With Anetra walking that fucking duck, TikTok twins Sugar and Spice ‘tormenting’ the werkroom with their exuberant energy and Jax delivering peak drag as she used her hair as a jump-rope, the season 15 premiere of RuPaul’s Drag Race was one of the best-received in years. While many on social media predicted this season would be “one of the most sickening in herstory”, perception soon faltered with the release of episode three.

As opposed to the Ariana Grande-assisted double premiere and every single episode of Drag Race since the series sashayed over to VH1, which have all been one hour plus, ‘All Queens Go to Heaven’ clocked in around 41 minutes as a result of MTV’s brand-new – and poorly received – reality series, The Real Friends of WeHo. Yes, that’s the time of an average television episode, however it simply doesn’t work for RuPaul’s Drag Race anymore – here’s why. 

Okay, the subheading for this section is admittedly quite dramatic but this is a Drag Race-related article that you are reading, thus drama ye shall receive. Described as the length of an “Instagram story” by one viewer, the runway this episode was… non-existent. One fan said they “blinked once during the runway and missed two girls” while another tweeted that it was “so fast” that they “don’t remember any look”. BREAKING: We identify with these tweets. As mere seconds passed by for each queen, fans weren’t able to bask in their creations, which is a – harsh word incoming – dishonour – but we stand by it – to the cast and their collaborators, who spend thousands upon thousands concocting these garments over several months.

In an episode of Untucked, Miz Cracker said she “took a loan out against my asshole” to get on Drag Race and that she “spent more” for season 10 “than I did on college”, adding: “I put it on the line because this is so important.” The financial burden was the same for Kameron Michaels, who added: “I spent more coming into this competition than I did as the down payment on my house.” Spending less than 10 seconds on their runways is a huge disservice to their drag. We’ll wait for their Instagram posts, I suppose?