by Nathaniel R
Asia and her evil twin North Korea
Oopsie. When Drag Race took a week off we took two weeks off of watching it. It's almost time for the new episode and we forgot to watch it last Thursday (!) so herewith very very quick notes on the 11th episode of the season in which the Queens were tasked with exposing their inner saboteur...
Conceptually the idea of the challenge was interesting but in practice it resulted in a lot of faux navel-gazing and a completely humorless episode. Even Eureka wasn't funny! And even the mini-challenge "resting brunch face" (teehee) in which the queens were tasked with 'dragging up' pancakes was off. Guest taste tester Cheyenne Jackson looked annoyed rather than giddy to be there. What was that about? All in all this was my least favorite episode of the season, and not just because the wrong queen won (shoulda been Asia) and the wrong queen went home (shoulda been Kameron)! But the judges are completely enamored by Aquaria (I'm still not) and were completely over Cracker's "self-producing" and sent her sashaying away.
Though only four queens remain, which was recently the number of queens competing in the finale, there are somehow three episodes left this season!
Rankings
I've been predicting Asia for the win for a long time and am still hoping she pulls it off (she's inconsistent but when she wows, she really wows) since I don't think it'll be Eureka. But the judges can't get enough of Aquaria. Shifts from last week indicated with arrows...
| PREDICTION | PREFERENCE |
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| Subject to change as we get to know them | |
| 1. 🔺 Aquaria |
1. Eureka |
| 2. Asia O'Hara | 2. 🔻 Monét X Change OUT |
| 3. Eureka | 3. Monique Heart OUT |
| 4. Kameron Michael | 4. 🔺Asia O'Hara |
| 5.🔻 Miz Cracker OUT | 5. 🔻Miz Cracker OUT |
| 6. Monét X Change OUT | 6. Aquaria |
| 7. The Vixen OUT | 7. 🔻Kameron Michaels |
| 8. Monique Heart OUT | 8. Dusty Ray Bottoms OUT |
| 9. Blair St Clair OUT | 9. The Vixen OUT |
| 10. Mayhem Miller OUT | 10. Yuhua Hamasaki OUT |
| 11. Dusty Ray Bottoms OUT | 11. Blair St Clair OUT |
| 12. Yuhua Hamasaki OUT | 12. Mayhem Miller OUT |
| 13. Kalorie Karbdashian Williams OUT | 13. Vanessa Vanjie Mateo OUT |
| 14. Vanessa Vanjie Mateo OUT | 14. Kalorie Karbdashian Williams OUT |
Who do you think will and should win from the final four?