Hi ugly, it's me bro-ssy King and welcome back to Hot or Rot!
First things first: a little bit of housekeeping on the channel. You may have noticed the queen
has been getting her beauty rest lately, and the king has taken her place. I’ve been trying
to take a little more personal time in the past couple of weeks because I actually did
lose my sweet little baby angel Mystic to kitty heaven a couple of weeks ago,
and that coincided with the holiday season in which I’ve been spending more time with
family. And balancing all those real life events and emotions with content creation has
been difficult, but rest assured the queen will return in the next couple of videos.
And now, if you didn't already have them out, grab some tissues or the nearest sponge dress because
today we're reviewing episode 8 of Canada's Drag Race Season 2: The makeover challenge!
Our queens had to serve cool mom taking their drag daughters to their very first prom realness,
in garments they created. And we'll be ranking those makeovers from Rottest Rot to Hottest Hot,
based on how I thought each queen did transformation and runway performance considered.
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First up, Adriana. Her drag daughter is Belladonna, who identifies as non-binary
and tells Adriana that she wants to serve plastic and body audio on the runway overall
I think Adriana did a great job at one of the kind of hidden requirements of this challenge,
which was listening to their drag daughter and what they wanted. Down to, in Bella's case,
even picking out the fabric that she wanted for the dress. In fact I think all the queens did
a great job of that tonight, which is why this episode was so beautiful to watch. But Adriana
is in the bottom of my ranking tonight, not because bella didn't look beautiful,
but because there was simply no connection between the look that Adriana served and
Bella’s. The story that I got on the runway was Bella is this rich socialite's daughter
who didn't have time to take her to prom so she asked the maid to do it instead.
And then one of the strangest twists that didn't tie into the storyline at all was that Adriana's
maid outfit was like super s-word. Girl all of her cracks and crevices were showing on that runway
tonight. And I do want to point out this look in itself is gorgeous. I love her latex maid fantasy,
but it would have been nice to see some of those thematic elements carried into Bella's dress as
well, who is for the most part completely covered up. To improve that mother-daughter relation,
they could have for example put a cutout in the top of Bella's dress, or maybe
in the back. And I do think the final product of what Bella walked on the runway was just slightly
missing something – a crown, a sash, a small bouquet perhaps? Because the final effect of
the garment was a tad more I think red carpet VMAs than prom princess fantasy. So for those reasons
this makeover, while great in its pieces, was a Rot when considered as a whole… hole.
Next up, oh it's Icesis Cher Couture. So kind of like how we were just speaking about Adriana
and Belladonna's looks on the runway, Icesis and her daughter also suffered from that same
problem. There was no relation between the two, despite both of them looking drop dead gorgeous.
And as a reminder, the daughter's looks were constructed there at the time of the competition,
while the queen's looks were brought. Which does kind of explain why some of the looks are just
so different from each other, that said, not everyone struggled matching mother to daughter
like these two. But oh my god did Ruby look drop dead gorgeous. Icesis is a beautiful seamstress,
a talented designer, and undoubtedly knocked this gown out of the effing drag park. This is a home
run, many times over, and yeah, the canvas of Ruby was amazing to start – this woman is gorgeous,
but it takes a special kind of person to make someone that's already beautiful ten times more
beautiful. The mug that Icesis beat on Ruby's face, the perfect silhouette of this prom gown,
the little detailing of the fringe on the inside of the skirt hemline… Icesis did THAT. Okay,
she did that. But why this look had zero relation to what Icesis was wearing on the runway seemed
like a total misstep on her part. In one sense, I think she was trying to listen to what her drag
daughter wanted to wear. She specifically asked to wear red and wanted to have a
gorgeous prom fantasy. And in that same sense though, I think Icesis should have said okay,
maybe let me pick something in my closet that serves that storyline a little bit better,
instead of just wearing what she originally brought. As she puts, it she says that she was
giving dusty old showgirl, which is funny even that she says that because there was nothing
dusty or old about this look that she served. She looked gorgeous. In addition to looking nothing
like her drag daughter, Icesis also failed to give a theatrical performance on the runway,
which ultimately was something that I think was important and considered by the judges in this
challenge. So for the brief as a whole, I’m gonna give this makeover a Rot. But the real win here
was that beautiful moment that Icesis and Ruby shared in the work room prior to the
runway where Icesis brought her into her wing and officially adopted her to the house of Couture.
Loved that moment. Also can we get Ruby on the next season? Drag Race producers, talking to you.
Next up, Chris and Kylie are undoubtedly working on an intellectual property lawsuit as we speak,
but that is of no concern to Kendall and Stormy Gender. So Kendall actually got to assign
for partners tonight and she chose the little boy in the work room who looked most like her.
A very very smart strategic move there, because girl when you've got the same facial structure,
all you really got to do is copy and paste that mug and you're gonna look identical. And they
sure as hell did. Which helped her a lot tonight. Well let's take a look at what she was wearing.
