RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Season 3 Ep.2 - Dragaton - Review

[@johomoswitness]

When Michelle said “what the fuck!” At Elektra in the lipsync, I cackled so hard! That whole lipsync I was looking at Elektra with the same expression.

[@thewarehaus7740]

My face was the same way. It was like a huh face. And I literally said WTF did she just break dance and then Michelle's WTF had me cracking up

[@ItsMichelG]

I LOVE CHORIZA, i think she's so funny and well put together

[@mama-ayanna]

yessss

[@sito7186]

She is the Star of Season 3...

[@therecessionista6271]

Veronica's dress was a big no no for me after Jaida Essense Hall wore a very similar look ×100 better

[@thatsthat2612]

I agree that jaida killed that but tbf to veronica she was shooting 2 and 3 at the same time in a lockdown. She gets a few passes but i think it could have fit better

[@whatsaryn]

Anybody else dance when Mattys theme music plays? I love it lmao

[@edwincolongonzalez199]

I always dance to he's music

[@maryw4069]

Gurl 🙌🏾 yes! I be thot’n and bop’n right along with my Matty!

[@christopherdieudonne]

Yeah, I think it's really cute. I wish there were a long version to listen to.

[@NickFinn1985]

Oti was a fantastic guest judge and choreographer, the judges need to stop sleeping on Choriza because she is one incredible queen, Vanity was fantastic in the lip sync. I can't wait for next week's episode, great review Matty and have a great weekend 😀👍🏻👍🏻

[@wildcard7449]

Challenge-wise this episode was REALLY chaotic, but my favorite part was definitely all the banter in the werkroom before they hit the stage. But, I'm getting a weird ominous feeling about this season after this episode. It just doesn't feel right to see Krystal being an overkill frontrunner and Victoria getting medical leave, not being able to showcase her drag. I just DO NOT understand why the judges are OBSSESSED with Krystal, but it might be because her drag is recognizable to Ru and Michelle in the context of American Drag Race. I once again would've swapped Krystal as safe, but this time with either Ella or Choriza cuz they both did well this week. I also got REALLY scared when they openly showed Vanity saying "I'm the only black queen this season and I feel pressure by that", because my first thought was that she was going to be sent home, so I was SO HAPPY she won that lipsync. Nothing against Elektra, but she was the only queen I didn't connect with off of the MTQs so I lowkey wanted her to be sent home, but she's not malicious at least.

[@thewarehaus7740]

Working out and choreo is just a big no no. Lol

[@dreadpiratexx]

So I work at a small hotel in New Hampshire. I was watching this at work and your theme music came on and a girl in one of the rooms comes out and says "Is that Matty Rants?!?". Long story short, we are besties now. Shout out sweetie! Definitely did not agree with this win. Boring.

[@isaacscruggs3713]

So Krystal can fuck up the choreography and it’s a win, but Milan has a Tina burner x bob the drag queen wig and it’s a bottom 2

[@gymratcarpediem7761]

I wish Krystal had put the OUT OF DATE grocery sticker on Rupaul

[@hedonistkandi]

Alan Carr is not “sitting in” for Graham Norton. They alternate.

[@MrsRomashka]

Choriza’s outfits are very detailed and well executed. Hope to see her in the top three!

[@JustWordsAndOpinions]

Electra is that friend you hype at the part until they get too hype and all over the place and by that point it's already too late...

[@stitchilonka]

Oti Mabuse has a sister: Motzi Mabuse. And she’s a champion and judge in the German show of Dancing with the Stars. Really cool.

[@rougenoir1990]

I was wondering if they're related! They're both so stunning omg.

[@JohnSmith-tg9wc]

The choreography was too difficult imo, no wonder it looked a mess. They gave them final 3 choreo on episode 2 lol

[@guttersnype00]

I can't with your screen shots of Electra! LMAOOOOOOOO 💀💀💀

[@babettecasey6620]

Thank you for explaining Elektra. I watched the episode and honestly couldn't work out why the dancing was not working. Now I know 😏

[@fitchgirl02]

Elektra’s wig and dress just didn’t go together one bit but liked her attitude, will miss her

[@TattooedScarlet518]

Same here. She needs to spend a little more time cooking but she's got loads of potential and the personality part already sorted.

