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

I gotta start paying attention to that show again!

dude

You haven't been seeing Untucked all this time? I just.

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.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/132cddb00951f2e8bc3b274f901815ea/tumblr_mm1l0trkDJ1riy0uno1_500.jpg

I've let you all down. ._.

you've let yourself down, hunty

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.

ok that is awesome

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

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/

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

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.

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!

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!

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.

I hated all that Heathers shit

Yeah, it was so noxious, probably why I like that season the least.

Raja's runway looks were so great, but all that backstage stuff was noxious

It was def a love-or-hate throughline. I loved it. For me, it was the only truly successful overall arc of any season.

Though I admit the more recaps I've encountered lead me to believe the loves were in the definite minority.

It certainly made for some of the most emotionally loaded lip syncs, though (Delta vs. Manila; Alexis vs. Yara)

true!

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.

yeah it mostly gave me horrible high school flashbacks

I didn't know you went to drag high school oh wait

lol

Rupaul's Finishing School For Girls?

Mama Ru's Academy for Charm Uniqueness Nerve and Talent, iirc

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

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.

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

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.

(Raja's comment came during an Untucked episode.)

(About halfway through the season, as the Heathers were solidifying.)

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

Boo, just because you have a sugar daddy...

"NOT TODAY, SATAN! NOT TODAY!"

At least we know what the twist is with this one, I HAD wondered. Good changeup.

"Nobody's safe. Get your perishables."

Fuck Bianca and her dimples. Love that bitch. She had me worried there, though

darienne & courtney palling up in the untucked lounge was making me hella queasy

darienne & bianca need their own show, they were killing me in untucked

anyway who's ready for finale?

hashtag partay

Man, both Team Bianca and Team Adore are top ten trending on Twitter right now! Works for me.

Also we are not appreciating Ru doing butch as much as we should. Especially Aussie butch.

that

was

amazing

It was, of course, completely accurate, yes?

100%

Melbourne in the 70s must have been weirder than I realized.

Meantime -- Jinkx's album debut is live:

http://smarturl.it/TheInevitableAlbumiT

As is a song from it -- with Fred Schneider!

http://bit.ly/BaconShake