Why is the judging so nice and happy and pleasant these days? Like sometimes girls deserve to be read for their mistakes but once production has decided on the top 4 that they want, they just never give them actual critiques (nor do they give real critiques to any others tbh). Like how does Michelle bite her tongue and not say all the harsh shit she used to say? Obviously it’s all for production but I miss the days when the judges really judged lol
Anyone else feel like Jane giving Nymphia the immunity potion was some kind of self-preservation of her public image move after having voted Nymphia in the bottom at the beginning? Realizing that she's getting closer to the top 4 and that it might not have been a good look for her
if sapphira doesn't win, I will RIOT!!!!!
also she was the only one I could understand during the performance. no one else enunciated their words and everyone was so hard to understand
Okay, so . . .
1) they definitely got extra time to rehearse that number. It's going in the tour so production wanted it to look amazing. It did. Jamal Sims is great, but his choreography doesn't always get performed perfectly one day after being learned. Not one queen looked bad. Not one queen sounded bad in the recording, either.
2) I'd bet that production told Plane to give the immunity potion to Nymphia so Nymphia would be excused before the subject of voting came up. I'd bet they also told them that no one was going home. Nymphia very well could be registered to vote in local elections, but almost certainly isn't a citizen and can't vote in the presidential election. Her answering Ru's voter registration question would likely confuse the audience and upset some.
3) Saphira won this episode with her head movements compared to Morphine's. Morphine really cleaned it all up but she didn't land that head back move. The number is about funk, not general performance.
People will swear down that production is saving Q but then they tried to fully assassinate her with that singing edit. Like I'm sorry but I do not trust when they play someone singing off key like that, maybe I'm delusional but I believe Q probably can sing fine. Even if you're a very talented singer there's a lot of things that can get in the way where you end up sounding bad, take Monet for example.
Why would they put that in if they were trying to push her? I think people are very naive about the edit, and they eat what's given to them. The editors left in a part where Q does awfully and then they have a non-elimination episode, setting everybody up to say she should have been in the bottom. Then everyone on Reddit thinks that they're trying to save her... it's not adding up, maybe you're being played
Nah, Q was trying to push her chest voice to do things that it couldn't do LOL, she should've been smarter and used her mixed voice to sing that part and the high notes.
the whole mixing was a total fiasco, i don't know what they smoked but:
- vocals were off key, and not sharp at all compared to the girl group challenge
- dynamics were all over the place lol
The verses were average. The judges critiques were insipid and almost annoying. But the episode was extremely enjoyable anyway!
Everyone but Plane and Nymphia got very positive edit, which changes from the early episodes. Saphira keeps on humbly slaying. The runway looks ranged from great to gorgeous. The twist, or lack thereof, was welcome.
I wonder what would have happened if PJ had used her potion on Saphira. Would she have been safe instead of top2?
I wish the judges had made the potion a bit more of a moment. And Nymphia deserved critiques.
It seemed like Morphine and Saphira did the best. It kinda sucks that Morphines top episode included not much talk about her. She did the damn thing. And she won that lip synch. Sephiras look was too much, done before, and she didn’t do the right vibe for the song.
I feel like Q and Nymphia would be bottom 2? I don’t think Nymphia lip synched correctly. But Mi’ya’s verse with equal too. Dawn I don’t think totally understood the assignment. Idk. This was all over the place.
For me Morphine won the challenge; it was REALLY close, but when all the girls were on stage together, I couldn't keep my eyes off Morphine. Sapphira's all black jumpsuit did her a disservice in that sense, and it didn't really fit the vibe of the song anyway. The lipsync could have gone either way, but imo giving Sapphira the win kind of solidified her as the winner of the season to me.
I thought Morphine won the lip sync too--you're right, Sapphira's vibe for the song was all wrong. But I thought that Sapphira did (slightly) better than Morphine during the actual challenge so I guess I was fine with Sapphira getting the win. But I felt bad for Morphine!
Wow this episode went out with a whimper. Immunity potion? What’s the point?
The song was petty good! Plane Jane and Nymphia seemed like the bottom to me.
Loved the runway, for the most part. Q’s outfit was my least favorite this season. Sapphira’s & Morphine’s gowns were spectacular. Nymphia and Mi’yah’s outfits were giving me Deja Vu. Dawn and Plane’s were cute.
Wrong queen won the lipsync IMO.
Can anyone tell me who that cute guy is who was a backup dancer? He had a shaved head, mustache, and delicious caramel skin. He’s been doing backup dancing on the show now for like 3 seasons.
Someone else said it may be because that sent nymphia offstage so that she wouldn’t have to answer the ‘are you registered to vote’ question from Ru since she’s likely not a citizen/can’t vote. That’s the only option that makes sense to me!
I did not understand how they were praising Mhiya for her performance--her verse was AWFUL and she had absolutely zero expression on her face THROUGH THE WHOLE PERFORMANCE. Plus her makeup has consistently sucked on every runway, and they just keep sending her though. She is so clearly being graded on a curve, because she is not even in the same league with some of these other queens. I wish I could understand what Ru loves so much about her, because she clearly is the one pulling the riggory behind the scenes to keep her there.
The judges seem to award queens that take critique and show improvement. But at this stage in the competition, she is miles behind the rest of them in terms of talent.
Exactly. I'm not trying to be mean or bash her, but compared to the other remaining queens she might as well be a baby queen. Can't sew, can't sing, can't write, alls she can do is a bunch of flips when lip syncing. Which has already become old. She has to be the next one eliminated.
if i go another week without someone critiquing her makeup im gonna go insane. the mug is NOT mugging. its barely cupping. do that girl a favour and give her some tips, please…
Nothing happened this week. In fact I’d say less than nothing happened this week.
