If we were judging based on these four episodes, Lawrence would be the leader of the pack, with Bimini earning kudos for her growth and Tayce and Tia dominating in the personality department. Credit: Courtesy of World of WonderĬhapter one of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Season 2 is coming to a close. Ginny Lemon right before forfeiting the Lip Sync for Your Life. While she’s been fun as a villain, rooting for her to do well in this competition takes learning more about her as a person. It all works at opening up A’Whora as a character, and it comes at a crucial time. This is very much an A’Whora week, as she makes up with Tia after trashing her in Mini- Untucked last week and opens up about where her negativity comes from. (She even holds her cards upside down, a genius small choice.) A’Whora fully goes for it in her Essex girl character, outshining Tia and impressing the other dolls for being so good at improv. The former is one of the primary anchors alongside Tayce, and really gets into her ditzy character. I get Lawrence’s win, but I’m even more impressed with Bimini Bon Boulash and A’Whora this week. (Were the bottom three not so clear, I’d have guessed Ellie would score low this week.) Helping matters is that she’s once again teamed up with Scottish sister Ellie Diamond, who really struggles in comparison. It’s another older woman character, which runs the risk of boring the judges, but she really is unparalleled in terms of her comic timing. Lawrence Chaney secures her second win for sliding into her role with aplomb. The top performers this week are a strong lot across the board. The title card for “Morning Glory.” Credit: Courtesy of World of Wonder Veronica’s hitting the wrong beats Sister Sister does nothing. (“ Veronica’s Drag Race, it’s dead boring!” she sings in one confessional.) I will agree that Veronica flops hardest, but Sister Sister doesn’t exactly shower herself in glory. Sister Sister really blames Veronica for their collective failure, dumping on her both in confessionals and in the workroom the next day. It’s one more note than Sister Sister and Veronica have, though! This challenge is a mix of scripted dialogue and improv, and while Veronica is fine at the former, she has no mind for the latter. Ginny gets a hippie Australian weather girl, and while she brings a fun, manic energy to it, it’s all a bit one note. The task this week is for the queens to take part in a morning chat show, with each taking on a different part of the program with assigned character types: Sister Sister and Veronica Green are Goth girls from Camden in a cooking segment, while Tia Kofi and A’Whora are Essex girls talking about a new vajazzling craze. And she happily, calmly, seals her own fate. Ginny doesn’t want to even potentially take her best friend’s dream away from her. It’s a weird moment, but in an odd way, a peaceful one. (He’s been through a more dramatic quit before, after all.) Sister Sister keeps performing, delivering what is honestly one of the better lip syncs we’ve seen on Drag Race UK! And she even gets a “shantay”-which, not sure if you all know, does in fact mean stay. The judges are thrown, but Ru is remarkably calm. She walks to the back of the stage, turns back around, gives a laugh and walks off. As her lip sync begins against Sister Sister, to Kim Wilde’s “You Keep Me Hangin’ On,” Ginny clasps her hands in a moment of peace, then blows a kiss. ![]() As shocking as it is to see someone quit, the actual handling of it is remarkably low-key. For now, though, we must talk about the episode at hand, including Ginny’s walk-off. We can start to unpack that when we know more next week. These queens will have experienced so much time without work, and will be coming back to entirely different filming conditions. Seven months went by before filming picked back up. We don’t know much about how the hiatus will affect things yet-though there is a special about the lockdown set to drop next week-but suffice it to say I don’t expect the competition to just pick up where it left off when production shut down in March 2020. No standard, solid episode may be left without dramatics for us to discuss. That this all comes at the end of what is a thoroughly fine episode of Drag Race UK Season 2 is a testament to the thrills of this series. And if that weren’t enough, in the preview for next week’s episode, Ru announces that COVID-19 restrictions have shut down filming, leaving us in the lurch as to what might come next. Quite a way to end an episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, huh? I know I just said last week that I don’t like starting at the end of an episode, but I don’t think we have much choice: Ginny Lemon has, as Tayce put it, “BenDeLaCreme’d herself,” walking off at the start of this week’s lip sync, thus quitting the competition.
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