You have me wondering and thinking that despite the way the judges framed it out for her - Kerri herself thought she was reaching for versatility, without recognizing the crutch that while she’s still being so pretty (and we also don’t have so much of a baseline four episodes in), that’s what reads on camera instead…

I love Miss Kornbread with all my heart and soul, but this was a rough episode for her, and I can’t argue with the judges critiques here. I’m hoping that she’s particularly open to Loni Love’s words, one large, funny black woman to another, especially as they were said with, ha, love.

I guess I respect that, but I was watching The Pit Stop this morning, and both Monet and Laganja made the excellent point that it would have been incredible to see Maddy to surprise us and walk that silhouette instead. Although Kerri did, indeed, look stunning. It’s just been so long since that look was seen as…

I’ll take your point that it’s maybe too early to pull out the “relying on pretty critique”, but that said, I’m also a bit worried that it’s all Kerri can (or wants to) do. My opinion is that if you can’t do ugly, you can’t do drag; so much of it is about exaggeration of feminine beauty tropes, and that’s why…

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I think the fact that she was wearing the *actual literal dress* J. Lo wore--like, the same one she wore on her body--has to count for something. I was surprised the judges didn’t react more to that, I thought it was so cunt.

That is a long list of PR queens. Not gonna claim they are all amazing and some overstayed their welcome (Kenya Michaels) but yes, it does seem that they are cast to check the box.

But when did the “Night of a Thousand...” runway category become a tired retread of stolen looks, instead of an opportunity to provide inspiration and elevate a concept? Very few of the runway looks tonight were memorable, and Angeria and Alyssa wore the best of them. Kerri’s dress was boring becuase we’ve all seen it…

This episode was a rough one for Kornbread; she came across as unlikable and humourless, which are two descriptors I never would have thought defined her from previous episodes.

Also, the runway seemed like such an ego trip. Of course J. Lo is stylish—she’s a celebrity who regularly walks the red carpet, it’d be foolish for her not to be. But that doesn’t mean she’s imprinted on pop culture enough for there to be a runway based on her. It’d be like having a Night of a Thousand Nicole Kidmans.

Kerri is not doing “drag” yet, she is still doing the “Best Femme Queen” category (which she has clearly won in many Balls). She shoulda tried out for Next Top Model instead or maybe Legendary.

I laughed a lot too. Willow’s whole “Jeffrey!” bit was inspired, and I expected the “born as a baby” joke to tank, but DeJa totally sold it. Absolutely agree that Jorgeous should have been in the bottom before either Kerri or Alyssa; I honestly don’t know what the judges see in her basic looks. And yeah, Kerri didn’t…

I really enjoyed the superteasers they made. I actually laughed at multiple things, unlike almost any acting challenge ever (that Deja thumbs up really got me, same with Willow and the meal voucher). The judging though really lost me. Kerri should not have even been low for this. How Jorgeous was safe is beyond me,…

The Top Four is still Willow, Angeria, Kornbread, and Bosco because production isn’t letting any of the other queens expand beyond the caricatures they were assigned on their index cards at the beginning of the season. Maddy is Heterosexual. Kerri is Pretty. Jorgeous is the Latinx queen, now that the show has kindly…

That elimination was some kind of bullshit. I mean, I didn’t want to see Kerri go, either, but come on.

Always best to be sure to jump in to complain about a behavior before anyone exhibits any of it! Totally heads ‘em off at the pass!

You presumably did not spend time with a lot of stoned undergrads in the late 90s.  I still have a twitch.  

Haha they didn’t even shit on the band they jammed 3 song titles into a few opening sentences. Don’t clutch your checkerboard pearls so hard.

“I rambled a bit last week about how Star Wars is at heart more of fantasy than sci-fi”

I watched this last night-what a fun hour of television. I think I missed the Mandalorian even more than I thought and now I am ever more excited for season 3.