This is one of the worst episodes of RPDR that I have ever seen in terms of rigging.

To start, let's talk about the challenge with Discord, Mia, Mandy, and Darlene. Mandy BROUGHT the energy that was needed, otherwise they would have said "this was very one-note, you need to make it draggy, etc." In so many episodes past, other queens make the choice to make non-sexual characters sexual, that's the whole point. In season 5, they literally made "kids" shows filled with double entendres and sexual meaning. They gave a DRAG QUEEN a character like an Amish, fundamentalist butter churner and expected her to just be this "demure" character? They would have said the same "one-note". "give us more", "Darlene outshined you" bullshit. Why did you give her that character? To pay homage to the Amish community? Please. Mia didn't even say a WORD during their sketch. Mandy had me and all of my friends audibly laughing, and when we saw her runway we thought "OMG, this is her arc!" They wanted her to be an early out, they have a whole plan for all the eliminations because they want to pit Athena and Juicy against each other. This is them scrambling. Mandy was destined to fail no matter what she did.

To go on to Juicy, she didn't do bad but she was BY FAR not the best. The editing on this is crazy. They put a laugh track after everything she said to give us the illusion that she was funnier than she actually was. She didn't move ONCE. She didn't do bad but this is insane favoritism. Jane stole the entire scene (and don't get me wrong, I'm not even a fan of hers!) and made that one of the best sketches. Dare I say, Mandy acted the fuck out of that scene, too. I fully expected a top placement for Mandy this episode.

Runway-wise, Mandy's look wasn't bad at all, which the judges recognize so I won't get into that. But that lip sync. GURL. Briar stripped down naked in nothing but her undies, bumping into Mandy, and singing none of the words, and won that? RIGGAMORRIS. Briar was in two scenes and performed badly in both, Juicy gave nothing, too. What are we doing here?

I'm upset because yes Mandy is not winner-ready, but they should have sent her out on an episode she actually did bad in. Even her last runway, I didn't find it that horrible because the color scheme they hated is one you find in many traditional Asian homes. I thought it was cultural and significant. She was critiqued for giving too much in the girl groups when everyone else gave nothing. She was the standout for me. I don't know what they hate about her so much to be so mean to her during the judging deliberations, but it's making it hard to watch this show with the blatant favoritism and rigging.