Drag Race UK S3

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Ru Paul's bit can basically be copy and pasted from one episode into every episode of the series. Absolutely phoning it in.

The challenges are utter shite. Like others, I don't understand what was expected in the Dragaton and Draglexa challenges.

I want to see British drag culture and comedy culture be embraced more. WOW clearly just copy and paste the entire show for every version, and it's just not working anymore.

Ru Paul going off on them for playing it safe, the challenge was shite and gave them nowhere to go with it. Ru/WOW is playing it safe by doing the same thing every series.
 
There are so many great British comedy challenges that they could do.

Like one of the funniest from last season was the soap challenge because it's so relevant and suits the queen's humor. I just think they're chucking out far too many seasons and franchises without any original ideas.

I remember having to wait months between seasons and counting down the days until they were back, now there's a meet the queens every few weeks. :rolleyes:
 
xoxogossip_girl said:
Like one of the funniest from last season was the soap challenge because it's so relevant and suits the queen's humor. I just think they're chucking out far too many seasons and franchises without any original ideas.
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The soap challenge was really good! And doing a soap challenge this year would be great because we've got a lot of funny queens, even the ones who aren't funny (Krystal) could find a way to make it work.
I've never liked the original drag race because I can't stand that kind of falsified american humour, but liked canadian drag race because it was just that bit different. I thought i'd like the drag race down under because aussie's tend to have a similar sense of humour to us but i couldn't gel with it i think because of ru americanising it.
I really enjoyed the first 2 seasons of druk but this one just feels so cookie cutter, theres so many different places you can go to make challenges that cater to a british sense of humour.
 
If they were to have more representation from all the countries in the UK, I’d LOVE to see a challenge whether it be acting, singing or whatever based on their specific country stereotypes. Like get people proper English/Scottish/Welsh/Northern Irish and see how they perform against each other. I think it would be great
 
I think it might’ve been done in the USA as a similar concept and it probably wouldn’t go down too well for obvious reasons but part of me would love a Jeremy Kyle show type challenge. Queens could really push their acting abilities with it and it might be really funny if it was super over the top.

I think another issue with More recent series is that the age demographic has changed. Whereas when DRusa started the average viewer was probably 25+ I feel these days it’s more a teens show (15-30 age range) there’s probably loads of great British pop culture references from really awful tacky tv from the 2000’s but I doubt some of the younger queens or audience would understand them. So they stick with tired formulas and challenges that have been done to death.
 
I didn't really "get" what they were trying to do this week and they seemed equally confused! It really did feel like an old episode of the US series, and nowhere near as funny.

Leigh-Anne Pinnock has as much personality as a cardboard cut-out. Don't understand why they didn't they have a Little Mix song to lip sync to either....loads of good choices rather than Shirley Bassey.
 
A X Factor or BGT challenge would be decent as well, lots of opportunity for bringing out pop culture references (you just know kitty would be dawn the jockey) the uk has so many iconic shows that don’t translate overseas and druk should be using that to its potential.
copying the American format has already run its course.
 
fxckmanet said:
A X Factor or BGT challenge would be decent as well, lots of opportunity for bringing out pop culture references (you just know kitty would be dawn the jockey) the uk has so many iconic shows that don’t translate overseas and druk should be using that to its potential.
copying the American format has already run its course.
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They won't do shows like that because they are ITV though. Maybe Strictly Cum Dancing
 
Charity coming across really badly in her post exit interviews in my view.
Seems really bitter about the whole process, still cannot understand why nobody won Draglexa and thought their advert was great, complaining she never pleased the judges and about the unfair advantage conferred upon contestants with higher budgets. Its just a bit silly really as she must have known beforehand what challenges there are on Drag Race and its obvious from looking at previous contestants that you have to spend a lot to keep up with them. I also feel like she totally ignored the praise shr got for the detailing, artistry and intricacy of her outfits - the usual criticisms wetr that she wasn't trying to fit the brief. Which is totally fair btw - if you're going to get pissy about being told you didn't look or act like you were in a girl band, why enter a contest where every year there is a girl band challenge?! She comes across as pretty salty and noy particularly likeable in interviews in my view....
 
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