Stormy specifically requested that she give off the Kim Kardashian wet Thierry Mugler dress from
the Met Gala and I think that they met at a happy medium of what Kendall could accomplish
given her seamstress skills. That said we know that Kendall's seamstress skills aren't the best
of this group, but what she created I think was still serviceable and she did a great job
of making Stormy look absolutely stunning on the runway – I mean that ass though, my
god. And seeing this transformation I think really proves that a makeover doesn't need to be perfect,
it just needs to be transformative and tell a story. Which Kendall also did really really
well with Stormy tonight. She even went as far as taking off her jacket on the runway and putting it
in front of her before her drag daughter walked the stage. Perfect Momager energy and perfectly
matching Kendall Gender's whole pun of being a Kardashian… or Gender, if you will. That said,
as amazing as the story was, I was a tad confused at why Kendall was essentially wearing an outfit
recreation that Chris Tucker wore in Fifth Element. I love the reference of that, but I just
kept wondering why? And I was also waiting to see like a more physical representation besides facial
structure and exact makeup copy between mother and daughter. So yes there were a couple of
shortcomings in this makeover, however I think their performances more than made up for it and
the transformation was stunning, so I’m gonna give Kendall a soft, respectable, and safe Hot here.
Next up, from the house of Pythagoras, it's Gia Metric and Electric Metric. This was another queen
by luck of the draw, and by that I mean Kendall assigning partners, got someone who kind of looked
like they could have already been related. But I will say the identical looks were not needed for
Gia’s mother-daughter storyline to make sense. Above all, I wanna point out that Gia’s dress
she created for Electric was one of the most prom-centric dresses on the runway tonight.
It perfectly told that I wanna feel like a princess in a fairy tale story that every,
you know, aspiring prom queen wants. Cinderella who? And I love that this look like all of Gia’s
looks are – is whimsical. Pretty and clearly in the house of Metric. She's got this really unique
sort of take on drag that is so fun and silly, but at the same time very refined and pretty. My only
critique between these two tonight was that Gia went for this sort of jersey housewife fantasy.
She looked more like Michelle Visage's sister than like a mother taking her daughter to prom,
but I want to point out that there was more effort made here on Gia’s part than I think some of the
other queens that we've just looked at in the sense of trying to match her daughter's look.
There's purple in the hair, the waist, and the necklace. Like maybe the final tie-in piece that
I was looking for here was a similar hairstyle between Gia and her drag daughter. That said,
I thought the storyline between the two was beautiful and I loved how she was just like
staying at the back of the stage letting her drag daughter have her own moment at prom.
And then finally was beckoned onto the runway to join her. It was camp mama,
it was camp. Gia, this makeover was more than just a cute, it was Hot.
And first of my ranking list tonight is Pythia who gave us a new mythical goddess to worship tonight:
Apollo. Pythia says they are a perfect quote, “match made in hell,” and speaking of
transformation I was floored by what Pythia did. And I really saw them working together throughout
the episode where Apollo is talking about how they want to serve this non-binary gender fantasy,
which is so perfectly in the wheelhouse of Pythia. Pythia creates what I think is one
of my favorite runways of this entire season. This deconstructed tux fantasy is beautiful, especially
when you consider the binary of black and white contrasted with the non-binary gender [_] of it
all. We're getting story lines within story lines here people, come on! But Pythia did more than
just create a beautiful garment for Apollo. She was also very clearly Apollo's mother. There was
a clear tie in between their styling – makeup, hair a little bit. I mean I truly believe that
nobody else came as close to these two tonight to actually looking like they would be from the
same drag family. Or biological family. Whichever you're talking about here. And I wanna point out
that they accomplished all of that without looking like identical clones, which I think is something
that a lot of queens sort of fall into the trap of on makeovers, cause it's often unclear whether
they're looking for clones or they're looking for a similar relation. Pythia redefines makeovers
tonight and gets my Hottest Hot, and between myself, the Patrons, and the judges, well the
decision tonight was unanimous, which pretty much happens never on this channel. Pythia takes the
win – a much deserved win on her part, however that does leave Icesis and Adriana in the bottom
two lip syncing. And I did react to this lip sync over on my Patreon at patreon.com/bussyqueen.
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And I’ve got to say this lip sync combined with this challenge and episode really as a whole
reminded me how effing amazing and spoiled we are by this season. It's so good from start to finish
– this season has been a wild ride of confusion, beauty, style, unique personality, good TV,
and oh most importantly, good judging. The panel has killed it – props to Brooke, Brad, Tracy, and
Amanda, they have been fabulous. And concerning the outcome of the lip sync, it made sense
this lip sync was amazing. Jaw-dropping from start to finish. Both of them, you could really tell
wanted this win so so bad and I was sitting there being like okay I really need a double shantay out
of this, but this isn't UK’s Drag Race where anything goes. So I know they were gonna have
to choose somebody and I think they did make the right decision, because as amazing as Adriana is,
Icesis has been technically a better competitor in the competition thus far. And while she did
slip up tonight, she certainly didn't in the lip sync. Every moment where the judges were oohing
and awwing, and I was dropping. My jaw was on her, even though I have to say Adriana’s lip sync might
have been a little tighter. But again, I do think Icesis’ track record did make her the obvious
choice to stay tonight, which brings us into our final four. Let me know what y'all thought about
this episode – whose makeover was your favorite, who would you have put in the bottom two,
and who would you have sent home? And let me know who you're rooting for. This technically speaking
I think is a pretty tight race. I mean speaking just on wins, Gia and Kendall both have one,
and Icesis and Pythia have two each. However, Gia and Icesis have now had two bottoms,
Kendall's had one, and Pythia’s had zero. So I think the next two episodes more than any of
the ones that have occurred so far are going to be crucial in determining who wins this season.
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