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

If you ask me, we should be on the third week in a row of Trinity being the winner.

100%

I often find the judging to be weird and opaque, but I thought it made a lot of sense this week. Even with the little connection between Kylie and Ra'Jah, their whole conversation was mainly about Scarlet's two moms finding love with each other, which had nothing to do with the topic of motherhood at all. Although I thought A'keriah should have won. Mind you, I thought A'keriah's Prince performance was really unfairly slated last week.

i still don't understand what made rupaul uncomfortable... listening to ginger talk about how she couldn't shit for like 2 minutes sure made me uncomfortable

ok that sketch was like 900 years long wtf

v glad for winner this wk
but if Jan hurts herself in any way as a result of this show it will be on their heads, man they are fucking with her

also Peppermint was on Pitstop this wk and trixie reminded her of this MAJESTIC hilarity with Bob from last year’s pitstop ie “It’s fashion”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBJwONPe6NU

That acting challenge was both 900 years long and also maybe the most excruciatingly boring challenge in RPDR history, I cannot BELIEVE they actually aired that

It was so bad. The runway was fantastic, though.

yeah that was a killer runway

i am bummed pandora didnt get a bit more love, i thought she was really great this week in challenge & runway

Unfortunately the challenge was so horribly written that even Pandora and Ginger couldn’t really elevate it beyond merely amusing. I actually dug the “I’m your biggest fan” choice Eureka made there, and can’t really imagine it being read any other way that would’ve been better so A+ producer-thwarting on her part there by refusing to give them any alternative takes. Willam would’ve been proud.

It's often been the case that the actual rehearsal/filming footage of these things is way more watchable than the actual final result, and boy did it show.

i always hate the rehearsal moments where michelle gets to michellesplain, in the cuntiest way imaginable, the *dumbest* things

like what a lisp is lmao

thanks michelle

they keep throwing pandora softball after softball and it's like why are you still here and yara is gone

fucking rupaul's rigged race

i truly dislike michelle, she's just not even cunty in a fun way, just a bitch who thinks she's smarter than she actually is

Race Chaser/Hot Goss wondered yesterday if the ‘game within a game’ involves Snatch Game

Also Drag Race España final tomorrow! Say it again, that’s been a great first season and a real treat.

i like that bob and thorgy in the pit stop said pandora seems like she doesn't want to be there at all, agree 100%

also that ryan murphy thing was fucking embarrassing, probably the worst acting challenge

Now that I know how onerous the contract terms are with regards to being called back for later shows, I wouldn't be surprised if Pandora didn't want to be there. (It would also explain why they brought Bianca in to do basically nothing so that they could reset her timer). I know that "contestants treated badly in reality TV show SHOCKER" is not exactly headline news, but other shows don't have that veneer of "we're all one big drag family."

I've been rewatching some of the early seasons, and it seems obvious now that one of the reasons they don't do so many sewing challenges any more is that they just take too long. It's obviously much easier and quicker to give everyone an hour or two to learn a song or some terrible dialogue and let them get into drag that they brought with them, rather than have them make things from scratch.

Which, a pity, I love all that sewing work.

Anyway, I would like to coin a new term after yesterday's episode: "Jangst."

(So when is this game-within-a-game starting anyway, because now there's more people gone than are still in it!)

yeah wtf they are def dragging that out

lol pun intended i guess

The game within a game -- everyone's eliminated one by one and then they have to start all over again, thus stretching the show out through the rest of the year, in time for the new regular season to start in the New Year.

haha

I'm hoping the game-within-a-game is rock paper scissors just to see Ginger's face

I think another reason for scrapping the sewing/design challenges is that they are a lot harder to edit into the production narratives. You can make it seem like eg someone's jokes have bombed by using the rattlesnake sound effect and a cut to Michelle Visage looking stony, whereas you can't really disguise a good or a bad costume the same way.

And another queen down. But Trinity reacting to Tina was great.

STILL nothing about this game within a game and I’m wondering if my joke last week was…right? Nothing given away in the teaser for the next episode either and after that it’s just four competitors.

Rajah’s LaToya snuck up on me

When pandora said she was doing kim cattrall i heard the sound of five suitcases being zipped closed. why would she do that? i just. ugh.

also vaguest shades of night of a thousand madonna kimonos in these fkn warhol pop art dresses WTF CMON

game within a game: galaxy brain
everyone gets eliminated!
& they roll right into a new season with the same set of queens all over again
repeat into infinity

this is fkn game AFTER a game
there has to be another game happening for it to be within
liars

I've become mildly obsessed with the Pit Stop, specifically the tea you get in the comments. It feeds my confirmation bias something terrible.

