise post-lockdown Sister Sister, she seems so much more cocky and mean. I also thought Jessie Ware was a surprisingly good judge in that she gave legit critiques instead of just fawning praise, also also I love Gemma Collins and I thought she was v funny.
Yeah agreed on all this -- Sister Sister really seems like chum at this point, could see her going next episode. Jessie was pretty great for sure! I've seen more than one "WTF she's right there and the lipsync wasn't a What's Your Pleasure cut?" take but I thought what they did choose was fun!
Gottmik I genuinely love but have come to really resent the $$$ thing, like okay she clearly has taste and skill when it comes to these runway looks but she is so obviously by on having tons of money to spend on this shit, and she absolutely should have been read for the similarity to the anal beads outfit. I don't think this concept has ever really occurred to me, who else on Drag Race has had like conspicuously expensive costumes?
Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't Gigi Goode pretty well off as well? Also is Gottmik's family like crazy stinking rich or just well-off Arizona UMC?
The actual minor surprise to me so far -- both the UK and US Rusicals this season were...good? (I'm not saying GREAT, I'm just saying "Huh I actually didn't mind that.")
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 February 2021 16:27 (three years ago) link
Yes! Gigi Goode also v talented but also rich af
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 20 February 2021 17:40 (three years ago) link
oh man it didn't even occur to me to be annoyed that they did not lipsync to a JW song but now I am VERY annoyed abt it
Yes, though at least they sold the "I made this all from scraps" sewing angle with Gigi in a way they're either not able or not bothering to with Gotmikk.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Saturday, 20 February 2021 17:44 (three years ago) link
I really want Rosé to make it to the topI really want Tina Burner to go. I liked her in the rusical kinda bc you get to see what she’s good at but i am just so fucking over literally everything about her Unless Denali like fully works her shit out I think the chip on her shoulder is going to get the better of her. She’s v talented but ffs girl the world doesnt owe you a goddamn thing. The save was super annoying. They spent like 3 weeks not sending anyone home! Why deny us our right for bitches to be eliminated lolI reckon Saved Soul will go next week in a double elimination. Hopefully with Elliotttttt
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 February 2021 18:44 (three years ago) link
*mutual lipsync danceoff murder via high kick and/or backstab*
"Thank you ladies. You may sashay away, or your corpses can."
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 February 2021 18:49 (three years ago) link
BEEEP BEEEP BEEP street sweeper truck rolls out onto the stage
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 February 2021 19:07 (three years ago) link
"7 queens remain...alive."
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 February 2021 19:14 (three years ago) link
vg otm, my love for Denali has waned over the past week or two bcz they have become such a temper tantrum baby!! like good god get a grip girl
oh I also want to say I loved how graceful the most recent UK elim was, like how she was cracking jokes abt it and Ru and Michelle actually laughed at them, there was an ease and levity abt it that does not seem to exist over here, like can you imagine ANYONE in the history of RPDR US saying any of that shit after an elimination and it not being super awkward???
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 20 February 2021 19:46 (three years ago) link
Yeah, well money's at stake in the U.S.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Saturday, 20 February 2021 21:40 (three years ago) link
oh alsoTrixie said it on Pit Stop & i agree: can Denali please just cinch her waist ~a little~? I think she would look so right if she did it drives me a little crazy that she brings these great looks that scream for an hourglass shape (the bird! the lamp! even the snake!) & doesnt give it.i know there’s all types of drag but it’s like she’s doing really femme drag but holding back the thing that could really sell it
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 February 2021 21:54 (three years ago) link
The doc was good, I thought. An interesting document of the year from a different perspective. It also confirmed for me that Joey Jay might not be the world's greatest queen, but he is a cute and funny boy.
― trishyb, Saturday, 27 February 2021 11:23 (three years ago) link
Yeah I was surprised at how well that worked. I do almost wish they had gone into more about the two people who they dedicated the episode to, though — there’s clearly a story there.Snatch Game next week!Meantime UK dispatched who it felt like they needed to dispatch. I’m still amazed we’re almost done with that season.Also Drag Race Spain got announced?
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 27 February 2021 14:14 (three years ago) link
I watched the very first episode of UK -- Ru was mostly remote for it and not on set, right? Which made the green screen mini challenge apropos?
― RZA Minnelli (Leee), Sunday, 28 February 2021 00:47 (three years ago) link
No I think Ru was on set the whole time, both before and after the extended break.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 28 February 2021 01:18 (three years ago) link
https://variety.com/2021/politics/news/china-morality-guidelines-outlaw-lip-syncing-1234905700/
so, no Drag Race China then?
― scanner darkly, Thursday, 4 March 2021 19:43 (three years ago) link
Perhaps I shouldn't read too much into this, but then again, timing?
New merch and prints dropping tonight— Ellie Diamond (@elliediamond101) March 4, 2021
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:02 (three years ago) link
As it turns out, no you didn't have to read too much into it.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 5 March 2021 03:20 (three years ago) link
Indeed! It must have been the filth that sealed the doomed queen’s fate.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 5 March 2021 08:39 (three years ago) link
Parts of the doomed queen's routine were bleeped out on the BBC broadcast, but evidently shown uncensored in other territories, so for any UK viewers who were wondering what was said, there's a clip here.
Some very shrewd gameplay as regards the running order; last night, I couldn't quite work out why everyone was banging on about it so much, but in the clear light of day, the tactic makes total sense.
I didn't agree with Dawn French's assessment of who was the most natural comedian, but given who they were, it was a kind thing to say.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 5 March 2021 10:26 (three years ago) link
Who did she say was? I can never remember anything about DR as soon as it's finished. I had to look up who left last night and I only watched it 12 hours ago.
― Cocteau Twinks (jed_), Friday, 5 March 2021 11:26 (three years ago) link
She said it to Lawrence.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 5 March 2021 11:54 (three years ago) link
I mostly agree with her. He's naturally funny but, it seems, not capable of being funny when it's required.
― Cocteau Twinks (jed_), Friday, 5 March 2021 11:57 (three years ago) link
they bleeped it out on the Wow Presents Plus app too, wtf
I could not believe how butthurt A'whora and Lawrence got about it!! I mean it was v clear that they were feeling vulnerable and insecure in general, and that this put them at a further disadvantage, and they took their own feelings out on Ellie, but like, wtf??? You cannot ever convince me that the running order has any real effect on anything but the participants' psyches, those performances could have been rearranged any which way and would have still gotten the same critiques. It's ridiculous to blame your own performance on someone else putting you in a certain order???? Also, how disingenuous to suddenly pretend that this isn't a competition and to hold relatively harmless competitive behavior against ppl.
I also felt so bad for Ellie and wish she could have been more confident in her decision and pushed back on them a bit.
At this point I am rooting hard for a Bimini win
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 5 March 2021 14:20 (three years ago) link
Totally agree with everything you say. But I feel like Lawrence wouldn't have been so angry if Ellie hadn't kept wanting reassurance that everything was fine between them. Like, you can't fuck me over and then say "oh, don't be mad at me". You have to let me be mad for a bit.
― trishyb, Friday, 5 March 2021 14:54 (three years ago) link
I totally thought Ellie should have owned her decision more. In any other season, the girls would have called her a shady bitch and laughed it off and that would've been the end of it.
Also it felt weird how the critiques didn't match the performances or the rankings. From the challenge, Ellie seemed high, then got bad reviews but ended up safe. Tayce wasn't bad and got nice enough reviews but ended up in the bottom. Probably bad editing, but it was confusing as a viewer.
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 5 March 2021 14:58 (three years ago) link
Lawrence deleted their Twitter overnight... sounds like things got rough.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 5 March 2021 15:16 (three years ago) link
re: Ellie/Lawrence, I do agree that it was disingenous for Ellie to keep asking people if they were OK with their places, and was 100% on Lawrence's side when she read her for filth about it. Though Lawrence should have gotten over it, and did not.
re: the critiques, I figured A'Whora would be in the bottom two, but couldn't decide if the other one would be Tayce, who did not-that-great but exceeded everyone's expectations and showed the most "improvement", or Ellie, who was marginally better than Tayce but was perhaps a bit more disappointing overall.
I really really wanted this to be Ellie's week but it was clear from early on in the ep that this was not going to be her episode :(
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 5 March 2021 15:35 (three years ago) link
if Alan Carr was trying to coach me on how to be funny I would probably have to leave the set.
Loads of this episode made me uncomfortable - the inference that drag comedy should stick to tasteful things because it's the BBC, it is close to "you can be gay, but not too gay" territory. It's the same as how Graham Norton was much funnier on his Channel 4 shows.
― boxedjoy, Friday, 5 March 2021 19:24 (three years ago) link
I also wondered if there was a gender component. Like, A'Whora may be a drag queen, but to the BBC that is still a man saying pretty crude stuff about his grandmother. I wonder if a cis woman would be censured for the same material? Don't they bleep it when the queens call each other c*nts, too? I don't think they do that after 10pm on the Beeb when women do it.
Anyway, it seemed like an overreaction to bleep the material. I am a fairly prudish person when it comes to what I find funny (which is distinct from what I think you ought to be allowed to say on telly) and I thought it was weird that that was considered too tasteless to even broadcast.
― trishyb, Friday, 5 March 2021 19:33 (three years ago) link
Okay how the hell had the series got to this point *without* using Company B’s “Fascination” in a lip sync?
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 6 March 2021 05:31 (three years ago) link
maybe they had that realization and came up with the runway as reason for songagree with decision but would have had a different top 3
in re UK - really don't get the anger with Ellie D for how she did placing, um, its what you do and really wasn't that shady anyway, complaining queens came off as very petty to me (and didn't find laurence funny at all)
― H in Addis, Saturday, 6 March 2021 09:32 (three years ago) link
I don't think Lawrence is that funny, I think they're just Scottish
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 6 March 2021 09:52 (three years ago) link
I said the exact same thing to my bf !
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 6 March 2021 11:14 (three years ago) link
I've rarely seen an outfit I hated as much as Elliott's this week. It was like a surgical stocking got tangled with a duster.
― trishyb, Saturday, 6 March 2021 12:20 (three years ago) link
This is how I will now describe flamingos forever more.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 6 March 2021 16:11 (three years ago) link
how tf was Symone not the winner of that whole episode
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 6 March 2021 20:22 (three years ago) link
even when Michelle SAID Elliott was a flamingo I was like “nuh uh”she looked like a middleaged junkie showgirl from fkn sparks nevada jesus christ UGHi fucking haaaaaaaaated it so muchand on top of her rue mclanahan (~bored voice~ men. gentlemen.) they were kind letting her lipsync bc she def deserved to be run out of town on a rail Symone was so so so great, but it is v this show not to give her the win. Disappointing for sure. But Gottmik was hilarious too, and I really loved Rosé - that scottish accent SLAYED me, she was hysterical. i am still no closer to liking or enjoying olivia at all, her snatchgame was tiresome & i hated her runway so much. that wig? and the “labcoat” with the visible buttons looked more like a DressBarn trenchcoat. HATED.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 6 March 2021 21:29 (three years ago) link
Why Rose doesn't go with the accent 24/7 is beyond me because that makes her 1000% hotter, and honestly I thought she deserved the win.
I never would've expected Denali to have those comedy chops! And she was totally unrecognizable.
I was hoping that this would be the start of Olivia's heel-turn... which didn't happen, but hope springs eternal.
― RZA Minnelli (Leee), Saturday, 6 March 2021 23:26 (three years ago) link
So what are we all thinking for a top four at this point? I'm assuming Symone and Gottmik are the slam dunks.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 6 March 2021 23:35 (three years ago) link
Symone, Gottmik, Rosé and maybe Denali?
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 6 March 2021 23:54 (three years ago) link
Yeah I was pretty much starting to settle on that overall.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 7 March 2021 00:09 (three years ago) link
I see Tina Burner in there filling the Silky/Eureka/Sherry Pie role this show seems to love
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 7 March 2021 08:35 (three years ago) link
What lurks on the horizon!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf_-FV3-lVs
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 March 2021 03:21 (three years ago) link
Karen from Finance is my favourite drag name in some time.
― trishyb, Monday, 8 March 2021 12:28 (three years ago) link
aaaahahah Trixie and Katya were talking abt Karen from Finance on an episode of UNHhhh a few years ago and the name has stuck with me since
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 8 March 2021 14:35 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I think my top 4 are also Symone, Gottmik, Rosei, and either Olivia or Denali (both have shown amazing performance and middling performance and it seems to very from week to week in a way where I can't really bank on how either of them will do over the next several episodes)
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 8 March 2021 14:37 (three years ago) link
lmao "Rosei" wtf
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 8 March 2021 14:38 (three years ago) link
also I did NOT expect Utica to turn out a lip sync that good!!! She's got a lot of raw potential but has shown us multiple times that her idea of what is funny/entertaining does not always align w reality or common taste?
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 8 March 2021 14:42 (three years ago) link
Oh my god, LEARN THE LIPSYNC!
― trishyb, Saturday, 13 March 2021 10:57 (three years ago) link
Although I wonder if this was one of those times when they switched it out at the last minute, leaving the queen who happens not to know the song already at a disadvantage.
― trishyb, Saturday, 13 March 2021 11:00 (three years ago) link
Yeah, so much for my top four!As for the UK you could kinda see the hints about them going top four. I’m still amused next week wraps that up while we still have seven queens left in the US one.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 13 March 2021 14:29 (three years ago) link
UK: Ellie's lip-synch was adorable, possibly my favourite moment of hers so far, while Tayce's felt a bit same-old, same-old: there hasn't been much, if any, interpretive difference in any of hers.
The UK's final four are the cover story in today's Weekend Guardian colour supplement - some great photos, too. https://www.theguardian.com/global/2021/mar/13/ru-pauls-drag-race-uk-finalists-ellie-diamond-lawrence-chaney-tayce-bimini-bon-boulash
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 13 March 2021 16:22 (three years ago) link
the winning team in the US ep did such an amazing job! well deserved win for both and exactly what they both needed at this point in the competition.
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 13 March 2021 17:51 (three years ago) link
honestly this week's US challenge is one of my favorites in the history of the whole show, I can't remember the last time I was SO EXCITED to see the results of the challenge. I thought they all did a great job, even the bottom two did so-so and not awful imo (except for Olivia's make-up which was v v bad)
Given this episode alone, I mean the bottom two def did the worst, and the winner of the lip sync def won the lip sync, but it still feels shocking to see the loser sent home right now!!!
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 13 March 2021 18:12 (three years ago) link
Indeed! And yes, it was a solid challenge all around, it almost feels like an actual start of the season/high stakes moment.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 13 March 2021 18:16 (three years ago) link
yeah a great twist on the makeup challenge, with many consequences, like the loser having to say farewell while not in their own drag
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 13 March 2021 18:19 (three years ago) link
Agreed, and Utica kept me on pins and needles the whole episode long after I'd written her off -- I thought after the Bob Ross afro debacle, she was for sure not going to be up to it, and I am pretty sure the producers thought the same.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Saturday, 13 March 2021 19:23 (three years ago) link
Also, I think this ep proved once and for all that Symone can basically wear the hell out of anything.
absolutely, but what made it especially exciting was her change from the initial apprehension to “i just have to go there and own it”
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 13 March 2021 19:30 (three years ago) link
didn’t quite like how they were setting it up with the editing to make it look “omg are they going to do blackface?!”
symone and utica posted the pics of them wearing their own drag used in the swap and as expected both are gorgeous
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 13 March 2021 19:36 (three years ago) link
Utica is so pure and I love her so much and this is giving me a boost of hope that she might go farther in this competition than I would have thought.
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 13 March 2021 23:50 (three years ago) link
Also really loving how anyone’s-game it still is!! Looking at the last couple of seasons’ contestant progress it’s all very much “hm, yes, that seems about right”, I think they all fell into a very logical order, but honesty you could give me any elimination sequence at this point and as long as Symone was in the top I’d believe it.
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 13 March 2021 23:54 (three years ago) link
Symone plus Gottmik seem locked in. The other spot or spots are up in the air.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Sunday, 14 March 2021 00:03 (three years ago) link
symone, gottmik, rose would be my top 3. not sure who else would make top 4it definitely feels wrong that there is still so many of them left!
wonder what the UK top 4/3 would look like if veronica green didn’t have to drop off.
― scanner darkly, Sunday, 14 March 2021 00:11 (three years ago) link
I assume that Raven's still doing Ru's makeup, but I wish she'd stop contouring her nose into such a sharp Michael/Latoya Jackson blade.
― Eleanor of Accutane (Leee), Sunday, 14 March 2021 00:12 (three years ago) link
The lie, where is it
I was aimlessly clicking around YouTube and stumbled on a video where someone describes Utica’s approach to conceptual drag as having very “Maureen from RENT vibes” and...I mean...I love her, but...they aren’t wrong.— Alexander (@purplechrain) March 14, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 14 March 2021 05:07 (three years ago) link
Yes I know the UK finale is here and I still haven't seen it so I'll be back on this thread later but in the meantime, a wonderful repurposing from the US end of things
*58 minutes into a 1-hour meeting* "Well that's all I have for today. Happy to give you guys a few minutes back of your day!" pic.twitter.com/rIH3GIqGJB— 4d hair advocate (@OfficiallyVex_) March 17, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 March 2021 19:33 (three years ago) link
UK finale: okay, honestly surprised? In that the winner totally makes sense (and I love the choice for many reasons) but I thought someone else had been coming up big time over the last few episodes, so! I'll take that!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 19 March 2021 00:53 (three years ago) link
I was not at all happy with the winner. Alan Carr handwaving the inability to follow choreography highlighted to me how arbitrary and inconsistent the judging is on this show.
― boxedjoy, Friday, 19 March 2021 01:03 (three years ago) link
Ru will have an absolute shit fit next time he visits Glasgow and discovers that there's basically an entire city of people who talk just like that, and it's really not so special or hilarious.
― trishyb, Friday, 19 March 2021 09:52 (three years ago) link
I watch a lot of Drag Race via my wife without getting too involved in who wins, but the winner was a clear 3rd in my mind, and the runner up who won just seemed to be the complete package.
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 19 March 2021 10:12 (three years ago) link
* the runner up who won
Someone upthread pointed out that Bimini clearly had a load of extra money invested in them by someone else during the break, while the others didn't and I wonder if that influenced the final decision.
― trishyb, Friday, 19 March 2021 10:18 (three years ago) link
except of course they're not actually from Glasgow, they're from Helensburgh which is far more posh and middle-class than their persona would have you believe. I can guarantee you that nobody from Glasgow Proper was having a tweed cape hand-sewed for them as child.
― boxedjoy, Friday, 19 March 2021 10:20 (three years ago) link
Ha ha, I didn't even know that. I just assumed they were from somewhere nice in the West End.
― trishyb, Friday, 19 March 2021 10:25 (three years ago) link
Tayce won the group challenge, the runway and the final lipsync imo and would have been a worthy winner. I wanted a Tayce win by the end. I really didn't like Bimini's final runway look and her lipsyncing in the group challenge was dreadful but I was expecting a win from BBB. Lawrence was quite clearly third.
― Cocteau Twinks (jed_), Friday, 19 March 2021 17:29 (three years ago) link
i lol’d at sister sister’s trolling. did a’whora say anything about it at all or was she too busy serving sour grapes?wish they spent more time on the reunion
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 20 March 2021 01:49 (three years ago) link
As for US this week, well that’s a color scheme I don’t have to think about again.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 March 2021 04:30 (three years ago) link
I am really finding Gottmik very samey.
― trishyb, Saturday, 20 March 2021 14:08 (three years ago) link
I haven’t paid extremely close attention to the RPDR fan base’s toxic contingent this season but after this week’s results I figured what the hell. Yup, not surprised by what I found.Kandy Muse is the devil. Utica’s commercial was somehow better than Kandy’s. Olivia should’ve been sent home last week if not weeks before. And Utica’s runway was better than Symone’s.Just crystal clear in its unabashed racism.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Saturday, 20 March 2021 15:05 (three years ago) link
Good grief. (But not surprising, of course.)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 March 2021 16:50 (three years ago) link
Now that we're down to six I think three out of the four will be Symone, Gottmik and Rose. And I'm not sure about the fourth? I probably won't be until it happens.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 March 2021 16:53 (three years ago) link
yeah the diehard fan groups for RPDR have such awful toxic energy, its kinda grossi am counting down to olivia going homegod i am so over her she’s like Tony Curtis’s character in “The Great Race” at this point, minus the DING when she smiles
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 March 2021 16:54 (three years ago) link
i wonder if Kandy could squeak into the 4?the judges looooove her
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 March 2021 16:55 (three years ago) link
Kinda hoping that!
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 March 2021 17:07 (three years ago) link
that would be kinda cooli go back and forth on her but she’s such a vibe
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 March 2021 17:13 (three years ago) link
I don't necessarily have Rose pegged as a for-sure top 4 yet, but I'm hard pressed at this point to imagine what Utica or Olivia could do to take her spot. Kandy is, to me, kind of a slam dunk.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Saturday, 20 March 2021 17:25 (three years ago) link
Meantime at least Drag Race Down Under will start off without anything causing controversy like Sherry Pie did or anything uh er wait hold on
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/mar/18/rupauls-drag-race-down-under-contestant-apologises-for-past-performances-in-blackface
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 March 2021 17:54 (three years ago) link
yeeeeeep. Australia gonna Australia :(
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 March 2021 18:14 (three years ago) link
i don't find kandy's drag to be all that strong, especially what she had last night - i thought she'd get read for it looking like a halloween costume. i don't see her being in the top 4, but then ru'll do what ru wants to do.
i thought rose did great last night - her look was stunning and her ad was the funniest of the bunch.
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 20 March 2021 19:42 (three years ago) link
yeah I loved her runway look esp that makeup! i also gotta say Tina kinda grew on me as we got to know her. Not so much her drag but her talent & personality. and it makes me wonder what she could have done if she had not been so in her head. Good candidate for an All Stars in future imo. also I liked how Rose tried to talk to Tina about her critiques, not coming for her but trying to get her to see the bigger picture in a kind yet direct way.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 March 2021 19:53 (three years ago) link
alsois there a worse song in this world than “My Humps”? I havent heard it in so long & it still makes my skeleton want to leave my body.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 March 2021 19:55 (three years ago) link
"I'm not doing... that" is my new catchphrase.
― trishyb, Saturday, 20 March 2021 20:00 (three years ago) link
also I liked how Rose tried to talk to Tina about her critiques
Slipping in an impromptu jingle in the process!
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Saturday, 20 March 2021 20:34 (three years ago) link
I do agree that Kandy's runway look was the worst of the night and, really, maybe among the worst of the season.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Saturday, 20 March 2021 20:35 (three years ago) link
there is no way anybody will ever top lala ri’s bag dress
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 20 March 2021 22:12 (three years ago) link
xp re: my lumps - exactly my reaction also, but i had to admit it made for a pretty good lipsync song
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 20 March 2021 22:14 (three years ago) link
xp oh that's true
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Saturday, 20 March 2021 22:22 (three years ago) link
Olivia is like community theater level compared to the rest of the queens.
― Eleanor of Accutane (Leee), Saturday, 20 March 2021 23:00 (three years ago) link
is there a worse song in this world than “My Humps”? I havent heard it in so long & it still makes my skeleton want to leave my body.
I actually don't thank you for reminding me of this. I literally had forgotten it was the lip sync song and now you have reminded me and I hate you.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 March 2021 23:07 (three years ago) link
:Dhappy to oblige
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 21 March 2021 00:29 (three years ago) link
Woof. The loser LOST tonight.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 27 March 2021 04:34 (three years ago) link
well deserved bottom 2 and well deserved loser tonight. disappointed she ended up being more delusional than valentina!
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 27 March 2021 05:29 (three years ago) link
yeah god she was really feeling herself in the interview chair
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 March 2021 07:33 (three years ago) link
The four horsewomen of the roast apocalypse #dragrace pic.twitter.com/OHGM1Nr5uQ— Peach Snowsé 🎄❄️✨ (@fluffluff13) March 27, 2021
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 March 2021 07:49 (three years ago) link
also hand Loni the crown, she won this season
This is the moment Loni Love won season 13 its Emmys#DragRace pic.twitter.com/2G2nq9TOKN— 𝖗𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖓 𝖟𝖔𝖑𝖆𝖓𝖘𝖐𝖎 🕷️ (@minajleaked) March 27, 2021
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 March 2021 07:53 (three years ago) link
I just hate watching people die on stage.
― trishyb, Saturday, 27 March 2021 09:41 (three years ago) link
I mean, I know nobody loves it, but I will fast- forward through the people who are doing badly. I just can't.
― trishyb, Saturday, 27 March 2021 09:42 (three years ago) link
I’m going to chalk this one up to the unfathomable depths of meanness Minnesotans keep bottled up their entire lives. When (IF!) uncorked, it’s a force of nature. That Utica kept a smile and a positive attitude throughout couldn’t be more on brand for us.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Saturday, 27 March 2021 15:04 (three years ago) link
Also, I’m with the gang calling Utica asking sweatpants-wearing Ru to stand up and getting the double bird instantly iconic.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Saturday, 27 March 2021 15:27 (three years ago) link
that was fucking amazing
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 March 2021 15:46 (three years ago) link
Truly!
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 27 March 2021 15:50 (three years ago) link
The memes, the memes.
Five minutes into MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN pic.twitter.com/4c9KUrLgvc— Jorge Molina (@colormejorge) March 27, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 27 March 2021 21:15 (three years ago) link
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 March 2021 21:57 (three years ago) link
A separate effort but there are Drag Race connections https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-56537339
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 28 March 2021 18:38 (three years ago) link
And a whole lotta Drag Race vets in this thing:
https://deadline.com/2021/03/outtv-media-group-producer-entertainment-group-outtv-usa-lgbtq-diversity-representation-inclusion-1234723463/
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 March 2021 17:46 (two years ago) link
kandy’s dress tonight looked like what lala ri’s bag dress would look like if she finished it
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 3 April 2021 05:29 (two years ago) link
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 3 April 2021 06:51 (two years ago) link
i love this final 4i am relieved by who the loser ended up beingi love cynthia erivoi love Cher
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 3 April 2021 07:10 (two years ago) link
I was irrationally annoyed by the way the queens all leaned forward instead of back when they were pretending to climb up the side of the table.
