I'm having a hard time getting this thread to load correctly, so sorry if I'm repeating this observation, but Rose's runway dress looked like the work of Gigi's mum. I wonder if she's got a whole enterprise going on now. If so, good for her. I especially liked it once the coat was off.

I thought Symone's outfit was more fun though, and walked that fine line between camp and costume very nicely. She did well in the challenge too. Her self esteem is seriously flagging though at least going by the interview portions, and I hope that her not winning this episode doesn't put the final nail in the esteem coffin for her. She really is a winner, not exactly the greatest in the history of the show, but certainly nothing to sneeze at. I do think this was a fair win for Rose. But, yet again, no one knocked it totally out of the ballpark.

It really was high time for Olivia to go. She truly needs to cultivate her talent, though I sort of don't see that happening for her. I think she's hit her level, and doesn't have the drive or interest, or perhaps ability to evolve further. She seems happy to be the sweet, smiling, filler queen, and there's nothing wrong with that.

R538 I do think GM certainly deserved to be safe, but she did not deserve a win. Once again she was over praised. She has played this same character in this challenge more than once, most recently in the branding challenge. At the very least, I wish she would change up her voice/vocal styling. I'm over this valley girl shtick. I saw Michelle slap her fucking knee during GMs rehearsal when nothing going on was at all knee slappy, nor is Michelle the knee slappy type for the most part. That said, her reaction didn't really meet her eyes. She's playing along with this...experiment...but Michelle is enough of a cunt to make me think that was a bit of a read to GM's literal knee slappy "ain't we having a great time" persona. I get the feeling Carson wasn't all that sold either, then again as long as that check clears...

I don't dislike GM, she seems like a decent person who doesn't have it out for anyone, and is really only interested in furthering her fame, and who in this game isn't? However, I don't think she's in any way an outstanding talent when it comes to Drag. She's serviceable, but it's the trans hook that's gotten her this far. However, the longer this interminable season crawls along, the less that hook is helping now that we are at the point where talent outweighs a backstory. (Fixes are a discussion for another time) She never seems miffed when she's simply "safe" unlike the more driven queens who are plucked as fuck that they didn't win and aren't shy to bitch about it. She doesn't seem that invested in the competitive aspect. And, like this season, that's boring. She hasn't aesthetically evolved from the first episode to this most recent one, and she seems not only fine with that but as if everything is going to plan. She's not here for the 100k, or even bragging rights. She's here to add it to her resume. I guess that is what comes with a relatively bottomless wallet and an untouchable "backstory"? I find watching this kind of bland calculation play out to be tedious and deflating as a viewer. (Then again 99 percent of this season has been tedious and deflating.)

Rose called it when she said she was afraid of pissing off fans at first (but was now starting to open up). Everyone is in fear of the 14 year old Frauen in training army. Hopefully, in a couple of years, when these little twits grow up to have other interests, Drag will shake off their shackles (Mary!) and shed this wokeness/Disneyfication nonsense that is eroding it.