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RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: Character Work

An unchallenging challenge delivers little drama, but a lot of information about the queens’ individual strengths and weaknesses.

Drag Race, or any reality show really, needs this kind of episode in order to tell us basic information about the contestants, to put points on the board for the contenders, and to unceremoniously shuffle the non-contenders off-screen. So far, her storyline focuses on her “lone wolf” qualities — she’s not used to working with other queens, and she’s wildly suspicious of Drag Race ’s strategic side — which I assume will lead to further conflict down the line. In the Werk Room, we get a whole section dedicated to Onya’s point of view on integrating drag and Black culture, and on the runway she gets to exemplify that in a dress covered in African quilts.

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