#btw any time i mention anetra just imagine i'm saying it with cartoon heart eyes

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RPDR s15e03 impressions

- positively CONVINCED this season is leaning into some kind of old guard vs. up-and-comers narrative that will continue for most of the run, and it’s basically a given that Sasha will be in the finale. i don’t know if she’ll win it, though! i feel like The Narrative™ will ultimately drive the pick of winner, as it usually does.

- Sasha was so great this week and i KNEW that preview was bullshit. the neck snap was so twisted. (no pun intended.)

- the right person won (though it was CLOSE between Sasha and Loosey) but i’m torn on the bottom three. i felt like Jax didn’t do as poorly as Poppy and Amethyst, but otoh the excuses and the way she treated Sugar left a bad taste in my mouth. (again, no pun intended.) i still like Jax a lot, but she did not cover herself in glory here. i do have to say, though, as a longtime MK fan i did love the runway.

- i do kind of think it should’ve been a double elimination and probably only wasn’t because the next episode is Snatch Game and they wanted even numbers. and also, The Narrative™.

- Amethyst is kind of selling herself as a comedy queen but has been on the bottom for her comedy twice, lol. i mean, i don’t even agree that she should’ve been on the bottom the first time! but it is kind of...the funniest thing about her.

- soooo glad Michelle is on Team Natural Noses but Amethyst is hardly the only queen who sullies her perfectly lovely natural nose with unskilled/overdone contouring.

- <stan brained> i’m just really glad Anetra has fully embraced her prominent nose because it really does give her face such character </stan brained>

- Maren brought up a great point about how far the show has come and how everything on this runway would’ve been, like, finale-level a decade ago. and this was just the second runway of the season!

- my favorite runway looks were Sasha, Aura, and the twins. i am really enamored of the twins’ trashy-glam plastic doll ‘00s aesthetic and love that they commit so fully to it.

- actually just in general i really like the twins. they’re sweet ditzes! i’m old and tired enough that sometimes i just like to see nice people being nice. and anyway, as immature as they are in some aspects, they have surprising emotional maturity; pointing out that life and even their careers are more than this competition is important. their ability to keep their perspective and stay grounded is really admirable. i hope they hold onto that.

- they’re also genuinely pretty good at comedy (even if they lack range) and too breezy to be easily flustered so i’m looking forward to their Snatch Game performances. even if they bomb, they’ll bomb entertainingly.

- <stan brained> Anetra’s bone-dry sense of humor is one that frequently works well in Snatch Game so i hope she does well there </stan brained>

- Loosey is going to crush it next week but her Dolly this week was outstanding. the voice!! and i really loved her runway look and would totally wear it. i don’t know where i’d wear it or for what reason, but i would. i’d at least take it out of my closet and gaze lovingly at it regularly.

- in the preview for next week: is that Marcia³ as Tim Gunn? showing off range, i see.

- Salina as the Virgin Mary...that’s going to be. so much.