Episode #6 - Michelle Visage's Drag Race
Part Two
Jessica doesn’t seem best pleased with her country, saying that she’d have rather
Honey gave her a more recognisable flag, “but I’m still going to turn it out”. She also half-jokes that she’s still bitter about losing the last sewing challenge to
Eva and is aiming to rectify that result this week. Otherwise, the queens seem happy to get to work on their dresses, mainly because it means they don’t have to work in groups. “I bet you all wish this was a team challenge and I was your leader,”
Rafaella smiles as she tries to work out how to use a sewing machine and why her thumb is bleeding so much. A resounding chorus of “no!” echoes around the room, which, given how Rafaella’s last attempt at leading a team went, is probably the wise choice. Whereas most of the queens are going for a classic, elegant look, Eva,
Yvie and
Lady Boi all have high concept ideas for their gowns, with Yvie discussing her plan to cut tiny individual maple leaf shapes into her Canadian flag.
Big Dee, somewhat sarcastically, wishes her luck.
The queens also get to work on writing their speeches. Rafaella decides she’s going to give a serious speech about the impact of child poverty in Brazilian favelas, but as she reads out her notes, her dramatic delivery and facial expressions just make the other queens laugh.
Nicole decides to sit by herself in order to focus on the task at hand, saying she’s “hungry for the win” and that she needs to block out all distractions in order to finish her speech. Big Dee and
VinChelle both decide to go for over-the-top comedy in their speeches, and Big Dee tries out her Irish accent on Jessica. “Sounds… good to me,” Jessica nods, later saying in a confessional that she lied in order to avoid humiliating her good Judy. “I love me some Big Dee, but girl, she sounded like she was from Ireland, West Virginia.” As the queens finishing their gowns, the topic of conversation moves to the absence of RuPaul. “I think she realised there were millennials in the building and ran as far as she could,” laughs Lady Boi, miming Ru trying to run across West Hollywood in heels.