![]() ![]() ![]() (Malaysia and Mistress make up during the Mirror Moments, this is uneventful.) ![]() Aura is, unfortunately, not able to reach the camp heights of Madame LaQueer saying “EUnfortunately, the jury remains out on which one, because we have to get to the runway in under 20 minutes. Aura gets a classic “cannot say the line right” edit, which has a long tradition tracing back to the best “filming an acting challenge” sequence the show has ever come up with, Hot in Tuckahoe. Ru directs the girls in the challenge, and seems particularly enthused by Mistress and Malaysia, while particularly unenthused by Spice and Aura. Either way, Mistress’s conniving to get the starring role is great TV. She cannot act ( at all), so a smaller role is safer. To be fair, this is probably the right move for Aura, too. The rest of the casting is uneventful, but Mistress’s best moment of the episode comes not from her feud with Malaysia or her winning acting challenge performance, but when she convinces Aura to switch roles with her. One of the central tensions of the episode is wondering how they’ll edit it this time, and, well… We’ll get to it.Īfter winning last week, Aura gets to assign the roles, and promptly picks the plum part of “Fancy” for herself. Last season, if you’ll remember, the girls were surprised by the addition of fart sound effects to the final product. The two are then in a standoff before Ru comes in and announces that the challenge this week will be a sitcom version of last season’s The Daytona Wind. My favorite moment is when Mistress says, “If you don’t feel like talking right now, that’s all you got to say,” and Malaysia responds with continued silence, prompting Mistress to laugh, to which Malaysia says, “It’s not funny.” But it is! The episode opens with the fight being between Sasha, Malaysia, Mistress, and Luxx, but Sasha works things out quickly and Luxx gets bored of fighting (I assume, we don’t really get her POV), so by the time we end the fallout segment, it’s down to just the two. But focusing on just two queens with 11 queens left due to the time constraint hampers the development of the overall story. They’re both engaging personalities, and I’m happy to see that Malaysia has gotten out of her safe rut. To be clear: Mistress and Malaysia’s storyline is good, sometimes great, even. With an overlong acting challenge in place, there is less than 20 minutes of pre-runway airtime, and other than the story of Mistress and Malaysia, nobody’s arc is moved forward in that time. Potentially engaging storylines - like the two-week rise and fall of Aura Mayari, Marcia and Anetra’s collaboration, Jax’s continued failure to impress the judges, or anything involving Salina or Spice - are expedited. They have the biggest roles in the challenge, and both end up in the top. Trauma Makeup Corner is excised in favor of them making up. When roles are assigned, the fact that they have to work together dominates the discussion between the queens. Mistress has been a main character all season, while Malaysia has come into her own over the past few weeks, and this episode is all about them. Team Country showdown is still going strong, calcifying into a fight specifically between Mistress and Malaysia. The argument from last week’s Team Metal vs. ![]() This episode doesn’t work, and it’s because of the editing. This is a TV show, not a talent showcase. Last week, I praised the episode primarily for its storyline, which drove narrative arcs for several queens and kicked the season into high gear, even if it was at the expense of some of the queens who didn’t require focus. It needed the larger runtime for the story. There’s a reason, for example, that most of the season eight episodes were 60 minutes, while the Book Ball was 90. Later in the season tends to be where the story heats up, and if we get to spend more time with the narratively rich queens, I’m fine with that. If there’s no narrative, there’s no narrative. I’d seen enough to get what she was about and, to be perfectly honest, why she went home. While other people complained about the sidelining of Robin Fierce this season, for example, I was fine with it. I am not predisposed to care about distribution of screentime. “Cant wait to see the top 6 for 90 minutes,” former Drag Racer Irene DuBois said on Twitter. Some noted that the extra time is being added at the wrong end of the season, giving us extended episodes when there are fewer queens left. The Real Friends of WeHo will air its last episode on February 24, so despite many fans online claiming that “bullying works” after they made the Real Friends’ social media manager’s life a living hell, Real Friends will not be affected by the change. Photo: Vulture Photo: RuPaul’s Drag RaceĮarlier this week, RuPaul’s Drag Race announced that the March 10 episode would mark the start of this season’s return to 90-minute episodes. ![]()
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