RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 16 Episode 02 Description
Queen Choice Awards
The next seven queens of the season enter the Werk Room. For this episode’s main challenge, the queens must perform in the “Queen Choice Awards” talent show.
Geneva Karr – Original song lip-sync
Hershii LiqCour-Jeté – Original song Lip-sync
Megami – Lip-sync
Mhi’ya Iman Le’Paige – Stunt / Flip Lip-sync
Nymphia Wind – Cultural Dance
Plane Jane – Original song Lip-sync
Plasma – Singing / Impressions
On the runway, category is Made You Look. Geneva Karr, Nymphia Wind, Plane Jane, and Plasma receive positive critiques. Hershii LiqCour-Jeté, Megami and Mhi’ya Iman Le’Paige receive negative critiques. The queens rank each other using Rate-A-Queen. It is announced that Geneva Karr and Plane Jane received the highest placements, making them the top two queens of the week who will lip-sync for the win. They lip-sync to “Shower” by Becky G. After the lip-sync, it is announced that Plane Jane is the winner.
Guest Judge: Becky G
Alternating Judge: Ross Mathews
Mini-Challenge: RuPaul’s SheMV Hollywood Camera Photoshoot
Mini-Challenge Winner: Nymphia Wind
Mini-Challenge Prize: A $2,500 cash tip
Main Challenge: Perform in the Queen Choice Awards Talent Show
Runway Theme: Made You Look
Top Two: Plane Jane and Geneva Karr
Lip-Sync Song: “Shower” by Becky G
Challenge Winner: Plane Jane
Challenge Prize: A $5,000 cash tip and immunity from a future challenge
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RuPaul’s Drag Race Show Description
RuPaul’s Drag Race is an American reality competition television series, the first in the Drag Race franchise, produced by World of Wonder for Logo TV (season 1–8), WOW Presents Plus, VH1 (season 9–14) and, beginning with the fifteenth season, MTV. The show documents RuPaul in the search for “America’s next drag superstar”. RuPaul plays the role of host, mentor, and head judge for this series, as contestants are given different challenges each week. Contestants are judged by a panel that includes RuPaul, Michelle Visage, an alternating third main judge of either Carson Kressley, Ross Mathews, or Ts Madison, and one or more guest judges, who critique their progress throughout the competition. The title of the show is a play on drag queen and drag racing, and the title sequence and song “Drag Race” both have a drag-racing theme.
RuPaul’s Drag Race has spanned fifteen seasons and inspired the spin-off shows RuPaul’s Drag U, RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars, and RuPaul’s Secret Celebrity Drag Race; the companion series RuPaul’s Drag Race: Untucked; and numerous international franchises including British and Australian and New Zealand versions hosted by RuPaul as well as Chilean, Thai, Canadian, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, French, and Philippine editions, upcoming Belgian, Swedish, Mexican, German, and Brazilian installments, and international vs. the World competitions hosted in The United Kingdom and Canada.
The show has become the highest-rated television program on Logo TV, and airs internationally, including in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands and Israel. The show earned RuPaul seven consecutive Emmy Awards (2016 to 2022) for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Competition Program. The show itself has been awarded as the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program 4 consecutive times (2018 to 2021), and the Outstanding Reality Program Award at the GLAAD Media Awards. It has been nominated for four Critics’ Choice Television Awards including Best Reality Series – Competition and Best Reality Show Host for RuPaul, and was nominated for a Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Make-up for a Multi-Camera Series or Special (Non-Prosthetic). Later in 2018, the show became the first show to win a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program in the same year, a feat it has since repeated three times.