Hours later, I still find myself whispering, “twist, turn … levitate. I expected her to slay the choreography (which she did,) but she also surprised me with her fun, catchy verse and her skill as a video vixen. Far from it! There’s a reason she’s risen to the top. It’s certainly not that I dislike Lady Camden.
Perhaps it’s Ru’s forever obsession with Willow Pill, Daya Betty’s sudden villain-to-underdog pivot, or my Irish urge to put down the British. She’s now tied with Bosco for three wins and has never lip-synced for her life once (except for the post-Snatch Game fiasco.) I don’t know what it means that I have never (and still don’t) consider Lady Camden “the” frontrunner. She’s the full-blown front-runner now, baby! Lady Camden came into this episode with momentum to spare and came out having picked up yet another win to add to her collection. I almost called Lady Camden the competition’s dark horse, but nothing could be further from the truth. It’s one of her better tracks, and it gives me hope that this might prove to be a more memorable iteration of this classic final-five challenge. In this case, it’s the slow jam “Catwalk” off Ru’s new, critically acknowledged hyperpop album Mamaru. In between trauma dumping on the main stage over a tic-tac hors d’oeuvres, they must write and perform verses to the RuPaul song du jour. As in seasons past, the queens are playing triple duty. However, as difficult as it is to find anything extraordinary in this episode, there’s also little to find fault with. They’re all cut $150,000 checks (at that point, more “stimulus check” than “prize money”), and we can all go along our merry way. I, for one, can’t wait for the finale where RuPaul will break the crown into pieces like Cady Heron at Spring Fling and then proceed just to crown them all in a five-way tie.
For the first time in Drag Race Herstory, a top five.Īs far as episodes of season 14 go, this one is pretty par for the course: a perfectly agreeable 90 minutes of television with little to no narrative momentum. There you have it, folks! After 14 episodes, we’ve arrived at our finalists of the season.