I’m liking this season less and less. What does a thirty year-old kids’ movie have to do with drag? Couldn’t they do another camp sexploitation movie like Boobarella? I’m getting increasingly uncomfortable with the desexualization of a party of gay life that is supposed to be celebratory about sexuality. It’s no…

Everyone clocked Liv needing to go different for the same reason

Everyone, with the exception of Symone: THAT IS NOT THE CATEGORY.

With this I will kindly but completely— and hopefully respectfully — disagree. The best thing about Kandy — by far — for me is the fact that she is completely and unapologetically herself. Ru and the Drag Race producers haven’t done themselves any favours by artificially limiting contestant eligibility to outdated…

That was the first age I actually typed! I had to change it to 40 because of Raja, Bianca and Jaida.

Just because you’re being “punk” doesn’t mean that you can’t be a complete and total asshole while engaging in boundary-pushing behaviour. Here, that was unacceptable. Whatever her motivations might have been, Utica miscalculated and she really should feel badly about that roast. But this is going to follow her…

Fat jokes are the last refuge of cowards. Why think up something genuinely funny when you can go after the low-hanging fruit? The only thing tolerated more widely and openly, and particularly on this show, is ageism. Seriously, everyone over the age of forty is treated as the Joke Candidate. I still hear you, Tamisha!

(Best Alaska voice): “Burn”

Now this is an interesting thing to debate. I don’t really think that Kandy is Ru’s personal pick or protege this season; her “Kandy, I’m not ready for you to leave yet!” double save was actually pretty cruel in the way she delivered it. Her edit — at least through the first half of the season — was also terrible and…

Kandy’s win seemed choregraphed pretty early when half the talking heads/shade talk were about how she hadn’t won a challenge yet and needed to at this point in the season.

Okay, but it’s doubtful that RuPaul would have known that. This is also something that we’ve seen in a number of other seasons: queens being eliminated right before a challenge that would seem to play to their strengths. I have no doubt that Ru and the producers use their decision of who to put in the bottom two in…

Also noted: Ru got rid of Tina in a questionable elimination right before a challenge that was made for her talent. And kept Utica and Olivia, who — given their respective areas of talent — had almost no chance of doing well. Well, that’s one way to get rid of queens without anyone being able to wag their finger at…

Very fair points. I just didn’t like the joke or get it, either, because a nearly thirty year-old children’s movie is not at the top of my list of cultural references. Actually, it explains alot about Utica’s headspace, and reaching into Disney to deliver the ol’ zingers could really have worked if she’d had about a…

but I can’t wrap my head around thinking of her as “weak sauce”. Personally, I love her.

She flamed out spectacularly,

This one is painful because Symone is really the only one with a unique perspective.

I agree, but I’m always wary of reading too much into these edits, where musical cues are increasingly used to manipulate the audience’s expectations of a contestant and their talent. Yes, Utica said those things, but we’ve certainly heard worse from others (like Tina), and she I’m sure she was prompted to do it. I…

To be fair to Kate — and with the exception of Miss Symone — the entire season has really underwhelmed, so I don’t begrudge a high grade for an episode that’s been one of the high points of this long, tiring, drudge. And I have to say it was nice to have a real plot twist in discovering that Kandy can be fun and…

One of the greatest/worst villains in Drag Race herstory

No matter what you think of Utica’s journey this season — and boy, has she had some lows to go with a few highs — you can’t deny that she’s a mesmerizing presence on the stage. She should be rightfully proud of her lipsyncs, and probably won it tonight, although it would have been a true travesty if she had been saved…