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Hi ugly it's me [ __ ] and welcome back to Hot or Rot and today we are reviewing episode
eight of RuPaul's Drag Race UK season three. Our queens were challenged to overact in Bra Wars:
The Fempire Strikes Back and the runway category was scene stealers:
looks based on iconic cinematic characters. And we've finally got a top four. So we'll
be taking a look back at how our queens did throughout the season and ranking
their performance in today's episode, overall from Rottest Rot to Hottest Hot.
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Now, light speed ahead, first up RuPaul.
Girl what the hell was she wearing on the main stage tonight? What was that? What
was that? She's giving me half gladiator, half space age princess, and full-time Rot.
Next up, Vanity Milan, she is. In the main challenge she is cast as the role as
Baby YOLO, a pun on baby Yoda. Which interestingly is a character that she
wanted. And I’ve gotta ask – what is up with the just a head roles on Drag Race? I think this goes
back as early as Vivacious and Darien in that like horror acting challenge they did? And we
more recently seen Nicky Doll in a baby head role in season 12. Like I’m not sure if Drag
Race is just being self-referential at this point or if there's like a bigger reference
that I’m missing? But if anyone knows let me know down in the comments below. Anywho,
I think Vanity did pretty good, especially for a role that was just a head and relied on
flatulence and burping for comedic effects. Like she literally defeated the villain in the plot,
Ella, with her farts. From drinking too much baby space nut milk. Or is it space milk baby
nut? Kitty? My only critique is I think she could have leaned into that Yoda voice a tad
more? “A baby drag queen I am.” You know something like that. Because at times it sounded more like
she was just kind of doing a throaty man voice than Yoda. Anyways, Hot this performance was.
And on the runway she is bringing us a look inspired by the movie Babs,
starring Halle Berry. Now, there is a lot of good here I have to say. She looks really pretty,
and yes orange is her color – to a fault. I literally don't know how she managed to find
so many orange cocktail dresses in the UK, but girl you better believe she
bought every one of them and brought every single one of them to the runway. Anyway,
the orange I can deal with but the silhouette on this I really was wanting something a little bit
different. Especially because the original silhouette of this outfit was like a full
jumpsuit thing – like she went out of her way here to turn a jumpsuit into a cocktail dress.
And in addition to this look lacking a little bit of element of surprise, I have to say I was
slightly confused by the way she accessorized it? I’m not sure where the fanny pack came from or why
she's wearing that big giant necklace – it feels a little distracting instead of additive. What is it
that Coco Chanel said? Take one thing off before you leave the house. For me, it's my panties. I’m
gonna leave this outfit at a warming orange, I mean up. Like RuPaul said herself, I’m a little
surprised that Vanity is still in the competition. But then again this season is just kind of using
snatch game rules where nothing matters and the winner is who cares! She's had one win across
the season in the girl group challenge and been in the bottom three times but it's also not unusual
to have somebody who's been in the bottom three times make it to the final four – or three. After
all lip syncing is a key part of many drag queens performances, so I think it really is a testament
to how strong of a competitor she actually is that she's managed to survive three of them.
And in the third galaxy for me tonight is Ella Vaday. She opens this episode in the confessionals
telling us that she is an amazing actor – it's what she does for a living she says. And she's
kind of getting this edit that we typically see of the cocky queens over-hyping their skills and
then they end up in the bottom. But the reverse happened. Ella turns out actually is an amazing
actor and that didn't actually surprise me because we saw how amazing of a performance
that she gave in snatch game and I would say those two types of performances are pretty analogous.
She played Daft Shader, a name pun on Darth Vader and the appearance of her character was
kind of a mix between Miss Vader and the berries and cream guy and like Lord Farquad from Shrek.
I thought she did a great job I really have no complaints about her performance at all,
but I was a little confused at why the judges were praising the like sound effect it sound
like they added to her rubbing the leather on her outfit or maybe the material of her look
really was that loud girl, I don't know. Turns out Ella is an elluva actor. This performance was Hot.
And on the runway she takes us on a little trip to the candy shop. She's serving us
orange. I thought this was super fun and doing something like this is really brave
because it's getting really close to like ugly territory or costumey territory, but
I think she really managed to keep this her own. Oompa loompa doopedy doo, this look was Hot.
And Ella officially ends this episode as not only a scene stealer but
a competition stealer. She's got three wins now, but interestingly two of them are shared. This
one with Kitty and the other being from the girl group challenge. Which is actually quite
impressive that she has won such a variety of challenges. I think she maybe is one of the most
versatile queens that we've ever seen on Drag Race? And also surprising. She talked earlier
in the season about being underestimated by people and I think often that can be a good thing. Really
allows you to sneak up from behind, owww. And considering how funny she was in snatch game,
I also expect her to do well in the roast challenge next week. Guess we'll see.
Next up, Krystal Versace. In the challenge she is cast as She 3PO.
She was the only queen tonight that I think didn't actually want her role from the outset,
despite the role appearing to have been written exclusively for her. She's the quote “robotic
model” of the plot and she is the sort of straight man archetype to Kitty's comedic
character. She did look visibly uncomfortable while rehearsing during this challenge,
but I have to say I think she pulled this role off really well. Which combined with her runway,
which we'll get to here in just a second, is why she's in second for me tonight. It
really felt like she was stepping outside of her box, being loud and super present in the
challenge. Which is really what they were being asked to do in an acting challenge.
And for someone who normally is a little bit shy and quiet, at least in the work room, this
showed a new side that I enjoyed. Beep beep boop boop – Krystal, this performance was shiny Hot.
