Ron Does Stuff

So sorry this is late, Reader in the Ones, personal and professional obligations had me busy and unable to watch the latest episode. But I’m here now!

Maria Bonita went home in the previous episode and while Luna acknowledges that the two of them became friends, she’s still the funnier one between the two of them and deserved to stay more than Maria. Just a little bit of shade!

The next day, we get the reading challenge as the mini challenge of the week. And what do you know Ava Pocket actually got a smile out of me with those Lord of the Rings-themed reads! I didn’t get Garçonne’s first read but that combo Leexa and Luna read was funny! Thankfully, I also watched a bit of Graham Norton so I also got the reference in that Elektra read for Leexa.

Eva and Elektra end up the mini challenge winners and win P9,000 and are also the automatic leaders for this week’s Maxi Challenge, which is girl bands. Elekta’s picks are Leexa, Jenary, Unique, and Garçonne , while Eva goes with Ava Pocket, Horacio Potasio, Luna Lansman, and Suculenta.

The big conflict this episode is the song choice, as both groups think the second song is the better of the two. Luna and Leexa, in particular, are the two queens who are going at each other. They finally decide on a coin toss to determine who gets it and Eva’s group gets to pick the second song. Which tells me that they’re going to fail at it because that’s how these things always work out. Also I was waiting for a Malaysia Babydoll Fox moment while they were arguing but it didn’t happen. Oh well.

Eva’s group is up first for recording and…well, production is definitely setting it up for them to lose. Eva Blunt can’t even remember her own verse! And she wrote them!

But to be fair, Elektra’s group also gets its fair share of negative critiques during their own recording session. And Garçonne and Jenary were even asked to change their lyrics! Or at least that’s what I understood from the subtitles because it could be a mistranslation or there’s a more nuanced interpretation if you actually understand the language.

Now, we’re already on the third episode and I guess it’s going to be regular thing that they make inelegant segues to the “Moral Lesson of the Day” segments of the show. I don’t know why it’s so obviously edited in this show! I’m not naive, I know the emotional moments in the other franchises are orchestrated or prompted by producers but the know how to hide the stitching better, at least in the franchises that I’ve watched. Heck, even Drag Race Mexico did it skillfully in the first season as well. I wonder what changed from then to now?

And like I said in the previous Drag Race Mexico posts, it’s not just a disservice to the audience but to the queens as well. All the stories so far have been touching and clearly mean a lot to the queens and it deserves better than this editing.

The queens finally perform their numbers and they’re okay! I don’t think either one performed better than the other and they were pretty much on the same level as each other. They definitely weren’t giving Flexbomb Girls though.

The runway theme for this episode is futuristic folk drag and I gotta say, maybe it’s just because I don’t get the references, but the outfits didn’t look futuristic to me? It’s doubly disappointing because I remember being so impressed with the runways from the previous season. I especially feel like Matraka would kill it on this runway. I feel like the only one who did their homework for this runway was Jenary.

It’s hard to figure out which ones are the bottom queens for this episode since the judges pretty much pointed out a positive and negative for all of the queens. The only thing I’m sure off is that Jenary won’t be in the bottom just for that outfit alone.

And Jenary wins this week! She really did the thing this week and it was so well-deserved. Meanwhile, Garçonne and Unique are in the bottom and I can’t help but feel like this is going to be Unique’s final episode. I feel like they’re setting up Garçonne for a redemption arc or something.

OR MAYBE NOT. Because Garçonne immediately conceded ground to Unique right from the opening of the song. I actually thought she didn’t know the words of the song in the beginning. And it definitely was her undoing as she gets sent home instead of Unique. That’s life!