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

Quite right. Fun episode but both those skits took way longer than I figured. Pacing!

Good lip sync assassin choice, that.

slayed. literally no-one else on stage but her

I genuinely did not recognize her.

It took me a couple of seconds too.

i am annoyed that they sent alexis home
i kinda get why but i just dont rate blair that much. she hasn’t done anything this season except SAY how much she wants to win

i think alexis is better but thats obv not what they are voting on

Definitely was a shocker, and I do love Blair. She's usually stunning and gives her all in the challenges, but last night she failed in both runways. Alexis's pageant kiddie pool gown was awesome.

right!?

I do think Shea is objectively the best of them all, but man, I just love Jujubee and I wish she could win.

same same

lol I had no idea that was Roxxy until someone said her name

i knew it was her right away

but she does her eyemakeup v weird now, i get that she is harder to recognize

Yeah, I wish the All Stars tie hadn't already been used up last time around. Juju + Shea is a tie I can fully endorse.

Speaking of eye makeup, I ... died for Blair's mug this week.

her mug was gorgeous, it is true

blair's runway walk and general way of moving is so awkward and gawky, it's kinda antithetical to the level of glamour she seems to be attempting to project

so otm

her walk is very “Mother/Daughter Fashion Show at the mall”

I like her very much, but she is not in the same league as the others. She should have gone home instead of Alexis. Alexis could maybe have bought herself another week if she'd been as generous with her sewing expertise as Shea was.
I actually can't remember if India was telling the truth about Alexis campaigning against Shea or not.

also: can anyone link me to proof of miz cracker ever actually being funny? please don't act like the pickle thing counts. the pickle thing being funny is a psy op

she's like the bill hicks of drag at this point

Miz was good with the TMZ scene, tho Juju still ran circles around her in bringing the funny.

Cracker is funnier on Youtube, though she's been noticeably absent from it for the AS5 run.

i have no clue about the whole India vs Alexis drama except that I think that the truth is somewhere in the middle

also i am tired of it already lol

cracker is funny in the way that you likely have a friend who is a laff riot when you're at dinner or drinks or w/e but it's not like they're planning on becoming a professional comedian anytime soon

India you're a liar, and this is why Derrick don't like you.

It was after I voted.

Oh yeah seeing all the truth tea about how it was post-vote removes any shred of possibility that this wasn’t completely disingenuous and dishonest. What an asshole.

And for WHAT?? Like surely in your heart of hearts you must know that after 4x in the bottom, you’re not going to win, so why would you pull such a desperate hail-mary to stay if it’s going to fracture a working relationship/friendship??

Like I really did want to believe this was India being like “hey I know I’m going home, so just between us girls, blah blah blah” but now that no longer makes sense

India is the worst

Meanwhile there was also this from the other day

https://screenrant.com/alexis-mateo-rupauls-drag-race-mistreating-latinx-queens/

Maybe she's hoping that her messiness makes her "the bitch you love to hate" which gets her invited back? Although that sort of person is always "the bitch who makes me sorry to see her taking up a space", but I don't cast reality TV series, so what do I know?

Don’t get me wrong.

I love Reba McIntyre, and I LOVE “Fancy”

But they chose THAT song
For THAT assassin? Or maybe it was chosen before the assassin was idk

But that was a real non starter of a lipsync and a waste of a song because they couldnt do anything with it! neither of them are that kind of performer.

That’s a Sasha Velour or Latrice or Chad Michaels track. DRAMA. Not dancin.

Plus Kennedy did not know the words.

Oh god, why do I dislike Cracker so much? If she wins, I swear to God I will tear this place down with my bare hands, you watch me.

Still putting all my hopes on Shea or Juju

Plus it looks like the singing/dance challenge so its Shea’s to lose

Also: REUNION! :D

Yeah that was a...weird lipsync, to put it mildly.

Surely Shea's to lose.

lol Blair going hard for deluded Valentina vibes, she is so far from reality

what did she say, something like how winning allstars isnt based on winning?

and how the problem w her standup was that her nails made it hard to turn the pages of her not book

*in skywriting over the studio*
BITCH! PLEASE!

i am glad she’s gone. she should have been kicked off ages ago.

*note book

that lipsynch was dreadful, and especially as the one happening on this week's Canada Drag Race was spectacular (even if the episode of CDR itself was otherwise rubbish)

Yeah, they really pushed the "there are 29,000 words to this song" angle in Untucked but that was a pretty low energy final (?) lip sync for the season.

lmao what an absurd song to pick for a lip sync

watching Blair post-judging was unbearable bcz it's someone who is clawing in desperation against the fully inevitable, they know it's inevitable, they know they can't change it, they're just kinda panicking

especially as the one happening on this week's Canada Drag Race was spectacular

Yes, forgot to mention that earlier, it was prime stuff.

Willam's last two recap eps on the Race Chaser pod have been ... testy. Delightfully testy, but testy for sure.

Rather!

new uhhhHHHHHhh ft trixie and katya coming august 5, hopefully captures some of the old magic

Both are also equally perplexed by the LYFYL song choice this week too. (Willam: "World of Wonder should issue an apology for wasting the talents and the time of Miss Kennedy Davenport! This is like Nina West to do a wet T-shirt contest! Wrong queen!")

(like ASKING Nina)

And they were right about it all.

Canada's Drag Race settling into a good groove. Crazy/ridiculous drama, a good design challenge, stuff and things! The personalities and approaches are all coming clearer too -- and Snatch Game next week!

Yay the right queen won yay!

Anyway so we’re getting another series only they’re going full reality TV for the Vegas revue? Definitely a different full-on VH1 tone than the Werq the World documentaries, and I’m not sure it’ll work but we’ll see...

a good finale but not like, super memorable

glad the winner won bc i love her forever

I truly wish the tie hadn’t gotten used up last season. That was an absolutely deserved winner but at this point I wanted a crown for a particular one of the other two too.