Drag Race Recap: We Are the Queens, We Are the Children

Recaps

By vallegirl | Friday, March 8, 2013 | 8:44 am | 13 Comments
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Tonight’s lip synch is “I’m So Excited.” (Although even with its slow, crunchy beats I’d have rather “Yes We Can Can”– RIP, June. And Ruth Pointer doesn’t get nearly enough props for her own awesome voice.) Coco spews some “heartfelt” words about having to bring it while Jade says she’s just going out there and spinning and giving a high energy performance. I knew Coco would do well because it seems to be the only thing Coco can do well but I was genuinely surprised at how much I liked Jade’s performance. Hell, even the judges were having a great time. I thought they looked even but what did Ru think?

Livelier than Honey and Vivi…zzzz even in a still.

She quickly tells Coco to shantay and for a moment, when she didn’t tell Jade to sashay, I thought she might get to stay, too, but no. She sashays away. Anyway, Jade’s sad but grateful on the runway and thanks Ru for giving her the most amazing experience. Ru tells her to stay très Jolie and Jade walks off, telling us that she gave it her all and if she had to leave, she’s glad she lost to a good friend. Sure. Make me like you the episode you leave. Just stop calling not fat people fat. It makes you seem mean.

Shine on, Rainbow Brite.

But what happened behind the scenes on Untucked?

Jade continues down the endearingly self aware path, accepting that she’s probably going to lip synch and should have just had fun with it, especially after Alyssa, with her own awful voice, didn’t get intimidated at all. Detox aims for a compliment, telling Jade she doesn’t need to be insecure because she has a great voice then totally misses the mark by saying it’s very “Taylor Swift.” A for effort, Detox. Jade defends her outfit but promises to lip synch for her motherfucking life, and actually meant it. Detox tries one more time to put Jade at ease by adding in “…and Alyssa’s fat,” which, heh.

Alyssa starts off laughing right along with everyone, joking that Detox is “instigating” but when the rest of the queens join in, even Ivy and Jinkx are having some fun with it, and pile on she stops laughing. She foreshadows in interview that it brought up bad memories of her verbally abusive father.

HAHAHAHA, wait why am I laughing?

Jade keeps talking, trying to make herself okay with lip synching, prompting Coco to cart out her victim bag of tricks and moan that she knows she’s in the bottom, but can we talk about how Alyssa sold her out on the runway? Dramatic chord tells us we’re going to see a flashback. Seems Alyssa made the grave mistake of answering Ru’s question of “How was it to work together?” by admitting what EVERYONE saw the whole time. That Coco, once again, was pouting, acting like a child and phoning in a shitty, angry performance. Only she said it way nicer than that.

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Vallegirl has never actually lived in a valley, has a lot of time on her hands and likes to yell at kids about how things were in her day.  Currently in LA, she's also spent a lot of time in the great states of  New York and Florida so she's not crazy, it's just a cultural thing.

13 Comments

  1. 1
    Gilty Plezzur
    Posted March 8, 2013 at 9:57 am

    Bye, bye, Jade. On to better things, like starring in the Jodi Arias story. She’d be perfect in that role.

  2. 2
    April
    Posted March 8, 2013 at 11:09 am

    Did anyone else notice Jinxx yawning on the runway? I thought I saw her do it and Michelle made a WTF face. I waited for her to call Jinxx out on it, but it never happened. I am sure it was because of her narcolepsy so it was not something she could help. So I would just overlook it as a judge. Wondered if I hallucinated it.

  3. 3
    michkabibbles
    Posted March 8, 2013 at 11:56 am

    @april-i noticed that, too, along with michelle’s reaction. my thought was that it was on purpose, because she was playing ‘rich bitch’, and it coincided with her saying she’s just so over it-something to that affect. but i did think michelle was going to call jinx out on it.

    after jinx, alyssa is my fave. at least she’s self aware and doesn’t pout, and i love her crazy face and expressions (both facial and verbal). i think she was willing to play this whole fued with coco thing for camp and laughs (like when she was teasing coco about her make-up), but coco is so far up her own butt, she takes everything so seriously. i hope she’s next to go.

