The one thing I will give Vanity is that this is the best she has ever looked. Unleash the beast and she could win! However, when she’s heckled by the eliminated queens, who are in the audience, she gets the fire to go on the attack but then misfires, telling Charity Kase, dressed as the Wicked Witch of the West, “You look like some green-looking person.” Um, yeah. She keeps telling us that she doesn’t like to be mean to people, but we’ve seen her come for these queens every week. I thought if there were going to be a dark horse in this competition, it would be Vanity, who has a humorous manner that she doesn’t seem to know quite how to harness. Her best joke is at the expense of Krystal, when she says, “Last week, she played a robotic fashion girl. She’s almost not afraid to be bad at some things because she knows she’s so damn excellent at others.Įlla is up next and predictably slays while wearing a multicolored wig that looks like a melting cone of rainbow sherbet and a dress with a feathered skirt that makes our resident hunk look more like a resident chunk. Something about Krystal, though, makes me love her a little bit, and the judges see it too. Krystal goes first and makes a bunch of age jokes that fall flatter than her lips pre-injectables. She says her strategy is “rubbish, good, rubbish, good,” so it’s not just predictable to everyone at home. Because she has the most RuPeter badges, Ella gets to decide the order, and she picks Krystal, then herself, then Vanity, then Kitty. There is this whole goddess theme pervading the episode that feels neither explained nor necessary. But if funny is most important, why aren’t they grading on that curve for the whole competition?Īnyway, all the girls have to compete in a Heavenly Roast and are forced to wear the leftover angel wings that were found on the Soho sidewalks on the morning of November 1. Drag is more about being funny than winning a pageant or being a “female impersonator,” as it is in America. It makes sense that in the U.K., humor would be prized over looks because, well, that’s more English than stripping off your shirt to have a pint at 2 p.m. That’s because the two of them got by on looks and charm so far, and now they don’t have that “one single skill,” as Vanity calls it, to propel them to the end. When this episode starts, we know how it will go: Ella and Kitty will kill it, and Vanity and Krystal will suck. Imagine what the final three would look like, for instance, if Choriza May and Scarlett Harlett were brought along this far and four comedy queens were trying to get to that grand finale? However, it doesn’t do that throughout the competition. By putting the roast challenge as the decider of who moves on to the final three two years in a row, it says that it is more important to be funny than it is to be pretty or well dressed or to have a great face. format in particular struggles is where it wants to place the hierarchy of those skills. To go far in the competition also requires sewing and design know-how, familiarity with choreography, being able to write a ditty and carry that tune in a little handbag, doing standup comedy, and being a better actress than Lindsay Lohan, which isn’t that hard because the best performance she ever gave was convincing us that she was Britney Spears’s friend all along. The baseline is being excellent at makeup, wardrobe, and hair. Drag Race requires the mastery of more skill than any other reality show on television.
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