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Last thing I'll say about the performance and then I swear I'll shut up about it. The fact that she waits to bust into what I guess I'm just gonna call the Australian toilet flush squat-stomp until the moment the song gets to its most industrial beats is ... well, it's chef's kiss.

avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Monday, 25 January 2021 02:39 (three years ago) link

say what now

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 January 2021 02:45 (three years ago) link

Do you protest at this contribution your country has made to world culture, apparently?

Ned Raggett, Monday, 25 January 2021 04:52 (three years ago) link

Obv we’ve seen bigger showstoppers (“Sorry Not Sorry” comes immediately to mind)

"Sorry Not Sorry" is packed to the gills with tricks and splits, but Denali's was a complete, beginning-to-end to end performance. Definitely some right song/right queen synchronicity, but she also paced it so well that I'm convinced she choreographed the whole damn thing. It was both stately in its restraint (not an escalating gauntlet of tricks, as thrilling as "SNS" is) but also a generous ton of fun.

* even though brilliantly executed, Denali's performance did recycle a few things (jerky arm movements, bouncy duckwalk, goofy physicality) in a way that makes me worried this won't be as fresh the second time around

I clocked that too, but even though I thought she outclassed Rosé, I have a hard time remembering that lip sync. Not so with this barnburner, obviously.

Sammy Agar-Agar (Leee), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 06:29 (three years ago) link

I like how Tanisha has kids who'd be considered old on the show.

RandPaul's Drag Race (Leee), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 19:11 (three years ago) link

Now that was not the result I would have guessed last night on Drag Race UK

Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 January 2021 18:09 (three years ago) link

...WHEW.

Not since Season *FOUR* in terms of that level of pure fucking Untucked meltdown.

But that bee was well timed.

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 30 January 2021 05:47 (three years ago) link

the continual sense of Chaney being The Apppointed One: they weren't even the best person with the gold box, never mind the entire workroom. The British cast is infinitely more likeable than the US one, and the fact we've lost three queens who all had potential while the US version moves slowly with an obvious filler queen sent home first...

boxedjoy, Saturday, 30 January 2021 06:52 (three years ago) link

fuck i am exhausted, all those looks and all that drama a bitch needs a lie down

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 30 January 2021 07:04 (three years ago) link

Agreed that the UK cast vibes are way friendlier overall, even with all the sharp edges.

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 30 January 2021 07:04 (three years ago) link

also god this x 100

Tamisha following Kandy around the room reminds me of when I said something smart under my breath in front of my mom #DragRace

— Taylor H. (@TaylorAHemp) January 30, 2021

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 30 January 2021 07:06 (three years ago) link

aside from untucked, LaLa’s lip sync was fantastic, the way she’d pick UP props & use them as well as take them off, just so in the moment - picking up joey’s bills was LMAO AWESOME

so effervescent! love her so much

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 30 January 2021 07:23 (three years ago) link

See, this is why I often don't bother with Untucked. I don't need to watch twenty minutes of some not-very-bright person screeching about how she doesn't care that she was called arrogant, when she clearly cares very much. It's not entertaining.

trishyb, Saturday, 30 January 2021 15:33 (three years ago) link

I have zero desire to see Untucked and I wish the main show would move away from this contrived drama and focus more on the art/craft/performance of drag. It's also really hard to watch when they bring in so much context from out of the show, who's following who on Instagram etc, I want to enjoy a TV show not live inside a self-contained universe.

boxedjoy, Saturday, 30 January 2021 15:59 (three years ago) link

LaLa’s lip sync was fantastic,

I loved how she carried herself throughout the whole critique and lipsync process, from her mock-shock at being in the bottom for having paper bags glued to a bodice, to agreeing with the judges' critiques without breaking down, to just going for it in the lipsync. She was a star.

The one thing I did like about Untucked was the observation that if you keep being safe, you get no face time with the judges, no chance for your little moment on the runway, and those moments are a very important part of the show.

trishyb, Saturday, 30 January 2021 16:10 (three years ago) link

LaLa has definite star power and I would have been gutted to see her go so soon, that lipsync was also one for the ages, how lucky we have been!!

Now that Joey's gone, the rest of the cast truly feels filler-free and I cannot for the life of me figure out who's going to go home next, like all of them feel like they could be top 5 and none of them feel like they deserve to go home 3rd.