― trishyb, Saturday, 3 April 2021 11:19 (two years ago) link
Yeah it’s a solid and increasingly clear with time final four. So I guess my question is whether next week’s episode is it!
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 3 April 2021 13:43 (two years ago) link
oh no Ned, there’s still 5 episodes to go... (j/k)
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 3 April 2021 15:47 (two years ago) link
At this point I wouldn't be surprised. (I half remember some rumor that the show was trying to stretch out not merely to fill the episode order but in the hopes that by the time of the final they could actually film a final. I doubt it but even if so while the restrictions are about to be more loosened up they'll juuuuust miss it, unless there's some further delaying tactic we haven't seen yet.)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 3 April 2021 16:05 (two years ago) link
i’d swap one of the final four (you can guess who) with denali, but the other 3 spots are well deserved
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 3 April 2021 19:11 (two years ago) link
YES I'm not the only one who thought Denali was robbed and final 4 worthy. Goddamn. Kandy certainly has the personality, but her outfits and makeup are an embarrassment for the final 4. Miss you Denali.
― octobeard, Saturday, 3 April 2021 20:19 (two years ago) link
i hated Kandy’s runway but I hated Olivia’s more for being basic & NOT the challenge! so annoyed when she just put her hands in the hip-ruching as if they were pocketsi wish they’d stopped her halfway out & sent her back to the workroom, like “Bitch, don’t even waste our time with this bullshit”i did get very teared up in the untucked reveal about her grandmother though, that was so moving. the shit some of these queens go through w their families just to get on stage & do what they love. i mean.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 3 April 2021 21:36 (two years ago) link
The way they spoonfed Gottmik's performance in this really irritated me
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 3 April 2021 22:04 (two years ago) link
lol yes, i think i had gradually softened to it through familiarity, but hearing it for the first time in forever i was struck anew by how extremely cursed it is.
olivia seemed to lean more and more into her tropes as the season went on, strange to think how much of a frontrunner she felt at the beginning.
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 4 April 2021 11:02 (two years ago) link
Yeah, I think it's that she has a smaller bag of tricks to pull from than the other contestants.
― Ovid-19 (Leee), Sunday, 4 April 2021 14:58 (two years ago) link
i loooooled in untucked - when she was packing in the workroom she had a suitcase full of tiny purses
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 4 April 2021 15:02 (two years ago) link
We got more Down Under details
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-ugX-KmhMk
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 02:08 (two years ago) link
Also, this almost-nothing from Spain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5JsmAzELzU
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 02:09 (two years ago) link
i mean. ok fine. but also WOULD IT KILL YA TO MAKE A DECISION the Whitney handkerchief! Crown Symone. Just crown her.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 April 2021 07:06 (two years ago) link
Yeah, the handkerchief surely has to go a long way with Ru, even if Symone wasn't already clearly the winner.
I just cannot warm to Gottmik. I know it's mean of me, but I just can't. I thought Kandy's interview with Ru was one of the least sycophantic and most natural chats they've ever had in that section, and I really think Kandy has pulled herself together massively since the early days of the competition (which feel like years ago now).
― trishyb, Saturday, 10 April 2021 10:30 (two years ago) link
I mean this season started before both the Georgia Senate elections and the Capitol riot.
Yeah a nothing of an episode in terms of any progression but I figured as much and give Symone the crown plz and etc.
I did like we got Rose's baby bro (who was almost more Scottish than Rose is) and Symone's mom, who is clearly great.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 April 2021 15:31 (two years ago) link
yeah the family stuff was so lovely
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 April 2021 16:18 (two years ago) link
Anyway now VG can tell us more about these characters. Maybe.
Premiere date has been announced as May 1.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 April 2021 16:20 (two years ago) link
i guess i am not feeling Kandy in the top 4 compared to the other 3. she has truckloads of personality & she’s great but i thought her runway outfit looked like a pool toy & i dont think her song portion or dance were that good? idk. i suppose i get why they are keeping her but she def feels a step down from the other 3
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 April 2021 16:27 (two years ago) link
kandy did improve a lot but yeah, she’s not on the same level as the other 3, which makes non elimination feel even more forced at this point (and just plain lazy).
i don’t remember any family stuff - was it in untucked?
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 10 April 2021 16:42 (two years ago) link
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 April 2021 17:52 (two years ago) link
Yeah it most always ends up there unless family members actually join them for challenges. Which is always cool too.
Seems like there's a big 'justice for Denali' attitude re complaints about Kandy elsewhere. Which, yes and no?
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 April 2021 17:54 (two years ago) link
cool, i thought maybe we got shortened episodes in canada (and the provider that has the rights to drag race doesn’t have untucked - but we now have untucked for the previous season on netflix, which is annoying)
re: denali - she kinda reminds me of rose, super professional but “bland chicken”. she certainly had better runways (and arguably lipsyncs) than kandy though..
i thought the meme making rounds is very otm:symone - charismagottmik - uniquenesskandy - nerverose - talent
i doubt rose will win at this point - you could tell the judges struggled to say something personal to her, and it’s rose’s mistake imo (who otherwise seems to be smart at playing the game) - she didn’t give the judges enough story.
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 10 April 2021 18:14 (two years ago) link
Well that raises an interesting question: if your life has been comparatively more of a glide path then do you have more 'story'? Not saying Rose has had it easier than the rest, but still.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 April 2021 18:17 (two years ago) link
ehhhI mean Kandy was definitely carried through bc she was good tv. in a way that Denali wasn’t. and kandy for sure got by with some worse performances/looks than what got denali sent homebut i also enjoyed watching kandy, knowing all of that. maybe even over the idea of seeing more of denali. idk. i just think it’s a bit too much to elevate kandy to the point where she’s final four w no hope of winning. like, ru pushed tyra through for -reasons~ but she had that incredible look. you push kandy all the way to the top bc she’s crazy & full of personality & you create a monster bc she now believes it was solely her talent that got her there & no one can tell her anything. eh.that’s entertainment lmao
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 April 2021 18:20 (two years ago) link
^ otm
yeah not saying rose had it easier but her not having a “season arc” or not being presented as somebody who had to overcome something made it more difficult to root for her (or as kamorah would put it, to ROOT for HER). compare that with symone’s breakdown, for instance. or kandy’s story, for that matter. most praise for rose was “she’s... she’s a professional” which yes, she is. but saying that music theater didn’t give you enough chance to express yourself isn’t gonna be enough to make ru tear up.
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 10 April 2021 18:36 (two years ago) link
Ramsey Clark, RIP https://t.co/rlYFi1cNXb— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) April 11, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 11 April 2021 00:54 (two years ago) link
Ha IGNORE that, meant to be this one:
RuPaul sucking the childhood trauma from everyone pic.twitter.com/95K7DOtKgr— ✨ (@heyjaeee) April 10, 2021
But maybe Ramsey loved Drag Race, who knows.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 11 April 2021 00:55 (two years ago) link
Kandy Muse on her $100,000 boat #DragRace pic.twitter.com/Xyo1rin12j— Joey Nolfi (@joeynolfi) April 10, 2021
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 April 2021 01:49 (two years ago) link
Gottmik's desperation to turn "gorg" into a meme is so exhausting.
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 11 April 2021 07:52 (two years ago) link
I think I finally put my finger on what keeps me at arms length from Gottmik and it took until this ep to realize it ... even more so than Violet, Gottmik is the culmination of people coming up thru drag under the influence of this game show. The entire episode, her storyline was built around her desire to literally live within the show for the rest of her life. That flavor of desperation is not my cuppa. I’d say she and Rose are tied for third for me based on what the show’s delivering to my eyeballs.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Sunday, 11 April 2021 16:22 (two years ago) link
It's definitely the blessing/curse of any such vectoring up that the show has provided, thanks to its longevity and success. But this is also probably why we're seeing more drag shows in various forms, contest-based or not, just to acknowledge alternate approaches -- some of which are from veterans carving out non-WoW spaces, others of which are just their own thing.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 11 April 2021 16:28 (two years ago) link
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3dmav/what-does-it-cost-to-go-on-rupauls-drag-race
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Thursday, 15 April 2021 19:33 (two years ago) link
Take whatever they say and double it for Gottmik.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Thursday, 15 April 2021 20:08 (two years ago) link
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 15 April 2021 20:39 (two years ago) link
long read but well worth it, so many little eye opening details.i assumed that some designers work in exchange for exposure but doesn't sound like it's the case.
certainly puts a different light on "i can't believe she'd show up in chicken feathers" comments
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 17 April 2021 01:37 (two years ago) link
still. having a creative eye & taste goes a long way when you are skint
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 17 April 2021 02:15 (two years ago) link
definitely, and they touch on that - but that’s the thing, comments like “chicken feathers” explicitly make it “who cares you made it, not expensive enough”
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 17 April 2021 02:46 (two years ago) link
Which is REALLY interesting in that Joey Jay had a comment on that in tonight’s special in response to Denali’s slam on that.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 17 April 2021 03:25 (two years ago) link
chicken feathers fucking suck though! it’s not just that they are financially cheap, they are shitty & fall off! its what you buy when you want fosse & you end up as hr pufnstuff
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 17 April 2021 04:07 (two years ago) link
Aw, I love Joey.
― trishyb, Saturday, 17 April 2021 09:18 (two years ago) link
I'm not a big fan of Utica's, but she could give classes in how to do a TV interview over Zoom. She looked gorgeous, she was properly miked up and didn't have to raise her voice, and she had a good background.
― trishyb, Saturday, 17 April 2021 09:57 (two years ago) link
Well that was not surprising — but having forgotten the wheel, I wasn’t expecting that top two.Also honest surprise at Miss Congeniality! But a very cool choice.And so All Stars will be on Paramount+ — well well.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 April 2021 04:42 (two years ago) link
even with the wheel, i wasn’t expecting that top two.pretty underwhelming overall, especially considering all the forced build up
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 24 April 2021 16:46 (two years ago) link
The Chi Chi DeVayne tribute was (for awfully sad reasons of course) the highlight for me. (On a funnier note, Rose getting in Ellie Diamond's name was up there.)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 April 2021 16:47 (two years ago) link
yeah those two were the highlights. and the whole rose family!
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 24 April 2021 16:55 (two years ago) link
Oh yeah they were amazing! The sister with that crazy glass!
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 April 2021 16:58 (two years ago) link
Also I was terribly amused at the cheering crowd sound vs. the actual drive-in audience, which struck me as, how you say, not quite the same.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 April 2021 16:59 (two years ago) link
I don't know, I thought it was all kind of sweet and low key. The interviews seemed genuinely warmer than they usually are, too. As soon as Ru pointed out that poor Rosé had buggered up her ankle (and was wearing some awful outfit, holy crap, that was a terrible outfit), it was clear that she wasn't going to win her lipsync.
I loved Symone's family saying "on RuPaul," as if it was Oprah.
― trishyb, Saturday, 24 April 2021 20:04 (two years ago) link
I was so glad LaLa got Miss Congeniality, she seemed so genuinely kind & friendly. i would have been pissed if they gave it to Olivia i felt bad for Rosé, i know she would have turned that lip sync out way more if not for her ankle. I would have loved her & Symone as top 2 but the end result was still wonderfuland Symone’s looks! fucking hell she killed it. that red look with the nails!?!?! jesus. and yeah the interviews were really warm & funny, i enjoyed the show overall even though it was weird & low key
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 April 2021 20:56 (two years ago) link
and yeah the ChiChi tribute was beautiful
the final final four reaction to the winner is v lovely & legit https://www.instagram.com/tv/CODmnZlB4KS/
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 April 2021 21:41 (two years ago) link
Did anyone else watch Down Under? After the Vice article, the gulf between the haves and the have-nots was really apparent on this show. Also, I can't believe it never occurred to me that drag queens all wear those huge-framed glasses because they have no eyebrows.
― trishyb, Sunday, 2 May 2021 19:34 (two years ago) link
gonna sit this one out, we just came out of two simultaneous seasons, one of which lasted for roughly a decade
I know RuPaul's strategy is to basically go nonstop and smother pop culture but she needs to give it and us a rest
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Sunday, 2 May 2021 20:45 (two years ago) link
how.could they not use a kylie song for the lipsync
― scanner darkly, Sunday, 9 May 2021 04:03 (two years ago) link
You'd think that, yes.
Bit of a thrown-together feeling, Down Under. It's kinda weird realizing it's not a full restriction production as US/UK are but now almost feels too small in a way? But I have to wonder if that was literally down to availability given everything else filming there when almost nowhere else was able to. Plus, clearly no guest judges at all except being beamed in, etc. Though in a weird way having it always be just this core three kinda means they'll see every step of the way.
Did think it wasn't the BEST look that the first queen to leave was the (apparently only?) Indigenous Australian. But was amused that the second was the one I thought they might be biased towards given the separate series they already had on WOW+...
The other thing that stands out for me is reallllly subtle but, even more so than some of the other non-US series, there's a different, distinct editing and camera 'feel' to the whole thing -- different angles and choices and the like.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 9 May 2021 22:00 (two years ago) link
Only seen the first ep so far, but am hoping they use a different Australian and New Zealand act for lipsync every week, instead of Kylie eight times!
Did think it wasn't the BEST look that the first queen to leave was the (apparently only?) Indigenous Australian.
It really sucked that she was sent to the battle, but once she got there, so did her lipsync. Presumably there aren't enough eps to do a ~dramatic re-entry~ to the competition later, either.
Cringed out of my entire skin when Ru entered saying "GEE DYE GEE DYE!"
The combination of distanced staging, remote filming and even-cheaper-than-usual facilities do make it feel especially stilted. And when Rhys was announced as the third chair, I thought it was perfect casting, but cutting and splicing his lines around pre-written puns by Michelle and written-and-recorded-later comments from Ru is absolutely hobbling him.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Sunday, 9 May 2021 23:02 (two years ago) link
ok have watched #2 and there is an even bigger obvious reason not to do Kylie that week
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Monday, 10 May 2021 03:09 (two years ago) link
I was waiting for your reaction
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 May 2021 04:33 (two years ago) link
I've come out of these first two episodes of DRDU feeling like my head's been pummelled, the fast pace* and lack of relief / weird stilted editing where it feels like everybody is in different places (maybe because they are) / extremely high in the mix music and sound effects is making it very tough going
*it even feels like it's all been sped up like 10%, but maybe that's just my weary brain struggling to keep up
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Monday, 10 May 2021 13:36 (two years ago) link
I think I'm looking forward to the Spanish one just because, as with Thailand/Canada/Holland, not having Ru/Michelle as the center allows for other approaches or dynamics.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 May 2021 15:56 (two years ago) link
I'm mildly terrified at this vision
A customer asked me if I watched Roald Dahl's Drag Race— Jordan Penny (@jordanpenny) May 18, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 18:20 (two years ago) link
for the mini challenge you have to choose the method of the violent death of your parents
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 19:34 (two years ago) link
it was ridiculous enough for karen to tell elektra "you don't need money to win", but michelle's "you need to elevate your drag" was like, how, girl? by selling one of her kidneys?
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 22 May 2021 01:11 (two years ago) link
Since Drag Race started, the show has appeared to take on board criticisms of misogyny (you don't hear a lot of talk about tuna anymore), racism (I don't know how successful this is, I am not an expert), and trans inclusiveness. I wonder if this will be the year they listen to the money criticisms and finally just do what they should have been doing since the show became successful: give every participating queen a budget and do not let them spend beyond it. Also, more challenges where they have to make stuff from scratch and chat about their lives while they do it. Infinitely more entertaining than another unfunny musical number.
― trishyb, Saturday, 22 May 2021 09:49 (two years ago) link
The cast preview for Spain was fun enough, let's see what happens; first episode this Sunday. Down Under chugging along and I'm not surprised Art's back. I am surprised it was that soon.
And now...
https://ew.com/tv/rupauls-drag-race-all-stars-6-cast-revealed-exclusive-interviews/
RuPaul's Drag Race All-Stars 6 cast members: A'Keria C. Davenport, Eureka, Ginger Minj, Jan, Jiggly Caliente, Kylie Sonique Love, Pandora Boxx, Ra'Jah O'Hara, Scarlet Envy, Serena Cha Cha, Silky Nutmeg Ganache, Trinity K. Bonet, and Yara Sofia
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 18:15 (two years ago) link
is it just me or is this a weird cast
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 May 2021 18:50 (two years ago) link
It's a VERY weird cast.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 18:58 (two years ago) link
.. and the reason they brought Pandora back is to immediately pair her up w Jiggly
but really, this is like RuPaul We Could Only Get These Queens Race
― scanner darkly, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 19:11 (two years ago) link
With Jan back, let's see if they bring Rose back next year.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 19:21 (two years ago) link
Seems pretty rigged to give Ginger the crown. (Or maaaybe Yara.)
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Wednesday, 26 May 2021 19:22 (two years ago) link
Ginger and Eureka and Silky = literally no one else getting a word in edgeways
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 May 2021 19:24 (two years ago) link
lmao at Serena Cha Cha
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 May 2021 19:25 (two years ago) link
I think this cast is the inflection point where AS's cast goes from plausible to "yeah, we've reached the bottom of the barrel."
― Elementary, My Dear Hoatzin (Leee), Wednesday, 26 May 2021 22:40 (two years ago) link
which is bound to happen when you do 6 all star seasons out of 13 regular seasons..
looking forward to RuPaul’s Best of All Stars
― scanner darkly, Thursday, 27 May 2021 04:15 (two years ago) link
We’ll be down to RuPaul’s Bum Fights in a couple of years
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 27 May 2021 04:19 (two years ago) link
lol at bum fights, guess they will go back to the zombie apocalypse, fighting over material in bins behind Beverley hills stores, which might not be a bad thing!, the 'glow up' of the show through seasons became a naff 'drag intern' gig for rupaul PLC.INC product whoring, Ru truly is the lost kardashian...enjoyed drag race UK and Netherlands a lot more than any of the recent US ones.
― Swanswans, Thursday, 27 May 2021 05:36 (two years ago) link
as a RuPaul hater (yet i watch), it pleases me endlessly that this show is firmly in its flop era now (don't tell me about its ratings)
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Thursday, 27 May 2021 16:38 (two years ago) link
"Strike while the iron's hot" has always been the strategy here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKMYs-9LW2w
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Thursday, 27 May 2021 17:00 (two years ago) link
Hey, well, honestly, Ru is an icon and I respect and love that the show can be a shining light of visablity for, not just queer identity but POC. I think this was a show that really made me realise just how much TV I have watched is constructed for a white audience. I knew it abstractly, for sure, but I've really felt it in the life of this show. The competition has gone pretty stale for me, fierceness replaced by familiarity, the Ru girls growing up in the age of drag race have changed it a lot and I miss the naivety. But the joy has always been about those c.u.n.t.y. queens themselves, regardless of the Ru-Corp stuff that also drags now
― Swanswans, Thursday, 27 May 2021 19:51 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOIMbhtosqkwillam, manilla, todrick lolshttps://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyZtD2aa8UmbRS_-FAN6Yfbn2_s3QdShZunmissable for all Trixie fanssorry for barging into the thread, heres some funny things you guys might not have seen
― Swanswans, Thursday, 27 May 2021 20:55 (two years ago) link
DRDU pivoting to a fully white case very quickly was bad enough but to then bring back the one eliminated white contestant with no real explanation or justification, yikes
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 27 May 2021 21:35 (two years ago) link
And THEN having the most recent episode be about the blackface incident noted upthread. Gee interesting you bring it up at THIS point in the show. I'll still watch away but this is all something of a muddle.
BUT Drag Race España? GREAT out of the gate. It's both got its own vibe and reminds me of nothing so much as Drag Race Thailand -- it's using the model but is far less beholden to the direct Ru empire (like Thailand and unlike any of the other shows, there's no direct Ru/Michelle etc involvement, not even via video messages or the like), the judging panel is five all told counting the guest judge each week, the main host is personable, plus two wonderfully camp men (actor/directors who created the Veneno series) and the Michelle equivalent is an actual fashion designer (a bit like Drag Race Holland IIRC). Personalities among the contestants are a nice mix and I'm already hoping Inti heads to the final, even if she was safe this week.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 31 May 2021 04:49 (two years ago) link
What was with the weird cutaways to Ru this week? Very odd.
Look, at least that apology was a real apology and not just "I'm sorry if you were offended." But yes, the whole thing just feels too frantic, as if we'll all notice how shoddy it is if they slow it down at all.
― trishyb, Monday, 31 May 2021 09:25 (two years ago) link
Seriously, what is up with all the sound effects ?
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 14:11 (two years ago) link
The All Stars 6 cast is really weird. There's way too many of them (13 instead of the usual 10), which could've been cut down easily. It just feels like it's RuPaul's Queens who've been on Drag Race Before. And I don't mind them casting All Stars 1 girls every year, cause it's not a well known or well loved season. But Ginger Minj already did All Stars 2, which is arguably the best and most famous season of All Stars ever ! Should they give Katya or Alyssa another go too ?
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 14:25 (two years ago) link
Should they give Katya or Alyssa another go too ?
I mean, the obvious answer now is yes.
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 14:32 (two years ago) link
...can they have her be the permanent guest judge and just read everyone involved for filth?
HOLD ON pic.twitter.com/zUURMfsaRs— grant (pride edition) 🧔🏻🏳️🌈 (@urdadssidepiece) June 8, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 18:34 (two years ago) link
Anyway, trailer in full
WATCH: #DragRace #AllStars6 Official Trailer Paramount+ https://t.co/qrpcguezQx— RuPaul (@RuPaul) June 8, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 23:33 (two years ago) link
Down Under...continues. (It wraps up next week and I'm just fine with that!) España continues to be much better -- and we had a pretty classic/dramatic "I'm out!" moment when Inti left, and frankly I don't blame her all that much because that was a hell of a look on the runway.
Meantime, though, read this:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/paris-is-burning-emcee-junior-labeija-pose-rupaul-1234964404/
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 June 2021 03:01 (two years ago) link
RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under: Local version of hit reality TV series missteps when it comes to race and representation
For a country where roughly one in three people aren't Anglo, half are first- or second-generation migrants and one in five speak non-English languages at home – and with one of the most multicultural drag scenes – some felt the casting was … qwhite odd.Of the ten competing queens, there is only one Aboriginal and one Polynesian queen.
Of the ten competing queens, there is only one Aboriginal and one Polynesian queen.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Monday, 14 June 2021 06:21 (two years ago) link
the scenes in the workroom where Adams discussed her problematic "past" (although tbh I'm not of a mindset that 2018 is that long ago) were so obviously a prompted set-up, the way all workroom scenes are. "Tell me about a time when..." It's really obvious that they waited until they had eliminated all the non-white queens to have this discussion, to avoid the risk of having one of them say that, actually they don't forgive Adams. That wouldn't have played into RuPaul's own beliefs around #cancellations. I also noticed in that scene that Karen From Finance was very quiet despite their golliwog collection and tattoo.
― boxedjoy, Monday, 14 June 2021 08:49 (two years ago) link
yeah, the whole thing was so awkwardly constructed it had the opposite effect
― scanner darkly, Monday, 14 June 2021 17:22 (two years ago) link
great article with junior lebeija, absolutely makes the ball stuff iconic in the doc, "why ya'll gaggin' so, she bring it to ya, every bwall'', junior definately brought 'IT' to every ball.
― Swanswans, Monday, 14 June 2021 18:05 (two years ago) link
Honestly belongs elsewhere than just this thread but still, very much worth a read:
https://jezebel.com/i-love-boobs-michelle-visage-on-her-documentary-explan-1847094870
Separately as part of their ever expanding podcast empire, Willam and Alaska now have a third one going, temporarily: a limited edition one about the history of pageants over the last few decades. It's not some rigorous documentary per se but based on the first episode it's setting up a nice mix of things.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 03:24 (two years ago) link
and just how the whole season of down under was unremarkable, the finale.. just was
donno if it’s due to different production but the chats with ru and michelle felt dr phil level ridiculous
― scanner darkly, Sunday, 20 June 2021 18:48 (two years ago) link
Yeah that was a slog (didn't mind the winner though). But España is still going (and much more interesting). (And yes All-Stars starting this week but...)
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 20 June 2021 20:07 (two years ago) link
As for said DRDU winner, the short reaction video is very sweet.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 20 June 2021 20:08 (two years ago) link
yeah, happy about the winner, didn’t expect that outcome (but makes sense from the producers point of view i guess)and definitely didn’t expect Down Under to be tamer than the US and UK versions
― scanner darkly, Sunday, 20 June 2021 20:15 (two years ago) link
DRDU was a disaster. They were obviously banking on the audience giving Scarlett Adams a pass because Ru said they should, and I'm glad the fandom gave that a massive Nope. The Not Tic Tacs chat was particularly painful, not just in levels of second-hand cringe for Michelle but also in revealing how little we had actually learned about these queens and their personal struggles, which had clearly been pushed aside for the "bitchy" plotlines with the end result that nobody seemed likeable or interesting or easy to support. The right queen won but it was so obviously by default.
― boxedjoy, Monday, 21 June 2021 11:52 (two years ago) link
It’s not necessarily that España is any better on certain fronts — you can read a lot into Inti’s self-departure — but the whole vibe is way different and it’s just much more engaging. Hell they had their Snatch Game episode yesterday, I knew absolutely none of the celebrities they were portraying (aside from the Mona Lisa!) and it was still a blast.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 21 June 2021 12:27 (two years ago) link
but also in revealing how little we had actually learned about these queens
otm, the US one by contrast felt like an actual chat between friends and i think for this very reason
― scanner darkly, Monday, 21 June 2021 16:46 (two years ago) link
So the first two episodes of All-Stars dropped and *shrug*
About the only hook of note at this point is this 'game within a game' idea that's being set up for the losing queens so far.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 June 2021 17:37 (two years ago) link
i’m glad they did a sewing challenge so early on and there were several queens who made better outfits than what they brought
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 26 June 2021 05:42 (two years ago) link
I'll def watch this weekend but I'm not exactly rushing to the tv :/
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 June 2021 06:11 (two years ago) link
some reflections on allstars season6 *spoilerific, possibly*this is odd cast in terms of having some many rugurls who either didn't do so well on their season or who were 'villains' on their season..either way, there is lack of 'star' quality which actually makes it more of an even playing field in terms of the race for the crown, literally feel this one has the potential for a less obvious winner than ever.delusion is strong with this bunch, the reliable 'I need to stay in the competition because I have so much left to give/show...has been uttered too many times already and it's only a few episodes in....jiggly, serena, trinity - kinda drunk on some version of themselves that they continually have failed to show, in meaningful moments. Unsurprising early struggles.....Jan is a upbeat, ru-postle who seems almost too wide eyed to be believed and will surely be beaten down by some of these unachieving, insecure types...Yara is a loco joy, tho seemingly getting a course correction for ru and the production as she didn't deserve to be in the bottom and so can only have displeased the gods, in the some way...she worked the fake boob moments for all it was worth and more, tho I think it's wrong to read her for it, while also having laughed your ass off (calling you out here, Ru + judges).winner: is ginger or eureka too obvious? yara is a wild card that seems a little to wild for the ru-corp brand. Scarlett has a gorgeous poise and striking look, I think she's a dark horse for the crown.
