(This is, I feel, a win for both queens - I have a theory that the more boring or plain you seem on reality TV, the more well-adjusted you probably are in real life.) Karen pegs Kita as the biggest threat in the competition, and it feels pretty accurate, not necessarily because she’s never been in the bottom, but simply because there aren’t really many likable personalities left in the competition. It takes a real personality to make fighting fun, and Elektra and Scarlet sometimes feel less like personalities than like people bitchily fumbling their way through gay meme speak. From the tensions between Anita, Kita, and Elektra to the wild pressure felt by Art and Karen, this season truly felt like, at least on some level, a breather from the insular American Drag Race ecosystem.Īs our top five enter the werkroom this episode, Scarlet and Elektra are immediately at each other’s throats, rehashing what I feel to be a pretty bland beef. Have the looks always been sickening? Also no - but goddamn if this wasn’t one of the outright bitchiest seasons of TV I’ve ever seen in my life, and isn’t that something? Say what you will about the judges’ decisions or the quality of the production itself, but if you can say one thing for this season of Drag Race, it’s that it, as with the earliest seasons of the show, genuinely felt like an insight into the rivalries and peculiarities of an extraordinarily localized scene. Have the challenges always been thrilling? No. This is it, frenemies: We’ve reached the final stretches of the strange, stressful, and altogether confusing ride that’s been the debut season of RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under.
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