My grandma is still watching Drag Race, and she has thoughts on s17

So if y’all are new or don’t remember, my 83 year old grandma, who has, and I quote, “always liked RuPaul”, watched season 16 last year and loved it. She already has some thoughts on s17, so here we go!

-Can’t remember everyone’s names yet so she’s provided descriptions in our conversations and I’m helping her, haha.

-Doesn’t like “the one who’s friends with Katy Perry” (Joella) but has not articulated why.

-Was very impressed and excited by Lexi Love’s talent show (calls her “the one who did the roller skating”). I let her know about Denali and all of her ice skating videos and she sounds impressed and interested in that, so I may have to show her some!

-Was confused as to what “glasses one” (Hormona’s) talent show was supposed to be; thought it was poetry or spoken word and I had to explain that it was supposed to be comedy. Thought she got very lucky pulling that lever.

-Was confused as to how “some of their mothers and grandmothers did drag too” and I had to give an explanation on drag mothers and drag families, which I think she understands now! We’re getting there!

-Thought “the one with the ponytail” (Jewels) won the lipsync over Suzie.

-Unrelated to s17 but when she talks about last season she refers to Nymphia as “banana boy” 😂

I’ll give y’all updates as we go on! Will she remember anyone’s names? Who knows! (She only remembered Plane last year “because she’s from Boston, so I’m holding out hope that she’ll remember Kori eventually.)