― Swanswans, Saturday, 26 June 2021 09:50 (two years ago) link
oh ...and the unusual material dress challenge was a triumph for almost everyone, except for jiggly, kinda lost in the same insecure reflections as in her original season and unfortunately, in a shady group that was dining out on having someone clearly in the bottom at the outset of this challenge. Any true 'friends' would have not allowed her to take to the runway in a poorly assessorised blanket....oh..and shouts out to Rahman o hara for killing it in the fashion/serving stakes, this was her challenge and boy did she deliver
― Swanswans, Saturday, 26 June 2021 09:59 (two years ago) link
Meantime Willam, currently working in the UK, had some intel on Hot Goss this week that Drag Race UK 3 is filming and allegedly Ru wanted to get through it quicker so each episode was filmed in *a day* — that seems a little nightmarish.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 26 June 2021 14:01 (two years ago) link
Given how much queens labour and sweat with agonising foot pain during normal filming conditions, this seems a kind gesture from the almighty phaRUoh
― Swanswans, Saturday, 26 June 2021 15:41 (two years ago) link
First episode of AS is on Youtube -- I'll be honest, I was thinking of sitting this one out, but if it's YT, why not.
― BABA BUOY (Leee), Monday, 28 June 2021 23:37 (two years ago) link
And just as Eureka enters, I can think of one reason why not.
― BABA BUOY (Leee), Monday, 28 June 2021 23:40 (two years ago) link
there is lack of 'star' quality which actually makes it more of an even playing field in terms of the race for the crown, literally feel this one has the potential for a less obvious winner than ever
wow this is a great point and one that I'd never considered. I have bemoaned how middling and star-free this group is but you're right in that it makes it less obv than ever who is going to win
I LOVE Jiggly 2.0 and am crushed that she's just not that talented, bcz I want to see her on TV more but she def deserved to go. I also love Kylie and I'm surprised at how much I love Scarlet? Jan is hyperactive and cloying but it's corny that the producers are fucking w her and making her safe when she's clearly standing out.
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 2 July 2021 16:31 (two years ago) link
Also holy shit I was amazed at how well Laganja did in that lip sync????? She's one of my most hated queens but maybe she's actually grown a lot and is good now????
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 2 July 2021 16:32 (two years ago) link
Surprise! Yeah definitely seems to have levelled up -- various comments by Willam over the years on the podcasts have said similarly.
This episode is kinda where everything really clicked for me, partially for the reasons outlined above, but also because it seems to have settled into an interesting groove.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 July 2021 16:38 (two years ago) link
have seen this episode...."I LOVE Jiggly 2.0 and am crushed that she's just not that talented, bcz I want to see her on TV more but she def deserved to go". I think its mentioned on untucked that she has an acting part on pose and knows Ryan Murphy, so it's great to see she is thriving as the dragrace competition doesn't suit her, speaking about laganja, she has done amazing stuff with her dance and she has explained her dragrace meltdown as not dealing well with the stress of the competition and it seems really compelling, competition brings weird shit out of people.. I like her a lot, she really is the best dancer from the school of Edward's and has matured so much since her season.
― Swanswans, Friday, 2 July 2021 17:01 (two years ago) link
*haven't...but excited to see laganja dance
― Swanswans, Friday, 2 July 2021 17:02 (two years ago) link
LAGANJA ESTRANJA PERFORMS | "Life On Mars" by David Bowie | Choreographed by Easton Blakehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwAGkNqZesg
― Swanswans, Friday, 2 July 2021 17:09 (two years ago) link
this season has also been promising purely for getting rid of Silky so early
― boxedjoy, Friday, 2 July 2021 17:11 (two years ago) link
not strictly RPDR content but ive never used ilx for this and prob never will again -- promoting my friend's stuff!
episode 1 of the olly mary show just went up -- she is a montreal queen who just started (but has been a pro MUA for like 10 years so the looks are On Point af). disclaimer my gf worked a lot on this too so i am biased but i think it's a lot of fun! they have... 6-10 episodes coming 1/week for the next little while! here's the first! please watch it (even if small and volume near zero) to help make it do good <3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e90TuwHBH68
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 2 July 2021 22:13 (two years ago) link
i have caught up on these 3 eps and am enjoying it way more than i expectedi didnt rate the cast of this allstars at all but watching them now i’m like “aw shoot girls” theyre pretty endearingi forgot how much i loooove yara sofia and her cuckoo bananas energy. inject her into my veins!and all these lipsyncs are magicalso: ginger minj is still delusional. even if she wasnt in the losing team she would not be yhe top! because her runways look was flatout cursed. ruched pantaloons are for NOBODY. NOBODY.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 3 July 2021 07:17 (two years ago) link
likethat look was like…Labyrinth On Ice from like 1987 Slovenia or somethingi dont even know what it was but it made me angry and i would fight that lookshe was fucking funny doing that weird richard simmons character though lord
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 3 July 2021 07:43 (two years ago) link
ok, finally caught this episode and lol at the double post outrage towards ginger's outfit. I thought surely it can't be that bad, she's obviously wearing something kitsch, ironically...Holy fuck! it was bad, the love child of a piñata and those toilet roll holder dolls, inexplicably popular with 70's grans. She couldn't even move properly in it. I'm going for the ' (ham)burglar trapped in sensory play area window' look....stunning, love, just stunning!other good lol at trinity winning the challenge and everyone completely passing it over, to the point where, when she lost the lipsink, ru saying something like 'you are safe, you survive for another day' and trinity's like 'didnt I win this 'effing main challenge..fml'.the lipsynches have been very, very good
― Swanswans, Sunday, 4 July 2021 07:14 (two years ago) link
Gonna say it again, Drag Race España is the sleeper hit of the franchise this year from where I sit. Beats the pants off of Down Under and today was some honest to god perfect TV melodrama and emotion, and it was the roast episode even! Makeover episode next week.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 4 July 2021 23:35 (two years ago) link
I watched five episodes of Espana yesterday while hungover and it was excellent - it has the heart and warmth of the early original seasons but the scale and inventiveness of the later era.
― boxedjoy, Monday, 5 July 2021 09:44 (two years ago) link
Last night's episode was great !! Great challenge, amazing runway. I was sad to see the eliminated queen go, but she was the worst in the challenge. The other queen up for elimination shouldn't even have been near the bottom for her runway alone, but I thought she did good in the challenge too.
So much love for this week's lip-sync assassin !!! How she hasn't been in an All Stars season yet when some of them are on their third time is beyond me.
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 10 July 2021 01:40 (two years ago) link
Yeah you’d think she’d have more of a prominent place after all this time. As it stands she’s almost as invisible as Tyra Sanchez.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 July 2021 03:03 (two years ago) link
Also per Untucked how come we didn’t get the tailgate party outside that one clip!
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 July 2021 03:09 (two years ago) link
I think at this point THE PIT STOP is what I look forward to the most each week and the actual episode is just sort a formality that I have to watch before I can get to the good stuff.
I never disliked Monique Heart but I did always kinda find her a bit hollow and a bit too performative (sometimes gratingly so), and I was amazed at how at-ease and effortlessly charming she was this past week. All of the queens this season have had such incredible chemistry with Trixie (except maybe Manila which kinda surprised me but even she was still great).
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 12 July 2021 23:20 (two years ago) link
multiple times over the last week I have simply thought about "Sheryl Canning" and started laughing.
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 12 July 2021 23:21 (two years ago) link
Yeah I need to catch up on those but what I caught of Monique's episode was a treat!
Envy Peru on Drag Race Espana of course ruled.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 02:00 (two years ago) link
Trinity’s Beyonce was beyond belief, she was fkn robbed. who cares about normcore tryhard Jan.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 July 2021 06:43 (two years ago) link
and yes Pit Stop is lifeMonique is so great as a guest on anything. I love her, she’s hilarious. Her and Monet together is guaranteed lols
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 July 2021 07:00 (two years ago) link
Odd little episode, like it wanted to be more serious in the challenge instead of having that be the side talk. Which is not bad! But still. The lip sync assassin bit was top notch though!Meantime the grind never ends: Drag Race Holland Season 2 starts up August 6. (Wonder why no Canada…yet)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 July 2021 17:36 (two years ago) link
Yeah it's like they punished the bottom girl for making one funny face, because it had to be SERIOUS. I would be confused too when they usually want so much overacting and making Ru laugh.
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 16 July 2021 18:11 (two years ago) link
My BIL works in Canadian tv (not DR though) and it got pretty detailed by COVID lockdowns. Hilariously though he has a friend who does work on the show and through that connection was able to get his first shot in March much earlier than me as an “essential worker”.. so something must have been filmed/is filming!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 16 July 2021 18:29 (two years ago) link
Cool!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 July 2021 18:32 (two years ago) link
My BIL is a little bit safer this year because of the power of drag 🤣I did mean derailed up there, oops!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 16 July 2021 18:35 (two years ago) link
I was wondering if it's actually an advantage to do well enough in your original season to get to the finale but not win, so that you can double dip into being an All-Star. Judging solely by how much I see them, Alaska > Jinkx, Trixie and Katya > Violet.
― Gemini Cricket (Leee), Friday, 16 July 2021 18:41 (two years ago) link
that episode genuinely felt like an attempt to gaslight the audience. In no world was the winning queen the deserved winner.
― boxedjoy, Friday, 16 July 2021 22:32 (two years ago) link
the winning team is … These losers! because the WINNER is… HER from that losing team! WE HATE EVERYONE
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 16 July 2021 23:05 (two years ago) link
it was an interesting challenge though, i just think the concept needed to be cooked slightly at the brainstorming stageru’s critique of scarlet was omg burn ward. i mean, i dont disagree in a way but it was so BITCH FIX YOURSELF as to feel unfair & personal and scarlet just blew right by it & went home to write her manifesto
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 16 July 2021 23:09 (two years ago) link
If you ask me, we should be on the third week in a row of Trinity being the winner.
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Saturday, 17 July 2021 04:00 (two years ago) link
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 17 July 2021 04:21 (two years ago) link
I often find the judging to be weird and opaque, but I thought it made a lot of sense this week. Even with the little connection between Kylie and Ra'Jah, their whole conversation was mainly about Scarlet's two moms finding love with each other, which had nothing to do with the topic of motherhood at all. Although I thought A'keriah should have won. Mind you, I thought A'keriah's Prince performance was really unfairly slated last week.
― trishyb, Saturday, 17 July 2021 09:58 (two years ago) link
i still don't understand what made rupaul uncomfortable... listening to ginger talk about how she couldn't shit for like 2 minutes sure made me uncomfortable
― clouds, Thursday, 22 July 2021 14:20 (two years ago) link
ok that sketch was like 900 years long wtfv glad for winner this wk but if Jan hurts herself in any way as a result of this show it will be on their heads, man they are fucking with heralso Peppermint was on Pitstop this wk and trixie reminded her of this MAJESTIC hilarity with Bob from last year’s pitstop ie “It’s fashion” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBJwONPe6NU
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 July 2021 07:34 (two years ago) link
That acting challenge was both 900 years long and also maybe the most excruciatingly boring challenge in RPDR history, I cannot BELIEVE they actually aired that
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 24 July 2021 17:06 (two years ago) link
It was so bad. The runway was fantastic, though.
― trishyb, Saturday, 24 July 2021 17:08 (two years ago) link
yeah that was a killer runwayi am bummed pandora didnt get a bit more love, i thought she was really great this week in challenge & runway
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 July 2021 17:11 (two years ago) link
Unfortunately the challenge was so horribly written that even Pandora and Ginger couldn’t really elevate it beyond merely amusing. I actually dug the “I’m your biggest fan” choice Eureka made there, and can’t really imagine it being read any other way that would’ve been better so A+ producer-thwarting on her part there by refusing to give them any alternative takes. Willam would’ve been proud.
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Saturday, 24 July 2021 20:17 (two years ago) link
It's often been the case that the actual rehearsal/filming footage of these things is way more watchable than the actual final result, and boy did it show.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 July 2021 20:49 (two years ago) link
i always hate the rehearsal moments where michelle gets to michellesplain, in the cuntiest way imaginable, the *dumbest* things like what a lisp is lmaothanks michelle
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 July 2021 21:03 (two years ago) link
they keep throwing pandora softball after softball and it's like why are you still here and yara is gone
fucking rupaul's rigged race
i truly dislike michelle, she's just not even cunty in a fun way, just a bitch who thinks she's smarter than she actually is
― clouds, Sunday, 25 July 2021 01:54 (two years ago) link
Race Chaser/Hot Goss wondered yesterday if the ‘game within a game’ involves Snatch Game
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 25 July 2021 02:07 (two years ago) link
Also Drag Race España final tomorrow! Say it again, that’s been a great first season and a real treat.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 25 July 2021 02:08 (two years ago) link
i like that bob and thorgy in the pit stop said pandora seems like she doesn't want to be there at all, agree 100%
also that ryan murphy thing was fucking embarrassing, probably the worst acting challenge
― clouds, Friday, 30 July 2021 00:06 (two years ago) link
Now that I know how onerous the contract terms are with regards to being called back for later shows, I wouldn't be surprised if Pandora didn't want to be there. (It would also explain why they brought Bianca in to do basically nothing so that they could reset her timer). I know that "contestants treated badly in reality TV show SHOCKER" is not exactly headline news, but other shows don't have that veneer of "we're all one big drag family."
I've been rewatching some of the early seasons, and it seems obvious now that one of the reasons they don't do so many sewing challenges any more is that they just take too long. It's obviously much easier and quicker to give everyone an hour or two to learn a song or some terrible dialogue and let them get into drag that they brought with them, rather than have them make things from scratch.
― trishyb, Friday, 30 July 2021 07:57 (two years ago) link
Which, a pity, I love all that sewing work.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 July 2021 15:03 (two years ago) link
Anyway, I would like to coin a new term after yesterday's episode: "Jangst."
(So when is this game-within-a-game starting anyway, because now there's more people gone than are still in it!)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 July 2021 15:04 (two years ago) link
yeah wtf they are def dragging that out
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 July 2021 15:50 (two years ago) link
lol pun intended i guess
The game within a game -- everyone's eliminated one by one and then they have to start all over again, thus stretching the show out through the rest of the year, in time for the new regular season to start in the New Year.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 July 2021 18:10 (two years ago) link
haha
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 July 2021 18:12 (two years ago) link
I'm hoping the game-within-a-game is rock paper scissors just to see Ginger's face
― boxedjoy, Friday, 30 July 2021 19:49 (two years ago) link
I think another reason for scrapping the sewing/design challenges is that they are a lot harder to edit into the production narratives. You can make it seem like eg someone's jokes have bombed by using the rattlesnake sound effect and a cut to Michelle Visage looking stony, whereas you can't really disguise a good or a bad costume the same way.
― boxedjoy, Friday, 30 July 2021 19:51 (two years ago) link
And another queen down. But Trinity reacting to Tina was great.STILL nothing about this game within a game and I’m wondering if my joke last week was…right? Nothing given away in the teaser for the next episode either and after that it’s just four competitors.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 August 2021 01:08 (two years ago) link
Rajah’s LaToya snuck up on me
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 August 2021 03:56 (two years ago) link
When pandora said she was doing kim cattrall i heard the sound of five suitcases being zipped closed. why would she do that? i just. ugh. also vaguest shades of night of a thousand madonna kimonos in these fkn warhol pop art dresses WTF CMON
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 August 2021 05:09 (two years ago) link
game within a game: galaxy braineveryone gets eliminated! & they roll right into a new season with the same set of queens all over again repeat into infinity
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 August 2021 05:25 (two years ago) link
this is fkn game AFTER a gamethere has to be another game happening for it to be withinliars
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 August 2021 05:26 (two years ago) link
I've become mildly obsessed with the Pit Stop, specifically the tea you get in the comments. It feeds my confirmation bias something terrible.
― trishyb, Friday, 6 August 2021 08:37 (two years ago) link
I don't watch the pit stop religiously, by any stretch, but caught a few recent ones for all-stars 6, Monique and Violet ones were fun. Trixie is such a personable host, tho, I feel she genuinely loves her sisters art . Her uncanny ability to talk to you, the viewer, like she's your best friend from waybaack gets me all the time. I also love her ability to be very funny without needing to be really shady or rude.
― Swanswans, Saturday, 7 August 2021 10:21 (two years ago) link
Yeah, she gets a lot of flak from haters because of her RuPaul-style endless hustle, but (like RuPaul herself, I'd argue) the hustle is successful because she's so funny and likeable.
― trishyb, Saturday, 7 August 2021 10:31 (two years ago) link
yeah, that's interesting because I do think Trixie is the true drag daughter of Ru, she's the one who left the show ( after a disappointing, middling 1st stint on the show, remember) but crucially took on board and implemented every damn thing ru says to all the girls, in terms of capitalising on the fame and getting on it with the business side...hunty shebettaworkdherassoff#Trixie haters can take a jump, Trixie is a sweetheart, a very rich sweetheart and it's pleasing to see the wealth has only made her more confidently Trixie and more able to be shiny star she is
― Swanswans, Saturday, 7 August 2021 12:18 (two years ago) link
Yeah Trixie managing multiple brands of whatever is going on as well as keeping the partnership with Katya going even after the thoroughly well documented mental break the latter had, I mean...it's remarkable mini-empire stuff at this point. (I remain intrigued that that they ended up with their podcast NOT being part of the massively MoM/Forever Dog family tree.)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 7 August 2021 21:06 (two years ago) link
also vaguest shades of night of a thousand madonna kimonos in these fkn warhol pop art dresses WTF CMON
Yeah the fact that none of the judges mentioned it was baffling.
Kylie being secretly hilarious has been one of the many great revelations of this season, as is her looking back at the mirror/camera after voting to check out herself out again.
― Action Bell (Leee), Saturday, 7 August 2021 22:06 (two years ago) link
Yeah she's amazing value throughout.
Drag Race Holland has also kicked off its new season -- seems like a good bunch of queens, sewing challenge next week. They've rejigged the prizes -- they're getting money now as well, plus apparently the big bonus is getting one's own stage at this thing next year:
https://www.milkshakefestival.com/
And in cross-branding fun, the founder of the festival will be the new Michelle Visage type for the season, I gather. (Pity, kinda liked the woman who they had last year in that role but hey.)
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 8 August 2021 00:07 (two years ago) link
Drag Race theme: Pop Art Queens: pic.twitter.com/JGUy2G5TUi— Tenderoni (@Tender_oni) August 8, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 8 August 2021 15:50 (two years ago) link
Honestly once again, to use the phrase from Race Chaser, Trinity understood the assignment on that runway.
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Sunday, 8 August 2021 16:16 (two years ago) link
Okay so we finally have…some idea of what is going on. Like a round robin lip sync to the death or what?
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 August 2021 02:19 (two years ago) link
that challenge was a) dumb and b) weirdand rajah seemed v low energy in that lipsync tho maybe it was just cameron pulling cartwheels that made it seem so idk
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 13 August 2021 06:20 (two years ago) link
but even cameron wasnt at her normal levelit was v meh
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 13 August 2021 06:46 (two years ago) link
Justice for Charli XCX, she deserved a better episode.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 August 2021 14:42 (two years ago) link
agree!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 13 August 2021 15:19 (two years ago) link
It was not great, but as a loud, fat, sometimes obnoxious, underachiever myself, I really felt for Eureka this week. Also, once the stupid googly eye glasses were off, Ra'jah's makeup and hair were just incredible. Worthy of a Donna Summer album cover.
― trishyb, Friday, 13 August 2021 16:53 (two years ago) link
yeah i was sad to see Eureka go, i have grown to love her so much more since her first drag race appearance, she is a lot but she has such a beautiful heart. i loved the extra time with her in the workroom after her elimination etcrajah looked fkn incredible
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 13 August 2021 17:11 (two years ago) link
The Charli song didn't really lend itself to being an epic lipsync -- midtempo and no huge climax. Was that the first time that we saw Kameron lipsync without throwing in the splits?
― wildleee questionable baking substitutions (Leee), Saturday, 14 August 2021 22:15 (two years ago) link
just caught first few episodes of drag race Holland season 2, fun cast despite 90% of the cast bringing the drag races stock phrases hard, worth watching for the intriguing 'the countess', 2nd episode **spoiler** makes incredible couture outfit in a thrift design challenge from literally 2pieces of material and a plastics crocodile
― Swanswans, Sunday, 15 August 2021 09:59 (two years ago) link
Yeah good episode and she seems pretty sharp. It’s a nice mix of folks and I think after we get rid of one more the various individual personalities will get even sharper (usual progression of course).
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 August 2021 14:46 (two years ago) link
caught an episode of a show called Drag S.O.S. yesterday. I think it's a nice addition to the drag verse, a low budget reality show hosted by some fun, quirky queen's (including a bio-queen) from the NW /Manchester area of the UK. Astina from dragrace UK s02 featured in this episode. It was very affecting and shows a lot of promise for looks, heart and silly capers.
― Swanswans, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 11:08 (two years ago) link
Phew, Race Chaser went IN on the Drag Tots challenge. Rightly.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 14:04 (two years ago) link
i was never in danger of watching that show but hoooo boy that was some sub-2005 flash animation biz there
also all these challenges where they have to create a character and have this awkward voice over are the same? "my name is (x), I come from the land of (x), my superpower is (x)" yadda yadda
i really hope anyone but ginger wins at this point. every character she does is literally just... ginger. and not even much of a voice change. she's not even funny!
― clouds, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 17:29 (two years ago) link
Kylie's got the edit in her favor; Trinity is still my favorite.
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Wednesday, 18 August 2021 17:33 (two years ago) link
she's been okay. given how good her lipsyncs were in s6 i expected more. also she seems to have zero self-awareness?
i want rajah to win but i'd be equally fine with kylie
― clouds, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 17:45 (two years ago) link
And now we know what it was. Kinda fun, actually! (I'm still wondering if they BOTH come back next week.)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 August 2021 19:24 (two years ago) link
yeah i enjoyed thatSilky’s comment that she looked like “baby Al Sharpton” in her Barbie Girl male-side drag (in untucked) cracked me the fuck up that performance alone was price of admissioni got very props-weary with her but to her credit she understood the assignment ie entertain Ru
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 20 August 2021 19:45 (two years ago) link
I thought that episode was a dreadful, indulgent slog, designed to give Silky a nice edit because the fans don't adore her like Ru does, with her coasting by on gimmicks to disguise some dreadful lip-synching. The way it was maybe 20 minutes of entertainment padded out to an hour was punishing, and Carson should never be allowed to give feedback on an attacking or presenting challenge again.
― boxedjoy, Friday, 20 August 2021 20:10 (two years ago) link
Yeah there were draggy moments (if you will) and I do wonder if the others were given any sort of 'you can bring props' guidance or not. But the "Heartbreaker" matchup with Jan and the "Since U Been Gone" one with Eureka both produced some killer performances. And I did like the 'baby Al Sharpton' comment.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 August 2021 20:20 (two years ago) link
akeria made the right choice, didn’t she
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 21 August 2021 01:24 (two years ago) link
also, why did they save better songs for the game within a game
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 21 August 2021 01:26 (two years ago) link
I KNOW RIGHT
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 21 August 2021 02:28 (two years ago) link
I thought that episode was a dreadful, indulgent slog, designed to give Silky a nice edit because the fans don't adore her like Ru does,
You can kind of see this happen on Strictly Come Dancing, too, when someone they're bringing out on the tour with them (cough, couch, Jason Donovan, cough) doesn't seem to be connecting with the fans in the way the producers hope (and isn't dancing as well as the producers hope) so they drag out absolutely every trick they've got in order to make people buy tickets to see them on the tour.
That said, I do like Silky, so this was not as bad as I initially thought it was going to be. It was still pretty bad, though, and A'keria was right not to participate.
― trishyb, Saturday, 21 August 2021 08:30 (two years ago) link
As in, I like Silky, I thought the gimmicks were funny, but she is a terrible lipsyncher, and the idea of putting the "worst" people up against each other for a whole hour was just tedious.
― trishyb, Saturday, 21 August 2021 08:31 (two years ago) link
And after all that…I liked today’s episode a lot! The Pit Stop was also amazing.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 August 2021 05:06 (two years ago) link
yeah i enjoyed it too - this week was ~quite~ the journey !
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 August 2021 05:57 (two years ago) link
Silky's exit was great. Somehow her slightly drunk-seeming shouting reminded me of Johnny Vegas.
Delighted to see Nicole Byer on the Pit Stop. Love her.
― trishyb, Friday, 27 August 2021 13:27 (two years ago) link
I totally agreed with the Pit Stoppers that Ginger's monologue was so rehearsed you couldn't believe a word of it.
― trishyb, Friday, 27 August 2021 13:46 (two years ago) link
Sure, axe the dancer right before the big choreography finale. Whatever.
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Saturday, 28 August 2021 01:34 (two years ago) link
Right result, fantastic final lipsync looks and performances, but oh my god that country song was an absolute mess. And the speeches! It was like when they ramble on to save themselves from the chop on The Apprentice.
― trishyb, Thursday, 2 September 2021 19:51 (two years ago) link
Yeah good with the end result but Ru basically going "Why can't *I* have an "Old Town Road"" is like the *worst* thirstiness.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 September 2021 21:28 (two years ago) link
i demand Kylie Sonique’s lipsync outfit immediately i want it i love it i neeed it in my liiiiife she looked like a studio54 rave-dinosaurand eureka’s bob mackie inspired runway was allllll the way up, i loved iti love them all tbhthis was a way better season than i ever exected & the winner is exactly who it should be <3
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 September 2021 05:45 (two years ago) link
Indeed, after it seeming flat at the season announcement it all went pretty entertainingly!
