🕸️ Hello Uglies: Titans Season 2, Episode 1 — “Halloween House Party 2”

The monsters are back from the grave, and so are Joe and Lauri! In this premiere of Dragula: Titans Season 2, the Boulet Brothers resurrect fourteen ghouls for another round of filth, horror, and glamour. The fright feat? Pulling pins from a voodoo doll. The main challenge? A Halloween House Party sequel and lip-sync battle to the Boulets’ own song. And the extermination? Let’s just say it’s a literal cliffhanger.

• Joe opens up about juggling podcasting and jury duty while Lauri reminds him she’s heard it all before.

• The duo unpack the Meet Our Monsters drama, discuss returning contestants, and debate whether this season feels more like Who Said Yes? than Titans.

• Joe rants about the Boulets’ beard-contouring disaster, over-edited floor shows, and their forgotten sense of imagination.

• Lauri insists Sigourney’s self-confidence is earned while Joe brands her “too safe.” The two dissect early alliances, fake rivalries, and how Dragula sometimes sabotages its own queens.

• Evah Destruction’s endless talking, Cynthia Doll’s volume, and Disasterina’s accent chaos all come under fire.

• The new Ghost Host makes his grand return, serving graveyard glamour with haunting narration for each selected look.

• Joe and Lauri critique Evah’s winning Grim Reaper look, La Zavaleta’s “bedsheet ghost,” Priscilla’s disco werewolf, and Sigourney’s slightly under-contoured devil.

• They tackle the new voting twist, Dollya's strategic power move, and whether Dragula’s “anti-Drag Race” roots are slowly fading away.

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