Drag Race UK: Series 1, Episode 8 (Finale! Spoilers - the winner's been announced!)

[MB.]

Spoiler:

Twitter being bitter and acting as if Divina deserved to win more than The Vivienne is... honestly baffling to me? There's so much "but Divina had such a good track record!!!!" sentiment out there when Viv had a better track record, even taking the bottom two placement into consideration, and Divina won a challenge that she should have been in the bottom two for, and she can sing in five languages in four and a half octaves while doing the splits, red wig and a silver dress, I don't think!

Good series, the right winner, kinda boring finale (I skipped through most of the podcast section, all of the overly-American "what would you say to little Matthew?" section, and a solid chunk of AJ Pritchard teaching Baga Chipz to tango)

Cheryl Hole
The Vivienne
Sum Ting Wong
Divina De Campo
Vinegar Strokes
Crystal
Blu Hydrangea
Baga Chipz
Gothy Kendoll
Scaredy Kat

[Ammi]

...there is a nice article in The Guardian this morning about the show...maybe the U.K. version will bring drag more mainstream ..?...

Spoiler:

...Divina was always going to be perfection in the singing/dancing challenge..but the Viv performed amazingly as well..and that’s a winning queen, to have completely dispelled what had been her nemesis challenge, type...in the runway, she was like a Disney princess....if Cinderella did drag at the ball, she would be The Viv...and she was the better lip sync also...they’re both gorgeous, talented queens and it was always going to be close...but in the final challenges ..?...I think the best decision was made...

[Captain.Remy]

Spoiler:

The right one won. I love Davina, but The Vivienne had the whole package from the start. And THAT DRESS she wore was just fabulous!
Overall, a really great season, so fresh, so new, and I can't wait for season 2.

[zrc]

Winner was obvious since day one.


Rankings for the season
1. Viv
2. Baga
3. Sum Ting
4. Blu
5. Crystal
6. Vinegar
7. DDC
8. Scaredy
9. Cheryl
10. Gothy

[Daniel-X]

Spoiler:

Can’t say I’m a little gutted, Divina had been my solid favourite from the second episode onwards and the edit was leaning a little more in her favour so I did think she would snatch it. The Vivienne is a class act though, and if anyone one else was to win over Divina, I’m happy it’s her.

With regards to the actual episode, it just fell a ~little~ bit flat for me, for a finale anyway. Didn’t really feel like it went out with a bang, more a fizzle. The last three episodes haven’t been great tbh, I’d say the peak was around episode 3-5. But then again, that may just solely be the challenges (and I don’t think I commented in last weeks thread but the judging was atrocious, Cheryl should’ve obviously won.)

Divina and Cheryl are FOREVER in my hearts though and I hope we see them both return either for a UK AS or a US vs UK series.

[Daniel-X]

EOS:

1. Divina
2. Cheryl
3. Blu
4. The Vivienne
5. Sum Ting
6. Baga
7. Crystal
8. Scaredy
9. Vinegar
10. Gothy

[Marsh.]

God, I forgot how much I can't stand Scaredy Kat.

[Jigs]

omg. So happy with the outcome as I really thought Divina was going to get it. Strongest Top 3 in a long while.


EOS

1. The Vivienne
2. Cheryl Hole
3. Divina De Campo
4. Baga Chipz
5. Sum Ting Wong
6. Crystal
7. Blu Hydrangea
8. Skaredy Kat
9. Vinegar Strokes
10. Gothy Kendoll

[Denver]

It was the most obvious result from the start tbh

[Morgan.]

Viv and Baga have got their own WOW show reprising their roles as Trump and Thatcher

[LukeB]

Was this series any good?

[Morgan.]

Originally Posted by LukeB

Was this series any good?

Yeah amazing! And only 8 eps so would be quick to binge!

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by LukeB

Was this series any good?

...yeah, they were a lovely family of queens, Luke...I wasn’t sure how it would stand against the USA ones, but it was really up there as one of the better ones...

[Saph]

my rankings

1. The Vivienne
2. Baga Chipz
3. Blu Hydrangea
4. Cheryl Hole
5. Scaredy Kat
6. Sum Ting Wong
7. Divina De Campo
8. Vinegar Strokes
9. Crystal
10. Gothy Kendoll

I didnt dislike any of them in the end, all of them were talented in different areas

[Shaun]

End-of-series ranking...

1) The Vivienne
2) Sum Ting Wong
3) Divina de Campo
4) Cheryl Hole
5) Vinegar Strokes
6) Crystal
7) Baga Chipz
8) Blu Hydrangea
9) Scaredy Kat
10) Gothy Kendoll

Hooray for there being no queen I hate this time #Yvie

[RileyH]

01 | Cheryl Hole
02 | Blu Hydrangea
03 | Sum Ting Wong
04 | The Vivienne
05 | Baga Chipz
06 | Crystal
07 | Scaredy Kat
08 | Divina De Campo
09 | Vinegar Strokes
10 | Gothy Kendoll

[zrc]

Gothy deserved last place.

[Firewire]

There's a new episode this week, being released Friday at 8pm, which shows the three finalists watching the finale together.

[Saph]

didnt sum ting tweet about a reunion tonight?

[zrc]

Originally Posted by Saph

didnt sum ting tweet about a reunion tonight?

Yes they had a reunion meal but Scaredy Kat didn't show up. They said she was the first to drop out the WhatsApp group when the show started airing.


https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/realit...y-kat-missing/

[Saph]

[zrc]

Well I've not seen anything about that anywhere lol. Unless the meal last night was part of it?

[Saph]

its probably gonna be a crappy thing shes filmed on her phone

[Firewire]

[zrc]

Can't imagine there being much drama at this reunion.