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

Phew, Race Chaser went IN on the Drag Tots challenge. Rightly.

i was never in danger of watching that show but hoooo boy that was some sub-2005 flash animation biz there

also all these challenges where they have to create a character and have this awkward voice over are the same? "my name is (x), I come from the land of (x), my superpower is (x)" yadda yadda

i really hope anyone but ginger wins at this point. every character she does is literally just... ginger. and not even much of a voice change. she's not even funny!

Kylie's got the edit in her favor; Trinity is still my favorite.

she's been okay. given how good her lipsyncs were in s6 i expected more. also she seems to have zero self-awareness?

i want rajah to win but i'd be equally fine with kylie

And now we know what it was. Kinda fun, actually! (I'm still wondering if they BOTH come back next week.)

yeah i enjoyed that

Silky’s comment that she looked like “baby Al Sharpton” in her Barbie Girl male-side drag (in untucked) cracked me the fuck up

that performance alone was price of admission

i got very props-weary with her but to her credit she understood the assignment ie entertain Ru

I thought that episode was a dreadful, indulgent slog, designed to give Silky a nice edit because the fans don't adore her like Ru does, with her coasting by on gimmicks to disguise some dreadful lip-synching. The way it was maybe 20 minutes of entertainment padded out to an hour was punishing, and Carson should never be allowed to give feedback on an attacking or presenting challenge again.

Yeah there were draggy moments (if you will) and I do wonder if the others were given any sort of 'you can bring props' guidance or not. But the "Heartbreaker" matchup with Jan and the "Since U Been Gone" one with Eureka both produced some killer performances. And I did like the 'baby Al Sharpton' comment.

akeria made the right choice, didn’t she

also, why did they save better songs for the game within a game

I KNOW RIGHT

I thought that episode was a dreadful, indulgent slog, designed to give Silky a nice edit because the fans don't adore her like Ru does,

You can kind of see this happen on Strictly Come Dancing, too, when someone they're bringing out on the tour with them (cough, couch, Jason Donovan, cough) doesn't seem to be connecting with the fans in the way the producers hope (and isn't dancing as well as the producers hope) so they drag out absolutely every trick they've got in order to make people buy tickets to see them on the tour.

That said, I do like Silky, so this was not as bad as I initially thought it was going to be. It was still pretty bad, though, and A'keria was right not to participate.

As in, I like Silky, I thought the gimmicks were funny, but she is a terrible lipsyncher, and the idea of putting the "worst" people up against each other for a whole hour was just tedious.

And after all that…I liked today’s episode a lot! The Pit Stop was also amazing.

yeah i enjoyed it too - this week was ~quite~ the journey !

Silky's exit was great. Somehow her slightly drunk-seeming shouting reminded me of Johnny Vegas.

Delighted to see Nicole Byer on the Pit Stop. Love her.

I totally agreed with the Pit Stoppers that Ginger's monologue was so rehearsed you couldn't believe a word of it.

Sure, axe the dancer right before the big choreography finale. Whatever.

Right result, fantastic final lipsync looks and performances, but oh my god that country song was an absolute mess. And the speeches! It was like when they ramble on to save themselves from the chop on The Apprentice.

Yeah good with the end result but Ru basically going "Why can't *I* have an "Old Town Road"" is like the *worst* thirstiness.

i demand Kylie Sonique’s lipsync outfit immediately i want it i love it i neeed it in my liiiiife she looked like a studio54 rave-dinosaur

and eureka’s bob mackie inspired runway was allllll the way up, i loved it

i love them all tbh

this was a way better season than i ever exected & the winner is exactly who it should be <3

Indeed, after it seeming flat at the season announcement it all went pretty entertainingly!

And now a short break but Holland continues on and soon...

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

Reaction video is very sweet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXvJrrzfZ9Y

And yesterday’s Holland episode was really great too (family makeover)

oh that reaction video <3
how sweet when she leaps into Eureka’s arms

UK in a couple of weeks, Canada in a month...

Are you ready for more sugar? Meet the new queens of Canada's Drag Race, coming to @CraveCrave October 14. 🇨🇦 pic.twitter.com/0tcqK2ib9c

— Canada's Drag Race (@canadasdragrace) September 14, 2021

So, anyone watch the UK season 3 opening episode? I liked the additional factor at the end -- that's a good idea! I wonder if they're road testing it here first and we'll see it over here next season. (The ultimate loser I was a little sad to see go out of the gate but admittedly the looks weren't AS sharp...)

It was a great episode. Choriza May is already a favorite. She had one of the best entrance line of all time. And when she said "My favorite thing from Newcastle is my boyfriend's dick" I almost choked laughing. Her workroom moment was genuinely touching. Hope she'll go far.

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Veronica Green not being in the bottom is Rigga Morris. Her cotton balls look should've been read for filth and I don't even think her second outfit qualifies as a look. Even her entrance look was busted.

Indeed, let's see how things go for her, especially since we have a second musical theater queen for dramaaaaaaa etc

Now that I know what Charity Kase actually looks like I'm all "Oh...oh I get it, you KNOW you're beautiful and you don't want to use that." Which I can already see leading to issues, thus the midrange placing and her being a bit narked about that, but on the flip I figure the panel noted her two separate looks were both grotesques and thought "Mmm, skilled but this all you got?"

