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drag race versus the world today our International Superstars were challenged to act and spy Queens
which is rated G for gaggy so bad you'll almost gaggy and the runway category was Y2K club kids
kind of but the real stocking stuffer for this episode was Brooke Lynn Hytes on the runway oh my
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they walked the runway or hobbled across it in a box first up Rita Baga so this is a look that
requires a lot of explanation and even with a lot of explanation it's still a head scratcher
Rita is in what appears to be like one of those claw machine toy things that you would see in an
arcade and the words the future is written across the top and I'm thinking okay Toy Story little
green aliens with those balls and then she starts to explain that she is wearing this look because
she was originally on her first season called out for her boxy shape and so now she's in hourglass
which you do start to see as the Box rotates on the side there and her silhouette is hour-glassy
and there's also a clock on her head and she briefly explains that the balls everywhere are the
famous Montreal balls which by the way if you're unfamiliar are these iconic display of rainbow
balls that are sort of strewn across this Parkway walkway and you'll find them in the summer in the
gay Village this is a really convoluted look we even hear Rita in the confessional while she's
walking across the runway say it makes no sense but it does to me it just felt like she wanted
to throw as many things as she could at this and hope that something would stick I'm gonna give
this a ROT - also side note Rajah had some really funny comments about Rita's Runway look at the
Roscoe's viewing party this week it didn't game for me either it didn't give in person it didn't
give watching it didn't give what it was supposed to gain okay it gave me Chuck E cheese Rajah the
gift that keeps on giving but in the challenge she reminds us what a professional she is and why she
is at the top of her game in drag she is so good at playing these over the top can't be characters
and in this sketch spy Queens she is playing the role of mother of the house it's just often go
for older roles and comedy challenges just look at this snatch game last match game or any other
sketches that she's done for the show and you'll see that this type of campy over the top acting
thing is what Rita does best she's an Entertainer through and through and I enjoyed her every time
she was in the shot so while a fair critique might be I would like to see Rita try a different type
of role in a challenge like this he goes hey I'm sure she would be good at it I also have
to acknowledge that if I were in her place here I would have done exactly what she did consistency
is key and doing what you know you're going to succeed in right before the finale is probably
gonna get you to the finale this performance was next up always the bridesmaid never the bride
vanity Milan we'll talk more about her elimination at the end of the video but let's first talk about
her Runway she gave one of the most polished cleanest and sophisticated dedicated looks on
the runway tonight was it Y2K Club kid no I don't think it was at any stretch of the imagination it
was too defined in its references and intention to be so but for all of the chaos that was on the
runway tonight it was refreshing to see something so put together and intentional she tells us in
her confessional she is giving Missy Elliott meets Batman in a matrixy cape and bodice and are those
some yellow Pikachu hair horns on her head or is she just happy to see us it seems like she really
wanted to prove she could dominate The Runway this season and I think she absolutely did that every
single episode so while this look wasn't on brief I am still going to give this a very safe HOT in
The Challenge she is playing the role of look Queen the character I'm guessing was named the
queen because it was given almost no lines she had one big line which was the one that she struggled
with during rehearsals and in rehearsals it was very strange because she was kind of going back
and forth with Tracy about deliver the line to the camera but then also make sure you're delivering
the line to the person behind you but make sure you're looking at the camera and I was like why is
the blocking so strange here she probably should have been directed to swap places with the person
she was talking to so that she could have both effectively deliver the line to camera and to
the person this was just one of those roles that we see time and time again in the drag race acting
challenges that are not really given a fair chance amongst much heavier written roles like Victoria's
and Rita's for example and in a role like this where there are so few lines you're gambling
everything on this All or Nothing moment and I don't even think the lines were written funny
so all of that is to say I don't think vanity had a lot to work with here so like sure I would give
her performance a ROT but like the rule was a rod and between me and you so much next up just Crown
her already it's Victoria scone and the runway she is giving is an abstracts Club kid version
of the Y2K millennium bug and she explained this a bit in the confessional but if you weren't
around for it this was a time when everyone in the waking modern world thought that all the computers
were going to just overnight break down people were stockpiling Food Water Supplies they really
thought it was going to be the end and all of this because everybody was so scared that the computers
were not going to be able to handle the switch from 1999 to the year 2000 in many instances a lot
of programming hours did have to go into fixing or reprogramming systems to make sure that that
time switch occurred properly but was the world going to end in retrospect probably not anyways
I think Victoria picked an excellent concept for this Runway and executed on it perfectly she is
a bug her face is painted green she's got all these crazy arms and feathers and Insanity that
make the presentation Larger than Life plus to tap into the you know computer buggy side she's
got light up LEDs all across across the bodysuit and like extra points for literally breaking
the stage as she came out onto the runway very appropriate for millennium bug plus the way she
did her makeup was very in tune with what you would expect from a club kid look back in the
day giving very artistic interesting and exciting exciting it's HOT and by the way the profile icons
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of this video see you there in the Spy Queen's challenge Chief fights for the role of reading
fundamentalist a spy with a British accent and this is the other essentially leading role of this
sketch she was funny in her line delivery physical comedy and acted with a Great British accent I
must say who could have guessed plus her ability to make dolphin noises I'm impressed Victoria
scone is a true thespian this performance was also side note I've had a theory for a while now that
the acting challenges are actually written based on who is in the competition at the time and this
was very suspicious and the way things played out we've got Victoria with the British accent
playing the spiral with the British accent Rita who loves to do old characters that gets the old
mother the house character the storyline focus of Vanity's Runway looks this season and her getting
this lip Queen role I don't know chicken her the egg right next up munch munch crunch crunch it's
