This ain’t Paul Hollywood’s Best Friend Race!

Arguably, Trixie fits the bill.

Full disclosure: I’ve seen Madonna live eight times. I even shelled out a pretty penny for the most recent Madame X tour - a birthday present to the BF. I’ll admit to being a fan. But whereas I love m, he looooovvvvves her.

You had me digging through the wiki matrices to see if I could find it, ‘cuz it sounds familiar but I can’t pull it from memory - the closest seems to be Yvie - who had only one Win in S11.

More and more over these past several seasons, I’ve been finding myself more interested in who rounds out the finals. To me, the greater excitement feels like it’s coming from those third- and fourth- (and maybe even second)-place slots.

But for one, I am grateful of such a talented roster in this season. And this episode was packed with talent thanks to that.

I’ve been thinking about this - mostly because the “not Madonna enough” critique made sense to me in the moment upon hearing it.

Ladies, and gentlemen, the face of sobriety.
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Makes a lot of sense - it at least fits what textual evidence we do have.

Shelter in place, ‘cuz it’s time for another set of Random ‘pinions:

I’d only add that the best case for Aiden having survived the Ball Challenge - to my eyes, the single clearer case of Rigga Morris this season was that she had been intended to fill the ingénue niche, right up until it became apparent that was going to be unsustainable.

We’ve had examples of non-black queens doing black impersonations - though admittedly with qualifiers. Jujubee covered the Asian component of Kimora Lee’s ancestry, and didn’t seem to tune her makeup to cover Kimora’s African-American heritage. Thorgy’s Michael Jackson fortunately chose Michael’s post-vitiligo…

For the most part, Ru’s advice specifically in the Snatch Game walkthroughs have almost never been helpful.

I had to squint and get right up to the screen to make sure that Aiden was lipsyncing, and had at least some semblance of matching the lyrics.

I also just felt like MY BIG CHEESY GRIN doesn’t really sell the song. That felt like what was wrong with her Jennifer Holiday as well. It was just BIG.

What makes GiGi better is that she has a better knowledge of Pop culture and her references are more interesting.

I love Crystal and I wish RuPaul and the two other inane awful guests did not saboteur her, because the weird humour was working for me really well in the beginning and the sect stuff could have been a good narrative.

I talk elsewhere about Gigi, so I’ll leave that just to say part of Jackie’s smartness and comedic instinct that’s just so good is the way she inverts the problem of packing impersonations down into six second TikToks, essentially.

They got the rights to a Frozen song from Disney?! Things are looking up in a corporate sort of way.

I might argue it’s the opposite. More than hosting, I’ve gathered from coverage that the GLAM awards are closer to a cabaret, small-stage, indie theatre sort of market. It being NYC, one senses that Brita gets to deploy backup dancers, choreo, stagecraft, lighting, special effects, costumery, and general production…