Warning! SPOILERS for Canada's Drag Race season 2 episode 10 below!
During the grand finale of Canada's Drag Race season 2, Icesis Couture, Kendall Gender, and Pythia compete to snatch the crown and become Canada's Next Drag Superstar. Last week on Canada's Drag Race, the top four in the competition had a reunion with all of the eliminated queens. For the most part, this was a very Canadian reunion that ended on the happy note of Suki Doll being crowned this season's Miss Congeniality.
But just as the reunion portion of episode 9 ended, the top four queens had to face off in a never-before-seen lip sync smackdown where only three of them got to the finale. First Kendall Gender beat Gia Metric, then Icesis Couture beat Pythia. In the end, Pythia defeated Gia in the final lip sync, which meant that Pythia made it to the top three and Gia sashayed away. As it stands, the top three of Canada's Drag Race consisted of Icesis, Kendall, and Pythia.
This grand finale started with the top three celebrating the fact that they got this far in the competition. However, there was a very real sense that all three of these queens felt like they could snatch the crown, which made the stakes very high for the episode. Here's how the competition was broken down by track record: Icesis Couture won two maxi challenges and survived one lip sync, Kendall Gender won one challenge and survived one lip sync, whereas Pythia won two maxi challenges and never landed in the bottom two. Nonetheless, it all came down to how these queens performed in this final challenge on Canada's Drag Race: putting together a Rumix edition of Brooke Lynn Hytes' "Queen Of The North".
Icesis, Kendall, and Pythia all proved throughout the season that they could perform the house down boots, making it hard to predict how they'd do in this challenge. As their performance of the "Queen Of The North" Rumix started, though, it became clear that Icesis Couture was steamrolling the competition. Kendall Gender nailed the choreography and had a strong slowed-down flow, whereas Pythia served a lot of personality throughout the performance. All three queens had great looks on the runway, but Icesis and Pythia stood out. Then, each queen had a tear-inducing speech as they looked back at their Drag Race journeys and talked about why they should win this crown.
The lip sync for the crown was to the tune of "It's All Coming Back To Me Now" by Celine Dion. Kendall was slightly overperforming the song, but she did a good job in it. Pythia's take on the song didn't exactly fit the mood of the music, which was disappointing. In turn, Icesis did exactly what needed to be done for her to win the lip sync and snatch the crown. In the end, Brooke Lynn Hytes announced that Icesis Couture won Canada's Drag Race and crowned her Canada's Next Drag Superstar.
All episodes of Canada's Drag Race season 2 are now available on the WOW Presents Plus streaming service.