Drag Race wants its queens to be ambassadors of drag, and making people comfortable with the artform is a task that a winner of this show must take on - just this week, BenDeLaCreme was on The Daily Show explaining drag to an embarrassingly clueless and obtuse Al Franken. The first, obvious part is the emotional connection. For one, it’s a challenge with two primary goals, one of which is never really stated outright. The makeover challenge is unique in the Drag Race continuum. But it’s also why I tend to savor this portion of the season, when they whittle the top eight or so down to the best group.īut even though this episode arrives in the glory section of the season, it’s a bit of a letdown. Then, two weeks after that, we’ll have an overblown finale set in a ginormous theater in which the queens will not serve their best work of the season but will instead deliver varying levels of “serviceable.” And it’s fine - that’s what Drag Race is. They will choreograph a number that will be well performed, but the quality will mostly be dependent on the song itself. The queens will talk with Ru, and the talks won’t be that informative, but they will be sweet. The episode will be filled to the brim with talent, certainly, but Drag Race’s penultimate episodes are typically staid affairs. Next week is the RuMix, which means it’s unlikely anybody in the top four goes home (despite what that “Next Time On” would lead us to believe). Because, let’s be honest here, this marks the true end of the season. After a run of two truly fabulous episodes (minus one lip sync) in a mostly fine season, we end on an appropriately middling note.
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