RuPauls Drag Race
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Despite receiving extra harsh (and deserved!)
But that doesnt mean we cant at least start the episode with some silly bullshit.
The fake-bitch-slap mini-game is one of my favorites, and Im glad its becoming a staple.
Mama Ru is just gonna stay out of it.
Does it have to go?
I am forgetting Kahanna is even missing, and Kahanna looks like Kahanna.
And you know they didnt justnotaddress this in the workroom.
This is a look worthy of an entire subplot.
I would much rather hear about the history and future of this dick magnet than talk about wigs.
nowhere near the professional level of these other drag queens.
The other teams are VanjieAriel, AKeriaHoney, NinaShuga, YvieScarlet, and Brooke LynnPlastique.
Right off the bat, that last pairing the obvious front-runner.
And now, lets talk about the wigs of it all.
Ariel, upon sitting down with Vanjie, wants the tea about what happened to her babies, a.k.a.
her wigs that she left behind in an emotional huff after clearing out the workroom.
With the truth now out, this will surely make for fireworks later.Surely.Thiswillpay off.
She sometimes just wears gasp!
Brooke Lynn gets to be withPlastique.
I mean, come on.
Where was Kahanna, even?
Im sure shed like to take credit for masterminding this, but … someone had to get Soju!
It really doesnt feel calculated to me.
Ru makes her way over to Silky and lists her crimes over the past couples weeks.
Chiefly, Ru wants to know whats been up with her visible padding on the runway as of late.
Silky, clearly flustered by everything about the days situation, can barely give Ru coherent answers.
She looks purely overwhelmed for the first time this season.
Now, Brooke Lynn paired you with Soju, says Ru, right in front of Soju.
Do you think she was being shady?
These were allegedly hoes that looked like Wesley Snipes.
Hoes that looked like John C. Reilly.
So Soju can just sit tight and do what shes told, sayeth the Reverend.
Elsewhere, Nina details her concept to Ru.
First, the goddamn wigs.
It comes to light that Ariel is wanting to know what is up with her belongings.
The girls bat this back and forth, with Plastique being put on blast by the other girls.
For some reason, Ariel backs down almost immediately.
She doesnt want to get directly pissed at anyone in the room.
Silky even comes forward to say shes taken a couple more wigs, and Ariel is silent.
Its almost like she doesnt want to play ball with this shit anymore.
Guns blazing yesterday, now she simply says that she wants her wigs back and thats it.
This is something that we spent time on!
AKeria, the bone carrier of the season, lays down the bone.
It feels like this could stop here, but it does not.
Because of course she does!
Silky demands to know how shes been helped to some huge degree.
Having had enough, Yvie whips around: Your hair.
Your hair, for starters.
She then talks about how shes gone to her other Dreamgirls (AKeria and Vanjie) for sewing support.
Vanjie screams that Nina has had help too.
Silky reasons that the Dreamgirls are mostly there for each others emotional support.
Lena Waithe and Wanda Sykes join the judges for the runway presentation, which is all over the map.
When Yvie and Scarlet come out in their denim high fashion, Im of two minds about it.
They look like friends!
Which unfortunately matters in this challenge.
This is Polished with a capitalP.
Silky and Soju, going for disco, are obviously going to have an issue.
There is no family resemblance.
And Michelle notes, as she walks away from her, that the pads are messy again.
This wont be good.
Finally, Brooke Lynn and Plastique are Brooke Lynn and Plastique.
Velvet evening gowns, movie-star hair, pageantry, etc.
Its extremely well choreographed on top of it all.
A-plus across the board.
When the judges deliver their critiques, Ross says Yvies looks are almost chic but too crafty.
Wana notes that it feels like her sister Scarlet is literally wearing scraps.
Its not necessarily a negative critique, but it doesnt feel good.
Michelle clocks Nina for her makeup work on Shuga, and a closeup shot reveals shes right.
Shuga dont look like Shuga under Ninas eye.
Simple but effective, says Michelle of AKeria and Honey.
Ross agrees that youre not reinventing the wheel, but thats likely because the wheel looks damn good already.
But, Michelle says, if that were true, Sojus makeup wouldnt look so damn bad.
The battle lines have clearly been drawn.
Dreamgirls & Co. generally side against Yvie, and everyone else wants to see Silky gone.
The lip-sync number is No Scrubs by TLC, and its confounding to watch.
This has to be one of the worst lip syncs in series history, as nothing really happens throughout.
Its clear that Nina knows the words but makes absolutely no effort to do anything with the song.
Might we see a polished underdog pull a Sasha Velour and take this from under a front-runners nose?
Only two more competitive weeks left!
