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

definite flashbacks to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOJNk7YiE7c

for all Brooke Lynn seems to be winning lots of challenges and doing very well I continually forget that she is even there.

If you ever needed proof that this show is beholden to its own history its the fact they persist with Snatch Game every season despite the fact it hasn't provided any genuine entertainment for a good few years now

Brooke Lynn quoting an overrated Simpsons line and the judges praising her for it/laughing at it was rmde.

which line?

Level 4 vegan.

i didnt know it was a simpsons line
i loled too, sorry

this week's challenge seemed designed for Nina West, and that group's act showed again that the queens themselves are able to come up with scripts better than the ones provided by the production team for the acting challenges. I also thought Shuga did much better in the lipsynch and really shouldn't have been up for elimination anyway.

I didn’t even have big problems with shuga’s runway looks other than the reveals should’ve crescendoed instead of just being one B+ look after another.

This week def should’ve been Vangie vs. Silky, but they clearly aren’t ready to send Vangie home, tho her fan favorite status has certainly attained some tarnish from the “failing to live up to expectation” edit.

Brooke Lynn seems like she was made in a lab, the product of years of research into "how to win at Drag Race". I find her inspiring like I find an athlete inspiring, i.e. I really like her and want her to win. I like her even more after watching Untucked, sipping her drink with raised eyebrows and staying out of the drama entirely

i thought Vanjie’s lipsync was great.

Akeria’s kaf-pants made me lol.

i know they want to keep Silky around but jeez, at least Vanjie & Shuga can hold a look together with more than Silky’s wing & a prayer. her janky hip pads in the main challenge was like O_o.

and the way Silky stared down the judges when they told her she was safe....your time is coming

I get why the judges like Silky more than Vanjie, but I don't think it's fair of them to have a go at Vanjie for not showing any range when Silky doesn't either.

I really enjoyed Nina and Shuga and Brooke Lynn's show. I would watch them do a Tommy Cooper-style magic show.

I also laughed at Ross's critique of the various kaftans.

totally

so they didn't judge this as a team challenge simply cuz they wanted to send shuga home right?

neither her nor vanjie are going to win so i don't really think it's here or there either way... you could understand why they'd rather keep vanjie around

shuga's main role in the season seemed to be saying stuff in confessionals like "we walked into the room and there was a magician in there honey"

silky is extremely endearing and personally speaking i find it endearing that she seems insistent on sabotaging her success by being lazy

er... silky is extremely funny

i foundher v enjoyable early on but her pettiness is v unappealing to me

this whole season feels the most lackluster, like 10 episodes in and I still feel like I'm not really connecting with any of these queens, I barely even have a sense of who Shuga is
however that magic challenge was prob the most enjoyable challenge I've seen in the past several seasons

Vanjie made me cry with her lipsync. God that was beautiful. I still don't love this season but the lipsyncs have been epic.

Really really hoping that Nina can win this, but am afraid that they're going to give it to Brooke Lynn instead.

yeah same re: vanjie

Brooke Lynn after Aquaria is ... not gonna age well.

No it goddamn won't.

(As winners, I mean.)

Same here.

Woulda thrown Sasha in there too but her humanities major empathizing with the winds certainly cleared some space around herself

i want Nina to snatch the crown, (or a surprose run from Vanjie maybe)

If Nina doesn’t win, I wonder if the show will hire her as a writer, because god knows they need some fresh jokes.

I thought that Vanjie’s magic team should have thrown in a CLUB 96 during their performance.

That was a bullshit result. How can you not know the words to Scrubs, but still stay in the competition?

Should’ve been a double sashay. Instead, Ru set up everyone to hate not only Silky, but kinda also Brooke Lynn. I expect Akeria to win.

What the shenanigans! Hope Nina doesn't face into obscurity.

Vanjie should've won that, and oh hi Mrs Vanjie. Obvious where Ms Vanessa got her looks from. Seriously thought that was her sister at first.

That lipsync was some hot garbage jfc

I spoiled myself and expected nothing but silky terror but wow Nina’s outfit was terrrrible and the lip sync was terrrrible

I wish people would stop picking on Yvie she is great

I loathe Scarlet but it was nice to see her be an odd cheerleader

Brooke Lynn of course should win and is farrrrr more of an obvious front runner and staying power etc than Aquaria and I love Aquaria. I haven’t felt so sure of a front runner since Bianca tbh

those boot covers on Nina & Shuga were so weirdly chunky! made their lower legs look like they were in plaster casts

and the actual look on both of them reminded me of when Robin Williams dressed up as a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader :(

i love yvie & how blunt but sensitive she is

mama vanjie, jesus does she just wear an instagram
filter on the reg or

the workroom hijinks over soju not being able to walk in heels and them all falling out at silky’s dismay was hilarious

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/05/12/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-drag-race-nina-west/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Buffer&utm_campaign=PN

I wish people would stop picking on Yvie she is great

Quite.

Sometimes this world is good.

Sometimes I think to myself...what would @MariahCarey do???

— Mayhem Miller (@TheOnlyMayhem) May 11, 2019

Eat, drink, dance, rob a bank, whatever honey! https://t.co/62nwABqRLo

— Mariah Carey (@MariahCarey) May 13, 2019

awesome

that was a bizarre challenge.. of all the makeover challenges it was by far the least interesting & they didn't even make them choreograph a performance or anything. if the challenge had called for that there's no way nina would've been lip syncing even w that outfit, which was truly god awful.... her understanding of proportion seems really off.

brooke lynn seems like the obvious favorite but she would be a pretty similar winner to aquaria and i always feel like each year's winner is in some way a reaction against the previous one. personally i think they've been laying the groundwork for yvie to win (the vixen walked so yvie could run)

That Branjie situation was so inevitable but what a great lip synch and that exit is probably my favourite ever from any series.

I know when you watch reality tv shows like this there is always a narrative being constructed from the editing but the obviousness of it has been a huge problem this cycle.

Yeah, it’s been clunky. Anyway, Vanjie as season narrator hands down. Roll on the reunion.

I did appreciate how Vanjie and Brooke Lynn were just a pair of pros during the lip sync. No drama, no histrionics. Just solid work.

i do feel like the producers would prob have rather dragged that storyline into the final but vanjie was the clear one to go... RIP queen

yeah Vanjie’s exit was great, so bummed to see her go. I hope someone gives her a tv show or something. That is one light that should not be hidden under a bushel!

The queens are really good at doing Vanjie, so Brooke Lynn better watch out.

Nina’s Vanjie is great

That was an amazing exit, I love Vanjie. Part of me was watching Brook Lynn fall back on her ballerina bullshit and I'm thinking despite myself "this is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen on this show".

I kind of wish Silky had got the boot earlier, I really felt like the producers were leaning into pitting Vanjie and Brook Lynn up against each other for dramadramadrama, but oh well. Brook Lynn is my runaway favourite but I hope she loses to Yvie and comes back to win All Stars with a thousand new eye-popping tricks up her sleeve