RuPaul's Drag Race Season 15 + General Discussion

colouroffensive · Feb 4, 2023

Where is TS Madison? I want her on the judging panel more!

Episode this week was fine. The mean girl vibes from mistress and lux weren’t cute but it was fun to see at least some drama. Sasha stays being mother, as usual. High key forgot Robin Fierce was even there so not too gutted about their elimination. Ru looks good on the main stage though.

The less said about Aura winning this week’s challenge (how?!?!!) the better.

sexercise · Feb 4, 2023

Them cutting that segment with the old gays out of the show & airing it in Untucked was such a mess. Of all the "real serious feel good" moments this show has attempted, I thought that conversation was pretty important. Especially, with everything going on right now. It would've been cool to have a wider audience see it.

I know I sound like a broken record but I can't @ how mangled this season is because of the edit. I think this is such a fun group of queens but the show is so hard to watch.

Trinu 3.0 · Feb 4, 2023

sexercise said:
Them cutting that segment with the old gays out of the show & airing it in Untucked was such a mess. Of all the "real serious feel good" moments this show has attempted, I thought that conversation was pretty important. Especially, with everything going on right now. It would've been cool to have a wider audience see it.

For real, when they just cut to the queens choosing the songs I was like... surely they didn't invite them just to appear 3 seconds wearing briefs? MTV really fucked the editors up with the decision to cut the episodes. Fuck Todrick, etc.

Digital_Fossil · Feb 4, 2023

S11-13 desperately needed the MTV edit. Imagine in retrospect perception of those seasons may have faired so much better and we wouldn’t have batted an eye.

BEST FICTION · Feb 4, 2023

colouroffensive said:
The mean girl vibes from mistress and lux weren’t cute but it was fun to see at least some drama.

They're drag queens.

nikkysan · Feb 4, 2023

Marcia would've been a better fit on S13 with how hard she's pushing this Brady Bunch brand.

SloMover · Feb 4, 2023

I don’t understand how this season is cutting so much to squeeze into 40 minute episodes when the first nine seasons of the show were also mostly 40mins but could still fit in mini challenges, full runways and judges deliberations?

nikkysan · Feb 4, 2023

SloMover said:
I don’t understand how this season is cutting so much to squeeze into 40 minute episodes when the first nine seasons of the show were also mostly 40mins but could still fit in mini challenges, full runways and judges deliberations?

From what I've read on Reddit, the season was filmed with 90 minute episodes in mind and they weren't told by MTV that the show was being cut down to 40 minutes for Toadrick's show until after filming had wrapped.

I just feel so bad for this cast because they're well and truly getting screwed over by MTV's horrible business decisons and it's all out of their hands.

BEST FICTION · Feb 4, 2023

SloMover said:
I don’t understand how this season is cutting so much to squeeze into 40 minute episodes when the first nine seasons of the show were also mostly 40mins but could still fit in mini challenges, full runways and judges deliberations?

I imagine they were filmed with the intention of being 40 minute episodes prior to Season 10, so they were able to fit as much as they needed to. In saying that, we did have a few truncated runways due to the shorter runtime, but they'd film with that in mind:

You can see the queens actually remaining on stage as the next does their walk rather than just rushing through the entirety of it like this current season.

Vasilios · Feb 4, 2023

colouroffensive said:
The mean girl vibes from mistress and lux

Where these vibes you mention in the cut scenes? Cause I didn't see any.

Beginner · Feb 4, 2023

Sasha was robbed.

theelusivechanteuse · Feb 4, 2023

I'm mad they cast Mistress and Sasha on the same season because I want them both to win.

drewsky · Feb 4, 2023

I feel like this is the first and last season on MTV after this drama over the episodes getting mangled by shitty programming choices (friends of WeHo), unless they go back to longer episodes next season. I'd be interested in seeing their agreement.

LP-T · Feb 5, 2023

The gall of Ross critiquing anybody on their spray tan! I can't with him.

~Paul~ · Feb 5, 2023

It's comical how much Sasha was robbed this episode. She was just head and shoulders above.

And the Aura win? Total nonsense. Aura was middle of the pack.

I also think Robin won that lip sync. I just preferred her style over Jax, who I just can't enjoy.

Overall though, the critiques just didn't seem to match what had been edited. Like them saying Anetra forgot her words a lot - we didn't see that. Also, Ru really hates Marcia, right?

suitechicguy · Feb 5, 2023

~Paul~ said:
It's comical how much Sasha was robbed this episode. She was just head and shoulders above.

And the Aura win? Total nonsense. Aura was middle of the pack.

I also think Robin won that lip sync. I just preferred her style over Jax, who I just can't enjoy.

Overall though, the critiques just didn't seem to match what had been edited. Like them saying Anetra forgot her words a lot - we didn't see that. Also, Ru really hates Marcia, right?

I also enjoyed Robin’s lip sync. It just felt really fun to me.

M3G4N · Feb 5, 2023

This week's episode should've been 30 mins ddd.

Untucked was IN-TENSE!

The show gaslighting me into an Aura Flopyari win? pretendstobeshocked.gif

As Bob would say she is the ultimate cringe queen.

Her performance during the heavy metal song was SO MOTHERFUCKING CRINGE. Gurl bye! I'm glad the next episode it seems like she's gonna flop so I hope she finally gets the BOOT!

Judging on lewk on the runway and challenge performance, the correct winner should've been...

M3G4N · Feb 5, 2023

Mikl C said:
Aura is a joke.

Corrected it for you sis.

And Robin won that lip sync. She's such a classy queen but I see her returning for All Stars and then producers doing her dirty giving her the Akeria edit.

drewsky · Feb 5, 2023

Judy Jetson Hooker said:
Corrected it for you sis.

And Robin won that lip sync. She's such a classy queen but I see her returning for All Stars and then producers doing her dirty giving her the Akeria edit.

It's just not realistic.

PopGaga · Feb 5, 2023

“I don’t really take risks, I don’t even like trying new foods’

I knew she was going home. She’s a pretty joyless queen.