Shortly after the queens have finished roasting each other, Ru arrives and welcomes the queens to the show, making sure to stand six feet - nay, two meters - away from them at all times. Scarlet: “ There’s no rivalry hahahahahaha I mean look at us hahahaha!” Anita: “ When Kita feels threatened she has to bring other people down hahahahaha!” Kita: “ You ride my coattails but the world already knows that hahahahaha!” Am I really supposed to believe Kita and Anita are best friends? If one of them wins, let’s hope a good chunk of that $30,000 - $20,000 in U.S. If that wasn’t enough, we also get some amazingly awkward instances of queens throwing shade while trying to pass it off as a gag by laughing maniacally. Where do I even begin? Art Simone describes Scarlet Adams’s wig as a helmet! Kita Mean refers to her performing partner Anita Wigl’it as her “coattails” mere minutes before she walks in! Etcetera Etcetera calls Maxi Shield “some old man in a dress”! The level of savagery on display from the very beginning is breathtaking, and I found myself minorly gooped about 50 times during the first ten minutes. It turns out any worries about Drag Race Down Under, though, weren’t warranted - to paraphrase Jenna Maroney, nothing replenishes a gay man’s electrolytes like drama, and this episode has buckets of it. Season 13 of the main series, with its format contrivances and numerous non-elimination episodes, definitely tired some fans out - I personally felt like I had aged a decade by the time the finale aired. counterpart, there’s been at least one episode of the show released every week since January 1, and for many weeks there were two, plus Untucked. If I understand COVID travel rules correctly - which, to be clear, I’m not sure that I do - Ru, Michelle, and all seven Australian queens had to quarantine for two weeks prior to filming perhaps because of that, this episode starts out guns-blazing, setting an improbably high bar for the rest of the season.ĭrag Race Down Under arrives at something of an unfortunate time in terms of the overall Drag Race extended universe: Between Drag Race and its U.K. After a not-insignificant amount of chatter over the past few years, RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under has finally made it to screens, with ten queens from across Australia and New Zealand lined up and ready to stunt, lip-sync, and passive-aggressively snark their way to the title of Australasia’s Next Drag Superstar.
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