Ron Does Stuff

Would you look at that we’re seven episodes in! Five queens have already been sent home, with Argennis being the latest casualty. I don’t know if they’re going for a top four this season, but if they are that means there’s just two episodes left before we reach the penultimate and final episodes. This has been a quicker ride than I thought!

Gala Varo is pretty shook up after sending Argennis home, and his emotion soon spreads to the remaining queens, who tear up at Argennis’ departure. Then the focus shifts to Cristian Peralta, who now has three wins and is the competition’s clear frontrunner. In the confessionals, Cristian says a single mistake can send you packing and boy is that inviting bad luck.

The next day, Margaret Y Ya immediately gets the ball rolling by asking point blank why the other girls think they’re going to win. Matraka says it’s because she loves the culture and that she’s a real Mexican and I do not know enough about the culture to even try and touch that statement. Margaret Y Ya also sets herself up for a bottom two placement later in the episode after flat out declaring that she doesn’t think she’s going to win.

The ValentinaMail? arrives and it hints at a telenovela challenge and as someone who grew up with telenovelas even if I’m halfway across the world from Mexico, I swear she referenced a scene from Marimar.

The main challenge is indeed a telenovela challenge, but what surprised me is that the girls will also be taking part in a ball challenge. These girls are going to get wrecked because you can’t possibly film an acting challenge and make three outfits for the ball at the same time. Just one outfit even!

The assigning of roles is equally as messy, with Cristian and Regina having friction because they want the same role and neither one is budging. Margaret Y Ya and Matraka are also at it, but what’s frustrating to me is that when Regina finally puts her foot down and starts assigning roles to people Matraka choses a role she didn’t even want even if no one was gunning for the role that she initially picked! You in danger girl!

Once they start shooting the acting challenge, it doesn’t get any better. Matraka, Margaret Y Ya, and Lady Kero get the brunt of the negative critiques, because as it turns out, they’re too young to understand the telenovela villains being referenced in the skit. We definitely have a bottom three here.

And in what appears to be a pretty heavy-handed way of telegraphing that Margaret is going to be one of the bottom queens in this episode, she gets a tarot reading from Regina Voce who tells her that a great change is coming for her and that’s you death warrant signed, sealed, and delivered.

So the runway commences and since there wasn’t any scenes showing them making their outfits, I am going to assume that they brought them to the competition and that they were told in advance about this category — like we already know from the main franchise. With that in mind…some of these outfits needed to be better since you brought them here. You didn’t make them in a rush!

The critiques are brutal because despite a few positive comments here and there, the judges either thought that the entire acting challenge didn’t work or the trio of Margaret Y Ya, Matraka, and Lady Kero were particularly bad in it. Only Regina Voce got slightly better critiques than the girls, and even that was tempered by a comment about her runway from Valentina.

When the girls come back from the Werk Room Matraka is declared the winner and Regina’s face is cracked. And combined with the old lady make-up she had on the crack is doubly…impressive? That’s the only word that comes to mind. It’s peak meme material to be sure. And Matraka gets her second win!

And Cristian Peralta is in the bottom three and even past all that prosthesis her face is cracked. Her eyes are darting here and there and I know this sucks for her but as a viewer I am on the edge of my seat. This is the most vulnerable I’ve ever seen Cristian in the competition. She is ultimately saved, but the face crack is a welcome development.

Margaret Y Ya and Lady Kero end up in the bottom and if I’m judging from the way the episode was edited, this is probably Margaret’s time to go. And you know what? I WAS RIGHT.