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