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We’re afraid we can not “meh” this episode arduous sufficient, however as a substitute of operating via the identical litany of complaints (summed up: the franchise is past stale and goes via the motions), we’ll simply minimize to the outcomes of the challenges. The present merely doesn’t give us anything to speak about.
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Cute, however not significantly illuminating. Kween gained this one, largely as a result of she’s the shadiest bitch within the group.
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The remaining queens had been introduced again for the household drag problem, which successfully rendered the problem meaningless. When you must flip straight guys, or ladies, or simply random civilians who’ve by no means completed a tuck into drag queens, it’s all the time an illuminating and normally pretty emotional problem. When drag queens are portray different drag queens, there’s merely nothing to it. Nobody wanted to be satisfied to shave, or tuck, or be taught the way to stroll in heels. Nobody wanted to have drag defined to them.
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The entire problem was so poorly conceived that it makes us marvel (not for the primary time) if the producers of Drag Race have any understanding of why the present was a hit within the first place.
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Kween Kong assigned herself Soa de Muse and gave her the makeover she wanted, dubbing her Pri-nene Kong.
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The costumes are nice, the resemblance is apparent and we don’t assume we realized till this episode how good Kween’s make-up is. Soa by no means regarded higher.
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Alyssa was assigned Eva La Queen, who she redubbed Eva Edwards. We love a bitch who doesn’t over-complicate issues.
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The costumes and wigs are implausible. Alyssa’s an excellent make-up artist, however Eva doesn’t look all that remodeled to us.
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Kitty bought assigned Miranda Lebrao who bought renamed Pet Scott Paws.
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We’re so glad the judges known as this out for the lazy, drag brunch drag that is. Their facial constructions are so vastly totally different {that a} true resemblance was by no means going to occur, however our difficulty with Miranda’s face is how little it truly flatters or fits her. Kitty ought to’ve found out a solution to alter her personal beat with the intention to meet Miranda midway someway. We additionally thought she ought to have made pet and kitty ears, simply to assist promote the idea a bit of extra.
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Nehellenia was assigned Pythia, who she renamed Zirconia. The costumes usually are not solely beautiful, they’re so overwhelming that an precise facial resemblance virtually wasn’t required.
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However Nehellenia did one thing the entire different queens didn’t do: she remodeled her queen. Pythia’s an incredible drag queen, however we’ve by no means seen that face on her earlier than and in the event you held up an image and requested us to guess which queen it was, we’re unsure we’d have gotten it proper on the primary strive. Kween was being a proper bitch within the Werk Room when she got here for Nehellenia. Admittedly, in the event you peer, you possibly can see how Pythias’s beard isn’t as well-camouflaged correctly (the entire backside half of her face is yellow) and that’s a legitimate technical critique, but it surely’s so very clearly not a deal-breaker in relation to ranking the success of this effort.
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Tessa bought Athena Likis and redubbed her Athena Breasticle. The Dr. Frankenstein angle was cute, however she by no means took it so far as it wanted to go.
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Nothing about Athena’s look says “bride of Frankenstein” besides the white in her hair. There’s a fairly clear facial resemblance there, however she may need put a scar or two on Athena’s face to promote the story she was attempting to inform.
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Self-importance bought assigned Gala, redubbed her Madness Useless and did one thing we might have thought not possible: made her physique look dumpy.
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Once more, with a problem like this one, as a substitute of shoving one other queen into your drag, the smarter transfer would have been to change your drag sufficient to accomodate the brand new accomplice. Gala is a physique queen. Protecting all of that up is simply tamping down on what makes her good. Self-importance ought to have thought-about one thing a bit of skimpier for each of them, expecially as a result of these costumes look fairly sloppy to us. The make-up can be terrible.
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Nehellenia gained this handily. Kween was simply being a bitter bitch. Certain, we might see how she may need thought she was extra deserving, however trashing somebody for being within the high when you’re additionally within the high – particularly if that individual hasn’t gained earlier than and you’ve got – is a shitty solution to act.
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Self-importance and Kitty had been each within the backside they usually each deserved to be there. Let’s face it: all of us knew how this was going to shake out earlier than the music even began. Kitty pulled out a microphone and Ru fell to items laughing over this minor (and beforehand completed) bit, so Self-importance might’ve completed a drop from the ceiling and he or she nonetheless wouldn’t have gained it.
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We are able to’t say that is some form of travesty, given how dangerous her efforts had been this week (WHAT is that factor tied round her neck?!?), however we give her loads of credit score for preventing like hell to remain on this competitors for so long as she might.
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