![]() ![]() RuPaul tells the queens that “ Down Under’s next drag superstar should be able to complete a full sentence,” implying that we should just pack this season up right here and now, but alas, the competition continues. ![]() Australian and New Zealand drag is known for being extremely camp and weird, meaning that these queens are predisposed to a challenge like this, where a grown man has to memorize a script that sounds like an 11-year-old might have written it after taking PCP for the first time. This week, the queens are subjected to an acting challenge - not necessarily my favorite Drag Race convention, because I’m not sure you can ever really describe what the queens turn out as “acting” - and, unlike during last week’s design challenge, it feels like all our contestants are on more equal footing here. Molly sees your “It do take nerve” and raises you one “It do take confrontation avoidance!” When it comes time for Molly to nominate who she sees as most likely to leave the competition this week, she fails to drum up the courage to nominate Minnie and instead gives the sash to Beverly. Some of these are freebies: The “You Beauty” award obviously goes to Kween Kong, who looks like an action figure out of drag, and “Daggiest Drag” goes to Spankie, who, as much as I love - she naturally assumed “GC” stood for “good cunt,” not “greatest competition,” a woman after my own heart - was spotted on the runway last week wearing the kind of plastic-and-spray-paint construction that a villain might have worn on Doctor Who in the ’70s. Reader, I would love to tell you that I took no pleasure in seeing a fresh-faced queen like Aubrey booted from the competition so early, but that would be a lie, considering that I took great pleasure in seeing it.įor this week’s mini-challenge, last week’s challenge winner, Molly Poppinz, has to dole out superlatives to the other queens. That’s because this week, we get one of the show’s most deliciously conceived elimination narratives in recent memory - a tale of Aubrey Haive’s unbelievable, totally unchecked hubris that results in her swift elimination from the competition. And, if you didn’t believe her, the next 50-odd minutes of television will change your mind. Early on in this week’s episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under, our season’s unofficial narrator, Hanna Conda, offers up a pearl of wisdom: “Nothing says you’re at RuPaul’s Drag Race like watching someone go home.” ![]()
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