RuPaul's Drag Race Season 11

Well, that opening sure was quite a mouthful of new drag names to learn! Wondering why so many of them end in Davenport? After the relatively easy coasting with 10 queens on All-Stars, it's back to Drag U to keep straight all 15 contestants on Season 11. I'll watch, of course, but please wake me when we're down to 9 or 10.

Woof. That was tough to see my friend go home. I know, she did poorly, but it was tough seeing her because I knew what pain she was in. I told her to re-cyst and move on.

Seems like it'll be a looooooong wait til we separate the wheat from the chaff here.

Silky onstage is pretty terrific, but lord, Silky as a boy in the workroom was one of the most trying things to sit through. And it's been a while since we've seen so many ugly men in dresses walk the Drag Race runway, but last night was a new low bar. I can only hope they do a series of double-eliminations soon to thin that damn herd.

^I think part of the problem is we also have a surfeit of Drag-family relatives this time too. So many O'Hara's, Andrews, Davenports, Montrese's, etc. I get why baby-queens would want drag mothers to give them serious pointers and a leg up in the business, but this allegiance to a drag-family tradition that some of the queens seem to be laboring under does not help them break out and say "Here's who I am" when they're finally standing on the mainstage on their own.

I take back what I said about vanjie being obnoxious and grating. CLEARLY its silky. oof.

did you guys notice the comments between Brooklyn and vanjie? about he's so handsome and this and that. and when brooklyn

or something to that effect? Are they setting up a romance storyline?!?!?!

also, excited for Nina West. it was

I feel like she will CRUSH the acting/comedy challenge!

Updated On: 3/1/19 at 10:35 PM

That video is idiotic. It's run out of steam because it's been going for so long and never changed it's format. It's a competition, there are no story arcs beyond those constructed in the edit. It has the same format as 50 other competition shows currently on air. If you're over it, stop watching it, but do it quietly because no one really cares that much, it's just a tv show x

BobbyBubbi said: "Impossible2 said: "It's run out of steam because it's been going for so long”

I can definitely agree with that. However I don’t think the video is idiotic. It argues that the edits and story arcs from past seasons, (namely s4 and s5)constructed from the footage in the work room, in the challenges and on the main stage, have been better. Which is true.

And you’re right, its just a tv show.I’ll keep talking trash about trash tv, just likeeveryone else here.
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It needs better producers who can come up with new challenges, the is the problem. The format can survive inertia, but the individual pieces require more than being chucked together and repetitive which is what it feels like atm.

Thoughts from tonight's episode:

1.) Was I the only one who thought that Milky's outfit looked awful on the runway? I just thought it was weird looking.


2.) I thought it was shady of the Queens to kind of throw Ariel under the bus when Brooklyn and plastique also had stuff to say about Milky. I mean at least Ariel owned up to it unlike the rest of them who kept their mouths quiet. Not to mention the fact they were telling all this to rupaul himself, not just amongst each other. Nina West even tried to make it seem like Ariel just brought it up out of nowhere when Ru himself actually asked who specifically they thought would be a problem in the other group.

3.) I really had a hard time with Ariel's dress on the runway. I felt it made her look really short and wide. I thought it was a beautiful look but it just didn't suit her figure or something. At the very end when all the Queens were dancing and she took off the skirt it actually look a lot better. I was really expecting Michelle to clock her silhouette. IDK. I love Ariel though.

4.) I didn't really enjoy either one of the trailers but the second one was better.

Updated On: 3/8/19 at 04:21 AM

I really enjoyed this weeks ep x

Someone in a Tree2 said: "So much to unpack, so little to rave about.

To Darreyl above, it's SILKY, not Milky. And yeah, I agree that her catsuit on the runway looked like a preschooler's finger-paint project. Atrocious. She can join the line with at least 10 others who all walked the runway inawful looks. Why is the polish so lacking this season?

So the mini-challenge-- Are we to conclude that the best way to win a mini challenge is to just show your naked bits, as Silky and Brook Lynn both triumphed by doing? Also, does anyone believe those pics we're shown are actually the ones Ru is taking with her prop camera?

As forthe movie takeoffs, is Drag Race ghetto-izingitself by concentrating so heavily this episode on 2 movies all about race? Sure Black Panther is a superhero myth that everyone embraces, and Get Out features a bunch of white folks (who are all EVIL!!), but the effect is to say this season the queens are competing for best black superstar drag queen, whether they're black or not.

As for the winners, I'm fine with Yvie on top-- shewas fun in her movie and had a runway look with an attitude. And kudos to Scarlet for silencingthe naysayers and acingthe acting challenge (I guess), but sheesh was her runway look pathetic! Another boy in a dress walking the runway with dime store crap stuck to her frock. NOT a winner in my book. I frankly would have handed the win to Plastique Tiara for nailing both the movie and the runway. On runway points alone, I thought Vanjee stood head and shoulders above all the rest-- that Libra look formed of red roses was what we love about Drag Race at its best.

And a word about the tussle in the Untuck Lounge between Yvie and R'ajah-- I don't get it when this shade-throwing of R'ajah doesn't get slammed by the rest of the girls:

On Yvie Oddly coming for her:
Ra’Jah O’Hara:“Have you ever seen someone finger paint with their feet? That’s Yvie’s mug. No, bitch, You could never. A girl that looks like you, smells like you, acts like you? No ma’am. An ugly girl could never come for a pretty girl. No. It’s a ugly bitch like you crawling out of the swamp to come forme? Mm-mm, girl. I’m over it.”

R'ajah, you're a pretty girl (and a pretty boy) but that's some nasty ugliness you've got inside."

Gurl it's a dumb tv show about drag queens, it's really not that deep x