'...and DON'T *bleep* IT UP!' -- the RuPaul's Drag Race thread

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.

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.

her style is wretched tho

totally. she's like Miss Rio De Janeiro every week, I honestly can't stand her.

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.

omg Trinity <3

she's doin a Tyra and I love it

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

My hope is that Adore & Bianca are in the top 3, and I don't really care who else gets there.

Also I'll end my biancabiancabiancaOMGbianca blather now by saying I think Bianca is v attractive out of drag

Those lips!

Also I had been wondering about his background idly and there ya go, Honduran/Cuban. With appropriate explanation.

big dick no credit etc

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.

http://blog.chron.com/tubular/files/2014/04/tumblr_n3ok85hT1u1qlvwnco1_500.gif

All time.

so awesome

yeah I'm not sure what the other challenges will be

Love it !!!

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...

Someone asked Dela this at the show I go to and the producers asked them to wear the same outfit at each taping.

Clarity!

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.

good riddance to bad lasagna, i say

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.

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!

Someone asked Dela this at the show I go to and the producers asked them to wear the same outfit at each taping.

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.

brittle

This is the perfect word to describe Ben's Achilles heel at this point in the competition.

yeah otm

I'm at least hoping the next few episodes feature individual challenges, feels like there has been a real shortage of those so far.

I thought the same thing.

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.

Also I'll end my biancabiancabiancaOMGbianca blather now by saying I think Bianca is v attractive out of drag

TBH I think she's v attractive in drag. #idonothaveaclownfetish

I'm happy to hold down the Team Joslyn fort by myself!

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)

In the stand-up challenge for S3, only Manila outright bombed, right?

Delta kinda fell off but yeah I think Manila totally ate it after the start.

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.)

rewatching S4

I totally forgot about Alisa Summers & her tragic fraggle breastplate

http://wpc.4d27.edgecastcdn.net/004D27/RPDRS4/RPDR+S4E1+22.jpg

also s4 untucked is like the stalingrad of drag race seasons. non-stop brutal.

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.

yup yup!

may I call you Jiggly?

I kinda assume that Dita/RuPaul's ignored urging were added in post-production, based on nothing really.

I mean ... My. God.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQXVBr5Bzos

phi-phi makes me want to call my therapist. how she didn't leave in a bodybag is beyond me

there has never been a queen with more issues, more open hate, more blind competitive fury than that girl

I didn't mind her...

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

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.

a little bit more detail here

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/14/rupauls-drag-race-transphobic-slur_n_5142855.html

Oh dear at Joslyn's prep. That is all. For now.