The Dolls Go GMO Free In The Thousandth Design Challenge of the Season

RuPaul's Drag Race, Episode 7: "From Farm to Runway"

Ra'Jah O'Hara is having a breakdown. I feel like when you go on a reality show, especially a reality competition show, you can have a couple of different reactions to negative experiences. If you're doing poorly, you can accept that you're struggling, maybe this wasn't for you, learn and grow. Or, you can flip out, attack your fellow contestants and for all intents and purposes show your ass on national television on a weekly basis. Guess what route Ra'Jah decided to take? She enters the Werk Room and is initially not going to read Scarlet's farewell mirror message because we've heard enough from Scarlet. Yikes. The other queens pretty much browbeat her into reading it, but Ra'Jah can't stop kicking Scarlet when she's down. She's gone, Ra'Jah. Calm down. It's ridiculous for someone to be so upset about having their name said on the runway to go home. Clearly, Ra'Jah knows there's something to it. 

After the meeting on the red couch where Ra'Jah dubs herself the lip sync assassin of season 11, she continues to bad mouth her "cysters" in her confessionals. Sidebar: can we retire the term lip sync assassin? Being in the bottom two times and not going home when there's still 10 or 11 queens doesn't make you a lip sync assassin, just a bad contestant. And how does trying to read Yvie, Plastique and Nina make you look better? Plot twist. It doesn't.

The mini challenge of the week is to do some slow mo boobography and it is really funny. I'm really digging the mini challenges this season. They are super ridiculous, as they should be, and they deliver the laughs every time. Nina West and Shuga Cain win the mini challenge and it's awesome to see the salty look on Silky's face because she clearly thought she had a titty mini challenge in the bag.

Ru ruveals the week's maxi challenge. It's a design challenge! We love those. They are so entertaining and we've had so few this season. That's sarcasm, btw. For this design challenge, the queens have to design an outfit comprised of organic materials. A benefit to this design challenge and to there being fewer queens is that Ru gets to have substantial one on one time with all of them and stir the pot as she is wont to do. She wastes no time telling Brooke Lynn Hytes that she has no personality. Brooke admits that she's pretty subdued but if you want to see Brooke serving all the personality, hopefully. you watched this week's "Untucked." Plastique breaks down talking about her family's disapproval of her doing drag and Ru hugs her and proclaims she's Plastique's new mommy. D-yikes. Somewhere Pearl is shook.

The majority of the drama comes from Ru's interactions with Silky, Yvie and Vanjie. Ru has been asking all the queens who they think should leave and Vanjie says Yvie. Yvie read Vanjie for her runway looks and Vanjie admits she throws Yvie out because even though she was right Vanjie is salty about it. Cool. Fair. Then there's Silky. Silky is a hot mess. Silky loves to read Yvie's drag and the whole thing is just tired. We are in season 11 and queens still think there is only one correct way to do drag. It doesn't matter how many times they are proven wrong. But then, on Facebook the other day, someone was saying that unless you're pulling off a female illusion i.e. padding, etc, you're not doing drag. But they definitely weren't devaluing other types of drag. Sure, Jan. So, maybe it's not a huge shock that Silky feels this way. Silky is also suffering from a strong case of delusion. She honestly believes that she was in the bottom because she was just too pretty, not because her outfits were boring, didn't fit the challenge and were poorly made. She tells Ru that she thinks Yvie should go home because of her injury.

Yvie greets this news, as we all do, with an eye roll. Yvie sees through Silky's bullshit and she is not shy about telling Ru she thinks Silky should go next since Silky doesn't listen to the judges. Shots fired.

BEAST!

The queens get a visit from Plastique's actual drag mother, Alyssa Edwards, who is there to teach the gals how to walk the runway. Alyssa is a treasure and they should find a way to bring her back every year. Alyssa is always a breath of fresh air and she brings out the best in the contestants. Her interactions with them are wonderful. Alyssa knows that personality is key in this competition and she's great at pulling that out of these girls. Look at Brooke Lynn and Plastique. With Alyssa's coaching, they show more personality on the runway then we've seen so far. Seriously. Alyssa on Drag Race always and forever. 

The queens hit the runway first in a dance routine to some pseudo hoe down shit. It's fine. It's kind of what you'd expect. Over-the-top redneckness. Yvie sort of stole the show and she was just sitting on a hay bale manically "playing" the violin. No wonder Silky's scared of her.

Tops. Ha. Right.

The top queens are Brooke Lynn, Yvie and Plastique. Brooke Lynn continues to slay these design challenges. Her denim look accented with candied orange slices is super chic, like modern day hippie. The dip in the back showing off a bit of crack is a playful touch. Yvie looks so beautiful. It's nice to see her showing some glam. Take that, Silky. Her dyed Hawaiian style dress is fun and the red, short, finger wave wig is a nice accent. Plastique is still serving basically an embellished corset with the same spangled tights she's worn almost every time she's hit the runway. It's a nice look. The colors work well together and it's clear this is Plastique's episode so when she walks away with the win no one is shocked. But like, Yvie totally actually won.

Bottoms. That tracks.

The bottom queens are Ra'Jah, A'keria and Nina West. I really liked Nina's look. I thought using the corn husks was a good choice. I can see what the judges are saying. Maybe she should have added some husks to the bottom to make the skirt longer. But I actually thought it was really creative. I liked the purple wig in the style of Black Widow in "The Winter Soldier." I'm not sure this deserved bottom 3 treatment. A'keria fell pretty far this week. I'm digging A'keria and am hoping this is just a hiccup. That short Halle Berry "X-Men: Days of Future Past" Storm wig is not doing her any favors and the shoulder padded denim frock is definitely not couture. Ra'Jah spent a lot of time bitching about how Plastique stole some tree bark from her so instead she made these poorly constructed burlap pants filled with holes. The most impressive part of her outfit was the long ponytail.

A'keria and Ra'Jah end up in the bottom 2 and the "lip sync assassin" is sent packing. Bye Ra'Jah. Hopefully, you'll watch this and make amends. I have faith that you will. Also, I have faith that this year's reunion is going to be amazing. I kind of love that none of these queens really like each other. It's great.

What did you guys think? Sad to see Ra'Jah go? Are you Team Yvie or Team Silky? Was Nina deserving of a place in the bottom 3? Are you excited to play the Snatch Game at Sea next week? Let me know in the comments.