Was the premise the usual intergenerational friendship trope?

Yes |D
plus some extra drama
I mean, lots of drama
so far Monique Heart's cameo is the best

It's hard to imagine Ru as any other character.

hehe true, Ru was being himself, with all the pep talks and 'youth doesn't know diana ross, how dare they'

the kid screams too much

Does Ru lack the self awareness from not knowing a lot of current pop culture references? Even though that was in the film, since it's a common complaint in judging. But Visage is probably more of a worse offender. Like how super highlighted makeup was very on trend, but it was faulted against for Farrah Moan.

Both are stuck in the 90s, it seems |D
or 80s.

At least the guest judges are a bit more up to date sometimes.

WOOHOO!
Agreed. Maybe that's why there are no guest make up artists, they don't want to hear that stuff like Dusty's dots is cool

Were they? It did seem weird that the importance of developing a unique "brand/identity" is stressed, but then to get told not to do the thing that is a part of their identity.

Yeah, and then Bianca wins xD

Did you not think she deserved to win?

Oh no, she did!! But she is not versatile. She can't even lip sync xDD

Ah, I may have missed the lip syncs from the earlier seasons. The judging from Project Runway way seems to be competing for who is the worst.

She never was in the bottom, so she only did the top 4 lip sync, and she never does it on her shows either xD it's just not what she does.

Ohh, I forgot about that part. Enough queens already do lip syncs so at least not everyone should feel they have to do it.

I just find it funny because the show puts a lot of emphasis on that. and acting challenges, for some reason