- [Narrator] Previously on "Dragula."
- I feel like I don't belong.
I feel like I'm not ready to be in a competition.
- [Auntie] Majesty has a tendency of making
everything about her.
- [Majesty] I feel like Auntie comes
for people when she sees a weakness.
- You must break up into three groups of three
and perform together as a terrifying trio
while lip-syncing to our new song "The Ghost Train."
There can only be one chief conductor on tonight's train
to nowhere and that ghostly great
is Aurora Gozmic.
[people laugh]
Vivvi the Force, and Grey Matter.
You will both face this week's extermination.
You'll leave the stage
and immediately be taken to our newest invention,
our Tesla Coil of Turmoil.
- To be honest, I'll be pissed if you go home.
If I could volunteer, I would.
[person screams]
[person screaming]
[intense music]
[people scream]
[dramatic spooky music]
[wolf howling]
[thunder crashing]
[wolf howling]
[thunder crashing]
- Welcome to our dark theater, uglies,
where the sinister spotlight shines on terror
and the stars don't always make it to the final battle.
[person screams]
- Our competitors will need more than just stage presence
to survive tonight's challenge.
It's Broadway with a body count.
- Yes, they'll sing, they'll dance,
and some might just drop dead from the pressure.
Wouldn't that be fantastic?
[both laugh]
- Break a leg, more like break a neck.
- The show must go on,
but not everyone will make it to the final act.
It's a deadly game of musical chairs
and someone's going to be left standing alone in the dark.
- So sit back, dear viewers, and enjoy the show.
Tonight's entertainment promises to be killer
and the show will leave you screaming for an encore,
if you survive.
[both laugh]
[thunder crashes]
[upbeat music]
♪ Drag ♪
♪ Filth ♪
♪ Horror ♪
♪ Glamour ♪
♪ Dragula ♪
♪ She's a killer ♪
♪ Queen, Dragula ♪
♪ She'll make you ♪
♪ Scream ♪
♪ Drag, drag, drag ♪
♪ Drag, Dragula ♪
- [Narrator] The winner of "The Boulet Brothers' Dragula"
will receive a cash prize of $100,000,
courtesy of us,
and the crown and title of Dragula,
the world's next drag super monster.
♪ Drag, drag, drag ♪
♪ Drag, Dragula ♪
[person screams]
[tense music]
[intense music]
[upbeat music]
- Ooh. - Ooh.
- Back at the coffin table.
- Yeah. - Hello.
- Why are we here? [laughs]
- I know, what's going on?
- I'm a little frightened.
- I'm really confused as to why me
and Pi walked into the lab first.
Like I'm glad 'cause that's my bitch,
but like where is everybody?
- I don't know why Asia and I are walking
into the lab alone, but I'm gonna take the opportunity
for what I can and catch up on our alliance,
because alone time in the mansion fucking doesn't exist.
We haven't really had an opportunity
to like do anything with it yet.
What are the terms? [laughs]
- I don't know, I definitely, I definitely wanna see me
and you there like towards the end for sure.
And I think we just have to use
each other's strengths to get there.
So far it's just been for the namesake
of having an alliance,
but we're gonna make some big moves real soon.
Do you think you'd want other people in on this?
- Who did you, did you have anybody in mind?
- I mean Auntie is always high competition.
- I go back and forth with her, though.
She's been kind of in her head a lot lately.
I don't know if she's gonna be like down to play the game.
Might be better to just keep it tight between us
and I don't know,
maybe even let her get herself out.
- My number one target is Auntie.
That bitch is a threat look wise and performance wise.
So I wanna get that bitch out.
- Choo, choo!
- [Asia] Oh, my God, all of us [indistinct] today.
- Hi. - Uh...
What the fuck's going on here?
Is this it?
We're the top?
Okay, I'm good with this.
- Do you think it's gonna be like a double elimination?
- I don't know, but I'm stressed already.
- Now I'm scared.
- I'm not that scared, but now I kind of am, I think,
like why would you say that?
- Oh my God.
- Why, what's going on?
- [Pi] We have no fucking clue.
- I have no idea why we're coming in pairs,
I mean, who knows what's gonna happen, it's "Dragula."
- How many other people are left still, for sure?
- It has to be Majesty and then whoever made it
through the extermination.
- I'm getting scared.
- What if they both come back?
- No.
- Wait, who do you think?
Who do you think is coming back?
- Welly, welly, welly, well, motherfuckers!
[everyone cheers]
I'm back.
- [Group] Hi.
- So Vivvi's back and Grey's not, interesting.
I don't know, I would've personally
picked Grey over the Vivvi, but that's just me.
Recount the votes.
- There is no fucking way
that Grey Matter went home over Vivvi.
That does not make sense to me at all.
- We all came in in pairs.
You're the only one to come in by yourself.
- By yourself.
- Oh.
Well, I don't know.
Who are we missing now?
- Now I'm really confused.
- Majesty, I guess now.
- Yeah. - Interesting.
- But how was, how was it?
- How was the electrocution?
- [Yuri] Yeah. - [Vivvi] Oh my gosh.
- [Yuri] Shocking?
- Ugh, I'm so like,
I'm so happy to have done that extermination.
[vocal screeching]
Like there's all these fucking noises.
Oh my God!
What the fuck are you doing here?
Wait a god damn minute.
What is Grey doing here?
How dare Grey show up and take this moment from me.
- What the fuck is going on?
Why is Vivvi still here?
- The Boulets spared both of them?
It's too early for all that double save shit.
- So pairs and solos and where the fuck is Maj?
- I thought you were dead, bitch.
- I thought you were fucking dead, too.
I was just writing your obituary.
- I'm getting really confused
because the two people that were up for extermination
walked back through the door,
and I have no idea where Majesty is right now.
- They were like tasering us
like on our sides and our legs.
[tense music]
- [Aurora] What's that?
- [Asia] I don't know, we just got a note.
- What the fuck is this note?
What the fuck is this?
