(EDDIE's TAKE) RPDR Season 5 - Episode 9!

by Eddie Walker

In this week’s episode, RuPaul said, “There is nothing sadder than the tears of a drag queen.” But I beg to differ. I can think of one thing that’s sadder, and that’s watching one of your top three picks sashay away. I almost wept when they gave my girl her walking papers, but it was the right decision. I’ll get to which girl it was in a minute.

Episode 9 of RuPaul’s Drag Race - Season 5, titled “Drama Queens” had the girls test out their acting skills. For the mini-challenge, the girls had to compete in “The Crying Game”, where the girls had cry on cue for some made-up reason. The two girls with the most heart-felt cry would be named the winners. RuPaul named Alyssa Edwards a winner, along with Detox. Detox cried the most authentic tears, which she pulled off by remembering when she found her lover dead from a drug overdose two years earlier.

As the winners of the mini-challenge, Detox and Alyssa Edwards were made team captains and had to pick teams to compete in the main challenge. Detox got the girl group, “Ro-Laska-Tox” back together, leaving Jinkx Monsoon and Coco Montrese to join Team Alyssa.

For the main-challenge, each team had to act out a scene in a Latin telenovela-styled TV show starring heart-throb, Wilmer Valderrama. Neither group gave a commendable performance as a whole. However, each group had one girl that just stole the show. Those girls are Alaska and Jinkx Monsoon.