RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 9 Archives

The second episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race is packed with 14 queens, three B-52s, two cheer squads, and a weirdly out-of-place Lisa Kudrow.

It’s all a little much.

The editors are being a gaggle of tricky bitches this episode, keeping most of the stars of episode one in the background while foregrounding a new set of queens.

That makes for a big juggle in the rankings, and a bit of a mystery about who the next weak link will be after this week’s bottom two.

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Oh happy day, it’s a new season of RuPaul’s Drag Race!

That’s cause for celebration in my house (well, mostly just for me, but still), but coming from a stellar season of All Stars, I can’t help but wonder: Can this season of brand new drag racers possibly stand up to what many fans have called the best season of Drag Race of all time?

I don’t know, but a good way to get things off on the right kinky book is to book Lady Gaga as the guest for your first episode.

When I first heard that Lady Gaga would be on the premiere of Drag Race, my fervent hope was that they’d go for the BBC Adele impersonator trick, gussying up Gaga as a lower-rent drag queen version of her high class drag queen self to try to fool the other contestants. The episode played at that for a moment, but it’s real use for Gaga was much more clever – they used her as the best possible judge of drag the show has ever featured. Short of commentary from RuPaul herself (which usually comes only in the workroom), we’ve never seen this level of consistently incisive candor from a single judge before.

But, enough about Mother Monster – how did all the little monsters fare under her tutelage? Read on for my RuPaul’s Drag Race Season Nine Week One Power Rankings.

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RuPaul’s Drag Race Power Rankings, S09E02 – “She Done Already Done Brought It On”

RuPaul’s Drag Race Power Rankings, S09E01 – “Oh. My. Gaga!”