And now a short break but Holland continues on and soon...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWOLvksMcEs
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 3 September 2021 16:43 (two years ago) link
Reaction video is very sweet.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXvJrrzfZ9Y
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 4 September 2021 14:28 (two years ago) link
And yesterday’s Holland episode was really great too (family makeover)
oh that reaction video <3 how sweet when she leaps into Eureka’s arms
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 4 September 2021 16:29 (two years ago) link
UK in a couple of weeks, Canada in a month...
Are you ready for more sugar? Meet the new queens of Canada's Drag Race, coming to @CraveCrave October 14. 🇨🇦 pic.twitter.com/0tcqK2ib9c— Canada's Drag Race (@canadasdragrace) September 14, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 14 September 2021 23:12 (two years ago) link
So, anyone watch the UK season 3 opening episode? I liked the additional factor at the end -- that's a good idea! I wonder if they're road testing it here first and we'll see it over here next season. (The ultimate loser I was a little sad to see go out of the gate but admittedly the looks weren't AS sharp...)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 September 2021 17:15 (two years ago) link
It was a great episode. Choriza May is already a favorite. She had one of the best entrance line of all time. And when she said "My favorite thing from Newcastle is my boyfriend's dick" I almost choked laughing. Her workroom moment was genuinely touching. Hope she'll go far.
*Spoilers*.....Veronica Green not being in the bottom is Rigga Morris. Her cotton balls look should've been read for filth and I don't even think her second outfit qualifies as a look. Even her entrance look was busted.
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 24 September 2021 17:41 (two years ago) link
Indeed, let's see how things go for her, especially since we have a second musical theater queen for dramaaaaaaa etc
Now that I know what Charity Kase actually looks like I'm all "Oh...oh I get it, you KNOW you're beautiful and you don't want to use that." Which I can already see leading to issues, thus the midrange placing and her being a bit narked about that, but on the flip I figure the panel noted her two separate looks were both grotesques and thought "Mmm, skilled but this all you got?"
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 September 2021 20:02 (two years ago) link
I also do like the various international connections we've got going here -- Choriza as mentioned (talk about someone absolutely knowing what and how stereotypes work in TWO completely different contexts), but when Vanity Milan busted out the Estonia look I was all "WTF" until the explanation and then I was all "That rules!"
Victoria Scone's run is absolutely going to be a big takeaway from all this.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 September 2021 20:04 (two years ago) link
(Anyway will come back to this thread later when I've seen the Holland finale. Been a good season, looking forward to the next!)
I laughed so much at River Medway's statue impression on the runway, and at Elektra Fence saying she was serving "little shit realness". The whole thing was really great.
― trishyb, Saturday, 25 September 2021 15:06 (two years ago) link
Vanessa winning Holland was well deserved, and that makes two openly trans winners in the overall franchise this year. (Three total due to Thailand season 2.)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 September 2021 15:08 (two years ago) link
yeah, I lived for River Medway's pointy performance, very charming. Charity clearly stung by the lack of recognition for her complex horror looks. She was not expecting the judgement to be all 'stop relying on that (dead) body, ghoul friend so soon in the competition
― Swanswans, Sunday, 26 September 2021 20:19 (two years ago) link
And boy River's story about losing her mom to COVID right before she got the call! Horrible to think about, but that type of background element is going to be a grim factor in a lot of things going forward, sadly.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 26 September 2021 21:37 (two years ago) link
Vanessa was definitely the best winner of the 3, but Kita Mean being eliminated right before the finale was some bs. I felt bad for her having to watch the 3 finalists make their speeches and lipsynch on set.
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 27 September 2021 14:35 (two years ago) link
Yeah Vivaldi got in via connections, obv.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 September 2021 15:45 (two years ago) link
That was a bit of a full episode! The elimination day 'serious talk' segment was actually one of the best ones, even with a bit of show self-critique snuck in thanks to Vanity. Crossed fingers for Victoria for next week obv.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 2 October 2021 03:21 (two years ago) link
I really dislike Victoria, she reminds me of Miranda. Krystal Versace seems very good at playing RPDR, which is not the same as being a good drag queen, but I expect that they'll do exceptionally well and I think it goes to the heart of what bothers me about the UK version of the franchise: the tradition and heritage of British drag is not the same as it is Stateside. A Lily Savage-type would never do well on this show.
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 2 October 2021 07:33 (two years ago) link
I mean, Victoriyawn...I think, despite everything that went against her. That's what the ru and Michelle thought, Ru's stern announcement of the medical, with no mention of the offer of a return to the competition next year ( which must be offered next or behind the scenes, surely??!)...was like a savage read for her boring medical diary updates, lol..
― Swanswans, Thursday, 7 October 2021 20:14 (two years ago) link
is charity case a needles clone? and will that count for or against them? I did laugh at her evil clown prosthetic face reacting to other queens, I need to watch the untucked if she wore that there.
― Swanswans, Thursday, 7 October 2021 20:26 (two years ago) link
Yeah Victoria's departure announcement was...odd. Almost an implication though she'd be back later in the season? Hm.
I rather like Charity and I certainly didn't expect that personal bomb being dropped. Different energy than Sharon, I'd say, though you really can start to sense a 'wait I'm always safe or in the bottom?' vibe emerging.
Surprised myself by being so excited for the pop group challenge next week! This seems like something the UK crew can own even more than the US ones after last year.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 7 October 2021 22:30 (two years ago) link
So is the contract for RPDR UK season 4 not in the bag or is there another reason Victoria didn't get a definite comeback offer, I think she might be a queen that is isn't suited to a competitive drag show, they never seemed to get over nerves. Do people think the 'size' joke was unfair and a low blow?. It's seems such standard drag banter that it did surprise me they struggled with it. The usual response from queen's is more defient and hopefully a sassy retort, no?
― Swanswans, Saturday, 9 October 2021 15:47 (two years ago) link
I got the impression that everyone was fine with it in the room, but the producers decided to use it as a teachable moment, hence the incredibly staged apology and convo, which also served to create some personality for Victoria right before she left.
― trishyb, Sunday, 10 October 2021 10:32 (two years ago) link
there are a bunch of undercooked queen's in this season and it might be a direct result of the show seeking youthful queen's who are more than likely free and able to join some live endless tour thing Ru has planned for them after the show.
― Swanswans, Sunday, 10 October 2021 17:05 (two years ago) link
the double save was delayed by exactly one episode
and Big Drag Energy is nowhere near as big as UK Hun was
― scanner darkly, Tuesday, 19 October 2021 02:51 (two years ago) link
Meantime Canada is under way — thought the first episode was solid, including the revelation that Eve is QUITE the drama queen.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 October 2021 04:20 (two years ago) link
DRUK episode 4 : the Scarlett episode *spoilers* charity looked the image of needles to me again in the daft doggie mini challenge. Chorizo May mixes daftness with steely ambition, in an interesting way, I want to see where it gets her. Scarlett, Scarlett, Scarlett, all the drama, moving personal insights, assassination by her fellow queen's, performs a wonderful lipsink tour denforce that she wins on the first 10 secs and romps home. I don't allows enjoy lipsinks bit this was a great one, Scarlett gives good face. Kitty dear, I'll send you a rupeter badge, you deserve it
― Swanswans, Friday, 22 October 2021 18:04 (two years ago) link
it was pretty brutal
kinda lol’d at the fact that many challenges (particularly making an ad) make for awful results but that’s usually ignored but in this ep the judges decided to, as michelle put it, “get real for a couple of seconds”
the song suited scarlett’s runway much better but agreed, she killed it
― scanner darkly, Friday, 22 October 2021 21:20 (two years ago) link
Yeah, the runway look gave Scarlett an edge, for sure, but boy did she run with it. The hand in the face dismissel near the end was a perfect retort to the charity's snub in the mini challenge, an editor's dream episode. I kinda enjoyed the acting challenge and was a little surprised how much Ru and Michelle went in on it, the history of acting scripts, particularly from the early phase of the American ones were often worse than this. It was painful but I laughed in a couple of places, whereas I've sat through acting challenges on the show wondering 'wtf' is this unfunny, senseless thing before me.
― Swanswans, Saturday, 23 October 2021 07:29 (two years ago) link
Almost like they went meta juuuust enough. (If they went too far they'd have to acknowledge just how shitty a lot of those things are!)
As I was rather fond of Charity I am sad to see her go but you'd think someone who looks that good would also be comfortable in figuring out ways to showcase that more.
Canada's newest episode, not bad, but they really haven't figured out a proper hosting dynamic still. Having Brooke Lynn essentially try to BE Ru is weird.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 23 October 2021 14:56 (two years ago) link
yeah, exactly, they hammed it up and deliver bad lines with commitment and some fun performances, lol at chorizo may particularly but even River and Ella were pretty good, I thought. Krystal showed she has personality and acting ability to match the bwodyoddyoddy with her choices in both challenges. Charity has a stunning vision for her detailed costumes, I'm not surprised she went, I think Ru and Michelle were questioning her choices from the start.
― Swanswans, Saturday, 23 October 2021 18:35 (two years ago) link
I wanted to say charity played her part in the great lipsync, unfortunately for her as the quirky supporting performer to the main act that was Scarlett...the harlot
― Swanswans, Saturday, 23 October 2021 18:38 (two years ago) link
some really strong queens in canada's drag race emergingbut yeah the judges are trying a bit too hard to be like the real thingat least they don't ask the guest judge to do the signature lines anymore
the fact they got ru to say "shoppers drug mart" is just so funny to me,i wonder how many non canadian viewers think it's "shoppers drag mart"
and perhaps the most magnificently cringy line ever"the oceans are rising, and so is your star"
― scanner darkly, Sunday, 24 October 2021 00:29 (two years ago) link
Yeah good lord. Improve that!
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 24 October 2021 01:46 (two years ago) link
Okay, Ella's Nigella ruled easy.
As for the end results...fault of the performers or fault of the song? (Because having never realized Lulu did that I was all "Wait, WHAT?")
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 October 2021 20:50 (two years ago) link
Terrible song choice, but they could have done some good comedy bits with it and neither of them did.
― trishyb, Thursday, 28 October 2021 21:50 (two years ago) link
this week was bad. the blankety blank thing was far worse than the allegedly disastrous draglexa ads, only Ella's Nigella, Choriza's Margarita Pracatan and Kitty's Gemma Collins were any good at all. Scarlet's Macaulay Culkin was fine the first time she did the face, but terrible after that, she had no idea at all where to go with it, and her runway costume was easily the worst, no idea why she survived. Choriza's Carmen Miranda costume was the best and it's ridiculous she was sent home, in two weeks now we have lost the three most original contestants.
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 1 November 2021 09:12 (two years ago) link
*spoilers* I read some spoilers before seeing this episode and people were going in on Ru and Michelle for their obvious favouring of Scarlett and Krystal and the snatch game pre-discussions with ru where Ru was pressuring corny character swops. As mentioned earlier, Cher, Ru, really!! You can fake laugh all you like but, girl pls... It seemed a pretty fair analysis after watching it. The double sashay was harsh, neither performed that bad, neither did perform a showstopper either, I guess. The fact that Ella and vanity are there longer than charity and chorizo highlights the narrowing vision of drag in this show. There are a lot of campy older queens I've seen live in the UK that seem to represent a type of UK drag that this show is obviously uninterested in investing in. I'd love to see an over 40's dragrace of acerbic, club veterans.
― Swanswans, Monday, 1 November 2021 10:43 (two years ago) link
Michelle Visage is like kryptonite for crude campy humour, since she made that sour milk face at Kitty for doing a toilet gag, it feels like everyone is doing this weird family friendly + occasional dick jokes routine, this is maybe why we are left with such a dull bunch now.
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 1 November 2021 11:02 (two years ago) link
I'd love to see an over 40's dragrace of acerbic, club veterans.
I wonder if such queens would have a whole language of their own that Ru and Michelle and the production as a whole wouldn't understand -- a wealth of references they just might not get, and they'd be worried that the show might end up the butt of a joke without realizing it. That's my feeling, anyway.
― trishyb, Monday, 1 November 2021 11:58 (two years ago) link
It's already there with a lot of the audience.
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Monday, 1 November 2021 12:12 (two years ago) link
xpost In regards to a veterans dragrace thing, I'd love the show to get past older queens as supporting cast and not capable of the crown. Initially, i fully expected UK dragrace to be less about glamour and polished 'look' queen's and be more like early seasons of the original show, diverse queen's, lots of seasoned performers...with the insta generation, brought up with the show, it's become about expensive, prepared looks and it changed the work room and the show. Ru and michelle seem to be hindering the girls this season with their choices too, something's getting lost in translation between the judges and the cast?!?
― Swanswans, Monday, 1 November 2021 21:03 (two years ago) link
omg she’s filming all stars pic.twitter.com/5aB0S5syju— Lex (@glitterstrands) November 17, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 November 2021 00:25 (two years ago) link
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 18 November 2021 00:45 (two years ago) link
I switched my allegiances during the UK final, and did a little fist-pump when the winner was announced.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 26 November 2021 13:17 (two years ago) link
I think it's was well telegraphed that Ru and Michelle liked the big boobed sexy Krystal brought every week, if the judges think you are fuckable, you are made!! Kinda think, given the prize was a web series, that Kitty or Ella would have been a more watchable winner.
― Swanswans, Friday, 26 November 2021 14:34 (two years ago) link
Italy was interesting enough with its own vibe but kinda feel this was a 'get everyone used to it' thing first, we'll see if/when a 2nd season starts to gel.
And then a couple of weeks break and it all began all over again! Sarah's tweet here speaks for me.
this season premiere fuckin rocks #kornbreadforpresident— Sarah Hennies (@hhhhhennies) January 9, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 9 January 2022 00:58 (two years ago) link
Yeah, I really enjoyed it. The casting team did a great job with those seven. Although it's funny that there's a queen called Bosco, because this is Bosco to Irish people:https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQQCp5GX2gxSTEExRwrghoCoARmLr5iAHboAU9O9hR3IwBDo54XIqag92ehegJacHuwbgg&usqp=CAU
― trishyb, Sunday, 9 January 2022 11:20 (two years ago) link
even after consciously deciding to stop (or not start) watching canada, holland, italy, spain i'm still feeling burnt out, miss the old days when enough of a gap between seasons to get excited - so though seeing excitement about the queens just felt ehh when watching it
― H in Addis, Sunday, 9 January 2022 12:14 (two years ago) link
some random thoughts after ep 3
42 looks in one episode is way too much. i couldn't keep track who wore what
i'm trying to like maddy but there were straight people who participated in makeover episodes who did better drag
the coffee enema jokes were jaw droppingly over the topbut i love the fact the show is still bringing this level of silliness
i'm really rooting for kornbread, but she needs to drop the crazy eyes schtick
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 22 January 2022 20:32 (two years ago) link
It's a schtick but she wears it well.
The Whatcha Packin was good I thought
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVymlg71R8c
But the summary of the season so far EASILY was Violet Chachki back again for a slew of reads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRSkaeupTno
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 23 January 2022 03:33 (two years ago) link
Firmly agree. Stop standing like a bloke. Look around you at what the others are doing.
They seem like a fun bunch this year. I'm really enjoying it so far. I even forgive them for the fake elimination.
― trishyb, Monday, 24 January 2022 09:20 (two years ago) link
Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2021 season is nominated in the ILX TV poll, with voting ending this weekend:
ILX's Best Television of 2021 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 31, 2022
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 20:56 (two years ago) link
lol'd at ru not wanting to see "any fucking H&M" but apparently if it's versace it's okayi get the latter is not exactly "off the rack" but whatever happened to "put some glitter on it or something"?
it's as if they just gave up with pretending that it's "not about the money but about what you can do"
― scanner darkly, Monday, 31 January 2022 00:02 (two years ago) link
this was Kerri's week to go, it was a strange one that she didn't, have never seen a lipsync be so obviously pre-decided. This random chocolate bar stunt that has been introduced?? it's to make the eviction decision seems less like Ru's decision while absolutely changing nothing about the fact that it's completely Ru's decision? or it's to sell more Ru-chocolate. I guess it can be both.
― Swanswans, Monday, 31 January 2022 00:44 (two years ago) link
i like kerri, her problem though (like with many other queens) is that she’s much more personable and funny in the workroom
jorgeous should’ve been in the bottomi get that they wanted to see THE DRESS in a lipsync but then they could’ve taken points from kerri for not putting any effort into her outfit other than securing itso then you have the obvious outcome because they couldn’t have a jlo episode with THE DRESS losing
their obvious disinterest in alyssa’s story was also off putting
it’s funny how the episode with so many meta jokes ended up with such obvious riga mortis
― scanner darkly, Monday, 31 January 2022 03:20 (two years ago) link
I don't know where exactly Alyssa lost Ru, but it seemed to be sealed by daring to get emotional on the run way, just after Ru and Michelle had set up kornbreads 'fall in love/ vulnerability/trite schtick...I like kornbread but talk about a winners edit and a leg up in the competition. Alyssa seemed genuinely upset but Ru just seemed to take it as ... here you are taking the limelight from my moment with kornbread, I don't care .... Kerri didn't win that lipsync by any measure and was even surprised she stayed herself. Agree the dress was too symbolic in the episode to send the person wearing it home. Lol at the disinterested, single plugging 20 second VT from JLO, "love you girls on that zeitgeist show..but not that much". Brands meeting brands I guess
― Swanswans, Monday, 31 January 2022 12:06 (two years ago) link
also, does Maddy morphosis have more than one facial expression?? it's just the most rabbit in headlights/Botox non-expression I've ever seen. The N in c.u.n.t. is kinda lacking here despite all her good ideas.
― Swanswans, Monday, 31 January 2022 12:11 (two years ago) link
yes, the difference between how kornbread vs alyssa emotions were handled was what made it especially jarring
mildly excited about uk vs the world. jimbo! jujubee!!
― scanner darkly, Monday, 31 January 2022 21:00 (two years ago) link
don't sleep on Janey Jacke from dragrace Holland, my dark horse for this UK vrs the world, a polished fashionista with an individual style. Jujubee is the obvious plant in here, love some ms juju but will be interested to see her 'arc'. don't know a few of these girls as who can really keeping up with all the franchise's these days? but interested to see if there is much deviation from the main show.
― Swanswans, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 08:47 (two years ago) link
don't know a few of these girls as who can really keeping up with all the franchise's these days?
Doing my best!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 13:37 (two years ago) link
Ned the super fan, judging by your contributions upthread, you've probably watched more Dragrace than Rupaul, lol..#aintgottimefoalldat
― Swanswans, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 15:40 (two years ago) link
Hahah very likely, really.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 15:57 (two years ago) link
DRUK vrs THE WORLD omigod, Jimbo ..spoilers....
I had not seen dragrace Canada but Jimbo brings some refreshing clowndrag/performance energy..and that runway was some evil Queen realness par excellance. Juju was pretty pedestrian, surprisingly, got a lucky pass. Blu was another fun watch. I never watched DRUK season 1 but caught season 2, I think I watched the better season, judging by the other UK cast here. The weird soundmixing for a lot of the queen's own songs in the talent competition did little for these mediocre catchphrase pop numbers. Does it ever sound that bad for Ru's tracks, I call shade! lol. Glad Janey survived the lipsync, don't feel she was even in the bottom two but she definitely didn't excel. Bye, bye, baga, bye, bye...asap please!
― Swanswans, Thursday, 3 February 2022 21:27 (two years ago) link
I like Baga but I would. Yeah Jimbo broke up a looooot of monotony in the talent show, that's for sure.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 February 2022 21:58 (two years ago) link
jimbo went all in and didn’t disappoint sadly juju did, it’s like she’s treating it as a provincial show - the funny thing is it very much feels like a provincial show
juju is still the funniest in talking segments though
jimbo was smart to avoid the wrath of either of the 2 countries but could’ve showed at least some effort
― scanner darkly, Friday, 4 February 2022 00:23 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SEuA2w409gthis Jimbo reaction vid is adorbs, absolutely worked that talent show. It's not easy to captivate with such a minimal act, but the comic timing and general sillyness was so beguiling...and then brought the evil alien queen look/performance that tore up the runway, totally feeling the fantasy and walking us all in nature.winner, winner, chicken dinner.
― Swanswans, Friday, 4 February 2022 22:16 (two years ago) link
based on seeing jimbo in drcanada that’s just jimbo’s natural reactions, love that
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 5 February 2022 04:11 (two years ago) link
Wow, tonight's episode was unexpected right from the start! Real bummer, hope she'll come back at some point.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 5 February 2022 05:49 (two years ago) link
thought for a second you meant the bottom queen and was like, that was well deserved! :)
best mini challenge ever
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 5 February 2022 06:55 (two years ago) link
That mini challenge was amazing. 14 seasons in and they can still find new ways to be merrily goofily crass.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 5 February 2022 15:08 (two years ago) link
Yeah, Kornbread should be back, at least the offer will certainly be there. Their departure has definitely weakened this competition tho. Jorgous and her family, wonderful story and a fierce af dance off. Orion's timidness might be the pressure of competing (it happens) but I suspect it's also their usual mood, you gotta have plenty of nerve to shine against a performance like that. Odd take on the mini challenge from Maddy, it's a mini acting challenge, girl, get into it, get t' grindin those boys, get!! otherwise they did pretty well, her realness outfit was identical to an outfit jinx wore in a challenge, I'm sure of it. There's a drag by numbers thing going on here and I don't think it's gonna get them into the top...will it?
― Swanswans, Saturday, 5 February 2022 19:01 (two years ago) link
the show’s willingness to not just do something silly and over the top but embrace it fully(often to cringeworthy results) is what sets it apart from other similar shows and a big reason i love it
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 5 February 2022 20:08 (two years ago) link
sooooo bummed for Kornbread. such a goddam star, what a sucky way to go out. but hey, look at Eureka. she came back & turned the party, so i expect bigger & better from Korny. maddys look :/ it’s a concept-art version of a mother of the bride dress. not. cute. not fashion. his drag consistently ages him by at least 20 years & i find it very tiring. Dress Barn realness has 👏🏻got👏🏻 to 👏🏻go👏🏻Willow’s runway was my favorite. But I loved bosco’s too. Glad they got the win.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 February 2022 20:10 (two years ago) link
and i was crying laughing at the mini challenge. so stupid. so great.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 February 2022 20:11 (two years ago) link
Meantime this is the greatest 23 seconds. With special cameo!
🗣 SHOTS FIRED BITCH!!!! @WillowPillQueen pic.twitter.com/lTOs8GVvvK— Kornbread “The Ankle” Jeté (@kornbreadTMFS) January 28, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 6 February 2022 00:15 (two years ago) link
a+
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 6 February 2022 02:15 (two years ago) link
Frontrunners without Kornbread are Angeria, Willow and Bosco. 4th spot could go to anyone at this point.
I was so disapointed with Juju in UK vs World. She's been there for so much longer than these other queens. She must have some money. Why are her looks still basic ? I feel like it's kept her from winning time and time again.
― LeRooLeRoo, Sunday, 6 February 2022 19:00 (two years ago) link
cosign Angeria Willow & Bosco
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 6 February 2022 19:46 (two years ago) link
Would like to put Lady Camden in the mix there for fourth.
Well yesterday's results...answers one question at least.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 12 February 2022 17:42 (two years ago) link
buh byethat lipsync was hilariously both ends of the drag spectrum at the same time
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 13 February 2022 00:16 (two years ago) link
Hahah trudat
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 13 February 2022 01:37 (two years ago) link
The cuts to Daya, then Bosco, then Kerri putting on those eyeball glasses left me dead.
Really weird judging, thought all the safe girls had better outfits than the tops with the exception of Angeria -- god she's flawless.
― Choice Errol Quotes (Leee), Monday, 14 February 2022 21:59 (two years ago) link
angeria should have been a lock
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 February 2022 22:00 (two years ago) link
After watching untucked for s14, for the first time in ages, I love the footage of the queen's preparing for lipsyncs in the mirror, so fierce, like a boxing promo. Ms Kerri does her best work on the show in untucked and the diary stuff, she got some memetastic reactions to other queens. Is it wrong to love JFK, jasmine fucking Kennedy, I think she's had a strange ride in the show, having to justify herself every two minutes. I love her zestiness and confidence and don't think she is crossing as many lines as people are making out. Her inevitable exit after burning the runway down vrs jorgous will be bittersweet. Angeria for the overall win. Classy and sassy is a winning platform and I find Bosco and willow a little boring away from their killer runways.
― Swanswans, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 10:04 (two years ago) link
oh .... and lady Camden deserves top placement but doubt she fits the winners mould, regardless what she does, she's one queen that seems like she'd be a hoot to hang out with, smart and sweet in equal measure.
― Swanswans, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 10:08 (two years ago) link
omg Jazz <3
― Choice Errol Quotes (Leee), Saturday, 19 February 2022 21:55 (two years ago) link
Like my cynicism about this show's direction the last few seasons, where everything is so packaged and ready to sell and glamor glamor glamor, did not prepare me for the realness on that Untucked.
― Choice Errol Quotes (Leee), Saturday, 19 February 2022 22:08 (two years ago) link
i feel mean saying this but i rolled my eyes a little at how ~much~ she was crying? i thought it was going to be some tragic thing but ultimately Jasmine and Bosco were kinda going through similar experiences? and instead of sharing w Bosco, Jasmine just criiiiiiiiiiiiiies & pulls focus bosco has to be like ok cool fuck my trans journey i guess? like cynical me saw it as a spotlight grab idk not that i’m diminishing Jasmine’s experience ~itself~ which is still moving its just, i’m already numb to jasmine & that def affected my reaction to her display of emotion
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 19 February 2022 22:16 (two years ago) link
I guess I'm like Mulder, I want to believe.
