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

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.

Jinkx had the performance chops all along, just her makeup was crunchy in the beginning.

derek legit looked like jinkx for a second with those janky eyebrows imho

derrick. darien lake. whatever.

her makeup now is night & day compared to the pancake nonsense she was sporting in the beginning

jinx i mean

Really did wish that all the girls got to compete in the finale! Heart broke for Chi Chi.

First half of the episode was so good, watching them crack on each other during the video taping. But when they got onto the main stage and had to sell themselves, the show started to draaaag (pun!). Lots of cliche and trite aphorisms; only Bob said anything worth remembering.

Kim made me tear up, but I wish they had a tic tac with Mama Ru instead of that talk to your baby picture thing.

I don't understand why Chichi is gone. Miss her already.

coming late to the game, just binge-watched all 8 seasons over the past 2 months with a friend so can finally talk with people about it in real time.

Yeah, was sad to see Chi Chi go but can understand the reasoning, the final showing wasn't quite enough to tip it over in comparison to the other three but I loved Chi Chi (loved/love all four of them) was really having a hard time trying to figure out who i'd be happy to see leave and wanted all of them to stay.

Good heavens I forgot to respond to your message to me on FB! Sorry, just finally did here.

So uh Violet kind of stole the show.

that look was fuckin amaaaaaaaaaazing

i didnt clock the beetles & veins til i saw the photos goddamn she puts on a show

ugh so fn tired of the canned pre-taped "wins" w/o seeing the winner's actual reaction

Violet did look amazing!!! I was trying to process all of what was on her head and outfit, and , well just dayumm

was a lil surprised re outcome ( just a lil, was semi-expecting too)

something that cracked me up looking at audience and at the warm-up videos with previous queens doing their runway walks was how many people came out with their purse forward.

was "purse first" even a thing until the finale episode? I don't recall hearing it like ever

its def a thing - they were doing it at the beginning walk-in of almost every episode & a few untucked eps too

yeah it didn't hit me until they made a big deal of it in the finale but now that i think about it... yeha

Bob said purse first in every episode! I was even thinking to myself "Stop trying to make purse first happen", but then it did lol
He even made a great video about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuogbfF6VR8

i mean, he made a video abt it but idk if i'd call it a great one

Haha I liked it!

The video itself was fine but Bob cannot rap on beat to save his life