C’mon, Season 8!

April 8, 2016

By TIERNAN O’NEILL – Staff Writer

On March 7, the eighth season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” began with a bang as 12 new queens vyed for the title of “America’s Next Drag Superstar”.

Death drops, tongue pops and lots of drama–this is what fans of Logo’s “RuPaul’s Drag Race” have become expect from the reality T.V. show. This season, series host RuPaul Charles “went back to (her) roots” in the eighth installment of the competition.

The first episode of the season, the series 100th, opened with 12 new queens entering the workroom, with the 12th queen to enter marking the 100 queen to compete. Even though this year’s cast is the smallest since Season 2, it is perhaps the most diverse in highlighting different schools of drag.

Unlike the season before it, Season 8 features many big names in the drag world, such as Acid Betty and Bob the Drag Queen from New York City, Kim Chi from Chicago and Derrick Barry from Las Vegas.

The show is now five episodes in and five girls have #SashayedAway. In possibly the strongest opening in the show’s history, there are a few things that stand out so far:

1. The talent this season is SPECTACULAR

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I mean that is just drop dead talented.

2.The FASHION

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IS OUT OF

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THIS WORLD!
3. The twists will make you sick with shock.

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4.THE SHADE

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Tiernan O'Neill

Tiernan O’Neill is a senior at Clarke Central High School in Athens, Ga. He joined the ODYSSEY Media Group as a freshman and was on the ODYSSEY Newsmagazine’s News staff. His sophomore year, O’Neill switched over to ODYSSEY Online, where he served as Copy Editor. His junior year he served as Viewpoints Editor for the newsmagazine. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the ODYSSEY Online. O’Neill strives to foster workplace where both success and failure are accepted and to teach student journalists to be fair, accurate and balanced. O’Neill is the current Georgia Junior Champion Journalist and attended Governor’s Honors Program in 2015 for social studies.