I'm just really fucking confused.
What the fuck is this?
- What the hell is going on?
- It's from Majesty.
- Oh my God.
- It says, "I came here to fight my anxiety.
Not any of you.
I wanted to push myself
while helping all of you at the same time.
However, I came into this competition
in a very fragile state and I want to be trusted,
but how could I be
while I'm still learning to trust myself?
I'm not saying this to just be the bigger person,
but because I really have been working
on being a better person.
I know this will be a disappointment to a lot of people,
but I've decided to remove myself from the game.
I love you, uglies, heart, Maj."
- I need to leave the show.
- [Producer] Why?
- Mentally, I don't know
if I'm really prepared for this right now.
It's not anyone specifically, it's really just myself.
This is a feeling that I can't get away from right now.
[Majesty sniffling]
- [Producer] It's okay.
- I'm so afraid to see myself on TV again.
I really, really appreciate this opportunity.
It is unbelievable to be back.
- [Producer] Absolutely.
- But I don't think I'm ready.
- [Producer] Absolutely.
- That's fucking crazy.
- [Jaharia] Whoa.
- Holy shit.
I can't imagine like being here
and like giving it your all
and then like not going that extra mile to like stay.
- She was literally breaking out in hives though.
- Yeah, and to be fair, she definitely was like,
"I don't know if I should be here."
- I feel like I'm not ready to be in the competition.
I can't trust myself, I don't know who I am.
I don't know what I want.
I'm going fucking crazy with my anxiety,
being back on fucking TV again.
- It's about you, right?
- No. - So it's about you, not me.
It's about you, it's about, "Oh, Majesty, Majesty, Majesty."
- [Majesty] I'm not ready for this, this is bullshit.
- She did say that she was coming here
to like reinvent herself and like I just feel like now
it just kind of like, maybe it was for nothing.
- I disagree. - Okay.
- I think she took a big step in
self-awareness and realizing that maybe
this was not the time to make this happen.
And I find it a little admirable.
- Auntie doesn't even seem sad
or anything that Majesty's gone.
I think Auntie definitely had the biggest hand
in Majesty leaving.
- I've dealt with enough narcissists in my life
that I'm very keen to when I see it in other people.
- Maybe that's a part of her game and her strategy.
And honestly, I'm keeping Auntie in my game, in my strategy.
- I think I gave Majesty a lot to think about on top
of a lot of things she was already thinking about.
So I don't think I pushed her out of the competition,
but I think that I narrowed her view
on what is important right now.
And it sounds like her mental health
is more important than this competition.
- None of us had the same experience that she had.
So if this is what she feels like she needs to do,
to properly heal and better herself, then I respect it.
- She could have done it before I jumped out of the plane,
'cause then I wouldn't have to jump
outta the plane, but that's fine.
[alarm rings]
[group gasping]
[group exclaiming indistinctly]
- It's game time, bitch.
[group laughing]
[person humming]
[tense music]
- [Group] Yes!
- Hello, uglies.
We do hope you've been brushing up on your
acting chops because for this week's challenge,
you're definitely going to need them.
- Ooh!
- For tonight's main challenge, you will all be learning,
choreographing, and performing a selection
from the off-Broadway spectacular, "Drag: The Musical,"
starring Alaska Thunderfuck.
[group yelling]
- Oh, my God!
- Only for this special occasion
the segment has been rewritten,
as "Dragula: The Musical."
- What, oh my God!
- [Person] Oh, my fucking God.
- You'll be split into two groups and as two distinct teams.
You must learn your lines, memorize your choreography,
and come up with cohesive looks
that make you look like an ensemble cast.
[group cheers]
- Here to help guide you in your rehearsals
will be Alaska herself, who will also be one
of our special guest judges for the challenge.
- Oh my God.
[person laughs]
- Oh, and the winner of this challenge will
be invited to perform as a guest
in the official off-Broadway production
of "Drag: The Musical" in New York City.
[group laughing]
- Oh my fucking God.
- Good luck, my petulant little pustules.
And remember, for one of you,
this will be your final act
and the curtains will fall for the last time ever.
[group laughs]
- So my team consists of Auntie, Vivvi and Yuri.
- "Rat House Fever," okay.
- So my team, the Snake Pit,
consists of myself, Asia Consent,
Aurora Gozmic, and Jaharia.
- I like our song, it's cool, it's chill, it's edgy.
It reminds me of "West Side Story."
I feel like we can really get into this one.
I can't dance really well.
- Okay.
- Does anybody do choreography in here?
No?
- What do we think about the parts?
So it's time to divvy up the roles.
And the one that's catching my eye is Susan.
- Who the fuck is Susan?
[group laughing]
- So let me break down how rehearsal is going.
We're a bunch of rats.
[group chittering]
We're struggling with choreo.
- And what are y'all,
which foot are y'all starting with?
- Oh, shit, okay, okay.
- We've tried jazz hands.
- Spirit fingers. - Spirit fingers.
We've done our snaps.
[group chanting]
And Grey made us act like rats.
- Go scurry over and pick something up
and then nibble it with your little hands.
- We're in trouble. [laughs]
- We got a lot of work to do if we're gonna
crush this other team.
- This rehearsal's a lot harder than I anticipated.
I feel like we are not on the same page and
I'm not feeling great about this.
- Ooh.
- On there.
Bop, bop, bop.
Then eat.
- Oh, bitch, you are eating.
You're like, "I don't do choreo."
- Does that make sense?
- Yeah, that does-
- Moving into rehearsal,
I was very apprehensive about teaching this choreo.
Maybe this won't be so bad.
♪ Welcome to the snake pit ♪
Turn, boom.
- Girl, Jaharia is trying to make us do splits.
Eliminate me now, bitch, because my hip's gonna give out.
I'm not doing that, I have a bionic hip.
I am not doing that.
- [Jaharia] Oh, I forgot you did-
[tape rewinding]
- [Aurora] Doing that.