― Choice Errol Quotes (Leee), Saturday, 19 February 2022 22:29 (two years ago) link
bc you are sweet & kindhearted <3some of these chaps looks though yikesno idea what the judges saw in daya’s look (other than story) - i hated it! and deja’s was not great. Jorgeous’s look was! not! chaps! and keri’s hairy chaps were weird, did not enjoy but she would look beautiful in possum guts so i guess it doesn’t matterlady camden’s runway stunt/reveal was great & i loooved her tearaway mustache move in the lipsync so funnybosco should have been top w lady camden imo, her runway look was EVERYTHING
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 19 February 2022 22:57 (two years ago) link
also Willow
oh and Jasmine’s chaps look was … idk…horrifying & confusing … my brain is still reeling
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 19 February 2022 22:59 (two years ago) link
speaking of crying, the end of the latest UK vs the World was.. unsettling
― scanner darkly, Friday, 25 February 2022 02:01 (two years ago) link
Yeah that was almost unlike ANYTHING I've seen on any iteration of the show. Phew.
On the brighter side, this was a goddamn delight, Adore in perfect hyperAdore mode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8rinU4vdtY
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 February 2022 04:32 (two years ago) link
lady camden’s runway stunt/reveal was great & i loooved her tearaway mustache move in the lipsync so funny
Stellar. What a hero.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 February 2022 04:33 (two years ago) link
VERY THAT!
― scanner darkly, Friday, 25 February 2022 06:24 (two years ago) link
was missing a dose of kornbread’s realness during daya’s fake apology moment
― scanner darkly, Friday, 25 February 2022 06:29 (two years ago) link
we watched one episode of UK Vs The World and wow is Baga insufferable
― boxedjoy, Friday, 25 February 2022 10:15 (two years ago) link
insufferable is the word, **spoiler** didn't rate the snatch game misery sketch in this recent and it wasn't the opus it was set up to be. best bit of this episode: jujubee to Janey 'girl, what would you have done with that dress?' Janey 'gurl, I'd burn it'. Rootin' for Blu, Pangina's tears were edited and amplified, right?, it created the worst atmosphere for an exit. Feel for Pangina but this format is ruthless, she must have realised.
― Swanswans, Friday, 25 February 2022 20:35 (two years ago) link
Yeah watching it I thought the sobs were added on top of the end credits in post-production, but people on line say they just left her mic on, which could be right. Whichever way, it seemed unnecessary and cruel. Like are we supposed to enjoy hearing someone be so devastated?
You have to give it to Blu. She even warned Pangina that she was thinking about doing it. But I feel the format doesn't really work if the queens play that way. We're left with the less threatening and underperforming queens, like Jujubee wearing another unforgivable look on the runway.
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 26 February 2022 17:29 (two years ago) link
Last nigth's episode was fun. I always enjoy the singing challenges and I loved the theme. Didn't really understand the outcome of the lipsynch though.
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 26 February 2022 17:37 (two years ago) link
Mm. Honestly I would have laughed if the gold bar turned up in this episode right after the non-elimination last week.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 26 February 2022 18:15 (two years ago) link
Also...good point!
For the first time in #dragrace herstory two women stand before me#DragRaceClubhaus pic.twitter.com/uIuqpCTDIu— Everybody's Got One (@EverybodysGotO3) February 26, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 26 February 2022 18:34 (two years ago) link
the golden bar will turn up when it will create most drama obv
We're left with the less threatening and underperforming queens, like Jujubee wearing another unforgivable look on the runway
otm. getting rid of 2 countries and 2 most interesting queens doesn’t bode well for the show which now became UK vs US +and i love jujubee but, girl, you should’ve stopped when you almost won
was looking forward to seeing jimbo in a snatch game..
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 26 February 2022 18:53 (two years ago) link
When Camden covers up her eyebrows she looks eerily like Matt Smith.
― Mobile Suit Gundam Style (Leee), Saturday, 26 February 2022 20:59 (two years ago) link
that lipsync was weird as hellreal talk: i hate that dya won i hope her momentary high leads to a steep plumetting drop bc i am not into her at all and that when she goes she takes jasmine with her. those two. ugh.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 February 2022 21:06 (two years ago) link
but i loved the bad boys song, so fucking funny - the other two songs, listening-wise were very hard to sit through. interminably repetitive. loved anjeria’s diana. lovely,
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 February 2022 21:07 (two years ago) link
It was really weird to me that the Shangri Las song featured the "Be My Baby" beat but the Ronettes one didn't.
― Mobile Suit Gundam Style (Leee), Saturday, 26 February 2022 21:33 (two years ago) link
I'm OK with Daya but can see how she can put people off (which is how I felt about Jan).
― Mobile Suit Gundam Style (Leee), Saturday, 26 February 2022 21:39 (two years ago) link
yeah i wasnt really feeling the jantasy much either
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 February 2022 22:30 (two years ago) link
Daya has been bringing some creative runway with little credit, she's deserved some dues now. Mama could stop some of the sour puss moments tho, although it's kinda fun to have some tension too, I think that's why I like jazmine, they both are blind to editing themselves and so hungry for it!
― Swanswans, Sunday, 27 February 2022 18:36 (two years ago) link
the neediness is off putting for megimme a Bosco who handles their shit
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 February 2022 18:39 (two years ago) link
watching pitstop yesterday i was reminded about daya forcing willow to change what she was planning to do because she had the same ideathen combine that with similar behaviour when they were choosing songs and a couple of other moments and..daya is starting to come across as a bully (and i miss kornbread who would’ve called out this shit even more)
― scanner darkly, Sunday, 27 February 2022 18:44 (two years ago) link
Bosco very chill demeanor has an edgy, caustic side too, but yeah, well put, they manage themselves around the competition a lot better, ' "I have a lot of friends but not one 100,000 dollars". Love a girl who deliver a read.
― Swanswans, Sunday, 27 February 2022 18:52 (two years ago) link
Bosco has a very oldschool vibe that I love.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 February 2022 19:00 (two years ago) link
While kornbread had important stuff to say, I wasn't wholly down with how they went about it. There was a "can give it but can't take it " vibe that I think would have definitely lead to a more conflict this season. Kornbread's return season is gonna be eventful.
― Swanswans, Sunday, 27 February 2022 19:01 (two years ago) link
i see some similarities between bosco and jinx. must be the seattle thing!
― scanner darkly, Sunday, 27 February 2022 19:05 (two years ago) link
re: kornbread, agreed! didn’t like harping on jasmine after the initial convostill, missing reality check from somebody who can deliver it in a good manner
― scanner darkly, Sunday, 27 February 2022 19:06 (two years ago) link
funny, I think Daya and jazmine have an old school, earlier season vibe, from the point of view of queens who don't realise how they are coming off on screen and gagged at not being seen as the top bish. I kinda live for the delusion as much as the illusion.
― Swanswans, Sunday, 27 February 2022 19:28 (two years ago) link
otm, definitely feels like many queens exercise a very measured approach nowadaysand there isn’t as much blissful lack of self awareness a la valentina
― scanner darkly, Sunday, 27 February 2022 19:43 (two years ago) link
i pretty much wrote deja off but she should’ve been declared the winner in the last epgreat lipsync too, helped by an excellent song choice (it’s almost like they planned for these 2 queens to lip sync..)
meanwhile, UK vs the World doesn’t live up to its own name
― scanner darkly, Sunday, 6 March 2022 04:45 (two years ago) link
i’m salty that there was no elimination better be sending queens home doubletime next week
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 6 March 2022 04:59 (two years ago) link
I'm kinda ready for Jorge to go home already.
― Mobile Suit Gundam Style (Leee), Sunday, 6 March 2022 06:55 (two years ago) link
Also lol that Daya's quick drag looks just like Maddie's full face.
― Mobile Suit Gundam Style (Leee), Sunday, 6 March 2022 17:47 (two years ago) link
i’m salty that there was no eliminationbetter be sending queens home doubletime next week
Right? They've already made up for Kornbread's injury with no bottom/elimination 2 weeks ago. And we still haven't seen the gold chocolate bar. Why not give it to Jorgeous ot Jasmine this week instead of a double shantay ? It's not like it's really going to be left to chance.
― LeRooLeRoo, Sunday, 6 March 2022 19:10 (two years ago) link
PLEASE for the love of GOD eliminate Jasmine jfc she sucks at everything except at dancing in lipsyncs
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 6 March 2022 19:24 (two years ago) link
I'm somehow convinced we get the gold bar after Snatch Game here, and the show turns into Sartre's No Exit.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 6 March 2022 21:00 (two years ago) link
season 14 is to the death but no one knows & the season runs as-is for another 12 years
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 6 March 2022 22:22 (two years ago) link
They are really killing the drama for this gold bar reveal with all these non elims. There is no gold bar, the chocolate is just rations on the longest season ever
― Swanswans, Monday, 7 March 2022 16:19 (two years ago) link
the year is 2455, the mecha rupaul has managed to bring humanity to it's knees and weilds the power of time travel. it uses it to snatch jujubee out of different points in her time line to complete in rupaul's drag race all stars 60049: the all jujubee season pic.twitter.com/rohYI194cG— 𝑆𝐼𝐴𝑁 𝑇𝐻𝑌𝑀𝐸𝑆 🥂 (@SianThymes) March 5, 2022
In the RPDR cinematic universe, Jujubee is RuPaul's Duncan Idaho. In this essay I will https://t.co/cSmCbAYEe0— Fsck poutine 🌻🇺🇦 (@jvfriedman) March 7, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 March 2022 16:30 (two years ago) link
re: chocolate - at least it gave us “oh.. it’s chocolate”i am wishing for a drag race / school of chocolate crossover episode now
― scanner darkly, Monday, 7 March 2022 17:31 (two years ago) link
Just ahead of the UK vs The World finale: objectively speaking, Baga has the most C U N & T, and Jujubee the least. However, subjectively, their positions are reversed for me. Mo and Blu are... fine, above average midfielders, but not winners.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 20:12 (two years ago) link
I don't find baga delivers the winning c.u.n.t. for me, there's charisma, there's definitely nerve with a capital N but unique? talented? I find those qualities a bit lacking...that snatch game was over rated, the runways are so so, a fierce lipsync is not their forte, a forgettable singer too. I don't think this bunch of queens have set the world alight but certainly not baga.
― Swanswans, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 21:49 (two years ago) link
it says a lot to me about the diversity of human life that there are people out there who haven't given up on UK vs The World because of Baga
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 22:46 (two years ago) link
Agreed with Ru’s first and third lip sync decisions, disagreed with the second.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 22:56 (two years ago) link
they’ve managed to lower the stakes so much i don’t actually care who wins at this point
― scanner darkly, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 22:58 (two years ago) link
It really felt like a series where all the queens were in the UK or close by for something else at the same time so they just decided to get them all together for this made-up show. So odd. Although I really enjoyed Jimbo and Pangina's faceoff in the workroom. What a pair of pros. I assume Pangina's horror was all put on for the cameras.
― trishyb, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 17:14 (two years ago) link
Maybe...and yet.
Drag Race España at the end of the month!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVA3wkWKgOA
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 19:02 (two years ago) link
this whole UK vs the World seems so.. unnecessary. it felt more like a “let’s pretend play drag race!” than an actual season. with all the talk of “THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL DRAG RACE!!” it felt small and homemade. okay so it’s a 6 ep BBC thing, but couldn’t they do something that would work better for that format?
and on top of that you have all the non UK and non US queens eliminated first (and they were better too), you have queens in the final 4 who don’t deserve to be there (i heart you jujubee, but girl, i ain’t buying your “this was my strategy” talk). and the winner?! mo should’ve been crowned. i like blu, but her lipsync was over the top and not in a good way. there was no subtlety, no connection to the song. i’m baffled.
― scanner darkly, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 21:42 (two years ago) link
Anyway next week I'm seeing Trixie and Katya kick off their tour here in SF and based on their latest newsletter they're prepping exactly how I figured they would:
Katya:So Trixie and I are in the midst of what is known in the theater world as Hell Week—the week leading up to the premiere of a new show. For us, it’s a show that’s been in the works for quite a while, but on account of Trixie’s unmanageable work schedule and my extreme distaste for working, finding adequate time for rehearsal has proved to be the most challenging production element so far. We are lucky to have gotten Laganja to do the choreography, which is a blessing and a curse. The blessing is that she is incredible and the choreography is fabulous but the curse is that it’s difficult and I am so slow to learn any steps out of my very limited movement vocabulary which consists of walk, hair toss, wiggle, wiggle, handstand. It’s an ambitious production, and so months ago, I insisted that learning the choreography would take me at least twice the time than it would for any non-dancing performer. And of course, I didn’t get that extra time, which is probably why, after 6 straight days of rehearsals my body feels and looks like an exhumed corpse from the 1800’s. People love to say I’m a dancer. And while I appreciate the compliment, the truth is that those people have been lied to several times as I am unqualified, and nothing of the sort. Just because a person can point their toes, do a handstand and a split does not mean they can dance. It took me about 3 hours to wrap my head and feet around a “kick, ball, change” and I still dont have it down. Chassée? Get out of here. Pas de bouret? Shut up. Rond de jambe en l’air? Forget about it. Despite my hideously frustrating inability to pick up steps at a decent pace, and thanks to the invaluable tutelage of Miss Estranja, I finally got the closing number completed with no mistakes. It was absolutely thrilling until I realized that I would need to do the same thing in makeup, corseted, wearing pads, tights, wig, heels and a fucking costume. After sweating through several shirts not in drag in an air conditioned room, I could help but wonder if it was too late to rename the show, as I can only anticipate the amount of sweating I will be doing might be enough to give Waterworld a run for its money. (It famously made very little money at the box office, so it shouldn’t be that hard.) Anyways, we are going into tech at the moment and I am about to practice a very cool but very top secret little detail of the show that I will not spoil, but will give you a hint: sometimes you gotta sleep your way to the top and let others do the heavy lifting. We will keep you posted, as the tour kicks off next week in San Francisco. XX KATYA--Trixie:If this Substack seems shorter than usual, it’s because I have been in the throes of rehearsal for this crazy tour. The good news is I’m on stage with somebody I trust and in an environment where we can try new things all the time to see what’s funniest. The bad news is the costumes, the dancing, and the specific theatrical cues make executing certain sections less playful and more actually important that you get it right.I’m proud of us so far! I think we had Chipotle like five days in a row so that was nice. And I am obsessed with Jimmy Johns so I’ve had that a bunch of times at the rehearsal space. The only trouble is the vigorous rehearsals have really cut into my available time for drinking. But I went to rehearsal hungover today so I’m obviously still making time.Tomorrow we going to tech rehearsals which is usually in theater a very long day of stopping and starting to make sure all the light and sound cues are perfect. I plan on going into it hydrated, positive, and most importantly not hung over.
So Trixie and I are in the midst of what is known in the theater world as Hell Week—the week leading up to the premiere of a new show. For us, it’s a show that’s been in the works for quite a while, but on account of Trixie’s unmanageable work schedule and my extreme distaste for working, finding adequate time for rehearsal has proved to be the most challenging production element so far.
We are lucky to have gotten Laganja to do the choreography, which is a blessing and a curse. The blessing is that she is incredible and the choreography is fabulous but the curse is that it’s difficult and I am so slow to learn any steps out of my very limited movement vocabulary which consists of walk, hair toss, wiggle, wiggle, handstand.
It’s an ambitious production, and so months ago, I insisted that learning the choreography would take me at least twice the time than it would for any non-dancing performer. And of course, I didn’t get that extra time, which is probably why, after 6 straight days of rehearsals my body feels and looks like an exhumed corpse from the 1800’s.
People love to say I’m a dancer. And while I appreciate the compliment, the truth is that those people have been lied to several times as I am unqualified, and nothing of the sort. Just because a person can point their toes, do a handstand and a split does not mean they can dance. It took me about 3 hours to wrap my head and feet around a “kick, ball, change” and I still dont have it down.
Chassée? Get out of here. Pas de bouret? Shut up. Rond de jambe en l’air? Forget about it. Despite my hideously frustrating inability to pick up steps at a decent pace, and thanks to the invaluable tutelage of Miss Estranja, I finally got the closing number completed with no mistakes. It was absolutely thrilling until I realized that I would need to do the same thing in makeup, corseted, wearing pads, tights, wig, heels and a fucking costume. After sweating through several shirts not in drag in an air conditioned room, I could help but wonder if it was too late to rename the show, as I can only anticipate the amount of sweating I will be doing might be enough to give Waterworld a run for its money. (It famously made very little money at the box office, so it shouldn’t be that hard.)
Anyways, we are going into tech at the moment and I am about to practice a very cool but very top secret little detail of the show that I will not spoil, but will give you a hint: sometimes you gotta sleep your way to the top and let others do the heavy lifting.
We will keep you posted, as the tour kicks off next week in San Francisco.
XX KATYA
--
Trixie:
If this Substack seems shorter than usual, it’s because I have been in the throes of rehearsal for this crazy tour. The good news is I’m on stage with somebody I trust and in an environment where we can try new things all the time to see what’s funniest. The bad news is the costumes, the dancing, and the specific theatrical cues make executing certain sections less playful and more actually important that you get it right.
I’m proud of us so far! I think we had Chipotle like five days in a row so that was nice. And I am obsessed with Jimmy Johns so I’ve had that a bunch of times at the rehearsal space. The only trouble is the vigorous rehearsals have really cut into my available time for drinking. But I went to rehearsal hungover today so I’m obviously still making time.
Tomorrow we going to tech rehearsals which is usually in theater a very long day of stopping and starting to make sure all the light and sound cues are perfect. I plan on going into it hydrated, positive, and most importantly not hung over.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 23:34 (two years ago) link
RuPaul: whatever you do, just make me laugh in snatch game!The queens: #rupaulsdragrace #dragrace pic.twitter.com/R33mFcMiiC— Matthew Portnoy (@MatthewPortnoy1) March 12, 2022
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 12 March 2022 18:09 (two years ago) link
multicar pileup was worth it for the ensuing judging panelalso bosco with the best LOL of untucked to Jorgeous after her emotional outpouring w her family “You said your brother was gay?… Ok great.”DYING
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 12 March 2022 18:51 (two years ago) link
That really was perfect.
But yeaaaaah DeJa ran away with that one! Wow the clusterfuck. Of course what'll happen next week is they'll do the lipsync off, the eliminated queen is chosen and then they have the gold bar and the season will maybe end on Halloween or something.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 12 March 2022 21:07 (two years ago) link
Next week’s eliminated queen opening her chocolate bar after 7 consecutive years without an elimination:#DragRace pic.twitter.com/CtL4vkUwOq— Joey Nolfi (@joeynolfi) March 12, 2022
lmaoyeah fuck like how long will this season be!?
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 12 March 2022 23:05 (two years ago) link
It all felt so planned. The amount of canned laughs Deja was getting while the others were getting nothing, you could tell it was going in that direction.
― LeRooLeRoo, Sunday, 13 March 2022 03:37 (two years ago) link
these queens that go i’m just going to be, Ilana Glazer, a funny person that i find funny, i just wish a siren would go off & signs drop from the ceiling like NO YOU WILL LOSE THAT IS NOT A CHARACTER
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 13 March 2022 03:52 (two years ago) link
Is Dove Cameron to Kirk as Chet Hanks is to Tom?
― Vladimir Poutine (Leee), Monday, 14 March 2022 20:33 (two years ago) link
Nah, different person, one of the Disney kid actor cohort
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dove_Cameron
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 March 2022 20:38 (two years ago) link
Even though I didn't care love the performances as much as everyone else on the show did, the Lalaparuza was a lot better than I expected (especially compared to last season's head-to-head lip syncs), I think because of the added "Who's next?! What song!?" cliffhanging. That said, I do wonder if the logistics of setting something like this up is possible in the time frame between Kornbread getting hurt, especially since they really only shoot for 4-6 weeks.
― Justice League: Picard (Leee), Sunday, 20 March 2022 01:48 (two years ago) link
the songs were SO GOOD
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 20 March 2022 01:49 (two years ago) link
Oh right! Glad to see the show is big enough that Beyonce allowed one of her songs to be used.
― Justice League: Picard (Leee), Sunday, 20 March 2022 01:56 (two years ago) link
i have a full lesbian crush on bosco after that luther number whew
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 20 March 2022 02:25 (two years ago) link
Yeah having Luther be a choice was a killer touch. And while Bosco did it well, Willow’s trashy girl in love approach was awesome!
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 20 March 2022 03:42 (two years ago) link
so enjoyed the lipsyncs, willow's measured emotional performance was awesome, feel a little bit like jazmine got rinsed for our viewing pleasure and then dumped, how they lost three lipsyncs with those performances I don't know, standard was high, I guess. Someone mentioned their lack of nerve but lots of the girls were bricking it. The snatch game wasn't as bad as I was expecting, now that I caught up, there have been a lot of unfunny snatch games in the past where girls got safe with mediocre efforts. Lived for angeria's church bling outfit, but her Tammy brown was pretty underwhelming considering the wealth of gags to mine from. deja's cackling and commentary as the only safe girl was funny, Yeh-A, that's how you do snatch game, bring it big and bold.
― Swanswans, Sunday, 20 March 2022 09:50 (two years ago) link
ok dying at these lmao
@hereisbosco I’m dying 🤣🤣 https://t.co/BThAk0o89x— Jasmine (the producer) Kennedie (@jasminekennedie) March 23, 2022
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 March 2022 18:45 (two years ago) link
Love their followup
This is us doing HRT— Bosco (@hereisbosco) March 23, 2022
Transition by osmosis— Justin Believes In Pink Skunk Supremacy (@kookieinglasses) March 23, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 March 2022 18:56 (two years ago) link
I absolutely hate that smeared lip that Camden did this week and Willow did when she did her mushroom look. I just hate it.
― trishyb, Saturday, 26 March 2022 17:28 (two years ago) link
chocalate bar DELIVERS
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 March 2022 17:55 (two years ago) link
Willow's story tells of a person determined to excel here and her game plan is so measured and filled with such sweet ambition that hard to root against, this smart cookie has kinda cracked the code and some, the reserve and nerves are on show but it's not hindering the execution. Im living for willow's canny fashion commentary and their well thought out work in the competition. They will will this across the line.
― Swanswans, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 22:31 (one year ago) link
at the rate this is progressing Kornbread will have healed and be able to take part in the final
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 22:33 (one year ago) link
Hahah indeed. Catching up on everything a bit -- first two episodes of Drag Race España again convincing me that's a lovely iteration of the franchise. (That said, not ENTIRELY at ease with the winner of the talent show episode, ie the second one, for reasons that would take a touch too long to spell out. Could have been worse I guess.)
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 03:33 (one year ago) link
lol, drag race s14e3350 -the newly re-animated corpse of rupaul welcomes kornbread's progeny to the completion for the everliving dragrace season, category is.... immortality, despite some scathing runaway reviews from michellebot and carson3po, Camden's pharoah chic is narrowly beaten by willow's cthulhu ensemble, the great old one prevails, these bitches are ready to take on the underworld and beyond.
― Swanswans, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 06:35 (one year ago) link
So while we wait on tonight, Violet Chachki just out here being amazing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZfIOKEaYH0
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 April 2022 17:36 (one year ago) link
Wow. That is some Eighties realness right there. I couldn't tell if it was Paul Rutherford or Marc Almond I was looking at.
― trishyb, Friday, 8 April 2022 18:31 (one year ago) link
Well I should have guessed we were getting this result.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 9 April 2022 04:29 (one year ago) link
I mean I’m not complaining I should note! But at this rate the finale will last for two months.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 9 April 2022 04:30 (one year ago) link
I know everyone complains about how long this season has been, but I love them all. Yes, even Daya.
― trishyb, Saturday, 9 April 2022 09:39 (one year ago) link
yeah, they are a fun bunch with a lot of qualities between them. I've been stanning Daya betty from the start, she has had some sourpuss moments but also has slayed the runway this season and deserves to be in the running, ive not watched this episode yet so I taking the mention of Daya as another strong week
― Swanswans, Saturday, 9 April 2022 11:27 (one year ago) link
Personally I’m pleased as punch my own dark horse choice for the season won this week.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 9 April 2022 13:45 (one year ago) link
i have to give it to Daya this week, she sold the fuck out of that video. it’s the first time i was like, yknow she is kinda good. love the winner this week, she just is slaying left & right now that she’s found her true groove. and relieved for the outcome but JESUS CHRIST SEND SOME BITCHES HOME ALREADY
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 April 2022 18:13 (one year ago) link
In two weeks four of them go home!
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 9 April 2022 18:14 (one year ago) link
(Has there been any word about the finale? Are they going back to the pre-COVID approach?)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 9 April 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
colisseum + lions
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 April 2022 18:20 (one year ago) link
...I might pay money.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 9 April 2022 18:22 (one year ago) link
also PitStop this wk with Bob & Monique omg i was laughing so hard I was crying, love those two together
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 April 2022 19:08 (one year ago) link
A case is made
Rare for us to endorse anything like this but we are #DragRace #TeamWillowPill - from Denver to Chicago just like @waxtraxchicago - the label which launched with a Divine record! Love @WillowPillQueenAlthough we enjoy @dya_betty417 homages to Derek Jarman's Jubilee!— brainwashed (@brainwashedcom) April 9, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 9 April 2022 19:32 (one year ago) link
also..
Not that you care, but my dad is #TeamWillowPill pic.twitter.com/fvUUJyjCS0— Yves N. Oddlington (@OddlyYvie) April 9, 2022
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 9 April 2022 21:44 (one year ago) link
My head got done in seeing Angeria in that gown deciding to go camp in that lipsync, but hey, whatever gets her to the finale!
― Pomelo Anthony (Leee), Saturday, 9 April 2022 22:32 (one year ago) link
I should've said she spun my head round and round, obviously.
― Pomelo Anthony (Leee), Sunday, 10 April 2022 04:47 (one year ago) link
i wish bosco’s wig in the music video had been the same one she wore for the runway :/ also wasnt loving her music video outfit, carson was otm with “jet blue after dark”
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 April 2022 05:46 (one year ago) link
I said upthread about willow's energy conservation and how they reserved their energy for when it mattered in the competition. I didn't figure on how their health was such a factor to how they could play the game. It kinda makes their performances shine even more, knowing they were literally exhausted, struggling with symptoms and had to perform everything so mindfully. This is a great bunch but I really want willow to win, so bad. Daya ability to serve allday makes me forgive her meaness, lol. Competition brings out unpleasant stuff all the time.
