Our 13 Queens all meet for the first time and we say goodbye to our first Queen of the season. RuPaul's Drag Race Season 12 Episode 3 was a good one.
So we have our 13 Queens and it's time to get eliminating. But first let's get last week's winners to rank everyone's performance from last week. This always gets a little bit of animosity brewing, especially for the girls who get placed on the bottom. I wasn't very surprised to see Aiden and Heidi as the odd ones out. The twist though was that Aiden and Heidi joined Jaida and Widow as team captains.
No mini challenge this week and we dive straight into the maxi challenge, World's Worst. Idea is teams are auditioning for a reality show where the worst act wins. Overall the groups did a really good job. One group was clearly the worst and one performance stood out as shockingly bad.
Might as well start at the bottom. Squirrel guides featuring Widow, Crystal and Nikki was not good. Widow gave a pretty good performance but the other two seemed lost and just weren't interesting. I felt that most of the jokes missed, even though they were all very obvious. Crystal and Nikki easily could have found themselves on the bottom today and were lucky someone else bombed harder than they did.
The Fruit Troupe was supposed to be about gay fruit supporting LGBT rights. And then a goddamn broccoli came in stunk the joint up. Dahlia was that broccoli and she was painful to watch. Everyone else in the group was high energy and being fun, while Dahlia was apparently trying to be a sexy broccoli. The real kicker for me was when the punchline of the gag was that they were all straight and here broccoli was all skit giving face and striking poses. Yeah it was bad and landed Dahlia on the bottom.
Next up we had the Del Rio Trio. This was Heidi, Gigi and Jackie. They did a great job. I never thought a corpse could be entertaining but even playing dead, Gigi added more life to the skit than Dahlia did to hers. Heidi and Jackie were really selling it and the triplets doing whatever the hell it was they were doing was a blast. Also Gigi's voice at the end of the skit was pretty damn good as well.
Lastly we had Aiden, Brita and Sherry playing three women sharing one brain. The judges seemed to like this a lot more than I did. They definitely weren't the worst but I really don't see why everyone thinks Sherry is so great. I did not like after the skit when Brita and Sherry were ganging up on Aiden. Shame on you, Aiden is the enwbie to the scene and our two veteran Queens are there trying to tear her down instead of stretching out a helping hand. I strongly dislike both Brita and Sherry now.
Runway was Bows and Buttons. Highlights for me were Jan (she's my favorite), Nikki and begrudgingly Sherry. Overall this was a fun runway with several nice looks.
Sherry ends up being our winner and I will be cringing every week we see her continue in this competition.
Bottom two were Dahlia and Nikki. The lip sync was not great. Both played it very safe, never brought anything exciting and we could have easily seen either of them head home. I think RuPaul has a soft spot for Nikki and she ends up edging out the victory. That means Dahlia Sins is the first Queen headed home on Season 12. She did not seem happy about the exit. Overall I feel like Dahlia was very one dimensional and I don't feel sad about seeing her leave.