![]() ![]() All of the parts are, of course, parodic draggy takes on the characters of the film it’s inspired by. Everyone needs to enter their shutting-up era! I say that with love, we’ve seen these girls be plenty funny without recycling slang ad nauseam.Īnd they did just that when they were assigned Wigloose. But I swear, the next time someone says that they’re “entering their era,” I am going to compress myself into their drywall and howl like a banshee all through the night. This episode began with all of the queens discussing their performance in last week’s episode, as usual. Thankfully, anyone looking for radical opposition to intolerance could find it in the hearts of the queens as they dissected our current reality, and reaffirmed drag as a stunning art form on the main stage. While it’s a pertinent idea, the musical’s execution is all big ideas, with very little substance. The queens were assigned to take on a film where dancing has been banned for corrupting the youth of a small town, and apply its ideas to our modern world where drag is in political contention. Tonight’s RuSical maxi challenge, “Wigloose: the RuSical,” sent up-you guessed it- Footloose. In short: family-friendly drag performances, drag queen story-times at libraries, and any completely good-natured, well-intentioned events that do nothing to harm any children in attendance were deemed unlawful. Just two weeks ago, Tennessee passed a bill banning “adult cabaret performances” in public spaces. However, we don’t have to call that prescience or coincidence-the pushback against drag by conservative politicians has been creeping into the rhetoric since the Trump administration emboldened alt-right cronies across the country. Though this season of Drag Race was filmed last summer, this week’s dose of highly queer, deeply chaotic campiness is scarily relevant. As if RuPaul’s Drag Race airing its 15th season wasn’t already direct counterprogramming to the anti-drag bills being considered or passed in many parts of the country, this week’s episode stiffened RuPaul and co.’s firm middle finger to the agendas of bigoted politicians.
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