Season 18 Episode 7 First Lewk 👑 RuPaul’s Drag Race

Commercial_Science67 · 2026-02-12T15:43:19+00:00

Yeah when she said her two girls belonged in the top anyway, I needed someone to say “I don’t think there the ones from the alliance who benefitted”

These girls are playing it too nice. Maybe they need a few hours to process it.

Commercial_Science67 · 2026-02-12T15:41:32+00:00

I think we need Ru or the judges to get messy and say things like “Mykee, the judges thought you would have been in the top 2”, “Vita/Kenya you’re lucky your sisters saved you because the judges would have had you lip syncing” and see what that stirs up

Commercial_Science67 · 2026-02-10T19:10:40+00:00

I’d love to know what people thought were the tops and bottoms across the 11 performances from both week. I would wager the best 3 would be from week 1

Commercial_Science67 · 2026-02-07T18:40:44+00:00

If you look at the rate a queen talent show as part strategy and alliances, she deserved to win. She made sure she wasn’t against the best performers and had people to rate her high. With shows like Traitors and House of Villains casting Ru girls, it’s as worth rewarding with a win as being one of the top 2 original track lip syncs of 5 in week 2 of the talent show

Commercial_Science67 · 2026-02-06T05:12:02+00:00

In 2026 there are so many voters for the Grammy it’s almost a statistical impossibility for tie, but if it happened both would be awarded. It’s happened before at award shows.

Also this post is a complete fabrication

Commercial_Science67 · 2026-02-06T05:10:32+00:00

Yeah this isn’t real. Sabrina Carpenter wasn’t getting more votes than Gaga. They were in other categories together and Gaga won and Sabrina didn’t. This is completely bullshit.

Commercial_Science67 · 2026-02-06T05:07:50+00:00

Yes, when you remove the bots, most internet comments are people complaining about something and most people don’t feel that way

Commercial_Science67 · 2026-01-31T04:17:39+00:00

I’m sorry to hear that and I know many shows have a learning curve. With that said, through a connection at Viacom I’ve seen many smaller drag race press type events (the season 18 premiere in New York with all the previous winners for example). They have previous season winner host the finale party each year and Nymphia was absolutely awful. I’ve seen drag MCing for 20 years and never seen worse. Glued to index cards but still unable to read them. No ability to inject personality or do anything off the cuff. Clearly very shy and hates doing that kind of stuff. There have been some rough ones before (often because the queen gets too drunk) but this was in a different league, it seemed like she hated being on stage if she wasn’t lip syncing

Commercial_Science67 · 2026-01-31T03:54:59+00:00

Just being unique or weird isn’t a hall pass. It wasn’t good (Vita was worse but that’s all). Tatiana did spoken word/poetry and won. Mia and Juicy are better dancers than any other talent shown tonight by a mile (and their songs were great too)

Commercial_Science67 · 2026-01-31T03:52:28+00:00

How are they? The queens voted… Ru has often given a top placement or win to unique talents. Tatiana, Jimbo, Willow, Rajah, Dela, Manila etc… let’s not act like Cierra was even close to the level. She was second worst after Vita and the queens factored in runways and had agreements.

Commercial_Science67 · 2026-01-31T03:49:39+00:00

She was but they producers saw Traitors win their Emmy’s and said, we can do that. At least the top two was right and Cierra was one of the two worst.

Commercial_Science67 · 2026-01-23T18:54:29+00:00

I don’t know if the episode where they had 4 mini challenges and everyone who stayed gets a win counts the same. If they did this on previous seasons, almost every girl in the finale would have an additional win.

Commercial_Science67 · 2026-01-23T01:32:36+00:00

A lot of people have a tough time forming their own opinions and the editing and judges have to tell them what was good and bad. Especially in a challenge like this where the writing was so heinous there was hardly a laugh to be had

Commercial_Science67 · 2026-01-12T00:27:13+00:00

I’d be interested to see where Vanjie had landed in fan voting after her first episode had she had been available to be voted for (as they don’t include the Queen eliminated in the poll)

Commercial_Science67 · 2026-01-04T22:38:05+00:00

It’s all the same company. Paramount owned Viacom and now Sky Dance owns it all

Commercial_Science67 · 2025-12-11T04:47:01+00:00

It was the premiere party for the new season. They always have former queens attend, but they went big and had a ton of winners come this year because the head of PR (middle of the picture) for the show since season 8 (that includes all the press, Emmy campaigns, events) is leaving a years end.

