Drag Race Philippines - S3E6: The recap.
Are you up to speed?
Drag Race Philippines is back for Season 3 and it's arguably the best franchise spin-off of the Drag Race multiverse.
Are you up to speed? Let's get into it.
The mini-challenge
This week's mini-challenge was an overacting exercise.
This was a lot.
Zymba was declared the winner.
The maxi-challenge
This week's maxi-challenge was the Rusical - taking inspiration from Wicked.
As the winner of the mini-challenge, Zymba got to choose her role - everyone else had to battle it out for the parts that they wanted.
The results overall were really good. The queens were lip-syncing to a backing track. The staging was relatively straightforward, but it was well-written and well-produced.
The highlight was Zymba being lifted on wires, which all happened smoothly.
This was entertaining to watch and there weren't any obvious weak links in the cast.
The runway
This week's category was Kum-Haute Couture. I'm not totally sure what that means - I think it's Bedding, but make it fashion.
Everyone served solid looks although they all felt as if they were from the same collection. Maxie probably had my favourite look but that may be just because her runway presentation is always the most compelling.
The judging
Maxie and Khianna were declared safe.
In the Top were Tita, Myx, and Zymba. Zymba was declared the winner, which was the obvious choice.
In the Bottom were Angel, John, and Popstar. Angel was safe, leaving us with a lip-sync battle of John versus Popstar.
The lip-sync
The track was Dadalhin by Regine Velasquez.
This is a classic ballad, which seemed like an odd choice for a lip-sync at this point of the competition.
Both John and Popstar did the track. Popstar is the more expressive performer, and she threw everything at it, but that did come across as a little messy compared to a very clean performance from John.
You could have made a case for either queen to be called the winner of this.
Ultimately, it was Popstar who stays and John goes home.
Episode 6, done!
The Cast
Still in contention
- Angel
- Khianna
- Maxie
- Myx Chanel
- Popstar Bench
- Tita Baby
- Zymba Ding
Eliminated queens
- John Fedellaga: Known as a social media queen, John has had a solid season - she's likeable and warm, and seems to have overcome a fair bit of personal trauma in pursuit of her drag career.
- J Quinn: Drawing heavily on K Pop, J Quinn has a distinct point of view but never really got motoring in this competition. Eliminated in Episode 5, beaten in the lip-sync by Zymba.
- Yudipota: Yudipota effectively eliminated herself in Episode 4, giving up during the lip-sync and walking off the stage. There's nothing easy about Drag Race.
- Versex: Versex is the Pork Chop of the season. This wasn't a great showing from Versex - she came off a bit insecure. It's hard to see where she goes from here.
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