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

I'm really liking Chi Chi, sort of a harder-working version of Adore.

yeah totally. you can never count out someone hungry like that, she wants it so much & i love her for it

And like Bob said, smart! She's obviously intelligent and very self-aware.

The last Untucked was great, super sweet and that PA doing some vamping was cuet.

acid betty was v kind to chi-chi too which was nice to see

OTM! "Don't look too good, this is still a competition."

Kim Chi's runway was insaaaaane!!! And we didn't even get to see the judges comment on it :( Also Lucien Piane needs to fuck off and never be on this show again, he is the WORST, every time he is on he is so sooooo fucking smug and bitchy. I cannot even imagine how awful he must be to like be friends with IRL.

Yeah, Lucien was all, "Stop thinking B-52s" to the NY team, and what song did they end up doing?

I'll post more later but for now:

FOUR

GODDAMN

KIMONOS

WTF @ U QUEENS, WTF

Derrick stole Chi Chi's place in the top 3; I would've even preferred to have seen Kim Chi there.

Betty's exit interview was so sad and lonely.

for a runway challenge with so many options I MEAN ITS ONLY MADONNA FOR CRYIN OUT LOUD why did so many ppl choose the same look?! for fucks sake, ladies!!!

that said: i love thorgy, her kimono was definitely the best of them & her michael jackson was so good! its crazy how she keeps getting overshadowed by bob, tho, because she's clearly a first rate performer -- he's just that much more attention grabbing.

Yeah still puzzling over the kimono botch there. Thorgy is definitely dark horsing it more and more.

kimonos pissed me off so much, I'm still mad abt it

carson's nancy grace was a+ though, lol

After the fourth kimono and was all, "omg...are they all going to wear kimonos?" Not a single Madonna look prior to 1989.

fuckin travesty

I am so pissed off about robbie's diana vreeland, it was such a failed opportunity. there are a couple key elements to the look and he didnt get a single one of them, you could not have even guessed who he was trying to be. and worse he was boring!!! diana vreeland was a grandiose maniac and all you could give us is "im an old fashion magazine lady." go home robbie, you didnt even rouge your ears!!!!

also his wigs and makeup are consistently awful and i just want him to go already

omg yes. you have to really try HARD to fuck that up.

i'm over robbie in a major way

this is the order I see them going home:

7. Naomi Smalls
6 (or 5). Derrick Barry
5 (or 6). Robby Turner
4. Kim Chi
3. Chi Chi DeVayne
2. Bob
1. Thorgy Thor

I don't think the top 3 could really be anyone else and nobody but Bob or Thorgy will win this thing.

agree

could happily shoot derrick barry into the sun right now tho. she gets worse every week

I still gotta pull for Robbie cuz she is my neighborhood queen, but ffs, she is sucha letdown after Jinx and Dela.

Kim Chi looks great but she's a (barely) walking instagram profile. Looks great, but no chops otherwise.

yeah i am not sure about kim chi

like, i love her but she feels like a universe away from chichi, thorgy & bob

Yeah, sweetly second tier, but still just that. More interesting flashes have been coming out but she's been quietly coasting all this time since her early win.

she still cant walk for shit lol

against anybodys wishes i really expect derrick will be quietly escorted into the top 3 for dramatic villiany purposes. shades of phiphi o'hara

nooooooooo

Oh dear

hey i'll be more than happy to be proven wrong! but there's always a bit of deliberate casting and that goes into selecting the top 3, we know this.

i thought robbie's runway look was really creative especially in the wake of the kimono tsunami. i generally like her on the runway at least in the context of this season which hasn't had a lot of... whimsy on the runway. pretty much all the queens are self-serious this year so i find her appealingly disarming. she's pretty boxed in as a performer tho.

i think the top three is clearly bob, thorgy & kim chi. kim chi always slays on the runway her walking aside (rupaul's little "you better kim chi that walk" riff from the second episode still bounces around my head in idle moments) and i was impressed by her snatch game performance. she def isn't on thorgy or bob's level as a performer but she's good enough in that realm that it won't drag any of her looks down, which are usually very on point.

i'm rooting hard for chi chi but her runway looks are usually pretty tasteless and not in a good way. even her boob cone madonna was kinda... off. she always looks sexy as fuck regardless but i feel like she's perpetually one look away from being in the bottom regardless of her main challenge performance. the only thing is that as we saw in the new wave episode she can lip sync anyone off the stage so that might get her into the top 3.

acid betty's interviews in this episode really were pretty sad. there was that whole bit about how she feels like a lonely outcast but she never connected it back to the fact that she's appears to be a huge bitch to work with, and proud of it. (maybe that characterization is an editing thing but if she really has very few friends in drag that's probably why.)

bob is quite easily one of my fav queens ever on the show, maybe my second favorite after bianca or third favorite after alaska

in betty's whatcha packin interview with michelle, she reveals that her mom was a former dancer that battled hodgkins disease most of her life; really heartbreaking even in the few details she gave

i dont blame anyone for judging her harshly, her armor is definitely a choice... but damn i wish she could have fought against that instinct

I did like how Michelle had some very kind and supportive #realtalk with her about not being so hostile all the time

yeah i like Michelle being all mamabear with the queens

Alright, I'm not completely over Betty being only Top 8 and the whole Madonna fiasco but I liked this week's episode. Lots of funny stuff in the workroom and on the judges' pannel.
Although I think we can agree that Chichi wasn't put in the bottom so that Britney wouldn't be sent home... They are giving her a redemption arc aren't they?

I'm hoping that they're giving Chi Chi the Adore arc and she makes top 3, and Derek is there to provide drama.

I think Chichi will make it, but her Dorothy made no sense and deserved bottom imo

Derek needs to get her busted ass off my tv, I am so OVER her

omg I thought you meant Chi Chi for a minute and I just got so upset

no never chichi, she's rad

lol she said 'busted' and your first thought was Chi.

poor robbie wasn't about to beat the Vegas Britney impersonator in a lip sync

now i have this like horrible realization of what if derrick who is clearly SO AWFUl just like happens to be really good at lip syncing and will slay ppl clearly better than him in every other way?

has this ever happened in RPDR history? like really worthless ppl who just happen to be great at lip syncing and keep hanging on long after they should be gone?

though i feel like i've seen ppl basically just get sent home after their third consecutive lip sync

there was someone who stayed forever bcz of lipsyncing and I cant remember who

dida ritz maybe?

or maybe coco

gah why cant i remember D:

Coco and Alyssa both lip synced 5+ times.

if anyone hangs around because they kill the lip sync every time i think it will be chi chi