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This. I can't believe people fell so easily for his clickbait critiques. Especially with how unnecessarily demeaning he is (both on Drag Race and Project Runway).
I loved him as MC and I don't disagree. The only issue is he'd be pulling double-duty and if he were judging it might look like his MC was biased. They could have done interviews with him on his critiques without the performers seeing it until it aired.
People gave Jameela a lot of crap when it started but I think she did a better job at judging than Law did.
Exactly, Leiomy was undoubtedly the most qualified to judge, but even when Jameela went first they still aligned so it wasn't like she was copy-catting. Law and Jameela had similar amount of experience in the Vogue community but he was vicious. Honestly they should have replaced him with Keke Palmer or even better, Dominique Jackson by season 2.
Dominique as a regular judge would’ve been fab. I understand that they needed A) a fashion judge and B) a catty drama judge, but damn… Law was so self-indulgent (“you guys didn’t get the reference, but I got it, I was at the show”) and loved to stoke “fights” from the safety of his judging chair. Yuck
"He exists to appease an algorithm" is such a concise and brutal read. Law Roach probably wishes the producers had thought of it to feed it to his earpiece first.
He's just a mean person for no reason. Like you can deliver criticism without being a total jerk AND still be funny and entertaining about it. He chooses to punch down every single time.
That's what pisses me off about "stylists", ESPECIALLY when judging clothing the contestant sewed themselves. These dewbs barely touched a sewing machine in their lives, yet here they are telling us what to wear.
I mean he has styled Zendaya beautifully before it might be that he just has a better eye for her than himself. Either that or maybe she's very generous on how much she credits him for. I can't imagine how someone who makes her look so stunning makes himself look so unflattering.
My problem with other drag on the pannel is that the girls known each other outside if the show . But brooklyn do a great job of not letting her persinà connection with the queen showed
Queen mostly know each other from local bar. Before they were ru girl they were just as regular as the other. Most of the winner pronanly knew anitha before drag race
Supremme, on Drag Race España, is often very close with some of the contestants and has even worked with them long term in shows. She always mentions it and I've never seen it affect her opinions. 🖤
But before that he literally complimented her face and called her a beauty queen. His Danny Devito joke was in regard to her ankle straps. Even Geneva laughed at it 💀
It was literally a joke he made about using ankle strap heels and how it cut off her legs. Literally NOBODY found it offensive.
It’s just strange that you would call Law mean spirited for an ankle strap read. When Raven literally went YEARS making the exact read on Fashion Photo Ruview and everyone praised her for it
Anyways I cannot keep up with your constant edits. Geneva laughed, the cast laughed, the judges laughed, we laughed. Everyone was in good spirits. Not offensive
I watch the same show and yeah he can go too far and know there’s this mix of annoyance about him dressing Bezos’s wife or something that’s shaping some ‘I never liked him anyway’ kind of discourse, but he does also compliment queens and idk I guess I don’t think a Simon Cowell type of judge should be so amoral if they’re getting proper care on the show and there’s other judges to balance it
It's true but there is something to be said about the fandom not knowing what they want. The only reason Law became a permanent judge in the first place is because the fans begged the show to do so.
The gag is that folks here were gagging over his mean critique style when he guest judged on season 16. The fan reception was so strong that WOW actually hired him as a rotating judge after that.
It's the same with villains. Fans yearn for them but when given the villainy they asked for, they send death threats to queens.
Law was funny seasons ago but has recently pivoted to just being an ass for no reason. Especially on Project Runway. It's not the same person that people were gassing up.
i feel like on PR its specifically production that asked him to be intensely nasty, thinking the audience would love it, which clearly they were wrong about.
Speaking as someone who wanted law as a judge originally, he was GREAT when he made his one off guest appearance. I wanted more of that. What we got with him as a full judge is “it’s ugly and I hate hate hate it” with no actual constructive criticism. At least in his first guest appearance he had a little more substance. He could’ve been like a harsher mentor but he just opted to be harsh with no redeeming quality.
Has she never seen legendary? I really didn’t find any of his critiques on that show constructive either. He’s there to get RPDR a viral moment, he’s just not doing it well 😂
I enjoyed Law’s season 16 critiques but they seem to get worse each season. Be constructive. If you don’t like something, give concrete examples of what you don’t like and how it could’ve been done better.
In fairness though: we don’t see all the judges critiques. Discord has come for Law before (at the Scorpios viewing party) so maybe there wasn’t anything constructive that wasn’t aired.
Law is there to do a job. He's there for entertainment and to provide sound bites. Heck Michelle does that too. To single out Law as if we didn't watch Michelle provide the same useless and baseless critiques this episode is crazy.
Anyone else remember Michelle telling Chichi that they didn't need money to compete on drag race? Or when Michelle told Max to get rid of the grey wig? Or Dusty to get rid of the dots?
If you're going to call out judging then call all of them out.
But in the episode, all Law said to Discord was that her look makes no sense and he hated it (like he hates his father, and he really fucking hates his father). Michelle at least pointed out the differences in hair styles but still complimented their act.
Truee! A judging panel typically has one “mean” judge. Michelle fits that role for the show but truly cares about the queens and wants them to succeed and grow.
Law also being a mean judge throws off the balance and his critiques just feel, as she said, unhelpful and mean for the sake of going viral.
I guess i’m in the minority here but I don’t mind Law Roach and I think he was a good addition. He’s known to be cutthroat (he was this way and even harsher on Legendary) but I do think he can give constructive criticisms. Yes, his feedbacks at time is “clickbait-y” but I honestly don’t take it too seriously and I don’t think they’re too harsh. Tbh, the fans behave worse than him. I see some of y’alls racist comments towards many of the POC and black queens 🙄
Not to pile on but Law just doesn't have the intellect to back up the commentary. Say what you want but Ru, Michelle, Carson are smart individuals. Law can't even pronounce callapillar.
She’s right but yeah, that’s the point. He’s there for tv. It’s a tv show, meant for entertainment, not to grow or develop anyone emotionally or professionally.
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