I also do like the various international connections we've got going here -- Choriza as mentioned (talk about someone absolutely knowing what and how stereotypes work in TWO completely different contexts), but when Vanity Milan busted out the Estonia look I was all "WTF" until the explanation and then I was all "That rules!"

Victoria Scone's run is absolutely going to be a big takeaway from all this.

(Anyway will come back to this thread later when I've seen the Holland finale. Been a good season, looking forward to the next!)

I laughed so much at River Medway's statue impression on the runway, and at Elektra Fence saying she was serving "little shit realness". The whole thing was really great.

Vanessa winning Holland was well deserved, and that makes two openly trans winners in the overall franchise this year. (Three total due to Thailand season 2.)

yeah, I lived for River Medway's pointy performance, very charming. Charity clearly stung by the lack of recognition for her complex horror looks. She was not expecting the judgement to be all 'stop relying on that (dead) body, ghoul friend so soon in the competition

And boy River's story about losing her mom to COVID right before she got the call! Horrible to think about, but that type of background element is going to be a grim factor in a lot of things going forward, sadly.

Vanessa winning Holland was well deserved, and that makes two openly trans winners in the overall franchise this year. (Three total due to Thailand season 2.)

Vanessa was definitely the best winner of the 3, but Kita Mean being eliminated right before the finale was some bs. I felt bad for her having to watch the 3 finalists make their speeches and lipsynch on set.

Yeah Vivaldi got in via connections, obv.

That was a bit of a full episode! The elimination day 'serious talk' segment was actually one of the best ones, even with a bit of show self-critique snuck in thanks to Vanity. Crossed fingers for Victoria for next week obv.

I really dislike Victoria, she reminds me of Miranda. Krystal Versace seems very good at playing RPDR, which is not the same as being a good drag queen, but I expect that they'll do exceptionally well and I think it goes to the heart of what bothers me about the UK version of the franchise: the tradition and heritage of British drag is not the same as it is Stateside. A Lily Savage-type would never do well on this show.

I mean, Victoriyawn...I think, despite everything that went against her. That's what the ru and Michelle thought, Ru's stern announcement of the medical, with no mention of the offer of a return to the competition next year ( which must be offered next or behind the scenes, surely??!)...was like a savage read for her boring medical diary updates, lol..

is charity case a needles clone? and will that count for or against them? I did laugh at her evil clown prosthetic face reacting to other queens, I need to watch the untucked if she wore that there.

Yeah Victoria's departure announcement was...odd. Almost an implication though she'd be back later in the season? Hm.

I rather like Charity and I certainly didn't expect that personal bomb being dropped. Different energy than Sharon, I'd say, though you really can start to sense a 'wait I'm always safe or in the bottom?' vibe emerging.

Surprised myself by being so excited for the pop group challenge next week! This seems like something the UK crew can own even more than the US ones after last year.

So is the contract for RPDR UK season 4 not in the bag or is there another reason Victoria didn't get a definite comeback offer, I think she might be a queen that is isn't suited to a competitive drag show, they never seemed to get over nerves. Do people think the 'size' joke was unfair and a low blow?. It's seems such standard drag banter that it did surprise me they struggled with it. The usual response from queen's is more defient and hopefully a sassy retort, no?

I got the impression that everyone was fine with it in the room, but the producers decided to use it as a teachable moment, hence the incredibly staged apology and convo, which also served to create some personality for Victoria right before she left.

there are a bunch of undercooked queen's in this season and it might be a direct result of the show seeking youthful queen's who are more than likely free and able to join some live endless tour thing Ru has planned for them after the show.

the double save was delayed by exactly one episode

and Big Drag Energy is nowhere near as big as UK Hun was

Meantime Canada is under way — thought the first episode was solid, including the revelation that Eve is QUITE the drama queen.

DRUK episode 4 : the Scarlett episode *spoilers* charity looked the image of needles to me again in the daft doggie mini challenge. Chorizo May mixes daftness with steely ambition, in an interesting way, I want to see where it gets her. Scarlett, Scarlett, Scarlett, all the drama, moving personal insights, assassination by her fellow queen's, performs a wonderful lipsink tour denforce that she wins on the first 10 secs and romps home. I don't allows enjoy lipsinks bit this was a great one, Scarlett gives good face. Kitty dear, I'll send you a rupeter badge, you deserve it

it was pretty brutal

kinda lol’d at the fact that many challenges (particularly making an ad) make for awful results but that’s usually ignored but in this ep the judges decided to, as michelle put it, “get real for a couple of seconds”

the song suited scarlett’s runway much better but agreed, she killed it

Yeah, the runway look gave Scarlett an edge, for sure, but boy did she run with it. The hand in the face dismissel near the end was a perfect retort to the charity's snub in the mini challenge, an editor's dream episode. I kinda enjoyed the acting challenge and was a little surprised how much Ru and Michelle went in on it, the history of acting scripts, particularly from the early phase of the American ones were often worse than this. It was painful but I laughed in a couple of places, whereas I've sat through acting challenges on the show wondering 'wtf' is this unfunny, senseless thing before me.