[@rougenoir1990]

I don't understand how Electra was so well lit when Vanity, who clearly brought it, stood in the dark for more than half the time.

[@JohnSmith-tg9wc]

This episode felt like a fever dream

[@SurfNoir08]

Electra in the lip sync reminded me of a elementary school child with ADHD at a birthday party trying to show all of his tricks for a 2nd slice of cake. The level of unprofessionalism......... FAR TOO MUCH. As much as I love Charity, she should've been in the bottom two.

[@Weirdestcake]

Not the school child with ADHD! 😆

[@Outlawstar615]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 Best description!

[@babybelushi]

I'm sort of getting Jan vibes coming from Veronica this season...this "not-quite-earned-yet" want for praise. She's talented, just as Jan is, but there's a slightly cracked shade of desperation. Not trying to be shady, just trying to reconcile the feelings I've been having about Veronica so far.

[@matheussouzafae]

Am i the only one who thought Vanity should have been top 3 this week?? She did not deserve to be in the bottom! Also i would've gave the win to Veronica or Kitty, Krystal is very talented and polished at such a young age but to me there's something off about her and i can't point out what it is

[@mama-ayanna]

“low key, high key, all the keys” you riiiiiight!!!

[@vivaciousom5347]

Great job, Matty, as usual. Thank you.

[@dwdesignpro]

Matty saying "BEING IT!" made me holler!!!!!

[@stromano8833]

One last note on Ella Veday. I feel like Ella think she’s serving us Carmen Fárala, when she’s actually serving us Naysha Lopez. Oop

[@DJ-lp6bh]

I would say she thinks she's serving Carmen Carrera when she's actually serving Carmen Farala. But I'm a shady bitch, so pay me no mind.

[@DJ-lp6bh]

Gurl, word on the street is all of the challenges for this season are rehearsed and shot in the same day because Ru had another commitment to film. I fear it's only going to get worse from here on out.

[@DarkAngel459]

Weeks late but I'm here to say that Charity's runway was my favourite of the night. She was giving me starlet on a 1920's red carpet and I loved it.

[@michelsennett5375]

Note to new and up and coming queens : Don't use Elektra in your stage name! Thank you.

[@guineapigscotland]

I am sorry to say this, but the ONLY reason the fat joke was weird is because it done to Victoria Scone (a female). If Krystal had done the same joke about a chubby or bigger gay, everyone would've giggle and laugh. I SAID WHAT I SAID and you know this is true!

[@adriansalas7916]

kinda confused, bc yea usually nothing is off limits and mean personal reads are celebrated. like all the other past/future fat reads are forever wrong too, or just a no bully rule for this season? Then forget mean preaching to pivot and call out "little" Elektra bc her body issue two-cents was out of place, JUST to celebrate Vanity for doing the same mins later? Everyone is entitled to their opinion but hey at least be consistent.

[@AbsolutAlim]

THIS!!! SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!!

[@guineapigscotland]

@@adriansalas7916 Totally, it's so hypocritical, if you go to DRUK official twitter account you'll see they've been posting a lot of meme's mocking Elektra's height! I am all about seeing women, trans, non binary gays, lesbians or any other queer person on Drag Race, but don't treat people different. A joke is a joke no matter if it was done to a gay guy or a lesbian women.

[@711g]

This challenge was unfortunate. It seemed all over the place. They had to dance/ do exercise/ be comedic; I was confused as to what they were supposed to do. The runway was meh. The best part was the talk they had while getting ready. Thanks for the review.

[@helpfulnotthehelp8778]

I think everyone is now being a hypocrite as a Cis female Whiyte is on the show and that has upset the status quo and the pretty whyte twinks can NOW be held accountable they never were before - But look who you needed to include for this to happen. Rupaul is not a fool and knows who you dont mess with in the UK - people are saying it was not funny - well if Tu laughed it would have been Ru is not dumb. She wants to work in the UK and you dont mess with their girls

[@JoJo-xb7do]

I think Kitty should have won this one. Really sad to see Electra go. I really liked her energy and humour. She needs someone to help her edit her choreo. Have to say it's hard to deny the moves shes was doing were amazing in themselves. She did have rhythm in the first lip sync at the beginning and then went too high energy. Veronica i couldn't make my mind up but in the end i thought overall it's a ok. Ella was robbed, it was edited, cut short, couldnt get a chance to see her or anyone... It's a bit suspicious.

