RuPauls Drag Race
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The U.S.s regular seasons have reached a point where they truly feel like a gladiator battle.
The regular U.S. seasons havestakes, and that makes them, for me, permanently the most exciting.
Seasons 12 through 15 felt like a game of never-ending one-upmanship.
If that sounds like complaining, its mostly not.
Still, its a good, energetic episode.
The queens seem fun, and I remain excited for the season to come.
On to the queens!
Q is, quite clearly, a very good drag queen.
Next is Xunami Muse, daughter of Kandy Muse.
Plus, her fashion drag stands out in a group filled with showgirls.
Then its Amanda Tori Meating, who has the best name of the season.
Despite this, I immediately love this queen.
Amanda Tori Meating stan card activated, get ready.
Morphine Love Dion, Amandas biggest op, walks in next.
Im glad shes here; it should be fun to watch the other girls navigate her.
Sapphira Crystal walks in with spooky noises for seemingly no reason other than its fun.
Well meet one of those queens next week.
The other is Sapphira.
Expecting big things from this one.
Las Vegass Mirage comes in next, covered in bright colors and calling the other girls trash.
Whenever she appeared in a challenge or on the runway, I had to remind myself she was there.
Finally, its Dawn, the token weird girl of the group.
I like Dawn a lot.
The episodes first challenge is the classic photo shoot one, this time set on a porch.
By that standard, the clear winners are Dawn and Sapphira.
This is fine by me.
If it breeds drama, great.
If it doesnt, well, nobody went home because of it, so no harm, no foul.
Also seems fine to me.
Charlize Theron shows up with some baked goods.
If anybody could fact-check this for me, by all means, be my guest.
It could have been more funif she was blackout, but this show isnt on Logo anymore.
Morphine kicks off the show with a Rosalia number that is solid enough but not thrilling.
Clearly a safe week for Morphine.
The other girls seem less than impressed with Amanda Tori Meatings number.
I laughed from the moment she declared herself the CEO of S.E.X.
On the runway, she looks bad.
Runway-wise, shes a cute Yeti.
Im glad shes here; it ups the ante.
Mirage does, essentially, a stripper number.
Id also note that theres something in her face that makes her feel less than fully present.
It could be nerves!
She produces a showgirl runway that is cute, if, again, a little unmemorable.
Xunami performs what is probably the closest to a flop of the night.
I do, however, love her runway.
Anytime a queen comes out with the simple goal of being an ultrachic woman, Im sold.
Her coatdress is great.
Sapphira closes the night with an opera performance in falsetto and a dirty translation about how horny she is.
Ru announces via extremely obvious ADR that its a top-two, not a bottom-two, week.
The top girls are Q and Sapphira, which is right.
The lip-sync song is Break My Soul, and Sapphira eats Q up from the second the song starts.
Okay, then, girl, show me what youve got is the clear message.
To this I say: Aahahahahah.
I love this show.
And Also onUntucked …
Untuckedis fine; nobody gets too dramatic.
They see Charlize again.
Trauma Makeup Corner:Morphine shares about her relationship with her parents.
She lives with them, but they dont know she does drag because theyre in denial.
Queens from this group I see in the top four: Sapphira and Dawn.
Qs got an outside shot, but, not having met the other group, I cant be sure.
The second-best Ru moment of the episode is her bopping along slightly to Xunamis song.
