Jaida’s win feels like a huge win for all of us after a rather vociferous season of RuPaul’s Drag Race taht was weighed down by Sherry Pie, COVID-19, and that insane facekini RuPaul wore.
With RuPaul explicitly choosing queens based on their report cards, the show has dipped its heel into new territory. Will this also be how she chooses the ultimate winner?
With six remaining queens, everyone had a moment in the spotlight, despite one disqualified queen going way over her allotted time slot and causing another high ranking queen to falter.
Knowing the legacy of the state Oklahoma, To The Stars turns what could have been a fairly run-of-the-mill coming of age story into a broader indictment of a state’s transcendent violence.
Cowboys is Anna Kerrigan’s delicate and modestly subversive take on the Western, in which a father violates his parole and pulls his son away from an unpleasant upbringing.
Fairytale is an interesting take on the story of a transgender woman’s transition, set against the backdrop of external threats of UFOs, communism and a picture-perfect 1950s setting.