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Twist: When the plane from Jamaica lands in NY, it will be 5 years in the future. Love Life: Manifest

I don’t blame you for getting people messed up, Mahfouz. There are too many seasons going on at once. And more are coming.

Star Trek Discovery has Funko Pop figures, but not Voyager. They are just trolling Voyager fans at this point.

I like Choriza May and didn't think she deserved to be in the bottom 2, but her lipsync was a disaster. When I was watching this lipsync, I said "they both should go. This is terrible". I've said that maybe 5 times in all my years watching drag race, and 3 times now, Ru agreed. More than the queens, though. I blame the song. Shout is a terrible lipsync song. Very few queens can pull this off. It's high energy with little build up or breaks, it's just at 100% the entire time. So basically contestants have to play it bible belt "I caught the Holy Spirit in church" style or go for broad comedy. So queens with a gospel background have a leg up. Broadway queens and tap dancing "windmill like it's the big finish" queens can maybe pull it off. However they approach it, they have to go full throttle for four minutes and hope they don't pass out. Even with a different bottom 2, it probably still would have been a double sashay. _______ I always wonder about that ending where the queens watch a sad situation where their only friend goes home or two queens get sent away, and then they have to perk up to some RuPaul song: RuPaul: "Queen Blah Blah Blah, you may have lost everyone you know in a plane crash just two days before arriving here, but you will always be... a Rugirl. Now... sashay away." [Queen walks to the back of the stage, bawling, barely remembers her sad exit line, then exits. The clip clop of her heels are quickly drowned out by "To The Moon".] RuPaul: "Now queens, dance a merry dance for us! Dance! Dance!"

I am not going to miss Océane's one pair of ugly shoes, I know that much. But her origin story... whoo! Roxy thought her bus stop was something, Océane was like "hold my poutine while I tell you a story about leaving children in nature".

“Doesn’t look like anything to me.”

Maybe Every Breath You Take was a warning to the rest of the band. 😃🤨

I see orange. Aaron had the red look for the warm team.

You really need to listen to Tom and Lorenzo’s podcast this week. They pretty much dragged the show while claiming they weren’t. It was a lot of “We cut our teeth on this show and Nina was always wonderful to us, so we’re not dragging it… but it’s been 18 years and they’ve only had one real success… unlike ANTM or American Idol who have produced people who have gone on to genuine careers and awards… and don’t you dare say Michael Costello to me…” - And there I was sitting listening and thinking “…but what about Michael Coste… oh “.

“As we know in Drag Race herstory, cliques never work.” What herstory does she know? A Heather won season 3. Most of RoLaskaTox made it to the finale of season 5, and then reassembled, got to the finale again and went on to win on All Stars 2. So… clique away, ladies. They work just fine. I don’t agree with the bottom 2 choices. It seems like Geometric was placed in the bottom largely for having too much confidence in a not so hot look. And at least the top of Beth’s outfit had some design to it. Eve’s ever shrinking dress was a complete disaster and should definitely have been in the bottom. And, frankly napkin dress queen and drunken Ocean with the bum knee could also have been in that bottom group. It was a good choice of two out of the top three. The green dress didn’t use any alternative materials…. And she still couldn’t walk in her gown. Between Canada and the UK, what is with everyone’s knee? I blame Covid. Too much sitting at home and not moving around is taking its toll.

I really wanted him to go home until.... he threw Darren's cigarette away. I laughed so hard, I thought "Okay, stay forever". I know he was the guy who didn't want to be the leader when he thought they might lose, then quickly took the mantle when they won, which seems shady, but he did save his team. When they needed help, he more than came through. Meg... whoo boy. When she started out with the “I love that you're like…. [blah blah blah] right now” or "I'm loving the [blah blah blah] vibe right now." I thought, you know what I'm not loving right now? This woman's desperate attempt to get attention with pointless bullshit. Then she started crying during the meditation (which, I admit, could be genuine combo of stress and grief - but still it got her that attention). Then she turned out one of the worst outfits, far more deserving of a bottom two placement than Chasity, yet skated through with nary a comment and I've had it... officially. Other notes: - I think the show spent all their location money on that great workroom so they had to put everyone in a modified flophouse. - I love Christian Siriano as the mentor. He's in a unique position as being a former contestant who won his season and then went on to have a brand that regularly shows at NYFW. So he knows what the contestants need to do to be successful, both on the show and after. He also seems genuinely concerned for them. They really should listen to him. - I was always neutral on Karlie Kloss. I don't think she added anything to the show and it took me awhile to notice she was gone. - I cracked up at the look on Zayden's face when Meg said the Warm team was mostly men so they probably weren't fighting, then they immediately cut to the Warm team fighting. - For an episode where judges were talking about the attention to detail down to who had the worst darting, it's odd that they put Darren/Bones' simple 30 minute dress in the top and ignored Aaron's amazing red bomber jacket that looked very detailed and difficult to make in comparison. -Overall, I liked this runway. There should be some good clothes coming out of this group.

Faux Michelle 1: We have to party like a 52 year old, you understand? Faux Michelle 2: (devastated) NOOOO!

