@avclub-cb10f554d73e40f723febf42a006a887:disqus I don't think there are too many samoan drag queens in American Samoa. There are heaps of faafafine, but that maps more to trans than gay man in a dress.

@Bitenuker "high art"? Really? Well, that's pretty subjective. What I see is someone who paid a lot of money for those novelty lips using them to good effect, but I wouldn't call it high art.

There are many different styles of performance, and I just think Detox's style is pretty overrated. She'd fucking great at what she does, I just don't think what she does it all that good to begin with.

Yeah I liked Detox too until this episode. Then the confidence and assuredness turned into smug and presumptuous for me. Especially when I realize that Detox has only won 1 challenge so far. That's a lot of talk for someone who hasn't shown any signs of being significantly better than her fellow contestants. Her IRL…

@SteelTown83:disqus what I meant when I said her lipsync wouldn't suit a fast song is the sort of staccato rap-singing that Beyonce employs. While the song in the clip has a fast beat, the vocal Detox is lip-syncing to is actually pretty moderate. Her lip-quiver trick becomes impossible to do without sacrificing…

The more times I watch Detox do that lip wiggle with her silicone WMDs the less I like it. I mean, that's a lip-sync that's become stylized to the point of not resembling actual singing in any shape or form. YMMV, but for me it's just more WeHo weirdness, and not in a good way. It's funny, I ADORED Raja and Willam,…

Well my take on it is that sometimes a horrible personality can drain the fun out of someone's performance. Detox IRL is doing that to me when I see her videos, and her comments under them.

What shocks me is why these queens haven't come prepared for snatch game, and they NEVER choose a damn hispanic celebrity! From older references like Charo to new celebrities like Sofia Vergara, SOMEONE whose accent you can do for THE LOVE OF JESUS THE CABANA BOY!

Those idiots won't remember a glamorous look by the time the next runway came around, that's exactly what happened to Sharon last year. If she brought out a glam look one week, the next week she'd be read for not being glam, like the previous week didn't happen at all. I call it "glamnesia", they forget any glam looks…

Pandora was likeable and funny, but that was about it. She wasn't the prettiest (Tatianna), the fiercest (Tyra and Raven) or even the best performer in the challenges. And because Season 2 had Tyra, a miserable but visually impressive queen, every other queen outside the top 3 looked less polished compared to her.

From what I have seen of Detox's comments and tweets these last few weeks, she's pretty cuntish. I actually think the editing is making her look better than she really acted. I think Kristin Johnson's critique about her being smug was pretty on point, she thought she'd walk in there and work her WeHo magic on the…

You mind giving us examples of when Sharon was shit-stirring? Because from what I remember of that season, PhiPhi was so vicious and obnoxious everyone else looked like an angel in comparison.

Re: Alyssa - You must have missed the Norma Desmond faces Alyssa was pulling during their prep rounds. Just because a queen is glamorous doesn't mean they're not camp as well, I mean, look at Manila Luzon.
I'm pretty sure Alaska is not going to win. She's not as obviously amazing as Sharon, and her runway looks have…

Having had plastic surgery done isn't a comment on somebody's worth you know. In fact, to me and I'm sure many commenters here, Detox had to work over and above her horrible face before she could win hearts among the audience. That she could pull that off looking like the Joker while Vivienne and Honey have been…

@avclub-36d218e90fa7cb430c9930c5e4542988:disqus The queens have to go without internet and reference material, so I don't think Beyonce is a good idea for them to do. That vocal crackling and low throaty speaking voice is hard to pull off, and the jokes would be hard to deliver in the low-key, slow way Beyonce talks.

@avclub-6ebc0a2cd9155d20be89503d0f0dceb9:disqus I think one of the queens must have mentioned Dream Girls. A younger queen would know how to deliver Beyonce's Deena, which was basically a character as Diana Ross-like as possible without getting sued over it.

Why don't you go away and comment on the Community reviews or some other such up-itself fandom?

I'm pretty sure they used your video chat so early because Jade was coming across as unlikeable. That segment during untucked really brought out a vulnerable side that we, the audience that don't know her from a bar of soap, really appreciated.

Really? Because Lineysha seems a lot more canny than Kenya. Season 4 was a very poor showing for the latin queens, in the previous three seasons, they've gone very far, Nina Flowers was runner up, Jessica Wild went far, and she was far from fodder, and Yara and Alexis were top 4 & 3 respectively.
Lineysha seems faar…

We've seen several Puerto Rican queens overcome the language barrier and do perfectly good jobs with english wit and wordplay, like Nina Flowers and Yara Sofia. Kenya Michaels was honestly one of the weakest queens from that island. Lineysha is giving me more Nina Flowers than Kenya Michaels.