You two make an excellent point bringing this up, as it’s a fascinating issue. This is a very calculated look and one that was chosen to help her sell a subversive political and artistic statement to a middle-class, largely conservative audience by inverting their expectations of how gender and sexuality should be…
Cautiously I already hate it.
And I’ll be honest in saying that I rarely watch Untucked anymore out of laziness rather than anything else. I’m also not super active in Drag Race social media so that’s likely a second point for me in being able to just enjoy what’s on screen.
Think I’ve seen her with white also.
That said, I hope the animosity directed at her online dies down soon.
The storylines were so mangled this season that I’m going to have to — maybe in a year or two — watch it again so I can enjoy it for what it was. And I shouldn’t have watched Untucked at all, which just manipulated me into following those same stupid storylines without any real payoff.
The Nevers comes from Maladie’s onstage rant in the first episode. We’ve covered this.
Can she atleast wear a brunette wig once in awhile. It's always blond or sometimes red.
I saw that I should have clarified that sentence, but couldn’t edit it by that point. This was Rose’s best overall combined runway of the season, and I wanted time to appreciate That Special Moment. I’m certainly not suggesting that it was better than the looks Gottmik or Symone presented this episode or, really,…
As I’ve mentioned, the show created her terrible edit, and showed it to viewers knowing that it would create a negative backlash, and used her for storyline purposes. And has now abandoned her.
Rosé had the best overall combined runway? I think Gottmik and Symone were both so far and away ahead of everybody else on that.
I agree with you up to a point: Kandy has, and most certainly will, receive a lot of unwarranted over-the-top, incendiary, and cruel comments for her drag race performance this season, but a lot of that is primarily the show’s fault. As I’ve mentioned, the show created her terrible edit, and showed it to viewers…
“step into the cool waters of Darienne Lake”...*shudder*
Oh fuck, I forgot about that. Not to mention “step into the cool waters of Darienne Lake”...*shudder*
Believe it or not, that was actually RuPaul’s attempt to be nice and brand her into an instantly recognizable commodity that Lawrence herself could use to sell pencils on the street corner in 19th century London. Except that that P.T. Barnum style hucksterism went out with the Edsel. And, of course, she failed.
Just to go a bit meta here: Rose’s shout-out to Ellie Diamond was two-fold: yes, she’s giving the other Scottish queen from this years Drag Race UK a shout-out but she’s also echoing something that Ellie (and a lot of us UK fans were bitching about) - that RuPaul was being snide when she was saying Lawrence Chaney’s…
Voting allows the show to gauge the popularity of each of its finalists. Production has learned that it risks some pretty harsh blowback if an unlikeable queen is chosen as the winner, and that not even they can guarantee that an early favourite will maintain momentum (and likeability), so this is a valuable tool for…
She was very carefully chosen by production to be the season’s sacrificial goat, that’s why. No matter what her actual talents might be, her early-season edit was atrocious and calculated to raise the ire of most of the viewing audience. And this worked out perfectly for production, who could use her as a weak foil…
Symone was a fair and deserved winner, but I was rooting for Gottmik who should have been runner-up at the very least (even more so with Ru’s previous comments on trans people). How Kandy got there is beyond me, 3rd runner up was more than she deserved with Rosé who should have taken 3rd place. The random nature (is…