i loved the bibe btw sasha & her teacher, they were like instant besties
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 March 2023 20:10 (one year ago) link
VIBE jesus
I hope everyone's blood pressure is OK because Loosey served up a whole heap of salt at the end there.
I'm a little surprised that the teachers gave their full names because given the current state of things I can easily see them getting harassed for being on the show (and I certainly hope I'm wrong there).
― Shartreuse (Leee), Saturday, 25 March 2023 21:12 (one year ago) link
yeah i mean Loosey def got the rough end of the editing/producing stick but she is also deeply deluded & thats why she made for good reality tv
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 March 2023 22:38 (one year ago) link
Tired of:
- Mistress's eras- Sasha's confessional gloves- Luxx's confessional hat that makes her look like she's 12.
― Shartreuse (Leee), Sunday, 2 April 2023 01:18 (one year ago) link
tired of SPOILER ending i still love Sasha forever
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 2 April 2023 01:46 (one year ago) link
Yeah this whole week was just kind of pointless.
― Shartreuse (Leee), Sunday, 2 April 2023 01:59 (one year ago) link
Very. Guess they had to fill out a contract.
Meantime, a crossover I did not expect!
https://gizmodo.com/doctor-who-jinkx-monsoon-season-14-2024-bbc-drag-race-1850294231
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 April 2023 21:16 (one year ago) link
Watching the reunion, Poppy and Robin felt like years ago.
― Shartreuse (Leee), Saturday, 8 April 2023 21:54 (one year ago) link
Really did! Enjoyable watch but there were times I was all "Wait that was this season?"
Drag Race Belgique ended its first season the other day -- good winner and the whole thing was very entertaining! Rita Baga made an excellent host for sure. Be nice if there'll be more (still waiting on Drag Race Holland to hopefully come back for a third season...).
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 8 April 2023 22:01 (one year ago) link
Jeezes this episode feels like 40 inches.
― Shartreuse (Leee), Saturday, 8 April 2023 23:01 (one year ago) link
i left the show on while i did chores zzzzz
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 April 2023 00:11 (one year ago) link
This has been the nothingiest season ever.
― trishyb, Monday, 10 April 2023 10:10 (one year ago) link
yeah relieved it’s almost over and don’t particularly care who wins (i do love sasha and anetra and glad they got the exposure they deserve)
it’s mind boggling that some queens don’t seem to be aware that the reunion ep is one of the biggest opportunities to fix/expand your arc
― scanner darkly, Monday, 10 April 2023 19:16 (one year ago) link
Hahahah quite.
Definitely will be ordering that oral history tomorrow with payday funds. (Granted it's official but even so; Race Chaser gives me all the retrospective dirt that wouldn't be in there.)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 April 2023 20:13 (one year ago) link
surprised irene dubois didn’t have a venmo link under her name chyron - she was really going for it i always find it funny when early exit queens grab for allll the camera time, like even over the finalists
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 10 April 2023 21:00 (one year ago) link
Anyway the last Whatcha Packin' episodes are rolling out; these are both fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrMW3TB19sE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpWrfMffpk4
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 02:55 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH3jArfvqcg
fashion photo ruview with willow pill was great (“this is what marcia thought she looked like” comment was both very funny and otm)(really over raven at this point, i hope they keep willow)
― scanner darkly, Friday, 14 April 2023 19:54 (one year ago) link
I do love Raven but yes, forgot to link this earlier, Willow absolutely brings her vibe perfectly to this thing.
Kinda loving that these next three days are finale, then Drag Race Sweden, then Drag Race España kicks in.
Oh and before I forget:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEuwMWSboJw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WW9QauNvNE
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 April 2023 20:12 (one year ago) link
Plus Kornbread heading up a red carpet/fundraiser starting in 45 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzpa69BBEco
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 April 2023 20:13 (one year ago) link
So obv it ended kinda what we all figured, but happily deserving. Though I was amused that they specifically engineered the top two reduction, of course.
Anyway, the two last key things from this season (well until the last Photo Ruview):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctCPxg_wsfo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtRRcZNXdjI
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 16 April 2023 20:12 (one year ago) link
The finale could have just been Sasha’s lipsync because HOLY HOT DAMN that is how you pull focus <3 <3Anetra felt like a windup toy next to what Sasha was giving And consider “pageant queen” officially reclaimed. BOW. DOWN.
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 17 April 2023 01:46 (one year ago) link
mistress becoming the subject of her own song thinking she had a chance to be in the top 2 was pretty funny
jinx was amazing and willow killed it, love her and her sense of humour
but other than that it reflected the whole season: no stakes, no energy affair
― scanner darkly, Monday, 17 April 2023 02:34 (one year ago) link
It was nice to have Drag Race España to get into today — 13 queens, biggest season yet, and the judging panel vibes and everything remain top notch.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 17 April 2023 04:09 (one year ago) link
Okay All Stars Season 8 cast announcement/promo stuff here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7WG8bnKvuw
This is a solid cast! Some deep cuts and a really interesting mix overall, I'm liking the sound of this season.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 April 2023 03:32 (one year ago) link
I will be a Darienne Lake stan account from this moment on
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 April 2023 04:13 (one year ago) link
it’s a good mix, especially with jimbo - the element of chaos - thrown in
― scanner darkly, Friday, 21 April 2023 19:11 (one year ago) link
this new Hulu “Drag Me To Dinner” thing seems weird & random but of course i’ll watch bc Willam
See 40 drag stars from "RuPaul's" "Drag Race", "Dragula", more join new "Drag Me to Dinner" competition series https://t.co/ObhW8CFQoV— Willam (@willam) May 1, 2023
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 1 May 2023 18:18 (one year ago) link
I appreciated the goss the other day where Willam said one reason why All-Stars 8's cast is the way it is was that a lot of people didn't want to join in unless there was a format like season 7 ie no eliminations. (And supposedly AS9 will be like that.)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 1 May 2023 18:29 (one year ago) link
On a much more serious note, eesh.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 May 2023 21:04 (one year ago) link
So All-Stars has indeed been pretty entertaining with its random enough cast, and the whole Heidi drama is a thing. As is, clearly, Jimbo on a glide path and simultaneously never being able to win a lipsync. But the various Bianca del Rio Pit Stops have been even funnier (I loved how the Sonique episode was half them just talking about other stuff, and the Sugar/Spice one was hilarious).
