Was Ru actually enraged? I mean, let's face it- up until the elimination, Ben was steamrolling the other queens in an unprecedented way. Her taking the crown was even more inevitable than Bianca in her season. But now, all of a sudden, the race is very wide open, and Ben has gone down in Drag Race herstory. It's good reality television, but the strings definitely show.
Though I do care much less about who actually wins now. I love Trixie and would say she's nominally my pick, but I think she's far better suited to her own things and not the Drag Race brand.
The return of the eliminated queens really cemented how much I don't care for a lot of them. Of those eliminated, only Chi Chi and Aja came off well. Chi Chi is a mess but knows it and has a personality that makes her almost impossible to dislike. And Aja, for me, was the real revelation of this season. I hated her last season and came into All Stars expecting to continue to hate her. But she's really turned it out and turned it around. She was easily the best of her performance group.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."