Sidebar: Frankie Grande’s eyes are terrifying.
Genuinely thought he was Cynthia Lee Fontaine for a split second.
― trishyb, Friday, 25 May 2018 17:13 (five years ago) link
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.
― trishyb, Friday, 25 May 2018 17:15 (five years ago) link
I caught maybe one minor flub from Monet. The editors were clearly trying to make it look very, very close.
― nourish nourish your turtleheart (Eric H.), Friday, 25 May 2018 17:16 (five years ago) link
Nice of Rupaul to show up.
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
― Young Lunchy (Leee), Saturday, 26 May 2018 05:06 (five years ago) link
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 wordshow goid was cracker’s makeup for cookieshe looked like a more reasonable Trixie Mattel lol
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 May 2018 05:28 (five years ago) link
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.
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 26 May 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link
miz cookie is the wintergreen of the season, also so glad cracker finally got a win
― clouds, Saturday, 26 May 2018 23:02 (five years ago) link
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!!
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 27 May 2018 10:43 (five years ago) link
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.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 May 2018 14:53 (five years ago) link
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!
― LeRooLeRoo, Sunday, 27 May 2018 15:56 (five years ago) link
yeah she was great. Aquaria’s pencil mustache was ... odd
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 May 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link
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.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Friday, 8 June 2018 01:42 (five years ago) link
That's what tonight's all about, pretty much.
Missed opportunities every which way.
I really thought that the main challenge was going to be so much more trenchant, a chance for a reality program to shed its superficiality and actually dramatize interiority. Instead we got some stilted acting, a top-to-bottom bad idea of editing the twins together (and why even bother with the good twins "watching" the critiques of the bad twins?), and the judge's typical caprice becoming so much more arbitrary given the subject matter.
Also, right before the season even started, I read a Youtube comment that I hoped wasn't a spoiler reporting that Cracker would be sent home by Kameron. But that's my fault for wasting time in that cesspool.
Anyway, I'm fully Team Asia now because Asians gotta stick together.
― Martin Landau Ballet (Leee), Saturday, 9 June 2018 06:16 (five years ago) link
Asia was so fucking good, I love her & this manufactured drama is v annoyingAnd the judges flipping their wigs over Aquaria was so like, really? idgialso I need an Asia app on my phone where i can just whine & get a dose of real talk™️ whenever I need it. she’s got that Bianca workroom personality, she’s old enough to see through bullshit & laser focus on what’s real & whenever she does it, it’s just such good tv
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 June 2018 07:29 (five years ago) link
Agree wholeheartedly. She is fantastic. She deserves a better season than this.
― trishyb, Saturday, 9 June 2018 10:27 (five years ago) link
Aquaria’s face bones were really weird and both face and backbones looked like a badly executed afterthought. Asia ftw.
― Madchen, Monday, 11 June 2018 20:13 (five years ago) link
exactly
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 June 2018 20:15 (five years ago) link
What was up with the random splits in the lipsync? Neither of them seemed to happen to any discernible musical cue.
― Martin Landau Ballet (Leee), Monday, 11 June 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I've seen people rating Aquaria's dark-sided lewk among the series' top 10 and even top 5 all-timers and I wonder if they've even seen any Logo-era seasons.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Monday, 11 June 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
Honestly I kinda liked Asia's dark-side look more.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 June 2018 21:17 (five years ago) link
she was completely transfixing
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 June 2018 22:19 (five years ago) link
srsly some of those lipsyncs look like mini floor routines
the splits esp look perfunct asf
― vanjie wail (qiqing), Monday, 11 June 2018 22:27 (five years ago) link
This has been the worst season yet, right?
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 15 June 2018 03:46 (five years ago) link
I wouldn't say worst but there's been far too much focus on ~drama~ and not enough of actual performance. The best scenes that don't take place on stage have always been the casual chatter-in-the-workroom and the worst have been the "well I just feel this way" emotionally laborious scenes.
The queens have been very entertaining when given the chance to shine and the right material, but a lot of the musical and acting challenges have been based on woeful scripts which do the cast no favours at all. "Breastworld" is one of the worst things ever to happen in this show's history.
