I don’t have access to the court transcript, but thanks to you, I can’t stop thinking about her being questioned by an increasingly belligerent (and almost certainly kind of drunk) Sam Waterston.

Yes, but a “youtuber” is a potato you own.

real name Belcalis Almanzar

Notes:

It goes without saying that I can only speak for myself, but personally my first exposure to drag was Monty Python so I’ve never thought of drag as a purely queer art form (though I understand why Drag Race started that way).

I agree very much with your antepenultimate sentence, and I wish that more of our cultural discussions could just boil down to something like that sentiment.

Yeah, this ep was a big ol’ pile of yawn. I feel like the giant bowl photoshoot was way cooler in the producers’ minds than in reality (I know for a damn fact that the agonizingly drawn-out bit where Ru “got angry” was cooler in the producers’ minds than reality). It seemed like the expectation was that the queens…

It was SUCH a simple song too.  If you are gonna show a talent to try to impress, maybe pick something with more than a total of like 10 notes that are spaced way out?

Maddy’s choices were just unbelievable to me. Like, why just do a bit of noodling without the structure of a song or, God forbid, any vocals, even if they were lip synced? All she did was prove she can play guitar but there was literally no showmanship or entertainment aspect to it

You can also tell that all the queens were immediately over the Big News about Maddy’s sexual orientation, but were goaded into feigned surprise with the promise of Extra Screen Time and a promise not to be Kandy Ho’d out of the franchise. The cast should probably be more concerned that Maddy presents as completely…

I feel that the episode could have reached the next level if every shot of Keys was captioned with the words “possibly stoned”. Okay, we can probably remove that adverb, but still: I can’t recall a more heavily sedated judge appearing on the Main Stage. She was groovin’.

We’re gonna be reminded of Maddy’s sexuality every second she’s on screen which will probably get real boring soon. I understand the focus on it in her introduction episode, but you know the show is gonna milk it throughout her entire stay in the competition.

That was just irritating.

Shenanigans and tomfoolery is always a risk as the season unfolds, but I’d rather set the tone with brisk pacing at the front, and then break for a pause, rather have an interminable buildup that lets all the air out of the room. We all saw how well that worked last year.

I really agree with Trae about Bosco’s burlesque performance, which was the only big disconnect I had with the episode. The costume was good and the idea was good but the execution was really lackluster. Yes she slowly removed clothing which meets the technical requirements of a “strip tease” but she did in such a…

Kornbread’s runway was LaLa Ri rough, though — there were numerous gaps and flaws in her outfit which led the eye directly to her foundational undergarments, which is something for which we only saw June critiqued. Really, the hood was only the most glaring problem with that look.

Still, both Alyssa Hunter’s talentless lipsync and Bosco’s boring burlesque should have been sent straight to the bottom two instead. Alyssa was particularly disappointing, as lipsynching is supposed to be a basic foundation for all of these queens, and not a special talent to be showcased on the Season Premiere of…

After SO much Drag Race last year, and season 13 being a pretty big let down for me, I found this incredibly refreshing.  It actually felt a little bit like earlier seasons RPDR again and I hope that stays true.  Willow’s performance made me belly laugh from the very first note of Enya, it caught me so off-guard.

I worked at CitiField for two seasons like 10 years ago. I was the only person who knew how to clean the ice cream machine, so I had to do it every night. It taught me a good lesson: don’t be the guy at work who knows how to do things, because there’s no benefit to you. 

I’ve only ever known one McDonalds that had a reliable soft serve machine, and last month that McDonalds was torn down. It’s totally a conspiracy, I say.