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

i thought max was great early on but idk, "there's no there there"

for sure

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

otm

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

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

Sorry his/her

call the wahmbulance

Raja and Raven not too impressed this week. I loved Violet!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzHN078kNj4

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.

i'm calling katya for top 3 now, btw.

Ginger and Katya are pretty seemingly locks. Third is a wild card between the three drop dead gorgeous skinny bitches.

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

Other examples?

(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

Tyra and PhiPhi were def more pageant than glamour imo, but it's a fine line.

wtf is the diff btwn pageant and glamour?

like does pageant have a slightly self-aware element of like campy performativity where glamour is just STUNNING FLAWLESS FISH or whatever?

Pageant means they look better in drag. Glamour means they're sickening as both a boy and a girl.

Pageant usually also means "runway + lipsync and that is IT" plus big hair & GOWNS - glamour is kinda more high-fashiony

and glamour queens often dont really lipsync or anything, they just kinda look amazing

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.

very cool!

Nice! What role did she play in Grease ?

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.

Yeah, I think this season we finally get a big-girl winner.

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).

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.

Yeah I loved Latrice! What a perfect cameo!

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.

Felt a little bad for Tempest tho, being the first sent home and now this.

Katya's description of the lip sync ... OMG.

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.

Think you misspelled "shade" there.

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.

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

Fame is really growing on me, kind of like a fouler Alyssa, what with her oblivious dorkiness.

Plus her support for Katya in the previous episode was awesome.

Jaidynn is the perennial Miss Congeniality that doesn't win.

I liked her but it was time to go

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.

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.

Absoluteleeeee! I had to work to remember that Kandy is really short.

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)

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

:D

Oh MAN. Can't wait to watch this later!

Shangela was born to provide commentary online streams of reality tv shows.

Why not, ranking the top 7:

Pearl
Katya
Ginger Minj
Miss Fame
Trixie Mattel
Kennedy Davenport
Violet Chachki