Silky didn't lipsync against Serena. That was Jiggly.

I thoroughly enjoyed the Silky Nutmeg Ganache hour (and I strongly disliked her on her original season). She relyed heavily on props, but they worked for me. Pull out a flag, a guitar, gender switching outfits - okay girl. It was all in fun and fine by me. And seeing the Queens' response to the lipsyncs put it over the top. I don't see how the hell she can beat Eureka to get back into the competition, but I don't think she needs to. She did enough to change the trajectory her career in this one episode. Good for her.

Turns out the real mystery is how they got me to watch a show where nothing much happened for six episodes.

I had a problem with the actor they chose to play Adam. I kept thinking, this is the guy you cast to play someone pimping out teenagers near a 7-Eleven.

Boy, did I disagree with the judges. For the performance I thought Ginger and Eureka were so bad that when Yara showed up, I was excited; finally someone came across as the pop star they were supposed to be. I didn’t notice her not lipsyncing the words, though. - My tops were: Yara, Pandora Boxx, and Trinity (and Jan as a runner up). I think Jan is very talented and deserved to win the Madonna challenge of her season, but to me, she wasn’t the winner this time. - The Bottoms were: Eureka, Ginger, and Ra’Jah . If it weren’t for Eureka’s costume and Ra’Jah’s bouncing hair, I wouldn’t have known who they were supposed to be, and I still refuse to believe that Ginger was Fergie. - Props to Jamal for teaching the signature moves of each of the performers that had them. (Ginger probably should have gone with a country singer - maybe Shania Twain or Wynonna Judd). - As for the runway: Yara’s gown had nary a frill. Fringe everywhere, but frills, no. Maybe she thought they were the same thing. A’keria’s gown was one of the best things I’ve seen on Drag Race (which should have kept her out of the bottom) and Jan and Scarlett also had great gowns. So far, Scarlett has been underappreciated for her runways, but she has been turning it, even in the look she made herself. -Pandora and Yara’s looks would have knocked them out of the running for me. - I’d give the win to Trinity, and the sashay away to Ginger. I suspect that now that the show has made up for the Jan face crack moment by giving her this win, they're going to start putting her in the bottom.

The ladies were robbed. They consistently made great tasting cakes. The guys Apple Soup was so bad, they should have been sent home before the final challenge. I couldn't look at it. And Shania... or Hope (I can't remember who's who) was right: Blue Velvet? Get off Pinterest.

Apparently, I don't understand floral displays. On Season 2 ep. 4, I didn't understand why the aquatic team won. It looked like a jumbled blue mess to me, and I wouldn't have gotten the aquatic theme if I hadn't been told. The other team's however, screamed "Desert". I knew right away, where it was supposed to be. For me, that was the obvious choice. Yes, the background look a bit sparse in parts, but still, I preferred it to the heavy presentation of first group. As for the animal, both teams lost me there. Then the floral fireworks. I thought Canaan's was the most obvious winner. It looked most like a firework. I thought Melissa's did too. And I usually dislike Melissa's stuff, but she was the only one to show the firework that falls after the burst, which I thought was creative. I don't get the judging on this show. But then again, I don't garden. I tend to kill plants. And I don't know the names of any but the most common flowers. I do much better at guessing winners on every other kind of reality competition show.

If he found it too humbling to admit that his partner might be right and he might be wrong, how must he have felt when everyone else got it right and he was the only one to get it wrong? And as he's sent packing he says "I am who I am". Who is that? A guy who'll die on every hill as long as he doesn't have to take advice? Anthony: "It couldn't be cannoli, there were no cannoli shells." Well, Anthony maybe you're supposed to make the shells because... you're a baker. What's next: "It couldn't be a cake, there was no box of Duncan Hines"? I laughed when the team that won the first challenge got their extra clue (tree bark), then high fived and felt all the more secure in baking... a wood themed cake. They literally missed the forest for the tree.

Oooh when Jiggly finds out how Ginger voted, it won't be pretty, but I see where she was coming from. Yara didn't really deserve to be in the bottom. I would have picked Trinity, those Crossing Guard shoes alone were a crime, but she really pulled it out last minute with her Cinderella story. When a DIY challenge look is better than the ones the queen spent time and money on, I'm always shocked. I agreed with the choices for top three. They all turned out some amazing looks and fierce walks to go with them. Ra'jah's final look was impeccable. She deserved that win.

They're janning Jan again. She sang her ass off and didn't make it to the top. Who wins? Yara, the boob slinger.

I think that was the point. She wasn’t on board with the bridal shower so she wore something as far away from the floaty florals one would expect.

I pretty much ate up season 2 in one sitting. It's so good. Better than the first. I really love what they've done, not just with the lead, but all the characters.

I always preferred Josh for Liza, but damn they did Charles dirty this season. They just turned him into a sulky baby who had to be appeased by the women in his life at all times. The redemption at the end couldn't erase a whole season of neediness. The season was hurt by the absence of Diana. The only spinoff I'm interested in seeing is one with Diana and Lauren and I don't care how it's done: make them private eyes in Rekjavik, or in the witness protection program selling clunky jewelry in Tampa. For those two, I'm there.