‘RuPaul’s Drag Race Untucked’ season 15 episode 2 recap: ‘Queen Choice Awards’
“RuPaul’s Drag Race” season 16 continued on January 12 with Part 2 of its two-part premiere on MTV. Airing concurrently with the main show is its tea-spilling, backstage-focused sister series “Untucked,” now in its 15th season. This season, the queens become judges of their sisters through the “Rate-A-Queen” twist that requires them to rank their competition from tops to bottoms each week.
In episode 2 of “Untucked,” the second group of seven queens reflected on the new twist, their performances in the “Queen Choice Awards” and prepared to cast their votes for the week.
Check out our full recap of the episode below:
Immediately following the judges’ critiques, but before they cast their own votes in the “Rate-A-Queen” twist, the girls were on edge about how the rest of the cast was going to assess the rating system. Plasma wasn’t sure if her if the other girls would appreciate her style of camp drag and Geneva Karr was confident that she put on a good show and got good critiques. Plane Jane explained that she intended for the squirting of the mustard and ketchup at the end of her performance to last forever to really elevate the level of stupid. She said that seeing how much RuPaul Charles “lived for the stupidity” of the “burger finger” concept was a dream come true.
Mhi’ya Iman Le’Paige told the girls that she was confident about her performance skills, but she let herself down on the runway and acknowledges that it wasn’t the best she could do. Hershii LiqCour-Jeté felt similar about her awkward-length dress that Michelle Visage clocked her for on the runway. Megami was proud of her performance even if it wasn’t the most entertaining because she explained that even in New York drag is under scrutiny and she “does not regret a single second” of the message she put forward. Jane challenged whether or not that was the best thing that Megami can produce as a drag queen, but Megami replied that “you don’t change the world by being safe.”
When they got around to discussing the rating system, Hershii said that with immunity on the line they have to “look at everything.” Plasma said that if they take critiques into account then it’s Jane that got the best ones. Jane offered “full disclosure” that “everybody gagged” her, isolating Geneva and Nymphia Wind as her personal favorites. A lot of them said that Plane was their favorite and they did not expect her to be as funny as she was. Overall, the consensus top three were Jane, Geneva and Nymphia.
Becky G stopped by to chit chat with the queens one last time before they returned to the game. The girls themselves thought they lived up to Becky’s request that they all represent themselves as individuals. Becky asked them to speak to how they felt about their performances. Hershii said that she’s enjoyed the process because she wants to welcome drag queens into her life as friends and she felt like she was finding them here. Becky said that community is one of the most important parts and that “everything should come from a place of love.” Her advice was along those lines — a reminder that “everyone you see on the way up is who you see on the way down” and to “always be a good person.”
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