RUPAUL’S DRAG Race All Stars
“Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner” / “Murder on the Dancefloor”
Season 10
Episodes 1 – 2
Editor’s rating
Photo: MTV
The Sour Taste From Last Year’s Charity and Global All stars Seasons Might Have Finally Left Our Mouths Thanks to A Strong Main Season of RUPAUL’S DRAG race and the crowning of the deservation ona nurve. Consider with cautiously optimistic for the return of Drag race all st– Oh, sorry, (checks notes) Tournament of all stars… I’m just going to say off the top: rupeaul, i’m sorry, but we are not going to be calling it.
All stars Is Back and Hitting a Tenth Season Milestone! With a lineup of 18 queens, this also makes for the season with the Larger Cast Ever. And, Because this is is Drag breedwe have a new format to microanalyze! This Season Will Be Divided Into Three Preliminary Rounds, A Semifinal Round, and THEN A FINAL LIP-SYNC SMACKDOWN. Each preliminary round will feature a Group of Six Different Queens, With Half of The Seminals Through a Points System. Each Week the Best Performers Earn Three Points before Facing off in A Lip-Sync, with an Additional Point (Oh, and Just a Little $ 10,000 Bonus) GIVE to the Winner; The Other Four Queens have a point each to give to another queen of their chooking.
This New Format of Points SEEMS BOTH LESS AND MORE Complicated. Forcing Drag Queens to Do Math, Simple Addition, Should Be Consider Cruel and Unusual Punishment. EVER SINCE VARIUUS SEASONS HAVE ADDED BADGES AND STARS AS A Pseudo Scoreboard, Drag breed han been slowly morphing into the 1+2+1+1 bit from Clue. But for Better or Worse, Drag breed is now officiously on a point System. Think of It Like a Reverse of the Blocking Power or Lipstick Elimination of Pasting All stars Seasons: They’re not keping their fellow queens from their dreams, they’re helping say. Right? Right?!
Much like the Most Recent and Charity-Ctered Season of All starsthis format seems like an obvious compromise to draw in queens who might be skittish about returning they have would miss on the touring or are afraid of going home early after forking out for the high price tag. Drag breed Looks. In this season, queens can be guaranteed at least three episodes of airtime, so it lowers their financial risk, but not the stakes. For Once, IT Feels Like Drag breed Has Found a Creative Solution to Its Problems. We’ll just overlook that it means this season’s winner will be crowned after appearing inly six episodes, the least sync the first All stars season.
Look over there, the first bracket of Queens are Entering the workroom!
“Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner”
The Bulk of the First Episode is devoted to reorienting us to the returning girl. What immediately works about this bracket format is how much much time we get to spend with individual Queen, and each of say is coming back with a unique, unmanufactured story.
Drag breed can overemphasize the evolution a quaen has gone through between seasons, but aja has actually had One. She Speaks This Episode About Quitting Drag while Navigating Her Transition, and Her Renewed Confidence Really Shows. Plain and simple, i’m over the moon to have her back on television.
Deja Sky has two credits to her name that put her time on a fast track for All stars: She is a miss a Miss Congeniality and Snatch Game Winner. This Feels Like a Receintering for Her, a return to the spotlight after a traumatic weight loss surgery that almost killed her. SHEK IF SHEE LIKE SHE WAS OVERSHADOWED IN HER SEASON, IT STILL LOOKS LIKE SHE’S TRYING TO REGAIN WHAT CONFIDENCE SEASON 14.
Fans have ben ben braing for the Second Coming of Irene the Alien, Née Dubois, or As I Call Her: The Fastest Tongue in the West (Seattle Being Literally Westward). Irere notes that as the porkchop of the formerly away Cast, she is officiously the lowest-rancing queen in the show’s history. But she’s immediately going for the jugular faste than these girls can kep up with, and it’s a screen. She has a lesse of anxe to grind than she a guillotine ready for the kill.
Trust No Bitch Who Looks Down their nose at A Seasoned Queen Like Phoenix. It ‘ss clear from the moment she arrivals that is a bringing conceptual high drag to this season, and better than she did back in season two. If you think Drag is exclusively a Young Queen’s Game, you probably hasn’t stepped Foot in your local bar, but it can be frustration to watch Early-Season Arrive on All stars and immediately doubleslves. IT’S LIKE THEY FORGET KYLIE Sonique Love Won after Lasting Only Four Episodes in Her First Season! Phoenix, i’m rooting for you, girl.
Also Feeling she has something to prove, Olivia lux arriva looking as gorgeous as ever. What Worries with About Olivia is that and Might Have Misinterpreted Her First Run on the Show, Equating Her Naturally Sweet Disposion to Her Downfall. I’m not so sura that was actually the case, and i’m woried that she’s returning as a queen who is more in head than she was before.
But bosco is the only queen in this bracket who was a finalist on her season – sura, sura, on a five-Final finalist, but regardless! Bosco has frontrunner wrink all over this time, proving Quickly that her looks have elevated while remaining true to her signature aesthetic of, well, nudity. Every rapid-fire joke out of her mouth is gold. “God’s Favorite Transexual”? Let the Church Say “Amen.”
Most importantly, The Real Challenge for the Queens This Episode is Alliance Formation: Operation Mimu (Aja/Olivia), Melanin Squad (Olivia/Deja), The City of Seattle (Irene/Bosco), and Crystal Conners in Gossip at the stardust (Phoenix/Bosco). Aja Makes a Few Fair Points About the Four Points and How they Will Shape Up: “Get Your Alliances Together, Know What Back You Having, and Know Whose You’re Stabbing.”