silky nutmeg ganache and her Club kid look has a giant eye that has like eyelash sun rays around
it a big mouth swallowing her hole and a tongue that's flowing down the rest of her body this look
for me I think was most exciting in that she gave a great visual presentation and silhouette and
silky I do think nailed a look and that a club kid look is going to be this Larger than Life type of
thing plus the eye and mouth are very in tune club kit Bastion of that era and you know the mouth is
really appropriate also for a queen that's named herself after food as for critiques on this look
I will say is it super original no we've seen The Giant Eyes or mouth things appear on drag
race runways before like with Mo heart and the judges were concerned about the Arts and craftsy
appearance of the look however I would argue this is actually probably more true to what a club kid
might wear back in the day everything would have been very homemade and having this really poised
professional polished type of look in a club kid fashion style I think is more of a modern drag
race idea than one that would have existed back in the day so actually I would still give this
like a very safe and as for the challenge back to that question of did the Queens choose these
rules because they identified with them are where the roles written for the queens and just given to
them and it's all a big ruse her character is Phil lip sync assassin for the queen who is known as
the lip sync Assassin of all star 6. and silky's performance in this role tonight was one that I
think was a little again unfairly critiqued she really deserved more credit here she had two of
the funniest my opinion parts of this challenge the very beginning she starts everything off
with it's not a death drop until someone drops dead and then just like Falls flat on her back
on the floor loved it and even though we knew it was coming did this stunt double thing where
they had a stunt double who looked nothing like her twirling and jumping and dancing all around
the stage like that was good comedy and this was a role that silky fought for so arguably I
think she deserves the credit for making that happen to be fair though I think she was kind
of doing the thing that Silky does where she just is Silky being funny rather than actually
playing a role but again I didn't really mind that here and this is not Hollywood it's a drag
race acting sketch she made me laugh and also I don't think it was totally fair to critique the
kiss of Victoria at the end the judges were like wanting that to be funnier but I think that's
something that maybe could have happened in the edit rather than in the actual sketch on top of
the fact that the kiss was between two people and they really only critiqued one of those
two people for not making the kiss funny so yeah I'd give silky a hot here and finally oh my God
it's Rajah O'Hara so on the runway she's giving us a little uh orange intestine Teletubby fantasy
come on Teletubby teleport us to the intestines and this look I think was a good idea but
ultimately the execution kind of just flopped all over the place the headpiece falling down
behind her we need that to stand up she's got the intestine pieces also I'm just assuming those are
supposed to be intestine pieces haphazardly wrapped around parts of her body Heather been
more tighter coiling in the chest and on the waist area I think this would have looked less
messy because it does have a sort of disheveled look to it the good parts about this look I will
say is I love her in Orange and I think the actual silhouette that she delivered was an interesting
one and one that was unique to Rajah this whole season she has been giving us unique Silhouettes
so it's a little more finessing I think this look could have been hot but as it is I'm gonna give it
a and in the challenge she is playing the role of the body yada yada spy and this is the other
role much like candies that just did not have a lot of time on screen but when she was there
and even when she wasn't speaking she was very into the physical comedy of facial expressions
like for example when they're watching Tracy squirrel shore on the TV and while there maybe
was a little pausing or stumbling over some of the line delivery I did not have a problem with
anything Rajah did in the challenge and for what it was she did a good job so I'd give her a safe
hot here but with only five Queens so close to the finale of this season it really does seem
like the producers would be trying to write roles for these sketches that would show off
each Queen's abilities with an equal amount of lines or at least closer to that because
really this whole challenge just felt like a Rita Vega and Victoria scone acting showcase great for
them but not for everyone else but was it everyone else's fault for not fighting for the bigger roles
so yeah this is another episode in this season where the top two is blatantly obvious I don't
think you could argue it any other way with the Oscars going to Victoria's going to Rita
Vega but the bottom two vanity and silky they probably should have just done like if you're
not in the top you're in the bottom because I don't think there was a lot of difference in
the other three queens performances to justify picking two of them for the bottom plus putting
three queens in the bottom here would have given a little more drama and Intrigue I think to the
episode because as soon as we see the tops and bottoms we know exactly what's going to happen
Vanity's in the bottom for the second week in a row and we know that silky has an alliance with
Rita plus Victoria's not going to send home silky because that's her show Man's partner they've
kissed for two episodes in a row now but for the win Victoria and Rita lip sync to freak and no not
the one by Nicki Minaj f r e a k for my Barbz - and both Queens I think did a good job of giving
interesting performances uh Victoria was kind of climbing and rolling and doing this crazy stuff
all over the stage but I think she missed the opportunity there to nail every one of the lyrics
it seemed like in the heavy focus of the rap piece of the song she had her mouth closed it was more
trying to do the gymnastics stuff rather than lipstick so while I think Victoria gave a more
interesting lip sync I think Rita did deserve the win because she nailed the actual lip sync a bit
better and she ends up sending home vanity again no surprise here we knew this was going to happen
which makes this the second time that vanity has come just one episode away from entering the
finale and entering next week's lip sync Smackdown for the crown we'll have Victoria scone with two
top placements one win silky with one top and one win read it with one top and one win and Rajah
with just one top placement that is and if we were assigning some kind of point value to these top
placements and wins yes we would very obviously have Victoria scone here deserving the a crown
above everybody else she's been on such a terror in the challenges and has been killing it every
single Runway but as for what could happen in the lip sync Smackdown you never know this could very
much go in either the The Producers have decided who is going to win before the lip sync Smackdown
and who's going to get crowned is going to get crowned no matter what which is basically what
happens when we have RuPaul judging an All-Star season or since we don't have root on this panel
and this season I'll say does seem to have been judged very fairly it could actually be decided on
the true winners of each lip sync in the smackdown that would be a Twist oh y'all wanted a Twist
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