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

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.

Oh hey, we have some news!

http://www.thewrap.com/logo-tv-gives-rupauls-drag-race-early-season-8-renewal-exclusive/

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.”

Well, guess that answers that question!

Something about that blandcanyon blog kinda bugs me :/

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.

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

I'm pretty sure Jiggly Caliente was in the Broad City finale the other night; working the wig shop? anyone else clock her?

Confirmed

http://worldofwonder.net/jiggly-caliente-broad-city/

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.

omg GUEST JUDGES yasss gawd

sidebar: rewatching season 5, holy shit i forgot how many killer queens were on this season at once. it's like an allstars season

and i will never

ever

ever

get tired of this gif

https://31.media.tumblr.com/fac08c94f612bc868ad88bd117a2e81f/tumblr_mrzo64rDmX1ssd38uo2_400.gif

So useful at the tail end of every winter.

totally

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

Next guest judges: Lucian Piane and Jessica Alba.

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.

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.)

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 out
she 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

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.)

sidenote: i noticed April Carrion was wearing a Kandy Ho tshirt in one of the s6 eps, the Rusical ep i think?

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

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...

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.

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.

"Ethel Merman and Paul Lynde had a love child" omg DYYYYING

I want to hang out with this person

Ginger is top flight great when it comes to that.

so fking classic

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.

i need a gif of Kennedy on Untucked this week "She's....beautiful..."*lip quiver*

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

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.

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

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.)

Yeah this was the strangest elimination because it was very, very clear that Trixie was outdoing Pearl.

Nu RuView!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmN5Bbbu9Js

FINALLY :D

Yes gaaaawd ! Along with Alaska, these 2 have to be my all time favorites.

Matthu Andersen said on a recent ru podcast ep that Raven & Raja are his favorite for their makeup skillz

they are THE best

and i love Raven's speaking voice

and i love Raven's chicken voice

>:(

Lol

Prophetic there about that chicken voice comment, Leee...if a different queen.

omg

miss fame with the chickens. i was crying, that was so hilarious

It was amazing. Highlight of the episode!

pearl v ru O_O .... i was waiting for the imaginary earrings to be taken off

girrrrrrrrrrl

Max's reaction was kinda priceless.

And I know there's more to talk about but THE CHICKENS. The fact that Miss Fame has a PRIZE-WINNING CHICKEN TATTOO.

*the chicken noises*