Ron Does Stuff

Got to say you guys, when Americans first started complaining that there was too much Drag Race I thought they were being unnecessarily whiny babies because what’s so wrong about other countries getting their own franchise as well? Besides, you don’t have to watch it if you don’t like it.

But I guess those complaints were coming from those making Drag Race content because it can get a little overwhelming having to watch all of them and then have to worry about views and stuff. I’m overwhelemed and I’m not even doing this for the views I’m doing this as a break from writing work things!

Anyway, let’s dive into the latest episode of Drag Race France!

You can really tell that social media reception has had an outsized impact on how the queens conduct themselves on the show because Cookie Kunty is all “Ginger Bitch should have talked to me if she felt the way she felt.” i’m old enough to remember the RuPaul’s Drag Race season 4 girls celebrating Willam getting disqualified.

And I usually don’t mention the guest judges but Christian Louboutin??? Damn! This is like when Drag Race España had Pedro Almodovar on during the reunion! Or am I misremembering?

Anyway, the queens quickly figure out that this week’s challenge is a Ball, but before they get into that they have to perform a live lip sync as a mini challenge. Now I’ve said this before, but am not really a fan of these Drag Race France mini challenges where the queens get nothing, not even the power to fix the order of performances or anything. This is actually weird to me because these same pointless mini challenges are also on RuPaul’s Drag Race and I don’t mind it there. Oh well, at least this time Punani gets to pick first thanks to her mini challenge win.

Keiona and Cookie Kunty both reveal that they can sew, which obviously means they’re either going to be in the bottom or be safe this week. Punani also looks to be in trouble as she says that she can sew but she’s no expert. Sara can’t sew at all but says she has style and watch how she’ll probably get another win out of this.

As they work on their outfits, the queens talk about how they’ve been assaulted in their daily lives and my goodness what the hell is wrong with France? I know where I live isn’t exactly progressive either and that queer people do get assaulted as well but not in broad daylight like what seems to have happened to these queens? How bad is it over there?

Once the runway commences I am so into Sara Forever’s Heroine of the Past outfit paying tribute to Colette because I love Colette and the fact that Sara put lines from Green Wheat on her sleeves? The same Green Wheat I was obsessed over for like months? Wow. Having said that Keiona as Josephine Baker is just beautiful.

Sara Forever’s futuristic outfit gets slated by Christian Louboutin though and I get it! It really did not look very futuristic other than the hat, especially since it came after Punani and Mami Watta’s outfits. And then Cookie Kunty comes out after her looking like a Tekken character in the best way possible and you just know this isn’t going to be a good night for Sara.

Finally, we get to the outfits they made and I wanna preface this by saying once again that I am not fashion queen. So take the next sentence with a grain of salt. None of the outfits were bad? Sure, some of the other outfits were better than the others, but even the ones that are “lower” look much better than some of the other outfits that have gone down the main stage of most Drag Race iterations. When Sara Forever gets the most negative critiques, it’s hard to disagree because none of the other looks really were bad!

The real drama, though, is when Nicky asks who should go home. Mami Watta gives the perfect Drag Race answer by saying Sara should go home since she’s won two challenges already. Cookie Kunty names Keiona as her main rival who she wants to send home and Keiona fires back by saying Sara Forever as her rival and I am gooped and gagged at the shade. Now this is how you answer this question!

Sara does not take the queen’s choices well, which is understandable, but I dunno I would have been preening if Keiona said I was her main rival. You’re viewed as a threat! However, it is Moon who really takes center stage because she admits to not feeling very well mentally, which I am not surprised with because she isn’t a French native at all and is probably dealing with homesickness on top of everything else the competition brings. I know Nicky said in Give It To Me Straight that the girls are allowed to go home and they aren’t sequestered but I don’t think Moon would make the trip to Switzerland every time even if Europe is a “small” place. That would be too much work on top of the stress of the competition.

Keiona ends up winning the ball and a pair of embroidered Louboutin boots! But the production did Cookie Kunty dirty when they gave her the Jan zoom on her disappointed face only to announce that she is also the winner and won the same pair of boots. The shade of it all!

Moon then shares what she already told the other queens — she can’t go on any further in the competition. And in a way, it’s a victory of her own as well. She hasn’t give up too much of herself to the competition that she ends up with nothing.