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‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 17 Power Ranking: Episode 8 — Follow the Yellow Brick Road

After episode eight of 'RuPaul's Drag Race' season 17, "The Wicked Wiz of Oz: The Rusical," Billboard ranks all the queens based on their performance.

As Jewels Sparkles aptly put it at the top of this week’s episode: “Every gay person has an attachment to The Wizard of Oz.” So, leave it to the production team of RuPaul’s Drag Race to turn their annual Rusical challenge into a maximalist mashup of the most beloved Oz-based properties in the world Image Credit: Courtesy of MTV After two consecutive trips to the bottom two, I thought this might be the week that Lana Ja’Rae would storm the main stage with a tour de force performance, proving definitively why she is in this competition. After weeks of maintaining a series of safe placements in the competiton, it feels like Jewels has finally found a rhythm that works for her on Drag Race — and once she manages to earn her first win in the competition, she will become a queen to beat in season 17.

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