RuPaul's Drag Race (Original Franchise)

The girls reacting to Naomi is me reacting to Raja every time she steps out onto that runway. She is fucking sickening. Mother forever and the original fashion girl, no rivals. “Did somebody call for an eye-con?” is etched into my brain.

…and she’s funny. Madame and Diana Vreeland were revelatory. Count on Raja to somehow be both funny and chic for Snatch Game.
 
It does make me so happy that Raja is killing it after the (in retrospect probably unfair) fears I and others had about her ability to adapt to modern Drag Race.

Also, fingers crossed that her presence maybe moves the needle on queens above the age of fucking 30 getting casted on a regular season again. It’s so weird that Ru even has been going along with the increasingly young casts considering her reverence for these kind of old pop culture references. You know she was living for Madame, and that she didn’t have a damn clue who Rico Nasty is.
 
I am glad to see the format change (I mean obviously this was the only way they were going to convince the girls to come back) but it does feel like there isn’t much at stake each episode without any eliminations or bottoms.
Although we probably would’ve had Shea vs Yvie in the bottom after snatch game if they hadn’t changed the format with Shea getting the chop ddd imagine the riots!
 

RainOnFire

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There is something so goddamn exhilarating about seeing Raja in action. I fucking adore her.

Her entrance walk. Her entrance line. "B-O-O-G-E-R-S", launching the eyeglass at Ru and strutting her way around the room. Ru asking what her takeaway was from her first Snatch Game and responding with "that I should've won, I just told you". The level of nerve is just unmatched. Forever my favourite queen.
 
It’s been a few days, but I cannot get out of my head when Naomi took the runway for the second time. Shea looked like she was about to collapse the first time, but when Naomi took her second turn, the whole cast looked like they were about to vanish into thin air. They couldn’t take it. Incredible.
 
As most have said, this season is a recharge the US version in any form has needed for a bit. Great episodes.

My only concern - lipsync smackdown for the crown. It favors some over others and while it's good for the new seasons, I wish they would do something else for All Stars.
 
My only concern - lipsync smackdown for the crown. It favors some over others and while it's good for the new seasons, I wish they would do something else for All Stars.
But when you look at it more closely, the only queens to lose any lipsyncs on this season are Trinity, Shea & Monet, who are probably some of the best lipsyncers of the franchise. So it isn't that unfair, I'd say..
 
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