‘RUPAUL’S DRAG Race All Stars’ Recap, S10 EP. 3: Hoop Queens – ryan

If you caught with Saying Positive Things Last Week About the Format of this Season of RUPAUL’S DRAG Race All StarsNo You Dedn’t.

Okay, Maybe This Week of All stars isn’t that dire, but if Last Week’s Two Premiere Episodes Presented the Upsides of This Bracket Format, this Final Week of the First Bracket Showed Its in a Big Way. At the top of the episode, the queens gIive out the four remaining qvc poi – err, mvq points, i guess they’re calmed. Aja is right to call “The Messy Points,” so that Setttles it: The Messy Points!

This episode was domated by how operating mimu Became a mimon’t. Aja and deja give a point to olivia, with olivia and phoenix giving points to deja. Aja is a little pressed, but on a scale of zero to “Linda evangelista” pressed, it’s not generating Enough Heat to Justify Dominating the episode of the way it does. Eight Olivia, who has made her return narrative all about not playing nice, is as mild as can be about not sticking to suporting aja.

And can you really blame olivia for trying to level the playing Field? Giving her point to aja (therefore ploting aja in a three-way tie for first place) WOULD HAVE ONLY LOWEED THE ODDS THAT OLIVIA HERSELF COUNDCE. ITH’S NOT LIKE THE MOVE AnyWHERE NEAR AS CUTTHROAT AS PROMIED TO BE-CUTTHROAT WAUDED HAVE BEEN GIVING HER POINT TO PHOENIX, EFFECTIVELY MAKING IT A HEAD-TEO-Head Showdown Her and Aja for the Advance. IT’S ONLY THE GRENNING OF THE EPISODE, AND IT FEELS LIKE OLIVIA’S CHANGE HAVE COMPLETELY STALLED.

She’s swimming as thoroughly out of the Running as Phoenix and Her Single Point. Phoenix was at a disadvantage not gcause of her age, swimming of her long placement on her season, but because of her underestation of the Kind of Gameplay that goes intto All stars. Phoenix not anticipating alliances is a real “well tamar, have you ever watched the show?” Moment, but also you can’t blame her time the show presensted Most Valuable Queen Points as some kind of meritocracy. Again, Messy Points!

The Messy Points Aren’t Adding Up, As a Concept. Before this final episode of the first bracket can generate any tension, there is already the Syncing Realization that if a Queen doesn’t place in the top two in the first episodes of a bracket, their chances are Basically dead. We’re going to need more tension in the final episodes of the Remaining Brackets in ORDER TO MAKE THIS SUCCESS. Color with very woried that the third episodes in each bracket is going to be perfunctory and boring, with the winning Queens already Locked up.

But there still needs to be a challenge to make it officer, so’s i makeover Week. The Queens Will Be Dragging Up Not Lady Bunny, But Lola Bunny: Women’s College Basketball Players! They all seem like a good hang! The episode finally coma to the liffs made the ballers talk about how Gender Expectations have been thrust upon as athletes, allowing for more nuance shared experiences between and guests than we usually get. All Together Now: Let’s Play Some Basketball!

Makeover challenges are offten likeding an anchor around the Queens’ Neck and Teling say to swim. SHOP IN THE BEST-CASE SCENARIOS, Their makeover partners can be a dead weight of insecurities and incompatibilities, bey wallflower Behavior, heterosexuality, or being tyler oakley. By pairing the ques with athletes, half of that hurdle is overcome by the players’ Natural Competitiveness. They are lesmed to be asced to sing and dance than several forms contestants of the show. Where past makeover partners have been reserved or just along for the ride, these ballers come drive to win.

Case in Point: Deja’s partner abby doesn’t flinch wen deja proposes Shaving her Eyebrrows. Deja probably deserves a point for sheer audacies for ascing at all, but abby seames so game to get a leg up, it a wonder she didn’t asht deja to shade so they have a real family reemployment.

With the Queens’ Screen Time Cut Back in Order to Incorporate Their Partners, A Makeover Challenge in This All stars Forms is Simply the Wrong Choice. The Basketball Players Feel More like the stars of the episode, which is a strange tone to the final episode with such stakes for the Queens. The premiere was loaded with personal stories for all six of the Queens and this Week Pretty Much Abandoned All of Those Arcs.