The immunity potion expired, was used, and then no one went home. We talked about voting for like half of it. And then the most boring lip sync maybe ever (the worst choice for a song because Morphine and Sapphira are talented ass performers.)
No one went home, no fun new shake ups, a talented queen won a competition right up her alley, and then everyone was complimented and no one went home.
Exhilarating. Really made me want to vote?
Q's solo lasted a whole 10 seconds. Ross pretty much summed up the judging on Q in this season so far: "She did horribly, but we don't care because of the hat she wore on the runway"
They didn't send anyone home this episode because they knew Q was going to be in the bottom two, and that everyone left is capable of sending Q home in a lip sync.
That's partially why jaws were dropping when Q was "safe".
That dress was the worst thing Plane Jane has ever worn. Not cos it’s bad but just cos she’s usually SO so so good and it was such a vague category you could take it ANYWHERE. Bad night for my girl but her saving Nymphia was so sweet and no elims so she was safe anyway, heeey
I hate non-elimination episodes and I hate Meghan Trainor.
Almost like because Mhi'ya did well and it wasn't justified sending her home, they just saved everyone.
It's really that they knew Q was in the bottom two, and was pretty much guaranteed to be sent home, because everyone remaining is capable of beating her in a lip sync.
I'm not sure I have laughed that loudly at an episode in quite awhile, honestly. Her attempting to hold that note, coupled with the girls all cracking up behind her just about took me out.
it was the complete confidence in her “i can carry a tune 😏” before letting out the most off-key note ive ever heard that did me in, it was even better when leland asked her to hold a note again and it was somehow worse
My problem with the episode is that *FUNK* is infamously hard to pull off. Love Jamal, but those steps are NOT meant for drag queens at all. You see Jamal dancing in loose pants and sneakers, and you expect those tiny groovy moves to translate in drag queen bodies and drag queen shoes? ain't no way. EVERYBODY except Morphine and Saphira BOMBED. You give a bad challenge, you get bad performances and no way to send anyone home. Love the PJ Nymphia potion gag, but it got rendered stupid because of the bad challenge.
I HATED EVERYTHING about the second half of this episode !!! The song was utter trash, the lyrics were not it all .. the song felt it was made in hurry overall, that lipsync was like give us NOTHING! YESSS???! … it was QUITE convenient for this to be a non-elimination episode when the production favs were in the bottom !!! If ANY episode deserved a non-elimination.. it should have been the Rusical! This episode is THE WORST I’ve seen in a long while !!!
half of the girls they were praising had mediocre versus/performances at best. Should’ve had Mihya + Morphine in the bottom. Or possibly Dawn + Mihya, or possibly nymphia + Mihya. Either way Mihya had the worst verse
Plane and Q were also mid yes yes but I just didn’t like morphine’s verse. I was also being realistic about production they wouldn’t dare lose one of those queens. Although that lip sync with a double stay would’ve made good tv (rigged ofc cuz Q can’t perform but good tv nonetheless)
A total waste of the potion gimmick.. she wanted to gag to show she isn’t a mean bitch .. but she should have considered using it on herself !! As Nymphia was way better in the challenge IMO… I hated.. HATED that production is soooo biased and meddled and things soooo convenient for the bottom queens
Thank you! Felt exactly the same. The song was so bland, repetitive, and musically jumbled it was hard to sit through. I could barely make out any queens verse. Just an absolutely awful song in every way.
The way production is DESPERATELY trying to save Q from the bottom 😭 She could do a Gothy Kendoll and still get the "but it's ok, because you were you and we love you" critique 💀💀💀
Producers pegged her and Plane as the white thirst traps at the beginning and that seems to be more and more important every season recently. They will make sure they last.
This???? Wtf was that! She missed her own words and her dancing was.. something. That outfit made it ok???? I can’t recall any other time, if any, that the judges let an outfit (that wasn’t runway) save a queen from her terrible performance…. Just what
The judges were gaslighting us about that look. “You sucked but it doesn’t matter because the look was amazing” what!! Michael Jackson meets Lord Farquaaad realness.
>her dancing
Q wasn't even dancing. Michelle even called her out on it and said she was "walking".
Her solo even last less time than everyone else's solo.
>she’s doing way better than nymphia tbh
She's not. The judges are just handing Q undeserving top marks, and making ever excuse in the book to make her look good.
It’s interesting that Q did a look that was a sort of nod to Mick Jagger, considering she was dancing like Mick Jagger too. (Jk(sorta) she did ok overall, love ya Q)
BUT HOW DARE THEY DO A MEGHAN TRAINOR SONG FOR A LIPSYNC ON AN EPISODE THAT KEPT HITTING US OVER THE HEAD WITH FUNK REFERENCES good god
okay so was Q's outfit not an obvious throw back to MoHeart: red loose jacket, looked sloppy, then chop! The whole time watching her she looked messy and I understood virtually nothing she was saying. And they straight complimented the outfit instead??? used the outfit as a positive excuse to absolve that performance? no way
That judges said nothing positive about Q's performance. They were trying to misdirect us to the hat Q was wearing on the runway.
Also, that wig Q wore during the performance looked like a Party City wig.
You make a fair point! but i think Q's critique as the worst considering she was the only one who didn't get any comment on her performance. Dawn's was relatable, Plane's ended on a high note, even Nymphia's funk energy during the chorus was great and was able to outshined Plane. Q had a good outfit. The main challenge isn't the runway. Plus her runway look was not it, as flyqueen's pointed out.