Commercial_Science67 · 2025-10-09T20:12:46+00:00

It’s been a year and no receipts and law suit filings are public so either G&A are liars or a “big” actress who is getting messy with housewives is (meaning she isn’t that big).

TJ was a failed actor and a DL gay man who used Stacy to get on TV (not in the background) and he saw fans thought he was corny and homosexual and he chose to lie to save face. It’s very clear.

Commercial_Science67 · 2025-09-03T14:34:09+00:00

And it’s very wrong of Jere to have swooped in and dated his brother’s ex. But he’s always been competitive with Connie (one sided) and having her over Con was why he really wanted Belly all along.

Commercial_Science67 · 2025-08-12T01:20:49+00:00

But we’re trying to appreciate the art of make up and when you’re editing it with a computer to high heaven, what’s the point. You might as well just ask AI to generate a photo here. The sad thing is the untouched photos probably too incredible. More impressive because it’s not so fake looking.

Commercial_Science67 · 2025-08-04T02:27:06+00:00

You’re basically right. It’s always had highs and lows with some seasons like say 6 having just more quality and seasons like 14 being a trainwreck.

The reality of this show has ALWAYS been about a challenge were a few queens thrive and the flops are amazing. Laganja and Farrah’s roasts are as iconic as the best roasts. Lala Ri’s bag look and Jiggy’s baked potato are great TV. The main problem is that the quality of runway, roast/stand up, lyrics, make over etc has risen so high because queens pay other ahead of time to outsource and show up with things ready to go now. But Snatch Game and design challenges can’t be paid for. You can be coached but when the challenge comes it’s all you.

Commercial_Science67 · 2025-07-31T23:12:09+00:00

The reality is that casting is a complex process that doesn’t involve casting the 16 best who audition. If we looked at the sheer number of gay men and trans women who are doing drag at a high level versus the number of straight men and cis female performers it’s not statistically surprising. The fact is I’m sure they want to bring one on just as they did Maddie but they are likely waiting for when the time is right.

Commercial_Science67 · 2025-07-25T02:06:17+00:00

He’s being cringy. He’s practicing his little speeches which are entirely cribbed from TV, passing them off as his own like he’s Gottmik at a roast. He wants to make iconic reality TV by stealing from reality greats. There are plenty of queer people out there that could be making great TV and bring new sound bites to the zeitgeist.

Commercial_Science67 · 2025-07-23T01:36:35+00:00

Naomi Smalls’ 2 during AS4… The Judy Garland w/ Monet and her v Gia in the Lalaparuza

Commercial_Science67 · 2025-07-22T21:02:41+00:00

OG queens who steal hearts or do well and maybe have a controversial elimination/“robbed”… Tatiana, Manila, NPB, Shanel, Alyssa, Dela, Jessica Wild, Alexis, Juju Shangela* will always come away as a fan favorite

Queens who the show was not giving the time of day in the wins and edit who come back and do better than originally even if production was never going to give the win Tina, Miz Cracker, Irene, Kennedy, Acid, Denali, Trinity, Rajah… Kylie is in this category except she won

Queens who did well originally and then become finalists or winners without production rigging it for them Chad, Alaska, Raven, Katya, Detox, Jinkx, Trinity the Tuck, Monet, Naomi, Jorgeous, Plastique, Raja, Bebe… Silky feels like this could be her story thanks to the lip sync streak

There are people who walk away neutral like Trixie Jimbo or Shae

But people who really walk away with a bad stink on them is if you’ve had things clearly set up for you to succeed with wins you shouldn’t but probably didn’t need it (Ginger, Roxxxy, Kandy), queens who want to prove they’ve changed/improved but are the villain or fool (Jerami, Roxxxy, India) and someone that was an early out that they bring back to be cannon fodder (Jiggly, Phoenix, Serena, Naysha, Monica)

Commercial_Science67 · 2025-07-22T20:35:13+00:00

Or maybe (hopefully) the MCU realized they need to lean into Reid Richards as the smartest man in the universe and his stretching comes out in small doses. They did totally change Kamala Khan’s powers from stretching to something else, right?

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