Canadas Drag Race
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I count love to hate as a form of likability; delicious bitchiness is also a form of it.
Quirky underdogs can be likable, and so can (of course) gifted, gorgeous frontrunners.
So what is this season ofCanadas Drag Racefor?
Eves insecurity is already established as a plot for the fifth episode in a row.
As Canadian PSA bunnies once said:Stay alert, stay safe!
The theme is country girl groups making a breakup bop called Bye Flop, all of which sounds super-promising.
Plus, Bye Flop sounds hilar.
This means the Brat Pack is split up, and theyre all spinning it in different ways.
Which is the truth?
Only the results will tell.
Glad you finished that sentence.
Things could have gotten dangerous.
Is Giddy on its own country, or just adjective?
Unless Albertans really talk like that?
Stephanie Prince is no longer with us in the season to let us know.
The queens join apparently real recording artist Bif Naked to lay down their verses, starting with the Do-Si-Hos.
Kendall Gender might be atethered.
The Giddy Girls follow, led by tone deaf but gosh darn earnest Gia.
Meanwhile, Adrianas verse involves English, French, and Spanish, and shes tripping over her trilingual rap.
I overestimated my tongue, she says poetically.
I understood what she meant in my heart if not in my head.
On elimination day, the Very Serious Makeup Mirror Convo goes in 100 directions.
Kimora speaks on how country music has its roots in Black culture.
I hope Ru flies in for a Tic Tac lunch in time for Synthia to speak more on this.
Then, the two teams have a yeehaw-off, and its all very camp.
Not camp-camp; summer camp.
The Giddy Girls are up first, giving us our first listen to the song Bye Flop.
and famous pop flops.
We would have been happy with a bing and a bang here, a ding and a dong there.
We dont need over-labored lyrics about how Madame X flopped (rude)!
Its hard to dance to!
The highlight of the number is Pythia saying Opa!
This groups choreo is a conspiracy by big Step Clap to sell more Step Clap.
Queens opt for spoken word when they think singing will be harder, but results vary.
Category on the runway is Monochromatica, as in Monochromatic but alsoChromatica,as in futuristic and spacey.
Its a weak week, with the girls mostly looking like the promo shots for a fake season.
(Drag Race Soviet Union,maybe?)
Gia gives a whole-ass acceptance speech and the producers shadily back it with some Oscars play-off music.
This isnt the army.
Im bored of this narrative.
And her final pose?
Synthia Kiss could be in aHer Smelldrag cover band.
Polished presentation, messy personality.
A true bye, flop ending to the ep.
Stand-Oots
Kendall, you better lasso that goddamn beat.
The Lemon is leaping out.