  4. 4
    juddfan
    Posted March 8, 2013 at 1:59 pm

    Somehow this episode escaped my DVR, I’ll have to look for it on On Demand and come back to enjoy this on Monday!

    xoxoxo

  5. 5
    Miss Molly
    Posted March 8, 2013 at 3:08 pm

    @juddfan – my DVR didn’t tape it either. I had to watch it on LOGO online.

  6. 6
    April
    Posted March 8, 2013 at 3:57 pm

    I always watch them on logotv.com.

  7. 7
    Kylie
    Posted March 8, 2013 at 4:48 pm

    I knew Jade would get sent home soon, she just always coasted along in the middle. BUT her lipsync was one of the most surprising things I’ve seen on the show in a while. Girl was GOOD. I’m sure as a performer, she’ll do well. Plus, as much as I hated her attitude, she’s gorgeous.
    Coco is annoying the shit out of me, Alyssa (as much as she can annoy me to) was trying so hard to make things work and Coco was having none of it. Come onnnnnnn.

  8. 8
    chaosbutterfly
    Posted March 9, 2013 at 7:55 pm

    I didn’t like Jinkx’s runway at all. I get what she was going for, but her makeup was almost as bad as last week, the outfit and wig were not high-glamour, at least not the kind that Michelle is looking for, and I really didn’t like her yawning.
    I know why she did it, but still…it just wasn’t the right thing at the time.
    I wish she would make good friends with Ivy and get some makeup tips.
    Remember how tragic PhiPhi looked at the beginning of the season last year? By the end, she looked so much better all around, because she got help from Kenya Michaels with her makeup.

    My only irritation with Alaska is that I don’t see her trying enough. I think part of why she makes everything into a joke or just plain gives up is because she’s afraid to put everything into it and end up looking foolish (which is ridiculous because she’s a freaking drag queen), or failing. The only exception I can think of is the ballet challenge. And I guess she took a risk on the kid show challenge too, even though it didn’t pay off.
    But generally, she doesn’t put herself out there enough, especially in the mini-challenges. I know that they aren’t as important as elimination challenges, but they matter because they are still an opportunity to show Ru who you are and what you can do. She really should be less self-conscious and relax.

    I’m glad that Jade went home because she’s beautiful but lame. But I was also very pleasantly surprised by how good her lipsync was. Coco is an excellent lipsyncer and given her age, I think she just had a much better connection to it, so I didn’t expect Jade to actually stay, but it was far from the blowout that I expected.

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    badgerfreak
    Posted March 11, 2013 at 6:48 am

    I would agree with Vallegirl that Rotox brings out the worst in each other. They are much better peopl when not paired off together. Or at least Detox is.

    Coco needs to go. As much as Jade had been coasting, I was honestly a little surprised she went home. This was Coco’s second time in the bottom, Jade’s first. And Coco has had some serious attitude issues, that she has been called out for on the runway, a couple of times. Unacceptable behavior. She’s gosta go soon!

    Every week, I love Jinkx more. She’s such a doll. I get the “glamor” that she’s trying to portray. She needs to understand that what Michelle is looking for, is MODERN glamor, not vintage. While I think her vintage glamor is beautiful, it’s not what the judges are asking of her.

  10. 10
    ConfusedinCanada
    Posted March 11, 2013 at 7:54 am

    I have to wonder if Alaska being on this show so soon after Sharon winning was a mistake. It seems that she is comparing herself to Sharon inside her own head. She might have done better on a later show.

    Jade is truly a beautiful queen and I hope she goes far in her career.

    Now I wasn’t a Jinx fan at the beginning but damn I love that girl.

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    April
    Posted March 11, 2013 at 11:44 am

    Can’t wait for the new episode! I already saw the first 10 minute preview and Reading is FUNDAMENTAL dahlings!

    This could be Alaska’s challenge to win because she can be pretty funny.

  12. 12
    Sunny
    Posted March 11, 2013 at 1:51 pm

    “Reading is FUNDAMENTAL dahlings!”

    :D Yesssss!

  13. 13
    Sammi
    Posted March 12, 2013 at 1:58 pm

    Omg, Alyssa Edwards and Ivy Winters <3333
    Ivy's smile… I'm gonna die!

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