RuPaul watching Bosco open the gold bar, take 1. *BIG GASP* Oh my god!!!
Hi ugly it's me Busse and welcome back to Hot or Rot and today we'll be reviewing episode
5,332 of RuPaul's Drag Race season 14. Our queens were challenged to sing and
dance in the new Rusical Moulin Ru and the runway category was mirror mirror on the wall … actually
that wasn't the category. The runway category was mirror mirror. And today we'll be ranking
our queens from Rottest Rots to Hottest Hots based on how I thought they did in the episode
with 5 possible flames for the challenge and 5 for the runway. And we've got so many juicy
details to break down today, but first a moment of silence for that clown rumors – a goal that
they put the Canada's Drag Race season 2 girls through. Now it's time for the big reveal!
First up, I just knew she was into pups, it's DeJa Skye. In the challenge I thought the judges
got her critique spot on. DeJa was there and doing a solid job, but she really didn't turn
all the way on until she got her little rap solo, and I loved that part … that part. And there have
been several moments throughout this season so far where they should just really turns
on – this was one of them, unfortunately it just wasn't for the entire challenge,
but I think what she did here was very solid so I'm gonna give her a very safe 3 flame
Hot score in the Rusical. And on the runway, you know what I really like about this look?
Look over there! So I wasn't totally sure what was going on here and honestly I'm not sure
she knew what was going on there either … in her confessional she says *BIG BELCH* …
that's not what she says, that's what I said … she says I have a holographic cage kind of thing going
on, and I was like yes you do have a holographic cage kind of thing going on mama, serve! Again the
question is why? I don't know. It really didn't fit the theme mirror mirror, but I did like the
crown piece. And that I guess she was actually carrying a mirror. I was actually looking tonight
at how beautiful her mug is, I think she's one of the best painters in this cast, and I just really
want her to take that attention to detail that she puts in her makeup and apply it to the runways,
and I know, she's already there with all of her looks, so maybe a little too late this time, but
looking forward, something she could think about. This look is a Rot. And honestly Nerve
was the perfect character for her in the Rusical because it do take nerve, it really really do.
Next up, uh uh, hello this, hello this, hello this, hello dish … in the Rusical
her role was talent. I’ve gotta say throughout the entire Rusical, she did a great job dancing.
The only issue that she had I think throughout the musical and often while she performs is sometimes
it seems like she just kind of turns her face off while her body is going and contorting and
doing these crazy dance moves. She needs a little more emotion going on while she was uh actually
performing in the Rusical, and I think that's what the judges were uh missing there. Because the
critique that she actually got from the judges was that they didn't get talent from her character,
which was supposed to give talent I guess. I feel like that wasn't really her fault
and could have actually been translated maybe a little bit better in the choreo,
like with a cartwheel or a couple splits, like god knows she could have pulled that off, but as the
judges were saying they were truly splitting hairs in this Rusical because I thought everyone did so
well! Jorgeous also gets a Hot. And on the runway she's giving spooky, scary, reflective. It's an
interesting, different look from her. I didn't love it, but I love that she tried something new.
With some revisions this maybe could have been taken to the next level. The actual skeleton cage
dress thing I think was a really cool piece, but something about that bootline hitting the dress
line just really bothered me. Had that dress been draped over some latex tights going all the way
from the boot like past that dress line, I think it really really could have been a mamacita look,
but it was heavy metal and reflective, so I'm gonna leave this look at a Warming Up.
Next up it's Bosco, bah-ha-shco, * squeals* … okay.
Miss Bosco and Camden found themselves a little bit of a kerfuffle this week as
they were fighting over the lead role of Saltine. Bosco didn't back down, and kind of unfortunate,
because she maybe should have. It's not that she did bad, I just wanted her moves to be a little
bit bigger, more theatrical, and in character. This kind of felt like Michelle said, honestly
the judges were on it tonight, she really just was Bosco in this role, and she nailed the choreo and
the lip-syncing and nothing about it was wrong … it just wasn't at that next higher elevated level
where some of the girls took it tonight. But kudos to her for what she did do. I think her
strongest section was the little duet she did with Leland. I'm gonna leave this at a 3 flame
safe Hot. And over on the runway she says she's giving his little Mugler tin man slim pieces.
We have seen this look in 10 different flavors from Bosco on the runway, pretty much every single
week, and we all know that, she knows that, it is what it is. But for doing this exact same
thing every single week, this is definitely the best iteration of what she's been doing,
and I definitely want to compliment the like thematic thing that she has going on with this
look that she brings into many of her others, which is the spikes, which you know, we also see
in her eyebrows. I think if we not already seen this look in 50 different shades of black prior,
we might have been a little more excited for it, but for what it was, I thought it hit the theme
well and she looked great in it. I loved also the detail of her giving her skin that metallic look,
which just perfectly finished it off. This look was Hot.
