Drag Race S16, E12: an obliteration of twinks
There’s some moments where you watch an episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race and you have to ask yourself: how in the hell is the fandom going to react to that?
This week, for me, that happened twice. As the remaining six queens return from the elimination of reigning lip sync assassin Mhi’ya Iman LePaige in a stand-out battle with Morphine Love Dion, the episode starts on a tense note.
Q is sulking because she feels that she should have won (or taken half the win along with Plane Jane). While everyone else is supporting Sapphira Cristal and asking how she is feeling, Sapphira points out that there’s a pall over it all due to Q who… continues to sulk.
Q doesn’t go into it which is fair but when Sapphira offers the olive branch of “I love you” to acknowledge that though competitive tensions may be high, there’s still a sisterhood, Q’s response is “Ok.” Woof.
