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I recently came across this tweet from Irene stating that she’s over Drag Race recappers and doesn’t want to see their opinions. I feel like this is a growing trend amongst Ru Girls and I just…don’t get it. I don’t know of any other reality show where people get on national tv, get a massive boost to their public profiles, and then expect nobody to seriously engage/analyze the show beyond just sending people praise or coins.

What’s your take?

https://twitter.com/irenethealien/status/1620249242169413633?s=46&t=k1oZyzIhlXBPyrGAD9Vdsg

Based on alliance charts, Taylor was the last player to be formally included in an alliance this season? Is this the first time the winner was the last person to find a group?

I know that there's generally a cap at schools where research assistants receiving tuition waivers cannot work more than a certain number of hours per week. As far as you know, does that apply simply to compensated work, or do unpaid positions count towards that cap?

Is everyone struggling with the really inconsistent narratives this season?

Erika is namedropped as a big threat by several players (Liana, Shan, and I think Danny and Deshawn) but we’re also supposed to believe that she needs to be worried about Heather stealing her votes.

We get more content of people saying Erika is a threat than her acting like one.

Xander is supposed to be a giant underdog but people aren’t even after him at this point.

Erika says that Deshawn is a bigger threat than Danny, but Deshawn is shown fairly consistently making wrong moves/upsetting people while a juror is explicitly bummed about Danny leaving.

Heather & Erika randomly was apparently a core relatio

With all the discourse regarding diverse casting this past year, I do think it’s funny that Salt Lake City has somehow delivered the most integrated housewives cast ever.

We have women from 4 different races, 3 different religions, and a wide range of political affiliations, showing up to a casino fundraiser for trans youth.

Obviously the girls don’t completely mesh, but I do think SLC is proof that these shows don’t have to be monocultural to work.

To me, one of the biggest differences between AS5 and AS6 is the way that queens are fighting to be there. We’ve had A’keria, Trinity, and Yara get extremely emotional their first times up for elimination, Jan insist she wasn’t part of the “real bottom 2” for the commercial, and Scarlet embellishing her critiques for Pink Table Talk all in an attempt to save themselves. I think it adds a lot to the viewing experience when you know the girls actually care about the stakes.

In AS5 we had a lot of queens willing to die quiet deaths, and it almost made the season seem pointless.

So during my freshman year of college I had a side hustle and got paid $275 in gift cards. This was back in 2017, and I was being claimed as a dependent at the time. I made $1660 at my other job during that same time period. It dawned on me fairly recently that I never actually claimed the $275 as income. Is this something I should worry about/try to rectify?

Say what you will about the Candiace and Monique drama, if one cast member has routinely shown a desire to disrespect the personal boundaries of cast members and production members, it is Michael Darby. With all the photographic evidence of his antics, it is irresponsible to keep him on the show.

So I was listening to Bitch Sesh earlier today, and there was an interesting convo about how Jen has been set up to be the “OG” of the series, but she’s already kinda overplaying her hand and getting on people’s nerves. Tbh, it echoed my sentiments exactly.

Now that we’re a few episodes into the season, who do you think has the best shot at holding that position? Right now I think my money is on Heather.

Does anyone have any podcast recommendations for fans of the real housewives?

I’m a survivor superfan, and two of its past contestants (Brice and J’Tia from Cagayan) will devote a part of Brice’s Purple Pants Podcast to recapping Potomac, but I’m looking for some other suggestions too.

Thanks so much!

EDIT: Bitch Sesh has been my fav so far, but I’m gonna check out all of the ones y’all have recommended. Thanks y’all!

When Wendy was initially casted on Potomac I was actually really excited, because I thought Potomac was missing a no nonsense person who would tell it like it is without really getting bogged down in the drama (someone similar to a Maya from Selling Sunset maybe). We've gotten some glimpses of that (e.g: Wendy telling the group that holding a dinner to coerce Candiace into apologizing was bad form, calling out Karen for ignoring her, and pointing out how Monique's embarrassment isn't the same as remorse), but Wendy has largely been kinda just floating in the sea for me.

She's just as irrational as a lot of the other girls (see: the Ashley fight), but isn't particularly compelling or magnet