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

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

xpost thank u

Trinity also lingered in the competition because she's great at lip syncing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXiL0Jp7dMk

oops spoilers

so, no reactions to this week's episode? are we upset?

sad to see ine of my faves go but goddamn that lip synch was top 3 of all time imho

that lip sync was incredible. chi chi has to be one of the best lip syncers in the history of the show.

Chi Chi is IMO a lock for top 3 now for sending Thorgy home.

latrice is still the title holder for me but chichi is up there

I think mine would be Trinity.

Chichi was fantastic, but I was sad to see Thorgy go home for sure. It doesn't make sense that Derrick outlasted her.

Kimchi crying with the sad mime make-up was both heartbreaking and beautiful.

that make up was unbelievable

yeah her makeup skills are next-level

She's as good as Miss Fame, but with the imagination of Santino!

Fame + Raja = KimChi

BYE BITCH BYE

Fuckin Derrick. I can't remember the last time I was so happy to see a queen go home. jfc. I'm still laughing at her "Daddy Does Drag" eyebrows etc. KimChi nailed it, you're going on Drag Race, and maybe BEFORE the show starts filming you might wanna practice carving your face and not like, an hour hour before runway.

I swear, she acted like she'd never seen the show. She knows what's expected of the queens, but somehow she thought all of that wouldn't apply to her because she's so 'on point' that everyone would just fall on the floor drooling and push the crown in her general direction. The level of her delusion was front & center in today's untucked episode. Like she's standing there in a corset that looks like a handmade birthday card next to Kimchi and Naomi and Chichi and it's like BITCH OF COURSE YOU'RE ON THE BOTTOM. LOOK AT YOURSELF.

Her britney is on point but everything else about her works my last nerve and I am glad to see her go. UGH.

I seriously can't with her. I just fucking cant.

....

Meanwhile BOB with the lipsync this week made me pretty happy.

This season has been so amazing (like what season 5 could've been if Roxxxy hadn't gone on her Jinkx Jihad) -- even with Derrick being the villain, he does have depths and pathos that I could empathize with (though by the end I had to stare at his chin because looking at the rest of his makeup made me cry).

Something really sad though was that in the photo of Kim's mom, they blurred out her face, which means that she didn't sign a waiver to have her likeness appear on the show. Damn.

Loving Naomi's late surge, too! In fact, of the top four, I feel that all of them belong there!

Such a great episode. Derrick and Naomi's sniping was so glorious, I was eating popcorn right next to Kim.

xp i thought that too re: Kim's mom :(

Kim's looks were SO GREAT this episode.

The Jerri Blank musical number was... really odd.

I am now officially team Kimchi, she's just so adorable and incredibly talented.

I think this is the first time I like every queen in the Top 4 though. I'm rooting for ChiChi to make it to the finale just over Naomi.

Yeah the top four is all good for me. (I was down with Season 3's top four.)

I never was a big Alexis Mateo fan, too pageant for me, but her Alicia Keys was great.

yeah this top 4 really is fantastic. it's been a blast to watch naomi and especially chi chi blossom. chi chi's last two looks in this episode were so bomb. my bf & i were gagging over that mom look and we def had never seen anything remotely that advanced from her on teh design front with that last one.

personally i think i'd like to see them two advance along w/ bob (who was so casually funny in this episode) but obv it's hard to deny the brilliance of kim chi's runway looks. i thought david sedaris was so dead on in describing the how forlorn her mom look was. i feel like kim chi should be like... doing creative direction for a broadway play or something. i feel like the avant garde queens of the milk/acid betty ilk all sort of riff on the same theme but kim chi has been so unique conceptually.

honestly i wouldn't be surprised if ru brought all 4 to the finale

I'm starting to think we might get that too.

I wouldn't be mad at that

oh and ChiChi's puppet Bob was hilarious

JOKES JOKES JOKES JOKES JOKES

All the puppets were good!

If they do a top 4 finale I'm gonna feel bad for Latrice Royale.

I can think of contestants on other reality shows who have started out pretty middling, listened to critique, applied it successfully, and blossomed, but has anyone done it on RPDR?

Adore !

YES!! Definitely Adore.

Jinkx as well, I'd say.