Kandy is clearly stressed out and does not know how to handle stress v well, like... if someone calls you out, they're wrong, but if people DON'T call you out, they're also wrong??? Tamisha also went a little too hard, she's not wrong but she's also old enough to know better and should know when to cool it. She too feels like she's stressed out and taking a bit of it out on Kandy, it was nagl for either of them.

Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 30 January 2021 16:27 (three years ago) link

(as a person who hates confrontation in all forms i love watching Tamisha & Kandy just plant their feet & go at each other with full direct eye contact, no flinching)

reading btw the lines here a lot so thiis isnt in any way known just me speculatin

obv Tamisha is playing out her anger at “Kandy thinks I’m not competition” from last week by picking the fight this week.
Shes in her feelings being in the bottom & then Kandy + Tina running the room as soon as she walks in clearly worked her last nerve. She is prob panicking a little because the competition is harder than a pageant, and calls for a vitality & energy level that she’s maybe worried she can’t draw from as much as she used to.

And Kandy is in her feelings about being safe, because she is surrounded by competition & the only thing she knows how to do when she’s scared is be loud & attack. She knows deep down that improving ~slightly~ is NOT enough to make you a top queen & she knows she’s self-deluding & Tamisha calling her out for being arrogant cuts to the heart of her fear - that she’s not enough.

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 30 January 2021 18:03 (three years ago) link

i love watching Tamisha & Kandy just plant their feet & go at each other with full direct eye contact

Worth noting though that on the couch Kandy was looking everywhere BUT at Tamisha.

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 30 January 2021 18:06 (three years ago) link

vg v otm imo

Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 31 January 2021 01:24 (three years ago) link

My impression is that Untucked was all about Tamisha feeding producers drama so that she wouldn't be in the bottom two.

avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Sunday, 31 January 2021 04:16 (three years ago) link

Oh btw Joey Jay's nudes went up this week.

avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Sunday, 31 January 2021 04:17 (three years ago) link

Honestly, tho, if Symone can survive the sewing challenge without even knowing how to sew, she's got it ... all sewn up.

avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Sunday, 31 January 2021 04:29 (three years ago) link

i see what you etc

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 31 January 2021 06:03 (three years ago) link

pic.twitter.com/dgG6W8uluO

— UticaQueen Stan Account 💜 (@companerode5) February 4, 2021

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 February 2021 00:55 (three years ago) link

lmao

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 4 February 2021 01:10 (three years ago) link

reflecting on last week's episode... joey jay struck me as this year's jan -- tryhard new york white gay w/ questionable taste and median talent level who had zero chance of actually winning. it prob reflects well on this season that joey went home so early while jan made it to episode 8. joey wasn't nearly as detestable as jan (who could be, really?) but i'm happy to no longer see her dumb hair or stupid headbands

J0rdan S., Thursday, 4 February 2021 01:47 (three years ago) link

fact check joey is from phoenix but you get my gist

J0rdan S., Thursday, 4 February 2021 01:50 (three years ago) link

i have complicated personal relationships w/ the freaky queens but utica's sleeping bag look was completely stunning ... i had the same reaction as michelle and now i'm borderline obsessed w/ her

lala ri is a perfect successor in line in the very important drag race archetype that is "queen w/ no fashion sense who kind of flops every challenge but should be kept around as long as possible just for her confessionals" (monet x change we acknowledge your contributions) so i was glad to see her win that lip sync ... i liked it better than denali's bizarrely celebrated lip sync from the previous episode

symone is immediately one of the most captivating queens in the history of the show -- her every movement is art. she's also lovable in a real way like you'd want to legit hang out w/ her compared to some other legends like alaska or bianca who i'm very fond of but would not want to spend more than 10 mins around

J0rdan S., Thursday, 4 February 2021 01:54 (three years ago) link

idk Joey seemed way more devoid of talent than Jan who could kinda do pretty much anything

Joey could:
a) dance
and
b) be Gay

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 4 February 2021 02:00 (three years ago) link

I feel like LaLa is like the newer sleeker model of ChiChi DeVayne (RIP)

LaLa has a naive & kinda country way about her like ChChi but she comes readymade with a huge amount of confidence that ChiChi had to work to achieve just a fraction of

