RuPauls Drag Race
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Sitting down to write this recap, I find myself struggling.
How would my time be best used here in this written piece?
To say I hope she never sees or hears about this episode is an understatement.
What has occurred here in this episode ofDrag Raceis straight updis-re-spect-ful, yall.
Lets talk about how we ended up with this mess!
After last week, we know these girls can pretty much execute an acting challenge.
So when we get what is basically another one, the bar is high.
The two must pick teams, schoolyard bully style, for the Diva Worship challenge.
Both teams will star in evangelical-style talk shows that focus on one major diva of the teams choosing.
You know these shows where they praise Jesus?
Replace Jesus with Robyn.
Seems clear, right?
Seems like something it would be incredibly easy for any queer person to do?
The second is made up of RaJah, Shuga, Scarlet, Plastique, Honey, and Akeria.
When they sit down to pick teams, alarm bells start going off.
Nina Wests team has a relatively easy time choosing Britney and we, the viewer, feel pretty safe.
Britney Spears is a major part of pop culture.
Even if you werent a stan, you could fill this challenge with specifics.
Have we heard a lot of jokes and takes on her already?
But that is part of why its such a guaranteed success for this team.
Theres just … a lot there.
RaJahs team chooses Mariah and it feels decidedly different.
Its that everyone were dealing with here seems to have doubts about anything Mariah has doneat all.
They think one of the most iconic things about her is her middle part.
Would it be so bad if we just went straight to the runway?
Also doing so well is Team Nina West, whopretty muchall nail this.
Two references in, the girls seem truly fuckin tapped.
It does get worse.
We have to at least knowGlitter.
If we dont knowGlitter, truly why are any of us even here?
Not one of these six drag queens knewGlitter?
This is the part that feels disrespectful to me!
At least let us homosexually exalt Mariahs great, glorious failure correctly on this television program.
Otherwise, why did she go through that at all!?
Theres just so much to unpack and I can barely watch the rest of the challenge.
I tap out as Honey Davenport and RaJah OHara screlt us to all of our own deaths.
I can barely watch this anymore.
The drag queens didnt knowGlitter.
The next day, Shuga is right to feel afraid about her teams performance.
Honey, meanwhile, thinks she slayed.
At least shes aware of the possibility that shes wacko?
The drag queens didnt knowGlitter.
Lets just do the runway.
Troye Sivan and Guillermo Diaz ofScandalare here to watch the fringe runway, and it is overall very fringe.
I bet Nina West knowsGlitter.
Honorable mention to Yvie Oddly, who certainly attacked the challenge from an outside the box place.
I question how polished the makeup is, but its definitely memorable.
Yvie is always that.
Nina truly held the team together in a strong way, and her runway is really terrific.
Vanjie and Ariel are both commended on a job well done, and then they are dismissed.
Each and every one of them obviously wishes they would have stepped up and suggested they do something else.
RuPaul asks for an explanation from the girls, demanding to know who is responsible for the teams failure.
Each and every one of them refuses to point the finger at someone else.
In fact, none of them really say much of value at all.
This is a tough one to figure out.
Do you put Scarlet and Shuga there for setting a really shaky tone?
Which Im sure looked really fun in the room on the day of production!
On television, it just looks messy.
This was better in theory than practice.
It cant feel good.
In this competition, Honey truly never got a moment.
But the fact of the matter is, someone had to go from this team.
That is what happens when the drag queens dont knowGlitter.
… Said The Bitch!
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