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The fact Bimini was in the first lip sync challenge and she’s been constantly evolving and just being really damn nice - genuine. She’s now my favourite out of the drag queens for S2!!!

I’m really tired of Lawrence inserting himself into every situation. He had no axe to grind about where he was put in the stand up running order so back off, bitch! He was even doing it in the lipsync, stood at the back trying to pull focus. Can’t stand him.

SECONDED. But then again a plus size drag queen would be brilliant too. I think Bimini is very subtle in what she does. WHO KNOWS? All worthy in very different ways.

I really think this could have been a perfect season of Drag Race but they stumbled with this finale for me. I wanted Bimini to win (and I think with the edit everyone got it makes the most sense and is the most satisfying conclusion to everyone's storylines) but even if she had there were issues with this episode.

The mixing on the performance track was really awful. The vocals were thin and flat against a really loud backing track and the dead air between verses just felt really awkward. The choreo was also not very impressive or interesting for the most part outside of Bimini and Tayce and the audio was out of sync with the video at first. I also kind of wish the final lip sync had just been Bimini and Lawrence. Neither Tayce or Ellie really had a chance at that point so sending just 1 off felt a little unfair to Ellie (and makes the double save last week entirely pointless) and having 3 lip sync on that stage always gets crowded so any opportunity you have to avoid that should be taken.

Overall still an above average season of Drag Race by far but a disappointing finale prevents it from reaching the upper echelon with the likes of AS2 and season 5.

That was my top two, so I was happy with either winning bit I do think it should have probably been Bimini. I suppose you could say that she only really turned up after the break and that Lawrence was quite consistent through the whole thing, but still it for me would have been a better journey for the show for Bimini to win. But as I say, either is a good result.

I think we’ve all seen massive favouritism towards Lawrence from the start. Ru obviously loves her and as we see every time, its Ru’s show and she gets to choose. Bimini will do just fine, they all will.

I wish Tayce would connect her lipsync performances to the content of the lyrics more consistently. She falls back on throwing herself around and a gym routine. I know that is a very US approach and we see it a lot on the US show.

But I want to see a queen living the song, showing that she gets the tone and meaning. Sometimes Tayce does that. But too often we get generic drag dance.

I thought Bimini had it but that lipsync was terrible.

Tayce didn’t deserve top three. He’s long and lanky and reminds them of a catwalk model: that’s it, that’s his gig.

For 21 Ellie did amazing and should have got top 3 out of those four.

I loved Laurence, he had a journey and really struggled. Like a lot of the comedy queens the pressure to be funny was an obstacle.

I loved Bimini, the comedy, the fashion and the grotesque.

I’m happy her and Laurence were top two and I don’t mind after that.

Laurence and Ellie really represented Scotland well though, they were very polished for Queens that don’t really have a drag scene where they are from. I think that’s what they said something about £15 for performing.

The bug of the season was Ahora and Laurence meltdowns over Ellie’s placing of the comedy.

I think if there's impressive dancing to go along with it then lip-syncing is good enough. Just look at some of the old clips of Tamisha Iman that were circulating while she was on the show, or her drag daughter who did the stunt dropping down from the ceiling (and the rest of that performance is strong enough on its own)! Sounds like you just saw some poor quality routines unfortunately.

I see the U.K. cast are on tour at ATG venues later this year, including the Palace MCR. Which is fine, good luck to them. I won’t be going because I don’t think drag translates that well to big theatres.. These queens are used to playing to a couple of hundred people in a club, I don’t think you can automatically assume that being able to do that means you can command the stage of a thousand seat theatre. .

When I saw Bianca she was in a show with Lady Bunny, Sherry Vine and Jackie Beat. Four consummate professionals and legends of drag, and even so they and their show looked very very small.

I saw Bianca in Manchester in a theatre (can't remember the name) and thought it worked. Sherry Vine was on the tour but we saw Moyra Dubois who also was very funny. Surrounded by straight girls. 

Edit: It's a dream of mine to get to San Francisco to see the Peaches Christ shows at the Castro Theatre. 

Saturday 27th March

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