We head into the final workroom week with a pretty obvious frontrunner. Season 11 is at its best when it does this. And it doesn’t need to: the audience for Drag Race just wants a show that lets the queens shine. When you look back at the past few years - lip-sync tournaments, All Stars 3‘s queens jury, All Star 4‘s double crowning - it’s clear the show feels it too. Reality shows struggle to keep fresh after a few seasons, at best, and tend to continually rely on new gimmicks and cheap twists to play with the audience’s expectations. According to the edit, it was clearly a double sashay and Vanjie won the challenge - so why did the show go against itself?Ĭounting All Stars, Drag Race is in its fifteenth season. Nina wasn’t at her best either, but she was concise, at least, and less captivating performances have saved queens before (Willam v. We will always be able to find the queers on the dance floor by whoever recoils when the first few bars of ‘No Scrubs’ begin to play. Which means it’ll be a focus of the reunion, I’m sure, which is in two episodes? It’s possible she sensed that Vanjie needed her to focus, or perhaps she just wanted to start some drama and then backed down when it got a little too intense. It’s really nice to see these queens back, particularly Scarlet, who, once she learns to dance, is my #1 pick of the S11 queens for All Stars 5.Īriel gives some fun drama with #Wig-gate, but the lack of resolution makes it feel a bit pointless. Thankfully, other teams are much more fun to watch. “Opinions Are like Assholes, Ya Know? Most Of Them Are On My Face”Īm I Vanessa Hudgens in High School Musical 3: Senior Year? Because I’m ready to move on to bigger, brighter things. We see these queens as indestructible, but oppressed people carry their trauma whether they want to or not, even on the runway. With a forewarning of impending armchair psychology, it’s worth remembering that Yvie is a 24-year-old star whose body is actively working against her - her drive, ambition and yes, bluntness, likely stem from this.Īnd while Silky’s personality is seen as an advantage on Drag Race, the show is probably one of the few worlds in which it’s anything but a cross she has to bear. As an effeminate, overweight gay, black man who grew up in Mississippi, Silky has no doubt dealt with a lot of shit in her life - her oft-referenced past as literal reverend itself seems to suggest a lot of pain.įor Silky to then come on the one TV show that could treat her like the star she is, and then struggle, would be soul-crushing. Both sides are a little too bruised and battered, and acting out of a place of hurt. The fight between the two of them is too exhausting. Silky is calculated and cutting when she tells judges that Yvie is fundamentally a mean person - and it’s frankly ridiculous to then claim you’ve “only ever been nice” backstage on Untucked, especially given how she acted to Soju this episode. There’s a lot of hatred online for Silky this week, both for surviving the lip sync and her behaviour to Soju and continual pushing of Yvie. I get the disdain (but, of course, don’t condone the hatred). Meanwhile, Scarlet is feeling her oats so hard that she forgets that there are other oats there.
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