Sorry I’m tardy to the party people. Let’s get started! RuPaul’s Drag Race season 8 episode 2 brings the reality – someone’s going home. Every time. Probably. Unless they do that “you’re both safe” crap again. Eye roll.
Jamal Sims, Lucian Piane, Ester Dean are this week’s extra special guests. Did they make a bigger judges table for this?
Mini-challenge: a Latin dance-off in quick drag. AB Soto is the guest judge for this mini-challenge, featuring a song he created with RuPaul. I’m sure it’s available on iTunes.
Cynthia Lee Fontaine and Chi Chi DeVayne are the “winners” & get the “honor” of being the 2 group leaders. They’ll be creating the drag movie Bitch Perfect. It’s an a capella lip synch. Huh? How is that possible?
Cynthia Lee Fontaine – Team Lady Bitches
Bob the Drag Queen
Derrick Barry
Laila McQueenRobbie Turner
Kim Chi
Chi Chi DeVayne – Team Shady Bitches
Acid Betty
Thorgy Thor
Dax ExclamationPoint
Naomi Smalls
What follows is an analysis of Acid Betty. We see her push Chi Chi to get things done. Then we hear Thorgy’s inside NYC tea – Acid’s a bitch and no one in NY wants to work with her because she’s such a bitch.
Bring a sweater.
The rest of the episode goes back & forth between Acid being a bitch/Chi Chi saying she’s going to be the leader of the group and discussions of Kim Chi’s lack of rhythmic ability. Bob the Drag Queen says Kim Chi has 2 left feet & vertigo. She’s bad. It’s sad.
In other drama – Laila is worried she won’t stand out. While Kim Chi knows she’s a bad dancer, and has apparently never heard of the movie Pitch Perfect, Dax keeps talking about all the things she needs in order to be a good dancer. Stop talking & start doing Dax.
Chi Chi’s group won’t shut up. They blah-blah-blah about each other to Ru. They do it again in front of choreographer Jamal Sims. They won’t shut up. For some reason they didn’t see Naysha saying “I don’t sew” as the reason why she went home. She probably wouldn’t have gone home if she just kept her trap shut.
Kim Chi is the first queen to take advantage of the Shade Tree. She’s really insecure about her dance moves. As the episode moves on, we learn that she’s insecure about a lot of things.
Getting ready for the mainstage, we learn that lots of these girls were bigger – Kim Chi, Dax and Acid Betty were big kids. We learn Chi Chi had a gun & wanted to be in a gang because she was fighting her sexuality. Kim Chi admits that she’s still a virgin. Bob assesses that Kim Chi doesn’t realize that she’s a good-looking 6 foot tall man.
Bob also says she’ll never read another queen on TV again, since now she knows how hard Drag Race is.
On the mainstage we get the Bitch Perfect performance and the girls have to come out in movie awards realness. How long did this runway take to film?
In the tops & bottoms are: Laila McQueen (bottom), Kim Chi (bottom-ish), Chi Chi DeVayne (top), Acid Betty (top), Dax ExclamationPoint (bottom) and Thorgy Thor (top).
In the bottom lip synching for their lives are Laila McQueen (again) and Dax ExclamationPoint (Both in green. Coincidence?). They’re performing to the classic I Will Survive. Someone better bring it this time, since last week’s was so boring. With Dax’s “disco’s not my thing” I’m not hopeful.
And yep! It’s still boring! And Laila goes for the desperation-disrobing. You’ve got underwear on, girl. If you had a different outfit to reveal, that would be different. To one of the most classic songs ever. And instead of a no-elimination, we get a DOUBLE elimination. But is anyone else noticing that it’s kind of anti-climactic? Laila just runs off the stage, but then seems fine in the workroom giving us her final thoughts. Dax doesn’t react much either. Maybe this is why the first episode didn’t mention Dax being Violet’s drag mother. You would think she’d have gone further.
Oh, yeah, and Chi Chi gets the deserved win. With an eyeroll from Acid Betty. Pictured here because, let’s face it. That ear jewelry piece thingy is fierce.
Then there’s THE PHONE CALL. Who was Ru calling? Did Ru actually call anyone? Is Naysha coming back? BenDeLaCreme? Trixie Mattel? Magnolia Crawford? Shangela? Who? Anyone? Let’s speculate below!