Posted September 15, 20213 yr fAZMpgBsPp8 Canada's Drag Race is returning and I for one am excited! The second season brings 12 new queens and 3 new judges along with the return of host Brooke Lynn Hytes, US season 11's runner-up. Joining Brooke on the panel this season are Amanda Brugel, Brad Goreski and Traci Melchor who appeared sporadically in season 1 as a commentator. The cast is diverse and come across as exciting and unique in their candy-themed Meet the Queens - playlist linked above. The cast features (iirc) three black queens, two queens of asian descent, three plus size queens, a Latina queen, at least two trans or nonbinary queens, and at least two queens with an 'alternative' drag style to the pageant glamour style drag that Drag Race US usually favours. Our full list of queens this season is as follows, in alphabetical order: Adriana Beth Eve 6000 Gia Metric Icesis Couture Kendall Gender Kimora Amour Oceane Aqua-Black Pythia Stephanie Prince Suki Doll Synthia Kiss Get posting with any thoughts on the queens and pre-season predictions! I'll share mine as well and any others I find across the fandom. A reminder as always to please AVOID POSTING SPOILERS in this thread, that includes rumours of who 'might' be going home at what point. We have a general spoilers thread for that! https://ew.com/tv/canadas-drag-race-season-2-cast/
September 15, 20213 yr Can't wait! :cheer: Hopefully the judging isn't as bad as the first season though. :lol:
October 15, 20213 yr nice first ep ! all of the looks were pretty solid. am finding the hot guys clique unlikeable already lol, and thought eve should have been in the bottom over beth!
October 16, 20213 yr The first episode was SOOOO much better than UK and All Stars already! I think it's just because how much I detest Ru, Michelle and Ross at this point. The runways were all fun, with the top two doing excellently! Right person went but Eve had a lucky escape!
October 16, 20213 yr Where can we watch it other than WOW presents? Is BBC snot picking it up? Nope! 😭
October 16, 20213 yr I enjoyed this a lot too, solid variety of interesting queens and I thought the standard was really high for having such a hard design challenge episode 1! Pythia is probably my fave rn, Eve I feel will be a BoA type where she struggles in some challenges but has the personality to stand out.
October 22, 20213 yr They seem to really be finding their feet this season, I think the judging panel works well when they are all more equal and you don't have Brooke trying to be Ru or that random guest host mess they had last season. I don't think it's a mindblowing panel and they can be a bit clunky/going through the motions, but I do think it works better as it is now compared to the guest hosts from last season. The Rusical was really well written and actually an entertaining challenge plus the talent level seems pretty high and their taste level for the runways is great. Pythia ICON
October 22, 20213 yr The right winner for second week in a row but I again disagreed with the bottom 2. Was very sad to see Oceane go, yeah she’s not hugely polished but she is such a character would have liked to see her at least get a few weeks further. Synthias voice too so stunning !
October 23, 20213 yr Author Just watched it. Great episode, much better than UK this week! I would however have had Eve in the bottom and Synthia in the top for respectively an utter disaster and a stellar vocal performance!
October 23, 20213 yr Yeah I’d definitely have swapped Gia and Synthia’s placements- I really love Synthia’s runway- very understated but still really chic! Correct bottom 3 for me too but Eve 6000 has got to stop being favoured at some point
October 23, 20213 yr I kiiiinda get why Synthia wasn't top, it was one of those roles where it wasn't THAT exciting so even though she had a stunning voice I can't see what she really could have done to make it pop more and stand out, despite being the main part. She would have deserved it if she did, but equally I'm not really mad at it. Eve was flat out the worst and I think she was last week too to be honest, this week her runway saved her but I don't think it was SO good that it should have made up for that necessarily. I guess the bottom 4 were all bad in some way and Oceane/Icesis didn't have the level of runway Eve and Suki had, but Eve has been very lucky two weeks in a row now.
October 29, 20213 yr This really goes from strength to strength, the judging panel is really shining for me! They seem to really care about the queens and genuinely try to help them be better when they don't do so well, they're way more constructive than Ru and Michelle (or Fred too) so that the bottom queens can actually learn from their mistakes. Amanda was amazing as a director, she actually shaped the scenes so that everyone knew what to do, the challenge was actually funny, and nobody was outright terrible! Synthia was probably the worst as I think she just didn't get it, Stephanie was very one-note but I think it was maybe the language barrier mostly. I agreed with the tops and bottoms mostly but I'd have said Suki high instead of Eve. Eve was finally good in a challenge but I just can't take to her, EVERYTHING seems to have to revolve around her and she always has to have attention on her at all times. Based on the challenge I'd give Gia the win juuuust about over Adriana but Adriana's absolutely incredible runway definitely clinched it. Also Synthia's lipsync!! *.*
October 29, 20213 yr did not expect adriana to start winning challenges but i'm glad to see it! i really thought gia was in the bottom when they called the names, i'm finding her quite unlikeable so far but feel like she will go far. idk how pythia wasn't high! amazing to see jimbo back toooo.
