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Comment: This episode has received significant coverage in multiple reliable sources and is long enough to justify a fork from the season article. Additionally, the article waskept in a deletion discussion in 2021. I propose moving this article back into the main space. ---Another Believer(Talk) 15:20, 22 November 2025 (UTC)| "PharmaRusical" | |||
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| Original air date | March 29, 2018 (2018-03-29) | ||
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"PharmaRusical" is the second episode of thetenth season of the Americanreality competition television seriesRuPaul's Drag Race, which aired onVH1 on March 29, 2018.[1][2][3]Halsey andPadma Lakshmi are guest judges.Andy Cohen andAlyssa Edwards also make guest appearances.[4][5][6]
The episode's main challenge has contestants perform in aRusical (musical theatre challenge) about fictional pharmaceuticals. The Vixen wins the main challenge.Kalorie Karbdashian-Williams is eliminated from the competition after placing in the bottom two and losing alip-sync contest againstEureka.[7]
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The contestants return to the Werk Room afterVanessa Vanjie Mateo's elimination. On a new day,RuPaul and guestAndy Cohen greet the contestants and reveal the mini-challenge "Hay Girl Hay", which tasks contestants with getting into "quick drag" and dancing tocountry music.Asia O'Hara andThe Vixen are declared the winners of the mini-challenge. RuPaul reveals the main challenge, which tasks contestants with performing in aRusical (musical theatre challenge) calledPharmaRusical. Asia O'Hara and The Vixen are the team captains, as the winners of the mini-challenge. The captains select their team members.
Back in the Werk Room, the contestants assign roles and start to prepare for the Rusical. RuPaul meets with each team to ask questions and offer advice. On the main stage, the contestants rehearse choreography with former competitorAlyssa Edwards. In the Werk Room, the contestants start to prepare for the musical and the fashion show.Eureka struggles with her self-confidence.Kalorie Karbdashian-Williams shares about her experience being heavier.
On the main stage, RuPaul welcomes fellow judgesMichelle Visage andRoss Mathews, as well as guest judgesHalsey andPadma Lakshmi. The contestants present the Rusical, followed by the fashion show. The judges deliver their critiques and deliberate. The Vixen is declared the winner of the main challenge.[8] Eureka and Kalorie Karbdashian-Williams place in the bottom two and face off in alip-sync contest to "Best of My Love" (1977) byThe Emotions. Eureka wins the lip-sync and Kalorie Karbdashian-Williams is eliminated from the competition.[9]
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The episode originally aired on March 29, 2018. Among fictional prescription drugs mentioned in the Rusical are Badonkadonx, Conflama, and Flaccida.[10]
For the fashion show, the category is "Very Best Drag". Asia O'Hara wears a stoned pink dress.Yuhua Hamasaki's outfit is blue.Dusty Ray Bottoms wears a black-and-white outfit and a blonde wig.Monique Heart's outfit reveals into another and she has large eyes as a headpiece. Kalorie Karbdashian-Williams wears a black outfit and gloves. Eureka'scatsuit has manyrhinestones andsequins. Aquaria wears two rings in her nose. Her outfit is black and she has a greenboa and green earrings. The Vixen wears aflame-inspired orange-and-red outfit.Miz Cracker has a gold outfit and square-shaped hair.Mayhem Miller wears a light blue dress withtulle.Blair St. Clair's wears a pageant gown and a blonde wig.Kameron Michaels has a colorful outfit with many butterflies attached.Monét X Change wears a stoned catsuit.
Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers ofVulture rated the episode 5 out of 5 stars.[11]Metro Weekly's Rhuaridh Marr called the musical number "dreadful".[12] Bernardo Sim ofOut magazine saidPharmaRusical "is arguably one of the weirdest Rusicals in the history of the series".[8] Similarly, Allison Shoemaker ofConsequence said the episode "might feature the single strangest premise for a challenge inDrag Race herstory".[13] Roby Abraham ofWussy magazine, opined, "This had to be the most lackluster episode of the franchise in the last few years. From the mini challenge to the challenge and even the runway. It was just kinda….."[14]
Charlie Duncan ofPinkNews called the Rusical "not good" in 2024.[15]PharmaRusical ranked number 17 inIn Magazine's 2024 "definitive ranking" of the musicals on the show to date and said: " PharmaRusical included a big cast as it was only in the second episode of season 10. The dancing was ambitious but the actual musical lacked any substance, and a storyline. It jumped back and forth between different made up prescription drugs, and to be perfectly honest, we’re still a little confused as to why this was chosen as the season 10 Rusical."[16]
Stephen Daw rankedPharmaRusical sixteenth inBillboard's 2025 list of Rusicals to date. He said "It's sort of funny, but ultimately very strange and random", as well as "It's tough to remember a single performance from such a strange Rusical". He also wrote, "The songs of this Rusical are disjointed, skipping around frequently from hip-hop to Broadway to pop at a frenzied pace. There's not a lot to say here – there's very little that’s actually successful in this music... PharmaRusical was a forgettable experience, and one that you certainly don’t need to think too much about. If you’re looking to rewatch old episodes, feel free to skip this."[17]