- [Jaharia] Oh, I forgot you did-
[Jaharia laughs]
- I literally ripped my pants.
[group laughing]
- [Asia] No!
- That was, it was all fucking right there.
- Well, let's get into this fucking snake pit, y'all.
- [Jaharia] Let's do it, bitches.
- Hell yeah. - Snakes.
- Snakes, snakes.
Jaharia! - Jaharia.
- Jaharia, get your ass over here.
- I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
- [Aurora] Snakes.
[group groans]
So it's a new day, we got so much to fucking do.
We got choreography, we got our vocal training
and bitch, it is fucking heated.
I'm feeling the pressure.
- Hello.
[group yelling]
- Alaska is in the motherfucking building.
I'm so excited.
I'm geeked, I'm geeked.
- When did y'all find out that y'all were doing "Rats"?
- A couple days ago.
- Yeah.
- Damn, "Dragula" girls work fast.
- I'm a little starstruck to see Alaska.
She is one of my favorite performers.
I don't get starstruck very often,
but seeing Alaska is just getting me so nervous.
- We've been writing "Drag: The Musical" for like six years.
- That's amazing.
- So seeing it come to life with
like real people doing it is like
literally like brings so much joy to me.
So in the musical, it's the Fish Tank versus the Cat House.
And then this is the twisted fucking fun house version
of it, which is even better.
So, I'm really excited.
- My name is Becca.
I am your choreographer for this challenge.
I heard you put together a little something already?
- A little bit.
- Yeah, you've been working something out?
Okay, cool.
Do you have something prepared already or?
- Not much.
- [Vivvi] Yes.
- Okay.
- We don't really have anything prepared.
I'm feeling like the other team might be more equipped
than we are on this one.
[upbeat music]
[singer singing indistinctly]
[jazzy music]
[group snapping]
- So the rat house is sort of like, I pictured them
as the spice girls except like,
crawling with filth and disease.
So tell me about Sexy Rat.
Like who is she?
- To me, Sexy Rat is sexy, and she's a rat.
[silly music]
[singer singing indistinctly]
[group snapping]
- Can we do like an acapella version of it?
[spooky music]
- If you're listening, grab your earplugs because, ugh,
this girl can't sing.
♪ A little bit of mischief never hurt anyone ♪
- Are you nervous?
- Always.
♪ A little ♪
Nope, started too high.
[group laughs]
- Yeah.
I always feel like when I'm on stage the adrenaline
kicks in and my voice literally can sing higher notes.
- Yeah.
[singer singing indistinctly]
- I'm impressed, I am impressed.
- She loved all the choreo I put together,
and I really thought she was gonna hate it.
So, period, thank you girl.
- You guys were snapping
and then the snap was happening in the music.
[group laughs]
- This choreo run through is rough.
Mama, if Vivvi doesn't get her shit together,
I'm gonna fucking cut her god damn legs off.
Then we'll see how she dances.
- Have you ever sung anything?
- Mm-mm.
- Have you done karaoke?
- I tried, but I left stage early.
- This is your stage,
and right now you guys are just back here,
so that's gonna feel like anticlimactic.
- Oh, the stage is right here. - Yeah.
- I didn't notice that either.
♪ Welcome to the Snake Pit ♪
♪ You know we're ready to strike ♪
♪ Oh ♪
- Don't do that.
[group laughs]
- During this whole process,
I'm growing really close with Asia.
I'm realizing that we have a lot in common.
♪ Because I'm stuck in a rock band ♪
♪ With all of these freaks! ♪
We both can't sing.
- "Dragula" is not a singing competition.
It's glamour, horror, filth, singing, no.
[group laughs]
- Oh yeah, a little.
It's true, little shift, shift.
- So after meeting with the choreographer,
I feel a lot more confident.
She's making us lean into our characters,
which I really, really love.
♪ Pit ♪
Cool, any notes?
Um...
- Susan, I'm worried about you.
- Little Susan, okay, oh, little Susan.
- Aurora's struggling a little bit
with the tempo of the choreography.
She's kind of missing step one a lot.
- But if you're still trailing in, it's a little, ugh.
- Yeah.
It's not that I'm falling behind, my entire team is ahead.
♪ Hey, won't leave any crumbs ♪
♪ Yeah, we got room for scraps ♪
- Sing it slower.
♪ Smarter than you think ♪
♪ We'll never fall for your traps ♪
♪ Oh yeah ♪
- So don't overspeed it 'cause it'll throw you off.
- Timing is what?
Everything.
- I am worried for Vivvi,
just because... Umm... [blows raspberry]
I mean, you're watching at home.
You know why. [laughs]
♪ My teeth are falling out ♪
♪ And there's pus in my eye ♪
♪ I'm riddled with disease but I simply won't die ♪
♪ I'm old ♪
Alaska's not really giving me much feedback.
She's just saying, "Good job."
No notes is good notes.
I feel good.
- I wonder if you could do it the octave up.
♪ Serpentine and stunning ♪
♪ You've got what it takes ♪
- Mama. - Yes.
- Oh my God.
Thank you so much for bringing this to life.
It's really cool, rock it out, Snakes.
[group hisses]
- After our talk with Alaska,
I have absolutely no worries for any person on my team.
We all actually seemed to pull it together
so I'm a bit nervous for the other ones.
- Tap into your confidence as performers.
It's about just selling that character.
- I am so nervous
that we're not gonna get our shit together.
I feel like everybody is beating to a different drum
and it has nothing to do with the music.
- Do I get a rat circle?
- Yes.
- Let's give you the rat circle.
- Come into the rat circle.
[group chittering]
[person laughs]
[person humming]
- Come on, Snakes. - Welcome to the Snake Pit.
[person hisses]
- Ah, the Rat House Fever in the house.
- [Asia] Boo.
- Who let the rats in here? - Ugh.
- So it's the day of the floor show,
I'm really excited to take everything I learned from Alaska
and the choreographer, and show y'all what I got.
