Silky stacked the deck. That’s the only reason why that happened.

“Cookie Monster and the crumbs are all over the floor.”

I did not see Mercedes’s LSFYL coming. She was standing up there during judging, shoulders all curled inward like she wanted to be as small as possible. Then that music came on and a goddamn lip sync assassin emerged. She needs to trust herself more, because that girl drew serious blood.

I don’t know about anyone else, but I could watch Miss Vanjie’s audition tape for literally any role, so long as it absolutely didn’t suit her.

“Who should be the approachable, goofy dad? Oh, I know! The teensiest, most grizzled, troll-voiced pretty-girl here!”

God Melissa Fumero is just the best and the cutest. Her “Ohhhhh nooooo” was amazing. And, well, that dance off.

The cold open alone deserves an A.

To me, this acting challenge was good mainly by direct comparison to that Sex and the Kittygirl trainwreck that’s so fresh in our memories — it still wasn’t what I would call good in any objective sense. Get Out was definitely better than Black Panther, that’s for sure, but the best part of the whole mess was watching…

Also, I was so over Ra’Jah’s fabricated drama this episode. No, girl, the real drama is that Ariel is the only queen who had the guts to own up to her shit talking to Ru over Silky, not that Yvie called everyone else on it. You may think you’re 100% “that bitch” but your actions say otherwise. 

They get frozen while they’re going for the crown, yes, but right before they do they’re moving at super speed and both stop of their own well without grabbing the crown. Nora looks concerned, I guess because she thinks they killed him, and Barry motions for her to stay back while he moves in and reaches slowly. Look,…

1. If the plan was not to use the cure on Cicada, then what was the plan? They’ve been saying the cure is how they’re going to beat Cicada for weeks.

I think this whole ethical debate is just a plot point that will be used in part to explain the departure of Carlos Valdez. They did the same on Arrow using the ghost initiative to give Echo Kellum a reason for his exit. 

If you’re coming to the Arrowverse expecting critical thinking (or even bare minimum plot consistency), you’re going to be disappointed.

Cisco’s argument against the cure as a weapon is so stupid I just can’t get over it. Like yeah it should be a choice for Joe Average-but-with-powers, and yeah you shouldn’t just hand it off to the military or whoever could twist it for nefarious purposes, but like, for especially heinous criminals, maybe it shouldn’t…

Yeah him being Diggle’s adopted son suggests this is either an alternate future, some time shenanigans have taken place, or that when Flashpoint switched their kid from a daughter to a son it also switched from biological to adopted and no one happened to mention it until now.

I think I also kind of resent her because, without the show having in any way addressed her backstory and how she became Green Arrow 2.0, she undermines Oliver’s emotional journey.

I was wondering if we would get a recap of the previous episode. I would bump up each episode grade about half a grade, but otherwise I would agree.

I agree that giving Manchester Black a sword and then having him use it rather bloodlessly was a really strange choice.

David Ajala as Manchester Black is a fantastic addition to the show. He is everything as a not altogether unsympathetic, witty, friendly antagonist that Maxwell Lord should have been.

This gets a review, but not The Magicians?

FINALLY! Back to regular Drag Race!