Drag Race España's been great this season as well, you're missing out if you're missing out of that, but right now Drag Race Mexico looks like it's going to kill it -- that's easily the fanciest work room setup I've seen in a while, not to mention the main stage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY8WqQHLMII
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 June 2023 14:53 (eleven months ago) link
if kandy wins i quit. worried about jimbo being such an obvious favorite (where is the arc!). maybe she’s being intentionally bad at lip syncs, to look less of a threat? but probably not..
pit stops have definitely been a riot but it’s the fashion photo ruview that got significantly better with raven replaced. i <3 kerri as a host, shooting kasha’s runway was everything.
― scanner darkly, Friday, 9 June 2023 20:41 (eleven months ago) link
Yeah she’s a fun change! Introduces a different dynamic by default given the age difference
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 June 2023 21:12 (eleven months ago) link
need a supercut of all the times alexis dramatically wept for attention (also love how the other queens this season are always like “ok. anyway…”)
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 9 June 2023 21:26 (eleven months ago) link
and a supercut of lala ri’s face whenever tea is being spilled
― scanner darkly, Friday, 9 June 2023 23:22 (eleven months ago) link
Based on the preview for next week seems like we'll get dramatic weeping AND some kind of consequences for it!
Meantime talking ancillary stuff -- seeing the Trixie and Katya livestream-of-sorts the other week of a later tour performance was a fun treat, having caught the very first one of the over a year back; fun to see it again and also they slightly changed and reworked things, both onstage and in the edit. They remain great etc etc.
On the flipside, that Drag Me To Dinner thing on Hulu? OOF. Absolute misfire; the whole thing felt very much like a 'what if a theater kid did a drag competition/parody of a drag competition/cooking show/parody of a cooking show' etc. Won't lay it all on Neil Patrick Harris's feet but if that was the center of it all, man. Right from the opening minute it felt forced and cloying, just tonally weird, like it couldn't decide what it was exactly going for. I guess if you want to see slightly slicker versions of a typical mid Drag Race acting challenge you're set.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 June 2023 15:56 (eleven months ago) link
i tried to watch an episode of Drag Me To Dinner & i bailed hard. love everyone involved but yeah the tone was definitely offlike they were worried about going full camp but kept the jokes as if they were doing that? idk
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 June 2023 16:09 (eleven months ago) link
Made absolutely no sense. Per Willam/Alaska on their podcast talking about their episode it does seem like the prep segments were indeed happening in the moment as opposed to scripted as such but you could have fooled me completely thanks to the ridiculous framing. Just pick a lane!
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 June 2023 16:13 (eleven months ago) link
back to allstarskandy really? way to push the narrative. i thought this was 100% Lala’s win and i’m kinda fucked off at them dinging her on her runway “simplicity”???!
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 June 2023 19:13 (eleven months ago) link
loved the lipsync tho
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 June 2023 19:16 (eleven months ago) link
alexis was really good this week too i thoughtjimbo’s number was bad imo, her singing voice just made it dead in the water jayme’s baggy cameltoe grace was yeeeksbut kahanna should have gone home of course kandy sent jaymes home bc she is not stupid but i really kinda hate kandy
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 June 2023 19:30 (eleven months ago) link
The Pit Stop having ALLLL sorts of fun with that. And with things in general, good lord Peppermint and Bianca have stories
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 June 2023 19:33 (eleven months ago) link
i fucking love Peppermint so much
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 June 2023 19:53 (eleven months ago) link
Okay so as mentioned Drag Me To Dinner was ass. THIS, though? Sign me the FUCK up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gicOSllEFNQ
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 June 2023 23:48 (eleven months ago) link
Oh and separately we got Drag Race France coming back end of June!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aHCBN5IUfA
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 June 2023 23:50 (eleven months ago) link
LaLa was incandescent this week, literally everything I love about her
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 18 June 2023 00:21 (ten months ago) link
her character was so good
Really is a new highlight for the show's history.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 18 June 2023 00:35 (ten months ago) link
also this makes me love her more
my girl lala ri doesn’t know how to wear a sash lmao pic.twitter.com/WEpYnQJzBx— its edu (@povdemie) June 15, 2023
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 18 June 2023 00:42 (ten months ago) link
will alexis be the top contender for regretting appearing on all stars?
- threw her team under the bus- threw heidi under the bus- yesterday’s ep
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 24 June 2023 20:23 (ten months ago) link