― Swanswans, Sunday, 10 April 2022 08:46 (one year ago) link
Well this is new:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99_RpBtUJw8
― Pomelo Anthony (Leee), Wednesday, 13 April 2022 16:40 (one year ago) link
the stars have come out to playholy shit
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 April 2022 17:19 (one year ago) link
There's only 8 contestants so maybe nobody's going to get eliminated? Unless we get an abbreviated season.
― Pomelo Anthony (Leee), Wednesday, 13 April 2022 18:31 (one year ago) link
yeah that struck me as wellwho the heck knows
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 April 2022 19:03 (one year ago) link
all winners?they finally figured out how to avoid jujubee getting involved
― scanner darkly, Thursday, 14 April 2022 01:40 (one year ago) link
Haha how cruel.Have Bianca del Rio host the Pit Stop for this and relentlessly roast them all.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 April 2022 03:03 (one year ago) link
Ever since I watched that video where Bussy Queen talked about their contracts and how they can be called back at any time, at risk of losing their prize money, I've felt a bit bad for queens who get brought back only for their clock to reset again. otoh, this could be the producers throwing a bone to some of the older queens who've been hard hit by COVID. In any case, it looks like it's going to be great. I am looking forward to it.
― trishyb, Thursday, 14 April 2022 04:36 (one year ago) link
wow, that's a powerhouse selection, raja for the shade, though I think she has stopped performing, I kinda wish Tyra Sanchez could be pitted against some of these later pageant queens, in fact, I think I want a pageant season at some point, all gowns, goops and gossip.
― Swanswans, Thursday, 14 April 2022 11:07 (one year ago) link
I wish there were more original season winners instead of All Stars winners coming back for their 3rd time. Only two of these queens were crowned before 2019! Still, I'm gagging.
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 15 April 2022 12:29 (one year ago) link
Well gosh
pic.twitter.com/kUyesQyJit— Willow Pill (@WillowPillQueen) April 20, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 April 2022 06:55 (one year ago) link
A fine top two! Glad they both got something!
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 23 April 2022 12:01 (one year ago) link
yeah awesome end result
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 23 April 2022 18:11 (one year ago) link
The songs seemed written with specific popstars in mind. Like Angeria was Nicky, Daya was Miley, Camden was Freddy and Willow was Lady Miss Kier. I wasn't sure who Bosco's was inspired from. Lana Del Rey? Ariana?
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 23 April 2022 22:45 (one year ago) link
They listed each queen as the writer for their respective songs.
Top two were who I was rooting for probably the last couple months at this stage. To see them actually make it was truly very satisfying. The winner was very well deserved too - but I was hoping the runner up would take it. Either way, glad RuPaul finally upped the prize money ffs. About time.
― octobeard, Sunday, 24 April 2022 07:21 (one year ago) link
I've not been watching the main seasons since roughly season 8, the sheer amount of social media/meme moments left me feeling informed without the episodic minutiae. But I've really enjoyed season 14 from start to finish, a fun and friendly cast and the top 5 were such a sweet group (even with Daya pissing on their chips). The untuckeds between this bunch have been lovely, the last untucked episode particularly, all the feels! Willow's win was so deserved, their meticulous approach was a code cracking / face cracking triumph. This season really highlighted how DragArt is expanding reach and delightfully defying definitions.
― Swanswans, Monday, 25 April 2022 10:03 (one year ago) link
reaction video is of course lovely & feelsyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIU54znjdD0
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 April 2022 16:25 (one year ago) link
Love the reaction video so much. My favorite won, but this was a strong Top 5 <3
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 25 April 2022 17:47 (one year ago) link
I was very underwhelmed with the finale itself (fine with the winner), really the only good solo performance was Willow's.
I also will get very very dance nerd now but Camden dancing "ballet-themed" numbers in heels bothers me to no end, not least of which is that her feet/leg lines are either awful or made awful by her shoes!
― Carnegie Felon (Leee), Monday, 25 April 2022 17:55 (one year ago) link
^^ this, couldnt unsee it during finale
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 April 2022 18:55 (one year ago) link
Ah but she's great still. Fun interview from a couple of years, well before being cast
https://www.sosheslays.com/featured-collabs/2020/8/30/rex
Embedded in said interview, important information
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVoMf_5BwOY
And her Whatcha Packin's fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pTLuKKp63E
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 03:29 (one year ago) link
(And per all this I was tripped out to learn that her dad managed the Electric Ballroom! In, of course, Camden.)
https://electricballroom.co.uk/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 03:30 (one year ago) link
this was a very strange season to watch. The cast were really likeable, really talented in a lot of ways, even the "villains" were fun, and the show managed to be self-aware and funny with it, without going too MCU. Also, RuPaul seemed engaged and excited in a way they've not been for a long time. But then you've got things like "Daytona Winds" which took a really interesting challenge with strong performances and made it into an unfunny slog. And I think Snatch Game needs to be retired - it's more often bad than good now. All the twists - chocolate bars, double saves, etc - meant it was too long and static. But I think the real weakness of the show is RuPaul - the show is so obviously subject to their whims and tastes, with judging decisions and feedback feeling arbitrary and unfair. I've felt like this show is trying to gaslight its viewers at times, using the crickets/laughter sound effects to make stuff seem really awkward when it's actually hilarious, and telling us outfits are beautiful when they're so clearly not.
Me and my boyfriend binge-watched the first five seasons when we started dating (which is quite a while ago now) and the series seems to be lacking a lot of the joy and celebratory energy it used to have, which I guess is inevitable when the prize money is now so huge and it's become a culture phenomenon etc. At this point I feel like we're following it out of obligation, it's like Gay Homework for belonging to the culture now.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 07:46 (one year ago) link
It's kinda why a lot (not all) of the other competitions are more fizzy still at the moment -- would rank Holland, Spain and Thailand as my best winners there and notably all three are Ru-less.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 14:45 (one year ago) link
for the first post covid live audience finale it felt strangely subdued and anticlimactic somehow. and felt really staged - maybe because it was styled as a big vegas style production but that worked against it because the queens kinda got lost in all of that? the final lip sync also felt underwhelming (we watched yvie oddly vs brooke lynn finale right after and it’s like night and day)
happy for the winner though, and it must be the first time to have a dynasty among the winners?
― scanner darkly, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 22:19 (one year ago) link
You do get a sense that this'll be homebase for all future finales by default, and that may or may not cut against it as you say. I wonder if there's just also a difference between LA and Vegas audiences, even though I'm sure a good chunk of the crowd would have been there either way.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 22:37 (one year ago) link
And per all this I was tripped out to learn that her dad managed the Electric Ballroom! In, of course, Camden.
That's crazy. I spent so many amazing nights there when I lived in London for a year when I was 19! And her sister used to DJ there!
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 17:02 (one year ago) link
You were shaping her course of life without knowing it. "You will come to North America and entertain me in a TV show." "I will?"
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 17:48 (one year ago) link
You're all welcome.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 28 April 2022 02:42 (one year ago) link
Katya reviews the Met Galahttps://trixieandkatya.substack.com/p/met-gala-fashion-review
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 22:38 (one year ago) link
Okay! So the first two All Stars episodes out and they have done a VERY smart thing in terms of the format this time around, which I won't spoil yet if you haven't seen it...
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 21 May 2022 04:10 (one year ago) link
I really really enjoyed these which was a pleasant surprise after my burnout on last season.
Aside from wondering about all behind scenes negotiations that maybe led to Ned’s referenced format change, (and some winners choice not to come back) think Raja’s appearance is maybe the bravest (?) as she’s spent the last few years critiquing ppl on the runway gotta feel lil scary putting yourself back out there.
Looking forward to season
― H in Addis, Saturday, 21 May 2022 11:07 (one year ago) link
jinx’s snatch game omg i was crying laughing, so in love holy shit and raja did amazing that madame costume! and the vreeland MAKEUP!? jesus. so good. they both really put on a clinic
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 22 May 2022 22:59 (one year ago) link
Absolutely. That was such a damn treat from them both.
It's a little weird but welcome to be in a situation where like...EVERYONE is good.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 22 May 2022 23:56 (one year ago) link
yeah totally. this is truly what I need to see right now. new queenx are great yay new queens but i need a blast of FINESSE. all excellence, all the time, everyone pushing each other to do more than the excellent they do, just skills on skills i’m kind of in heaven tbh and even w all the excellence there’s still wtf. Trinity still favors dresses like a crazy person & Yvie in that bus-driver wig lmao & Jada’s Prince looool
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 May 2022 00:22 (one year ago) link
it’s fun as hell
*dressing like a crazy person
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 May 2022 00:23 (one year ago) link
Will also say that Drag Race España has been very great fun this season and the last two episodes in particular were crackerjack, especially last week's lip sync.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 May 2022 02:31 (one year ago) link
Anyway, back to All-Stars -- Shea's immediate reaction to the runway queen was *amazing.* You couldn't plan a reaction like that.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 May 2022 02:32 (one year ago) link
yeah that was awesome
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 May 2022 03:43 (one year ago) link
I never, ever thought I'd say this again, but I'm like... actually really excited about this season
― Stevie D(eux), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 19:57 (one year ago) link
going into it I was like oh wow sure this roster looks great, this'll be fun I guess, but it wasn't til the first episode that I realized that everyone was going to be like relentlessly excellent at all times, PLUS the elimination twist which means everyone stick around for a while. I'm not thrilled about the whole star-kneecapping thing, but All Stars has never been about the best queen winning, it's about the most strategic queen triumphing, so like whatever
― Stevie D(eux), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 19:59 (one year ago) link
Jinkx calling Ru "Broom" had me in actual tears
― Stevie D(eux), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 20:00 (one year ago) link
Yeah this'll be a treat I figure. I think they might have played a strong card early with Snatch Game being the second episode but hell, great results.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 25 May 2022 20:00 (one year ago) link
i am excited to see how the strategy plays out given how competitive so many of them are esp Shea & Trinity & Monet … and Jinx too it seemsoh and Jinx’s callback to Dave from the makeover ep of S5 as Judy Garland was outrageous & everything i wanted. SO good
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 20:48 (one year ago) link
Yeah that was a deep fucking cut in the best way. (Hell I even remember hearing -- from Race Chaser I think -- how about how he was the guy in the 6th season episode where the queens were doing a roast or a comedy set in front a live audience, delivered the 'you're not funny' or 'tell a joke' comment and -- not in the final cut -- how Bianca came out and roasted Dave in response.)
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 25 May 2022 21:06 (one year ago) link
some reviews were concerned the new rules will result in less drama and i find i’m too busy loving the energy and the camaraderie to care. the drag race is not just about the prize but about showcasing yourself, especially all stars, and bringing your best and not being able to show it must be soul crushing. so taking that element out somehow magically worked in show’s favor, it really feels like removing that stress made a huge difference. like everybody just letting jinx pretty much take over the snatch game because how could you not?!
on regular seasons the repeated sentiment is, don’t forget to have fun and then you’ll excel and it really shows here. although it’s not just that and everybody really is fucking amazing. like that ridiculous gown trinity wore? we were cheering and laughing our asses off at the same time. so good.
and such great song choices so far, why can’t they do it more often??
― scanner darkly, Friday, 27 May 2022 03:39 (one year ago) link
.. really nice to have such season after the disappointment that UK vs the world was
― scanner darkly, Friday, 27 May 2022 03:40 (one year ago) link
willam said on race chaser that trinity’s dress in ep1 was so crazy that she had to get dressed ~on~ the runway XD
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 May 2022 04:21 (one year ago) link
some reviews were concerned the new rules will result in less drama and i find i’m too busy loving the energy and the camaraderie to care.
Strongly agree with all of this. It's almost as if the producers read our thread about Junior Bake Off, in which everyone agreed that it would be better not to eliminate people week by week, but just keep the same fun bunch till the end and crown a winner.
― trishyb, Friday, 27 May 2022 10:26 (one year ago) link
yeah that’s one of the things i liked about the school of chocolate
xp vegemitegrrl - that’s awesome/hilarious!
― scanner darkly, Friday, 27 May 2022 20:33 (one year ago) link
Raja should have been in the top that Vanna White was ~swoon~
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 May 2022 17:03 (one year ago) link
Just going to boot toot my own horn here:
Echoing everyone ITT, eliminating ANY of this cast would've been a travesty (because notwithstanding Raja's read, there are no boogers in this cast). I mean, we all love messy drama but the effusive love and support is so beautiful, I honestly hope that the regular show takes some lessons from this somehow.
Jinkx ruled Snatch Game so hard -- I don't think she necessarily won her lipsync but anybody else getting the W that week would've looked tacky as hell. I also really liked TTT's Leslie Jordan, she showed a lot more range than I expected.
I'm such a stan for Jaida's fashion, and like Jinkx's SG, she pwned the runway so hard in the ball (she also turned out a great LS too).
I also thought that Yvie's eleganza was super strong too: cute and edgy and editorial. And I think this may be a redemptive show for her, considering how often she butted heads with other comptetitors in her original season, and how she didn't embarrass herself in SG this time around.
― Gianni Fursace (Leee), Monday, 30 May 2022 21:38 (one year ago) link
that Vanna White was ~swoon~
Truly, and of course how amazing she herself was there -- the reactions were top notch (especially Raja's!)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 May 2022 21:54 (one year ago) link
yeah the reacts were everything
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 May 2022 23:36 (one year ago) link
the pit stop with Bob and Katya was hilarious, dying at "Alyssa Edwards Scissorhands"
― scanner darkly, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 23:54 (one year ago) link
That was absolutely amazing.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 02:35 (one year ago) link
https://sfist.com/2022/06/02/honey-mahogany-officially-declares-shes-running-for-district-6-supervisor/
Imagine if she gets elected and RPDR drags her back to reset her show timer.
― Gianni Fursace (Leee), Friday, 3 June 2022 00:35 (one year ago) link
her platform is caftans for all
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 June 2022 01:10 (one year ago) link
As I'm District 9 I can only cheer her on from over here.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 3 June 2022 02:30 (one year ago) link
I just have one thing to say about today's episode
@rupaul looks like he's from Middle Earth and should be called Lord Of the Blings. #dragrace #allstars7 pic.twitter.com/vJw93SiJSK— Domino's Pizza ROI (@Dominos_ROI) June 3, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 4 June 2022 04:06 (one year ago) link
ru’s look was the funniest (possibly the only funny) thing in the ep
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 4 June 2022 05:12 (one year ago) link
Jesus, that was painful.
― trishyb, Saturday, 4 June 2022 13:07 (one year ago) link
Runway looks were good though.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 4 June 2022 16:40 (one year ago) link
I didn't like Yvie's or Shea's. I didn't get spikes from Shea's really. She had some on her cape, but they had fallen over by the time she got to the runway, and I didn't know what she was supposed to be, really. But yes, the others looked magnificent.
― trishyb, Saturday, 4 June 2022 17:37 (one year ago) link
shea’s was weird & the waist/hip part of it kinda looked like a diaper?loved The Vivienne this week - improv, runway & lipsync, all of it - she was stunnin’ so glad she’s on the board also raja’s runway was dope i felt picky but bob on pitstop said the same so: Trinity’s was a STAKE. that aint no spike.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 4 June 2022 20:02 (one year ago) link
also on pitstop this week bob did an amazing pisstake of ross’s “you know that thing” speeches on judging panel fkn hilarious i like ross but omg it drives me crazy sometimes
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 4 June 2022 20:07 (one year ago) link
Hahah I must watch that later.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 4 June 2022 20:12 (one year ago) link
Really wretched news from Alaska — her father passed in an accident this past weekendhttps://m.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=558947988933012&id=100044534465199&set=a.236199881207826&source=48
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 June 2022 04:32 (one year ago) link
yeah i just saw that this evening. poor alaska. so fucking sad.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 9 June 2022 04:36 (one year ago) link
So on a happier note that was a fun enough episode today. But the Untucked was even better for half the queens' high school photos. Raja's 1992 shot was VERY 1992.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 11 June 2022 04:29 (one year ago) link
great ep, everyone really showed their allstar quality in the challenge. so in love with Viv, she’s so fucking funny. the character she did was so fully formed, and all the little details were so right raja saying she graduated in 1992 and i am like…wait she’s only a year older than me … and they clown her for being methuselah!?!💀💀💀
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 June 2022 21:15 (one year ago) link
Yeah that was a bit of a gut check moment. Dear oh dear.
A little delayed but Drag Race España ended about where I figured it would -- Sharonne was an awesome competitor, but Estrella Xtravaganza was a hell of a season narrator (you always need a really good one) and I wouldn't be surprised if she's the real breakout star.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 12 June 2022 03:55 (one year ago) link
Why aren’t any of the judges allowed to give any actual critique this season??It’s funny that at this point the only people with two stars are the clear front runner and the clear bottom two
― music for A★TEENS’ musicians (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 18 June 2022 16:54 (one year ago) link
i think the lack of critique is theoretically bc its the winners season - like they all already won so this is gravy? i guess? i dont mind it tbh
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 June 2022 17:06 (one year ago) link
also this is embarrassing but i had only seen tove lo’s name in print & didnt know that was how it’s pronounced lol
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 June 2022 17:07 (one year ago) link
lmao girl I don’t think anyone did
― music for A★TEENS’ musicians (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 18 June 2022 17:28 (one year ago) link
that Dolly lipsync made my day for realone of my most fave Dolly songs!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 June 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
Yeah that was good fun.
I appreciate Ross going for it with the soul patch
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 18 June 2022 18:58 (one year ago) link
No let up meantime -- Drag Race Philippines in August as earlier noted, meantime Canada Season 3 arrives mid-July.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTfF1-_3DRQ
And Drag Race France with Nicky Doll as the main host incoming:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3IhAeUJ0AU
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 18 June 2022 19:01 (one year ago) link
omg Ross’s Carson Daly was so funny
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 June 2022 19:04 (one year ago) link
I honestly wondered who they brought in top play Carson, that soul patch really threw me off.
Shea robbed this week.
― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Sunday, 19 June 2022 05:06 (one year ago) link
Loved Two Vay's helmet.
― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Sunday, 19 June 2022 05:09 (one year ago) link
It’s funny that at this point the only people with two stars are the clear front runner and the clear bottom two
I had sort of the same thought.
It was strange that Trinity and Raja seemed to get by far the strongest praise from the judges, but in the end the producers just really wanted Vivienne to revenge block Jinkx.
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Sunday, 19 June 2022 16:08 (one year ago) link
yeah they love that drama
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 June 2022 18:42 (one year ago) link
i loved Viv’s wig in the girl group challenge!
Her runway probably destroyed any chance she had. I mean, what happened ? She is usually so polished and perfect, but that wig and that outfit were not even close.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 21 June 2022 16:41 (one year ago) link
The outfit I was willing to give her when they put the side-by-side up ... but that wig wasn't within a (ahem) country mile of a Dolly coif.
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Tuesday, 21 June 2022 16:58 (one year ago) link
Bob said on Pit Stop - you have to play the hits for this kind of runway. I agree sort of but I kinda liked that Shea went to that look. I just think it was understyled/under-padded maybe & definitely she needed more hair the fit in the pants was not great
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 June 2022 18:23 (one year ago) link
The relentlessly positive judging really annoyed me this week. In a normal episode, they would have dragged Jinkx for a corset with a bit of net stuck on it, which didn't reference the original outfit one bit. And they would've remarked that both Trinity and Viv did the exact same silhouette they always do. And that Shea obviously ran out of time and just wore leggings and a bit of a ruffle and a headscarf. I mean, I liked the outfit, but that was not her original intention at all.
― trishyb, Saturday, 25 June 2022 09:08 (one year ago) link
― trishyb, Saturday, 2 July 2022 13:28 (one year ago) link
the overly positive judging was okay when everybody was doing great but not so much anymore
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 2 July 2022 17:27 (one year ago) link
yes but THE RUNWAY OMG
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 July 2022 17:40 (one year ago) link
Runway ruled. Whatever else is happening, that’s produced some stunners.Drag Race France off to an engaging start, I thought. Nicky’s a pretty good host!
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 3 July 2022 13:48 (one year ago) link
Runway was amazing. The first time ever I have taken screenshots to study further later on. I could knit some of those things.
― trishyb, Sunday, 3 July 2022 14:03 (one year ago) link
now THAT was a fuckin lipsync
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 July 2022 20:39 (one year ago) link
Haven't done anything quite like that since the Untucked lipsync competition in season 5 I think.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 10 July 2022 01:19 (one year ago) link
Maybe it's just the heat, but some of those workroom outfits just look so fab and comfortable. The outfit Raja had on just after they de-dragged at the start of the episode just looked like the coolest, most easy gar-mahnt I've ever seen.
― trishyb, Saturday, 16 July 2022 10:55 (one year ago) link
Well deserved, that relaxation. Fun episode.New Canada season seems promising!
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 17 July 2022 20:15 (one year ago) link
forgot to post my thoughts on the roast ep:
- wintergreen!! it was great to have her back- a roast is not the same as the library, and a lot of the jokes were more like library reads- the lighting for the runway was weird and didn't do justice to most of the outfits
the new canada season seems underwhelming so far, the hosting is just as horrible as the first 2 seasons (it's like double the pretentiousness of the original but without any of the charm) and i'm disappointed with whom they sent home first.
― scanner darkly, Friday, 22 July 2022 00:22 (one year ago) link
loved what we could see of the runway, unbelievable outfits & creativity my godchallenge was v good, love a good roast & i kinda thought viv wouldve won outright or at least got second place on the lipsync i am aligned with willam on the race chaser pod, it was bad, i wouldnt tip i would send an invoice and that jinx looked like “a teenage bette davis in the crucible”
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 22 July 2022 02:16 (one year ago) link
Yeah, the lipsync was awful. But as soon as one queen started getting into another's airspace, it was obvious who was going to win.
― trishyb, Friday, 22 July 2022 16:44 (one year ago) link
the “twist” was one of the most rigor morrs things in the history of drag race. why couldn’t they at least make it slightly more interesting? like giving 2 stars and having a lipsync and the winner gets another star and breaks the tie? it pretty much erased the work from the previous episodes.
although not a big deal really as i learned to treat this season as a showcase and not a competition, and it’s been a really joyful season at that.
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 23 July 2022 18:35 (one year ago) link
I called the three stars before Ru said it. What I thought was really unfair to everyone involved was having Monét choose the last finalist on the spot. It really feels like a game rather than a competition at this point and even though the prize money is higher than it's ever been, the stakes don't feel that important.
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 25 July 2022 12:41 (one year ago) link
the new canada season seems underwhelming so far, the hosting is just as horrible as the first 2 seasons (it's like double the pretentiousness of the original but without any of the charm)
Brooke Lynn never seems like she's actually *talking* -- just reciting.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 25 July 2022 14:40 (one year ago) link
as adore would say, very that!
some fun math..
if they gave just 1 star in the last ep with the same winners the final four would be: jinx, trinity, monet and jaida
if there was no blocking and no handing out extra stars (so just actual wins) the final four would be:jinx, trinity, monet and the vivienne
(which explains the vivienne not looking very happy there at the end)
and on the official insta, #teamjinx has more likes than the rest combined!
― scanner darkly, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 03:54 (one year ago) link
BTW the chaos energy Vanjie brought to the Pit Stop was next level.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 04:24 (one year ago) link
lol yeah she was greatMonet’s opera was so incredible!!!!I loved Shea’s performance too; i just wish that Raja couldve been in the top for hers as well bc it was beautiful
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 05:13 (one year ago) link
i thought the energy on that pitstop was weird
and vanjie is guest judging on next canada drag race, shall be interesting
― scanner darkly, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 05:22 (one year ago) link
the finale was somewhat anticlimactic but it was nice to have a chance to see these queens lipsyncing against each other, and the rightful queen won
and holy fuck that lipsync on drag race france..
― scanner darkly, Sunday, 31 July 2022 04:18 (one year ago) link
Yeah to my mind that was the real emotional highlight of the week in Drag Race. Unexpected but I felt that.
Perfectly happy with the All Stars winners but yeah the journey was better than the end for this series. Still, fun to see it all!
Vanjie on Canada was fun. Brooke still not quite human but seems a little looser.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 31 July 2022 04:29 (one year ago) link
I’m really irritated about my favourite going home in week two of Canada’s Drag Race. She got hosed!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Sunday, 31 July 2022 11:33 (one year ago) link
Unsurprisingly Race Chaser's been perfect listening for going over the finale.
Alaska: "They don't get critiqued, they get named a thing."
Willam (flatly): "Which is...just...wonderful."
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 15:57 (one year ago) link
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 18:59 (one year ago) link
Anyway we now need The VG Report since the second season of DR Down Under has begun. Sausage sizzlers were on the menu.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 22:00 (one year ago) link
dude its all i can do to watch allstars & us seasons!i dont have Wow Plus & seriously cannot be bothered to watch nine other countries’ drag races airing seemingly simultaneously every weekits too overwhelming
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 22:04 (one year ago) link
This...is true. (Anyway I think this season feels smoother than the first one already, but we'll see. I will say the most overtly annoying 'you don't have to speak THAT loud' queen left in the first episode so that was a plus.)
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 22:05 (one year ago) link
and in other news…hell yeshttps://variety.com/2022/tv/news/marvel-ironheart-shea-coulee-rupauls-drag-race-1235332831/
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 4 August 2022 00:35 (one year ago) link
Yes I find myself lately quite confused what series I’ve been watching or is airing; between all stars, regular, Canada and France (in honour of our quebecois brethren) I just watch a constant stream of drag without really ever knowing what’s going on
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 4 August 2022 01:34 (one year ago) link
I only watch the ones that RuPaul hosts, because otherwise I spend so much time reading the subtitles that I don't get a good look at the lewks (please forgive me), and I didn't really like the first season of Canada. Also, like Veg, I just have other things in my life. But I have to have WOW+ even to see the "core" shows. The subscription is also worth it for the non-bleeped editions of UNNNnnh.
― trishyb, Thursday, 4 August 2022 07:37 (one year ago) link
This last point is urgent and key.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 August 2022 14:00 (one year ago) link
I love it so much.
