Episode 52: Group Dynamics + Tammie Brown + Dragula

Alright Mary: All Things RuPaul's Drag Race

Colin Drucker & Johnny Also

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4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2017

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

It’s the first group challenge of the series with the queens channeling Destiny’s Child in rival girl groups. They even have some inspiration at the judges’ panel with special guest judge Beyon—no, not Beyonce, Kelly Row—not, not Kelly Rowlands. Michelle Williams! We discuss the character of Tammie Brown, Akashia as the original self-producer and Shannel as one of many queens who wanted to win too much Plus: Dragula first impressions, fawning over Shelly Long and draggy actors.

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0:00.0	The All right, Mary.
0:15.0	Congratulations on making it to week two of RuPaul's Drag Race,
0:22.0	but this is no time to relax and untuck.
0:25.0	You know, drag is about a lot of things.
0:28.0	Perfect outfit, perfect makeup, the perfect wig, but at the end of the the day it's what's going on inside that really
0:36.2	counts.
0:37.2	When people look at you they can connect with what's going on behind the eyes, They won't care what's going on between the
0:45.0	thighs. Okay, Pitt crew, bring in the cameras.
0:50.0	And here we have Mary's one of the first examples of RuPaul inserting a really, really important
1:00.1	message about self-care and self-love into the world of drag and masking it so
1:06.9	wonderfully with comedy and camp. Yeah what I like about this clip is you know when we
1:12.2	talk about this idea that drag race is in some ways a satire of these other competition shows top model on Project Runway it's like okay in theory I can I can understand that but it's like where the moments to really see that in action
1:23.7	obviously other than like she male versus tire male and whatnot but this to me feels like
1:28.3	such a pitch perfect example of the satire and that there really is this meaningful message there's this
1:34.0	sense of self-importance that Tyra would bring we're talking about Tyra Banks
1:39.0	not the other not the other Tyra the other other Tyra and then to be able to cap it off with a joke, it's like that reminder that like, yeah, all of this is true, but it's also
1:49.9	all drag.
1:50.9	And it's also not to be taken too seriously.
1:53.0	And that the real key to understanding all this is to then not take it too seriously.
1:57.0	Yeah, I mean you have to listen to yourself and love yourself and don't take the world too seriously.
2:04.5	Right?
2:05.5	That balancing act I think is so interesting and so,
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