RuPaul's Drag Race (season 16) – Now Airing

[Plastic Flower 5,288]

What a great episode!  

[Levine 23,718]

On 3/6/2024 at 6:35 PM, Levine said:

Alaska: "there are a lot of design challenges this year"

Willam: "yeah it's the thing they do when the girls aren't good performers and they want someone to stay who's not a good performer"

lmao

Well yes, Willam was right lmao the girls can't perform and in fact we saw in the top 3 this episode the only queens who can. 

I'm glad Sapphira won, she is on another level I'm sorry and at the end of the day you get hired to perform, people come to your shows to see you perform and I would totally pay to see her live.

Morphine got a lot of screentime this episode so it was clear that she was on top. I still don't see the charisma in her, but she'll grow as a fierce queen and she could be a cute 8th placement on an all stars.

Nymphia is starting to get on my nerves? I get the difficult of the language, but at least focus on your job and do something good. I don't know if she would have been on the bottom without the potion, it would have been always Plane vs Q imho.

Plane and Q were atrocious. The verse of Plane was embarrassing, while Q performance was cringe (ok the outfit was good, but the wig? girl...). We already saw in the first episode that Plane and Q can't perform, but this was too much.

I don't knoe if they rigged the episode to not risk to loose Plane, but it was a curious coincidence. 

[Levine 23,718]

On 3/8/2024 at 2:11 AM, Ladle Ghoulash said:

They’re definitely not making up the challenges as they go. They only think they may improvise for story purposes would maybe the order of some of the challenges. 

And that's a lot lol but they prepare the challenges when they have the cast so they know who's better at something and who isn't.

 

[CyanDante 6,182]

1 hour ago, Levine said:

Well yes, Willam was right lmao the girls can't perform and in fact we saw in the top 3 this episode the only queens who can. 

I'm glad Sapphira won, she is on another level I'm sorry and at the end of the day you get hired to perform, people come to your shows to see you perform and I would totally pay to see her live.

Morphine got a lot of screentime this episode so it was clear that she was on top. I still don't see the charisma in her, but she'll grow as a fierce queen and she could be a cute 8th placement on an all stars.

Nymphia is starting to get on my nerves? I get the difficult of the language, but at least focus on your job and do something good. I don't know if she would have been on the bottom without the potion, it would have been always Plane vs Q imho.

Plane and Q were atrocious. The verse of Plane was embarrassing, while Q performance was cringe (ok the outfit was good, but the wig? girl...). We already saw in the first episode that Plane and Q can't perform, but this was too much.

I don't knoe if they rigged the episode to not risk to loose Plane, but it was a curious coincidence. 

It more felt like rigged to not lose Q. Maybe they have another design challenge coming up. Plane could have always used the immunity potion on herself so she would have been safe either way. The bottom 2 was clearly Q and Plane and we know Plane can perform and has won a lipsync before and tbh anyone can perform and win against Q.

[CyanDante 6,182]

Anyway very weak episode overall. Felt like a loooong commercial for thw Werq the World tour. 

Also what was that lipsync song choice!!! Who on production thought it would ge good for drag queens to lip sync to that song!!! 

[Ultimecia 6,072]

UK vs The World also got a verse writing challenge this week, and it was so much better than this one!

[Magneto 13,456]

The thought of the potion had me on the edge of my seat. I was lowkey hoping she'd save an obvious bottom so a top contender would end in the bottom or something

[Ziggy 12,074]

3 hours ago, Levine said:

Well yes, Willam was right lmao the girls can't perform and in fact we saw in the top 3 this episode the only queens who can. 

I'm glad Sapphira won, she is on another level I'm sorry and at the end of the day you get hired to perform, people come to your shows to see you perform and I would totally pay to see her live.

Morphine got a lot of screentime this episode so it was clear that she was on top. I still don't see the charisma in her, but she'll grow as a fierce queen and she could be a cute 8th placement on an all stars.

Nymphia is starting to get on my nerves? I get the difficult of the language, but at least focus on your job and do something good. I don't know if she would have been on the bottom without the potion, it would have been always Plane vs Q imho.

Plane and Q were atrocious. The verse of Plane was embarrassing, while Q performance was cringe (ok the outfit was good, but the wig? girl...). We already saw in the first episode that Plane and Q can't perform, but this was too much.

I don't knoe if they rigged the episode to not risk to loose Plane, but it was a curious coincidence. 

People will disagree with you but I don’t. Plane is a *fine performer but I think she has a very limited repertoire she pulls from and has benefited from a lot of favoritism and being good tv drama to keep her around longer. Q is generally bad at it lmao sapphira is obviously incredible at it, mhi’ya for all the **** she gets IS a performer (that’s her saving grace) but she’s not a queen well suited to drag race imo morphine seems like she’s a decent one but way more of a looks girl, Dawn…I can’t envision being much of a performer(?), nymphia is but outside runways I think she’s kinda like mhi’ya in the sense that I don’t think she’s a queen especially suited to drag race despite being a great performer. Obviously she’s killing it but I think she shines best doing her own thing not a list of challenges like other queens do.
 

