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This week’s episode was all about music and I couldn’t be more excited. First, RuPaul challenged the girls to a game of Rusical Chairs. It was musical chairs (played in heels) with RuPaul’s most recent singles. The girl who didn’t get a seat had to recite the next few lines of the song. If...
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Hey everyone. I’ve been really sick for the past week or so, fighting off a very bad sinus infection. I’m trying to get two posts a day but it doesn’t take much for me to have to step away from the screen at this point. Sunday was the first day I felt up to...
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In episode 8, the girls were challenged to wear their funniest drag outfits and do stand-up for a live audience. Raja got the challenge and should have won for writing an original stand-up act (unlike Shangela who won with a bunch of tired prostitution jokes).
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Much like my seasonal tradition of watching Survivor‘s first episode and last five (but none in between), I have grown accustomed to watching the first few audition episodes and then the voting rounds of American Idol. I grow tired of the exploitation of the “bad” contestants in the early rounds and manipulation of America...
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This…was not a great episode. It wasn’t bad, just not great. The theme was cake couture and the queens didn’t excel or fail enough to make a difference. Ru did, however, impersonate Tyra telling her contestants that he was so inspired by a photo shoot he had to share the life-changing experience with the...
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This week, the girls were challenged with one of the standout tasks from last season: The Snatch Game. The girls had to dish out their best celebrity impersonations in a send-up of the ever-popular Match Game. RuPaul, however, was not having it. Just look at how he responded to plus-sized queen Delta Work saying...
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A lesson to keep in mind for anyone who might eventually share a Netflix queue with me: if I don’t know what a film is, I’m not going to let it occupy the number 1 slot for fear of it showing up on my doorstep uninvited. My brother has been pestering me for months...
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This week, RuPaul challenged the girls to be masters of the media. In the quickfire challenge, the girls had ten minutes to create a scandalous red carpet photo-op. Three girls went with the Lohan/Britney/Janice Dickinson crotch shot, which was clever never.
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This week, the girls are challenged to create competing fitness videos and my early favorite contestant is booted for getting too physical. Before the main challenge, Ru gave the girls 30 minutes to create designer leotards with duct tape. Everyone came out looking like a mess, including winners Manilla and Carmen. However, the challenge...
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I understand why some people don’t watch RuPaul’s Drag Race. For some, they (sadly) do not get Logo. For others, they aren’t comfortable with the idea of a drag reality show. And for a small group, it’s a hard-line anti-Reality TV policy. That’s all fair. It is a very campy show, but better than...
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