I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that he was mashing up pop songs that already existed, rather than writing new stuff specifically for the challenge itself.

My understanding is that Skarlet did a lot of the things that queens usually do to drop subtle clues that they're on RPDR, like disappearing from social media for a spell after posting a coy hint that something big was up, and playing the "I'm under a non-disclosure agreement" game when she was asked about it…

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I didn't quite spit-take when Ru announced the song, but only because I didn't actually have a beverage in my mouth to spit — I did, however, let out a loud oh-shit. In reality, it's actually a much harder song to do well than you'd think — we've all seen so many queens do it that it's almost impossible to be impressed…

Yeah, I'm with you. We know the "bringing back an eliminated queen" twist already, and last year proved that they're willing to fuck around with that formula — and with only one other queen having been eliminated so far this season, there'd be no suspense involved in simply bringing Naysha back.

That's actually not as good an example of the situation as you think. As Alicia points out, his character in that film wasn't meant to be Chinese, but an American expatriate in China — and the character was a total invention of the film's (Chinese) screenwriter, not a whitewashing of any real person involved in any of…

I was never as diehard a Bowie fan as some people here. I'm of that awkward age where my first real exposure to Bowie (or at least the first that I can still recall — I'm sure I must have heard him before this, without the concept of a person called David Bowie really registering in my memory yet) was the mainstream…

I'm Canadian and semi-bilingual, so you just gave me an earworm I'll bet you don't even know…

That's actually a very common phenomenon when it comes to new albums by "legacy" artists who are past their creative and/or commercial primes: every new album always gets overvalued at first as their best album since the last one that was universally accepted as great, because people want that to be true so badly —…

Moonlighting, to me, is one of the canonical examples of a show that demonstrates the flaws in the conventional model of US television network broadcasting. Always plagued with internal production problems, especially in its later years it strained up against the limitations of the 22-episode season and the locked…

I think you're probably right about the audience cheering loudest for Katya — the bar where I was watching last night also exploded for her far more than anybody else. Even for the top three the bar was about evenly divided, with fairly unenthused support splitting about equally among all three of them — but for…

Yeah, I started out loving the crap out of Ginger too, but her shadiness and bitchiness has been incredibly offputting.

Well, "looks like a stick bug" is exactly how I'd describe Pearl.

I'm not saying she was bad — but she really wasn't bringing some "whole new level of drag" that's a million miles beyond any other drag queen I've ever seen, like she seems to think she is. I'm not denying that she has talent — but she's by no stretch of the imagination any sort of mind-blowing gamechanger.

As appalling as Kennedy's speech was, the moment where she really lost me for good was her final cutaway, when she claimed that she was the only one here who was actually "bringing drag to a whole new level". Like, get over yourself, gurl — you ain't that special (and I've got a burnt kettle I'd like to introduce you…

Yeah, if I had to pick one of the three who are left for the win, I'd have to go with Violet at this point (not that I'm a fan, but she's the one I've got the fewest issues with.) Katya's still the winner in my dreams, though.

As impressive as that is, a big cock does nothing for me if I'm not also attracted in other ways to the boy it's attached to. So…meh.

I kept hearing all season about how cute Pearl was as a boy, but he did and does nothing for me. For my taste, the cuties were Trixie, Fame and Katya.

Yep. I was all about Katya, can't say as I care who wins anymore.

To be fair, it's not as though "you're not supposed to draw Muhammad, so do a comedy sketch where he comes up as the answer on a Win, Lose or Draw type game show and watch hilarity ensue" is such a radically original idea that two writers couldn't come up with it independently of each other. And even the $1 million…