I think I’ve already said this in the Drag Race Mexico episode 8 post, but the past week has been very busy for me so I haven’t really been able to watch any shows, much less blog about them. And again, I am not being paid to do this so there’s really no incentive for me to find time.
But now I do have time! And I am watching!
The previous episode had Moon leaving the competition to take care of her mental health, which really is something that should be applauded. It also is a different approach when you compare it to the Adore Delano situation of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 2 and even the more recent RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 8. Moon’s choices weren’t questioned and she was allowed to leave without anyone else trying to convince her otherwise.
The queens are hit hard by Moon’s departure, especially Sara Forever who was supposed to lip sync against her. She says that she’s confused and that she didn’t get the chance to defend her place in the competition, which is completely understandable.
When Nicky visits them in the Werk Room the next day, there doesn’t seem to be a mini challenge but a mock psychiatrist visit that I honestly do not get but maybe that’s just me not being French! If any French people or Francophones can explain I am all ears!
After that skit is the puppet mini challenge, which everybody who has seen most franchises of Drag Race knows by now. Mami Watta is hilarious even before the mini challenge starts because she hates puppets. Enough to make her angry! She continues to be hilarious when she ends up picking Cookie Kunty and reminds all of us that Cookie herself is not funny.
The shade throwing doesn’t stop at the picking of the puppets because Sara Forever goes in on Punani while dragging up her doll, saying that it takes a lot of time to make the doll look homemade like Punani’s looks. Keiona also gets in a little jab at Mami Watta by responding to the latter’s request to make her pretty with “I’ll trry. It’s not easy.” The shade of it all.
Mami Watta keeps on whining that she cant do this mini challenge, and already I am pinging this as a sign that she’s the one going home this episode. It’s sounding like Kimora Blac asking what an adjective is.
During the challenge itself we actually see Keiona struggle and oh my goodness is this going to be the episode where they ~humanize~ or ~humble~ her so she doesn’t look like a shoo-in for the crown? Or will they actually send her home despite being the frontrunner? We shall see!
And wouldn’t you know it Mami Watta won this mini challenge! Well-deserved, to be fair. Her Cookie Kunty reads were something that translated really well! I also would not have minded a Punani mini challenge win.
Nicky then reveals that this week’s Maxi challenge is a performance once, with the girls split into two groups — Keiona, Punani, and Sara Forever making up one group and Cookie Kunty and Mami Watta making up the second group. I guess we now have our bottom two!
BUT WAIT. The season has a face crack moment after the mirror reveals that Keiona, Punani, Sara forever, Cookie Kunty, and Mami Watta will be going up against Ginger Bitch, Piche, Kitty Space, Vespi, and Rose. This gagged me almost as much as the original face crack moment of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 2.
EVEN MORE FACE CRACK-Y is the fact that the best performer among the eliminated queens will lip sync against the worst performer of the remaining queens and take her spot. Drag Race France doing the lord’s work! I do wish that the eliminated girls got to interact with the remaining queens but that’s a minor nitpick!
And you know what, Drag Race France delivers once again because the two teams do meet up during rehearsals! There’s some playful reading and play fighting, but it doesn’t look like the eliminated queens are just going to be there to be eliminated once more like in RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 3. But I could be wrong!
The day after the rehearsals, the queens have a discussion about the viewing public and how there are drag shows for everyone — family-friendly ones and the more adult-oriented ones. It’s a topic that Trixie Mattel has been talking a lot about recently!
The showdown finally happens and…the returning queens aren’t exactly delivering to be quite honest. Piche and Kitty Space and doing the thing but the rest of the queens kinda feel like they already know they’re not going to get the chance to come back.
The remaining queens — the Fantastic Five as Nicky calls them — has a much better performance. The hair was right, the outfits were right, and the dance moves were tighter. If anyone’s going to be lip syncing, it’s probably Punani but even then she had a good performance!
The critiques start and oh my goodness I am embarrassed because all this time I thought the person I was looking at during the performance was Punani and it turns out it was Cookie Kunty??? I am ashamed. Once they showed her parts while she was being critiqued that’s when I realize dthat she was the one I thought was going to lip sync and not Punani.
This mix-up got me so bad because even as the judges were deliberating who to send to the bottom I couldn’t stop thinking about how obviously different Punani and Cookie Kunty are during the performance. I am so mortified.
Sara Forever gets the win this week an deservedly so because that performance and that outfit.
As expected, Piche and Cookie lip sync against each other and this may be an unpopular opinion but from what was shown I thought Cookie had the better lip sync? Sure Piche moved around a lot but you couldn’t really see whether she had her words right or not. BUT, I am watching an already edited scene so it may have looked different to the judges who were actually there.
Anyway, we have a top five! Again!
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