And on the runway how many dalmatians had to die for this look? She's giving us a recreation of one
of Glenn Close's looks from the 101 dalmatians movie. And this is perhaps my favorite runway
she's done. Maybe my favorite across all the queens from this season, it is drop dead gorgeous.
Beautiful, not only recreation, but homage to the original. But I also just love an iconic evil
villain glamazon, so maybe I’m just a tad biased. I genuinely recoiled when the judges were sitting
there like “we expected this, we expected you to look beautiful,” and I was like y'all expected
her to look great? Sure. But like a perfect drag recreation of this look? How can you expect that?
What are you talking about? And this is something that they kind of keep saying – it almost feels
a little bit like they're trying to belittle or humble her, because at this point I’m not
sure what Krystal could do on the runway to get a little more recognition besides turn water into
wine, and walk on water. Dressed like an oompa loompa perhaps? This look gets 101 Hots from me.
I thought Krystal got a really interesting edit this episode because I feel like we were trying
to be sold this narrative that Krystal hasn't been very good at pretty much anything besides runways…
and I think that's just not true. Like sure she flopped in snatch game, at least from what we saw,
but I thought she was pretty good in Drag Lexa, the episode prior, and she did win the performance
based Dragaton challenge. It's been really interesting I think to watch Krystal progress
through this season. She started off so strong, two wins off the bat, and then has since been
chilling in the safe zone. Her track record is not totally dissimilar to Lawrence's from last season,
who started off really strong, and then went a little bit downhill in the second half.
And finally in my number one position tonight: Kitty Scott, another badge. So Kitty actually got
to cast everyone, and in a confessional we hear her say that she's giving roles to people that
they don't want or that she thinks they're not gonna do good in. Which was a little bit of an
evil side that I don't think we've seen from Kitty before. Turns out this Kitty do
got claws! She takes the lead of course as Brabarella – a play on Barbarella – and I guess
is now officially the second character in the Drag Race franchise to be parodying this name. Delta
Work being the first as Boobarella. And sidenote if it's been a while since you've seen season
three drag queens from outer space from Earth to Uranus, it's time for you to go re-watch it.
We are on the lookout for single guys. Anywho Kitty is in my number one spot tonight because
of the way she stole the show. I think she is in a league of her own in acting, truly. It was almost
like watching the teacher of the class act amongst their students in a school play. She was literally
just dancing comedic circles around everyone. A star is born – Kitty's performance was Hot.
And on the runway, I thought the old lady dropped it in the ocean? Her look is a recreation of
one that Kate Winslet wore in the role of Rose from the Titanic. And I’ll say the movie isn't
excellent because I did enjoy it when I watched it, but I can't say that I really remember the
outfits from it. In fact the only look that I can really think of when I think of this movie
is Rose when she's like going “draw me like one of your french girls jack,” which now
that I thought of that would have been an even more fun look to try to recreate for a runway.
That said I looked it up and this look is a great recreation of the one that Kate wore
in the movie. This whole look is really perfected to a tee – the hat, the suit,
the hair, and I love the attention to detail here for example the way that she recreated
the pinstripe in rhinestones, and as Michelle pointed out that reveal was ridiculously stupid,
but literally that's drag. And I loved her for that. Kitty, I’ll never let go. This look is Hot.
It's been really fun to see Kitty blossom, although I do think that her star was shining
from the very beginning of this season, I just think the judges weren't looking
for it. Her runways have been super strong and consistent if not getting better and better each
week. And she's been quite the standout in most of the challenges. It's crazy actually in retrospect
that she only won now this episode and last week’s. ‘course being the fugly pageant. Every
other episode she was safe. Overall, I have to say I actually really enjoyed this episode – it was
maybe one of the better, if not the best, of the entire season. Maybe right behind the premiere.
The challenge felt rehearsed, thought out, and was a lot of fun. And it really felt this episode
like the editing and Michelle's directing was really focused on trying to help the queens
out and give them all the best shot at winning. Could they have sent somebody home? Maybe. But
they only had four queens left and we're on episode 8 because of all the
craziness this season. So what were they gonna do? Go down to a bottom three this episode or worse,
like bring somebody back from one of the earlier ones? I don't think so. But who will win this
season? Despite all of this season's nonsensical decisions, crazy ups and downs, we actually have
a pretty close top three: Krystal and Kitty's track record is now identical. And Ella is only
slightly ahead of both of them. Vanity though is pretty far behind all three, because of her three
bottom placements. I think next week's challenge is going to be pretty telling. It seems like
they were giving some harsh critiques at least in the preview that we saw, so I am at least
expecting an elimination. Which brings me to the outcome of this episode. There is no bottom two.
Everyone is at least safe and Ella and Kitty lip sync for the win. Kind of a good little tie-in I
guess to the very first episode where Victoria – RIP, and Krystal lip-synced for their win.
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But my genuine honest thoughts are that Kitty won the lip sync.
Cut and dry. And I was fine with Ella and Kitty sharing a win,
but I really wouldn't have minded if they had just given it to Kitty. Maybe they were scared
though that she was gonna win next episode's roast challenge, considering she's so funny,
and didn't want to give her three wins in a row at the very end? Just a thought.
And finally as for my Hottest Hots this episode, my Hottest Hot on the runway goes
to Krystal Versace. And in the challenge it goes to Kitty. I also asked my patrons to vote
for their Hottest Hot and they respectively voted for Krystal Versace and Ella Vaday.
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