RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE - ALL STARS 5 (w/ Spoilers) — Page 3

If there’s one thing you can count on All-Stars doing, it’s making sure they f*ck up who the winner is. The fact that Trixie won is proof the word “winner” has no meaning.

I wouldn’t put it past All-Stars to pull something like that lolol

There’s a podcast I keep seeing ads for that’s just Vanjie and Silky Talking for an hour and that’s my literal idea of hell.

Unpopular opinion - Shea should have gone home tonight.

Three episodes in and I'm still not seeing the sweet and genuine side of Alexis.  Based on what I've seen so far I would never go see her perform, unless she was part of a group like in Vegas.  As far as the episode went.  All three of those rooms were fugly.  All of the performances were amateur.  I didn't laugh once.  Now Jujubee's confessionals were funny.  And her reading Alexis behind her back was hilarious.

I'm really happy Jujubee won at last. And as for the season itself...

I love Jujubee and am thrilled she finally won a challenge, but she had no business winning tonight in that Spirit Halloween runway. Frankly I thought Blair was the worst performer tonight, and I thought all 3 of her runway looks were ugly. I don't get the appeal.

I just don’t know what to make of this season. It’s a really strange mix of girls and the episodes spend WAY too much time dealing with the machinations of Drag Race, the show, and not enough on Drag Race, the show about drag queens competing. Especially when they’re including a half hour of Untucked that is JUST about talking shop about the machinations of Drag Race, the show.

I don’t think Shea should have gone home last night, mostly based on her track record, but also she wasn’t the worst of the worst. Mariah was the right choice. She’s pretty boring, her runway was bland and ugly, and she was at least equally as bad as Shea in the challenge. At least Shea put in effort.

Cracker is pulling the ultimate white girl defensive card these last couple weeks. She says something blatantly hurtful, gaslights you into thinking you misinterpreted her, explains what she actually meant, and then has the nerve to get defensive when people call her out. Maddening. The queen can put on a show, but she just can’t help letting her a$$ hang out.

I’m thrilled for Jujubee. She’s clearly come a long way as a person outside her drag persona, but she’s the same ol’ Jujubee we love. And her asides in the workroom while Alexis was stirring up drama were gold. Definitely deserved the win this week.

I grant you Jujubee’s got wit and charm, and her confessionals are the high point of each episode. But I’m at a loss about her rep as a lip sync assassin— that dance in the leopard unitard was a pathetic show. Plus her runway goes from bad to worse. Glad she won this once so we don’t have to belabor that story point anymore.

Over absolutely nothing? Are we watching the same show? I'm glad Alexis called Cracker's fake ass out.

Alexis is being super aggressive and Cracker seems on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

Yeah they both come across as paranoid. I feel like since gaining weight Alexis is just kind of bitter? But she’s a great performer. Besides Juju I didn’t think anyone was very good this week.

The 3 reveals was fun though.

"Over absolutely nothing? Are we watching the same show? I'm glad Alexis called Cracker's fake ass out."

 

I'm talking about the moment where Cracker was talking to Shea and India about how she's glad to be working with queens she respects, and Alexis, who was in no way in the conversation, either as participant or subject, turns around from half way across the room and picks a fight over the entirely imaginary implication that Cracker is saying that Cracker doesn't respect Alexis, who let's remember was in no way a part of the conversation.  Shea and Jujubee remarked upon it when it went down, Jujubee even suggesting that Alexis should get back to work making up her chins.

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