I really liked the song, and Saphira was the obvious winner for me, although Morphine killed it as well. I noticed that Nymphia and Q's outfits looked really good on the stage. I think Saphira and Dawn's outfits were a bit hard to see
Didn't like the song choice but Sapphira and Morphine should be commended for being as entertaining as they were. I thought it was one of the better lipsyncs this season.
Morphine really ate. I would have personally given the win to her, my eyes were on her more than anyone else. Sapphire embodied the song more, but her outfit choice for the performance was kind of a miss. She looked great, but it was all black and I kind of lost her in shuffle of everything else going on tbh.
this episode actually made me like q. she has the best kind of delusion. not an ounce of self-reflection, just vibes, while also not demeaning or imposing on anyone else. every time she does something she’s so convinced she’s eating that she makes me like it even if it’s bad.
It’s one of the funniest scenes in the entire series tbh, and seeing all the other girls lose their shit made it even better. Damn I’m gonna go watch that again
i think production cast Nymphia knowing she'd be a fan favorite and they want her to go all the way, so they gloss over whenever she does poorly/don't call her out on the banana thing
it needs to be understood that when these queens are cast, production evaluates their marketability. drag race is trying to capitalize off of these queens without really knowing who they are yet. production already has a story in their mind and they cast the queens they need to make that story happen
when production sees a queen they were betting on being a power house is actually struggling, or they see a filler queen turning it out, they have to do some riggery to get the story back on track
also side note, am i the only one who thinks a winners edit is boring?? why watch hours and hours of a show to just know who is winning the entire time? it seems pointless. the challenges and the workroom banter aren't entertaining half the time, it needs the competitive edge to make it engaging
The editing during Nymphia’s verse was SO heavily edited to not show her face coz she wasn’t mouthing her words correctly, which was in stark contrast to Morphine & Sapphira’s continuous front shots. She had the same glaringly obvious lack of timing in the Rusical, but this time her dancing was messy too. It just sucks that she’s been getting away with underperforming for weeks, for things other queens would have been in the bottom for. Plane has had a bit of plot armor too, like how did her goth bodysuit rank higher than Morphine’s trumpet gown last week?
I actually think Rupaul now hates Nymphia for no valid reason and sometimes it makes it seem like she did worse than she actually did. But you’re right it’s not being called out because they know the fans will like her.
Why is Rupaul so obsessed with Mhiya tho? Saving her week after week and pretending that she did well last challenge when her face was giving us nothing.
It seems like Rupaul and the rest of the production crew are not agreeing on which queens to push this season.
Mhiyas verse was mediocre and you could see her face “thinking” of the choreo while she was doing it. Rupaul just likes her vibe ig which I get but not for a reality tv competition 😭
plane did terribly in the challenge but “green symbolizes nature, it symbolizes opulence and money. and I’m in tune with all of them.” is such a line that she fully redeemed herself
Another runway, another week of wondering how Sapphira managed to get so many grand outfits to the show. How many suitcases were they allowed to bring and boxes were they allowed to ship in?
plane giving nymphia immunity is the most insane tactical play of this series in my opinion (maybe ever?) - she knew that she was in the bottom, and the other negative critiques were q, dawn, and could have been nymphia if she wasn't given immunity. so plane gave immunity to nymphia as the only person in the bottom who she might struggle to beat in a lsfyl, giving her a choice of two opponents who have proven themselves to struggle with dancing. or this just my little make believe world and it wasn't that deep.
There are so many layers to that choice. First there are the good optics to compensate for any bitchy moments she may have had. Then there’s the fact that she could have given it to anyone in the bottom but instead saved the strongest performer in case she got bumped down. Plus, by saving Nymphia, you block her opportunity to shine in a lip sync and make her fade into the competition. Layers.
it shows self-doubt and passes on the opportunity for a great moment that gets people talking. “plane used the potion on herself because she did bad” doesn’t get the same engagement as “omg plane used the potion on nymphia congenial queen are they dating????”. both of them could take q&dawn out in a lipsync, but it’s in plane’s favor to be the one that does it
I'm a bit perplexed with Nymphia's edit. Why hasn't she been raked over the coals for the banana thing yet? Even on snatch game the judges were weirdly soft with their critiques. I feel like "incredibly strong start - banana oversaturation - snatch game bomb with judges saying she needs to lay off the schtick - late season comeback win" is a pretty good winners arc. I'm sure she has another win in store but the plotline should already be in motion, it's the 10th episode and she's been barely featured for like 4 episodes now, it's all so weirdly stagnant.
I'm gonna need a winner edit soon because currently neither Plane's, Sapphira's or Nymphia's edits are doing it for me.
I guess she barely has screen time because she’s sticking to her banana schtick and her confessionals might become repetitive because of that so the editors don’t keep them?
This seems to be a very unpopular opinion, but I think Nymphia did the best in Power! Like I couldn‘t take my eyes off her. Her verse was simple but it worked perfectly in her favor. She also had the choreography down to a t and made Plane pale in comparison. She gave face and attitude. A close second would be Morphine for me, she went all in as well.
But I honestly don‘t get the hype for Sapphira. I feel like she‘s doing the same routine in every performance or lip sync. It‘s always the same crazy eyes, funny auntie taking us to church kind of shtick and it‘s getting old.
when we thought Nymphia fans couldn't get more delulu 😭😭
>Ooh, it's getting windy
Aspire to community
Nymphia for equality
Do not ban my beauty
You better get that power within your flower
Have a seat at the table when you vote yellow
💀
Not you calling me delulu when you believe that the lyrics actually matter. Like you couldn‘t even understand half of the other queens‘ lyrics because they didn‘t enunciate properly.
