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The first three queens they've sent home are really similar to several of the queens who got really far last season (a gorgeous fishy glamour queen with great make-up, a cute young queen with some cool ideas but who's too inexperienced, and Violet's drag mom). I wonder how intentional that was. Also: I wasn't Darienne's biggest fan, but I kind of wish they'd bring her back just so she and Betty can direct their mega-bitch energy at one another instead of at the other queens. It'd be like when they first brought Andy on The Office to be Dwight's perfect rival.

Also: not super relevant, but my dad had a bookie when I was growing up. He had a buddy who wanted to start betting on basketball, and I distinctly remember my dad telling him almost verbatim what Steve told Brandon about it being a bad idea because the stats are meaningless. So I guess it's nice that the writers did some homework for this completely pointless story line.

Pardon the armchair psychology, but does anyone know anything about Darren Star's relationship with his dad? He just seems to have this compulsion to make Brandon (and now Dylan) self-righteously dominate Jim and force him to admit that he's wrong in like every other story line. I'd like to think it's that Star's a savvy writer who understands what his teenage audience wants to see, but then why not give Brenda those story lines too? I've never watched any other Star shows. Is this a recurring thing?