My partner and I watched the season premier of RuPaul’s Drag Race. The last season was bearable. This season? Ugh, please, someone kill it with fire! What are my beefs with it? Read on!Season-Long Commercial
Look, I understand and accept the fact that RuPaul has her own music albums. And, of course, one would expect self-promotion, especially on her own show. In season one, I didn’t notice the subtly advertising at first. At the end of the season, it was painfully obvious that RuPaul was playing her songs over and over and over again. (In the last episode, RuPaul revealed the contestants would be working on her new album, of course.)

I thought, surely in the second season, RuPaul would have allowed more budged for more music. Nope. In the ‘Lip Sync For Your Life,’ the two losers had to lip sync to RuPaul’s song that played all last season. It’s incredibly tacky, and I hope it’s not a trend this season.

In-Your-Face Advertising
Outside of RuPaul’s album-pimping, there’s the Absolut Vodka pushing. It’s even more in-your-face than it was last year.

Look, I understand that advertising and product placement is important to help you with costs. Honestly though, I can’t imagine that Logo needed to ram crap down our throats (no pun intended), to this degree. It really makes you question who, in the end, decides which queen wins the contest: RuPaul, or the sponsors?

The Look Of ‘Fish’
I’m no drag expert, by any means. I know this though: cookie-cutter drag queens are boring. An interesting point was made by one of the queens on the show, in that it does certainly seem like RuPaul and her crew are looking for a very particular type of queen. (Namely, someone who is an awful lot like RuPaul herself.)

I can already see that happening again this season, and that’s disappointing. There are a few really unique queens that deserve a chance, but probably won’t win in the end because they’re not like RuPaul.

Please, Dump Santino Rice! (And Get More Queens!)
This troll doesn’t belong on the show, period. I despise his sense of fashion, and he has the personality of a mushroom.

Why, oh why, doesn’t the show have more actual drag queens as judges? Sure, having Kathy Griffin on the show was nice, but there should be other queens, judging other queens. I have a feeling that very idea was kicked around, until RuPaul stamped her shoe and said, “No way! No one will out-shine me!”