Season 13, Episode 1 - "The Pork Chop" discussion
 

It's starting girls!!!!

"and may the best drag queen win" caught me off guard, guess they're finally warming up and changing to be more inclusive

also nnnnnn @ them getting 6 licensed songs for the first episode. RIP to the budget. (I assumed they'd just get 6 Ru songs again)

Does he say may the best drag queen win bc there’s a trans woman this year?

Yeah, plus Gottmik is a trans man (out of drag) so I guess the pronouns were getting a bit of a headache.

Re: the lipsync... the edit is setting up for a Kandy win but I honestly thought Joey did slightly better :shrug: Kandy relying on a Monet fake-out to excuse the fact she doesn't do much else, isn't great.

They must have chosen this format to test what the new panel would like on a tv screen? Or something COVID-related? It's so bizarre, lmao.

I agree, I thought Joey was better. Mandy relied on comedy most of that lipsync

...honestly, I’m not ready to lose queens from the werkroom when we’ve only just met them...I mean, neither really lip synced for their lives, they were too dazed and shocked for that...what on Earth...

She was super lucky she had a giant prop already on hand, because that did most of the work for her :laugh:

...I hate so much that Queens are often judged on first appearance etc...and there Ru is, promoting the exact same...I’m cross that we’re going to lose some without getting to know them...

...I’m CROSS...

Is the first ep just lip syncs then?

Honestly that’s low key boring

I believe so yeah

looks like the uk one cannot start airing soon enough.

I find Kandy Muse to be annoying already. :shrug:

joey jay having the most annoying voice on drag race ever confirmed?

Oh good, makes sense I guess. Still looking forward to it though

Laganja remains unbothered

a close 2nd

Putting my views in SPOILER tags because apparently it still isn't on Netflix or something.

Interesting way to split the contestants in half, looking forward to some actual looks next week. Awful with names but collectively a cute bunch

The sheer drop in quality from the S12 premiere to this one :( like... sure, 12 was pretty much untoppable... but god this was a chore to watch. It's not that it's a dumb twist that serves little purpose (well, that is a factor too) but just going through the exact same edit 6 times in one episode, having to listen to every pair (or trio) of queens make the exact same reactions, and the stakes never really being that high anyway because anyone with a brain knows they aren't sending home 6 queens in episode one, for a season of 7 others to carry on with the rest of it... made this very boring indeed.

Not to mention repeating bloody lipsync songs :oh: we've already had 'When I Grow Up' before.

The other choices were odd... Elle King and Lindsay Lohan were not ones I'd considered getting chosen some time soon. As for the lipsyncs themselves... some were good! Some... were average.

Symone vs. Tamisha was the stand-out, both were excellent and could've feasibly been a double-shantay were it regular. Denali vs. Lala was tough, too. The threeway was decent... I'm struggling to remember the others but I think the right queens won with the exception of Kandy.

I'm quite drawn to all of them... I was expecting not to like Elliott but she's quite sweet. The only one I'm a bit iffy on is Rose.. might be a little too much ego and barbs for episode one, not really sure.