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

How has Kameron been so invisible??? Like do the editors seriously have no material to work with?

In one of her recap videos, Cracker said that Kameron made a conscious decision to not give the editors anything they might use to distort her.

Willam said that’s exactly what Roxxxy did during AS2. Don’t give them the drama, they’ll keep you there longer, waiting for it

Can't say Vixen isn't making her moment work for her:

So @TheVixensworld performed at Battle on the Runway tonight and did a performance mashed up with CHUN LI like a GAWDESS pic.twitter.com/M8ne9DuNNV

— Ira Madison III (@ira) May 12, 2018

Really, The Vixen fucking slayedt and WE STAN pic.twitter.com/KXOHXTC9C7

— Ira Madison III (@ira) May 12, 2018

And yeah re Kameron, it also helps that there were such big personalities playing off each other that she could more easily hide in plain sight. That Untucked discussion this week is telling in turn.

i don't usually watch michelle's segment after the show (or that plays after the show when you watch drag race online) but the vixen came off much better in that, and looked super cute w/ some stubble to boot. this is besides the point but the vixen really should model, aside from doing drag.

in any event, i find the ongoing discussion on the show about the concept of the angry black woman to be very interesting... i wonder if there's ever been another moment in reality tv history where there was a real time on camera meta conversation about how the show might portray one its contestants vis a vis a racial stereotype, and then that discussion being aired on TV and made the dominant storyline of the season? i find it hard to call heads or tails on the vixen either way bcuz of the inherent manipulation of everything we see, but i put a lot of stock in asia's analysis of the whole situation in this most recent episode.

otm

that was a good post, J0rdan

very sad at the dastardly edit/ru-ception Miz Cracker is getting this season; i guess it is what happens when you follow directly after a Trixie Mattel win

final 3 looking to me like:
eureka (ugh)
aquaria (sigh) [or conceivably kameron (?!)]
asia (go go go go)

Final four, surely, based on last year.

oops i skipped s9

that changes things; hmmm

I kinda hope Aquaria doesn't make it to the final 3; I want Cracker to get there instead.

cracker is downright wonderful

but imo it's clear at this stage that the producers/ru herself are not big fans, or at least aren't excited about another white comedy queen for s10.

Isn't that what Eureka is, too?

"we need a big girl to win"

Miss ... Vanjie!

You know part of me wants the final to have the top four do their thing and then Ru awards it to Miss Vanjie for the hell of it.

Vanjie and that sponge have already gotten more quality screen time than anyone else.

Anyway, at this point, I'd say that yeah, Cracker and Monet seem the least likely to make the final four.

idk cracker hasn't even lip synced yet, and comedy queens to me always have a leg up when it comes to making the final 4 even tho they can be passed up to win

Okay I sensed that coming. But it WAS a good lip sync.

I mean, it was very good, but so was the previous week's. The only difference last week was that there was a "villain" to dispatch.

Agreed. Also I do wonder what it would have been like if someone had been sent home this week -- is one of next week's makeover guests on standby?

God, I found that challenge painful, though. Unfunny, overlong, POOR.

Next week's is MUCH more interesting already.

It's a fine line between camp and crap, but this season's written challenges seem far more on the latter side than usual.

Agreed. Bearing in mind the calibre of the queens this season, I haven’t found it as entertaining as previous ones.

I'm guessing that Cracker approaches her comedy analytically, so when she didn't win any of the comedy challenges, she started getting in her head and is kind of in a vicious cycle of self-doubt. And that's kind of emblematic of this bizarro season, where the look queens are outperforming the comedy queens in the comedy challenges. (Acquarium can be intentionally funny, who'da thunk?)

Loving Asia, though, a den mother who can also turn it out!

Asia was awesome this week. I loved her old age look so much 😂

Some great official postings from DragCon going up. Season 3 reunion's a treat.

realized i should stop watching raja and raven's photo fashion ruview when watching it became like the two-minutes hate from 1984.

the fact that raven wants to read someone else's looks while looking like victoria beckham crossed with lady elaine from mister roger's neighborhood is just... i can't

yeah I have been wrestling with that too

Aja and Manila are both great standins -- the DragCon live RuView this year was Raja and Aja and it was funny as hell.

agreed with that. would actually love just an aja fashion review.

Raja, even when she’s dismissive, still has an energy that I dig.

Raven is very rigid & set in her ways

Yeah. You don't like shoes with a strap, Raven. We get it!

Would Raven be the Clarence Thomas of Photo Fashion Ruview?

O_o

Kameron's lipsynch was incredible! I didn't know she had it in her. She told Ru the stage is where she lets go and I'm glad we got to see it.

i think kameron got lucky that she lip synced with a prosthetic face. it brought a comedy to the lip sync that i don't think she would have been able to summon otherwise

I agree it helped her facial expressions but I'm still giving her credit for her dance moves and head shakes!

it was v good makeup. this series is such a drag.

I feel like as a series, it needs to try harder, because a lot of these queens seem much more talented than what they're getting to work with. Chatting with a friend the other day who pointed out that a lot of the series tropes end up feeling like chores, for example everybody gets excited for Snatch Game but the actuality of it is that it's always disappointing now.

otm

Basically agree that the best episodes are almost always the ones where the queens get to write their own material or create their own fashions (or someone else's). Snatch Game gets a pass because they're still in charge of their own ad libbing.

But, man, the acting challenges with pre-existing scripts are just getting worse and worse.

By contrast, I thought this week was a superb episode. Loads of fun workroom stuff, and loads of RuPaul gems. Good times.

Yeah, a truly fun episode and, at least by my estimation, an even better LSFYL match-up (tho maybe that was just editing).

That said, and as much as I actually admire Kam for being able to keep her shit on lockdown in this environment, that was the wrong call overall.

Also, S10 without Monet and Monique is just a whole hell of a lot less fun.

Sidebar: Frankie Grande’s eyes are terrifying.