♪ "Dragula: The Musical," "Dragula: The Musical" ♪
And scene.
And Alaska said I couldn't sing.
- How are y'all feeling, like how have your rehearsals been?
- I think we all lipsync for a reason.
[group laughs]
So learning to sing and do choreography,
yeah, I think we're doing pretty good though.
- Aside from the obvious reasons,
I have heard bits and pieces of theirs,
and truthfully I think it's a harder song to perform.
They got much more work to do.
- Do you all have a team captain?
- No, we've been like really collaborative.
Like, Aurora did some hair.
You know, I did a little choreography
like Pi was definitely like the one to keep us on track.
It's been like a heavy,
heavy like team effort, what about you?
- No, we all helped each other.
We wanted to make sure our drag stayed, you know,
apparent in our characters.
I was able to make everyone a nose.
- Little noses.
- We all have our own tails that reflects our character
and you know, it was fun just working with everybody.
No?
Okay.
[people laugh]
[upbeat music]
- So my team is the Snakes.
We decided to do neon green and black.
We really wanted to stick with the '80s punk aesthetic.
- We basically wanna look like a rock band,
but we're drag queens, so things are bigger.
Does that make sense?
- [Grey] For Rats,
we were thinking all having different types of mohawks
and then we each wanted to have ears, noses, and tails.
- So our color palette is going to be red and black.
Hopefully that brings us together,
because the dancing [laughs] won't.
- I feel super confident in my team.
We've been working really hard,
we've been rehearsing,
now all that we have to do is go out and do it.
[upbeat music continues]
[group yells]
- [Host] Attention competitors, attention competitors.
The floor show is about to begin.
[heart thumping]
[dramatic music]
[spooky upbeat music]
[performer laughs]
[thunder booms]
[spooky upbeat music continues]
[thunder rumbles]
[Swanthula laughs]
[spooky upbeat music continues]
- Welcome to the theater, uglies.
- Tonight we've split our remaining competitors up
into two teams and challenge them with learning
and choreographing a group performance to a scene
from Alaska Thunderfuck's new smash hit musical,
"Drag: The Musical."
- Here to help us judge tonight's floor show
is none other than the creator
and writer of "Drag: The Musical," Alaska Thunderfuck.
Alaska, darling, thank you for trusting us with your baby.
- Absolutely, you can eat my baby.
[Swanthula laughs]
- And our next judge is writer, director,
and the only judge to appear on all six seasons of the show,
the one and only Darren Stein.
Darren, I know how much you love musicals,
so we're super excited to have you with us here tonight.
- I'm so honored to be here
for the birth of "Dragula: The Musical."
Let's do the mash.
[both laugh]
- Now, without further ado.
- Let's dim the lights.
- Draw the curtains.
- And let the musical begin.
[thunder rumbles]
[upbeat music]
[jazzy music]
♪ Trashy, sexy, vermin and keep you up all night ♪
♪ A squeakin' and a slinkin' ♪
♪ When you turn off the lights ♪
♪ It's true ♪
♪ Oh yeah, that's what we do ♪
♪ Hey ♪
♪ Won't leave any crumbs, yeah ♪
♪ We've got room for scraps ♪
♪ We're smarter than you think ♪
♪ We won't fall for your traps ♪
♪ Oh, yeah ♪
♪ It's true, that's what we do ♪
♪ Uh-huh ♪
♪ Crawlin' with bacteria ♪
♪ And rabies for days ♪
♪ Come a little closer ♪
♪ And I'll give you the plague ♪
♪ This festering infection's ♪
♪ Gonna make you lose your mind ♪
♪ Ah ♪
♪ You've got the rat house fever ♪
♪ Rat house fever, yeah ♪
♪ My teeth are falling out ♪
♪ And there's gunk in my eye ♪
[performer singing indistinctly]
♪ I'm old ♪
♪ Oh yeah ♪
♪ Oh shit, I just shit myself ♪
♪ Sorry ♪
♪ Our vermin got ya squirmin' ♪
♪ 'Cause we're covered in scum ♪
♪ A little bit of mischief has never hurt anyone ♪
♪ Vile infestation's gonna ♪
♪ Make you lose your mind ♪
♪ Rat house fever ♪
♪ Rat house fever, yeah ♪
[upbeat music]
♪ Welcome to the snake pit ♪
♪ You know we're ready to try ♪
♪ Welcome to the snake pit ♪
♪ We're gonna eat you bitches alive ♪
♪ Since the garden of Eden ♪
♪ Came in with a bang ♪
♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa ♪
♪ If you mess with the serpent ♪
♪ You're getting the fangs ♪
♪ Whoa ♪
♪ Whoa yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Like the way we slither ♪
♪ But don't get too close ♪
♪ Whoa ♪
♪ Ooh, yeah, ooh, yeah ♪
♪ 'Cause if you're not careful ♪
♪ We'll swallow you whole ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Welcome to the snake pit ♪
♪ You know we're ready to try ♪
♪ Welcome to the snake pit ♪
♪ We're gonna eat you bitches alive ♪
♪ Someone call my folks ♪
♪ I've been missing for weeks ♪
♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa ♪
♪ 'Cause I'm stuck in a rock band ♪
♪ With all of these freaks ♪
♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa ♪
♪ Serpentine and stunning ♪
♪ You've got what it takes ♪
♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa ♪
♪ Baby, like it or not ♪
♪ Now you're one of the snakes ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Welcome to the snake pit ♪
♪ You know we're ready to try ♪
♪ Welcome to the snake pit ♪
♪ We're gonna eat you bitches alive ♪
♪ Welcome ♪
♪ Come on in, girl ♪
♪ Welcome, welcome ♪
♪ To the snake ♪
♪ Pit ♪
[group vocalizing]
- And five, six, seven, eight. [singing]
[both laughing]
Tell me you weren't wiggling in your seat
when they were performing.
- I was, I was, I think they did a great job.
- So fun.
- My favorite part was the look on their face
when I told them they had to sing live.