― boxedjoy, Friday, 15 June 2018 08:49 (five years ago) link
For me I've just found the talented queens to be profoundly unlikeable this seasonAnd the likeable queens to be profoundly underwhelmingI am finally coming around to stanning for Eureka and Aquaria based on their performances, but I would leave any party they were at
― nevertheless, he stopped (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 15 June 2018 13:33 (five years ago) link
I more or less called this the weakest season (as a show) to date, barring possibly the first All-Stars season. The overall average rating this batch of queens would be higher than some others, but there just aren't any 10.0 queens this time around.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Friday, 15 June 2018 13:42 (five years ago) link
And, yes, the quality of the writing/scoring/conceptualization of the challenges is significantly stunted this time around.
i've actually liked this season better than i thought i would even tho too many of the challenges were poorly conceived or presented... the dual personalities one from a few weeks back was a complete trainwreck. but i think there were some rly good out of drag personalities this season... i got a huge kick out of monet, asia & monique's confessionals for instance. and then as far as the onstage talent goes... in most seasons -- even the classic ones -- there's maybe three queens who can really do it all so i didn't find this season to be a let down in that regard. i don't find there to be a huge gulf in quality between the final 4 here and what it was last season.
also generally i think the show always peters out towards the end... especially because you can really feel the producers bending the show in a certain direction, as they are to aquaria here, who they clearly see as someone who can really extend the drag race brand. im thinking back to season 7 when violet chachki beat ginger minj, kennedy davenport, katya, trixie etc... it is what it is
― J0rdan S., Friday, 15 June 2018 14:08 (five years ago) link
generally i think the show always peters out towards the end
A flaw inherent the entire reality competition series model, really.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Friday, 15 June 2018 14:21 (five years ago) link
Why is Todrick always so cruel? Like is he EVER nice or fun? Or even, like, respectfully critical?
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 16 June 2018 19:26 (five years ago) link
really? I love that about him. he’s so intense, he doesnt take no nonsense.maybe it’s bcz he’s a choreographer first? he has that Debbie Allen thing likeONE AND TWO AND TURN AND KICK 👏🏻WHAT👏🏻 IS 👏🏻WRONG 👏🏻WITH 👏🏻YOUR 👏🏻FEETlike there’s no grey. get it right we move on, get it wrong i burn you with my eye lazers until u stop being a fuckup. cool? cool.maybe i just watched too much Fame as a kid lol.and omg i looooooved that dance routine.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 16 June 2018 21:07 (five years ago) link
now that I think about it I think all of S9's top 4 are better than anyone in S10
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 16 June 2018 21:17 (five years ago) link
true
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 16 June 2018 21:19 (five years ago) link
S9 was epiccccccc
― homosexual II, Saturday, 16 June 2018 22:19 (five years ago) link
yeah this season felt more like the last allstars than a fully fierce competition
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 16 June 2018 22:39 (five years ago) link
Sorry bout it. Just not feeling this season at all. On any level. (Except Vixen.)
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Sunday, 17 June 2018 02:45 (five years ago) link
I saw him on something else recently and he seemed a lot nicer than he does here.
― trishyb, Sunday, 17 June 2018 11:24 (five years ago) link
haha i kind of love him on the show. idk this time he was being tough on queens who clearly have a lot of talent and can handle it.
― J0rdan S., Monday, 18 June 2018 02:33 (five years ago) link
I found a lot to like about this season and have been through enough of the rodeos now that every season gets nitpicked or (dare I say) dragged in ways that in future don't always hold up. (But overpraise is a thing too.) That we did see more design challenges in general was welcome.
Honestly what I'm really wondering about is with the eleventh season. We are, presumably, having another live lip sync resulting in eliminations for the crown as the final episode. But they have to find some way to change it up next year in order to avoid the understandable 'so all that matters is to make the final four' repeat process. But what direction can they go in? Go back to three? Expand to...five?
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 June 2018 03:07 (five years ago) link
But what direction can they go in? Go back to three? Expand to...five?
Something that I've waited for a reality competition to do is to have no eliminations, just have the same number of queens compete over the course of a whole season.
― Martin Landau Ballet (Leee), Monday, 18 June 2018 16:13 (five years ago) link
communist
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 18 June 2018 16:18 (five years ago) link
It could be like Taskmaster.
― trishyb, Monday, 18 June 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
Comrade thruuuu. xp
― Martin Landau Ballet (Leee), Monday, 18 June 2018 17:39 (five years ago) link
Welllll that was an intense reunion.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 June 2018 04:31 (five years ago) link
The Vixen's every moment was expected. Was not quite as aware the girls were all going to turn on Kameron, Valentina-style. There's always gotta be one, huh.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Friday, 22 June 2018 13:19 (five years ago) link
Good read, I think:https://tv.avclub.com/tears-flow-and-tempers-flare-on-an-explosive-drag-race-1827037523/amp
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 June 2018 13:44 (five years ago) link
(alfred) Soto voce: https://www.slantmagazine.com/house/article/rupauls-drag-race-recap-season-10-episode-13-queens-reunited
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Friday, 22 June 2018 14:04 (five years ago) link
Ready for Asia's Drag Race. Ready for Ru's Ru-tirement. This show as-is is harmful and stale and Ru doesn't seem to be aware just how much so.
― Cousin Slappy, Friday, 22 June 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
Um, I think we're still at the point where the show's benefits are outweighing any harm.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Friday, 22 June 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link