Eric Curto REALITY TV AFICIONADO
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Ru, Ru, Ru, Ru Pauls Recap


So were two weeks into the show and I just got to say, “ohhhh girl” type casting.  I mean is it just me or did producers find people who look (and act) exactly like people from previous seasons?  For example,  Kenya Michaels is a carbon copy of Alexis Mateo.  Phi Phi O’Hara is Mariah, is Madam La Queer is Delta Work… you get the point.  Here is a side by side photo comparison, although it doesn’t really do them justice. 



Now, if you missed the first episode you really need to go back and check it out.   The first three seasons were pasted together with glue sticks and gum.  Set changes were nothing more than a colored light bulb change and the prizes were things like a 20 dollar wig, and some lipstick.  However this season they clearly got a financial bump because everything has been re-worked!  The work room is fresh out of Project runway, there are on location shoots and the prizes are in the thousands of dollars.

The first episode was all about meeting the queens, and the Ru-Pocolypse.  Visually it was pretty cool, but the best part of the episode was listening to Lashauwn Beyond annunciate, “apocalypse” as “a-poc-o-lock-o”.  The rest of the episode played out with lots of catty fighting, a bunch of, “ohhhhhhh gurls”, and in the end it came down to Alisa Summers and Jiggly, with Alisa sashaying away. 

This week’s episode was all about the WTF! Wrestling challenged where once again Ru kinda proved that if you know her or her friends personally <caugh> Raja <cough>  then you will be favored on the show.  Because this week even though the team of Latrice, Kenya, Lashauwn and Phi Phi were far and away better than the rest… the team staring famous Cher impersonator (and friend of Ru) Chad Micheals won.  In the end it came down to The Princess and Lashauwn as the bottom two, with Lashawn being sent home.  This was actually quite upsetting to me, because it means we will no longer get any amazing sound bytes like, “a-poc-o-lock-o” and “ba-dunk-a-dunk-adunk-lo-lo-lu-lu-ooooo”. 

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