Next up, I do believe in fairies, I do believe in fairies! Especially little green
wood-nymph fairies, it's Willow Pill! In the challenge I was gooped and gagged that no one
else was fighting for this role! It clearly was the best of them, I thought … like girl
you get to skip the entire opening part of the Rusical, first of all, and then you get
to come in midway through when everyone's tired as hell, and you've got this fresh burst of energy,
and then you can just dance the house down boots in a solo and blow everyone away. Plus it's a role
that taps into Willow's I think smart but stupid humor, that she really puts into a lot of what
she does. And I know I spend a lot of time blowing smoke up her [__], but [ __ ] I love Willow Pill,
and I think she did so phenomenal this week and every week she just proves she is so versatile.
She can do so many different things and girl we're looking for the top 4, I think she's gonna be in
it. This performance was Hot. But over on the runway, the reviews are in, and this one kind
of fell flat for me, I didn't understand where she was going with the mirror mirror concept, because
if you are gonna I think pick silver and just kind of say oh it's reflective, then it needs to be as
reflective as the chrome pieces that Bosco wore. And the outfit was cute, don't get me wrong, but
I also feel that it was missing a little bit of polish. A Willow bit of polish, because usually we
see these really artsy, fun, and weird looks from her that could go into that artsy craftsy zone,
but she has a really great eye for detail that elevates them every single time. Like you know,
her mushroom look that she did last week, or was it the week before? I don't know I'm losing track!
This one just wasn't the explosive grand finale that I hoped it would be. It's gonna be a Rot.
Next up, it's Lady time … *evil pterodactyl voice* Lady Camden! So, while I was watching the
episode I didn't really think too deep into the fight between Camden and Bosco, but here we are,
and I'm reflecting. Mirror Mirror, thinking about what may or may not have happened, and if what we
saw really was the truth. And what I'm getting at is that it didn't really make a lot of sense to me
that Camden would want that Saltine role because was it a leading role? Yes. But the role that she
actually got, Mama Z, was I think just as much of a leading role, and also way more up her alley.
I just feel like that role was a written for her and B) that she probably wanted it from the jump,
and maybe that little fight that they had was manufactured? I don't know,
conspiracy theory time? WHOO. Real or not, uh the fight between them was really entertaining and the
steamy little workroom drama that they boiled up was fun to watch. So thank you all ladies
for that. And then the Rusical, she nailed it. I didn't think it was interesting to see her bring
all those ballet movements into this role though I maybe was thinking something a little gruffier
with that character kind of playing into that gender-bending fantasy, and I think she was very
feminine in the role, but it still worked. And she did an excellent job of playing up the camp factor
of the entire character. Like her big theatrics and body movements and the way she moved her arms
and legs when she was talking, especially in the character talk dancing I guess were my favorite
parts. The same parts. Camden was a 5-star ringleader, this performance was Hot. And over
on the runway we've got a queen on the moon! She says she’s giving his gaseous, reflective planet,
a reference to the Little Prince, a cute little story about looking beneath the surface to find
the realness beneath. She also was giving me a little bit of Dr. Seuss Cindy Lou Who with
that hair doing that big giant swoop thing and for what it's worth I did enjoy this look a lot on the
runway, it was silly and fun, whimsical, certainly was different, but it was missing a little bit of
polish and finesse(?) Like I know there were a lot of little reflective shards on that jacket but I
think there needed to be even more, and there definitely needed to be more on the legs. I kind
of felt like she finished the top half and then just let the pants do their own thing. This gassy
little girl did not pass go and did not collect a Hot tonight. It's gonna be a Rrrrrrrrot for me.
Next up, shake the dice and do not steal the rice … I feel like they went out of their
way to replace the little Santino phrase there … right? Like it just felt a little too referential,
but like we're not going to say it because we don't want to say it type of thing(?) Lic it up!
Angeria’s character in the Rusical was Charisma. Perfect for Angeria. Literally one of the most
of how those roles ended up was totally dictated based on the choreography they gave them. Like
DeJa walking the pit crew like dawgs was really just a choreo choice and that cool stuff could
have been put into these other roles, but really wasn’t. But while not all roles were made equal in
the Rusical, I think she did an excellent job with what she was given, so his performance gets a very
very nice Hot for me. On the runway she says she is giving us the shape that all the girls be mad
at. All the shapes, all of the little rectangles and octagons and pentagons and what are other
shapes? Triangles, squares? And of all the looks I think she had one of the most expensive looking
and maybe most on theme looks. I definitely got that reflective factor with those blue holographic
shapes that were giving that beautiful silhouette to her body, and I thought the crown on her head,
girl, let's just say the crown sits well on the hair. And can we look real quick at the
length of the dress? How it perfectly hits the floor. So many times on Drag Race the
girls bring these gowns that are just like 1 or 2 inches too short, we don't need any names here,
but like this is how the gowns should be fitting. This look even kind of reminded me
of the Lumpy Space Princess from Adventure Time except like blue holographic and hard
line, not lumpy queen … all that is to say I loved this look and I thought it was Hot.
And next up at the tippity-toppity top of my list tonight is Daya Betty. In the main challenge,
I was shooketh, I am shaking, I'm actively shaking my boots off mom yes GAWWWD …
Help me! Every single time that camera was on her she was in character, and not just in character,
but fully embodying the idea of Moulin Rouge and the music and doing every little movement
with her entire body. It was phenomenal what she was doing, truly. I probably watched the Rusical
3 or 4 different times and every single time she was drawing my eye. In a background role no less.
