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As if we haven't suffered enough... Ru and Michelle have gone back to Australia-or-New-Zealand to film a second season of the lowest-rated spinoff in Drag Race herstory. Yes, worse than Holland.

 

Drag Race Down Under Season 2 starts airing in a week. Hatewatch?

 

 

Season 1 twist beneficiary Art Simone is doing recap/reviews on youtube.

 

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I think it’s a shame that the girls on this season are already getting so much hate due to the previous season- they’re not to blame :(

 

I will be watching

I think it’s a shame that the girls on this season are already getting so much hate due to the previous season- they’re not to blame :(

 

I will be watching

Yeah I agree, I don't see why people have to totally write the series off just because of last season. I actually think if you take Scarlet away (and Karen being utter shit yet making the final), the season wasn't THAT bad, certainly not worse than say Holland 2 or Italy.

 

In saying that, Hannah Conda has a racism scandal already similar to Scarlett, however she apologised and has made reparations even before DRDU1 was out I believe. It appears that she made comments or something when younger (not just a year ago like Scarlett :lol:) and since then has been an activist and ran anti racism workshops, obviously as a white person it isn't for me to say when someone should be forgiven, but that goes a hell of a long way further than a fake apology that only comes out once you're a frontrunner in the biggest drag competition, not to name names :whistle:

 

I believe the rest are clean! Spankie Jackson was on Anita and Kita's House Of Drag like Elektra Shock and won (Elektra was robbed), I expect her to be a campy comedy queen who will probably win Snatch Game and maybe acting/stand-up/improv but falter with runways and design challenges and maybe like a makeover too. She was either bottom 2 or won the entire time she was on the show :lol: Kween Kong and Yuri stick out to me so far

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I'm just being shady boots, the worst things about DRDU aside from Scarlet was 1) RuPaul and 2) the fact it was so chaotic. Art recently revealed that it was shot in 2.5 weeks only with the queens not getting a single day off which probably also contributed.
Okay so the first episode was actually a lot of fun and I’m looking forward to the rest of it now ^_^

It was a good start but I always kind hate having the unconventional design challenges episode 1, it's an unfair thing to expect the queens to do off the bat. I'd have gone Yuri to win too, I don't care if she couldn't really walk in it, that was by far the best thing on that stage, and actually stood out.

 

One of my dream lipsync songs already *.* I'm loving Spankie so I'm glad she stayed, if she's anything like she was on House Of Drag then she's kinda got next week's acting challenge in the bag. Yuri, Molly, Spankie and Kween stand out to me so far, not so keen on Hannah Conda, I'm getting HUGE Baga vibes (right down to a Baga edit).

Just watched Episode 1 and… I enjoyed it!

 

But I didn’t agree with any of the decisions. I don’t know which producer Faux Fur pissed off because her outfit was not bottom 2 or 3 worthy and she was definitely better in the lip sync. And Yuri’s outfit was leagues ahead of the others, regardless of whether she could walk in it.

 

I like the idea of the edit favouring the older queens for once instead of trying to sink them and send them packing at the earliest opportunity unlike in the US.

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Jesus I mean about 7 out of 10 of them didn't do great in that design challenge eh.

 

This isn't as chaotic as S1 but the girls also seem more robotic or scripted :/ also Ru keeping mispronouncing Yuri Guaii is annoying

Christ that acting challenge was a slog :lol: Finally they do something actually Aussie inspired and go for an iconic show like Prisoner/Wentworth and we get... that.

 

Spankie was probably the right winner, it could have been Minnie but I do think Spankie doing so well in a pretty awful group clinched her the win. Hannah's runway was actually SO good, I'm surprised, she's giving me strong Baga vibes but seems to have much better looks so she's my prediction to win at the moment

This was actually a really great episode! I love that they tackled Hannah's past in the way that they did, allowing her to be called out but letting her show that she is sorry for what she did. It seems like she is really actually doing things to start making amends rather than just making a fake and performative apology.

 

Yuri and Spankie were easily the best, they really complimented and highlighted each other, but Kween and Minnie did really well too, the other two pairs weren't wholly bad but definitely a bit iffy. Spankie in her comedy and acting lanes is really in her own league to the others imo, she just really need to step up her runways a LOT. She could even win three in a row with Snatch Game next week, she won that on House Of Drag 2!

All three lip syncs have been good so far! This felt like the strongest episode so far and neither pairing did badly tbh! The right queen went in the end and was already on borrowed time as she should’ve gone last week imo!

 

Possible unpopular opinion but I thought Minnie was the worst this week! I’m not warming to her as much as I want to and actually has a bit of a nasty streak? Kween Kong and Spankie on the other hand have been great and loving seeing the more experienced queens getting a better edit.

 

Crazy that Spankie has won 2/3 challenges so far LOL

Randomly seen Kween Kong at the Edinburgh Fringe on Sunday, I didn't know her before hand as I haven't really been following down under the same but omg what a star

Honestly I think season 1's Snatch Game was better than that - at least that had Anita and Etc's! Hannah was definitely the best, it was so stupid and very much a caricature of Liza but at least it was actually funny. Spankie was very good but with what she's capable of, I feel like she could have done a whole lot more! Yuri was very good too, definitely an inspired character choice and it worked really well Kong did just about enough so it was fine but didn't go far enough at all. The other three were pretty bad to downright cringe, I don't think Molly's was downright terrible as much as it was forgettable, when you've got a character who is a mystery like Orville Peck, you can do anything so why would you do... basically nothing? Val Garland could be SUCH a good Snatch character so it's a shame that Beverley didn't do the accent or really any characteristics.

 

Minnie came across as a thoroughly unpleasant in the end, glad to see her gone. There was just no need to try and rat Beverley out to Ru as if Ru gives a shit about that? :lol: Her Snatch Game was absolutely awful too it goes without saying, how embarrassing for Ru to say she was dreading her answering each time!! I SQUEALED at the lipsync song, shame it got wasted on Minnie but Beverley killed it. I really didn't think she would be a lipsync assassin like this. That was a MURDER on stage and that was quite satisfying given how Minnie behaved to the queens. Even down to "oh wow" when Beverley stayed, I feel like that was quite mean spirited.

 

I do wish we had a more Aussie Snatch Game though, give me Julia Morris, Ann Reardon, Patti Newton, Lee Lin Chin and Sophie Monk!

I mean, I can only really echo everything Liam posted. This season is so much more enjoyable than the first one, and I think that's partly down to the front runners being thoroughly likeable people. It's clearly going to be either Spankie or Hannah who wins and they're both doing fantastically without needing a fake producer push. I think Hannah has a bit more "star quality" and feels a bit more put together though.

 

My problem with the series (and a problem S1 had to) is the editing is just AWFUL. No storylines feel like they're fleshed out enough, arguments cut short, sentences seem to be getting cut off before the person has even finished, awkward gaps etc. Like what on earth was that Kween Kong & Beverley argument in Untucked that lasted about 10 seconds? It makes it really hard to watch because it's all so... poorly produced?

 

Snatch Game was good though, 3 genuinely good ones! I spent the whole episode assuming Beverley was going so I'm pleasantly surprised she didn't. I liked Minnie initially but she just wound up feeling unpleasant, as Liam said. And that lip sync was atrocious, it was like the polar opposite of Charlie Hides - not stopping jumping from side to side for the entire thing. A bit of a waste of such a classic song, but Beverley did well.

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