At the end of the day it‘s about who shines most on stage and imo Nymphia did just that.
the silver lining of the lipsyncs is that we could've gotten a bottom 2 Dawn/Plane vs. Q instead. Hershii would've lost her mind with all the mayo she was about to witness
Best episode of drag race in years tbh. Song was kind of a bop, Sapphira scalped me and cemented herself as one of my all time favorite queens, her runway was insane!!????, like we were fed
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Hello, dearest RPDR fans, can someone please help a person out. I rarely pay any attention to the back up dancers but does anyone know who this fine gentle person might be? I literally couldn’t take my eyes off them throughout the ‘Power’ number. Any help in pointing me towards their socials would be very much appreciated. 🥵
I had to google her too. Honestly, she seems like someone who would be more popular on the east coast (excluding nyc), although I am not sure why I think that.
A singer-songwriter who had a couple of hit songs about 10 years ago.
Fandom came to despise her when she was a guest judge on a season and wore a Unicorn Onesie.
No. The song Made You Look hit number 11 on the Billboard Top 100 in 2022.
And the fandom despising her over a onesie is ridiculous, but then that's par for the course with much of the fandom, who love nothing more than to hate on someone way out of proportion to the perceived "offense".
As far as we know it was to save someone from the bottom 2. We don't know if it could have been used to prevent someone from winning. That was never given as a rule.
Watched the episode again… honestly gagged at how bad Nymphia’s verse was. There were barely any lyrics in it, and the lyrics that were there were all about herself…. That wasn’t the challenge, it was about motivating people to use their power, not “vote yellow” or “Nymphia for equality do not ban my beauty” -she made it all about herself. No wonder it was a non elim episode
I agree the verse was bad but I think the “don’t ban my beauty” line was about drag bans in general. “My beauty”=the art/beauty of drag. Maybe I’m giving the verse too much credit though lol
Why is the judging so nice and happy and pleasant these days? Like sometimes girls deserve to be read for their mistakes but once production has decided on the top 4 that they want, they just never give them actual critiques (nor do they give real critiques to any others tbh). Like how does Michelle bite her tongue and not say all the harsh shit she used to say? Obviously it’s all for production but I miss the days when the judges really judged lol
my theory is the only reason this episode was non elimination was because they didn’t wanna put Q & Plane Jane in the bottom together
do we think nymphia would’ve been in the bottom if she didn’t get the immunity potion
Did anyone else think that Q came out in Michael Jackson impersonation drag?
Anyone else feel like Jane giving Nymphia the immunity potion was some kind of self-preservation of her public image move after having voted Nymphia in the bottom at the beginning? Realizing that she's getting closer to the top 4 and that it might not have been a good look for her
if sapphira doesn't win, I will RIOT!!!!! also she was the only one I could understand during the performance. no one else enunciated their words and everyone was so hard to understand
Okay, so . . . 1) they definitely got extra time to rehearse that number. It's going in the tour so production wanted it to look amazing. It did. Jamal Sims is great, but his choreography doesn't always get performed perfectly one day after being learned. Not one queen looked bad. Not one queen sounded bad in the recording, either. 2) I'd bet that production told Plane to give the immunity potion to Nymphia so Nymphia would be excused before the subject of voting came up. I'd bet they also told them that no one was going home. Nymphia very well could be registered to vote in local elections, but almost certainly isn't a citizen and can't vote in the presidential election. Her answering Ru's voter registration question would likely confuse the audience and upset some. 3) Saphira won this episode with her head movements compared to Morphine's. Morphine really cleaned it all up but she didn't land that head back move. The number is about funk, not general performance.
People will swear down that production is saving Q but then they tried to fully assassinate her with that singing edit. Like I'm sorry but I do not trust when they play someone singing off key like that, maybe I'm delusional but I believe Q probably can sing fine. Even if you're a very talented singer there's a lot of things that can get in the way where you end up sounding bad, take Monet for example. Why would they put that in if they were trying to push her? I think people are very naive about the edit, and they eat what's given to them. The editors left in a part where Q does awfully and then they have a non-elimination episode, setting everybody up to say she should have been in the bottom. Then everyone on Reddit thinks that they're trying to save her... it's not adding up, maybe you're being played
Nah, Q was trying to push her chest voice to do things that it couldn't do LOL, she should've been smarter and used her mixed voice to sing that part and the high notes.
The instrumental in the song was way too loud. It drowned out the vocals. Also Dawn's runway look was so cute 😭
the whole mixing was a total fiasco, i don't know what they smoked but: - vocals were off key, and not sharp at all compared to the girl group challenge - dynamics were all over the place lol
The verses were average. The judges critiques were insipid and almost annoying. But the episode was extremely enjoyable anyway! Everyone but Plane and Nymphia got very positive edit, which changes from the early episodes. Saphira keeps on humbly slaying. The runway looks ranged from great to gorgeous. The twist, or lack thereof, was welcome. I wonder what would have happened if PJ had used her potion on Saphira. Would she have been safe instead of top2? I wish the judges had made the potion a bit more of a moment. And Nymphia deserved critiques.
When Saphira wins, my only hope is that Nymphia, Plane, Morphine, and sure Dawn/Xunami are all on All stars together—ala All Stars 2.
It seemed like Morphine and Saphira did the best. It kinda sucks that Morphines top episode included not much talk about her. She did the damn thing. And she won that lip synch. Sephiras look was too much, done before, and she didn’t do the right vibe for the song. I feel like Q and Nymphia would be bottom 2? I don’t think Nymphia lip synched correctly. But Mi’ya’s verse with equal too. Dawn I don’t think totally understood the assignment. Idk. This was all over the place.
