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
100%
― 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