We said goodbye to Piche in the previous episode, an elimination that wasn’t unexpected given her lip sync performance. I thought that her exceptional runway outfit would save her, but the panel of judges thought otherwise. Oh well.
Let’s move on to the next episode!
If there’s anything good that came out of Piche’s elimination, it’s the fact that people are at least looking at Ginger Bitch as competition now. I know that I didn’t like her lip sync in the previous episode, but I am also over skinny queens just disregarding bigger queens because of their look. And yes I know I didn’t like Ginger’s entrance look either. I contain multitudes.
There is a little funny exchange before we go on to the main body of the show where Mami Watta asks Keiona what it feels like to always be on the top but never win and Keiona ripostes with “Try to join me, honey” and I screamed along with the queens. The shade of it all.
The next day, the queens take on the Fort Boyass mini challenge, which parodies a French game show called Fort Boyard, which I found out is sort of like The Crystal Maze! I had to research this because I thought Fort Boyard was just a summer hangout place for the French but it turns out it’s more than that!
The queens put their hands inside containers with stuff in them and the one Cookie chooses has…no. Just no I don’t know what it is but I am not touching it. Punani’s container isn’t so bad and neither is Sara Forever’s, but Sara screaming throughout was hilarious. In fact, I feel like production has it out for Cookie because her container was the only one that was truly disgusting.
And for once, the mini challenge actually amounts to something. Keiona won it and now she gets to assign roles for the Rusical, which is this week’s main challenge. I do find it interesting that they didn’t include footage from the rehearsal. Is it to throw the viewers off?
As they prepare for the Rusical, the girls talk about how drag is often misconstrued as something connected to prostitution or just cross-dressing, and all of them agree that drag is so much more than that. For some people like Kitty Space, drag actually helped them to appreciate their male body more. And then there’s Moon, who as a transgender woman chose to play a male role in the Rusical, and she shares how it’s a little daunting to once again take on the “male codes” she’s been using before coming out. This is so fascinating to me as a cis man.
The Rusical starts and it starts in a very shaky place not gonna lie. But it really picks up once Moon and the dragoyles come in! The song about how to tuck? Come on now that is art. I have opinions on how the other queens performed but seeing how wrong I was in the previous episode I am keeping them to myself!
The judges, on the other hand, are very moved and even cry! Maybe I am just to desensitized? It’s a tender moment that maybe I am missing the full enormity of because I don’t speak the language and I don’t know how it looks in the context of French society and the state of LGBTQIA+ rights there. C’est la vie I guess!
The runway theme is Excess Couture and I think this is where the girls shine. Keiona, in particular, is gorgeous. And wouldn’t you know it she’s got a post of it on her Instagram! Which also spoiled the winner of this episode for me but I’m not mad at it! It kinda was foreshadowed at the top of the episode!
After the critiques where everyone generally got positive reviews, the girls go back to the Werk Room and Ginger Bitch is feeling very bitchy! She didn’t want the part of Esmeraldwa and she feels like she’s been robbed in this particular challenge. She even mentions Cookie by name! Of course Cookie isn’t just going to take that and OUT comes the Kunty part in Cookie Kunty. I guess Ginger is the one going home today!
And the queen she’s up against is Punani, who was last week’s winner! They either send Ginger home because she’s been in the bottom multiple times already or they send Punani home for the gag of it. Let’s see!
The song starts out sounding like a ballad, just after Punani said that this is just the second lip sync of her life, and I thought that she would have it in the bag but it turns out that was just the intro and it’s another dance track! Do any of the queens emerge out of this looking great? Not really, in my opinion. But they sure had their nipples out! On the other hand, Juliette Armanet who sang the song was very moved, so maybe it hits different in person? She really was in her Michelle Williams in RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 1 fantasy for a moment there.
And Ginger Bitch is indeed sent home!
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