― trishyb, Thursday, 4 August 2022 16:53 (one year ago) link
Today's Drag Race France was pretty good I thought! In contrast to last week's emotional-as-hell lip sync here everything built to a (kinda preordained as you could tell) three lip-sync off to determine the actual top three for the final, and it was all good spirits and being your best, combined with the makeover challenge. Kinda made up for the anticlimax of All Stars!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 August 2022 20:44 (one year ago) link
we were quite shocked to realize we watched 27 seasons so far. we've yet to see all stars season 2 - we were waiting for a break between regular seasons but it's like a full time job now. we did try to get into drag race france but with closed captioning it does feel like you're missing too much, including double entendres and inner jokes and such (still, episode 6 is a must see for any DR fan!). and drag race canada is becoming a bit of a, well, drag.
Unsurprisingly Race Chaser's been perfect listening for going over the finale.Alaska: "They don't get critiqued, they get named a thing."Willam (flatly): "Which is...just...wonderful."
with 0 critiques on all winners it's been more fun than usual watching pitstop / fashion ruview. BOOT!
― scanner darkly, Friday, 5 August 2022 02:50 (one year ago) link
Hahah yes I've been slack on the Ruview, I'm sure Violet was not having it at least half the time.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 5 August 2022 04:19 (one year ago) link
Man, Down Under is so amateur looking. Not just the queens themselves (hi dere parade of corsets with stuff glued on), but the whole production. The lighting is awful, the editing is odd, and the whole thing just looks like it was put together for fifty quid. It's a good thing the queens are so funny.
― trishyb, Friday, 5 August 2022 14:39 (one year ago) link
This is VERY true.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 5 August 2022 14:56 (one year ago) link
Huge outdoors drag show here in Montréal last night for Fierté/Pride. Hosted by Rita Baga, who did an awesome job, highlights included La Big Bertha, Priyanka, Nicky Doll, Kylie Sonique Love, Silky Nutmeg Ganache, Ada Vox, Pithya, Ra'Ja O'Hara, Lawrence Cheney, and so many more I can't remember right now. They ended the show with a medley of 20 Céline Dion song clips done by each queen. It was a lot of fun !
we did try to get into drag race france but with closed captioning it does feel like you're missing too much, including double entendres and inner jokes and such
I've only seen the first episode, but I can't turn off the English subtitles for some reason and they are pretty bad. Not only for the humor, sometimes it's just plain mistakes.
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 5 August 2022 20:55 (one year ago) link
Good lord, that's a great fucking lineup.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 5 August 2022 21:08 (one year ago) link
the last canada ep lipsync was pretty fierce, i half expected double save but that would break this season established tradition of reliably getting rid of the most promising queens
― scanner darkly, Tuesday, 16 August 2022 03:33 (one year ago) link
Oh, is Down Under sponsored by Samsung? I hardly noticed!
― trishyb, Saturday, 27 August 2022 13:12 (one year ago) link
(I don't care, it's just funny how they 'subtly' try to work in the new flip phones.)
Ha I didn't even think of that but of course. (Clearly it's working on me!)
Drag Race Philippines has been pretty enjoyable so far, honestly.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 28 August 2022 00:38 (one year ago) link
Drag Race Down Under had a satisfactory conclusion, but then I was a bit put off when I read that the winner had previously won a Shmu Shmaul's Shmag Shmace competition in 2020. Which also explains why there's a Drag Race Down Under in the first place.
I also watched the first episode of Jinkx's Sketchy Queens, and it wasn't incredible, but I enjoyed it. It deserves extra writers and a wider audience.
― trishyb, Saturday, 17 September 2022 10:08 (one year ago) link
half-assedly dragging myself through the UK season but at least we got what was one of the best exits in the franchise history
― scanner darkly, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 02:46 (one year ago) link
Truly was!
Drag Race Philippines was amazing BTW, might be my favorite iteration since Spain debuted.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 03:49 (one year ago) link
Drag Race UK is still going, in case anyone was wondering. And the acting challenge was terrible, as per.
― trishyb, Friday, 11 November 2022 14:37 (one year ago) link
Season 15! Just me, eh? Seems like we could have some fireworks this season.
― trishyb, Saturday, 7 January 2023 23:48 (one year ago) link
I have to catch up with the premiere next week, but I saw they’re pushing the “not rupauls best friend race” angle this season
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Sunday, 8 January 2023 00:17 (one year ago) link
xpost Not just you! Caught up this afternoon. Glad they are basically getting right into it with queens going, but I suspect we're going to have a drawn out season anyway somehow with the MTV boostup. No faves yet but I'm liking a lot of them.
Quick catchup elsewhere that, besides Drag Race Philippines as noted earlier, second season of Drag Race Italia was waaaaay better than the first, they've found their groove now, and it's a good match for the Spanish one. Looking forward to what's next. Liked Drag Race UK well enough, good winner overall. Canada vs. the World was a bit of a timekiller but fun moments. Wondering what happened to Drag Race Holland, should have had season three by now...
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 8 January 2023 00:26 (one year ago) link
(Also this thread is almost ten years old now. Crazy to think of it!)
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 8 January 2023 00:47 (one year ago) link
And season seven of Unnnhhhhh was magnificent. I love those idiots.
― trishyb, Sunday, 8 January 2023 00:50 (one year ago) link
Utterly great. Can't wait to see what the 200th episode will be.
Relatedly, a very good season of We're Here just wrapped up as well. It almost felt like a series finale at the end too, which given the HBO/Warners weirdness this past year wouldn't surprise me, but hopefully not.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 8 January 2023 01:12 (one year ago) link
Yeah that We’re Here Florida two-parter was v compelling
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 8 January 2023 01:27 (one year ago) link
Anetra: her routine was great but I'm honestly worried that she kicked Bryce's hand?Sugar/Spice: Glad they wear their names on a necklace because I'm never going to be able to tell who's who, also, idg the reaction to their performances, which were both one-note and kind of amateurish.Sasha: I'm here for her DGAF mom vibes and "Zombie."Marcia^3: hands-down the best thing I've seen on this show in a LONG timeAura: for all her bulldozing over the other choreographers in the group number, her solo wasn't very good! No real build-up, no shades in her performance.
― Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Monday, 9 January 2023 00:39 (one year ago) link
Yeah that choice of Sasha's was inspired.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 January 2023 00:39 (one year ago) link
Also, Aura we get it, you have muscles, you can stop flexing them now.
― Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Monday, 9 January 2023 05:19 (one year ago) link
surprisingly more into it than expected after dragging myself through canada vs the world
maybe it’s because it does seem like there is a lot of charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent in this group so far? although it seems it’s getting to the point where if you don’t have a black belt in taekwondo or 1mil followed don’t even think about trying for this show. 4 of them being from connecticut is a bit weird.
they’re gonna setup a lipsync between the twins, aren’t they. speaking of, the shower cap thing would actually be funny if it was used in the other photoshoot.
surprised with the porkchop choice, figured she’d be positioned as the villain of the season
― scanner darkly, Monday, 9 January 2023 05:32 (one year ago) link
A villainous departure! Yeah the Connecticut Cabal is unexpected. Can’t call her a dark horse with her top three placement but I have a good feeling about Jax.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 January 2023 06:24 (one year ago) link
yeah, Jax was great!
—
i’m sensing they’re setting up “seasoned queens vs tiktok queens” drama
― scanner darkly, Monday, 9 January 2023 06:41 (one year ago) link
Mistress: she's going to need more than wig glue to cover up that glaring insecurity.
I was cackling at Michelle's lawn guy land narration during the runway.
― Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Monday, 9 January 2023 17:27 (one year ago) link
Bigger and bigger:
https://deadline.com/2023/01/rupauls-drag-race-season-15-premiere-ratings-mtv-1235215408/
RuPaul’s Drag Race rang in its move to MTV with a ratings win. The Season 15 premiere was the highest-rated in six years with a 0.63 rating among the advertiser-targeted 18-49 demographic.That’s up 20% in ratings from the Season 14 premiere, which managed a 0.53 in the demo. It ranked as the No. 1 cable entertainment telecast of the day.
That’s up 20% in ratings from the Season 14 premiere, which managed a 0.53 in the demo. It ranked as the No. 1 cable entertainment telecast of the day.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 21:28 (one year ago) link
Also I need to get back on track posting ancillary stuff because there was a lot! And a lot of it was great!
Pit Stop now hosted by Bianca del Rio (score) and initial guests were Ben and Jinkx (double score)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppS0og2KxSE
Whatcha Packin' as always
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veVVYuQcbuQ
Double Fashion Photo RuView! (Just the first, the second one might only still be on WOWPresents+ right now, but it's there.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B00BCCZalhs
And what I was waiting for today, Willam and Alaska take it all apart:
https://megaphone.link/FODP9637244784
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 21:36 (one year ago) link
the twins’ facial resemblance to derrick barry is freaking me out
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 12 January 2023 05:49 (one year ago) link
Hahaha hadn't thought of that but you know...maybe they were cloned in a vat.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 January 2023 05:52 (one year ago) link
miss thing who sang live was really spared an early guillotine, imo
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 12 January 2023 07:23 (one year ago) link
Amazing FB comment about the twins: "out of makeup Sugar & Spice look exactly like Venture Bros"
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 January 2023 15:47 (one year ago) link
they're also giving like... jedward? you could really build out a whole constellation of celebrity culture that they're in the lineage of
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 12 January 2023 18:29 (one year ago) link
prob shouldn’t be surprising given how cultural nostalgia works but it’s funny how many of these younger queens do ditzy materialistic paris hilton type characters… of course they use the phrase Y2K. to me it’s all very kim petras which is a bit of a snooze conceptually and aesthetically given that she got there 5+ years ago. plus no one is ever gonna top willow pill’s entrance look from last season as far as these things go
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 12 January 2023 18:59 (one year ago) link
Truth, that.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 January 2023 19:00 (one year ago) link
We're definitely well into the era of 'oh right, these queens are the same age as Lil Nas X...wait, YOUNGER.'
Good grief, so the combination of going back to just being an hour long with this many more queens meant this episode was like an insane speed run. (And next week is Snatch Game? How in the world are they going to make THAT work?)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 14 January 2023 05:43 (one year ago) link
yeah not loving shorter episodes.
one of the least graceful exits tonight?
expecting great things from loosey!
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 14 January 2023 06:46 (one year ago) link
the runway editing was notably arrhythmic in this episode. made the whole thing feel like an afterthought. very weird
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 14 January 2023 08:06 (one year ago) link
Haven't dived back in yet, but excited for them to be back on shorter episodes. 90 minutes is deadly.
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Saturday, 14 January 2023 14:32 (one year ago) link
in canada it’s on cable so without ads it’s 40 min now - at this rate pitstop might be longer than the actual episodes!
they should’ve kept the judges discussion part imo
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 14 January 2023 18:25 (one year ago) link
Yeah it's weird not to have at least a "SILENCE!"
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 14 January 2023 18:30 (one year ago) link
I’m fully on board with killing some darlings at this point … bloat is one of the things that’s diminished the show to my eyes
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Saturday, 14 January 2023 18:42 (one year ago) link
I do wonder how much of this is potential overcorrection in terms of getting rid of chaff!
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 14 January 2023 18:58 (one year ago) link
(That said there is also this new WeHo friends series that's getting aggressively promoted and starts next week, and I assume it's a WoW production too, so I'm guessing that's a factor, especially since it'll run in between the episode and Untucked. Which is a good way for me to just watch the episode and then watch Untucked the next day.)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 14 January 2023 19:00 (one year ago) link
this season does seem reenergized at least
we still can’t get untucked in canada which is a travesty
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 14 January 2023 19:02 (one year ago) link
What kind of savage land do you live in
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 14 January 2023 19:12 (one year ago) link
have you seen drag race canada
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 14 January 2023 19:15 (one year ago) link
Well, that's not so much savagery as a cargo cult
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 14 January 2023 19:19 (one year ago) link
Anyway, ancillary stuff!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfLZDe53DgI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZDrN7fP4q0
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 January 2023 03:35 (one year ago) link
ok late to the party, fully caught up now. Enjoying the season so far, it’s been pretty fun! My favorites are Sasha Colby (obv) and Anetra, but I also enjoy Malaysia Foxx because I love a big southern queen. I wasn’t sure abt Lux at first but now def growing on me (her glitter bodysuit in the talent show may have swayed me). The twins are interesting & clearly talented, curious to see how they play out. Mistress is interesting too, she seems to have a lot of layers to her personality. Loving her runway looks so far.
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 15 January 2023 03:48 (one year ago) link
Yeah generally that's about where I'm at with people to focus on, plus Jax still. Not sure yet who the season 'narrator' will be, there's usually someone who starts taking on the obvious role with time.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 January 2023 03:50 (one year ago) link
Untucked is on OutTV after the episode.
― LeRooLeRoo, Sunday, 15 January 2023 03:54 (one year ago) link
I know it could be read differently but i really liked in untucked that Mistress gave solid advice to queens like Marcia & Sugar i like that as a seasoned queen she’s not trying to be threatened by the newbies or crush their aspirations yknow
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 15 January 2023 04:00 (one year ago) link
xp for some reason i thought they only had older seasons and crave had the exclusive rights to new seasons - thank you, just subscribed!
― scanner darkly, Sunday, 15 January 2023 04:05 (one year ago) link
That was a very rushed episode, and also I think it's fine when it's Trixie and Katya or other established queens, but some of the newer acts might want to be careful about taking the piss out of straight white women who show up to meet and greets and drag brunches.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 16:22 (one year ago) link
Thanks for posting twice, stupid internet.
i don’t think anyone’s feelings could get hurt over the piss being taken so poorly loli mean, that whole thing was just “wuh?”
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 16:47 (one year ago) link
Oh yeah, it was a deeeesaster.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 16:49 (one year ago) link
ok almost all of that Snatch Game was wtf but the untucked was really good?
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 21 January 2023 05:24 (one year ago) link
it’s no secret this show suffered from bloat in recent seasons but the 1 hour edits this season are pretty off putting … it has the effect of making the episodes feel like a series of marks to be hit. the inspirational personal story segment felt especially shoehorned in this episode. the runways have been truncated all season. no mini challenges. it’s like watching the show on 1.5 speed. doing 2 diff snatch games in one episode would be a lot in a previous season but in this format it left a lot to be desired. the consultations with ru are often the best parts of snatch game episodes, just completely removed in this one. can’t imagine an extra 15 mins would kill MTV
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 21 January 2023 05:52 (one year ago) link
yeah it feels very FINE HERE’S YER SLOP of course here i am still watching anyway
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 21 January 2023 06:25 (one year ago) link
the best things about this episode was1) untucked and2 pitstop w Bianca & Adore <3
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 21 January 2023 18:12 (one year ago) link
yeah not loving shorter episodes at all, which is weird because the old format could feel like a drag at times
but they’re cutting the parts that made this show special. anticipation of the snatch game, ru sabotaging, queens changing their minds at the last minute
the actual snatch game edit was weird too. we hardly saw sasha at all?
we somehow skipped all stars 2 and watching it now and it’s funny how pitstop used to be like 10 min long
as for the bottom two i said to husband, this is their chance to have the twins lipsync and sure enough. the untucked was essential context this time and really went a long way to show the twins in a more sympathetic way.
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 21 January 2023 18:15 (one year ago) link
loved the pit crew being involved though. we need a pit crew makeover challenge!
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 21 January 2023 18:18 (one year ago) link
yeah that was fun having the pit crew involved
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 21 January 2023 18:40 (one year ago) link
Yeah Untucked & Pit Stop were definitely necessary this time around. Whoof.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 22 January 2023 01:02 (one year ago) link
But also agreed on Pit Crew involvement, that was overdue and well done!
But anyway throwing in those extras
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP9wX5Wz-fk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz9sv0frhR0
Also earlier this week, a forever champion continuing greatness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBV6hD44hbs
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 22 January 2023 01:03 (one year ago) link
Oh and I was lax -- RuView from last time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZPXArFM-bA
And Willam and Alaska in turn:
https://megaphone.link/FODP4257049036
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 22 January 2023 01:05 (one year ago) link
I just rewatched the Pit Stop with Adore again because it really is so good. There are very few people who can say "NO!" and somehow still have me laughing about it five minutes later.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 22 January 2023 02:26 (one year ago) link
And she brings out the best in Bianca imo … I like them both so much when they’re together
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 22 January 2023 05:20 (one year ago) link
Sugar's name necklace is very similar to the necklace that Shah Rukh Khan wears in the 1998 classic Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, except his says "COOL" because he's cool. When my obsessions collide.https://images.news18.com/ibnlive/uploads/2018/10/kuch-kuch-hota-hai2.jpg
― trishyb, Sunday, 22 January 2023 23:07 (one year ago) link
OMG <3
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 January 2023 00:50 (one year ago) link
I dunno, I'm having the opposite reaction to this season. I've been exhausted by the longer format and a return to 40-minute length has been a lot more effective in keeping my attention (granted I've noticed that my capacity for patience has really gotten shallow for everything lately). Is it formulaic about hitting marks? Sure, but I also think that the twins talking about Untucked were just as pro forma and more to the point turning trauma into reality tv currency in order to fit it into the usual narratives (I fully admit that this might just be my bourgie distaste for airing familial drama in public).
― Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Monday, 23 January 2023 19:55 (one year ago) link
I will now start a fight with you to increase ratings.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 January 2023 21:13 (one year ago) link
i didn't realize until this weekend that they shortened the episodes not out of any creative inspiration but just so that they could use drag race as a lead in to real friends of west hollywood while sandwiching it with untucked in an attempt, i guess, to hold the drag race audience hostage. bad!
― J0rdan S., Monday, 23 January 2023 21:23 (one year ago) link
Very bad! Willam and Alaska, Willam in particular, has been calling this out on the podcast for a few weeks now.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 January 2023 21:24 (one year ago) link
i watched all of last season standing in a jam packed bar i'm really sympathetic to the notion that the episodes were too lengthy but now i feel mad on principal aside from the fact that the show was noticeably losing some of its verve w/ the truncated runway edits & such. i think last week it was really noticeable bcuz they managed to accomplish the trick of double feeding us snatch game while simultaneously getting rid of all the stuff that actually made snatch game interesting (the parts leading up to it)
― J0rdan S., Monday, 23 January 2023 21:27 (one year ago) link
thinking about it more i think what was wearing on me was less the length of the episodes & more the length of the seasons. between the double premiere, no one going home until episode 4 and chocolate bar stuff last season it just felt like a bit of a sick joke. but i think when it comes to watching a discreet episode i want the extra 15 minutes
― J0rdan S., Monday, 23 January 2023 21:31 (one year ago) link
i will say that i feel swept up in the intense backlash to the west hollywood show & todrick hall in particular w/o having watched any of it just bcuz i now suspect that MTV's entire reason for picking up drag race was to try and use it to start its own real housewives franchise? it's funny bcuz i couldn't picture myself felling protective of drag race at this juncture but it all feels very offensive to me on like a molecular level
― J0rdan S., Monday, 23 January 2023 21:34 (one year ago) link
I know nothing of this (except what I read on Tom and Lorenzo), but I thought Todrick Hall was firmly cancelled for, among other things, not paying dancers?
― trishyb, Monday, 23 January 2023 21:44 (one year ago) link
xpost Agreed on all that. Willam's mentioned things like how half the cast are in the Valley anyway (typical, I figure) and apparently something how one almost cast member was denied because of their onlyfans? If I'm remembering that right.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 January 2023 21:44 (one year ago) link
todrick hall was cancelled online but not cancelled when you're trying to make a TV show about semi famous gay men in LA and you need to find a headliner who is maybe a little bit more famous than the rest of them. but it seems that MTV is learning the hard way that the intended audience for this show really does not fuck w/ todrick hall
― J0rdan S., Monday, 23 January 2023 21:56 (one year ago) link
I think this show is over, pretty decisively
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Tuesday, 24 January 2023 01:53 (one year ago) link
Drag Race or WeHo?
(both, of course)
― Murgatroid, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 02:21 (one year ago) link
WeHo was over before it even started
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Tuesday, 24 January 2023 12:59 (one year ago) link
As a WOW subscriber, I feel I should be entitled to longer episodes than MTV viewers are getting.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 13:40 (one year ago) link
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Monday, January 23, 2023 8:53 PM (yesterday)
i wanna feel this way but symone & willow pill are two of the greatest queens to ever appear on the show & basically justify the entire enterprise even as it's become a borderline intolerable parody of itself in many ways. elevating two performers w/ that kinda charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent is more than you could say for many hollywood or television studios let alone reality shows in their 15th season. but it doesn't feel like that kinda person is present in this season, so maybe you're right
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 24 January 2023 16:57 (one year ago) link
Agree with all that; at worst, it's still around as a very popular vehicle to launch great personalities. But the show itself is ... just rote and in need of some kind of big shakeup.
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Tuesday, 24 January 2023 17:33 (one year ago) link
I think the following two points are probably (definitely) tied together but a) Ru needs to step down and let someone co-host/lead the show and b) they need to greatly expand their parameters of their still-too-narrow aesthetic - Willow Pill and Sharon Needles should not still be outliers
― Murgatroid, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 19:03 (one year ago) link
I guess Willow Pill is not an aesthetic outlier as much as a personality thing but you get the gist
― Murgatroid, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 19:04 (one year ago) link
there are so many drag queens I know of, both local and IG-famous, who I'd love to see compete but will never get a shot in this current environment
― Murgatroid, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 19:06 (one year ago) link
i'm seeing willow perform on friday...
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 24 January 2023 19:12 (one year ago) link
I can get on board with the "The show is too focused on glamor" train -- that's been the biggest source of enervation for me (not to mention the wallets of the contestants).
― Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Tuesday, 24 January 2023 22:19 (one year ago) link
my worry is that with the new format/provider they’ll lose all the wonderful stupidity that made the show great in the first place
― scanner darkly, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 03:37 (one year ago) link
Michelle Visage has spent so much time in London that she was seen eating spotted dick on the left side of the road.
― Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Thursday, 26 January 2023 18:54 (one year ago) link
Oh and update time -- RuView!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWdKr81ZK_g
And Willam and Alaska:
https://megaphone.link/FODP4242606848
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 26 January 2023 19:06 (one year ago) link
So a better episode this week. Even the quick clips of the reading challenge was smart.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 28 January 2023 05:11 (one year ago) link
lol I think I must be in Bizzaroworld because THIS last episode felt too compressed!
― John Mayer McCheese (Leee), Monday, 30 January 2023 18:21 (one year ago) link
Ha! It all goes around:
Pit Stop w/Detox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umDSqorytQo
Whatcha Packin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXVk54zBz_c
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 January 2023 18:30 (one year ago) link
the latest photo fashion ruview was very funny in that it was the opposite of what the judges said on pretty much everything
― scanner darkly, Friday, 3 February 2023 02:54 (one year ago) link
Haha true. And here's that link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsq0az7m7mY
https://megaphone.link/FODP4702877822
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 3 February 2023 03:01 (one year ago) link
This episode felt timekillery but at least we're still winnowing down. Untucked with the Old Gays was the best part.
Pit Stop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHrMFX1umBg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHj6IMjvhtU
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 5 February 2023 19:13 (one year ago) link
maybe i’d have less of an issue with shorter episodes if they didn’t spend half of the time having an argument over who gets the metal song and the rest of the time talking about the argument
― scanner darkly, Sunday, 5 February 2023 19:27 (one year ago) link
otmseriously fucking kill meand then the same rehashed argument in untucked ffsalso loooool @ marcia thinking she was in the top for a) no old-age makeup and b) that fucking runway look are u joking
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 5 February 2023 19:43 (one year ago) link
Ancillary note but this was fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HvD8gaehF4
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 5 February 2023 22:51 (one year ago) link
particularly because it was 10 min where they did not talk about who deserved the metal song
princess poppy: “it looks like she just threw it together”everybody else: “she did, it was a sewing challenge”
― scanner darkly, Monday, 6 February 2023 00:07 (one year ago) link
lol back to 90 mins next month
bullying works
(or not since Best Friends of Hoes will be done by then anyway)
also I like how enough queens will have left by then that it'll feel like it's dragging
thanks MTV
― Murgatroid, Thursday, 9 February 2023 18:31 (one year ago) link
If nothing else I think that'll mean they won't try stuff like THAT again.
Anyway, ancillary fun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcLha7A-o-I
https://megaphone.link/FODP6000169696
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 February 2023 16:00 (one year ago) link
I mean, if I'm to be honest with myself, the reason why I don't like longer-format Drag Race is because I basically no longer like Drag Race.
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Friday, 10 February 2023 16:04 (one year ago) link
A fair judgment!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 February 2023 16:10 (one year ago) link
Maybe I've just been successfully seduced over to the Boulet Brothers' world in Dragula.
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Friday, 10 February 2023 16:12 (one year ago) link
Let a million flowers bloom
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 February 2023 16:25 (one year ago) link
lol so they added 10 min for more #metalgate and to bring back daytona winds?
the only 2 redeeming moments were “miss vanjie” and “cue a sniper”
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 11 February 2023 05:26 (one year ago) link
That last part was an amazing moment.No minutes added though? Still only an hour.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 11 February 2023 06:39 (one year ago) link
you’re right, we get it through a subscription, so no commercials, and i misread the total time as the remaining time when we were 10 mins into it
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 11 February 2023 18:23 (one year ago) link
JFC that was bad.
I hated that mincing trot when Olivia Luxx did it and I'm completely over it with Spice.
― Shartreuse (Leee), Saturday, 11 February 2023 20:09 (one year ago) link
the lipsync was pretty greatthe challenge was meh. malaysia & mistress were fun tho & good final moment w the special guest. but jesus, even for a dopey sitcom challenge the editing on the final video was overkill to ridic levels. embarrassing. loosey laduca is bringing a lot of jan energy now with her “i should have been in the top” & that always leads me to pray for a spectacular flameout … so fingers crossed?inject sasha colby’s runway into my veins so good
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 February 2023 20:15 (one year ago) link
kandy & bianca on pitstop is a gift btw
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 February 2023 20:29 (one year ago) link
Jax definitely turned out for that lipsync.
I kind of think that Anetra's comedy skills are overlooking something very fundamental, like she's giving total dead-face that makes the jokes fall flat, and so I was surprised that she got into the top (then we would've been spared Loosey moaning about being safe).
― Shartreuse (Leee), Saturday, 11 February 2023 20:33 (one year ago) link
Oh great another lipsync smackdown next week. Can Marsha*3 or S-titties sashay away already?
