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Theres also, increasingly, at leastone eye-rolling double save.
This is especially true of a sewing and/or design challenge.
This episode was no different, but that doesnt mean there wasnt plenty to love.
It starts out with another RuPaul tradition: the reading mini challenge.
and all the queens answer, Fundamental!
For those of us, ahem, over a certain age, it means something totally different.
Reading Is Fundamental (better known as RIF) is a charity that tries toboost literacy in children.
So, that is where the catchphrase comes from.
Damn, is that a read or a death threat?
She wasnt just chopped, she was electrocuted.
Bimini says, Sister, you have such a kind face … the kind you throw bricks at.
Dont do that to Sisters face.
She just bought it!
To be fair, it is more than Bimini is usually wearing when she walks down the runway.
But the ability to predict the bottom two soon gets really murky.
Bimini decides to change her outfit last minute, which is often the kiss of death.
So does Lawrence when her original plan doesnt work out.
Then Lawrence starts talking about being bullied as a young kid by all of his classmates.
When they laugh at you just for walking into the room, what are you meant to do?
What are you meant to do?
he brogues in a way that is both melodic and heartbreaking.
He talks about how he overcame it by finding his inner strength and his humour.
(The extraUis cause hes Scottish.)
You dont get a sad personal story for no reason.
(Unless, of course, you do.)
No one is ready and everyone is trying to sew faster than theMicro Machinesman on crystal meth.
On the runway, each of the queens gets a cute transformation from their lockdown self into a Supershero.
Tayce is Exfoliana Bolt and, just as predicted, the outfit is awful.
It sort of looks like a ginger got a Brazilian wax from a blind technician.
But then she pops out her shoulders and its like a fashion puffer fish and its absolutely gorgeous.
Ellie looks like an 8-year-old girls birthday-party vision board.
Its cute and well-executed but as predictable as Meryl Streep being nominated for an Oscar for a mediocre movie.
Then comes Sister, who looks like a childs drawing of what she did on her summer vacation.
Its like a million different scribbles that dont cohere into one picture.
Sister thinks that Ellie doesnt take any risks and her risks arent rewarded.
But what, exactly, are Sisters risks?
Risking ripping off AWhora each week?
Risking looking like theMarjory the Trash HeapfromFraggle Rock?
Risking trading her soul for a new set of chompers?
The tops are obviously AWhora and Ellie, who get near universal praise from the judges.
Lawrence and Bimini are in judging limbo, with the verdict being that they are passable but not outstanding.
The judges make the right call and send Sister Sister packing.
Last week it was Tia, this week its Sister Sister.
Thank god there isnt a Tamara in the competition, or shed be absolutely doomed.
