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
lol as soon as they were pushing the story of lala saving alexis it was clear what was going to happen i hope kandy sends her home on a rail next week lol
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 June 2023 23:24 (ten months ago) link
she did a good lipsync tho
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 June 2023 23:25 (ten months ago) link
Hilariously, turned out she was posing for photos at a Pride event here in town yesterday; someone I knew went and said she was cool. I was a couple of blocks away at one point, shoulda gone over!
Conclusion of Drag Race España was pretty nice, good winner. Drag Race México got off to a solid enough start last week, Valentina and Lolita make for a fine cohost team; also given Valentina's gender identification it makes for a change-up in terms of how a host presents in the workroom (Lolita goes boy there as per most every other host). And given Nicky's surely not-coincidentally timed appearance on All-Stars here, a reminder we have France kicking in season 2 in a few days.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 25 June 2023 23:42 (ten months ago) link
Valentina was great on Pit Stop!
― scanner darkly, Monday, 26 June 2023 03:40 (ten months ago) link
Yeah that was absolutely spectacular.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 June 2023 04:40 (ten months ago) link
i can’t stand valentina anymore, i skipped through most of itpurely an irrational pov
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 26 June 2023 05:20 (ten months ago) link
omgi kinda don’t care about jimbo either way normally BUT jimbo’s lipsync this week was the stupidest goddamn thing i’ve seen on this show in a long time and i loved it so muchi was dying laughing it was so fucking stupid <3
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 3 July 2023 04:31 (ten months ago) link
Unexpected news!
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/hbo-were-here-renewed-season-4-new-hosts-1235534460/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 19:39 (ten months ago) link
interesting host choices
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 19:41 (ten months ago) link
Very.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 19:53 (ten months ago) link
Jimbo 🇨🇦 what a ridiculous perfect creature
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 01:27 (nine months ago) link
Truly! A good way to end the season even if fairly well telegraphed. But pretty great Lala got the Fame Games cash!
Read the oral history of the show the other week -- essential stuff for all the further stories and memories, honestly. It is of course done with the participation of all the production crew and there's obviously quite a bit they won't or don't say, but we get more of a peek behind the curtain. Still, notable who does NOT turn up in the interviews, though they are often mentioned -- Delta, Sharon, Phi Phi, Willam, the Vixen, Naomi too I think, among others. Willam allegedly will be starting a 'book report' on it on Hot Goss this week so I'm sure we're going to get more thoughts, as it were.
Both Mexico and France have been solid watches so far and we have Down Under and Philippines back in the next couple of weeks, and supposedly the first Spanish All Stars en route too.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 01:48 (nine months ago) link
anybody still watching this?enjoying this season much more than the last, it’s a much better and more entertaining group (which is why the snatch game was all the more disappointing)
― scanner darkly, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 03:32 (two months ago) link
Ha, yes, very much been dedicated to it and kept meaning to revive it. Solid cast, yeah, and I have zero idea who will win. Most curious about whether Plain Jane goes the distance or completely fucks up.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 03:36 (two months ago) link
Revive it = revive the thread. Also this is one of the most on-brand things I've ever seen but I admire the commitment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJf6AUz1n9s
(In case you're wondering how Plasma has the money for that: descendant of a Texas political dynasty on the GOP side, but her lobbyist dad apparently flooded the zone against the Texas anti-drag regulation and helped in the lawsuit getting it stopped, so even if it's Senator Rob Portman on gay marriage energy I'll take something over nothing.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 03:38 (two months ago) link
I’m still watching US, UK, Canada, France, All Stars, and Vs. The World. I enjoy most of it, but am not as excited as I used to be when it would be on once a year. I’ve been watching since the first season, and everything after Season 9 has become somewhat of a big blur. The current season is pretty good, but I wish they would get rid of Snatch Game.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 05:37 (two months ago) link
xp i wondered how that was funded (and whether it’s a major spoiler for who wins). that makes the “where were you on january the 6th?” read even funnier lol
― scanner darkly, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 05:47 (two months ago) link
i thought plain jane was almost timid in snatch game? like she wasn’t sure if her jokes were landing? she could’ve killed it.
― scanner darkly, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 05:53 (two months ago) link
i realized i liked this season’s queens more as a group than individuals, the banter, the teasing, they all seem to love each othereither of the three will be an ok winner but i donno, certain star quality is missing
the lipsync lollapalooza ep was such a sudden reminder why this show used to be great, absolutely loved it.
― scanner darkly, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 01:38 (four weeks ago) link
Yeah that was a treat! Plane still bugs but I have a feeling either Sapphira or Nymphia has this so I’m content.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 05:12 (four weeks ago) link
nymphia is getting an arc, so a likely candidate, but we haven’t seen her lipsync yet..
― scanner darkly, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 18:13 (four weeks ago) link
Well that answered that question! She put on a SHOW. Sapphira was great but really, no contest. (And gloriously, no Plane in the top two.)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 April 2024 17:47 (three weeks ago) link