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

pretty sure their game plan is to burn the franchise into the ground vs. rationing it to avoid overexposure

omggggggggggggggg Yvie in that INSANE headdress and doing a fucking backflip and not revealing a single goddamn thing except that she is badass

the work that must have gone into making it stay on her head!

even the three-headed mirror concept + front-back two face was just breathtaking before you even see her move in it

HAIL HAIL QUEEN YVIE

her obligatory song is actually kinda great too

https://youtu.be/KcUiEBORgh4

Veg as usual OTM about Yvie not gimmicking with reveals too hard. The flashing her panties kind of was, though, and so was the back of the mask, but they were both subtle and awesome and demonstrated the creativity she's been talking about this whole time. And put everyone else and their obnoxious stunting and tired reveals to shame.

Agreed that Silk look terrified onstage.

Stunned that Vanjie didn't win Miss C. Her video was the only remotely entertaining one. Actually Yvie's was as well. I just realized what she reminds me of: a box of syllables falling down metal stairs.

Despite my surprise, I'm quite happy with Nina getting More C.

Too bad about the baby eating being cut.

Another thing about the lipsyncs: the other three were consumed with doing tricks and working flash into their routines. Yvie was the only one who PERFORMED. It wasn't even close in my book.

yeah totally

The added sound effects during the stunts such as the crash noises timed to the death drops, they were so distracting and really highlighted how obviously pre-recorded the whole set-up was

sure... but the finale’s always been pre-recorded since they first started doing it “live”. this isn’t really the format to be craving that kind of authenticity.

Oh yeah 100%, I still miss the days where it was the last scene of the last episode in the same set etc and I think this season has been such an obvious construction of narrative that I'm just being sensitive to the artifice of that

idk i think the in-studio finales were a bit anti-climactic. 3 judges & a few crew clapping for the winner always felt a little sad lol

the show seems *straighter* than it has ever been and I think it has lost a lot of the magic it ever had.

Several articles (and possibly people in this thread) have suggested that this the VH1 influence. They want things to be a bit cleaner. Which is why they don't do the puppets anymore, I read. No more glory holes.

xpost Yeah, that always made Raja's win a bit anticlimactic. And made the season 4 reveal that there WASN'T going to be a final decision on the runway that much more of an honest surprise.

I think the live ones are anticlimactic as well in a different way though. You can tell they film alternative results and so everyone's energy seems off

Also all my boyfriend has spoke about today is how nobody at all was able to give Yvies mirrors a polish before she walked out and how distracting the greasy marks on them were

I assume we have all seen Simpsons Drag Race on Facebook btw?

Some blick-and-you-miss-'em cameos (Jiggly among others):

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

My new coworker is a Drag Race fan, so at least we have something to talk about when things are slow!

Did anyone watch the Jaymes Mansfield video with Contrapoints? It's great.

Speaking of Jiggly, did you guys see the Vulture list where they rank the most powerful queens ? The whole thing is very questionable, but I wonder when or how Jiggly became more "powerful" than Sharon Needles ? They don't explain the ranking below 20 so maybe I missed her big breakthrough.

They don't explain the ranking below 20 so maybe I missed her big breakthrough.

They do, it's alphabetical by first name.

Ooops sorry, didn't see the extra layers!

Alaska and WIllem going IN on that disgusting article on their podcast last week is crucial listening.

I just remembered Jiggly was a regular character in Pose.

xpost -- yeah that was a hell of a thing.

Any link to said episode?

here you go dawling https://megaphone.link/HTX2514271013

or spotify link

the ep is Hot Goss #3

https://open.spotify.com/show/2pJvYcYBD6A4MPkWagUtb7

WERQ QUEEN YAAASSS thankyew.

S12 and All-Stars S5 just announced.

I would carp that calling basically half the queens who have ever been on RPDR "all stars" is a bit rich, but whatever gets Shea Coulee more screen time is fine by me.

Quite!

Is there a confirmed lineup of All Stars?

Sorry to interrupt, but is there a Pose thread on this board? Surprised that I haven't seen one. Does it have a weird title or something?

The UK line-up has been announced. Good luck finding a queen from north of the border or over 30 among them. I was hoping for a Blackpool Pier eyeshadow-to-the-brows Lily Savage throwback to be in there somewhere too.

No confirmed lineup of All Stars 5 yet, but some educated guesses are posted on the RPDR wiki...

https://rupaulsdragrace.fandom.com/wiki/RuPaul%27s_Drag_Race_All_Stars_(Season_5)

If that's accurate, then I'll make the obvious joke: I hope that you-know-who picks that queen and throws her out of the competition again.

Sorry to interrupt, but is there a Pose thread on this board? Surprised that I haven't seen one. Does it have a weird title or something?

I've been wondering about that myself. Given the second season just wrapped, it's kinda overdue.

So Race Chaser's been on a hell of a roll -- the Manila guest appearance the other week was great, but this latest one with Alessandra Torresani is next-level genius. If she didn't have her own podcast I say she should just join this one!

https://megaphone.link/HTX5936455511

Another must-listen Race Chaser the other day with Delta Work -- got into a LOT of backstage stuff from recent seasons. Delta takes over the episode and it's practically a monologue -- and she admits she can talk a little too much -- but still:

https://megaphone.link/HTX7409826732

Meantime, this happened last night:

In the press room at the @TheEmmys, I asked @RuPaul to address the diversity or lack thereof in his show @RuPaulsDragRace. And... pic.twitter.com/kL1EYxJQXK

— Danielle Young (@RhapsoDani) September 23, 2019

I admit I don't even want to watch that clip. However, Delta's hour-long monologue is in itself Emmy-worthy.

Delta's right that it's impossible to know the target that's on RuPaul's back at this point in her career. But she also seems basically right that what she's selling when, say, she hugs Plastique Tiara in the workroom and tells everyone they're "family" is not coherent with the seemingly closed-off person she seems to be in real life.

Trudat.

I hedged with a lot of "seem"s there.

apparently the UK Drag Race is very good! I'm not in the UK atm so I can't watch it. If I catch a way to let you (and I) see it i'll let you know. Please do the same.

Just saw the first episode -- thought it was pretty good! No spoilers for now but it's interesting catching the at times subtle differences between the American version and this one. (One of the biggest ones -- zero prizes! The grand prize as such is getting your own WOW+ series in Hollywood.)

Its good in a way that the original hasn't been for a long long time. But its not great. The show wants to translate American styling on to a British heritage. I thought it was very telling that they were all pretty and under 35 and there were no Lily Savage type end-of-the-pier queens. Alan Carr was worse than when Twiggy did ANTM - no real insight or critique and clearly there because Britain doesn't have enough high-profile gays to choose from.

Also that lip synch, yikes. I would have sent them both home - one being truly awful shouldnt let the other one away with not knowing the words at all

That said i feel a lot more enthused about watching it than i have in a long long time. One of the queens has already been gaining negative traction outside the show for being an open and proud Tory and she seems to be one of the strongest contestants so that might pan out curiously.

Interesting, which one?

btw, if you're not within the iPlayer zone you can watch this on WOW TV's subscription service. First month is free, then it's $3.99 a month, I think. I am happy to support them, and also could not get any downloads of episode 1.

MAGA Chipz

That fits.

MAGA was my favourite. I enjoyed this and I haven't enjoyed a DR for a few years now. Ru looks heartily sick of the whole thing though and her abilities to pretend that she's enjoying herself at straining at the seams.