RuPauls Drag Race
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We need a challenge that allows the girls to really shine.
Something that these girls can make their own.
Maybe the mini challenge wi
Okay, Im just gonna stop.
This season is really starting to feel like season 11 of a television show.
Maybe its that it feels like it exists in an ultraprivileged bubble.
Something specifically about Maddows inclusion just made me roll my eyes.
(And Im a fan!
Maybe Im not over the time Maddow said she had info about Trumps taxes?
And then … did not?)
This is fun for Ru and almost none of the contestants; its clear these girls dont watch her.
Scarlet gives that part to Ariel, who says she doesnt even want the role.
There is a lot going on with Silky!
Ru also focuses on Mercedes Iman Diamond in her walkthrough.
Does she know about Ivanka Trump?
No, replies Mercedes, but shes going to make it work!
This is Rus America!
Choreographer Yanis Marshall is here in the Todrick Hall role of Choreographer Who Brutalizes the Girls.
He does a good job of serving tough choreography and bitchy soundbites, and hes hot.
By the end of rehearsal, RaJah has fully had it.
Maybe on the runway!
That would be fun.
From my vantage point, she doesnt seem super ready for the high-risk and high-stakes televised experience.
And we really need Shandy to work.
Shandy is very important to Trump, we are told.
The situation sounds frightening, and the tragic murder of Matthew Shepard is discussed.
I know its the responsibility of drag and art to comment on and pick apart our societys larger issues.
But the episode is feeling produced and convenient rather than artful or like any key in of comment.
The connections being made here are really bizarre.
Major characters in this Rusical feel like minor characters in actual Trumpworld.
We end with the group singing about how more women need to be running for office?
I dont fucking know.
The world is a horror show.
Runway time, and the theme is orange.
Brooke Lynn is also looking pretty stunning with a see-through orange trench-y moment.
Everyone else looks … good!
The bottom two is Mercedes and RaJah, and its not hard to see where this is going.
And so we move on with the season, hopefully leaving any mention of Trump behind.