[both laughing]
Overall, I am proud of both of these teams.
- Let's start with "The Snake Pit."
I think "The Snake Pit" really shined in the blocking
and the dancing and the group dynamic
but not so much in the characterization.
- Like Jaharia, for example,
I think she did wonderfully at the dancing
and the singing and everything.
But I didn't know who her character was at all, like zero.
I want to like get her to understand that she's the star,
not the second string.
Like she is the lead singer and not a background singer.
- Oh, a hundred percent, she needs to know
that she's player one, not an NPC.
- On the other side of that, I think that Aurora
kind of showed us in this particular challenge,
she has the not it factor.
- Girl, she was like chum in the water.
- Yeah, she was, she was getting eaten up.
I mean she was like two full beats behind.
- This type of challenge isn't for anybody, but-
- [Dracmorda] Right. - No.
This type of-
- [Together] It isn't for anybody.
- Nobody can do it. - Nobody.
This is for no one, why do we do this?
- I don't know. - Let's go home.
[both laugh]
This type of challenge is not for everybody.
So Aurora has other strengths,
but when it came to learning the blocking
and doing the dancing, the trepidation was palpable.
- Mm-hmm, let's talk about the rats.
- Rats, rats, I love rats. [laughs]
- Okay, so our rats, I felt like they came in strong, right?
The rats like.
[gentle jazz music]
You know, sauntered onto the stage
and they were like, "We're gonna own this,
we're gonna rule it.," but they didn't rule it.
[Swanthula laughs]
I thought Auntie was gonna slay this challenge,
but something happened and she choked.
[Auntie singing indistinctly]
♪ I'm old ♪
♪ Oh yeah ♪
- She forgot all the lyrics.
- Well, I think I know what happened.
- What? - Because despite her name,
I don't think Vivvi is very strong with the force.
- Okay.
- Because if you rewind, if you see what happened
with Vivvi and her verse, she was way ahead.
It threw everybody off,
and I really think that got into Auntie's head.
- Hmm. - And of course,
everyone's seeing this on TV,
but this was a live performance challenge,
so they only got one shot at it.
- One thing we should talk about is Majesty quitting.
- [Swanthula] I was very surprised.
- I feel like they came back to the show,
and they were ready to show a new side to them
and the cast just kept seeing them
as season two James Majesty.
- Well I'm just gonna try to stay on your good side for now.
Sometimes old habits die hard.
- It's kind of too early to tell.
But maybe Majesty is playing a game already.
- You're very concerned about how your image comes off.
I think the other option is narcissism.
- I think they just were like, "I'm not gonna do this again.
I don't wanna fight with people all season.
I can't get them to believe that I'm someone different.
So this will show them, I'm gonna leave."
- Well I think it's always the right move
if you choose to take care of yourself.
- Mm-hmm.
- And maybe staying in this competition
and bearing all the pressures that come with it
was just not something Majesty was actually ready for.
- Right, I agree.
- But listen, they're blinking the lights,
intermission is over.
So I think we should invite Alaska and Darren
in here and begin judgments.
[tense music]
- First before we begin, I want to say from all of us here,
what a fantastic job you did with this challenge.
[group claps]
Well done.
We commend you on doing a fantastic job
with "Dragula's" first musical challenge ever.
- Now we're going to talk about
how each group performed.
Snake pits, we're gonna start with you.
[group hisses]
- I really want to be kidnapped by your group next.
[people laugh]
I loved how prepared you were.
You came in with so many ideas,
and you were really ready to go.
I thought you really brought that like familial feeling,
which is ultimately what "Drag: The Musical" is about.
So thank you, you were fierce.
- Thank you. - Yes.
- Thank you so much.
- You look fucking cool, but if I had to critique,
I'd say this, the characterization was not there.
- I have to echo Swan.
I felt like there wasn't as much storytelling
and I felt like a couple of you
maybe popped more than others.
But I did have a good time with you.
- Was there someone that kinda led the choreography or?
Jaharia? - Jaharia, yeah.
- You did a fantastic job.
- Incredible. - Yeah.
- Thank you so much. - Yeah,
and your vocals were good too,
which I was a little surprised
not to say that I doubted you necessarily, but.
No, there was maybe a little doubt.
- We're going to give your team some individual critique
and we're going to start with Jaharia.
- Your singing was so on point.
Have you had vocal training?
- I have.
- I mean you sang the house down.
I was really impressed.
- Thank you.
- Did you come up with this one?
Uh-uh uh-uh.
- Yes.
[Alaska claps]
- That's iconic.
That's iconic movement.
- Thank you.
- I want you to believe that you're the main character.
I feel like you're afraid to be the star and to be the best.
Does that resonate with you
or does that seem like it's outta nowhere?
- No, that makes sense.
I'm used to like being like kind of like up there
with everybody but not like the top person.
So I, like yeah, very that.
- Why do you think that is?
- I see talent in a lot of people
and I get discouraged with myself.
- I hope that you can look in the mirror
and remind yourself that you are the star,
you are no second fiddle to anybody
and start throwing people under the bus
instead of helping them-
- [Person] Onto the bus.
- Okay, thank you.
Honestly, I'm very proud of myself.
I took a group of people who can't dance
and made them stars, bitch. [laughs]
- Let's move on to Aurora.
- Hi.
- You really sold that you were being kidnapped.
I was worried you were in danger girl.
- I was terrified.
- Great job tonight, I thought.
- Thank you.
- You are not a singer, right?
Not particularly a dancer, but you know what?
You pulled it off.
- Oh, yay!
- You made up for your shortcomings
with the characterization.
- Thank you so much, that means a lot.
- I don't know that you'll get cast
in the next musical production or dance routine,
but you are a solid actress and I think you did a good job
where your strengths were.
- Thank you.
I may not be able to sing or dance but,
no, that's it.
- Let's talk about Pi.
- Hi. - Hi.
- I felt like you were the type of performer
that I would want to be in a show with.
