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RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: Expect the Expected
The Rusical episode serves mostly as filler as we get to know the real contenders and drag out the elimination of queens who don’t stand a chance.
The queens who have been eliminated up to this point have, largely, been big personalities or legitimate contenders (Lucky, Joella, Hormona, Crystal), plus both saves that were built into the season have already been used. It’s the kind of challenge that tends to force the queens to the highest level of performance they have (perhaps higher than they’ve literally ever been before, which I think is true of multiple girls this episode), and you can only really get there by calming down and focusing. “I don’t think she necessarily outperformed the other ladies in the top, but her runway was so fabulous.” At one point in our conversation, I mentioned to Gilda that Sam is 27, which made her squint, and I realized that I wasn’t sure if that was true because she could definitely be older.
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