Can’t believe nobody’s mentioned Candy’s performance on the ballroom floor! From her Elaine Benes-esque voguing to her “Stop, Hammertime!” moment, I was gagging.

I, too, hope Blanca and Pray Tell are long-term survivors like a couple of friends of mine who found out they had HIV in the early 80s in San Francisco. They watched everyone around them die and figured they were next, but they’re still here. One has had several major health scares. The other very rarely gets sick.…

Maybe it depends on the field? The entertainment business is so fickle.

I read Leslie Odom Jr’s book “Failing Up” and he faced this very same decision when he was in college. He chose not to join the tour of the musical he was lucky enough to get a part in during his summer break. He said it was the best decision because he realizes he never would have gone back to school, unlike what he…

With so much talent on display I truly hope all of them go on to have great acting careers and we get to see much more of them, these are all breakout characters (though don’t they dare leave the ballroom for a few more seasons first).

Same. The music in this show sets the scene almost better than the fashion and hair. I was such a fan of “Private Dancer” at the end of the last episode, even if it was a little too on-the-nose. I also like how Pray incorporates a lot of disco songs into his balls, reminding himself of when he was happiest. They play…

This is one of the top three shows that make me appreciate how important a music supervisor is to a show. The entire season the music punctuated the key points in the show. Love is a House at the end made me shred a few tears.

To get technical, Elektra lost all of her clothes in Daddy Dick’s apartment; if you’ll recall, the bellhop/elevator dude refused to let her back up to collect her shit. It was sad to see her carrying around what she did have in huge shopping bags.

What an unexpectedly near-flawless first season this was. Billy Porter is on his way to Emmy glory and Mj Rodriguez is a bonafide fucking star in the making. Can’t wait for Season 2!

According to Janet Mock, there were a number of trans men in the ball scenes. They didn’t want to use the terminology for them that might have been used at the time (“male impersonator,” etc.), so they didn’t specifically identify them.

How cute was Elektra’s enthusiasm for Al B. Sure!? That was definitely a favorite moment for me — probably for the whole season.

It was a pretty wild night for a virgin. He’s a natural.

Electra going back to the peep-show world I thought was the most moving part of the episode. You do what you got to do.

That’s a beautiful story; thank you for sharing that.

And I agree with you about Patty. I think she’s going to (somehow) become a major factor for House of Evangelista.

Mj Rodriguez is excellent. Every scene with Pray Tell is always a highlight.

This episode should have been called The Bawl Ball. JESUS.

This show is amazing. I hope people are watching it.

This doesn’t have anything to do with my post, though. As a PoC, I acknowledge that The Vixen made some excellent points about race in my initial post, and I think her unapologetic way of talking about it is one of her more redeemable qualities.

What was her message other than “fuck all yall”?

Okay, this isn’t true, though and I suggest you go back and watch the reunion. First, RuPaul asks The Vixen if she feels any differently about her relationship with Eureka now, and The Vixen replies verbatim: