RuPauls Drag Race
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That happened for Gottmik, for Adore, for Kim Chi, etc.
But those people already had a natural charisma, it just needed to be unleashed.
This week onRuPauls Drag Race, talent stopped mattering.
But on the only level thatRuPauls Drag Raceactually cares about, which is Star Quality, this tracks completely.
Well, this show has never been fair.
Its tough to watch Salina this episode.
Shes a great queen who Ive really grown to like over the course of the competition.
Competency will get you far, but eventually the judges get bored.
The episode kicks off in earnest with the announcement of the challenge, Wigloose: The Rusical.
Wigloose, then, is about a town in which drag is banned.
Its just good TV.
This time, the issue comes down to Loosey and Luxx, which is no surprise.
The difference is that Luxx has more fun with it.
Luxx and Mistress are, by this point, experts at linking up and pushing peoples buttons especiallyLooseys.
I mean, look: Luxx and Mistress are probably right.
Luxx and Mistress are also intentionally pissing Loosey off because she is fun as hell to piss off.
This is circa-2004 reality-TV baiting.
Nobody is being real thats the whole point of reality TV.
I dont know why this wasnt discussed, but that bitch should have fought more.
Ru does walk-throughs this week, which is nice.
The most glamorous girl of the season going for a nerdy husband role?
The judges eat that shit up.
Thats part of why Sasha is, to me, the only winner of the season.
Shes glamorous, shes put-together, but shes never, ever, afraid to be incredibly stupid.
Thats a Ru girl.
During Sashas Ru convo, Salina consoles a distraught Loosey.
This will be important later.
Anetra, meanwhile, talks to Ru about her family life and how drag saved her.
She also gets the coveted Ru compliment, You were born to do drag.
Rehearsals are mostly uneventful.
Everybody is edited to be doing badly, per the uzh.
Over half the episode is dedicated to the runway segment, because Wigloose: The Rusical is incredibly long.
(Im actually okay with this.
Wigloose: The Rusical is also, it must be acknowledged, actually so fucking good?
Im as shocked as you are.
Even though it increases the production value, it turns the entire episode into a lipsyncing competition with choreo.
Its the top six, these girls should besinging.
Still, Wigloose is incredible.
Everybody nails the choreography, plays their part well, and acts from their heads to their toes.
The choreo is pretty high-level, and they all manage to perform it well.
So Anetra ends up winning for her work as the supportive mom of Heaven Bacon.
I agree that shes extremely good.
It was the perfect role for her, because thats the kind of work that Ru loves.
She took the hardest point in her life and made it into drag.
Meh on runway, great job on performance.
Shes so goddamn good.
Mistress is probably second in line for the win.
She does a great job as the villainous preacher, wearing Sarah Huckabee Sanders drag and ferociously tirading.
Her Velma Von Tussle heel turn at the end is good, too.
In her trio with Loosey and Salina, shes the one who stands out the most.
When they all come out in drag at the end, thats made even clearer.
Both Loosey and Salina getlessinteresting in drag, while Luxx has the charisma to punch through.
She does a pop-punky look with arm casts acting as her gloves.
The look is right, but those arenotgloves, sorry.
Loosey gets a raw fucking deal of it this week.
She plays the lead, and thus has a ton of choreo and a ton of words to learn.
That alone would typically exempt her from the bottom.
And yet I unfortunately understand where the judges are coming from.
I dont like it.
Salina is also bottom two, and as with Loosey, I think she did everything she could.
Salina hits the choreo, lipsyncs every word, and is in character the whole time.
Like Loosey, however, your eye just doesnt go to Salina in a group setting.
Also her runway look is, yet again, a bit of a mess.
The peak of the episode, though, is Ru asking the girls who should go home and why.
Loosey and Anetra say Salina for track record.
Sasha gives another copout answer by naming Loosey and Luxx, since they both have two wins.
Its a mean way of doing things, and its absolutely delicious.
Andthatis what makes a star.
This lipsync is lame as fuck and cost the episode a whole star in my rankings.
Loosey, appropriately, needs to start letting loose.
Shes so stiff in this lipsync that it pains me.
Despite her honestly solid performance in the Rusical this week, it was time.
Loosey should be a trip next week!
I was hoping for more fireworks.
Dont want any of those four to go home, but I do think that would be gripping TV.
What a step forward the past two weeks ofDrag Racehave been from the previous season.
We need 90 minutes!
