Fake Jan Brady

I'm not sure but I think I may have heard Probst say something about how this is Season 41 and anything is possible...

And suddenly we're down to five queens; that was unexpected. I thought Scarlett's Macaulay Culkin was pretty one note and that wet lettuce look was limp enough to warrant being in the bottom. I'd call Ru an outer saboteur on the walk through but Ella, Kitty and to a lesser extent Scarlett all benefited from his suggestions and Chroriza was seemingly punished for not changing to a Spanish Cher.

Cook Islands [not that the players had anything to do with that decision].

Heh, that she wasn't there didn't even occur to me until I read this. Aaron was robbed. Just noticed Bones' surname: Jones. Bones Jones.

Simpsons already did it.

Tiffany couldn't figure it out and she was straight up told how it worked [facepalm].

"Don't hate me 'cause I'm beautiful, hate me 'cause I'm an immigrant." Love.

Am I missing a pop culture reference when Dean met Carey at the Bethesda Fountain and Carey sunk to his knees?

I'm always amazed at the acting chops of the Queens when they have to fake their reaction to winning on the Runway. Even the losing Queens had to voice their disappointments in Untucked. Of course, they never know until we do...

In the words of Trinity K Bonet: That was some bullshit. Pretty much my Drag Race nightmare. As soon as Ru's favourite bested Yara I figured it was going to be a looooong episode. The only upside was watching the Top 4 watching [especially Trinity's less enthusiastic reactions].

That was fast - I'm still fuming Bimini didn't win Season 2.

We have a date! August 26

Except I'm always thinking "wait....wasn't he her Principal in 'The Prom'..?

It was a reprise of 'Suddenly'; the longer version is at the end of episode four, sung by Doc and Emma.

Maybe Melissa is the bad guy. Which is a sudden turnaround from four episodes making Josh look like the jerk. So much plot to tie up in the next episode: Melissa and Josh's reconciliation, letting Emma and Doc down gently, finding Carson, the Mayoral election, hopefully a grace note for the Mayor and Florence, some kind of farewell to Danny, Betsy and the Countess and Josh's inevitable solo. It's going to be a packed 30 minutes.

The wait for Jane Krakowski was so worth it. Giving her an Ann Miller-esque number makes perfect sense. Turns out horny Bjorn/he loved servant porn... Of course I'm a Nazi.

In this interview Sarah Niles admits she'd never learned how to ride a bike until booking this job.

Add "He's A Queer One" to the list of perfect songs this show is gifting us. I'm glad Ann Harada was given such a great moment [and Cecily's cut aways were hilarious]. The only complaint I have is we're halfway through the season and still no Jane Krakowski. I'm a Krak addict and I need my fix!!

Surely that was the worst acting sketch since Shakesqueer; terrible script combined with that lazy semi-circular staging on set that looked like something stolen from a high school drama department made for a tedious episode. I've been hoping Pandora sticks around until Match Game so she can get a long overdue win but now that we're down to seven queens I'm guessing there isn't going to be one. A'Keria's lack of enthusiasm for "a game within a game" cracked me up.

Season 6: Brains vs Brawn Fun start, with somebody already wildly overplaying. Interesting twist with half the tribe being spared Tribal, but George leaving Phil to be fed to the wolves wasn't going to solve his Mitch problem; should've left the alphas to devour one of their own. The result couldn't be more 'Strayan though: can't vote off the Asian woman, better vote off the non-binary POC. [eyeroll]

Kudos to the songwriters, who nail the specifics of the golden era songs. Aaron Tveit's bad boy anthem 'You Can't Tame Me', complete with change of tempo "but if someone could" verse, would sit unchallenged in any Rogers & Hammerstein show, as would the completely silly, time filler 'Corn Puddin''. The only thing that disappoints me is that the show is only going to have six episodes; I have a feeling I'm going to be stuck in a time loop rewatching this for a long time and, frankly, I don't care to know what can break that particular spell.

It made me wonder if the queens are briefed by producers before the challenge as to what the judges will be looking for. The usual shtik is to send up whatever genre they're parodying [go big or go home] but in this case it was to be respectful? It was doubly confusing for me as I'd never heard of Red Table Talk before this so I was waiting for the punchline...and the pink furry box wasn't it. I'm curious as to how it would have turned out if the Rock-Paper-Scissors game had gone the other way.

Phew! Electra called it. Man oh man, Ru and Michelle's psychobabble during the TicTak Jaffa lunch was excruciating.

And Elektra hitting on Raven.

How did none of the queens answer "Who should go home and why" with "Art, because bitch was eliminated weeks ago"?? Easiest answer ever. Worst franchise ever.