I disagree with some of your other points but I agree with you about the talk to the photo of the young you segments. I’ve hated them from the beginning. I can’t believe Oliver Sava likes them. I find it downright exploitative. Basically forcing queens who have endured abuse and trauma to relive it and come up with…

I agree. Given the choice between another young/look/fashion queen a la Violet Chachki and choosing the first ever “big girl” comedy queen I think Ru will choose Eureka, because it allows her to check of that box and not crown someone who’s barely older than the show itself. I don’t really think Asia and Kameron are…

Ru is very ambitious and calculating and think she wants to move on to a whole new phase of her career where she’s even more mainstream and more famous, which would be as an Oprah/Iyana Vazlant figure “fixing your life” so to speak. I think that’s why she does so much of it on RPDR

When Michelle said Halloween I thought of how someone or other said the first night that a queen does drag is either Pride or Halloween

Like I’ve said a million times before on these boards RPDR started as a low budget, scrappy parody of ANTM and other more serious reality competition shows but over the years as it’s gotten more success, a bigger audience and more money it’s become a self-serious, contrived reality competition show in its own right. I…

The New School has no performing arts aspect to it. As you say it’s all extremely fictional

It’s way more complicated than that if you wanna be pedantic. Some Financial Aid (like Pell Grants) are straight up Federal money, but the loans are from private bank that the Federal Government just steers you to. My point is that I thought you could only get such things at a four year liberal arts university or a…

Ru has played amateur therapist to the queens since the first season

I was very unhappy to see Miss Cracker go home and to see Kameron saved yet again. You never what goes into these decisions, season long narratives etc., but from the edit we home viewers saw it was pretty clear to me that Cracker won the lip sync. She was more fun to watch and embodied the sexy vibe of the song more…

I’ve never been to one and I’m a cishet (white) guy so not the authority but I’ve always been interested in the subculture. There’s a show currently airing on Viceland which shows the present day ball scene in NYC and Philly (a little bit). The short answer appears to be that not only do they still exist but there…

My take on this kind of stuff is that the show is meant to take place in a heightened stylized reality.

And how the hell are they going to pay for it? People will probably say scholarships or Financial AID or something but I’m pretty sure an expensive private dance school wouldn’t have those things

I just watched this weeks after it aired and I strongly disagree with the commentariat here in that I found Van’s behavior way less sympathetic and harder to understand than Earn’s. Frankly I found her almost deranged in this episode and completely “inscrutable” to use JOshua’s word he used with Earn. Basically she…

Yeah I tire of Oliver’s random dyspepsia and negativity over individual episodes as the season goes on. I get the point that a makeover might be more exciting if it’s done of folks who present in a more masculine way or who aren’t naturally performers but it was still fun to see this one even if it was just a bunch of…

“ It’s highly successful and very well known.” By what standard? If I started naming sketch comedy troupes that I’ve even heard of they might come up like tenth and I’ve never seen a single one of their sketches. If we’re talking purely about sketch comedy groups on YouTube maybe? I’m not trying to pick a fight or…

I agree that the bottom should’ve been Aquaria and Kameron not Monet. I don’t know what the judges were on about with the no family resemblance thing for MOnet and Tyler Oakley. I thought that Aquaria and Kingsley were even further apart (though in and of itself Kingsley’s makeup was beautiful).

i agree with your take. I was just about to give up on Danger Island. And I promised I’d never watch again after the last couple eps of Dreamland, but of course I broke down and watched and was again unhappy with the direction Archer was taking but this episode and the previous one have really turned me around on my…

It’s not about “amount of melanin”. It’s about a diversity of perspectives, lived experiences etc. as well as giving opportunities to those who come from historically screwed over groups.

Yes that was a bad period. That was already the second time I remember people saying the show had gone down hill and used to be better. (The first of course was when all the ionic 70s 80s people were gone and newcomers like PHil Hartman et al came in

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