Canada's Drag Race | |
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Season 2 | |
Hosted by | Brooke Lynn Hytes |
Judges |
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No. of contestants | 12 |
Winner | Icesis Couture |
Runners-up | |
Miss Congeniality | Suki Doll |
No. of episodes | 10 |
Release | |
Original network | Crave |
Original release | October 14 – December 16, 2021 |
Season chronology | |
The second season of Canada's Drag Race premiered on October 14, and concluded on December 16, 2021. [1] The season aired on Crave in Canada and WOW Presents Plus internationally. [2]
Casting for the second season started early 2021 [3] and the twelve contestants were announced on September 14, 2021.
The winner of the second season of Canada’s Drag Race was Icesis Couture, with Kendall Gender and Pythia as runners-up. [4]
Ages, names, and cities stated are at time of filming.
Contestant | Age | Hometown | Outcome |
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Icesis Couture | 34 | Ottawa, Ontario | Winner |
Kendall Gender | 30 | Vancouver, British Columbia | Runners-up |
Pythia | 26 | Montreal, Quebec | |
Gia Metric | 29 | Vancouver, British Columbia | 4th place |
Adriana [a] | 29 | Quebec City, Quebec | 5th place |
Kimora Amour | 34 | Scarborough, Ontario | 6th place |
Synthia Kiss | 29 | Vancouver, British Columbia | 7th place |
Eve 6000 | 29 | Toronto, Ontario | 8th place |
Suki Doll | 27 | Montreal, Quebec | 9th place [b] |
Stephanie Prince | 23 | Calgary, Alberta | 10th place |
Océane Aqua-Black | 35 | Quebec City, Quebec | 11th place |
Beth | 24 | Vancouver, British Columbia | 12th place |
Legend:
Contestant | Episode | |||||||||
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1 [5] | 2 [6] | 3 [7] | 4 [8] | 5 [9] | 6 [10] | 7 [11] | 8 [12] | 9 [13] | 10 [14] | |
Icesis Couture | WIN | BTM | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | BTM | STAY | Winner |
Kendall Gender | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | BTM | WIN | SAFE | STAY | Runner-up |
Pythia | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | STAY | Runner-up |
Gia Metric | BTM | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | BTM | SAFE | ELIM | Guest |
Adriana | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | ELIM | Guest | Guest |
Kimora Amour | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | ELIM | Guest | Guest | |
Synthia Kiss | SAFE | SAFE | BTM | WIN | BTM | ELIM | Guest | Guest | ||
Eve 6000 | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | BTM | ELIM | Guest | Guest | |||
Suki Doll | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | ELIM | Miss C | Guest | ||||
Stephanie Prince | SAFE | SAFE | ELIM | Guest | Guest | |||||
Océane Aqua-Black | SAFE | ELIM | Guest | Guest | ||||||
Beth | ELIM | Guest | Guest |
Legend:
Episode | Contestants | Song | Eliminated | ||
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1 [5] | Beth | vs. | Gia Metric | "Maneater" (Nelly Furtado) | Beth |
2 [6] | Icesis Couture | vs. | Océane Aqua-Black | "Stupid Shit" (Girlicious) | Océane Aqua-Black |
3 [7] | Stephanie Prince | vs. | Synthia Kiss | "Ghost" (Fefe Dobson) | Stephanie Prince |
4 [8] | Eve 6000 | vs. | Suki Doll | "Happiness" (KAPRI) | Suki Doll |
5 [9] | Eve 6000 | vs. | Synthia Kiss | "I Love Myself Today" (Bif Naked) | Eve 6000 |
6 [10] | Kendall Gender | vs. | Synthia Kiss | "Heaven" (DJ Sammy, Yanou ft. Do) | Synthia Kiss |
7 [11] | Gia Metric | vs. | Kimora Amour | "Get Down" (B4-4) | Kimora Amour |
8 [12] | Adriana | vs. | Icesis Couture | "Everybody Say Love" (Mitsou) | Adriana |
Episode | Contestants | Song | Winner | ||
9 [13] | Gia Metric | vs. | Kendall Gender | "Main Event" (RuPaul) | Kendall Gender |
Icesis Couture | vs. | Pythia | "Born Naked" (RuPaul ft. Clairy Browne) | Icesis Couture | |
Contestants | Song | Eliminated | |||
Gia Metric | vs. | Pythia | "Call Me Mother" (RuPaul) | Gia Metric | |
Episode | Final contestants | Song | Winner | ||
10 [14] | Icesis Couture vs. Kendall Gender vs. Pythia | "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" (Celine Dion) | Icesis Couture | ||
In June 2021, new judges for the second season were announced. Brad Goreski, Amanda Brugel, and Traci Melchor replace Stacey McKenzie and Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman behind the judging table. [15] The season also included several guest judges. Listed in chronological order:
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Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 10
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date | |
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11 | 1 | "Lost and Fierce" | October 14, 2021 | |
Twelve new queens enter the Canadian werkroom. For the first mini-challenge, the queens must pose for a photoshoot shot by guest judge Caitlin Cronenberg while jumping into a foam pit reaching for the crown. Suki Doll wins this mini-challenge. For the main challenge, the queens must create a haute-check couture look that screams premiere party eleganza using left-behind materials from the coat check. On the runway, Icesis Couture, Stephanie Prince and Suki Doll receive positive critiques, with Icesis Couture winning the challenge. Beth, Eve 6000 and Gia Metric receive negative critiques, with Eve 6000 being safe. Beth and Gia Metric lip-sync to "Maneater" by Nelly Furtado. Gia Metric wins the lip-sync, and Beth is the first eliminated queen of the season.