I understand why she didn't win the challenge, we'll talk more about that here in just a second,
but she really really really had a great night tonight and I was impressed. This performance
was Hot. And over on the runway we have another choppy mullet from Daya Betty. That is the first
thing I noticed on this look and I'm like girl, do we not have any other wigs? For as many times
as we've seen Bosco in black pnatees, we have seen Daya Betty in a choppy mullet,
the other thing with the mullet here, sorry I have to go on about it again, is that like I
just thought it was too small because the outfits and all the spikes were so huge,
she needed a hair that was like 3 feet taller. And that wouldn't have been off-brand for Kiss
either – would have been very appropriate. Enough about the mullets though. The look
itself was a great one. It's Kiss inspired – oh my god I'm kind of wondered if the younger kids
watching Drag Race even know who Kiss is, but yeah this look was true to Daya’s style, and very much
applied to the runway theme mostly. I mean it was like chrome spikes, but was it really mirror
mirror? I also didn't love the cape on this. It's all too short. But overall this look was Hot.
I know sometimes I might sound a little critical about challenges or runways,
but that is because I am comparing the girls to themselves. Like I'm not speaking about their
challenge performances and runways in a vacuum, I am talking about what they did on the episode
and when we take a step back and look at how phenomenal that Rusical was, it truly was
the best Rusical I think the Drag Race franchise has ever put on. The music, the choreography, the
characters, the the length was good, like it was so long, but it was so entertaining.
There were ups, that were downs, there was Leslie Jordan. And the fact that
Bosco and Jorgeous ended up in the bottom for what they did, I mean they did great,
and you know that is I think a testament to how good this cast is at this point
in the competition. But let's talk real quick about Bosco and Jorgeous being in the bottom.
Firstly Jorgeous has gave us one of the most iconic reads that we I think have ever seen,
definitely in the hall of fame of reads. Ru was asking everyone who they thought should be in
the bottom they all said Bosco and she says Jorgeous and mentions Jorgeous’s track record
and then Jorgeous’s rebuttal. She says if we're going to talk about track records then Bosco was
in the bottom 3 times in one episode last week … I screamed, I screamed! This is also the bottom
2 that I would have picked just looking at the challenge, but I also think this was just another
week that proves runways really truly never matter in this show, because if they did, I think DeJa
would have slipped into that bottom placement. And we know the real reason that RuPaul put Jorgeous and
Bosco in the bottom is because he wanted to see Bosco and Jorgeous lip sync again.
And I did react to that lip sync over on my Patreon at patreon.com/bussyqueen
– that's my members only website where my Patron family gets exclusive member benefits like early
access to my YouTube videos, access to exclusive videos, and access to the Bussy Queen Discord
server and you can join by clicking the link in the description of this video – see you there!
And my final thoughts on this lip sync are Bosco had better facial choreography, but Jorgeous
had better dancing choreography. And I think Jorgeous’s dancing overall was more versatile than
what Bosco was showing. She started off a little more unique than she ended, but I don't know,
I just kind of feel like we saw a lot of those dance moves in the lip sync smackdown last week,
whereas Jorgeous has somehow found a way to whip some new [ __ ] out. And to Bosco’s credit,
I want to say that that lip sync edit was heavily focused on Jorgeous, so we kind of missed a lot of
what Bosco did or didn't do. Blame it on the edit … you're the one that said it! And our winner this
week was Lady Camden, which I thought was very appropriate. It would have been hard I think to
justify the win for Daya Betty, as amazing as she did, because her part was so small and Lady Camden
really did that. Like not only did she take a role that she didn't necessarily want to do,
but she absolutely killed every single part of it. And was the glue for the whole Mulan Ru Rusical.
And we finally, this episode did reach a conclusion to the chocolate bar saga.
Bosco did not sashay away because in fact she had the gold bar *BIG GASP … GASP AGAIN … AND AGAIN!*
Was that good? I just like love the idea that RuPaul having executive producer credits in
RuPaul’s Drag Race fully knew who was going to have the gold bar the whole time, and absolutely
knew that Bosco was going to unwrap for that episode. And my thoughts on the chocolate bar,
I was really excited that Bosco was ultimately the one that got to open the gold bar, but it is
pretty crazy that we are what? Two episodes away from the finale and … we still have 7 queens?
Even the queens themselves are feeling it, and this is what Bosco said at a Roscoe’s viewing
party when she unwraps the chocolate that they apparently cut. “And they cut this out,
but after I opened it, I was like kind of cry laughing, and I screamed ‘No! This season's
never gonna end!’ And they didn't keep it in but I kind of wish they had.”
But before we go I do actually have one last little conspiracy theory for you the runway
was mirror mirror, and the chocolate bar they got wrapped was gold and reflective …
think about it! And finally the moment you've all been waiting for … Hottest Hot. In the challenge,
I'm gonna give to Lady Camden, and on the runway, Angeria Paris Van Michaels.
And I also asked my Patrons to vote on their Hottest Hots and turns out they've also got
great taste. Their Hottest Rusical performance was Lady’s and on the runway they gave it to Angeria.
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