I don't need to tell you that I love "RuPaul's Drag Race". I've written about it before. For a while I've been wanting to write a post, reviewing and analyzing all the queens who have been on the show, seasons 1-4. We're now in a new season (the fifth), so I want to finish this up before another season passes and I have new queens to review.
Without further ado...
Most-Loved (By Me)
Queens:
These are the queens who I've enjoyed the most.
Ongina & Nina Flowers (s1), Pandora Boxx, Jujubee, Raven (s2), Yara Sofia, Alexis Mateo, Manila Luzon, Raja (s3), Jiggly Caliente, Chad Michaels, Sharon Needles, Latrice Royale (s4)
“Moment” Queens:
These are queens who had their moment on their respective seasons. I liked them well enough, but they had one particular moment where their light really shone brightest.
These are queens who had their moment on their respective seasons. I liked them well enough, but they had one particular moment where their light really shone brightest.
Jessica Wild - Jessica was a great queen, but her best moment had to be her appearance as the chicken in the episode where they had to do a commercial. Unlike Raven (who really sucked in this episode), Jessica went all out and her chicken character was hilarious!
Stacey Layne (Bryant) Matthews - Stacey never really impressed me, except when she was Monique on the Snatch Game. The character couldn't have been a better fit, and thank God she ended up doing Monique instead of Anna Nicole Smith. She stayed in character perfectly.
Dida Ritz - I thought Dida was an overall pretty sickening (good thing) queen, but her best moment was when she had to lip synch for her life and turned it out to "This Will Be" by Natalie Cole. She worked it out and showed her true fierceness. It was a great moment.
“BLAH” Queens
These are the queens who I neither hated, nor loved, nor loved to hate. They were just blah and never left much of an impression.
Alisa Summers, The Princess, Victoria “Porkchop” Parker, Akashia, Jade, Nicole Paige Brooks, Mystique Summers Madison, Sonique, Venus D-Lite, Phoenix, India Ferrah
Less “BLAH” Queens
These are the queens who made an impression, and were fierce, but still don't fall into the "Most Loved (By Me)" category.
Bitchy/Whatever
Queens:
These are the queens who made a lot of noise, threw a lot of shade, had huge personalities, but never made themselves all that likeable... at least not by me.
Shangela Laquifa Wadley - I know Shangela made a lot of noise on her season
(especially with her dramatic return to the show after being the first
eliminated on season 2), but she just didn’t really excite me on season 3. She had her catchphrases and some decent
moments, sure, but having heard so much about her (from friends who'd watched this season before me)olujhyi, I definitely expected
more. And for the record, I don’t
consider her a Bitchy Queen as much as I think of her as a Whatever Queen.
Tatianna - Ugh, Tatianna. She had a few decent moments, too (case in point: her Britney Spears impression on Snatch Game was pretty good), but she
really bugged me throughout most of season 2.
She was bitchy, not always that fierce, and just relied on her
fishyness. Oh, and her dumb segment on All-Stars, “T with Tati”, was extremely stupid, too. Whatever! I’m so glad she didn’t make it into the top 3
like Rebecca Glasscock did before her.
Speaking of which…
Rebecca Glasscock - Rebecca
Glasscock… just plain bitchy, and made it far but just never got me especially
excited. Whatever.
Phi Phi O’Hara - Phi Phi WAS bitchy,
though I found I was more sympathetic to her than to Tatianna and Rebecca. She was young, clearly putting up a front,
and had some tender moments (for example, giving Chad her phone call so he
could call his partner). And then, as a
queen, I saw her have some amazing – never mind fishy – moments on the
runway. However, she overall gave me a "whatever" feeling. She deserved to be in
the top 3, but I was just kinda bored by her at that point.
“AAAGGHHH” Queens
These are the queens who you just wanted to slap across the face and say "Snap out of it!"
Tammie Brown - Occasionally I found Tammie Brown inexplicably magnetic, but the same moment I would realize she's bat s**t crazy. She has got some kind of bizarre drag, and I was happy to see her go (both times... how she made it on All Stars is beyond me).
Mimi Imfurst - She is just plain annoying! A weird queen, a bad actress, a cry baby, and a general annoyance.
(Kinda but not really) Madame LaQueer - Reminded me of Mimi Imfurst in some ways. Her acting skills were also brutal (remember when she tried a British accent... hers was almost as bad as Yara Sofia's, but 10 times less funny).
Mimi Imfurst - She is just plain annoying! A weird queen, a bad actress, a cry baby, and a general annoyance.
(Kinda but not really) Madame LaQueer - Reminded me of Mimi Imfurst in some ways. Her acting skills were also brutal (remember when she tried a British accent... hers was almost as bad as Yara Sofia's, but 10 times less funny).
Queens who didn’t deliver on “All Stars” like I wish they had:
Self-explanatory.
Latrice Royale & Nina Flowers
It was really a shame; considering how much I lived for these queens while they were on their respective seasons, I really expected more from them on AS. In Nina’s case she had a brutal partner (Tammie), but Latrice had no excuse. Oh well! That's what separates fierce queens from All Stars.
Queens I wish were on All Stars:
Ongina
Queens I wish were NOT on All Stars:
Shannel (even more so than Tammie & Mimi, because at least they were eliminated quickly... only Chad could carry Shannel that far).
Winning Queens I didn’t get too excited about:
BeBe Zahara Benet & Tyra SanchezDon't get me wrong - both of them are fierce queens, and I'm not saying they didn't deserve to win, because I think they probably were. Both of them were fierce, funny, and delivered consistently. However, they just didn’t excite me in the way someone like Latrice or Jujubee did.
Most-Deserving Crowned Queen
Sharon Needles – I wasn’t always a Sharon Needles fan during season 4. First I didn’t know what to make of her, and then even when she was consistently amazing, I was still more excited by Latrice (mostly personality-wise). But as it became clear that Latrice wouldn’t – and didn’t deserve to – win, I was rooting for Sharon.
Runner-up: Raja – Raja was just so incredibly fierce.
FAVOURITE QUEEN OF ALL
If it wasn't slready clear...
Miss Latrice Mothaf**kin Royale – Latrice hands-down gave me the most joy, happiness, laughter, and emotion of all the queens to grace the runway. I realized – especially during “All Stars” – that she wasn’t the fiercest queen of all. She had her rough moments, bad wardrobe choices, etc., but she was the realest queen on the show, and I loved her.
FIN.
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