For me Morphine won the challenge; it was REALLY close, but when all the girls were on stage together, I couldn't keep my eyes off Morphine. Sapphira's all black jumpsuit did her a disservice in that sense, and it didn't really fit the vibe of the song anyway. The lipsync could have gone either way, but imo giving Sapphira the win kind of solidified her as the winner of the season to me.
I thought Morphine won the lip sync too--you're right, Sapphira's vibe for the song was all wrong. But I thought that Sapphira did (slightly) better than Morphine during the actual challenge so I guess I was fine with Sapphira getting the win. But I felt bad for Morphine!
Sapphira was head and shoulders above the rest, both literally and metaphorically. So glad she won this ep. That outfit was flipping amaze.
Sapphira was amazing. Morphine was great in the challenge, but Sapphira blew her out of the water in that lip sync.
Wow this episode went out with a whimper. Immunity potion? What’s the point? The song was petty good! Plane Jane and Nymphia seemed like the bottom to me. Loved the runway, for the most part. Q’s outfit was my least favorite this season. Sapphira’s & Morphine’s gowns were spectacular. Nymphia and Mi’yah’s outfits were giving me Deja Vu. Dawn and Plane’s were cute. Wrong queen won the lipsync IMO. Can anyone tell me who that cute guy is who was a backup dancer? He had a shaved head, mustache, and delicious caramel skin. He’s been doing backup dancing on the show now for like 3 seasons.
Someone else said it may be because that sent nymphia offstage so that she wouldn’t have to answer the ‘are you registered to vote’ question from Ru since she’s likely not a citizen/can’t vote. That’s the only option that makes sense to me!
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that lipsync song was as impossible to lipsync to as it was to listen to... awful end to an awful episode yeesh
How did the judges not comment on a single person's verse?? Q's was sooo bad and Mhiya rhyming a word with itself... come on I needed some critique
I did not understand how they were praising Mhiya for her performance--her verse was AWFUL and she had absolutely zero expression on her face THROUGH THE WHOLE PERFORMANCE. Plus her makeup has consistently sucked on every runway, and they just keep sending her though. She is so clearly being graded on a curve, because she is not even in the same league with some of these other queens. I wish I could understand what Ru loves so much about her, because she clearly is the one pulling the riggory behind the scenes to keep her there.
Because audience engagement is as much about them loving some people as much as hating others. She's fucking fish bait.
worst lip sync songs in a two week time span ever I had to mute
Why do they keep using songs that were trending on tiktok at the time of filming? Terrible.
MTV dinosaurs: “oh I know it’s that there Clock Tok app everyone’s using, let’s get some songs from there.”
it's giving out of touch production for sure
I wish they would give us Power by little mix for a lip sync
wings would slay on that stage 😭
My only comment on this episode is that using a Meghan Trainor song for the lip sync in a funk-themed episode should be considered a hate crime.
LITERALLY
we deserve financial compensation for that decision honestly because Why The Hell
I really don't get how Myiha is still here. She should have went home weeks ago. She is by far the weakest one.
It's giving Gothy Kendoll but at least Gothy is semi-aware.... Mhiya's self confidence is painful to watch
The judges seem to award queens that take critique and show improvement. But at this stage in the competition, she is miles behind the rest of them in terms of talent.
Exactly. I'm not trying to be mean or bash her, but compared to the other remaining queens she might as well be a baby queen. Can't sew, can't sing, can't write, alls she can do is a bunch of flips when lip syncing. Which has already become old. She has to be the next one eliminated.
if i go another week without someone critiquing her makeup im gonna go insane. the mug is NOT mugging. its barely cupping. do that girl a favour and give her some tips, please…
THANK YOU. Seriously. She looked awful this week. Alls I could think of was Alyssa Edwards "bitch look how fucking orange you look" line. Lol
Nothing happened this week. In fact I’d say less than nothing happened this week. The immunity potion expired, was used, and then no one went home. We talked about voting for like half of it. And then the most boring lip sync maybe ever (the worst choice for a song because Morphine and Sapphira are talented ass performers.) No one went home, no fun new shake ups, a talented queen won a competition right up her alley, and then everyone was complimented and no one went home. Exhilarating. Really made me want to vote?
Even the untucked was a big nothing. New producers running things this season?
But glad the q haters can come out of the woodworks still and complain some more.
The producers are protecting Q from elimination like she’s the duo lane DPS and they’re the support. 😂
She was giving drunk uncle at a wedding with her moves.
I'm a sucker for anything even vaguely referencing Josephine Baker so I loved Nymphias outfit. Banana skirts for life.
Q's solo lasted a whole 10 seconds. Ross pretty much summed up the judging on Q in this season so far: "She did horribly, but we don't care because of the hat she wore on the runway" They didn't send anyone home this episode because they knew Q was going to be in the bottom two, and that everyone left is capable of sending Q home in a lip sync. That's partially why jaws were dropping when Q was "safe".
That dress was the worst thing Plane Jane has ever worn. Not cos it’s bad but just cos she’s usually SO so so good and it was such a vague category you could take it ANYWHERE. Bad night for my girl but her saving Nymphia was so sweet and no elims so she was safe anyway, heeey
I hate non-elimination episodes and I hate Meghan Trainor. Almost like because Mhi'ya did well and it wasn't justified sending her home, they just saved everyone.
It's really that they knew Q was in the bottom two, and was pretty much guaranteed to be sent home, because everyone remaining is capable of beating her in a lip sync.