[@bestboy1986]

The mini challenge was specially designed to create drama, as they aren’t allowed to edit storylines together on BBC shows, so they have to introduce a device to create it and then just show the fallout

[@charmer129]

I believe Victoria's dress was a backup of a backup and only wore it to hide the shoes

[@deminoire2654]

I feel like scarlett walked like she was shy/apologetic 🤔 . I think her posture needs help. Lovely queen just want her to be more confident x

[@KingAndy22]

Electra’s meet the queens gave me chop so i wasn’t surprised she was out second. And Choriza is my favorite queen so far 😅

[@guttersnype00]

Victoria's makeup was Dee Snider/Twisted Sister, and that dress wasn't even Basic Prom. It wasn't even Basic. It was _________.

[@helpfulnotthehelp8778]

The good thing about Victoria on the show is the skinny whyte twinkies are no longer the top group that you cant eff with , And I called it. In the UK you dont mess with whyte women - you just dont unless you are another whyte woman. I thought crystal would be getting free passes at chucking out shade because she belongs to the beloved protected group - that we all know exists. But the introduction of a whyte cis British woman has shaken things up and the skinny whyte twink can now be the villian. It is good to see that this group can be held accountable for their behaviour but bad that it has taken a Cis whyte British females to do it. Rupaul knows more about the UK than American Fans do and straight away she just distanced herself from Crytsal and did not allow that joke to land . The hiercarhy of people you dont eff with on the drag race franchise is 1) Whyte women - just treat them as you would the queen 2:) Skinny Whyte twinks 3) Skinny whyte queens under 40 years old. Their is definitely an agesim issue on Drag race and if Victoria was a decade older and Crysal came at her for the age as she did Veronica - the whole conversation would have centred around ageism and the negative effects it has on lets be honest whyte women. The show is becoming more mainstream and more like real life. By the way Victorias weight is just a human problem - everyone has weight issues . It comes with being alive - it is a universal struggle never met a female that did not have weight issues and I also met loads of men with weight issues and body positivity issues. So that story arc was really generic and something see on every show on UK TV featuring women and girls.

[@lafragolacostruisce]

BABY! I LOVE YOUR INTRO, YOU MOTIVATED ME TO CREATE REVIEWS FOR DRAG RACE AS WELL AND BE LESS SHY FOR THE CAMERA. DO YOU HAVE ANY TIP FOR YOUR FELLOW LATIN AMERICAN DRAG-TUBER? I tried to do the review with the muted video of the episode (muted and cutted off) but it still keeping me delelting the content, do you work only with pictures?

[@stromano8833]

I love me some of Scarlett Harlett’s energy. And, if they weren’t absolutely overlooking her, Choriza would be in my clear top 3. I would love a Choriza win at this point. I think she’s still going to muscle it out. I don’t think Krystal should’ve won either week. She wasn’t giving it in the dance challenge as much as Kitty or Veronica. I see Kitty in Top 4. I want Scarlett to turn her challenges around because I just gravitate towards her energy. Finally, i’m worried that we might not see much more out of Ella Veday, but I fear her sex appeal will keep her around past the due date. Not rooting for Charity Kase… don’t know why.

[@WhoIsCheChe]

The entire main show was one of the top chaotic messes of the franchise - and that lands squarely on Oti's lap. Did Oti develop/practice these choreographs, in similar similar heels/stockings, on the equipment herself!?? She came off like a cheerleader coach with zero real experience for the assignment. No wonder Ru had a frozen cringe smile on her face in the quick cuts during the floor performance.

[@powder-blue]

I LOVED how difficult and chaotic the challenge was. I’m tired of easy ass challenges. Make them WORK. And they did this time. This is a fucking competition... it needs to be hard enough for at least one of them to fall short every time. And that’s OK.

[@WhoIsCheChe]

@@powder-blue Good point, we've become complacent with just a misstep or two from an otherwise flawless(ly edited) production, eh? My only issue was the messiness seemed due to poor production, not a lack of the queens efforts or talent.

