Drag U Recap: WILLAM!

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By vallegirl | Friday, July 13, 2012 | 11:00 am | 12 Comments
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Chad shills for another sponsor and time for Tamara to whine about how she wants to be a pretty pink princess, AGAIN. Have mercy, woman. Get over it. Ru asks her what it feels like living for other people’s validation and she gets into some mumbo jumbo about ripping herself off and whatever.

Final touches and Julie’s both nervous and excited while her friend wants her to be the sassy Julie he knew when he met her six years earlier. Qween’s stressed out about the nagging details of her outfit and her friend thinks she’s hidden parts of her personality because of things she’s been going through. (Mysterious!) Tamara, whatever. Her friend, squawk squawk. Then it’s time to draguate, bitches.

How is she not on a Housewives show?

Chad, Willam and Morgan come out and they all look fantastic, Raja.  Then Jelissa introduces Ru, who’s dressed like Thurston Howell III. He welcomes us to Drag U.

This week’s judges are Lady Bunny, Jamal Sims and a lovely actress named Tamara Taylor (SPOILER?) who according to Ru is currently starring on Bones and according to Derek Hazelton (H/T) was also Matthew Fox’s girlfriend on Party of Five. Willam takes a moment to blow a kiss at/network with Tamara and it’s time for the draguation to commence.

Oh, Lovey…

Okay, so yes. On the runway, Tamara’s look was the most on point and she looked gorgeous but I just can’t with her. I though Julie looked great, too, and showed a lot more life, personality and progress. The best part of Qween’s runway was Willam’s introduction. She seemed to shrink a little and came off as kind of nervous to me. But her face looked beautiful. Since the runway doesn’t really count, how did they do in the oral examination?

Ru wants to know how Julie feels and she’s sassy. She’s flirting with Ru and telling the panel that the skirt, with its big paillettes, is her favorite part of the outfit because it lets everyone know she’s arrived. Bunny thinks she took over the stage like she’s Bette Davis and Jamal is really impressed with how she got out of her head and over her insecurities.

Qween is ready to accept and embrace who she is, regardless of her weight. She’s going to approach everything like she’s still that hot Sooooooooouuuuulllll Traaaaiiinn dancer. Starting with choosing that awful off-the-shoulder party dress. Tragic. Jamal says he likes Qween’s curves and he’s a little disappointed that she’s not showing them off but Tamara thinks she was giving all heart on the runway.

Last and certainly least for me, Tamara. Ru asks her how she feels and she has a canned spiel prepared about how she feels…for the first time…at 40 (43 according to her intro)…like a woman. Jamal tells her that she’s on fire, Tamara says she’s owning the sophistication and, oh please stop, Tamara clasps her hands together like she just won another beauty pageant.

The performance wasn’t as awkward as the others have been, but poor Qween forgets to lip synch, so she’s out. And I figured she’d win because of how much screen-time she had. So it’s down to Julie and Tamara. Tamara, as is her wont, was pageanting it up while Julie was having fun and even busted out a booty tooch. Somewhere, out there, TyTy is sipping her goblet of tears of ANTM rejects and cursing the name RuPaul.

After watching the draguation I figured it had to be Julie. She’s pretty, she’s thin, she seemed to overcome her obstacles the best and she seemed to perform better. But what did the falcultythink?

This is my sincere face.

So, the woman who needed to overcome her driving need for external validation gets the external validation. And while Tamara spews some clichés and duck lips her way down the runway, Qween is just feeling good about herself and Julie feels like she’s found her confidence again, so drive that down sorority row.

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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.

12 Comments

  1. 1
    Debby
    Posted July 13, 2012 at 3:35 pm

    LOVED your recap. There was ALMOST enough Willam in it for me.

  2. 2
    Timm
    Posted July 13, 2012 at 6:35 pm

    Willam for President!!!