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12 | 2 | "Under the Big Top" | October 21, 2021 | |
For this weeks mini-challenge, the queens must compete in the Queen of my Neighbourhood Pageant. Océane Aqua-Black wins the mini-challenge. For this week's main challenge, the queens must perform in Under the Big Top Rusical.
On the runway, category is Circus Berserkus. Gia Metric, Kendall Gender and Pythia receive positive critiques, with Pythia winning the challenge. Eve 6000, Icesis Couture, Océane Aqua-Black and Suki Doll receive negative critiques, with Icesis and Océane landing in the bottom 2. Icesis Couture and Océane Aqua-Black lip-sync to "Stupid Shit" by Girlicious. Icesis Couture wins the lip-sync, with Océane Aqua-Black sashaying away.
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13 | 3 | "Screech" | October 28, 2021 | |
The queens are told that for this weeks main challenge, they must overact in the new slasher film parody Screech.
On the runway, category is Good Girl Gone Bad. Adriana, Eve 6000 and Gia Metric receive positive critiques, with Adriana winning the challenge. Kendall Gender, Stephanie Prince and Synthia Kiss all receive negative critiques, with Kendall Gender being saved from the bottom two. Stephanie Prince and Synthia Kiss lip-sync to "Ghost" by Fefe Dobson. Synthia Kiss wins the lip-sync and Stephanie Prince sashays away.
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14 | 4 | "Snatch Game" | November 4, 2021 | |
For this week's mini-challenge, the queens must read each other for the reading challenge. Icesis Couture wins. It is then announced that the queens will play the Snatch Game with the panel consisting of Brad Goreski and Boman "Bomanizer" Martinez-Reid. The cast consisted of:
On the runway, Brooke, Brad and Traci are joined by guest judge Connor Jessup with the runway category being Made in Canada. Kimora Amour, Pythia and Synthia Kiss receive positive critiques for their performances, with Synthia Kiss winning the challenge. Adriana, Eve 6000 and Suki Doll are the bottom three, with Adriana being saved. Eve 6000 and Suki Doll then lip-sync to "Happiness" by KAPRI. Eve 6000 wins the lip-sync, and Suki Doll sashays away.
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15 | 5 | "Bye Flop" | November 11, 2021 | |
For this week's mini-challenge, the queens had to pair up and give a lesson on safe sex. Gia Metric and Synthia Kiss won the mini-challenge and became team captains for the main challenge. For the main challenge, the queens had to create a country pop girl group and perform to the song "Bye Flop". Gia Metric chose Adriana, Icesis Couture and Pythia for her team and formed The Giddy Girls. Synthia Kiss chose Eve 6000, Kendall Gender and Kimora Amour for her team and formed The Dosey Hoes. On the runway, category is Monochromatica: Drag Pop Princess. The Giddy Girls team is declared the winning team, with Gia Metric winning the overall challenge. The Dosey Hoes are the losing team, with Eve 6000, Kendall Gender and Synthia Kiss receiving negative critiques. Kendall Gender is declared safe, with Eve 6000 and Synthia Kiss in the bottom two. They lip-sync to "I Love Myself Today" by Bif Naked. Synthia Kiss wins the lip-sync, and Eve 6000 sashays away.
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16 | 6 | "The Sinner's Ball" | November 19, 2021 | |
The remaining queens must create a "twerk of art" resembling their inner saboteur for this weeks mini-challenge. Icesis Couture wins the mini-challenge. For the main challenge, the queens have to make three looks for the Sinner's Ball: Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll, Ugly as Sin and Seven Deadly Sins. As the winner of the mini-challenge, Icesis got to assign each sin to the queens.
