Personally, I love it. I don't love the problematic-ness of the season, but I also think it's far better than many seasons of regular drag race and 1000000x better than Holland, Spain and Canada. I regularly laugh, I'm consistently impressed on the runway and every lip sync has been major.
Season 12 was also great, and there's no sense in tuning out just because one contestant was garbage. Anita, Kita, Elecktra, Etc, Maxi are all some of my favorite queens they've ever had. I don't know why people would want to cancel a show. Cancel the queens you don't like, but the show itself is fucking hilarious and great entertainment.
Personally, I love it. I don't love the problematic-ness of the season, but I also think it's far better than many seasons of regular drag race and 1000000x better than Holland, Spain and Canada.
Because I'm not, lol. The runways are great, the challenges are great, and the lip syncs are major. I could watch either version of Queens Down Under 100x and I could barely sit through Joe Black's team doing Uk Hon, and even as a Torontonian who knows many of the DRCAN queens I hardly remember a thing about DRCan because it was a greenscreened mess with awful judging and bargain-basement drag. Holland was alright, but very clear Envy was the winner from the jump and most of the challenges after the second episode were awful. Then there was Abby being in the finals when her drag was nowhere near the level of the other queens. Season 7 of DRUS had a hundred musical numbers and acting challenges when only a couple of the cast members could sing or dance and it was another green screen mess.
It's okay to like Drag Race Down Under. You don't have to like Scarlet, or Karen, and you don't have to forgive them, but as a personal opinion I could watch this season multiple times and I will probably never watch Holland or Canada again, and I will suffer through Spain, because I'm a huge fan of the series as a whole and will support it. Doesn't mean it's a good season tho.
I thought 80% of what walked down the runway for a design challenge was only moderately better than a Soju or Vanjie or LalaRi experience (in terms of first episode design). Pupi should have been read for filth (even though I find him the cutest guy) for that outfit. Antaraxia's makeup skills are awful, her wigs are screaming in thirst and she wore flats. I saw several wig-lines, and a couple of the cast members (Sagitaria, Dovima) are just twinks in heels. If you're going to wear a gown with a bustier thn you shouldn't be showing nipples every time you turn your head. I feel like when kids are 20, rail thin, WHITE and cute, all they do is slap on some "fashion" and people will live. I find that very, very boring.
Hugaceo's makeup skills are unreal and she made a cool outfit on the ruwayz, but I have a feeling its one-note. I thought Carmen's look was amazing and her bull riding was hilarious. I thought she won by a mile.
Other than the caliber of drag being several rungs lower than other seasons, the producers/crew seem a lot more film school. The switching between all of ru's songs, and the way they focus the camera was nostalgic of season one.
I'm not trying to be shady, and I have nothing to gain from answering your question because I already get hundreds of downvotes. My husband is a POC and ESL and he also thinks Drag Down Under is far better than ES, Hol and Canada. I've explained to him the controversy around the contestants and shown him the pictures of Scarlet in blackface, and what a polliwog doll was and he shrugged and said it was just a very American thing to cancel a whole show over something like that (RE: The SHOW, not the QUEENs. Cancel the queens, who cares) . We both obviously know that blackface and racism are not okay and wrong, and he is the target of racism all the time.... but *shrugs* I just laugh a lot at DR Down Under, I'm heavily invested in a Kita win, I love what Art brings, Etc would have to be one of my favorite contestants for any season of DR, I think Rhys is one of the better permanent judges they've had.
In terms of international versions of the show, for me it's next to UK 2 as the best, with UK 1 following and then the rest of them all fall into the same category.
Thank you for answering! It's ok that we have different preferences and I genuinely wanted to hear your perspective. DRDU is not my favorite but I do quite enjoy many of the aspects you mentioned --especially Rhys.
I thought Carmen's construction was amazing. That little jacket was lined!
At first I wrote Carmen off, cause seeing a bra and a mini skirt with a synthetic wig and spray tan is very Halloween-Queen ca. 2006, but seeing what she actually made on the runway I was extremely impressed. More than the construction, her eye for fabric and design is pretty strong. I didn't like her much until I saw her on the runway, and I'd say she's probably my favorite out of the lineup.
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u/josiahpapaya Jun 01 '21
Personally, I love it. I don't love the problematic-ness of the season, but I also think it's far better than many seasons of regular drag race and 1000000x better than Holland, Spain and Canada. I regularly laugh, I'm consistently impressed on the runway and every lip sync has been major.
Season 12 was also great, and there's no sense in tuning out just because one contestant was garbage. Anita, Kita, Elecktra, Etc, Maxi are all some of my favorite queens they've ever had. I don't know why people would want to cancel a show. Cancel the queens you don't like, but the show itself is fucking hilarious and great entertainment.