  3. 3
    whatwhat
    Posted July 14, 2012 at 1:09 pm

    Julie deserved to win. I was hoping Qween would flaunt it, but she just kinda crumbled at the end there – she looked like she was having fun, but she wasn’t over the top. Bummer, because I was hoping she (or rather WILLAM WILLAM WILLAM) would win. But Julie showed the most dramatic change, especially after her performance in dance class. Tamara was probably one of my least favorite contestants ever because her entire demeanor seemed about as fake as fake gets from the moment she arrived till the moment she left. I don’t know what they were thinking.

  4. 4
    thatdariamom1332
    Posted July 15, 2012 at 9:54 pm

    Am I the only one that saw Julie as Meryl? Lost twins…

    I was really digging Tamara’s look, but her whole, “Nice girls don’t go to California!” thing was WAY over dramatic. And not in a “good for reality tv” way. In an old, outdated, narrow minded kind of way.

    Does anybody know if Willam will be on Drag Race All Stars?

  5. 5
    willam
    Posted July 15, 2012 at 10:49 pm

    i know if Willam will be on All-Stars or not.
    WILLAM

  6. 6
    vallegirl vallegirl
    Posted July 16, 2012 at 10:21 am

    OMG, WILLAM!

    Sorry, patterned response. I know you’re just teasing us with that little nugget because you won’t RuPologize for spoiling the season but still…OMG, WILLAM!

    @thatdariamom1332 – I thought Julie looked like Meryl, too. Especially in her profile photo. I considered calling her Mamie Gummer but decided not to.

  7. 7
    Chips.N.Whips
    Posted July 18, 2012 at 12:35 am

    Great recap! I too was hoping that Sashay would win but knew she wouldn’t when I saw her fade away. Couldn’t stand Tamara but loved the hell outta DeVille’s look. And she worked it til she opened her stupid mouth.

    Actually liked Morgan again. Was thrilled to see Willam and especially Chad!

  8. 8
    Chips.N.Whips
    Posted July 18, 2012 at 1:05 am

    Oh I forgot the main reason for my first post: WTF is a falculty? You are the first I’ve seen mention it but it drives me crazy. I think I understand the pronunciation issue (like the inability to say Sashay or, in my case, minimum). I hope to see it as a word of the day soon.

    Love you, Ru! And Starbooty too!

  9. 9
    vallegirl vallegirl
    Posted July 18, 2012 at 3:05 pm

    Ru explained in an interview that the mispronunciation is an homage to his mother.

    And I can say, having a mother with a heavy Slavic accent, I understand. I will still occasionally pronounce every single letter (and then some) in the word “vegetable” and jokingly mispronounce “squirrel” the Natasha way (SQUEE-del) because that’s how my mom said it.

    I don’t normally say those words that way but it’s just so deeply ingrained that you can forget in passing.

  10. 10
    chaosbutterfly
    Posted July 25, 2012 at 12:53 pm

    I love that….I’m the same way with my mom. She’s Nigerian and says “whatever” like “wahrevah”. I say it that way too alot, but usually try not to do it around people who won’t get it, or they look at me strangely.

    And I’m tired of Drag U picking the wrong people. Tamara looked great, but was so annoying and I don’t think she changed at all. I bet she’s gonna go back home and return to wearing turtleneck long johns under her bathing suits.
    And her diatribe about how “they” won’t “let” nice girls go to L.A. anymore after this show was so idiotic, Morgan should have slapped her. Number one, I’m pretty sure nobody in Arkansas remembers or cares who she is. Number two, Arkansas is not heaven…as long as you’re a U.S. Citizen, there’s not really any rules about who can come in or out.

  11. 11
    Raven
    Posted August 8, 2012 at 3:46 am

    I’m not going anywhere, darling!

  12. 12
    vallegirl vallegirl
    Posted August 8, 2012 at 10:21 am

    SQUEEEEE!

    (You’ve beaten me down and brought me around to liking you…you evil bitch!)

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