![]() ![]() Spankie doesn’t get to choose her makeover partner, but still somehow lands with Phil, who happens to both be from her tiny hometown of Palmerston, and also, like Spankie, wearing some insane necklace. This has got to be one of the most profoundly chaotic pairings ever seen on a Drag Race makeover. It’s not terrible it just kind of misses the brief. Hanna got tripped up in the way that so many do during a makeover challenge: She looks great, while her partner kinda looks like dogshit. On the runway, Hanna is dressed like the villain from an A24 fantasy, while Helle looks like a woman who escaped from a retirement home. ![]() Keelan, seeing Tony in his giant blonde wig and great stonking knockers, tells his father that he “looks like Queen Elizabeth,” and I can’t think of a more fitting way to honor our dearly departed queen. But good God was I wrong: Within minutes of sitting down together, Tony is admitting he likes the big nipples on Hanna’s fake breasts and asking if he can don an even bigger set in order to “stand out.” And stand out you will, Tony. I thought Hanna would have the toughest job of the lot with Tony, who, with his black pork pie hat, seemed like the most austere of the bunch. On the runway, Kandy looks great, but she and Molly don’t really look like siblings, and there are issues with the details of each costume that make the pairing one of the more forgettable this week. Molly begins to crack under pressure, and her advantage begins to slip away. Keelan clearly has a mind of his own, and this challenge is best suited to anyone willing to be a perfect little doll for their drag mother to remold in her own image. She - fairly - chooses Keelan, a performer and Drag Race fan who clearly understands the requirements of the challenge.Īt least, Keelan seems like a good choice until it becomes time to plan outfits. But she has an opportunity to change that here, especially given that she’s allowed the first pick of who to make over. Kandy FlippinzĬoming into this penultimate episode, Molly is in an interesting position: She hasn’t defined herself nearly as well as her competitors, and, if a top three were to be decided based on track record up to this episode, she would easily be the one eliminated. Without further ado, let’s get into the makeovers. Every makeover challenge on Drag Race features some kind of catastrophic disaster, and this one is no exception. It’s not a hostage situation, that I know of, but it’s definitely not not a hostage situation: Tony, the father of Drag Race fan Keelan, is clad in all black, which I have to assume is in tribute to the part of him that died the moment he signed the Drag Race release form. This week, the queens have to make over four members of an adorable, extremely stressed-looking New Zealand family. But a strong showing in this final ‘regular’ challenge could change things. Right now, Spankie Jackzon is - bizarrely - the obvious front-runner, and I’m not sure anyone else in the competition has a chance of beating her. No winner of Drag Race is ever really decided in the finale in recent years, it’s felt a lot more like the winner is set in stone before the finale even airs, dictated by track record and, increasingly, whoever Ru decides is her favorite. In many ways, this episode of the season is the real clincher. As Hanna Conda rightly says, “He could absolutely 150% shit in my suitcase, and I wouldn’t mind.” Listen to Murray say, “Hey there, you gorgeous beings,” and “Who’s you, daddy?” and imagine that he’s saying it to you. The battlers who have done the hard slog are now, in the season’s penultimate episode, being rewarded with the greatest of gifts: A cameo from Murray Bartlett, star of The White Lotus and Looking. To those who have persisted through this undeniably rocky and often downright boring season, I salute you. After six enjoyable, perplexing, occasionally maddening weeks, we’re finally at the pointy end of this season of RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under. ![]()
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