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RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: Rusic Make You Lose Control


It’s always fun to watch the queens fight about casting, but this season it helps highlight the current cast’s level of strategy.

It began with the “rank a queen” and immunity-potion twists, which foregrounded ideas of strategy right at the beginning of the season, setting us off on a path with weekly check-ins. Melissa McCarthy does a bit that I found largely useless and cloying, but, hey, your mileage may vary, especially if you’re trying to show this episode to your mom or something. Watch those musical numbers with the Von Trapps again and you can tell that while Nymphia and Dawn, in particular, are fully in it, Plasma draws all the attention by hitting every move sharply and emoting the entire time.

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