Drag Race RuCap: “Drag in a Bag”

Even Mama Ru was having a good, silly time this week. The vibes are immaculate.

CLÁUDIO ALVES: Well, our returned queens’ makeover hopes were dashed. Instead, we got a pretty lackadaisical filler episode, lacking urgency, devoid of great stakes and even bereft of an elimination. To make matters worse, it also probably means we won’t have a ball this season! Still, despite all that, “Drag in a Bag” was a delightful hour of television that finally got me rooting for Jane and Discord, finding them entertaining in their respective frustration and “good vibes only” attitude. Ru certainly seemed to enjoy the queens this week, having fun with them in a way that’s rare to see outside the Drag Race UK set. Were you similarly enthused by this episode’s shenanigans, or are you starting to get restless, anticipating the final stretch of a season that, so far, seems to have an obvious victor? Too obvious, perhaps.

NICK TAYLOR: Too obvious is absolutely the right word for it, yet who else could reasonably take her on at this point? Thank god she finally had fun on the show. Hell, everyone had fun, even as they were rolling on the floor from sleep deprivation and inventing competitors from the scraps of whole cloth. I had fun, even though the queen’s anti-Discord campaign and the show’s continued neglect of Darlene as a legitimate threat make me worry about their futures...

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