On the runway, Gia Metric, Icesis Couture, Kimora Amour and Pythia all receive positive critiques, with Icesis Couture winning the challenge. Adriana, Kendall Gender and Synthia Kiss receive negative critiques, with Adriana being saved from the bottom two. Kendall Gender and Synthia Kiss then lip-sync to "Heaven" by DJ Sammy. Kendall Gender wins the lip-sync and Synthia Kiss sashays away.
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17 | 7 | "The Roast of Brooke Lynn Hytes " | November 26, 2021 | |
For the mini-challenge, the queens will partake in Brad's new show "Fashion Puh-Leeze" where they will discuss the highs and lows of this season's fashion. Kendall Gender wins the mini-challenge. For the main challenge, the queens must roast Brooke Lynn Hytes. On the runway, category is Dungeons and Drag Queens. Icesis Couture and Kendall Gender receive positive critiques, with Kendall Gender winning the challenge. The rest of the queens all receive negative critiques, with Gia Metric and Kimora Amour being the bottom two queens of the week. They lip-sync to "Get Down” by B4-4. Gia Metric wins the lip-sync and Kimora Amour sashays away.
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18 | 8 | "Prom" | December 3, 2021 | |
The queens enter the workroom and get a surprise live video call from their family members. For the main challenge, the queens will have to makeover an LGBTQ+ Teenager. Kendall Gender gets to assign all the pairings, after winning the challenge last week. On the runway, category is Cool Mom and Prom Queen. Gia Metric and Pythia receive positive critiques, with Pythia winning the challenge. Adriana, Icesis Couture and Kendall Gender receive negative critiques, with Kendall Gender being saved. Adriana and Icesis Couture lip-sync to "Everybody Say Love” by Mitsou. Icesis Couture wins the lip-sync and Adriana sashays away.
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19 | 9 | "The Reunion" | December 9, 2021 | |
The top 4 queens reunite with the eight previously eliminated queens. Brad reveals a last-minute lip sync twist that will cut the top 4 into a top 3. The top 4 choose lip sticks with song titles to decide who they will lip sync against, and the ultimate loser of the tournament will be eliminated. Suki Doll is crowned Miss Congeniality. Brad then reveals that the top 4 will compete in a lip-sync smackdown for a spot in the finale. Kendall Gender and Gia Metric lip sync to RuPaul's "Main Event." Kendall Gender wins the lip-sync and is the first queen to advance to the top three. Icesis Couture and Pythia lip sync to RuPaul's "Born Naked" and Icesis Couture wins the lip-sync and is the second queen to advance to the top three. Gia Metric and Pythia, as the losers of the previous lip syncs, lip-sync to RuPaul's "Call Me Mother." Pythia wins the lip-sync and is the final queen to advance to the finale, leaving Gia Metric to sashay away.
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20 | 10 | "Queen of the North" | December 16, 2021 | |
For the final challenge of the season, the queens must write and record their own verses for and perform to Brooke Lynn Hytes' "Queen of the North". The queens walk the runway one last time in their Coronation Eleganza. The eliminated queens return and walk the runway one last time as well. The final three queens then lip-sync to "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" by Céline Dion. Season 1's winner Priyanka returns to the main stage to crown the new queen. It is announced that Icesis Couture is the winner, leaving Kendall Gender and Pythia as the runners-up.
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Award | Date of Ceremony | Category | Nominees | Result | Ref. |
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Canadian Screen Awards | April 10, 2022 | Best Reality/Competition Program or Series | Pam McNair, Betty Orr, Trevor Boris, Laura Michalshyshyn, Michael Kot, Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato, Tom Campbell, RuPaul Charles, Justin Stockman, Jen Markowitz, Spencer Fritz | Won | [16] |
Best Direction, Reality/Competition | Shelagh O'Brien — "Under the Big Top" | Won | |||
Best Writing, Lifestyle or Reality/Competition | Brandon Ash-Mohammed — "Screech" | Won | |||
Best Picture Editing, Reality/Competition | Lindsay Ragone — "Screech" | Nominated | |||
Baun Mah — "The Snatch Game" | Won | ||||
Peter Topalovic — "Under the Big Top" | Nominated | ||||
Best Sound, Non-Fiction | John Diemer, Rob Taylor, Phil Nagy, Eric Leigh, Dane Kelly, Sarah Labadie — "Under the Big Top" | Nominated | |||
Best Casting, Non-Fiction | Heather Muir | Won | |||
Best Host or Presenter, Factual or Reality/Competition | Brooke Lynn Hytes, Traci Melchor, Amanda Brugel, Brad Goreski | Won |
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