[@DJ-lp6bh]

Gurl, word on the street is all of the challenges for this season are rehearsed and shot in the same day because Ru had another commitment to film. I fear it's only going to get worse from here on out.

[@powder-blue]

@@DJ-lp6bh yeah I find that hard to believe, looking at who started that rumor. but who knows. It is what it is. It just seems unlikely that Ru would film a mini challenge then rush getting into drag to film the main stage. The math doesn’t add up to me....

[@KingAndy22]

Jaida Essence Hall did something similar to Veronica Green’s runway look for the premier episode… So by default it’s a chop cause it’s not as good.

[@DevauneRatteray]

Was it a coincidence that the queens each chose a colour from the Pride Flag? Or were they each assigned a red carpet colour? It seems nobody has noticed the rainbow lineup.

[@fitchgirl02]

Scarlett - it’s back to the drawing board for the dress/walk/attitude, I want to see her win and she can do so much better. Victoria was not great on the runway this week and that’s without the injury cos the dress wasn’t giving at all. I half didn’t like the kylie Minogue dress. I really like vanity’s dress, I don’t mind the small hair but it could’ve been finessed more like Crystal’s. When she loosened the hair in the lip sync, it made the outfit look even better. Bottom 2 should’ve been charity case cos that’s what she was this episode. And victoria should’ve been the second bottom 2. Choriza’s outfit was confused but I really like choriza.

[@cuki5093]

Looking at her looks in first week and on her Instagram, I wonder if Victoria‘s dress wasn’t the one she would have worn without the injury tbh. Since she couldn’t wear shoes with heels, it would make sense if she had to take the first best dress that was long enough to hide as much of her footwear as she could. She didn’t post anything about it on her Instagram yet, so it’s just my assumption

[@valkondarvalakev6377]

Since when is fat offensive especially in a reading challenge... I don't think krystal was even nasty about it. People pretend that this isn't a tv show and there isn't drama then bitch when everyone is rupauls best friend's race DECIDE THE GAYS PLEASE which one

[@abananarama87]

Matty I totally agree on the ureka edit however Victoria scone did put a lot of effort into rehearsals and I think you got give to praise for that!!! Veronica green lol 😂 yes yes yes to that make up omg 😳 I wasn’t impressed but she gave it all on the challenge! Agree with the elimination! Victoria will be back for season 4 😉 I’m from Cardiff i know this hehe and she will do better and be the star ⭐️ I know she is x

[@susankeefer5981]

I have a sinking feeling that this is going to be the Krystal Versace season and that is predictable and boring. I don’t think Ru gets Charity Kase, because Ru is stuck on traditional drag beauty. Hope that Victoria is ok. 🙏

[@noname-tu3tm]

i haaate when queens think you need to do a full gymnast routine to win a lip sync its so messy.... and hard to watch.

[@thatsthat2612]

Am i the only one who loved charitys?

[@rougenoir1990]

you're not. i think she was stunning. only thing i wished for was the face tattoos that could have been camouflaged better.

[@williamromulanhall7256]

No. I loved the 20s Josephine Baker vibe.

[@williamromulanhall7256]

@@rougenoir1990 that part. 👍

[@IaMShadows1]

11:20 Kitty got some nice legs!

[@Powhart]

I was for sure that Chorisa is going to win this episode :(

[@F_YTB]

Choriza should've been a top

[@1Eliyahu]

Veronica or Choriza should've won but I'm cool with Krystal winning. She is one of the front runners but looking at the past winners and who they want to put on WOW Presents, she's far from the crown if she can't be funny.

[@drenx7454]

Puss! Puss!

[@bsommervold]

I’m just going to offer a different perspective If a huge ass franchise can’t accommodate a wheelchair user or include them more productively, rework your challenge don’t just send them home. Just sending them home lowkey sends the message that wheelchair users aren’t welcome. We’ll use you for a pity edit but you aren’t a functional person anymore

[@pyrolusite_d]

Hugz N Luvz 🦊

[@majestarium]

Saw some hand on someone's tight.

[@vim-arie]

Little gurl

[@KingAndy22]

Electra’s meet the queens gave me chop so i wasn’t surprised she was out second. And Choriza is my favorite queen so far 😅