RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE S14E6 “Glamazon Prime”: Jorgeous Soars In A Piece Of Fabric & Queens Are Mad

Before we can even talk about the latest episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race, we must congratulate Bosco, not only for her first win in last week’s episode, but for also recently coming out as transgender! In an Instagram post, Bosco talked about how she started Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) after coming back from filming the show and that, out of drag, her pronouns are she/they. Bosco is now the third trans queen to bless this season of Drag Race and it’s wonderful and amazing to see. Ok, now we can get to episode six.

Needless to say, there’s a lot going on in this week’s episode (and then some). Tensions are climbing, nerves are getting put to the test, and queens will do anything to get out of being called “safe” for another week. There’s no mini challenge because the maxi is a design challenge and these are the episodes where we really get into the dirt and the tea. The prompt for this design challenge is that Drag Race judge Michelle Visage ordered too much stuff with “Glamazon Prime” after taking too much “Glambian” and the queens must make runway outfits out of whatever random things she ordered. And random is the correct word because there are boxes with cookie cutters, curtains, kiddie pools, and much, much more.

That’s Still A Lot Of Emotion For Safe

After queens fight and call dibs on different materials, ideas start to swarm for design concepts and it looks like Willow and Daya have the same babydoll idea going before Daya, who is so hungry to get out of being declared safe, basically marks her territory and tells Willow that she’s doing the babydoll look. This is right off the heels of last week’s Untucked where we saw Daya get really in her feelings over constantly being safe. While being declared safe means that you get to stay another week, it isn’t the best place to be because it means that you’re not on RuPaul‘s radar.

So Daya does have a point when she says that she needs to stop being so nice and put her foot down in order to rise to the top but, it looks like this course of action is setting up a semi-villain edit for her, which builds further after a walkthrough chat with Ru and Drag Race judge Carson Kressley. Daya asks them what she can do to improve her performance in the competition and, as Jasmine says in an intercut confessional, gets the answer that she doesn’t want. Carson tells Daya that the few times he’s seen her on the runway, her looks and makeup reminded him of Crystal Methyd, who is in the same drag family as Daya. The editors show a side-by-side comparison of the two queens and, while there are subtle differences, they really do look a lot alike.

Along with the Daya storyline, we get some little storyline advances with Kerri talking about how her father hated even being in the same room as her when she was a kid because of how feminine she was, Jorgeous needing to redeem herself from being in the Bottom last week, and Maddy talking about how her mom isn’t a part of her life. With all of these different narratives up in the air, it’s a little tricky to tell which queen may be getting their farewell this week. This tells me that the editors and producers are getting better at their jobs – it’s usually very easy to tell which way the wind will blow during these parts of the episode but not this week.

It’s… A Piece Of Fabric

We make it to the runway and the special guest judge joining RuPaul, Michelle, and Carson is the incredibly talented Taraji P. Henson (Hidden Figures). The runway looks range from stunning to cute to downright unfortunate and the judging loosely represents this. The queens who were were declared safe – Daya, Willow, Kerri, and Bosco – are perfectly fine being in the safe zone.

As the judges delegate over the Tops and Bottoms, there’s an overwhelming flurry of positive reviews for Angeria, Camden, and Jorgeous and, judging by what’s said, it could literally go any which way. While Camden’s was my favorite of the three, the judges really loved what Angeria was able to do with the materials. But, when RuPaul was ruminating over just where exactly Jorgeous got such great taste and wondering who exactly taught her to be so put-together, the fates were sealed when Michelle said that Jorgeous had learned everything from, obviously watching RuPaul for so many years. That’s it. That’s what did it, and miraculously, Jorgeous wins the design challenge.

Now, there’s been a bit of contention for Jorgeous’ first win, as Daya was not-so-subtly shading Jorgeous’ look during Untucked AND the teaser for next week shows Daya confronting Jorgeous over her win. While I don’t think Jorgeous should have gotten the win (I would have been happier with Camden or Angeria) I can kind of see what the judges loved so much about it as it is an overall well-put-together look with great placement details of the little yellow cookie cutters. However, I don’t think she should have won, and according to the internet, I’m not the only one.

