Finally getting to catch up with Drag Race after a particularly busy week! Let’s not bother with introductions since you’ve all probably watched this episode already anyway and dive right in!
The Queen of Flips has just been sent home and while the girls are kinda torn about it they’re also a little relieved because now they won’t be dealing with the cartwheels and the back handsprings and the what have you’s from Mhi’ya Iman.
Sapphira is also feeling pretty confident as she’s just won for the third time, finally breaking free from the rest of the cast and is now the actual frontrunner of the competition. And Q’s stank face is glorious. Like she is seething. That said, I do admire Q reeling her emotions in and not saying anything because you really do end up saying things you want to take back when you talk when you’re angry and quite frankly the optics of two white queens telling a black queen that they don’t understand her win? Very bad.
The next day, Q tells Sapphira that her win wasn’t deserved and well maybe she should have reeled her feelings in a bit more? Because girl. Maybe it’s just me being overly sensitive for somebody else — which is a valid critique of the way I’m looking at this! I wasn’t in the room with the girls! — but it’s just not something I would say!
Fortunately for Q, Ru arrives with the Tammy Faye T-shirt mini challenge where they need to rub their faces onto the white T-shirts the Pit Crew are wearing. Okay that’s fine or whatever but does anybody else remember that it used to be an old white lady that represented Anastasia Beverly Hills on Drag Race and not Norvina? I swear she made one appearance and then disappeared and Norvina became the face of the brand.
Anyways, the queens have to design a gender-inclusive bathroom and isn’t this an All Stars challenge? What are they going to do for All Stars 9 then?Also, nobody’s going to top Monet and Mo Heart’s banter anyway?
Right from the get go Morphine and Q don’t seem to be jelling as a group, but they quickly get over it and decide on a hell-themed bathroom. The Museum of Modern Farts is a genius idea but it seems like Dawn has to edit a lot of Nymphia’s ideas. Plane and Sapphira look to be the ones that are really going to nail the challenge, despite Plane’s “feeling of impending doom.”
The queens start working on their bathrooms and…does nobody do manual labor anymore? Like…I am bad at design and me painting a wall would probably not add value to a property but I can at least do a passable job. That said, Plane and Sapphira really do look like they have this challenge in the bag. I did laugh at Nymphia shooting down all of Dawn’s ideas though.
As the queens prepare for the runway, there’s a lot of conversation going, from poop stories and a serious talk about gendered bathrooms and how difficult it is for trans and non-binary people to deal with the laws the United States has in place for things like this. Sapphira and Q sort of squash their beef and Sapphira also helps Plane get over some of the anxiety she is feeling in the competition. And this is definitely Sapphira getting the winner’s edit. I’m not mad about it!
This week’s runway theme is chains and Morphine in her golden outfit? Delicious. She really set the tone for the runway and I think the only one that really was a aseye-catching was Sapphira’s latex one.
The queens start presenting their bathrooms and…well…where are the jokes?
Honestly, Plane Jane and Sapphira were the only ones that actually had a storyline? A script? That made sense and was funny. It’s not surprise they both won this challenge.
And well, as much as I tried not to be spoiled, this lip sync was ALL OVER THE PLACE and I couldn’t avoid it so let’s just watch, okay?
Like…you all already know who won this lip sync.
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