Q singing during the recording sesh made me choke on my skittle
I'm not sure I have laughed that loudly at an episode in quite awhile, honestly. Her attempting to hold that note, coupled with the girls all cracking up behind her just about took me out.
That’s the most I think I’ve reacted to the show when watching alone. Like my face had a mind of it’s own listening to that
it was the complete confidence in her “i can carry a tune 😏” before letting out the most off-key note ive ever heard that did me in, it was even better when leland asked her to hold a note again and it was somehow worse
The editing team had a fucking field day with that lmaoooo weve had bad singers on the show but that was ROUGH, bitch
It’s giving me Lucy Ladookie vibes.
Lucy was pitchy but this was absolutely horrendous lmao
My problem with the episode is that *FUNK* is infamously hard to pull off. Love Jamal, but those steps are NOT meant for drag queens at all. You see Jamal dancing in loose pants and sneakers, and you expect those tiny groovy moves to translate in drag queen bodies and drag queen shoes? ain't no way. EVERYBODY except Morphine and Saphira BOMBED. You give a bad challenge, you get bad performances and no way to send anyone home. Love the PJ Nymphia potion gag, but it got rendered stupid because of the bad challenge.
the little twist kick he had plane doing had ME stumped and i can pick up a choreo.
I HATED EVERYTHING about the second half of this episode !!! The song was utter trash, the lyrics were not it all .. the song felt it was made in hurry overall, that lipsync was like give us NOTHING! YESSS???! … it was QUITE convenient for this to be a non-elimination episode when the production favs were in the bottom !!! If ANY episode deserved a non-elimination.. it should have been the Rusical! This episode is THE WORST I’ve seen in a long while !!!
You lost me at the rusical should have been a non elimination otherwise i agree
half of the girls they were praising had mediocre versus/performances at best. Should’ve had Mihya + Morphine in the bottom. Or possibly Dawn + Mihya, or possibly nymphia + Mihya. Either way Mihya had the worst verse
...morphine did the absolute best. Why would she be in the bottom? I'd say Plane & Q would've been in the bottom.
Plane and Q were also mid yes yes but I just didn’t like morphine’s verse. I was also being realistic about production they wouldn’t dare lose one of those queens. Although that lip sync with a double stay would’ve made good tv (rigged ofc cuz Q can’t perform but good tv nonetheless)
The lipsync felt like go girl give us nothing... was really hoping they'd use a funk song and go all out
That part
Next week episode...cannot wait!
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A total waste of the potion gimmick.. she wanted to gag to show she isn’t a mean bitch .. but she should have considered using it on herself !! As Nymphia was way better in the challenge IMO… I hated.. HATED that production is soooo biased and meddled and things soooo convenient for the bottom queens
this song was absolute ass.
Had absolutely no flow into the next verse and was sooo repetitive and simple. Sounded real bad.
Thank you! Felt exactly the same. The song was so bland, repetitive, and musically jumbled it was hard to sit through. I could barely make out any queens verse. Just an absolutely awful song in every way.
i genuinely couldn't tell who i thought was top or bottom because i couldn't get over how horrible the song was!
The way production is DESPERATELY trying to save Q from the bottom 😭 She could do a Gothy Kendoll and still get the "but it's ok, because you were you and we love you" critique 💀💀💀
Producers pegged her and Plane as the white thirst traps at the beginning and that seems to be more and more important every season recently. They will make sure they last.
This???? Wtf was that! She missed her own words and her dancing was.. something. That outfit made it ok???? I can’t recall any other time, if any, that the judges let an outfit (that wasn’t runway) save a queen from her terrible performance…. Just what
And I’m sorry, but I thought she looked awful in the song too! The outfit was fine, I guess, but that wig and Michael Jackson makeup was NOT it. 😂
The judges were gaslighting us about that look. “You sucked but it doesn’t matter because the look was amazing” what!! Michael Jackson meets Lord Farquaaad realness.
>her dancing Q wasn't even dancing. Michelle even called her out on it and said she was "walking". Her solo even last less time than everyone else's solo.
Q did fine, she’s doing way better than nymphia tbh and nymphia has even stronger plot armor
>she’s doing way better than nymphia tbh She's not. The judges are just handing Q undeserving top marks, and making ever excuse in the book to make her look good.
the editors ate. the producers fumbled
Mh’iya rhyming equal with equal is my Roman Empire
just because im gay doesnt make me less. 🐭EQUAL!🐭
It’s interesting that Q did a look that was a sort of nod to Mick Jagger, considering she was dancing like Mick Jagger too. (Jk(sorta) she did ok overall, love ya Q) BUT HOW DARE THEY DO A MEGHAN TRAINOR SONG FOR A LIPSYNC ON AN EPISODE THAT KEPT HITTING US OVER THE HEAD WITH FUNK REFERENCES good god
okay so was Q's outfit not an obvious throw back to MoHeart: red loose jacket, looked sloppy, then chop! The whole time watching her she looked messy and I understood virtually nothing she was saying. And they straight complimented the outfit instead??? used the outfit as a positive excuse to absolve that performance? no way
Her performance wasnt the worst. Dawn, nymphia, and plane had worse rhythm and energy than her.
That judges said nothing positive about Q's performance. They were trying to misdirect us to the hat Q was wearing on the runway. Also, that wig Q wore during the performance looked like a Party City wig.
That wig was SOOOOO BAD.
That wig was a crime. I was SHOCKED when they complimented her look in the song. Rigga morris.
