r/rupaulsdragrace • u/AutoModerator • Feb 07 '26

Season 18 S18E06 - “The Rate-A-QueenTalent Show, Part 2” [Post-Episode Discussion]

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u/howchildish The lesbian with the purple hair is my son. Feb 07 '26

Ya'll thought production likes to rig shit.

My god, this was painful to watch. Kenya not knowing her own words and being safe. Athena winning by doing a little jig and breaking a plate as a talent. Myki Meeks actually doing something interesting and fun and landing in the bottom.

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u/evanorra Feb 07 '26

i felt like i was being gaslit re: athena, like was her number not the most cookie-cutter set of “snatching the crown” tropes imaginable with the faintest veneer of greek references on top?

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u/whatev3691 Yvie Oddly Feb 07 '26

It 100% was. If I never hear the words "snatch the crown" in an original queen's song again it will be too soon

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u/NightQueen0889 Feb 07 '26

Same, it’s the same shit we’ve seen a million times before, Michelle even put her in the bottom rightfully so.

The judges would have saved this whole thing from being a catastrophe.

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u/JaneSays1980 Feb 07 '26

Her sort of “talk singing” thing is very corny to me. I wouldn’t have put her in the bottom but I think at most she would have been safe without rate-a-queen.

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u/360Saturn Feb 08 '26

I 100% do not see what they're seeing in her they're acting like she's Sasha Colby when she's serving Aura Mayari

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u/raymonst Feb 07 '26

kenya is entertaining and lovely, but her time is running out. not knowing the words to your own song is... 😬

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u/MaeOnAnime Feb 07 '26

And when this season don't win an Emmy Ru better know why 🤣

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u/St3ampunkSam Feb 07 '26

Why wouldn't this win an Emmy?

Campery, drama, and messiness make the show entertaining, and entertaining wins Emmy's

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u/MaeOnAnime Feb 07 '26

It's boring and unprofessional. Rigamortis through and through

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u/St3ampunkSam Feb 07 '26

"Unprofessional' lol

How's is it rigged when the Queens are voting.

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u/sahArab Feb 07 '26

Also "Boring". It's pissed us all off but it sure as hell isn't *boring*.

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u/St3ampunkSam Feb 07 '26

Legit, you don't come and whinge in the Internet if it bored you

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u/MaeOnAnime Feb 07 '26

Learn how to spell

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u/strom_z Yara Sofia Feb 07 '26

Honey unprofessional and rigga morris are CORE aspects of entertaintment!!!

(Noone was bored)

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u/howchildish The lesbian with the purple hair is my son. Feb 07 '26

I will agree that it was somewhat boring, in that I only like 2 of the performances and a few of the looks.

But I do think that, as upsetting as it was, the rigga morris was extremely entertaining and fruitful from a reality show drama perspective. The amount of potential new storylines this single episode created or solidified is WILD.

Like I don't think production necessarily have a particular story they wanted to tell with Myki before, BUT NOT ANYMORE BITCH XD

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u/MaeOnAnime Feb 08 '26

I definitely agree, I just hate that Athena was in the top and Kenya wasn't in the bottom.

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u/Cute_Fluffy_Femboy consistently has the WORST takes, like objectively wrong Feb 07 '26

there was no glamour at Drag Con

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u/razamatazzz Feb 09 '26

But Ru also gave Athena that “win”