Canada's Drag Race Mid Season Review

We’ve officially hit the midpoint of the season. Now that there’s no All Stars 7 to compete with, and Down Under is… airing… I’m just here to check in to see how y’all are feeling thus far — and beg of you to watch this like you didn’t watch season 2. It’s unfortunate the strongest Canadian accents are gone, but the queens that are left in the competition are all so strong.

The queens have also become a little more antagonistic with each other, which last season lacked after Eve left, and honestly makes for a more compelling show. 

While yes, Fiercalicious has been a brat, the girl knows how to play the TV villain well, which is probably going to get her far. She’s got talent, building herself a story and stealing screen time away from the other girls in the werk room.  

Listen, was All Stars 7 nice because no one fought, and everyone had a good time? Sure. Am I here for Fierce earnestly bringing up how Jada hasn’t talked to her during the opening workroom chat while everyone rolls their eyes? Absolutely.

Both design challenges have been so innovative and fun, even if this week they just gave them the scraps from the All Stars 7 promo looks. But watching the other challenges have been, to put it bluntly, challenging.

The awards presentation was fine. It suffered from all Drag Race comedy challenges aka no one knowing how to land a proper joke. But the lip syncing in pairs was a very uncreative choice. I can’t be the only one who gets exhausted by an episode with an overwhelming amount of lip syncs, especially to RuPaul’s B and C song catalogue. 

I know the show has blatant cash grabs to make Ru money, but at least they’re usually more palatable. Like, I don’t know, give us something creative with a new product like a House of Love cock-teeze challenge where they have to put on a burlesque performance inspired by a signature cocktail… I guess that’s still kind of a lip sync, but at least you can kill two birds with one stone product placement wise.

Anyways, with Snatch Game coming next week, I’m just praying both my Montreal girls do well, as the duality of one in the top and the other getting eliminated is not a trend I want to repeat this season.

The judging panel is, sadly still, missing the same quality that Stacey McKenzie brought in season one, and I fear that’s the overarching thing holding this show back. 

Don’t get me wrong, they all give decent critiques, and Traci Melchor has an amazing on-camera presence that fills some personality. But I’ve pretty much given up all hope that Brooke Lynn will ever deliver any interesting host copy before the runway starts. Her delivery is true north strong and freezing… colder than Brad’s shoulder, when Rachel Zoe walks in the room [insert more of Jada and Miss Moço bombing as desired].

The lip syncs this season have, as always, been incredible. Canada always turns it out, and the song selections have been exceptionally excellent. Finally putting some respect on Kreesha Turner’s name! CanCon legend.

Overall, this season has recaptured some of the season one essence, and Jimbo for the judging panel, which felt right. But there’s still more episodes to come and so many more questions! Will Irma Gerd ever prove she’s a comedy queen? Will Bombae stomp the runway in nothing but lip gloss to “make her make up smaller”?  Will Jada remember any of the queen's names? I guess we’ll see…