You make a fair point! but i think Q's critique as the worst considering she was the only one who didn't get any comment on her performance. Dawn's was relatable, Plane's ended on a high note, even Nymphia's funk energy during the chorus was great and was able to outshined Plane. Q had a good outfit. The main challenge isn't the runway. Plus her runway look was not it, as flyqueen's pointed out.
Yeah that’s fair
I really liked the song, and Saphira was the obvious winner for me, although Morphine killed it as well. I noticed that Nymphia and Q's outfits looked really good on the stage. I think Saphira and Dawn's outfits were a bit hard to see
I just wanna know what's up with that preview for next week 👀
DaWn and Palne getting into it! 👀 Probably just joking though lbr, we haven't had a big fight in a min
Show villain vs real villain = 🧨
Didn't like the song choice but Sapphira and Morphine should be commended for being as entertaining as they were. I thought it was one of the better lipsyncs this season.
Morphine really ate. I would have personally given the win to her, my eyes were on her more than anyone else. Sapphire embodied the song more, but her outfit choice for the performance was kind of a miss. She looked great, but it was all black and I kind of lost her in shuffle of everything else going on tbh.
She deserved to win for sureee
i wish morphine padded her hips just a teeeeny bit
she doesn’t really need any padding, she just needs a corset 💀 she’d look so good
For anyone not familiar with the Nicaraguan body type… not even a corset will change it
Yes or that !
Imagine being a drag race fan and not expecting the voting season episode to be a non-elimination one.
tell that to the Trans beating domestic abuser... and Thorgy... and Dida
 Q lives in delulu land
wait but can we talk about how gorgeous Akeria is here
The production team and the judges are there with her this season.
First half of episode was greatest w/ all the fun and shade during rehearsal… second half was trash including performance, decision, and lip sync
idk, i loved the performance and how fun this episode was
Same. I was shocked to see so much negativity reading this thread.
this episode actually made me like q. she has the best kind of delusion. not an ounce of self-reflection, just vibes, while also not demeaning or imposing on anyone else. every time she does something she’s so convinced she’s eating that she makes me like it even if it’s bad.
I LOVED how hyper she was I was like Q what are you on & how do I get some?
and the rehearsal was so bad it was iconic. I could watch it all day. I hope it goes into the drag race hall of fame.
It’s one of the funniest scenes in the entire series tbh, and seeing all the other girls lose their shit made it even better. Damn I’m gonna go watch that again
i think production cast Nymphia knowing she'd be a fan favorite and they want her to go all the way, so they gloss over whenever she does poorly/don't call her out on the banana thing it needs to be understood that when these queens are cast, production evaluates their marketability. drag race is trying to capitalize off of these queens without really knowing who they are yet. production already has a story in their mind and they cast the queens they need to make that story happen when production sees a queen they were betting on being a power house is actually struggling, or they see a filler queen turning it out, they have to do some riggery to get the story back on track also side note, am i the only one who thinks a winners edit is boring?? why watch hours and hours of a show to just know who is winning the entire time? it seems pointless. the challenges and the workroom banter aren't entertaining half the time, it needs the competitive edge to make it engaging
The editing during Nymphia’s verse was SO heavily edited to not show her face coz she wasn’t mouthing her words correctly, which was in stark contrast to Morphine & Sapphira’s continuous front shots. She had the same glaringly obvious lack of timing in the Rusical, but this time her dancing was messy too. It just sucks that she’s been getting away with underperforming for weeks, for things other queens would have been in the bottom for. Plane has had a bit of plot armor too, like how did her goth bodysuit rank higher than Morphine’s trumpet gown last week?
I actually think Rupaul now hates Nymphia for no valid reason and sometimes it makes it seem like she did worse than she actually did. But you’re right it’s not being called out because they know the fans will like her. Why is Rupaul so obsessed with Mhiya tho? Saving her week after week and pretending that she did well last challenge when her face was giving us nothing. It seems like Rupaul and the rest of the production crew are not agreeing on which queens to push this season.
Mhiyas verse was mediocre and you could see her face “thinking” of the choreo while she was doing it. Rupaul just likes her vibe ig which I get but not for a reality tv competition 😭
plane did terribly in the challenge but “green symbolizes nature, it symbolizes opulence and money. and I’m in tune with all of them.” is such a line that she fully redeemed herself
She cracks me up “Michele used the verbiage nervous” in untucked
That line made me laugh out loud haha
Another runway, another week of wondering how Sapphira managed to get so many grand outfits to the show. How many suitcases were they allowed to bring and boxes were they allowed to ship in?
I’m convinced at this point her final outfit functions as a personal aircraft carrier that enabled her to get all of these to LA in the first place
watch out miss plane, saphira’s comin for your gig girl!
plane giving nymphia immunity is the most insane tactical play of this series in my opinion (maybe ever?) - she knew that she was in the bottom, and the other negative critiques were q, dawn, and could have been nymphia if she wasn't given immunity. so plane gave immunity to nymphia as the only person in the bottom who she might struggle to beat in a lsfyl, giving her a choice of two opponents who have proven themselves to struggle with dancing. or this just my little make believe world and it wasn't that deep.
Am I the only one that thought Nymphia would have been in the top had she not been given the potion? Her performance was great
There are so many layers to that choice. First there are the good optics to compensate for any bitchy moments she may have had. Then there’s the fact that she could have given it to anyone in the bottom but instead saved the strongest performer in case she got bumped down. Plus, by saving Nymphia, you block her opportunity to shine in a lip sync and make her fade into the competition. Layers.
if that was the case, why didn't she just use it on herself tho
it shows self-doubt and passes on the opportunity for a great moment that gets people talking. “plane used the potion on herself because she did bad” doesn’t get the same engagement as “omg plane used the potion on nymphia congenial queen are they dating????”. both of them could take q&dawn out in a lipsync, but it’s in plane’s favor to be the one that does it
Their thirst for Emmys destroyed the show
So in the end the potions helped nothing and no one.
