Not getting to meet Kylie Minogue in addition to the fact that you only have the chance of winning AUD $30,000 really just adds insult to injury. While this undeniably reveals some things about Scarlet’s personality - I’m now not even sure they needed Scarlet to admit she had done blackface on-camera, seeing as, between this revelation and the hat she wears in confessional, she already appears to be flaunting all the accoutrement of cancellation - it is also undeniable that the guest stars have been a little lackluster this season. Every time I feel like Elektra’s about to get me onside, she unleashes some unhinged, unmoored form of jealousy that makes me just a wee bit scared, even through the computer screen.)Īunty Donna are this week’s video guests, which, Scarlet admits, she’s more excited about than Dannii Minogue.

(“Hubris” probably doesn’t even cover how single-minded Elektra’s wish for Scarlet to be eliminated is. Ultimately, I think that Elektra is right to be proud of her win, but, as with anything in life, but especially on RuPaul’s Drag Race, hubris can be a cruel, callous bitch, and resting on your laurels probably isn’t the best strategy. Me? I land somewhere in the middle of the Art/Elektra spectrum: While I feel that Elektra’s commercial was undeniably the best, and she did make a major improvement on the runway, I’m not so sure that a look like that would be accepted on, say, Art or Karen, who both seem to have outsize expectations placed on them by the judges, simply because they’re both well-known in America. Elektra thinks Art is just jealous, and feels confident that her win was merited. Art, supporting her hometown sister, suggests - snidely, as is her wont - that, perhaps, some queens (read: Elektra) are receiving praise simply because the expectations of them were so low. Karen is (rightfully) frustrated after receiving a middling placement in yet another challenge.

You’re better than all of us, Maxi!Īnyway, back to tomfoolery: Barely seconds pass post-elimination before the Australian and New Zealand queens get in another tiff. Before we get into the buffoonery, riggery, and straight-up tomfoolery that went down in this week’s episode, I’d like to send my love out to Maxi Shield, and (digitally) pour one out for, perhaps, one of the kindest queens to ever grace the Drag Race stage. Today, my friends, is no exception, for while this week’s RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under maxi-challenge is the much-loved, always-great makeover challenge, the elimination that comes along with it - my beloved, kindhearted, unbelievably glamorous Maxi Shield, one of Sydney’s most iconic drag queens and a constant bright spot of Drag Race Down Under - is crushing.

Each day on God’s green Earth brings us new challenges and new joys, especially when living under the specter of rampant late capitalism.

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