The final challenge of "And the Rest Is Drag" has the remaining four contestants perform choreography for the official music video of "Born Naked" (featuring Clairy Browne), a song from RuPaul's 2014 studio album of the same name, and act alongside RuPaul in a series of three sketches directed by Mathu Andersen.
Michelle Visage reveals the final challenge, which tasks contestants with performing choreography in the official music video of RuPaul's song "Born Naked" (featuring Clairy Browne), as well as acting in three sketches directed by Mathu Andersen.
Ginger Minj talks about her father leaving their family for his high school girlfriend,[5] and Pearl reveals that she experienced multiple forms of trauma at a young age.
Ginger Minj and Kennedy Davenport, who have dubbed themselves the "Bitter Old Lady Brigade", question if Violet Chachki is experienced and emotionally mature enough to be the season's winner and representative.
For his make-up work in "ShakesQueer", the seventh season's third episode, Andersen received a nomination during the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards.
[16] Entertainment Weekly described Andersen's sketches in "And the Rest Is Drag" as a "Klumps-style dinner scene" in which RuPaul plays a "dusty old dad" and the contestants portray a "moody" teenager, an "annoying" young girl, and a "pilled-out" mother.
[18][19] City Magazine said her choreography in "And the Rest Is Drag" is "in the style of 1980's pop idols like Sheena Easton and Paula Abdul".
[17] Writers for The Guardian said Violet Chachki wore "another super-tight corset looking, for all the world, like Sally Bowles in Cabaret" and Pearl presented "a very Madonna circa Blond Ambition inspired number".
Club gave the episode a rating of 'C' and said it was "a total drag ... losing the energy and character that makes this series so enjoyable and replacing it with sob stories and bitterness as the queens get ready to head into the finale."
Sava opined:The biggest problem with this episode is that it's another final competition episode with four queens instead of three, which means the individual contestants don't get as much time in the spotlight... A four-person lip sync is fun when its two pairs, but four individuals lip syncing is chaotic and unfocused; nobody comes out on top because there's so much happening on stage, so everyone gets lost in the madness.
"[5] In a 2016 review of a similar episode for the eighth season in which the final four contestants appear in a music video to a RuPaul song ("The Realness"), Michael Malice of The New York Observer wrote, "This challenge is clearly irrelevant in choosing who goes forward.
"[21] In 2019, Bernardo Sim included Pearl in Screen Rant's overview of ten contestants who participated in the finale but had no chance of winning.