RuPauls Drag Race All Stars
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Does anybody else feel like theyre in limbo this season?
Who is technically in the lead?
I have no sense of how far we are into the competition.
Of course, all that can be solved (and regularly is) by a quick search on Wikipedia.
It just kind of slides off my brain.
OnAll Winnersthat wasnt an issue because moments of pure, unadulterated talent made the season have texture.
There was Jinkxs Snatch Game (and her roast and her graduation speech, etc.
Has anybody fully killed a challenge this season?
And, in the context of this season, those kind of performances are necessary.
What else is making me watch?
The episode opens with a bunch of passive-aggression from Roxxxy over being snipped by Angeria and a sad Nina.
Plastique is pretending not to know how well shes doing, which is cute.
Its all nice enough, except that most of this does not feel of consequence.
Plastique then begins the strategy talk for the week.
The girls do a mini-challenge where they have to run with stuff between their legs.
Nina wins, and she gets immunity from being blocked.
Which is to say: It is not an acting challenge.
They do not have to act.
Nobody, ultimately, does poorly, largely because they are not allowed to.
The biggest hurdle of the week is that theyre acting opposite Ru.
Shes a good director, and she understands what drag acting needs to look like.
At the same time, theyre extremely painful to watch.
The scenes are virtually identical.
Also, the idea that these girls are supposed to have seenThe Mirror Crackdis a bit silly.
No, they have not.
But, again, she didnt win this week, so it doesnt feel like she overcame anything.
Here, its the default.
The category is Widow, Weep for Me.
Nina pulls out her best look so far this season with a very Disney-fied version of an undead widow.
The reveal is not necessary and the second look is much worse than the first.
Roxxxy looks really great in a wedding dress with bedazzled blood spatters and an axe.
Ive had some issues with her paint this season, but not here.
Here, she looksperfect.
Angeria does a black-widow-spider look.
Its her best-sculpted wig of the season so far.
Plastique wears a stunning ao dai.
Nothing more to say aboutthat.
Shannel does a reveal, but the first look is mostly just a black tarp.
Jorgeouss is hopelessly basic.
Its tough to be Jorgeous in this lineup.
Gottmiks latex bride is absolutely fantastic.
They are: Nina, Roxxxy, Angeria, and Gottmik.
Still, theyre all castable, which is what the show wants.
Of the rest: Shannels scene is the weirdest, but she makes it out intact.
Jorgeous gives it her all.
And Plastique is just terrible.
Every line she delivers is delivered wrong.
Ultimately, Vanjie and Nina win.
They lip-sync to Lovergirl by Teena Marie.
Nina gives by far the best lip sync shes ever given on this show but a wide berth.
Id have given her the win, but Ru goes with Angeria.
In the best moment of the episode, Angeria takes Plastiques advice and snips Mik.
Mik is pissed, but the strategy is airtight.
