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

Vanjie and that sponge have already gotten more quality screen time than anyone else.

Anyway, at this point, I'd say that yeah, Cracker and Monet seem the least likely to make the final four.

idk cracker hasn't even lip synced yet, and comedy queens to me always have a leg up when it comes to making the final 4 even tho they can be passed up to win

Okay I sensed that coming. But it WAS a good lip sync.

I mean, it was very good, but so was the previous week's. The only difference last week was that there was a "villain" to dispatch.

Agreed. Also I do wonder what it would have been like if someone had been sent home this week -- is one of next week's makeover guests on standby?

God, I found that challenge painful, though. Unfunny, overlong, POOR.

Next week's is MUCH more interesting already.

It's a fine line between camp and crap, but this season's written challenges seem far more on the latter side than usual.

Agreed. Bearing in mind the calibre of the queens this season, I haven’t found it as entertaining as previous ones.

I'm guessing that Cracker approaches her comedy analytically, so when she didn't win any of the comedy challenges, she started getting in her head and is kind of in a vicious cycle of self-doubt. And that's kind of emblematic of this bizarro season, where the look queens are outperforming the comedy queens in the comedy challenges. (Acquarium can be intentionally funny, who'da thunk?)

Loving Asia, though, a den mother who can also turn it out!

Asia was awesome this week. I loved her old age look so much 😂

Some great official postings from DragCon going up. Season 3 reunion's a treat.

realized i should stop watching raja and raven's photo fashion ruview when watching it became like the two-minutes hate from 1984.

the fact that raven wants to read someone else's looks while looking like victoria beckham crossed with lady elaine from mister roger's neighborhood is just... i can't

yeah I have been wrestling with that too

Aja and Manila are both great standins -- the DragCon live RuView this year was Raja and Aja and it was funny as hell.

agreed with that. would actually love just an aja fashion review.

Raja, even when she’s dismissive, still has an energy that I dig.

Raven is very rigid & set in her ways

Yeah. You don't like shoes with a strap, Raven. We get it!

Would Raven be the Clarence Thomas of Photo Fashion Ruview?

O_o

Kameron's lipsynch was incredible! I didn't know she had it in her. She told Ru the stage is where she lets go and I'm glad we got to see it.

i think kameron got lucky that she lip synced with a prosthetic face. it brought a comedy to the lip sync that i don't think she would have been able to summon otherwise

I agree it helped her facial expressions but I'm still giving her credit for her dance moves and head shakes!

it was v good makeup. this series is such a drag.

I feel like as a series, it needs to try harder, because a lot of these queens seem much more talented than what they're getting to work with. Chatting with a friend the other day who pointed out that a lot of the series tropes end up feeling like chores, for example everybody gets excited for Snatch Game but the actuality of it is that it's always disappointing now.

otm

Basically agree that the best episodes are almost always the ones where the queens get to write their own material or create their own fashions (or someone else's). Snatch Game gets a pass because they're still in charge of their own ad libbing.

But, man, the acting challenges with pre-existing scripts are just getting worse and worse.

By contrast, I thought this week was a superb episode. Loads of fun workroom stuff, and loads of RuPaul gems. Good times.

Yeah, a truly fun episode and, at least by my estimation, an even better LSFYL match-up (tho maybe that was just editing).

That said, and as much as I actually admire Kam for being able to keep her shit on lockdown in this environment, that was the wrong call overall.

Also, S10 without Monet and Monique is just a whole hell of a lot less fun.

Sidebar: Frankie Grande’s eyes are terrifying.

Eureka’s macho look made me laugh til I cried

mostly the voice is what put it over the top

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Sidebar: Frankie Grande’s eyes are terrifying.

Genuinely thought he was Cynthia Lee Fontaine for a split second.

The problem was that Monet didn't know the words in the lip sync, and Kameron was on every syllable. And Ru had already played the "nobody goes home this week" card.

I caught maybe one minor flub from Monet. The editors were clearly trying to make it look very, very close.

Nice of Rupaul to show up.

Genuinely thought he was Cynthia Lee Fontaine for a split second.

With makeup by Bianca! The resemblance was so eerie.

I thought Manet was doing well in the lipsync up until she went offstage to prepare for a messy-as-hell splits into a slide.

Also I keep linking to Cracker's youtubes but this one has real pathos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JIPMfMMYlM

yeah i mean i love her to death but Monet had her back to the camera for that whole walk to the back of the stage, cmon girl know yr words

how goid was cracker’s makeup for cookie
she looked like a more reasonable Trixie Mattel lol

they telegraphed monet going home when she did that run and slide down the runway and cracked the light bulb and they cut to ru making a sort of confused and disturbed face. it was kinda poignant in a way, like the magician was out of tricks.

miz cookie is the wintergreen of the season, also so glad cracker finally got a win

Ugh Aquaria was terrible this episode and I think Monet actually did a great job and shouldn’t have even been in the bottom 2!!

Yeah Aquaria should have been in the bottom. Aquaria looked like she just threw a red duvet on Kingsley & told him to figure it out. Poor dude looked not very good at all.

I thought Capricia Corn's dress was boring, but she looked very pretty. I didn't expect Kingsley to make a pretty queen. Tyler Oakley on the other hand... I don't know I guess I just don't love Monét's sense of style, although she's very loveable.

The mini challenge was a lot of fun and kind of hot. Asia was giving me Tyson Beckford realness!

yeah she was great.
Aquaria’s pencil mustache was ... odd

So, when you do everything within your power not to cause drama or be a bitch and the show producers STILL do everything in their power to make a villain out of you.

That's what tonight's all about, pretty much.