I thought you were really great.
- I feel like you were creating the standout moments
from the snake pit performance.
Like for sure you were 150% committed
to ridiculous and stupid, which was amazing.
- Thank you so, so much.
- You are not gonna win a Grammy probably, right, but-
- Ouch. [laughs]
- Ouch, shots fired.
- But you went for it,
and you gave it a hundred percent
and that's really what theater's all about.
- Thank you so much, I really appreciate that.
- You seem to take charge on stage
and you really came off as like sort
of the leader of the group.
- I do, and would acknowledge myself
as being a little bit of a leader.
Even if just getting us through rehearsals.
Yeah, I would agree with that.
- Truth be told, I'm the clear leader of the snakes group.
If I was not there,
they would not have a production to show.
- Factually speaking, I led this group,
and factually speaking,
I know The Boulets like when a leader can acknowledge it.
- Moving on to Asia.
- Hi.
- I mean, what,
you're just an event, just standing there.
I mean, my god, I had a really hard time
pulling my eyes away from you.
You are exquisite.
- Thank you.
- I love this hair.
It's so larger than life, you know,
it was part of the reason why I kept looking at you
and I think you have an it factor.
There's a quality of your presence
that I feel like you can't really learn
and I think that was shown tonight in this performance.
- Oh, thank you.
I don't know what it is either.
- Wow, you brought the slither to the snakes girl,
your look is so like voluptuous horror
of Karen Black meets like Gene Simmons from Kiss.
The vocal wasn't quite there but I absolutely loved it.
- Thank you, I'll get some vocal training after this,
I promise, I wanna get my EGOT.
- For sure.
- You know, despite Susan being two steps behind,
overall I'm feeling good about my group's critiques
so I'm worried for those rats.
- Now let's talk about our rat house.
- Rats, you are like "West Side Story" goes to the gutter.
This is a gang I could totally see myself joining.
- [Group] Yes!
- [Darren] I was here for it.
- All of your characters really popped,
in your look, in your body language, in your delivery.
It was fabulous.
- Oh thank you.
- Hi, rats. - Hi.
- I was firstly blown away by your looks.
Even your like scabie wounds are rhinestone.
I mean, I'm living,
you made arm bands out of the dead snakes
because you're their rivals.
Overall, as the performance went, there were some things
that didn't work out, but you know what?
You look sickening, okay?
- Yes, just 90%, right?
- [Alaska] Exactly.
- I think you could have maybe pushed yourself
a little bit in the choreography department.
Similarly, I think there was a couple of mishaps
that happened and I think it kind
of threw you all off as a group.
- I think they are being fucking generous.
We did not do the greatest,
but I appreciate them digging very, very deep
to find the positives, because what the fuck did we just do?
- We weren't doomed from the start.
We were doomed from the second verse. [laughs]
- Now we're going to give you some individual critique
and we'll start with Auntie Heroine.
- I feel for you in that moment, going up on the words.
[Auntie singing indistinctly]
♪ I'm old ♪
♪ Oh yeah ♪
- I've had it happen so many times
and also it works 'cause you're the old rat.
- Yeah.
- So senility has crept in.
- I know.
- So don't beat yourself up over it, it happens.
- Thank you.
- What happened?
Or did you just literally randomly forget?
Or what was your experience?
- Have no excuse.
- Did the group knock you off?
[tense music]
- I don't know, I don't want to say that the group did.
You know, I think we all tried really hard.
There was a point in time
where everybody was a few beats ahead.
[Off-Beat] ♪ Hey ♪
♪ Won't leave any crumbs ♪
♪ Yeah, we got room for scraps ♪
♪ We're smarter than you think. ♪
♪ We won't fall for your traps ♪
♪ Oh yeah ♪
♪ It's true that's what we do ♪
- In general, it was a a little bit of just gobbledy goop.
- Just wasn't your night.
But I don't think it speaks to your talent overall.
- Thank you, I appreciate that.
Not to be that bitch, but I truly believe
that my team really fucked me over, for God's sakes,
every goddamn person was off by multiple beats
and then literally my part was next.
Like these bitches are lucky
that I even got them back on track.
So that should gimme a point, okay?
- Moving on to Vivvi.
- Hi.
- I wanna borrow that pizza clutch.
[people laugh]
As far as the song goes,
if there's ever a like a EDM like remix of it,
that's like super fast, like hyper pop, I'm calling you.
- Okay.
- Because you wanted this song to be, [mimics blasts]
you were firing through it,
but luckily the group was able to get back on track.
- The singing was not my favorite of the night.
I think it could have been more effective for you
if you used the character voice rather than sing.
- Thank you.
- So Vivvi, I love the props,
I love all of the storytelling in your look.
All of the other aspects, the dancing,
the blocking, the choreography
and the singing on time, you definitely fell short.
It was a rough ride.
- Yeah, I know my dancing was offbeat,
but isn't this off Broadway?
- Let's talk about Yuri.
- Hi, hello.
- Your vocals.
Oh, I was really surprised
and I think you surprised yourself.
- Yeah. [laughs]
- I think that adrenaline kicked in
and you hit those high notes perfectly.
You stood out, you were great.
- Oh, thank you, I'm gonna stop singing live now.
I'm joking. [laughs]
- You were oozing sexuality and confidence.
You were naughty, you were sexy.
I couldn't take my eyes off you, I absolutely loved it.
- I think you have one of the best voices
of the night, honestly.
And it's interesting because again, you are like,
"I can't sing, I can't sing, I can't sing."
- "Oh, just karaoke."
- And then you sing beautifully.
I'm like, this is a trick.
This is a trick to get ahead, you have all these skills
that you're pretending like you don't
and that you're learning I'm here and you know what?
Good job on that.
[Swanthula laughs]
- I can't win, oh no. [laughs]
- And last but not least, Grey Matter.
- You do creature so well, I loved your performance.
It was silly, it was inventive, you're fantastic.
- Thank you so much.
