r/rupaulsdragrace • u/AutoModerator • Feb 01 '25
Season 17 S17E05 - “RDR Live!” [Post-Episode Discussion]
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u/Beginning_While_7913 Mar 03 '25
okay so arietty is the delulu queen so far that she’s mad she was in the bottom, she should have been in the bottom 2 with kori imo
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u/undercover-fairy Feb 07 '25
am i crazy for thinking the badunkadunk thing wasn’t actually rigged this year ?? i fully expected it to be like the s14 chocolate where ru uses it to keep one of her favs at some point later in the season and yet both levers pulled so soon ?😭 i think they’re starting to learn it’s better tv when there’s less obvious riggory involved
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u/poeticsoul151 Feb 05 '25
I hate the "badonkadonk" challenge.. Lydia put in work in the lip sync.. I wanted arietty gone. Idk why they can't just let eliminations be final.. 🙄
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Feb 07 '25
At least it’s already done. And this one was stupid but not as dumb as the chocolate. Plus the right numbers being “17” makes it feel less produced
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u/velvetsabbath Feb 04 '25
also i was SO GAGGED to see the second lever work so soon omg.
on week 1 i saw someone say that since lever #7 worked, the other one was probably #1 so it was 17 or #10 so it added up to 17 and i've been going crazy waiting for someone to choose either lmao
on a final note im SO excited to see law roach come back this week AHHHHHHHH
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u/velvetsabbath Feb 04 '25
arriety wasn't even the worst one on her sketch, send tweet
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u/DevoutandHeretical Feb 04 '25
My guess is producers pegged Arrietty as an early out since they’re allergic to more artsy queens like her, but she gave enough drama during untucked saying all the queens she thought were worse than her that they want to keep her another week to see if they can stoke some more fighting between the girls from it.
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u/yf9292 Feb 04 '25
like I understand that bonds form and you don't want your sisters to leave prematurely, but some of the girls are acting like it'll be a group win at the end!!
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u/MayoneggVeal Jul 29 '25
Finally watching on Paramount Plus, and for real the queens this season are acting like the eliminated queens are taken out back and old yellered, never to be seen again.
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u/M__M Feb 04 '25
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I think RDR is an excuse for Ru to promote her latest single. I’m sure there are better ways to go about it, but she looks amazing on the stage so 🤷♂️
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Unironically love the lip-sync song so I’m glad B-Hole did it justice.
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Won’t name names, but some of these girls have a….Magnolia Crawfish approach to drag and RPDR.
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u/PatienceTall8699 Feb 03 '25
An alt queen with John Waters-esque sense of humor & a funny name who can get down to disco? Oh ru’s in love
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u/microtear Feb 03 '25
The judging absolutely confused tf outta me this episode. Kori needed to be in the bottom; she is not giving at all.
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u/poeticsoul151 Feb 05 '25
Kori always looks a mess to me... She needs to be gone... Anyway, my winner pick is Suzie or Onya
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u/Prudent-Soil6116 Feb 03 '25
I’m convinced this season is in it’s delusion era. Arietty, Lana, even Kori, and the other girls shaking their heads at the top and bottoms. I don’t alway agree with the judging but this was pretty right on to me.
I don’t think they personally like any of the top 3 this week and their judgement is totally clouded by that. It feels like the rest of the girls think this is a popularity contest. 🤷♀️
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u/effizientz Feb 02 '25
Hormona is really growing on me she is kinda cute! And was slaying the challenge
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u/bainneach Feb 02 '25
I'm over Kori y'all. She's bringing nothing.
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u/Travel_Eat_Read Feb 03 '25
I was over Kori (and that tumbler) on the first episode. I wanted to like her but by the end I didn't.
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u/ushikagawa Feb 03 '25
Kori is giving Tina Burner for me. She’s in the “mean girl” squad and has so much confidence but then her drag is… mediocre to say the least.
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u/yarajaeger Jun 11 '25
What the fuck was this bottom three? Arietty was... bad, to say the least, but at least I remembered her. And Sam was completely safe, she had no business being in the bottom at all. For me the clear bottom three was Crystal, Kori, and Lydia. Both of those first two completely disappeared in their sketches.
But Suzie as the winner was right. I've been begging for a genuinely funny queen for the past three seasons and it's honestly crazy because no one except Lydia did that poorly but comparing Suzie's performance with the other girls is like night and day. On that topic, I never would have guessed, but everyone had reasonably good comedic chops except for Lydia lol. Last season was a disaster in comparison. I was even mildly impressed with the writing this time although it still royally pisses me off that they say "Live from Tuckahoe it's RDR Live" but whatever.
I was already loving Onya but she's solidified herself as one of my top picks. Lexi, Onya, Suzie (if she escapes the theatre curse) and mayyyybeeeee Sam? Lol that fourth place is a toss up tbh no one sticks out icl 💀
Wow, Lydia really surprised me with her lip sync. I never expected her to do that well. The right choice was made this week, although personally I wouldn't have put Arietty in the bottom over Kori.
Aaaand ok nvm we're going anti climactic with the elim? Why not.