Season 5
The Value of Comedy
In contrast to Season 3, where design challenges were plentiful, Season 5 was chock-full of comedy challenges. From hosting an innuendo-filled children’s TV program, to acting out over the top Telenovelas, to straight up roasting RuPaul herself Kraft Music Hall-style, the girls were told to tickle our funny bones in almost every single episode. Even during their ballet performances and the challenge where they created perfume ads – where you’d think comedy had no place – the queens who made us crack up, placed the highest.
This aspect of the competition drove funny ladies Alaska and Jinkx Monsoon straight to the top, with Jinkx’s win being slightly controversial as her fashion sense was questioned all throughout the season. But once again, the report cards in this competition don’t lie. No one before Jinkx had ever made top scores eight weeks in a row. And Jinkx’s well-deserved victory taught a country of Drag Race fans that the look does matter, but so does the entertainment value. In a way, I believe that that’s the message my girl Honey was trying to express all along about San Francisco queens. I guess the San Francisco queens do know what’s up *exhales on acrylic nails*
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