RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 8 Episode 6 starts with a bit of Acid Betty shade. It seems very forced because if you watched Untucked you know that Acid Betty wasn’t that bitter. And you guys! Naomi Smalls puts a lot of effort into her looks! Does she have to wear a turtleneck now?
Ru’s in the workroom, and he introduces Marc Snetiker, an Entertainment Weekly writer. He says the EW audience loves Drag Race recaps. Huh? Wonder who else does that? And I don’t see many recaps from this season on the EW.com web site. Sure isn’t linked off the main recap page. Huh. Whatever. He doesn’t say much.
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Marc gets to introduce the Reading is Fundamental mini-challenge and watch it up close & personal. He looks really uncomfortable. He gets to say who the winner of the mini-challenge is. I have no illusion that he actually gets to pick the winner. Bob wins. Again. The other girls are thrilled. Especially Thorgy.
Bob gets jewelry for this win, but no main challenge advantage.
It’s the makeover challenge and the people the drag queens are making over are the cast of Little Women: LA. The Little Women have already been told their character from the Wizard of Oz and THEY get to pick the drag queen they’re working with.
Briana – The Wicked Witch – Kim Chi
Brittney – The Citizen of Emerald City – Thorgy Thor
Christy – The Cowardly Lion – Robbie Turner
Elena – Glinda the Good Witch – Bob the Drag Queen
Terra – Tin Woodman – Derrick Barry
Jasmine – The Scarecrow – Naomi Smalls
Tonya – Dorothy – Chi Chi Devayne
Terra knows Derrick since they both do Britney impersonations. We’ll see if knowing each other actually helps them. They need to do twin couture based on their assigned character.
Bob’s nervous because he knows the other girls want him to fail.
In addition to the regular runway, each team has to do some kind of interpretive dance. Naomi doesn’t know what that is. Kim Chi decides her interpretive dance will involve slapping Briana.
Chi Chi apparently isn’t working hard enough for Thorgy. Thorgy’s gotta stop getting mad about other people’s stuff & focus on herself.
Morning of the runway, Bob’s outfit falls apart & he has to make a new one. Not sure why he can’t just put a new zipper in.
Bob’s got so much stuff to do he only starts his makeup when the producers call 15 minutes. He doesn’t even have his outfit on.
Marc Jacob, Todrick Hall and Ross Matthews join Michelle Visage on the judges panel.
The dream sequence/interpretive dance section is super dumb.
In the top are Naomi
and Kim Chi.
In the bottom are Derrick Barry and Robbie Turner.
And now it’s time to bring the shade! Who deserves to go home? Throw someone under the bus!
Chi Chi says Derrick
Bob says Derrick
Naomi says Derrick
Derrick says Chi Chi
Robbie says Chi Chi
Kim Chi says Chi Chi
Thorgy Thor says Chi Chi
Michelle is upset with Derrick for throwing a piece of fabric over a bathing suit again. Throwing two horse penises on your shoulders doesn’t elevate your look Derrick!
Todrick: I didn’t hate the grinch pubes wig. Thank you Todrick. I’m loving this judges panel. It’s so much more entertaining than last week.
Thorgy is safe. Kim Chi is safe. Naomi is the winner of this week’s challenge! Oooh, they get $1000 in spa services! Bob is safe.
Up for elimination is Derrick Barry and Robbie Turner. Obvs. Chi Chi is safe. They’re lip syching to I Love It by Icona Pop. Derrick loses the shoulder pieces and her skirt, but keeps her shoes & wig on. Robbie takes his wig off for no good freaking reason so I assume she’s going home.
And sure enough, it’s Robbie’s turn to go. But first Derrick has to cry about breaking out of his Britney box. Eye roll. Sorry – getting too much of Shannel off that speech Derrick.
What did you guys think? Should Chi Chi have been in the bottom? How much longer do you think Derrick will last?
UPDATE: And here’s Untucked!
(OMG, Derrick. Really? You don’t get it. GAH!)
Derrick is BASIC.
Why is he still there?
My guesses are these: 1. Good lip syncher and 2. need his ‘epiphany’ story line arch to come to a close. Given his breakdown on the runway tonight, I’d say he’s got 1 MAYBE 2 weeks left.
That said, he gets real douchey when getting feedback. He was not cool with Chi Chi during Untucked.
Did Chi Chi just give up? I was rooting for her but she better get her act together! I was so happy for Naomi –she deserved that win and kudos from Marc Jacobs. This is the first season where I can’t guess who’s going to win.
I don’t think she gave up, but I think she decided what she was going to do, did it & then said “Hey, I’m done!” instead of “Hey, I could do more!”
I loved Marc Jacobs – I’d welcome him on the judges panel any time.
There are all sorts of rumors about who makes it to the top 3, but I think it’s going to be Bob, Thorgy & Kim Chi. I also fully expect to be wrong.
I wish chichi was on the bottom just for the pure fact she probably would’ve sent Derrick home. Robbie’s look wasn’t the best but the concept was close. Wish it had turned out a little better and landed her a safe spot. I think Naomi was the only one who hit it out of the park this week.
Me too – and I think Derrick has 1 maybe 2 weeks left. After the boo-hooing, it seemed like we’re close to a “I can do something other than Britney!” revelation & that will send her home.
I agree 100%! Naomi finally made her mark (did you see how proud Ru was?). I’ve always like her. She seems like she’d be a bitch, but she is sweet and real.
Derrick needed to go several weeks ago. Robbie will be missed.
I think she’s one of those people that give resting bitch face. That’s probably not what’s going on in her head, but she can give that impression. It’ll be interesting to see how far she goes. And if she wears something that’s not underwear & a robe. She needs to mix that up.
I think Naomi is really HOT..like gorgeous. For once, here’s a queen that really hot and doesn’t talk herself up all the daym time about it. If you look back at many other seasons, there have been many, real good looking, f’ing HOT queens (boys), on this show and they “know it” and feel the need to always put it out there. Naomi only made a comment once about how she prides herself on the aesthetic of her “looks”; how good her body is, basically. And I didn’t take that comment as bragging or saying “hey, I’m really hot and look at me”. I mean, take Violet for example, she is pretty, thing (slim/slender), and very attractive. And we always had to “hear about it”, too, from her most of the time. Naomi shows herself off in what she wears and how she carries herself, but she doesn’t “talk herself up” to everyone about how good she looks and how attractive her body is. In fact, I wish she’d dress a little more sexy, while the queens are doing their “thing” in the workroom, lol. I’m used to see many of the queens (and other queens making the comment about other’s should not walk about the workroom, almost naked all the time, lol), walking around in the workroom, with no shirt on and just little skimpy underwear. I WISH NAOMI would do that, just ONCE! LOL..Did you hear that GURL? LOL
I’m surprised that Derrick is still there.
Chi Chi is one of my favorites but I don’t think he’ll make it to the top 3.
I don’t think so either – we seem to be winding down on the Chi Chi narrative this season. Hopefully she goes out strong & takes advantage of the RuPaul drag machine.