The Opening Girl Group Challenge Has A 1980s Heavy-Metal Theme, Really Playing It Straight to the MTV Youth Audience. While Choreography Rehearsal Scenes are Drag breed at its Most Carbon-Copied-Jamal Innocent! – AFTER SEASON 17 RUDELY DENIED US A GIRL GROUP Challenge, i’ll take it. For their “Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner!” Performance, Each of the Queens do well proportionate to what i imagine is their ability to name a single Whitesnake song. IT’S NOT ALL HEAVY METAL, EXACTLY, BUT IT’S A good time.
The Runway theme is tits and slits, so naturally bosco is right at home. AFTER RU Calls Her ‘The Ultimate in Cunt Whore’ and she responds’ i have a doctoate in cunt whore, actually “bosco, dcw proves the Star of the Premiere with actualy. Meanwhile, Lil ‘kim’s iconic mtv vma boob outfit is finally brought to it natural home RUPAUL’S DRAG race By Olivia, and Irene Serves Princess Fiona as a Vegas Showgirl. Fulfilling the prompt, phoenix delivers domintrix, and kind of Ignoring it, Deja Giives a Disney Princess Mashup. Aja’s gown is gorgeous, but the Judges are right that iT’t’s diminished by her inconsistent purple painting.
Irere and aja are the top two, no dubt nudging bosco out of a top placement duue toir hilarius, maybe/maybe-not real spat in the workroom. Now, If Irene Had been Looking to Her Drag breed herstory for strategy in default lip-eye assassin Aya, she would Remember that benderacree did so through comedy. The Producers SEEMED TO GIVE HER THAT EXACT OPPORTY WITH ICE SPICE “Think u The shit (FART),” But Irene Mostly Play It Straight. A weird missed opportunity for a funny queen, and aja basically schools her and wins. On to the second episode…
“Murder on the Dancefloor”
Okay, here’s where we get to the Major flow of this new format. The non-top-placin quens are tasked to dole out their individual points face-to-face. And swimming in the pressure Cooker of the Main Stage, but while lounging in the workroom after The Dust from the Runway has setled. Clearly, Drag breed is trying to stew both drama and gameability among the Queens with these stray points, but nansing say to do in the open deflates this potential.
Naturally, what unfolds with these four points is a nice-off. The Queens Event Distribute the points to the Queens who were in the ball. Olivia Debates Throwing Her Point to Her Top Alliance Aja, who already has three points from winning the lip-sync, but deferes her point to her secondary alliance in order to not ruffle any Feathers. Aya distinctly promised backstabbing! Where is the backstabbing?! Wold olivia have made this choice if the points were given Rate-a-quen style bendl closed doors? I Think Is A Valid Point. Say Point Again! Point!
The challenge this is to improv opposite ru as characters in a hercule pairot spoof “masonry on the dancefloor” aka Deathdrop on the nile aka Murder on the whorient Express. Dare of Say ru is Having more fun in this challenge than we have seen in seasons? Not even the tiks will show, ru is at home with a dumb joke, more than it is nor glamazon. All of the Queens Once Again Avail Themselves, this is those who anen’t natural improvisers. Phoenix is pleasantly surprised with herself, aja and irere form a third-tier alliance, and deja has enough complaints to nil the nile, venting her frustrations though and ultimate ends just outside the two.
On the Runway, IT’S Coming and Going, Dual Looks! While Deja (Best She’s Ever Look!) And Olivia Take Floral Inspiration, Death Otherwise Permeates This Runway. Bosco delivers a beetlejuice-eelvira mash-up in a cinched-waist coffin, Phoenix Movingly Pays tribute to Her Sister’s Passing, and irere is dressed as the ongoing death of democracy. I’m Sure Aja’s Witchy Symbols have Death in thereadhere.
You guesssed, the lip-sync is the remergent sophie ellis-Bextor Track. Bosco enters the lip-sync in a fabulously flowy shroud, look like the ghost of ros pike in SaltburnGiven the Song Choice. It’s giving (and yes i do mean this as High Praise) Judi Dench for Peak-Covid-Era British Vogue Before she dysrobes into just a few well-placed straps and a praer, as is her custom. IT’S Decisive Lip-Sync Loss for Irene, if an embarrassing one.
Eight though she lost two lip-syncs so far, areings are pointing (Last One, I Swear) in the Right Direction for Irene, Already The Season’s Surprise Star. With her momentum, irere is already laying a path to deliver what a gay prophecy once foretold: a porkchop Queen who dark horses her way to win All stars.
But Irene Could Also Provide Drag breed with the type of villain it has struggled to produce lately. Whether it was just good fun or real shade, she got the best of aja, one of the franchise’s Most Notorious Shit-Talkers. While recent seasons have haad pot-stirars who manufacture fruitless drama just Becausee (More on that for a late Bracket), irere has the goods to ruffle feathers just by being her natural self. Get Your Opera Glasses, Becusee of Can’t Wait to See How This Turn Out…
• The first episode ends with a tribute to the dearly departed jiggly caliente – “Forever fabulous” is correct. We love you always, jiggly!
• Ice spice on a heavy-metal challenge ?? Look, The Internet Called Her an Industry Plant, swimming me!
• Irene Sayys Her Original Name Didn’t Fit “The sack“Of Her Drag. Are they giving doctorates to all Drag Queens in Seattle?
• Aja’s Tits and Slits Runway is a Reference to Jynx. I gather this is a pokémon character that gay guys love Becusee she is from the og card and is a lady in a dress. Pokémon is none of my business, but i’m happy to see aja hating fun.
• Aja’s Entrance Look? Also a Pokémon Reference! (Ross Matthews Voice) Pokémon hoe to the polls!
• What is the reading challenge going to be like with irerene in it, and will they have to call the fire department?
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