Right but everyone’s already binged it, spoilers are everywhere etc.

It’s not made up to say that shows which follow the week to week model allow for more “water cooler” and internet discussion/speculation between episodes, allow for cliffhangers etc. to hit harder, allow for more anticipation week to week etc. It’s just a fact.

The first three episode were the best

It’s possible they would have but I’m glad they did it this way all the same

Actually this was considered a weird contrarian opinion when streaming platforms and releasing the whole season at once became the norm. People loved to talk about bingeing like it was an inherent good and the only proper way to watch a show. And lots of people seemed to think that every second of a show had to be…

In theory it wasn’t “really” a dog and it wasn’t “really” the sun either

I think it’s both!

The early seasons of RPDR were clearly meant to be a parody of the slicker higher budgeted reality competition shows, but over time RPDR itself has taken on the self-seriousness and manufactured drama of those shows. 

But you seemed to be saying that if anyone anywhere said they didn’t like Utica or said that she reminded the of Thorgy (who they also implicitly don’t like) that this was somehow tantamount to “bullying bs”

So it’s bullying to not like a queen now? I remember someone saying this last season too. Things have really gotten out of hand

Exactly. The “Double Shontay” should be saved for times when it’s a truly amazing lip sync where both queens are so great that it would be a shame to send either home. Cleary this time Ru just did it due to her affection for Kandy and the narrative need to keep her around

“the overall pace of the season is a sign of decay in the whole Drag-Race Industrial Complex. It’s nine weeks into the season and there are still nine queens left. I literally watched an entire season of Kids Baking Championship in the time it’s taken Ru to eliminate four queens.” Exactly

Yeah I was really unhappy with the Double Shontay, especially considering it’s already a season with so many no elimination episodes. This is something that’s gotten worse and worse with both RPDR and All-Stars over the years. Ru just can’t seem to make decisions and send people home anymore. 

I wanted to like “Young Rock” but I agree that the convoluted weird structure doesn’t work. The best comedies introduce some central relationship and just dig into those characters, the comedy coming from the audience’s familiarity with the characters’ dynamic. It’s going to be hard to do that when there are basically…

I’m sure that’s true. Like I said I was very young and unsophisticated at the time and raised in a conservative household. But also what I meant to say was Rosenbaum was the only time I saw such concerns raised in a review of the film as opposed to in some separate think piece. I could be wrong but I don’t think…

The comments to this are just as dispiriting as I would’ve predicted.

Yes to all of that. Those are good ideas thanks

The joke was that she ate the whole bag at once

People have been saying we’re close to a big cast turnover in these comments for as long as I’ve been reading these recaps, which is at least since 2012. I don’t think we’re going to see the huge year to year changes of the 80s and 90s again. A few people will leave but I don’t think we’re going to see half the cast…

I had this weird probably stupid guess that maybe Hayward some how controls or is in communication with (maybe) fake Pietro and that’s why he was asking her so many questions about exactly what’s going on