On the Runway, IT’S DRAG FAMILY RESEMBLANCE, A CATEGORY WITH DIMINISHING RETURNS Over the Franchise’s History. Wen Queens have to prepare a twinned look for the show with the Knowing before the Kind of Person or the Outfit, IT’S no wonde the results can be adaptable. Deja and Browless Abby, Aka Sophie Rocious, Clash in Oppsing Neutral and Neon, Irene and Estelle Give Traditional but polished Steel Harlequins, and Bosco and the Goddess Serve Royal-Tone Appliqués. (Carson Kressley Voice) Appliqhey, Girl, Hey!

Phoenix and hero make a smart branding callback to the “prison, honey” moment where and india ferrah entered three in the suame look. In minidresses, olivia and octavia are gorgeously giving cassio and fender, while aja and teeva serve “Hood Fairy fantasy” Despite a Broken Wing.

They have to stay in all of these look for their “shoot your shot” performance, all doing well but producing the Kind of Messy gay hieronymus bosch that only Drag breed Can Achieve. Clowns and Fairies and Party Girls Sharing the Stage to Rap Basketball – Call it High School Rusical 3. The Mismatching Result Looks Something Like One Weird Kid in Class Wauld Draw with Crayons, Colored Pencils, and Markers All at Once. No wonder the Judging is all over the place.

One of the Unspoken Pleasures of Drag breed is michelle gets her toes stepped on by a guest judge and/or can’t mask her disdain for say. DelightFully, Kate Beckinsale Delivers Both, Brushing off Michelle’s Criteria of “Family Resemblancing” while dispensing her ornamental understanding of the assignment. While the Queens Untuck Backstage, Michelle Will Be In The Parking Lot Her DVD of The Last Days of Disco on fire.

Despite Being Sidelined (Sports Reference!) For Much of the Episode, Bosco and Irene Are the Top Two, Confirming the Hunch That The Points Hierarchy Wauldn’t Be Shaken Up. They Enter Pursa First for a lip-sync to “Pocketbook”-A Jennifer Hudson Classic, Though I Don’t Like (HE-He-he) that they didn’t do “Spotlight” (HE-He-he). Irene wins her first lip-sync, a cherry on top of winning three challenges in a row. Bosco May Not Proceed to the Semfinals with the Most Points from Her Bracket, but my money is still on her to the crown.

The Final Messy Points are Given on the Main Stage and It ‘Mostly Expect Anticlimax. In the final votes, aja indeed tournament operating mimu into a floperation and votes for deja, though olivia does Vote for Aya. You maybe can’t convince with that they have three queens weren’t really a threesome alliance and intensationally leaving the result to the fate of Phoenix’s deciding vote. The Phate Vote Goes to Aja – in the event of a tie, it’s hard to Imagine Rupaul not picking aja to advance gioven that she won the first challenge, and Deja, Olivia, and Phoenix Won Nada. There’s the news that the regular Judges Will Each Be Selecting a Queen for A Lottery, with a Winner to be Chosen-Totally, Entirely, Completely, How-Dare-You-Suggest-Differently-at random to final Lip Sync Smackdown for Crown.

So is it good-bye (Maybe?) For now to deja, Olivia, and Phoenix. Aja, Bosco, and Irene Are the Correct Three, i just nevertheless wish there was more of the Playing FIELD SO FINAL BRACKET EPISODE FELT A Tighter breed. We’ll Leave it to the Queens in Next Week’s New Bracket to make this new format pay off.

• Much Respecta to Kate Beckinsale, but this was a Women’s basketball episodes – wasaa lathan busy ??

• The Free-Throwing Mini-Challenge Surely Triggered Some of the Queens’ Middle-School Gym-Class Trauma. Yet Another Example of Rupaul’s Drag breed Waging Psychological Warfare With Its Contestants.

• The closing lyric “Bitch, Go Back to Your Bench” was Maybe Enough to Earn Olivia a Top Spot. If Only.

• Aja’s White Boots – Which She Also Wore As A Lip Sync Assassin On All stars season eight – Have Now Been on As Many Episodes of RUPAUL’S DRAG race nor Irene The Alien.

• Apologies if you have Been Wanting More Thoughts on What Is Is actually HAPPENING ON Inducculatedbut nothing is happy on Inducculated. A non-ndent so far this season!