One of the highlights of this episode, is watching Michelle Visage react to guest judge "Joel McHale"s hooting, hollering and cheering for the queens as they prance the runway. She sits in disgust, making grimaces at his antics.
It made me realize that the American version is much more "sedate" compared to Drag Race Thailand, where the judges are excited, scream for the queens and even get out of their chairs to stand up.
The rest of this episode is harder to watch. I know Rupaul has expressed his politics before in little tiny bite-sized comments on Drag Race before, but never to this extent. The episode opens with a mini-challenge featuring Rachael Maddow -- the TV news host who's ratings have taken a nose-dive because the conspiracy theory she was carrying for 2.5 years of political "Russian collusion" turned out to be a fake hoax? She's lost a ton of viewers.
To make the episode even more cringe-worthy, the entire maxi-challenge is a musical based on...you guessed it, Donald Trump. Drag Race is shot the year before, in July or August (9 months ago). So "Omarosa" is already a complete non-factor in Donald Trumps circles, yet they had a role for one of the queens to play her. It's already dated and irrelevant. I believe I saw Omarosa's tell-all book in discount bins at Superstore.
I like my Drag Race without politics, thanks! It's one of the reasons why I enjoy "Drag Race Thailand" so much -- they don't bring politics (or wild conspiracy theories) into it at all. You can find Drag Race Thailand on the internet.
The rest of this episode is harder to watch. I know Rupaul has expressed his politics before in little tiny bite-sized comments on Drag Race before, but never to this extent. The episode opens with a mini-challenge featuring Rachael Maddow -- the TV news host who's ratings have taken a nose-dive because the conspiracy theory she was carrying for 2.5 years of political "Russian collusion" turned out to be a fake hoax? She's lost a ton of viewers.
To make the episode even more cringe-worthy, the entire maxi-challenge is a musical based on...you guessed it, Donald Trump. Drag Race is shot the year before, in July or August (9 months ago). So "Omarosa" is already a complete non-factor in Donald Trumps circles, yet they had a role for one of the queens to play her. It's already dated and irrelevant. I believe I saw Omarosa's tell-all book in discount bins at Superstore.
I like my Drag Race without politics, thanks! It's one of the reasons why I enjoy "Drag Race Thailand" so much -- they don't bring politics (or wild conspiracy theories) into it at all. You can find Drag Race Thailand on the internet.