I don't watch the pit stop religiously, by any stretch, but caught a few recent ones for all-stars 6, Monique and Violet ones were fun. Trixie is such a personable host, tho, I feel she genuinely loves her sisters art . Her uncanny ability to talk to you, the viewer, like she's your best friend from waybaack gets me all the time. I also love her ability to be very funny without needing to be really shady or rude.

Yeah, she gets a lot of flak from haters because of her RuPaul-style endless hustle, but (like RuPaul herself, I'd argue) the hustle is successful because she's so funny and likeable.

yeah, that's interesting because I do think Trixie is the true drag daughter of Ru, she's the one who left the show ( after a disappointing, middling 1st stint on the show, remember) but crucially took on board and implemented every damn thing ru says to all the girls, in terms of capitalising on the fame and getting on it with the business side...hunty shebettaworkdherassoff#

Trixie haters can take a jump, Trixie is a sweetheart, a very rich sweetheart and it's pleasing to see the wealth has only made her more confidently Trixie and more able to be shiny star she is

Yeah Trixie managing multiple brands of whatever is going on as well as keeping the partnership with Katya going even after the thoroughly well documented mental break the latter had, I mean...it's remarkable mini-empire stuff at this point. (I remain intrigued that that they ended up with their podcast NOT being part of the massively MoM/Forever Dog family tree.)

also vaguest shades of night of a thousand madonna kimonos in these fkn warhol pop art dresses WTF CMON

Yeah the fact that none of the judges mentioned it was baffling.

Kylie being secretly hilarious has been one of the many great revelations of this season, as is her looking back at the mirror/camera after voting to check out herself out again.

Yeah she's amazing value throughout.

Drag Race Holland has also kicked off its new season -- seems like a good bunch of queens, sewing challenge next week. They've rejigged the prizes -- they're getting money now as well, plus apparently the big bonus is getting one's own stage at this thing next year:

https://www.milkshakefestival.com/

And in cross-branding fun, the founder of the festival will be the new Michelle Visage type for the season, I gather. (Pity, kinda liked the woman who they had last year in that role but hey.)

Drag Race theme: Pop Art

Queens: pic.twitter.com/JGUy2G5TUi

— Tenderoni (@Tender_oni) August 8, 2021

Honestly once again, to use the phrase from Race Chaser, Trinity understood the assignment on that runway.

Okay so we finally have…some idea of what is going on. Like a round robin lip sync to the death or what?

that challenge was a) dumb and b) weird

and rajah seemed v low energy in that lipsync tho maybe it was just cameron pulling cartwheels that made it seem so idk

but even cameron wasnt at her normal level

it was v meh

Justice for Charli XCX, she deserved a better episode.

agree!

It was not great, but as a loud, fat, sometimes obnoxious, underachiever myself, I really felt for Eureka this week. Also, once the stupid googly eye glasses were off, Ra'jah's makeup and hair were just incredible. Worthy of a Donna Summer album cover.

yeah i was sad to see Eureka go, i have grown to love her so much more since her first drag race appearance, she is a lot but she has such a beautiful heart. i loved the extra time with her in the workroom after her elimination etc

rajah looked fkn incredible

The Charli song didn't really lend itself to being an epic lipsync -- midtempo and no huge climax. Was that the first time that we saw Kameron lipsync without throwing in the splits?

just caught first few episodes of drag race Holland season 2, fun cast despite 90% of the cast bringing the drag races stock phrases hard, worth watching for the intriguing 'the countess', 2nd episode **spoiler** makes incredible couture outfit in a thrift design challenge from literally 2pieces of material and a plastics crocodile

Yeah good episode and she seems pretty sharp. It’s a nice mix of folks and I think after we get rid of one more the various individual personalities will get even sharper (usual progression of course).

caught an episode of a show called Drag S.O.S. yesterday. I think it's a nice addition to the drag verse, a low budget reality show hosted by some fun, quirky queen's (including a bio-queen) from the NW /Manchester area of the UK. Astina from dragrace UK s02 featured in this episode. It was very affecting and shows a lot of promise for looks, heart and silly capers.

Phew, Race Chaser went IN on the Drag Tots challenge. Rightly.