- I'm so proud of you for doing this drag makeup tonight.
You took the notes that I gave you
and you apply them immediately.
You literally put the scare in the mascara,
and I thought you brought a lot of character to this rat
and I thought you did a great job.
- Thank you, I wore heels just for you.
- [Dracmorda] Good.
- I think you're the most rat-like of your group.
Even just standing here, you're still like in character.
You're still like feeling it.
I don't know if you're just rat-like all the time,
if that's like your thing, but it's giving.
I thought you were great.
- Thank you so much, Alaska.
So overall we flubbed a little bit.
I, on the other hand, did really well.
I could just scurry into a corner and eat some cheese.
- While both bands did delight us
with their musical spectacles,
only one group can take their show on the road
and be declared the winners.
And that band is...
[heartbeat thumps]
The Snake Pits.
- Yes, bring it in!
[group hissing]
- I think our group deserved our win
because we came in really strong.
We had a really good concept.
We worked really well together and we looked fucking cool.
- So the snakes fucking win,
which means the rats are in the bottom.
That does not live with my fantasy, no. [laughs]
- Well done my viperous little divas,
but there could only be one
box office success amongst your team.
And the winner of this week's challenge is...
[intense music]
Pi.
- Yes, oh.
Oh, my God.
I finally, finally got a win.
Oh my god, I feel so fucking good. [yells]
Thank you so fucking much.
I've been working so hard for a win.
I'm just so excited, thank you so much.
- Congratulations, Pi, on winning this challenge
and as a prize you will be guest starring in Alaska's
"Drag: The Musical" for one night only in New York City.
- Oh my fucking God! [yells]
Thank you.
- I've seen Pi perform, save your money, girl.
- Now as an added prize,
we've decided that the winning team will choose
which two performers will be up for extermination this week.
[hosts laughing]
- Shit. [laughs]
- They get to choose who's up for extermination?
Fuck.
- Bitch.
Wait, the snakes gotta do what?
I don't know how I feel about this.
I'm really excited but also I don't want to vote for nobody.
This shit's getting hard.
- We're going to release only the winning team
to the cauldron to deliberate.
Afterwards, you'll come back here to the stage
to deliver your verdict.
Your 10 minute intermission starts now.
- Thank you. - Thank you.
- Can you believe that is another fucking vote?
"Dragula" me to the polls, bitch, 'cause I gotta vote again.
- This is exactly what an alliance is for,
Asia and I have to put Auntie up,
and we have to convince the others to also vote for her.
- So I kind of think we're on the same page.
- I agree, I think they want to make moves as well.
- I'm not worried about Vivvi.
- But I'm fearful.
Like what happens if we send somebody home,
and then they're like, "Well we weren't really ready
for them to go home," and they bring 'em back
and then we gotta do it again.
We've gotta get Auntie out.
- We have to get Auntie.
- This is our fucking opportunity.
- This is the opportunity.
She's like one of the front runners of this competition.
- And technically, like it's fair.
- It's fair as fuck.
- She had the second worst critiques of the night.
- Grey's been in the top.
- He got pretty much,
I wanna say the best critiques of the night, even though.
- Yeah.
- They ate him up and that's scary.
- Fuck. - [Jaharia] Yeah.
- I think we really have to convince them
to make sure that we lock in Auntie in the bottom.
- Yeah.
- We just need to get them on the same page.
I think we have one of the people.
- Cheers to that. [laughs]
I'm gonna make sure that these bitches know
that Auntie is the one to go,
I don't care who the else they vote for,
but Auntie needs to be on that list.
- Grey Matter is a really strong competitor
and if I can convince my team to go for them,
we could really shift the game.
- So like what are y'all feeling?
- I think it's time we start playing with strategy.
- Okay, I'm listening.
- We could go with how the judges critiqued everyone,
and kind of go off of that.
Or we could start making some moves
and taking out some stronger players.
- I'm on the same page with Aurora.
It is kind of like a turning point in the competition.
So it's definitely time to make some moves.
Grey has been very consistent.
- True.
- And got great critiques tonight.
I think it would be in our best interest
at this point to put 'em down there again.
It sucks because I do love them, I love their art.
However, we're at a point where I want to win.
And I need to get certain people outta here.
We are at the halfway point in this competition
and if I wanna win, I think it's time to make some big moves
and get these top contenders the fuck outta here.
- He is strong competition in showing that he can listen
to critiques and rise to the top.
So it might be a good choice-
- This is our chance, that's all I have to say.
This is our chance.
- What about, do we want to like consider other people?
Like-
- I mean, we have one other person.
- Yuri's been in the bottom like-
- But she didn't have bad critiques.
- Vivvi was just, Vivvi was just in the bottom
and got bad critiques.
- [Asia] Yeah. - [Aurora] Yeah.
- She's not really somebody I'm looking at right now.
- No, I'm not worried about her.
- I mean, Vivvi got what I think might have been
the harshest critiques tonight.
- Would it be a reason to keep her,
it'd be cute to have the safety of somebody who has been...
[people laugh]
I mean, she, sounds fucked,
but also we came to play a game and I'm ready to play it.
You know what I mean?
- I mean it's fucked,
but it's also that we're the ones that are choosing.
I mean I'm feeling like based off of the critiques,
I could definitely see Auntie being somebody that goes up.
- Yeah, I think that's big competition
and in a performance challenge,
I don't expect her to flub like this again.
When do we get an opportunity like this to really like-
- Snake strike.
- Yeah. - Exactly.
- Let's take these rats out.
- To me, this is like the opportunity.
- Correct. - [Asia] I agree.
- This is like the opportunity,
like she can't take it personally.
There's no way she could.
- I mean even if she does, who cares?
- She's doing all of the same stuff
that I am like trying to bring to this competition.
- Yeah.
- And she must die.
- I felt that.
- We would be stupid to not take that opportunity.
