...and Sam’s struggle to represent a country that doesn’t represent him.

I called it last week. Top 4! Argh

When asked about her ‘brand’ Kandy gave two predictable adjectives (‘firecracker’ and “sensitive”)

I agree there were shenanigans afoot; but I think it should have been Olivia lip-syncing against Tina, whose time should have already been up long ago.

The Pit Crew talked more in this episode than the entire 13 seasons combined.

They’re gonna drag goddamned Kandy Muse across the finish line even if it kills all of us in the audience.

I’m sure she was being diplomatic, but Olivia shouldn’t have been that excited to see Jaida: there’s no way that Ru is going to give back-to-back titles to a pageant queen, and Jaida was more versatile. I don’t see either Olivia or Utica doing well at all in a roast, and I don’t need previews to tell me that.

Tina going home for a branding challenge? Priceless.

Honestly this was a decent week for Tina, but I saw everything she had to offer in week one, which is just a weird love of fire engines or smth? At least Utica always serves a good look. 

Oh, I replied to that Kindergarten Machiavelli upthread:

Anyone that is writing here that the ethnicity of the victims is irrelevant feel free to go fuck yourself. This country has spent over 400 years making excuses for whiteness and the fact that the people you have punched down on all this time are now refusing to take your shit anymore has led to violence. On January…

When I woke up this morning, “Whiteness and White Supremacy is another fucking pandemic we have been dealing with all along” was the first thing on my mind.  Weird thing to be thinking upon waking up....but it is true. 

Frankly, I resent Ru/the producers for consistently pushing through competitors who are obviously not up to par, just for the sake of drama or some stupid contrived narrative.

But no one is going to call the Po-Po for assault; as NO mugs were beaten...

Utica: Raging Bull. Or rather Cow, as we all learned from this episode.

Symone’s too smart to let everyone else know that no one else is in her league at this point.

Oh, and Denali does it again.

And you are too generous, and kind, as always. But I’m Canadian.

I will say that the panel’s “raccoon” banter bit was awful and cringeworthy and should have been left on the editing floor. NO.

I think the main determinant in the lipsync was the fact that Olivia won two challenges where a contestant was eliminated and Denali has won none . We’ve seen Ru save a queen with a better track record than her competitor even in the face of a strong lipsync, so this wasn’t a total surprise, although it was…