RuPaul's Drag Race

Here's this week review Round-up! Everyone loves Latrice! Shocker! Yes, I would watch the hell out of her doing anything... in fact, I want to invite her over for dinner tomorrow and just sit around trying to make that bitch laugh. LOVE! As always, post ones I missed in the comments.

AV Club: "The acting challenges on RuPaul’s Drag Race are consistently unbearable, and when the girls have to film a sitcom about jailed drag queens, the results have all the awkward scenery-chewing we’ve come to expect. It’s another strong episode rife with trash-talking and unmerited self-praise, complete with the judges’ first controversial decision of the season. "

Blackout Blog: "I usually don’t agree with Michelle Visage’s critiques, but when she told Madame LaQueer (regarding her runway look), “And just as I was expecting from her previous bitchy outbursts, she didn’t even let Sharon finish what she had to say. At that point, to me, she deserved every insult Sharon Needles hurled. But “Go back to Party City where you belong!” was a pretty fucking awesome zinger from Phi Phi! Then again, Phi Phi’s look is pretty 20 years ago."

Crass Talk: "Srsly, Latrice, the fact you are alive and well says something about your will and determination. It’s one thing to hear the stats about LGBT people who are rejected by their families being at an exponentially higher risk of suicide, and it’s another to see someone talk about experiencing that, about falling further and doing time in prison, and being able to come out the other side a whole person who wants to make her life better. Latrice, you are an inspiration."

Drag you Later with Jon and John: VIDEO John and Jon take a trip to Party City and show Latrice lots of love!

Entertainment Weekly: "I’ve loved the big gal since the show opened — and I’ve been rooting for her — but she really turned it on last night in the main challenge, which found the ladies acting out a scene from the fake sitcom Hot in Tuckahoe. As Ru described at the top of the challenge, Tuckahoe was about “four best squirrel friends who keep getting arrested and sent to jail.” (The show looked cray-cray, but also like something I would watch… and enjoy.)"

Fierce Black Queen : "What the hell is going on? I’m getting too involved in this. The producers are actually telling a cohesive story! There is a through-line with each of the queens revealing character and motivation as the episodes progress, which advances the plot. It’s good reality television. WTF?"

Hedda Lettuce: The world's bitchiest drag queen columnist gives her opinions: "She pulled every trick out of her purse in order to avoid elimination; she would have pulled an old trick out of her ass if she could have. She did pull off her wig, making her look like an old school crack ho that used to roam the West Side Highway."

OUT Magazine:"The sitcoms are… leaden, I guess is the word. The judges cackle good-naturedly, but they’re mostly only impressed with Latrice and DiDa. In Sharon’s case, Mutchnik employs all of the skills he honed while writing for Boston Common to rip her apart. Sharon gives him some much-unappreciated backtalk, and he retires in a huff. Mostly, however, the editing keeps everyone’s critiques to a bare minimum."

Queerty: "I love how it takes its ridiculousness very seriously: When Top Model wants to test acting skills, they shoot a lip-gloss commercial. When Drag Race wants to test acting skills, they put five queens in jail and dress up one like a giant beaver."

Rochester City Paper: "On a totally unrelated note, this episode we got to see a lot more of Willam, and I am loving him. He is SO quick and witty. Who would have thought of the blue paint? Just very smart. I also very much appreciate the way he conducts himself in the Interior Illusions Lounge. When there are confrontations with the other queens he continually tries to keep it civil by telling them to talk with, instead of scream at, each other. Might not make for the best TV, but I appreciate that level of maturity. And he's just a one-liner machine. I bet he'd make a great screenwriter."

Throwinshade: Video review by two drag queens!

Tom and Lorenzo: "… the pull-off-the-wig move. For one, it’s a total cliche and a crusty holdover from the days of “female illusionists,” when the reveal of the man underneath the woman was considered shocking and dramatic (think Julie in Victor/Victoria). Now, it’s just a sign that a queen is desperate. It’s gotten to the point where we wish Ru would stop the lip synch, tell the ladies to put their wigs back on, collect themselves, and start over. Because this is a finishing school for young LADIES."

What's the T: Video review.

Bonus:

Fourth Queen Eliminated Interview: This queen is a little delusion me thinks comparing herself to Chad Michaels! "... also happens to be Chad’s biggest fan, and hopes that she ends up winning. “She’s so professional, and crazy, like me,” she explained. “When working with someone who’s creative, it makes you creative as well. Chad is polished and very classy–highly sensitive and enjoyable. I believe the superstar comes from the inside.”"

Shawn Morales Speaks! Pit Crew Interview! "As for an average day on set, Morales says he and Jason work from around nine in the morning until eight at night, though most of their time is spent hanging around together backstage. And while he says the set is cold he does admit the underwear clad duo received one major perk this season. “They finally got us robes this year.”"

Ology Interview with 4th Eliminated Queen:"I did expect her to be on the bottom of the group , but not in the bottom two. I actually expected to be in the bottom two on the third episode, and I got saved, so maybe that was a bill I had to pay."

Phi Phi's YouTube channel: The bitch of the season has created fake audition videos of fellow castmates. So far she has Sharon, Latrice, Kenya, and Jiggly.

The Soup: RuPaul Year of the Draggin'VIDEO!