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RuPaul ’s Drag Race Season 17 Ep . 6 offered a very piquant ocean ball : body of work gets undermine , feelings get hurt , and the looks are ( sea ) sickening .
MTV’sRuPaul ’s Drag Racealways show out when it come to balls , and this time of year is no exclusion . The queens were task with three runway looks : bathe sweetheart , ocean creature couture ( where they had to create a look inspired by an actual ocean animal ) , and the main challenge of the week : sea - turn one’s stomach eleganza , where they had to make a aspect using fabric found in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch . There are a plenty of looks in this episode , so allow ’s plunge right into it ( are you demented of my sea pun yet ? )
Our Top Queens :
Arrietty – Knowing that production has the picture of every queen ’s runway looks they brought for the time of year and can potentially take that into explanation when eliminating pansy , her save last week make absolute sensation , knowing two of her looks were coming up literally the next week . The whole riggery of the show is like some kind of Rube Goldberg machine with a million complex moving parts that all affect what the next one does , and it ’s telling . Regardless of how we saw her tone , Miss Arrietty turned out this week , and each of her looks was more sicken than the next . She made all of them , but her garbage piece coral reef couture identification number she made for the challenge ? flawlessness .
Sam Star – Her garbage gown would have won the bag ball , and almost won this glob – her look gave full - on found materials for the refuse look , and I always appreciate when queens do n’t go for the most fabric - similar material in the unlawful materials design challenge . She did apply a tarpaulin as a base , but as where Lexi Love had hers exposed and drape like cloth , Sam covered hers in stuff moldable garbage bags and turn herself into " the first lady of bedding material - land " and it was delicious . She looked like Martha May Whovier from The Grinch movie , married the Grinch , and move to Mr. Crumpit aright next to the drivel garbage dump . Met Gala themed " one planet , one love " that makes a command on plastic in our oceans . And her Viperfish look ? OBSESSED .
Crystal Envy – Her Barbie look was something we ’ve seen several times , but the puffer Pisces the Fishes and food waste looking at feel complete and elevated the first look . The look she make remind me ofKatya’sAll Stars 2Latex look , with that swimwear squirm gown that she could scantily walk in , but it was fabulous . She delighted me this week , and her look were fashionable enough without being trendy or date in a bad way .
Our Bottom Queens :
Hormona Lisa – It ’s no secret I powerfully dislike everything about Hormona this time of year – her arrogant attitude , underwhelming generic retarding force , general disregard for rules and the status quo , and , quite frankly , lack of endowment should have station her nursing home the first episode . That lever was faulty , g and we ’ve been subject to her slimy vibes for six whole episode . ill-timed lever tumbler !
Lana Ja’Rae – Clearly , Law Roach’scomment about her lacking sureness was weighted to a great extent because that ’s the master criticism of the workweek for her , and it ’s true . That , alongside her relying on her model eubstance – got honest-to-god about four episodes ago . Yes yes , you ’re sicken , but please this is Drag Race time of year 17 , wear more than a lilliputian string two-piece , flat whisker , and no body on the runway , PLEASE . I ’m surprised we did n’t seeMichelle Visageread her to filth for that , but there ’s no rationality to kick a queen when she ’s down .
Acacia Forgot – I already forgot all three of her looks . The bottom here is n’t undeserved , but clearly , Hormona vs Lana needed to happen . Count your days , queen ; we ’re just not seeing much from Acacia to make her stand out in this competitor , and six episodes in , that ’s problematical .
And for the bragging exciting laugh of the episode : Lana and Hormona lip - sync toOlivia Rodrigo’s"Get Him Back , " which is one the inviolable certified bops fromGutsand , honestly , a whole vibration . It ’s a bully lip - sync song , and all the hater who are plain about it are just honest-to-god and waving their cane around , screaming about the " newfangled euphony the kids listen to . " Go back to your boring fourscore power ballad lip - syncs and give up complaining about medicine from this generation , grannies . Obviously , Lana beat it , and FINALLY , Hormona Lisa is send pack for good , with fundamentally a " bye Felicia " from RuPaul , and it ’s about time – way retiring time , in reality .
Some Notable Looks :
Jewels Sparklesis givingJorgeousthis installment especially – I ’m not certain if it ’s the aspect or the consistence or the two-piece look but she stepped out on the runway and I ’m like " hellotus " ? I ’m not disturbed about it , btw .
Kori Kingwas delicious this track with her nod toKaty Perry’siconic Super Bowl " Left Shark " performance – more of this , please , it ’s funny and cute ( although still a routine lusterless ) .
Can I just say , brave legal opinion time , I ’m bore ofLexi beloved . Not even factoring in attitude or play , which is very hit or overleap and could just be the edit , her looks all seem to be 2000s - esque rail mode inspired , and not even in an exciting or iconic direction . It ’s like the producers stress to cast anotherSasha Colbybut failed to realize that one , mother is literally unreplaceable , and everything else just feels like a cheap imitation , and two , you need a damn good raceway record and a long legacy to be able-bodied to garner that attitude , and Lexi just is n’t there .
Her pull and overall vibe find absolutely generic in the same way the " clique queens " can often feel like cookie - cutter versions of each other . I can not calculate out why everyone is gagging over her and all predictions have her either as a finalist or winning . It ’s great , but it ’s not really cart – turn out and prove me incorrect , tabby . Give me DRAG and lose the attitude , especially if you ’re pretend to be the fledged one this time of year .
And Now For More ( Undersea ) Drama star Lexi Love :
" Spraypaint gate " is a thing , and as stunned as it is , I have to bring it up . Lexi freak out the f * * * out when she came outside and saw that someone spray paint on her tarp that she was using for the skirt of her garbage flavor . Tbh , it was a over overreaction to an fortuity , especially onOnya Nurve , who did n’t need to get her chief flick off at the mo and was trying to figure out how to tell her . TL;DR , it feels like the producer are fanning the flames of idiotic petty drama this season with comically oversize bellows like they’reWile E. Coyoteor something .
In the end , Lexi ’s look was fine ( although she was ace piquant she was just safe – that ’s what you get for cloak a tarp over a bra and wearing aCherwig ) and it literally would not have dissemble anything paint or no key , but she fixed it with leaf designs and admitted she overreacted . Kind of a lackluster ending to the play , but at least it ’s over .
Next hebdomad is the Snatch Game and it should be interesting – though I do wonder how many queens will fall flat as this cast does n’t seem to be stacked with a lot of talented impressionists .
RuPaul ’s Drag Raceseason 17 pose on MTV onFriday night .
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