Like they said on RaceChaser pod today, she walks out in those fkn gift bags & acts like its no big deal. Doesnt even remotely acknowledge her trash-ass outfit. Naomi-ing down the runway like she’s in Chanel. THAT is her secret weapon. Idk how long it’ll work before her polish becomes a problem,but i will watch the hell out of everything she does bc she is charming as fuck

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 4 February 2021 02:10 (three years ago) link

she’s much more interesting in her talking head segments, she needs to bring that energy to her runways somehow.
like, she could’ve played more just how utterly ridiculously horrible her bag outfit was, make it even more ridiculous,
she’d get read anyway but at least she could play it for laughs.

simone is like the opposite of denali, effortless charm.

scanner darkly, Thursday, 4 February 2021 02:22 (three years ago) link

I actually didn’t hate Jan and don’t find her hateable?? And she’s way more talented than Joey, who was clearly out of her league and really didn’t have a ton to offer

Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 5 February 2021 02:44 (three years ago) link

Anyway based on the UK episode today I must assume, VG, that all Australian weather reporters are like that.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 5 February 2021 04:08 (three years ago) link

And uh...THAT was an ending.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 5 February 2021 04:21 (three years ago) link

ftr i am not watching UK drag race
it’s all just too much! . esp when theyre running simultaneously, it’s nuts! choosing to limit my bandwidth to just one

#oldVGyellsatclouds

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 5 February 2021 04:40 (three years ago) link

tia kofi and awhora developing friendship was a delight to watch

scanner darkly, Friday, 5 February 2021 06:30 (three years ago) link

I cheered when Ellie Diamond pointed out RuPaul's blatant favouritism, and I was creased at Sister's rendition of the opening credits to Veronica's Drag Race.

boxedjoy, Friday, 5 February 2021 08:00 (three years ago) link

Yes to both of those!

Ned Raggett, Friday, 5 February 2021 13:53 (three years ago) link

OK, these queens CAN'T BE THIS OBLIVIOUS ABOUT DISCO SONGS AND ARTISTS!

avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Saturday, 6 February 2021 05:07 (three years ago) link

Yes but what about Charles Nelson Reilly?

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 6 February 2021 05:46 (three years ago) link

That I'll let slide...

avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Saturday, 6 February 2021 06:33 (three years ago) link

Yeah I am with Eric, that aspect was v hard to take. ❗️‼️⁉️❓

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 6 February 2021 09:15 (three years ago) link

I was a bit whelmed by the disco fashions too, I think I was expecting more?

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 6 February 2021 09:16 (three years ago) link

I agree that the challenge winner was so clearly out front that even a meh runway look couldn’t hold her back.

avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Saturday, 6 February 2021 16:22 (three years ago) link

god that challenge and the contestants performance in that challenge was really fucking abysmal, so underwhelming, and Kandy was so clearly not the second-worst of the week, the thing abt egregious producer manipulation is you're supposed to be able to frame it as like remotely plausible and they completely failed to do so here, and also she also clearly should have lost that lip sync??? The whole thing felt like such a dumb charade.

Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 6 February 2021 19:26 (three years ago) link

also incredibly sad to see Tamisha go, it feels way too soon, but it seems we've (quite prematurely) already gotten to the point where it's shifted from sending home the worst to sending home the least-great and I mean given the episode it made sense. Also prob one of the most graceful departures in the show's history, what a fucking professional

Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 6 February 2021 19:31 (three years ago) link

I can get behind who won the lip sync based on the facial expressions, but ... the LSFYL song clearly should've been a disco song? So much so that I wouldn't be surprised if the producers pulled out one of their patented last-minute song switches once they realized who the bottom two were going to be.

avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Saturday, 6 February 2021 19:32 (three years ago) link

CLEARLY should have been a disco song!!! And the winner had no restraint or nuance, it was just like, uncomfortable desperation

Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 6 February 2021 19:46 (three years ago) link

I was not aware of these patented last-minute song switches!!

Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 6 February 2021 19:46 (three years ago) link

I was v sad to see the loser go home.

But what she revealed in interview & afterwards about her physical situation definitely showed how hard she had pushed herself to be on the show. Like, to a crazy degree imo! And you could see how much it meant to her to just get there.

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 6 February 2021 20:06 (three years ago) link


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