Wellity wellity wellity, this was certainly an eventful week. I will get to the shocking news in a paragraph or two, but there are two items of note that may be interesting to fans of Drag Race. First, RuPaul came out with an app call RuPaul's Drag Race Keyboard that allows you to insert Drag Race emoji's, stickers, and gifs into your texts. If you are friends with me in real life, look for these soon.
ALSO, I was on twitter and noticed an interesting tweet from Bianca Del Rio, last year's winner. In it, she calls Detox, a drag queen from Season 5, her "boo." Does this mean that Bianca and Detox are dating? I looked up "boo" on urban dictionary just to be sure my understanding of boo wasn't mistaken, and it appears that "boyfriend or girlfriend" is the primary definition. Interesting! I wish them the best of luck if this is true. They were both excellent competitors on Drag Race. Now, on to the rankings.
8.) Max (OUT?)- It's a travesty that Max was eliminated this week. You can defend Ru's decision on the margins, but by any consistent strain of logic either Jaidynn or Miss Fame deserved to go. Yes, Max was one of the two worst performers on the Snatch Game, a huge choke, but Miss Fame was quite a bit worse and deserved to be eliminated for his totally uninspired and boring performance. Miss Fame chose a character that Violet also chose, got his way by being able to play that character, and still totally whiffed. It appeared as if they put Jaidynn in the bottom two because of how weak she had been overall, because her Snatch Game performance was not one of the two worst. Yes, she only had one gimmick, but at least she had something. Neither Max nor Miss Fame had anything. So if Jaidynn was included in the bottom two, they had to be considering past performance as part of the judging equation. If that's so, then there's no way Max's strong performance deserved to land him in the bottom two.
Almost immediately after Max's shocking elimination came the announcement from Ru that she had prematurely ejected one the queens. It's clear to me that either Max or Trixie is coming back. Hopefully it is Max, as he is much more promising performer. However, I have a nagging feeling that it is Trixie we will see back. Max was portrayed as a sort of villain on the show recently, and if Ru wanted to keep Max around she could have taken the very easy step of simply eliminating Jaidynn Diore Fierce, which was the obvious move.
There's also a narrative in favor of Trixie: Ru saw how poorly the current cast did at Snatch Game and realized she needed the funny one back. Incidentally, I saw this tasteless but very funny video of Trixie auditioning with her Snatch Game character of Anne Frank . Ru mentioned on the show that Trixie's audition tape, which featured this Snatch Game character was among the funniest he has seen. Thus it makes sense that the Snatch Game was the venue for Ru's reconsideration.
7.) Miss Fame- I have to say, I think Ru is protecting Miss Fame. There is no universe in which Miss Fame didn't belong in the bottom two. The character choice was unoriginal and the execution was worse than that. Also, the scene between Miss Fame and Katya was clearly staged. Notice how the camera was perfectly set up for that scene and captured every moment of dialogue. There is no way that Katya would go to Miss Fame for advice, it's as ridiculous as various people going to the Cookie Monster as a life coach. I think we're being encourage to think of Miss Fame as deeper than she actually is, and so I'm moving her back to #7 as a bit of mild protest.
6.) Jaidynn Diore Fierce- The Raven Simone impersonation was not as bad as I thought it would be, but the runway look was very so-so. I hope Jaidynn can hold on for another week.
5.) Violet Chacki- Violet is just sort of hanging around, she fell into a surprisingly good Alyssa Edwards impression (I think her Donatella Versace would've landed her near the bottom) and continues to impress on the runway. Violet is beginning to remind me of the Rex Ryan Jets whenever they would play the Patriots. At first they seem completely overmatched, but then they just keep hanging around until you realize that, despite everything, the game is actually going their way. I would've thought that Violet would be on her way out by now based on her past performance, but here she is, and she may have an outside chance to make it into the top 3.
4.) Pearl- Pearl might be the one who benefited the most from Max's unceremonious ejection. Now she just has to upset one of the top three to get into the finals. She had a strong week. Her performance in Snatch Game was excellent and her runway look was very good. Kennedy and Ginger have been consistent performers, and I think the world of Katya, but Pearl might have a higher ceiling than all of them. Pearl continues to be the most intriguing one of the bunch.
3.) Katya- I thought her Suze Orman was good but a little disappointing. Her runway look was excellent though. Of all the queens, I'm probably rooting for her the most.
2.) Kennedy- Little Richard was a gamble that improbably paid off. And she has been a good performer all along, although not as consistent as.....
1.) Ginger Minj- Ginger was clearly the best in Snatch Game with her hilarious Adele impression. I'm not even sure why she had to share it with Kennedy. With Max gone this race is Ginger's to lose. Whatever you do, Ginger, don't fuck it up!
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