Almost as if the show wasn’t sure what to do with all that money, RuPaul’s Drag Race has had a rocky transition to Vh1 from the admittedly lower production values and viewership it enjoyed on Logo. While the Drag Race sets and challenges, and the queens out of drag, look more sophisticated than the old days in the fancier new digs, the last few seasons have also felt too manufactured, with each queen chosen to fill a quota: quirky, pageant, comedy, fashion. The talent and even the drama had gotten so rote that by Season 11, my weekly check-ins with the Race had begun to feel similar to dutifully eating lemon cookies while watching Bold and the Beautiful with my grandma once a week in high school. I did it because I loved her, long after the storyline became a bit boring.\n
has had a rocky transition to Vh1 from the admittedly lower production values and viewership it enjoyed on Logo. While thesets and challenges, and the queens out of drag, look more sophisticated than the old days in the fancier new digs, the last few seasons have also felt too manufactured, with each queen chosen to fill a quota: quirky, pageant, comedy, fashion.
All that is to say that I am very, very optimistic about Season 12 after Friday’s premiere. Production made excellent use of the intro. It was split into two parts—a stunt that annoyed me in Season 6—but this year, the extra time read like a thoughtful attempt to show many sides of queens who seem much more likely to break out of their big pink boxes and deliver unexpected performances.
of the six queens on stage Friday, there really weren’t any losers, unless you’re factoring in the dance component of the assignment, in which case, bless their hearts, there were many losers. Widow, who again is a professional rapper, absolutely killed it. “I’m still serving looks when I’m eating these fries,” will be a common refrain drunk in line at my neighborhood McDonald’s for many weeks to come. Heidi N Closet’s onstage acrobatics are going to serve her well in future challenges when I worry that her relative inexperience is going to show like my beloved ChiChi before her.
Widow and Gigi were the top two queens of the week, and since no losers have thus far been declared, lip-synched for their legacy to Nicki Minaj’s “Starships.” As a rapper and dancer, Widow definitely went into the battle as a frontrunner, the second she ripped of that skirt to reveal a tasseled, sequined bikini, I knew she wasn’t going to give up any of her advantages. She also lip-synchs on the offensive, never letting Gigi get into a groove on any one section of the stage.
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