![]() Talking to any queer person about their mother is a great way to juice up television, so I can only imagine that RuPaul was so excited for today’s filming that she didn’t sleep a wink the night before.Ĭhi Chi DeVayne: Tbh, Chi Chi was a little bit cheated out of a win this week. ![]() “What are your problems with your mother?” she asks each queen, salivating when the queens drop their sob stories. RuPaul slinks around the WERK room while the queens are working, trying to get everyone to join in on some sort of mass sadness circle jerk. The reason she’s struggling in a drag competition is because she’s not a drag queen. And that’s what’s been missing for her-and what clicked for me. In a lot of important ways, she has never undergone the strenuous task of doing drag. Derrick has never learned to carve her face, or be anyone except Britney. She’s a female impersonator, which is a subtle-but important-distinction. What struck me like a fat lightning bolt during this tiff was that Derrick doesn’t actually do drag. Naomi is saying, “Dude it’s very simple- do drag.” Naomi is frustrated because Derrick literally can’t understand what the judges are saying to her in critiques. But getting to know Naomi and Kim better-seeing how fucking funny Kim is and how innovative and smart Naomi is-the race became tighter and it boiled down to what narrative RuPaul wanted.Īfter the puppets, Naomi and Derrick tear into each other some more, without the comforting-albeit frail-barrier of a cardboard puppet theater between them. When I had predicted Bob’s win, I was disappointed because I thought it would be a boring win. Any of them could’ve won and it would’ve made sense. But there was no formula for this top three. ![]() So there’s someone to root for, someone to root against, and someone to surprise you. The Protagonist (Professional), the Antagonist, and the Underdog. Typically, as Willam pointed out on the Shane and Friends podcast, there’s a certain formula. And the worst part was, they were all so fucking nice. The top three was probably the closest in herstory, because you didn’t have any one that had a certain edge. Naomi was always too sickening to be the underdog and, I mean, Kim is an ingénue, but she’s also sharp and funny and twisted. Sure, they tried to play up the “underdog” role for Naomi, and the ingénue role for Kim Chi. Source: LogoTV/ Icon Stacy Layne Matthews You had Bob doing a full-out sprint towards the end. You didn’t have the tight race between powerhouse Ginger and wunderkind Violet and sleeper-hit-pun intended-Pearl. I predicted Bob’s win early on because it’s simple mathematics-no one has done as well as him that season. He was just living his life, and said multiple times that he was just happy to be on his favorite show. And it spills out in everything he does.īob won more challenges than anyone else this season but he wasn’t grating about it. Because more than anything, he is propelled by this catchy, vibrant love of his craft. ![]() This season feels silly, and buoyed by an effusive love of drag. And so it makes sense that Violet Chachki-the sickening, shocking, avant-garde young queen-won against all the odds. They were all about the lewks, the glamour, the couture. And that’s no shade at Seven-they were just birds of a different feather. I couldn’t imagine Season Seven doing a roller-skating challenge I couldn’t imagine Season Seven do a funky New Wave singing challenge. And looking at all the girls clustered on stage, you realize how very different they were from last year. But while it was short, it was definitely sweet. This season was shorter than last season, which technically had fifteen girls (fourteen, and Trixie came back).
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