― octobeard, Sunday, 12 February 2023 09:08 (one year ago) link
I miss the chemistry and creativity of last season's group so much
― octobeard, Sunday, 12 February 2023 09:09 (one year ago) link
Ahead of tomorrow, a little ancillary catchup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-Ox6rdesoI
https://megaphone.link/FODP8350334379
Meantime: saw the premiere of Drag Race Belgique today. Rita's a solid host and the vibe was engagingly low key, and I mean that as a compliment. It felt more affable and supporting than DRAMA, and I don't mind it.
Also we've got Drag Race Sverige aka Sweden starting up in a little over two weeks...
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 17 February 2023 05:06 (one year ago) link
Loved Sasha's stone cold professionalism: "I know the song, I know the stage."
Respect to Anetra for choosing not to steamroll Spice but that would've been entertaining.
Mistress doing the titty pop once was cute, doing it twice in the same song makes me question how deep her bag of tricks is.
The Untucked montage of all the acrobatic moves with Salina's belly flop was perfect.
― Shartreuse (Leee), Saturday, 18 February 2023 23:08 (one year ago) link
Selena’s lipsync made me finally come around on enjoying her Love Anetra, so classy, very badass. Sasha Colby ICON LEGEND AMAZINGWhen it comes down to it, I just really hated every single one of jax’s wigs and i never got past it. She always looked like she had no neck. Impressive performer tho!
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 February 2023 23:24 (one year ago) link
loocey is going full jan with her delusion levels
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 February 2023 23:25 (one year ago) link
Her Joan Rivers was great but said delusion is honestly her next best, most watchable quality.
― Shartreuse (Leee), Saturday, 18 February 2023 23:43 (one year ago) link
Episode was great, but I feel like a lot of the wins were awarded according to producers' pre-decided storyline. I agreed with the girls in the werkroom, I thought Jax killed it against Mistress.
Sasha is just in a league of her own for me. Talented, likeable, professional, sickening, I hope she wins.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 21 February 2023 16:34 (one year ago) link
Easily in the top four. Who else at this point, you think?
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 February 2023 17:21 (one year ago) link
comparing this ep to last season’s reinforced how much lower stakes feel this season
i was also surprised nobody seemed to employ willow’s strategy of “pick the queen that will pick the song i want” although the untucked addressed that somewhat.
loved how this ep improved the standing of the queens that didn’t get a chance to showcase yet (selena, marcia)
When it comes down to it, I just really hated every single one of jax’s wigs and i never got past it. She always looked like she had no neck. Impressive performer tho!
otm. also, she’s very technical/precise but there is just certain something missing, like, relax and just have some fun! she reminds me of denali that way.
lots or rigor morris in this ep for sure but if nothing else it was worth it for the aretra vs sasha lipsync.
my top 4 at this point would probably be: sasha, aretra, luxx and selena
(interesting detail in the untucked about sasha losing some competition to selina)
― scanner darkly, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 19:21 (one year ago) link
sasha wont win the whole thing shes too established/old
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 20:50 (one year ago) link
yeah, not enough of a story arc
― scanner darkly, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 21:20 (one year ago) link
lol i don’t know why i keep calling anetra aretra
― scanner darkly, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 21:21 (one year ago) link
I don't think the c.u.n.t. level is as high as it was last season with Willow, Angeria, Camden, Kornbread, Bosco, Daya, even Jorgeous.
My top at this moment would be Sasha, Mistress, Anetra and a toss up between Salina, Luxx and Marcia.
I love Malaysia, buy I feel she's missing some confidence and it's hurting her.
Spice should've left last week.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 23 February 2023 17:57 (one year ago) link
Either it's a very nothing year or the editing is terrible (or it's me, maybe it's me?), because I just can't muster any interest in any of these people. Nobody is funny, nobody is particularly smart. Everything feels like something we've seen before. Anetra and Sasha are the only two I can picture in the final.
― trishyb, Saturday, 25 February 2023 11:58 (one year ago) link
combination of editing? (shorter time mebbe - tho the early seasons were only an hour and did give drama), burnout? i couldnt make my way thru season 14 and just retried and still could not do it
queens less interesting? the whole ppl who grew up watching show as opposed to being out in clubs etc debate?
challenges not as much fun? (as always more sewing!, more drag on a dime, etc better imo)
i'm at least watching this one but not invested - guessing yeah sasha, anetra, mistress, plus? at this point
that said, anetra (baby detox) is kinda fun, her dismissal of spice as a lip sync challenge last week was cute - cant kill a baby deer - liked her eleganza this week but outfits otherwise not been amazing, sasha is fine but outside of her zombie lip sync which was cool not that excitingmarcia is trying finally and finally got rid of the nose gagmistress is fun only in shit stirring but otherwise just fine
― H in Addis, Saturday, 25 February 2023 13:47 (one year ago) link
I still think their ridiculous idea of putting in a separate show between the main one and Untucked sucks. (And they're continuing to do that next week anyway! With an even more unrelated show?)
Anyway the Spice must flow. I mean go. (And did.)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 February 2023 17:14 (one year ago) link
Anyway new Pit Stop and it's Alyssa Edwards, so I'm sure there's a comment from her about Luxx's impersonation...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcDIbpMlxGw
Plus Whatcha as always
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6igKPm0d3YE
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 February 2023 17:23 (one year ago) link
it’s a bad season when you anticipate the pit stop more than the actual show
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 25 February 2023 18:08 (one year ago) link
i love loosey’s self-own with her ugly-ass “runner-up” dress that honestly looked like she made it for someone a full 6 inches shorter yet she made it for herself go figure and martha just snorting rails of delusion now too lol. she should have been in the top? THIS top? on THIS drag race! i mean. if anyone’s drag screams middling safe realness it’s her lol but go off not sad about lack of spice going forward, but did like how kind Mistress was to her and my top three for sure Sasha, Anetra & Mistress. I think Lux needs to let go a little more & not be so on-brand always. Reminda me of the first early episodes of Naomi in her season. Once Naomi started being stupid & enjoying herself she like BECAME the Naomi we love. Because we can already see the beauty & the legs, you can be giving AND be a dork & not ruin the vibe.
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 February 2023 21:19 (one year ago) link
I think I'm the closest thing to a Marcia stan and I was also like, "Your look is a bustier with some beads. At least Luxx has a credible argument."
― Shartreuse (Leee), Saturday, 25 February 2023 21:25 (one year ago) link
she’s safe even even if this was the Louis XVI/Marie Antoinette Ball
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 February 2023 21:36 (one year ago) link
wow - such an incredibly dumb article -https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/rupauls-drag-race-recap-spice-changed-what-it-means-to-be-punk?ref=author
― H in Addis, Saturday, 25 February 2023 21:58 (one year ago) link
That's a URL I'm NOT bothering to click.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 February 2023 22:07 (one year ago) link
yeah, not worth your time unless want to explore really bad writing and thinking
― H in Addis, Saturday, 25 February 2023 22:09 (one year ago) link
you would think so but no
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 February 2023 23:08 (one year ago) link
Strange slumgullion of an episode -- but then again, so is the season. Once again the Pit Stop was the better chaos factor, and at least we're still steadily working down the size of the group here.
Drag Race Sweden started today meantime and I do like all the little variations each incarnation does, like turning the lights off at the end of the workday etc. (I was also surprised to realize that when they offered immunity today I was all "Oh yeah, they don't really do that any more!") More emotional out of the gate as well than I would have guessed.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 4 March 2023 23:50 (one year ago) link
the challenge was interesting but most of them kinda whiffed on it, which surprised me. loosey was the only one (to me) who really nailed the interview but gah her runway look was a no for me - she looked like Wynnona Judd more than she looked like Bey! no offense to wynonna. bummed there was no lemonade or homecoming beyonce lookmistress’s destiny’s child look was hilarious & great and sasha looked amaaaaaaaazing
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 4 March 2023 23:54 (one year ago) link
Yeah those were two true highlights!
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 4 March 2023 23:57 (one year ago) link
i thought malaysia won the lipsync tbh but i think i was just going off selena losing her wig & being messy
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 5 March 2023 00:13 (one year ago) link
I liked Sasha riding the Charo kooky cuchi train, which felt a lot more spontaneous and fun than Loose's interview.
― Shartreuse (Leee), Sunday, 5 March 2023 02:01 (one year ago) link
the heavy handed editing of the interviews was weird considering it didn't support the judging decisions. based on what we saw, loosey was the only one who had any resemblance of control over her interview.
― scanner darkly, Sunday, 5 March 2023 18:11 (one year ago) link
oh i forgot one more thingmarcia’s beyonce runway!?!?!?!??the best i can say is it looked like a small-town high school prom dress circa 1991, she got it from the “classy” dress shop & mom paid at least $100 for it. terrible. just terrible
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 5 March 2023 21:06 (one year ago) link
yeah, marcia should’ve been in the bottom
― scanner darkly, Sunday, 5 March 2023 21:27 (one year ago) link
Bianca's Pit Stop reaction to that look was everything.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 5 March 2023 22:19 (one year ago) link
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 6 March 2023 01:01 (one year ago) link
Kinda loved how the mini challenge was just trundling along and then Sasha wiped the floor with everyone beforehand.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 11 March 2023 04:13 (one year ago) link
omg sasha in that mini challenge = incredible loosey & lux were the obvious winners of the challenge bc everyone else kinda stunk lol loosey’s runway look & esp the makeup was a huge YEESH for me Lux of course killed it with that Ru lookloved Sasha’s runway, love how she always understands the assignment lipsync was pretty freaking great
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 March 2023 16:13 (one year ago) link
Yeah that was a treat, granted the episodes are back to the length they should be at last but I appreciated them showing what looked like the whole thing.
Plastique Tiara on Pit Stop and Beyonce mentions = comedy for days.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 12 March 2023 16:25 (one year ago) link
If some other lip sync results in a double shantay, I'm going to be pissed.
― Shartreuse (Leee), Sunday, 12 March 2023 16:51 (one year ago) link
That really was an actually good Rusical there. All too apt as well!
Still I was hoping for a different end result because that would have eventually meant an all top four that was POC/not white, which I don't think has ever happened in the show, and even regardless of that, Ms LaDuca is wearying me greatly -- but there's still next week.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 18 March 2023 17:30 (one year ago) link
loosey is more jan than jan ever was
RUTH deserved a much better lipsync, should’ve been a double sashay
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 18 March 2023 18:04 (one year ago) link
I was half thinking that! No energy.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 18 March 2023 18:13 (one year ago) link
yeah god that lipsync was a crime of boredom, kate bush is a DANCER maybe DANCE to the song ughlux’s “lemme tell you about EACH of these girls AND drag loosey for filth” was A+ tv this girl has reality tv producer in her bones
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 March 2023 20:27 (one year ago) link
rusical was pretty great though, mistress & anetra were so good
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 March 2023 20:28 (one year ago) link
Loosey isn't even an interesting villain anymore. And the way she's been overdrawing her top lip has been unflattering and distracting.
― Shartreuse (Leee), Sunday, 19 March 2023 05:32 (one year ago) link
lol agree
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 March 2023 15:39 (one year ago) link
Meantime both Belgique and Sverige have been kicking along pretty well annnnnnd guess what's about back:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuxQKiTEZTE
Debut April 16th.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 20 March 2023 01:30 (one year ago) link
I honestly can't get over this:
https://thetab.com/uk/2023/03/17/let-loose-how-loosey-laducas-drag-race-talent-show-became-the-viral-song-of-the-summer-299600
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 March 2023 16:44 (one year ago) link
Thank Christ, THAT result was overdue. And definitive.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 March 2023 04:31 (one year ago) link
honestly they did a great job across the board w the makeovers, the skill level was pretty high!
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 March 2023 18:44 (one year ago) link
It was! Good theme for the episode in general
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 March 2023 19:49 (one year ago) link
i loved the bibe btw sasha & her teacher, they were like instant besties
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 March 2023 20:10 (one year ago) link
VIBE jesus
I hope everyone's blood pressure is OK because Loosey served up a whole heap of salt at the end there.
I'm a little surprised that the teachers gave their full names because given the current state of things I can easily see them getting harassed for being on the show (and I certainly hope I'm wrong there).
― Shartreuse (Leee), Saturday, 25 March 2023 21:12 (one year ago) link
yeah i mean Loosey def got the rough end of the editing/producing stick but she is also deeply deluded & thats why she made for good reality tv
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 March 2023 22:38 (one year ago) link
Tired of:
- Mistress's eras- Sasha's confessional gloves- Luxx's confessional hat that makes her look like she's 12.
― Shartreuse (Leee), Sunday, 2 April 2023 01:18 (eleven months ago) link
tired of SPOILER ending i still love Sasha forever
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 2 April 2023 01:46 (eleven months ago) link
Yeah this whole week was just kind of pointless.
― Shartreuse (Leee), Sunday, 2 April 2023 01:59 (eleven months ago) link
Very. Guess they had to fill out a contract.
Meantime, a crossover I did not expect!
https://gizmodo.com/doctor-who-jinkx-monsoon-season-14-2024-bbc-drag-race-1850294231
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 April 2023 21:16 (eleven months ago) link
Watching the reunion, Poppy and Robin felt like years ago.
― Shartreuse (Leee), Saturday, 8 April 2023 21:54 (eleven months ago) link
Really did! Enjoyable watch but there were times I was all "Wait that was this season?"
Drag Race Belgique ended its first season the other day -- good winner and the whole thing was very entertaining! Rita Baga made an excellent host for sure. Be nice if there'll be more (still waiting on Drag Race Holland to hopefully come back for a third season...).
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 8 April 2023 22:01 (eleven months ago) link
Jeezes this episode feels like 40 inches.
― Shartreuse (Leee), Saturday, 8 April 2023 23:01 (eleven months ago) link
i left the show on while i did chores zzzzz
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 April 2023 00:11 (eleven months ago) link
This has been the nothingiest season ever.
― trishyb, Monday, 10 April 2023 10:10 (eleven months ago) link
yeah relieved it’s almost over and don’t particularly care who wins (i do love sasha and anetra and glad they got the exposure they deserve)
it’s mind boggling that some queens don’t seem to be aware that the reunion ep is one of the biggest opportunities to fix/expand your arc
― scanner darkly, Monday, 10 April 2023 19:16 (eleven months ago) link
Hahahah quite.
Definitely will be ordering that oral history tomorrow with payday funds. (Granted it's official but even so; Race Chaser gives me all the retrospective dirt that wouldn't be in there.)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 April 2023 20:13 (eleven months ago) link
surprised irene dubois didn’t have a venmo link under her name chyron - she was really going for it i always find it funny when early exit queens grab for allll the camera time, like even over the finalists
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 10 April 2023 21:00 (eleven months ago) link
Anyway the last Whatcha Packin' episodes are rolling out; these are both fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrMW3TB19sE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpWrfMffpk4
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 02:55 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH3jArfvqcg
fashion photo ruview with willow pill was great (“this is what marcia thought she looked like” comment was both very funny and otm)(really over raven at this point, i hope they keep willow)
― scanner darkly, Friday, 14 April 2023 19:54 (eleven months ago) link
I do love Raven but yes, forgot to link this earlier, Willow absolutely brings her vibe perfectly to this thing.
Kinda loving that these next three days are finale, then Drag Race Sweden, then Drag Race España kicks in.
Oh and before I forget:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEuwMWSboJw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WW9QauNvNE
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 April 2023 20:12 (eleven months ago) link
Plus Kornbread heading up a red carpet/fundraiser starting in 45 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzpa69BBEco
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 April 2023 20:13 (eleven months ago) link
So obv it ended kinda what we all figured, but happily deserving. Though I was amused that they specifically engineered the top two reduction, of course.
Anyway, the two last key things from this season (well until the last Photo Ruview):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctCPxg_wsfo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtRRcZNXdjI
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 16 April 2023 20:12 (eleven months ago) link
The finale could have just been Sasha’s lipsync because HOLY HOT DAMN that is how you pull focus <3 <3Anetra felt like a windup toy next to what Sasha was giving And consider “pageant queen” officially reclaimed. BOW. DOWN.
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 17 April 2023 01:46 (eleven months ago) link
mistress becoming the subject of her own song thinking she had a chance to be in the top 2 was pretty funny
jinx was amazing and willow killed it, love her and her sense of humour
but other than that it reflected the whole season: no stakes, no energy affair
― scanner darkly, Monday, 17 April 2023 02:34 (eleven months ago) link
It was nice to have Drag Race España to get into today — 13 queens, biggest season yet, and the judging panel vibes and everything remain top notch.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 17 April 2023 04:09 (eleven months ago) link
Okay All Stars Season 8 cast announcement/promo stuff here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7WG8bnKvuw
This is a solid cast! Some deep cuts and a really interesting mix overall, I'm liking the sound of this season.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 April 2023 03:32 (eleven months ago) link
I will be a Darienne Lake stan account from this moment on
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 April 2023 04:13 (eleven months ago) link
it’s a good mix, especially with jimbo - the element of chaos - thrown in
― scanner darkly, Friday, 21 April 2023 19:11 (eleven months ago) link
this new Hulu “Drag Me To Dinner” thing seems weird & random but of course i’ll watch bc Willam
See 40 drag stars from "RuPaul's" "Drag Race", "Dragula", more join new "Drag Me to Dinner" competition series https://t.co/ObhW8CFQoV— Willam (@willam) May 1, 2023
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 1 May 2023 18:18 (ten months ago) link
I appreciated the goss the other day where Willam said one reason why All-Stars 8's cast is the way it is was that a lot of people didn't want to join in unless there was a format like season 7 ie no eliminations. (And supposedly AS9 will be like that.)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 1 May 2023 18:29 (ten months ago) link
On a much more serious note, eesh.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 May 2023 21:04 (ten months ago) link
So All-Stars has indeed been pretty entertaining with its random enough cast, and the whole Heidi drama is a thing. As is, clearly, Jimbo on a glide path and simultaneously never being able to win a lipsync. But the various Bianca del Rio Pit Stops have been even funnier (I loved how the Sonique episode was half them just talking about other stuff, and the Sugar/Spice one was hilarious).
Drag Race España's been great this season as well, you're missing out if you're missing out of that, but right now Drag Race Mexico looks like it's going to kill it -- that's easily the fanciest work room setup I've seen in a while, not to mention the main stage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY8WqQHLMII
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 June 2023 14:53 (nine months ago) link
if kandy wins i quit. worried about jimbo being such an obvious favorite (where is the arc!). maybe she’s being intentionally bad at lip syncs, to look less of a threat? but probably not..
pit stops have definitely been a riot but it’s the fashion photo ruview that got significantly better with raven replaced. i <3 kerri as a host, shooting kasha’s runway was everything.
― scanner darkly, Friday, 9 June 2023 20:41 (nine months ago) link
Yeah she’s a fun change! Introduces a different dynamic by default given the age difference
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 June 2023 21:12 (nine months ago) link
need a supercut of all the times alexis dramatically wept for attention (also love how the other queens this season are always like “ok. anyway…”)
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 9 June 2023 21:26 (nine months ago) link
and a supercut of lala ri’s face whenever tea is being spilled
― scanner darkly, Friday, 9 June 2023 23:22 (nine months ago) link
Based on the preview for next week seems like we'll get dramatic weeping AND some kind of consequences for it!
Meantime talking ancillary stuff -- seeing the Trixie and Katya livestream-of-sorts the other week of a later tour performance was a fun treat, having caught the very first one of the over a year back; fun to see it again and also they slightly changed and reworked things, both onstage and in the edit. They remain great etc etc.
On the flipside, that Drag Me To Dinner thing on Hulu? OOF. Absolute misfire; the whole thing felt very much like a 'what if a theater kid did a drag competition/parody of a drag competition/cooking show/parody of a cooking show' etc. Won't lay it all on Neil Patrick Harris's feet but if that was the center of it all, man. Right from the opening minute it felt forced and cloying, just tonally weird, like it couldn't decide what it was exactly going for. I guess if you want to see slightly slicker versions of a typical mid Drag Race acting challenge you're set.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 June 2023 15:56 (nine months ago) link
i tried to watch an episode of Drag Me To Dinner & i bailed hard. love everyone involved but yeah the tone was definitely offlike they were worried about going full camp but kept the jokes as if they were doing that? idk
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 June 2023 16:09 (nine months ago) link
Made absolutely no sense. Per Willam/Alaska on their podcast talking about their episode it does seem like the prep segments were indeed happening in the moment as opposed to scripted as such but you could have fooled me completely thanks to the ridiculous framing. Just pick a lane!
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 June 2023 16:13 (nine months ago) link
back to allstarskandy really? way to push the narrative. i thought this was 100% Lala’s win and i’m kinda fucked off at them dinging her on her runway “simplicity”???!
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 June 2023 19:13 (nine months ago) link
loved the lipsync tho
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 June 2023 19:16 (nine months ago) link
alexis was really good this week too i thoughtjimbo’s number was bad imo, her singing voice just made it dead in the water jayme’s baggy cameltoe grace was yeeeksbut kahanna should have gone home of course kandy sent jaymes home bc she is not stupid but i really kinda hate kandy
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 June 2023 19:30 (nine months ago) link
The Pit Stop having ALLLL sorts of fun with that. And with things in general, good lord Peppermint and Bianca have stories
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 June 2023 19:33 (nine months ago) link
i fucking love Peppermint so much
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 June 2023 19:53 (nine months ago) link
Okay so as mentioned Drag Me To Dinner was ass. THIS, though? Sign me the FUCK up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gicOSllEFNQ
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 June 2023 23:48 (nine months ago) link
Oh and separately we got Drag Race France coming back end of June!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aHCBN5IUfA
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 June 2023 23:50 (nine months ago) link
LaLa was incandescent this week, literally everything I love about her
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 18 June 2023 00:21 (nine months ago) link
her character was so good
Really is a new highlight for the show's history.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 18 June 2023 00:35 (nine months ago) link
also this makes me love her more
my girl lala ri doesn’t know how to wear a sash lmao pic.twitter.com/WEpYnQJzBx— its edu (@povdemie) June 15, 2023
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 18 June 2023 00:42 (nine months ago) link
will alexis be the top contender for regretting appearing on all stars?
- threw her team under the bus- threw heidi under the bus- yesterday’s ep
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 24 June 2023 20:23 (nine months ago) link
lol as soon as they were pushing the story of lala saving alexis it was clear what was going to happen i hope kandy sends her home on a rail next week lol
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 June 2023 23:24 (nine months ago) link
she did a good lipsync tho
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 June 2023 23:25 (nine months ago) link
Hilariously, turned out she was posing for photos at a Pride event here in town yesterday; someone I knew went and said she was cool. I was a couple of blocks away at one point, shoulda gone over!
Conclusion of Drag Race España was pretty nice, good winner. Drag Race México got off to a solid enough start last week, Valentina and Lolita make for a fine cohost team; also given Valentina's gender identification it makes for a change-up in terms of how a host presents in the workroom (Lolita goes boy there as per most every other host). And given Nicky's surely not-coincidentally timed appearance on All-Stars here, a reminder we have France kicking in season 2 in a few days.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 25 June 2023 23:42 (nine months ago) link
Valentina was great on Pit Stop!
― scanner darkly, Monday, 26 June 2023 03:40 (nine months ago) link
Yeah that was absolutely spectacular.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 June 2023 04:40 (nine months ago) link
i can’t stand valentina anymore, i skipped through most of itpurely an irrational pov
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 26 June 2023 05:20 (nine months ago) link
omgi kinda don’t care about jimbo either way normally BUT jimbo’s lipsync this week was the stupidest goddamn thing i’ve seen on this show in a long time and i loved it so muchi was dying laughing it was so fucking stupid <3
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 3 July 2023 04:31 (eight months ago) link
Unexpected news!
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/hbo-were-here-renewed-season-4-new-hosts-1235534460/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 19:39 (eight months ago) link
interesting host choices
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 19:41 (eight months ago) link
Very.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 19:53 (eight months ago) link
Jimbo 🇨🇦 what a ridiculous perfect creature
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 01:27 (eight months ago) link
Truly! A good way to end the season even if fairly well telegraphed. But pretty great Lala got the Fame Games cash!
Read the oral history of the show the other week -- essential stuff for all the further stories and memories, honestly. It is of course done with the participation of all the production crew and there's obviously quite a bit they won't or don't say, but we get more of a peek behind the curtain. Still, notable who does NOT turn up in the interviews, though they are often mentioned -- Delta, Sharon, Phi Phi, Willam, the Vixen, Naomi too I think, among others. Willam allegedly will be starting a 'book report' on it on Hot Goss this week so I'm sure we're going to get more thoughts, as it were.
Both Mexico and France have been solid watches so far and we have Down Under and Philippines back in the next couple of weeks, and supposedly the first Spanish All Stars en route too.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 01:48 (eight months ago) link
anybody still watching this?enjoying this season much more than the last, it’s a much better and more entertaining group (which is why the snatch game was all the more disappointing)
― scanner darkly, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 03:32 (one month ago) link
Ha, yes, very much been dedicated to it and kept meaning to revive it. Solid cast, yeah, and I have zero idea who will win. Most curious about whether Plain Jane goes the distance or completely fucks up.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 03:36 (one month ago) link
Revive it = revive the thread. Also this is one of the most on-brand things I've ever seen but I admire the commitment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJf6AUz1n9s
(In case you're wondering how Plasma has the money for that: descendant of a Texas political dynasty on the GOP side, but her lobbyist dad apparently flooded the zone against the Texas anti-drag regulation and helped in the lawsuit getting it stopped, so even if it's Senator Rob Portman on gay marriage energy I'll take something over nothing.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 03:38 (one month ago) link
I’m still watching US, UK, Canada, France, All Stars, and Vs. The World. I enjoy most of it, but am not as excited as I used to be when it would be on once a year. I’ve been watching since the first season, and everything after Season 9 has become somewhat of a big blur. The current season is pretty good, but I wish they would get rid of Snatch Game.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 05:37 (one month ago) link
xp i wondered how that was funded (and whether it’s a major spoiler for who wins). that makes the “where were you on january the 6th?” read even funnier lol
― scanner darkly, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 05:47 (one month ago) link
i thought plain jane was almost timid in snatch game? like she wasn’t sure if her jokes were landing? she could’ve killed it.
― scanner darkly, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 05:53 (one month ago) link