I’m telling you, if you ever need a blast of serotonin, just go back and watch the glee on those queens’ faces when Ru announces who they’ll be making over. This was an ideal solution, not just because it guaranteed that the men being made over would be comfortable with drag, but because the contestants absolutely lost their shit over it. Instead of bringing in outsiders, Drag Race looked from within, and had six male members of the Drag Race production crew serve as makeover subjects. In Season 9’s “Makeovers: Crew Better Work,” the producers took what had previously stood out about other makeover challenges-some kind of connection between the queens and their partners-and found a whole new way to stage the challenge. Long a standard, but rarely with the output to justify its continued existence, the makeover task could occasionally give us some nice moments, but often led to ugly encounters (see: Season 4’s gay veteran makeovers) or lots of focus on straight men’s discomfort with drag (Joslyn Fox’s unwilling partner literally puking onstage in Season 6). For many, the RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 9 makeover episode is what finally made that particular challenge good.
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