But apparently Ru has gotten bored of the same old format and also maybe felt that she hadn’t been self-promoting enough, because this time the challenge was to make a resortwear look that tears away to a nude illusion (ostensibly to tie in with Ru’s latest album Born Naked, available on iTunes). The main challenge was even weirder than the mini-challenge! Ordinarily the first main challenge of the season involves forcing the queens to to dig fabric out of a dumpster/steal it from other queens dressed as zombies/buy a bunch of shit at a thrift store/etc. ![]() Bye Santino! Nobody will miss you! And even more luckily, everybody’s favorite former contestant (surely not just mine) Alaska made a guest appearance, in full Anna Wintour Drag (seated beside a silent, turbaned Mathu Andersen, who I like to think is impersonating Waris Ahluwalia). This mini-challenge was very strange both in that it seemed weirdly sincere and fashion-oriented in a way that drag probably shouldn’t be, and also that they were in a giant empty room. But there was a bit of novelty in that we got our first look at one of the two new judges: Carson Kressley of Queer Eye fame (Ross Matthews of E! red carpet coverage fame doesn’t pop up until the main stage presentation). There is a grand tradition of the first mini-challenge being a photoshoot in which the queens are subjected to some form of low level torture (having intense wind blown in their faces, being forced to stand on a rotating platform while people spray paint on them, having to jump on a trampoline, having to dive into a giant tank and pose underwater, having to leap into a pit full of foam blocks, having to have a pillow fight with the Pit Crew (ok that one seemed pretty enjoyable)), but this time instead they had to walk a runway wearing a spring look and a fall look. ![]() ![]() New queens! New judges! New Pit Crew (sort of)! New challenges! New RuPaul album to advertise constantly! Last season the only real shakeups were the weird split premiere (which they wisely ditched this time) and the addition of a couple new non-descript Pit Crew members, but this time they went totally off model for the challenges. But most importantly of all, a new season of RuPaul’s Drag Race has begun.
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