Honestly, the time difference is kicking my butt because I thought this would come out yesterday and I waited and waited until I realized…oh, time difference.
Shani went home in the previous episode, and La Niña Delantro is heartbroken about having sent her home since Shani is apparently her “biggest supporter”. So now she’s directing that hurt at everyone else!
This opening is also a good reminder that the show is an edited version of reality. All the queens say that Shani is one of the best performers in Spain, but you couldn’t tell that from the edit. Hopefully, Shani bounces back from being the Porkchop of the season.
The next day, it looks like the girls have already split up into cliques — The Girls and The Witches. I wonder if that’s going to stay the same during group challenges? But we’ll have to deal with that some other day as the queens now have to do a mini challenge where they have to make eyes as iconic as Manuela Trasobares, who after googling I discover is the first transgender town councilor of the city of Geldo in Spain. She’s an artist, an opera singer, a politician, and definitely iconic.
And she’s here to pick the winner! She picks La Niña by throwing a glass at her, which is an iconic thing she’s done before and was referenced in Spain’s Eurovision 2024 entry!
Manuela is sticking around to judge this week’s Maxi Challenge as well, which is the talent show. And it looks like there won’t be a day to rest or anything because the queens are apparently getting ready for it right after the mini challenge? That’s what it looks like!
As they’re taking off their eye makeup, Angelita and Kelly talk about drag inspirations, and aside from Manuela, Angelita talks about La Esmeralda de Sevilla, who she describes as a “big, masculine drag queen” and a Google search confirms this! She was a brick. Angelita says she’s always going to be thankful for all the effeminate and trans people who have worked to get all the queer people in Spain today the rights that they possess.
Meanwhile, Miss Khristo is nervous about her talent show because she feels she’s a minority even within queer spaces, which is a valid thing to feel! Even an already oppressed community there’s still stratification and oppression.
Vampi — sorry I hate her full Kardashian-tinged name — is doing a couplet, which she describes as “saying something without saying it” and an art form that was suppressed during Franco’s regime in Spain. But the real drama is when La Niña reveals that she’s doing the same song as Miss Khristo and the two have a little passive-aggressive discussion about it. Delicious.
Despite the back and forth with La Niña, Miss Khristo is actually nervous about her performance for the talent show. And since La Niña seems to be the aggressor in the confessionals, I think it’s safe to say that Miss Khristo is either going to get her second win or place in the top this episode.
Elsewhere in the Werk Room, there’s tension between Megui and Mariana that quite frankly stems from the stratification that Miss Khristo talked about earlier. It’s a femme versus masc friction and these two seem like they’re always going to think the worst of each other. It’s an interesting discussion to see because it’s something I also see in real life. Femme guys rightfully being afraid of masc guys but at the same time femme guys who may just be crossing the line already hiding behind the “We’re just reading/being shady” excuse.
Another discussion happening in the Werk Room is the queens’ relationships with their fathers. Both Le Coco and Porca don’t have good relationships with their father and it stayed that way until their fathers died. That sucks, but it’s their fathers’ loss, not theirs.
We start with the talent show and up first is Mariana Stars, who performs what I assume is a gay fave? I thought it was just okay. I don’t know, it was lacking something to me. A little oomph. A little soul.
Chloe Vittu is up next and I don’t know what the fuck happened but I was laughing? Vampi also managed to make the judges laugh a lot but unfortunately, I do not speak Spanish and couldn’t catch the double entendres being made.
I was ready to hate on Megui Yeillow’s act because its another dance routine but that somersault — is that the correct term? — into a wig reveal? Had me gagging. And then there’s Mariana still being shady in the confessionals! Which to be fair also had me gagging!
Le Coco follows it up with a spoken word performance and as heartfelt as it was, I just keep going back to Tatiana’s Same Parts performance. I don’t know, there’s just something about spoken word delivered seriously that just makes me think I’m watching a school presentation. I thought the same way when Marmalade did it on RuPaul’s Drag Race UK!
Dita Dubois is up next and she fucking deepthroats a glass. I mean…what else is there to stay other than she deepthroats a glass?
The next performer is Porca Theclubkid and I guess it’s meant to be a fetishist exhibition but she drops the whip at the start and the Shibari binding doesn’t look particularly good? Especially when you’ve seen better ones. I was literally bored and that’s the worst thing to feel when you’re looking at a fetishist performance.
La Niña is up next and I gotta say, I feel a little worried for Miss Khristo since they’re performing the same song because La Niña kinda killed it. With a LOT of help from that camera work. The spinning to make it look like she was up on the ceiling? Bitch. And then there’s fire too!
Kelly Passa!? has a DJ set and…well. Maybe it only works if you’re at a festival and you’re intoxicated? It wasn’t working for me at all. But the judges loved it so what does it matter anyway?
Miss Khristo is next and…La Niña won this round. And then he’s followed by Angelita who wins over the judges and the other queens with a tribute to Spanish drag queens of the past. Let’s hope Miss Khristos’ runway saves her!
And the queens aren’t holding back on the runway. Angelita had candle fingers! And they were lit candles! Chloe Vittu’s stained galls corset! Porca’s masquerade outfit that may just save her horrible talent show performance! Le Coco’s bearded baroque look! It’s a smorgasbord!
And Miss Khristo does look like she might just be saved by her runway because there’s freaking carousel horses under her skirt! Unfortunately, Supremme makes a point of reminding the girls that it’s the talent show that really counts this week.
Dita, Angelita, Porca, Le Coco, Megui, and Miss Khristo are called and immediately I think top and bottom queens. And Supremme validates me! I am guessing Porca and Miss Khristo are going to be the ones lip syncing today.
Once the critique starts Dita gets read for having just the blowjob cocktail glass as the entirety of her act, although the judges do admit it’s going to be a hit in bars. I also liked that Supremme made a point to say that it doesn’t necessarily mean that the performance was bad, it’s just that it’s a competition and there are other things on stage that are just better.
Angelita gets very good critiques and I wish I knew more about Spanish history because it seems like the performance called back to a lot of moments from history that me, as an outsider, just has no knowledge of so it doesn’t hit me as hard as it does the judges.
Porca is definitely going to be in the bottom because they just zoomed past her. I venture to say that she may even be the one to go home this episode. And so is Miss Khristo, who explains that she wanted to challenge herself and it fell short. I think it was Trixie Mattel who said that a competition show isn’t the right place to challenge yourself and I agree with her on this. If you’re looking to win, you don’t enter a piece that you haven’t worked out to perfection.
And then the win goes to Megui? I think she did well but from the way the judges were talking I thought it was going to go to Angelita! Either way, the bottom two are Porca and Miss Khristo, which is kinda what you expect from the critiques.
The lip sync starts and while both Porca and Miss Khristo have a difficult time lip syncing with their dresses, Porca delivers, in my opinion, a more joyful performance. But I guess the judges disagree because they end up sending Porca home. ¡Adios!
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