Sadly, it is time for the final episode of RuPaul's Drag Race UK season 2. This season has been entertaining at every turn. It is hard to believe that it is almost over, especially since there are still 86 weeks left of American Drag Race season 13. In the finale's maxi challenge, Ellie Diamond, Lawrence Chaney, Tayce, and Bimini Bon-Boulash are tasked with creating a rap verse for their final performance. When Ellie asks Lawrence if this is a diss track, Lawrence says, "bad bitches uplift other b*tches."
During Tayce's tic-tac lunch with Mama Ru, she says she is excited to represent Wales if she were to be crowned the winner of RuPaul's Drag Race UK. Ellie Diamond sits down with RuPaul and Michelle and says her lowest point in the competition was when she stacked the comedy challenge against the other girls. Michelle rightfully tells her that she did the right thing, as she is trying to win a competition. When Bimini sits down with RuPaul, they reveal that they did not have any badges before the COVID-19 break from filming. That feels so crazy considering Bimini now has the most badges in the competition.
The Drag Race UK finale Rumix number that the final four queens perform is sexy and cool, but disappointing. Their verses are not very intelligible, and after the gag of "UK Hun?" earlier in the season, this felt like a bit of a letdown. On the runway, Bimini looks absolutely ravishing. Her make-up is sickening and she is serving fashion bride extravaganza. Ellie gives a beautiful Glinda, the Good Witch dress, and her face is beat for the gods. On the other hand, Lawrence's final lewk is a little underwhelming for her. She is wearing two of her badges as earrings - which is such a gag! - but the dress itslef is fairly simple for the final episode. Tayce also does not bring the gag for the final runway. It is essentially a body suit with weird fur hanging off it in unseemly places.
Bimini tells RuPaul that she wants to celebrate weirdness, queerness, and uniqueness, and she sure does that. Lawrence notes that she wants to offer her drag as escapism to people. Tayce says that she wants to be the UK's Next Drag Race Superstar so that she can travel the world and "perform [her] tits off." All of the eliminated queens return for the final episode, even Veronica Green, who was not allowed to return to the competition because of a COVID-19 diagnosis. During the judges' critiques, Graham Norton and Alan Carr rightfully clock Ellie for being predictable in the competition. Michelle disagrees with them, but the truth is... Ellie is sweet, but she does not have the same range that the rest of the contestants have. This game is really between Lawrence and Bimini, with a possible Tayce twist.
It gets even more awkward when RuPaul gives Ellie Diamond the Roxxxy Andrews treatment. She excuses Ellie from the final lip sync and has Tayce, Bimini, and Lawrence step forward. It has so much musical theatre dance call-back energy we expect her to say, "Thank you so much we've seen all we need to see." The top three lip sync for the crown. All three queens absolutely kill it in the lip sync, but RuPaul ultimately chooses to crown Lawrence Chaney as the winner of RuPaul's Drag Race UK season 2!