I think the veil is starting to fall with this show as things I thought it was interested in exploring - these men's relationship with self acceptance, with each other, with the city that they live in - has been gradually reduced down to just the internal struggle. I've seen people say before that the show is 'so…

The relationship between Patrick and Agustin has been pretty weirdly developed this season. Like, season 1 ended on a tonally perfect sleeping Paddy and Augie lit by the light of a laptop playing Golden Girls as Dorothy says 'I have compassionate friends around me', which indicates that the show sees the friendship…

Also, I hated Kevin in that moment on the steps for what he was doing to Jon and Patrick. A perfect way to show how spinelessly trying to hurt 'no-one' makes both of the people he supposedly cares about feel like fools. People say Richie would be engaging in masochism if he got back with Patrick (true), but if Patrick…

Ugh Patrick, stop trying to make little digs at your ex's new boyfriend. It's not cute - it's just a petty way to use an in-joke as a way to exclude the new boyfriend from something that you and Richie can share - 'the ginger'. Especially after he knows that Richie doesn't like people disrespecting his boyfriend. God…

Bianca you mean? Yeah, I mean, she was fine? Not great and not even as good as Oliver or the rest of the AV Club seems to think - I think she was on par with Courtney/Ben/Laganja tbh. Her performance voice as Bianca is so distinctive that it really ruined the attitude of her rap. As mentioned above, I did like her…

Yeah, I mentioned that and in context, it might signal that Courtney's performance wasn't as milqeutoast as we're all assuming - she seemed fine in the final video, not good like Adore, but I wasn't feeling most of the queens this challenge.

I think Laganja is probably a bit self-aggrandising, a bit spoilt and entitled, and definitely jealous of Adore but I think the editors of this show aren't doing her any favours either. That sour look after Adore's read could have easily been a reaction to something else entirely. (although yeah, she probably also…

I love Bianca but I have to disagree with how vehement Oliver is about her performance in the challenge. Yes, she was good and the lyrics were pretty clever but she wasn't really smooth in her delivery and I thought that she was using her natural penchant for comedy as a bit of a way to distract from her slightly…

Okay, I can definitely see how Kevin's simple presence as a highly successful gay man in Patrick's chosen field is definitely doing something for Patrick even if he isn't doing it specifically for him. I'd underestimated how important it might be for Patrick to see that.

See, for weeks I've agreed with your whole first paragraph about how Kevin is the aspirational choice for Patrick and always saw it as a reflection on Patrick's own internal, unexpressed desires rather than on any real relationship between Patrick and Kevin.

I've never thought he looked perpetually offended but it is interesting to note that in the first half of the season, he's much more open and more frequently smiling. I think being with Patrick and around Patrick's issues triggers particular hang-ups in Richie: his pride (which he freely admitted to in tonight's…

So I just watched a brief interview with Michael Lannan who says that Patrick is drawn to Kevin because he encourages Patrick to become the successful, ambitious person he thinks he could be. I'd always read Kevin as more a figurehead on which Patrick projects his ambitions, but not someone who engages with Patrick on…

I really wish that we could see something of Richie's world. At least you get a sense of Lynn's history and social circles in his scenes with Dom. Richie seems kind of dropped down from nowhere. When he tells Patrick that he would never let his friends speak about him like Agustin did about Richie, I was left thinking…

I hated that Patrick said that but I feel like what Kevin said before that moment also had a hand in getting Patrick to react like that. When Richie says he cuts hair, Kevin's immediate response is "like, for a living?" which I thought was just a perfectly chosen bit of writing on how oblivious and condescending…

@Battlecar Compactica (can't seem to figure out the tagging correctly, sorry!) Yeah, I guess I just 1. have trouble seeing Tyrion convince Tywin of anything considering Tywin won't even give him credit for his win at Blackwater and 2. can't see Tywin thinking Joffrey threatening Sansa like he did in this episode is…

@Battlecar Compactica you've been blinded by Charles Dance's badassery if you think Tywin Lannister is going to listen to the advice of a son he actively loathes to act in consideration and concern for Sansa Stark's safety. Remember what he did to Tyrion's first wife.

I've been thinking about this too much and I think I like Detox's bitchiness because it feels like she can take the heat when it's thrown back at her. Like, she'll laugh when Alaska mock bitches about how she's wearing Detox's best drag and she laughs when Alyssa's all 'I'm gonna send you all home'. Her bitchiness is…

Doesn't the show tell all the queens to watch Paris Is Burning before they come on the show? I guess Phi Phi just thought she didn't need to…

Ehhh, I give a pass to Lineysha for not knowing Little Edie (not Roxxxy tho) since gay culture has a habit of taking a specific strand to the subculture (one that's largely US, english-language-centric) and making it feel like it should be universal. I mean, don't get me wrong, it's not smart for them to not know…

Might also be risky since Ivy Winters "did" her in the challenge this week and having that fresh in the judge's mind might risk having Alaska's interpretation come across as less fresh.