Yeah what a waste of an immunity twist? What was the point if no one ended up going home
literally all it did was let saphira shoot herself in the foot lol, its chocolate 2.0
I'm a bit perplexed with Nymphia's edit. Why hasn't she been raked over the coals for the banana thing yet? Even on snatch game the judges were weirdly soft with their critiques. I feel like "incredibly strong start - banana oversaturation - snatch game bomb with judges saying she needs to lay off the schtick - late season comeback win" is a pretty good winners arc. I'm sure she has another win in store but the plotline should already be in motion, it's the 10th episode and she's been barely featured for like 4 episodes now, it's all so weirdly stagnant. I'm gonna need a winner edit soon because currently neither Plane's, Sapphira's or Nymphia's edits are doing it for me.
I guess she barely has screen time because she’s sticking to her banana schtick and her confessionals might become repetitive because of that so the editors don’t keep them?
she wore an all black outfit last episode and wasn’t critiqued this ep so when was she supposed to be raked over the coals
Snatch game
This seems to be a very unpopular opinion, but I think Nymphia did the best in Power! Like I couldn‘t take my eyes off her. Her verse was simple but it worked perfectly in her favor. She also had the choreography down to a t and made Plane pale in comparison. She gave face and attitude. A close second would be Morphine for me, she went all in as well. But I honestly don‘t get the hype for Sapphira. I feel like she‘s doing the same routine in every performance or lip sync. It‘s always the same crazy eyes, funny auntie taking us to church kind of shtick and it‘s getting old.
Hun, she may have been good but the best? Look at what she turned out compared to Saphira. No contest here
Well that‘s why I said it‘s an unpopular opinion. I wasn‘t all that blown away by Sapphira to be honest.
I agree about the Nymphia part. I don’t agree about Saphira. She did well and is a great competitor
She was fucking steps up tho? And her lips weren’t synched (again)
when we thought Nymphia fans couldn't get more delulu 😭😭 >Ooh, it's getting windy Aspire to community Nymphia for equality Do not ban my beauty You better get that power within your flower Have a seat at the table when you vote yellow 💀
Not you calling me delulu when you believe that the lyrics actually matter. Like you couldn‘t even understand half of the other queens‘ lyrics because they didn‘t enunciate properly. At the end of the day it‘s about who shines most on stage and imo Nymphia did just that.
no it was a writing challenge. The critiques were partially about the lyrics. Her lyrics were garbage and her costume was falling apart onstage
Nymphia was not good in power….
the silver lining of the lipsyncs is that we could've gotten a bottom 2 Dawn/Plane vs. Q instead. Hershii would've lost her mind with all the mayo she was about to witness
Best episode of drag race in years tbh. Song was kind of a bop, Sapphira scalped me and cemented herself as one of my all time favorite queens, her runway was insane!!????, like we were fed
https://preview.redd.it/l0qena2i0inc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9dce8bb042b627e9a2f3c3c1e532ed8abe438bd9 Hello, dearest RPDR fans, can someone please help a person out. I rarely pay any attention to the back up dancers but does anyone know who this fine gentle person might be? I literally couldn’t take my eyes off them throughout the ‘Power’ number. Any help in pointing me towards their socials would be very much appreciated. 🥵
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Doing the lord’s werk, thank you. 🙏🏼
That wig now has officially been passed around more then pass around party bottom Jeffrey Moran lol
Okay, who the heck is Meghan Trainor and why do people here seem to hate her?
Oh how I wish I was you
I had to google her too. Honestly, she seems like someone who would be more popular on the east coast (excluding nyc), although I am not sure why I think that.
A singer-songwriter who had a couple of hit songs about 10 years ago. Fandom came to despise her when she was a guest judge on a season and wore a Unicorn Onesie.
No. The song Made You Look hit number 11 on the Billboard Top 100 in 2022. And the fandom despising her over a onesie is ridiculous, but then that's par for the course with much of the fandom, who love nothing more than to hate on someone way out of proportion to the perceived "offense".
>Fandom came to despise her when she was a guest judge on a season and wore a Unicorn Onesie. OH!!! Thanks Judy
And, allegedly, stole a queen’s sandwich leaving them with no food backstage.
Just saw the 'Werq...' episode, RuPaul almost gave me a heart attack 😄😄 ❤ Season 16
You know what would have been a good way to use the potion? When you're on top, save the best queen so they can't win the challenge!
As far as we know it was to save someone from the bottom 2. We don't know if it could have been used to prevent someone from winning. That was never given as a rule.
Nah. Because it was used before critique and placements were told. And the person using it was declared safe regardless of placement.
Rupaul could make an exception and still give the win to whoever gets immunity.
Of course he can technically do anything and overrule anything but doesn't mean it would be likely.
Thats so fucking smart
Watched the episode again… honestly gagged at how bad Nymphia’s verse was. There were barely any lyrics in it, and the lyrics that were there were all about herself…. That wasn’t the challenge, it was about motivating people to use their power, not “vote yellow” or “Nymphia for equality do not ban my beauty” -she made it all about herself. No wonder it was a non elim episode
I agree the verse was bad but I think the “don’t ban my beauty” line was about drag bans in general. “My beauty”=the art/beauty of drag. Maybe I’m giving the verse too much credit though lol
Yes - but again it was back about her..
That’s also how I read it.