Spankie Jackzon, the winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under. Hell, you probably stan Spankie Jackzon (I know I do). If you’ve seen an episode of her season, you remember Spankie Jackzon. There is no doubt, ever, that Spankie Jackzon is one of the most memorable queens in the entire franchise. And frankly, what Down Under contestants make, especially this season, is great TV. But what a Drag Race queen needs to be, above all else? Good TV. Very few Drag Race queens can do it all, even on an All Stars season (although that is why All Stars exists). That doesn’t necessarily make them good at the wide range of skills that Drag Race asks of their contestants: they need to sew, dance, perform improv, be witty – god help us, sometimes they even need to do stand-up comedy. Pretty much everybody who gets on Drag Race is a great drag performer – they do the thing that they do extremely well, whether that’s perform in nightclubs, post looks on Instagram, do a cabaret act, or whatever. To elaborate: there is a difference between being a great drag performer and being good at Drag Race. Drag is inclusive, all drag is valid, but not all drag is a great fit for Drag Race. It is competitive and inherently exclusive, what with being a competition and all. Drag Race is a franchise that requires a contestant to be amazing at pretty much everything. Drag Race and drag are basically distinct art forms at this point. If you take the latest season of the flagship franchise, which arguably crowned one of the most worthy winners of all time, you see a fair number of contestants who have grown up on Drag Race, rather than drag. While the series’ roughness has oft been criticised – remember when they basically had to make costumes out of Bunnings materials? – in my mind, that’s the highlight of Drag Race Down Under. The top five of RuPaul’s Drag race, including Isis Ava Loren, Bumpa Love, Flor, Hollywould Star and Gabriella LaBucci. Which is all a shame, because season three of DRDU (a cursed acronym I will not be using) is not just a delightful season of television, but shows this particular franchise is finally finding its footing, in sky-high stilettos, a foam wig and a corset worn on the outside.īut of course, it’s still a little bit rough. Shockingly, there seems to be almost no critical coverage of this season, excluding the obligatory – and actually fantastic – recap show from previous contestant Art Simone, delightfully titled “Kick Ons”. There are multiple YouTube videos ripping into those seasons as the “worst ever”. The recaps of both previous seasons tore into the show, often unfairly (myself included). People are mean about RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under. The shaggy underdog of the RuPaul’s Drag Race monster franchise might be a little ramshackle, but it’s still great TV, Sam Brooks argues.
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