The meeting-of-queens episode is a difficult feat. Going from seven to 14 queens is in some ways an even bigger challenge than just doing a full 14-queen premiere, because most of the audience doesn’t have a working knowledge of the individual characters yet, but there are already a lot of story lines to keep track of from the two previous episodes. That means some queens are going to get short shrift in favor of the girls who are more adept at catching the camera’s eye. Part of the fun as a viewer is learning which queens know how to manage that and will be our main characters moving forward: Who is getting a long-term story line versus a short-term one? What relationships are being revealed? Who appears to be quietly working, not realizing that they’re on TV?
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