People love to make huge, sweeping statements about films that have barely been out. In the age of the superlative, it's not enough for a film to be merely great; it has be the absolutely most best X since Y.

I can see that angle, but at the same time, drag families are based on people who actually want to do drag, rather than army veterans or surly old men who've been forced into it for the sake of television.

The problem was that PhiPhi was not polished at all. She wasn't even nail polish remover. Infamous wonky eyelash aside, her makeup was dark as fuck, her padding was messed up, and her fashion sense was generally pedestrian. You can't watch the finale, with PhiPhi sitting alongside Chad and Sharon in some awful white…

And while everything Nina does is perfectly understandable given what we understand about her mindset, it's also perfectly understandable why the rest of the queens are frustrated. These people aren't friends; they're competitors.

At first glance, it looks like a bad choice, but it has an explosive chorus number that pretty much demands high energy, and the low-key verses should be a vehicle for serving face and emotion. I think Shea's problem was treating the latter as just a prelude to the former, rather than hooking the judges from the…

Certain queens have managed to stay in the game way past their expiration date through sheer strength of lipsync: Kennedy Davenport, Laganja, Coco Montrese, etc.

I think Nina realised that, whereas she was excused any part in Valentina's self-destruction, she would've been ridden out of town on a donkey if she ended up sending Shea home, so she threw the lipsync. We've seen her do better before, and she even says that she wanted to do a "Charlie number" (shaaaade) in her…

The problem with the show trying to force a villain is that they can rarely find someone who matches the calibre of the frontrunner. PhiPhi O'Hara was such a hot fucking mess (at least in S4) that it was ludicrous that the show was trying to push her as a serious challenger to Sharon Needles. Roxxxy Andrews had her…

Much like the Star Trek films, there seems to be some curse on the odd-numbered seasons, as they're generally weaker than the even-numbered ones.

Eh, I feel like Kimora's sisterliness in Untucked was just the standard 'strategically befriend at least one person so you don't look like an irredeemable bitch' tactic, much like how Gia Gunn pretended to put up with Laganja's shenanigans.

I actually really, really hate the makeover challenges. I watch Drag Race because it's high-quality, fierce-as-fuck drag. Watching drag newbies awkwardly amble in heels or learn how to tuck just seems a waste of time compared to an extra episode of watching the queens themselves. It would be like Great British Bake-Off…

I heard Valentina did.

2. I have the horrible, horrible feeling that Alexis Michelle will be shoehorned into the Top 4 over Peppermint, just so they can preserve her as Season Villain. She's so fucking basic, yet they've managed to keep her around this long, Michelle went to bat for her this week, and she's no less of a mess than PhiPhi…

Sasha was making the (perfectly valid, as Nina's talking head segments showed) point that trying to emotionally support Nina was probably counter-productive because all her shit is internalised, and nothing the other queens do can change that.

Which all seemed so unnecessary, as it's blatantly obvious that Nina was throwing that lipsync regardless.

Shea's getting the classic humbling which the show arbitrarily dishes out to one of the frontrunners, just to avoid the appearance of a foregone conclusion and keep everyone (including the audience) on their toes.

It was your topic, and if I'm so self-evidently wrong then it should be easy for you to tear me down.

I jest, but your facile insinuation that anything could be consistently traced across millennia is still deserving of mockery.

There have been suicide bombings for millennia?

Oooh, buuuuurn.