- She's also the only person on that team
that has not been up for extermination
and like giving her an opportunity to squirm,
I would also hope would light a fire under her ass
because I think that she has still has some walls up
that I would really like to see crumble down,
because if it's the final fate for her
to make it to the end,
then I need to see her be a little bit
more vulnerable than she's been.
- Okay.
- She has been doing really well in this competition
and she really is my number one enemy, if you will.
So we have to vote Auntie.
We cannot fuck this up.
These bitches are gonna come out
for us no matter who we choose,
they're gonna come after us for fucking blood.
So we're thinking if y'all are willing
for us to all agree on Auntie,
then we will also agree on Grey.
- I like that.
- I think we felt the strongest about-
- [Together] Auntie.
- Y'all felt the strongest about Grey.
I think we should get two strong bitches in the bottom
and see who rises to the top.
[dramatic music]
- All right, the intermission is over,
and it is time for you to deliver your verdict.
- Jaharia, who do you choose to put up
for extermination this week?
[tense music]
- After a long talk in the cauldron,
there has been a lot of compelling arguments
for everybody on the other team.
However, when I win I want to win against the best.
So tonight I would like to put up Auntie and Vivvi.
I know, hear me out, here's the thing.
As much as I want to play the game,
my heart told me that I couldn't do it.
I couldn't do it at all, I want to play a fair game.
So I'm gonna do just that.
- Aurora.
- So after hearing the judges' critiques
and really throwing around a few names,
I also decided on Auntie Heroine and Vivvi.
Ah, I realize that Susan was boozing
a little too hard in the cauldron.
I have the power right now, I'm taking two top dogs out.
[Aurora laughing]
So I really bitched out on this one,
and I decided to just go with the safe choice,
which was Vivvi.
And then, I mean I did put Auntie in the bottom, but.
- Hi, who do you choose to put up for extermination?
- I was very tempted to play a big game,
but I think it's only fair for me to play an honest game.
My vote is for Auntie Heroine
and Vivvi the Force.
The snake pit was originally gonna vote for Grey,
but it kind of feels like we all got cold feet,
which I don't hate personally.
- Asia.
- Every time that we're on the stage,
we only have one chance to make it count.
And the people that flubbed in tonight's floor show
were Auntie Heroine and Vivvi the Force.
We did get a little batshit crazy
trying to pull out all the good players in this,
but Grey's a heavy hitter
and he would come back with a vengeance.
- Vivvi and Auntie, your peers have voted you both
to face tonight's extermination challenge.
Everyone else please move to the back of the stage.
- I'm not surprised by their fucking vote,
but I'm a little angry.
Slithering bitches.
- Fuck, I don't know if I can survive
another extermination at this point.
- Auntie and Vivvi,
you'll battle each other live on stage in a sudden death
lip sync challenge and at the end of the song,
one of you will be exterminated
and removed from the competition.
- I'm definitely nervous,
because I know that Vivvi is an incredible lip syncer,
like this is her fucking thing.
So I don't know how this is gonna go.
- I feel real bad for Auntie right now,
because I got this one in the bag.
- Your lip sync battle begins right now.
♪ Please tell me baby ♪
♪ I've been waiting in fear ♪
♪ Which part of me you're taking ♪
♪ When you leave me here ♪
♪ It's not my fault ♪
[singer vocalizes]
♪ It's not my fault ♪
- Voting for two people to go up for extermination
and then watching them lip sync against each other
and knowing that one of them is about to be eliminated
in front of your eyes
and you put them there is fucking heartbreaking.
♪ You'll never use your hands ♪
♪ Because your words were enough ♪
♪ To make you lose ♪
♪ Everything you always said you love ♪
♪ I guess when there's no spine ♪
♪ And the freedom to lie ♪
♪ Eventually they'll all see ♪
♪ Your disguise ♪
- Auntie is fucking giving it right now.
She's giving you the one, two, the hair is giving.
And then there's Vivvi, she is also there.
♪ We never stood a chance ♪
♪ Because I wasn't enough ♪
♪ For you to see ♪
♪ I could be everything you love ♪
♪ I guess when there's no time ♪
♪ Surrendering to those eyes ♪
♪ Eventually you will see ♪
♪ I'm just fine ♪
- I don't know who it could be in this lip sync.
Auntie is really serving it and emoting it,
and Vivvi is really letting it out on the stage.
So it could be anyone's game.
♪ Don't run ♪
♪ You are the one ♪
♪ I can't see your face fading ♪
♪ It's not my fault ♪
- [Contestants] Yes! - Woo!
[contestants clapping]
- I feel like of all the exterminations
you could possibly do, a lip sync extermination
has nothing to do with anything in the competition.
Either you're good or you're not.
And if you're good, you fucking stay.
And I feel like I fucking killed this.
- I gave it my best shot,
it's up to The Boulet Brothers now.
I hope that I'm spared on this one
and I can survive another week.
- Vivvi gave it her all,
but is her all good enough?
We'll see.
- Vivvi.
[heart thumping]
[tense music]
You have been exterminated
from the competition and may leave the stage.
[intense music]
- Thank you so much for the opportunity
to spread some chaos at "Dragula."
It's been an honor, thank you.
I'm proud of my journey.
I've learned a lot here so far.
I've been pushing my drag to another level
and I do feel like I made a family here,
and I'll have forever long drag sisters after this.
I know, it sucks.
- I'm so sorry.
I'm really heartbroken that Vivvi is going home based off
of decision that I had to make with my team.
But it's the name of the game.
- [Vivvi] May chaos reign
and may the force be with you, bitches.
[kiss smacks]
- For the rest of you,
I recommend you get a good night's rest
because tomorrow the next phase of the game begins.
[hosts cackling]
- What the fuck?
- [Dracmorda] You have been exterminated
from the competition and may leave the stage.
[tense music]
[person breathing]
[heels clicking]
[tense music continues]
[intense music]
[footsteps pattering]
[eerie music]
[person yells]
[body thuds]
[intense music]
[upbeat music]
[upbeat music continues]
[person screams]