But here’s the thing, I really like Jorgeous (especially since she reminds me of a young John Leguizamo) and I think she’s a great queen, but I just don’t see her being able to get a win outside of this design challenge. Unless she really pulls it together and gets over her worries about the way she speaks (the girl does like to say “legit” a lot) or suddenly becomes a better actor, I just don’t see her making it that far in the competition. In the end, I think it’s ok that she won this episode, but I don’t think that she was the most deserving. But hey, it’s not my show, it’s RuPaul’s show and RuPaul really loves Jorgeous.

Jorgeous gets the $5,000 cash tip and Angeria and Camden are declared safe, which leaves DeJa, Maddy, and Jasmine in the Bottom Three. The judges liked DeJa’s actual garment and its Grecian influences, but the accessories she added ruined the entire look – and because the judges actually liked the dress itself, there was no way DeJa was going to lip-sync.

DeJa is declared safe and the Bottom Two are Maddy and Jasmine who, as it turns out, got into a big fight during Untucked, which is not an unheard-of thing but rarely do we actually get a sneak peek of what has happened in Untucked during the actual Drag Race episode! This is actually quite notable, as cutaways to clips from Untucked moments usually happen the following week or later.

As far as the fight goes, Jasmine was not bothered at all by the prospect of going up against Maddy in a lip-sync, confident in her inevitable victory since there is no chance that Maddy could really beat her in a lip-sync (unless, of course, Jasmine loses her wig and/or shoes). Maddy tries to talk tough and say that she’s going to destroy the lip sync, which Jasmine fully laughs at. Things escalate from there as the girls really start to argue and fight; it’s all dumb drama but the rest of the queens are completely living for it. It seems like the fight goes on for a while, judging by how many different reactions we get from everyone else in Untucked, but there’s no way to really know it. In the end, Maddy tries to hug it out with Jasmine and the fight is pretty much dissipated with special guest Taraji P. Henson entering the room to hang out with the queens.

In the end, Jasmine and Maddy must lip sync to Beyoncé‘s “Sugar Mama” and it isn’t even a contest – Jasmine completely wipes the floor with Maddy. However, it should be noted that Jasmine’s performance itself was actually a bit sloppy. Considering that Jasmine is a dancer, I was expecting a lot more from her but eh, it was enough to beat Maddy so I guess it’s fine. Jasmine wins the lip-sync but wait, there’s still the chocolate to consider.

Just like last week, the music becomes even more intense as Maddy takes out her candy bar to see if she is the one with the golden ticket that saves her from elimination. I’m not going to lie, I was 90% expecting her to have the chocolate bar just so there could be more fighting between her and Jasmine next week, but, in the end, it’s just a regular chocolate bar.

And with that, Maddy Morphosis, the first-ever straight, cisgender man to compete on RuPaul’s Drag Race, was told to sashay away. Maddy was excellent in all of the performance and acting challenges, showing that she had the creative mind to make it as a drag queen, just not the fashion sense to bring her further in the competition. As RuPaul says, “because we knew you, we have been changed for good” and I think that these are nice parting words and that hopefully, in future seasons, the scope of who’s chosen to compete on the show will widen even further.

Conclusion: “Glamazon Prime”

This week’s episode was filled with a ton of storylines, backstory, upset feelings, and the first real memorable Untucked moment of the season – it was a doozy but it was also a ton of fun! I really enjoyed learning more about some of the queens (particularly Kerri), I was happy to see the queens really interact with each other and show their sisterhood while making their outfits, and, even though I disagree with this week’s winner, I’m intrigued by the storyline it will start. I hope though, that Daya doesn’t get the short end of the stick in terms of production’s shenanigans. It definitely feels like she is being toyed with in an effort to push her to the emotional edge and I only hope that she can persevere. We’ll have to tune in next time to know for sure though – damn you, television!

Do you think Daya is being set up to fail? Did Jorgeous really deserve the win? Let us know in the comments below!

A new episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 14 can be seen every Friday at 8/7c on VH1. 

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