So all in all the only amazing performer *for the show* is sapphira 

[MonSwiftAnton 3,786]

I'm so tired of Dawn. Plane is very aware of what she is but Dawn is exactly the same, just not as blunt. A mean girl. 

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I hope Plane get her as hard as it looked like in the preview for next week. 

 

[Ziggy 12,074]

1 minute ago, MonSwiftAnton said:

I'm so tired of Dawn. Plane is very aware of what she is but Dawn is exactly the same, just not as blunt. A mean girl. 

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I hope Plane get her as hard as it looked like in the preview for next week. 

 

Like Plane, I don’t think Dawn is amazing enough at what she does to be as shady as she comes off 

[Juanlittlem 47,036]

1 minute ago, MonSwiftAnton said:

I'm so tired of Dawn. Plane is very aware of what she is but Dawn is exactly the same, just not as blunt. A mean girl. 

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I hope Plane get her as hard as it looked like in the preview for next week. 

 

It will probably be her being her old bitchy self (as a joke) after people will "come for her" for being nice. Im 100% sure lol

[REALITY 77,572]

Fine episode overall. Sapphira was the clear winner and I think this episode is only cementing her as the winner of the season. My girl Nymphia is just not cutting it outside of the design challenges   I watched the Sibling Watchery episode for the goth design challenge and Bob's comments about Sapphira's edit really confused me tbh. She said that Sapphira's edit was bad because she looks like the "supporting character" in the other queens' storylines as opposed to having her own storyline, and I wholeheartedly disagree. Sapphira's edit has been great so far, it reminds me a lot of Sasha Colby's. She's also been doing very well in the competition and hasn't really faltered—aside from the momentum she used the potion on herself when she didn't need to. I have no doubt that she's going to win the season tbh.

As for the rest of the girls, I thought Nymphia and Morphine also did pretty well; Nymphia's verse was bad but her performance and dancing were great. Plane, Dawn, and Q were the clear bottoms and Mhi'ya would've been low-safe for me. I just can't get over the fact that she rhymed "equal" with "equal"  I hate it when people rhyme words with themselves  

Non-elimination episodes kinda bore me though. They could've eliminated someone here if they wanted to. Unless we're getting Philippines S2 levels of episodes, keep  eliminating  people . Next week should be interesting. They're essentially doing class presentations  I think Plane, Sapphira, and maybe Morphine are going to do well.

Also, spoiler (? not really though?) ahead:

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I try to avoid elimination/win spoilers at all costs, but I heard before the season aired that according to the spoilers, Nymphia was going to win the political challenge this season. Does anyone know how that got lost in translation here?  The spoilers also said that Plane won the talent show & snatch game, which obviously ended up being true. So I'm interested to know how people got it mixed up with Nymphia and the political challenge. Unless there's somehow another political-based challenge down the road??

 

[Juanlittlem 47,036]

5 minutes ago, Reality said:

Fine episode overall. Sapphira was the clear winner and I think this episode is only cementing her as the winner of the season. My girl Nymphia is just not cutting it outside of the design challenges   I watched the Sibling Watchery episode for the goth design challenge and Bob's comments about Sapphira's edit really confused me tbh. She said that Sapphira's edit was bad because she looks like the "supporting character" in the other queens' storylines as opposed to having her own storyline, and I wholeheartedly disagree. Sapphira's edit has been great so far, it reminds me a lot of Sasha Colby's. She's also been doing very well in the competition and hasn't really faltered—aside from the momentum she used the potion on herself when she didn't need to. I have no doubt that she's going to win the season tbh.

As for the rest of the girls, I thought Nymphia and Morphine also did pretty well; Nymphia's verse was bad but her performance and dancing were great. Plane, Dawn, and Q were the clear bottoms and Mhi'ya would've been low-safe for me. I just can't get over the fact that she rhymed "equal" with "equal"  I hate it when people rhyme words with themselves  

Non-elimination episodes kinda bore me though. They could've eliminated someone here if they wanted to. Unless we're getting Philippines S2 levels of episodes, keep  eliminating  people . Next week should be interesting. They're essentially doing class presentations  I think Plane, Sapphira, and maybe Morphine are going to do well.

Also, spoiler (? not really though?) ahead:

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I try to avoid elimination/win spoilers at all costs, but I heard before the season aired that according to the spoilers, Nymphia was going to win the political challenge this season. Does anyone know how that got lost in translation here?  The spoilers also said that Plane won the talent show & snatch game, which obviously ended up being true. So I'm interested to know how people got it mixed up with Nymphia and the political challenge. Unless there's somehow another political-based challenge down the road??

 

Those were old spoilers. The wins for some rounds changed and even recently got wrong that Plane was using the potion to take a win/high placement from Nymphia.

[bionic 50,107]

This episode gave me BIG winner energy for Sapphira. her lip sync was near flawless

[RahrahWitch 6,985]

Producers ****ed up having no elimination, Would have been good tv to see plane give her immunity away and have to lip sync.