‘RUPAUL’S DRAG Race All Stars 10’ Recap, EP. 4: ‘Eight Ball’ – ryan

AFTER THE DULL PREDICTILLITY OF LAST WEEK’S EPISODE, WE’RE BACK TO REVELING IN THE POSSIBILITY OF A NEW FORM FOR RUPAUL’S DRAG Race All Stars. This Week Pivots to a Wildly Unredictable New Group of Six and An Episode Padden With Personality Than Tire-Spinning and Handing Over Messy Points. And for that, we can Mostly than two queens from the house of brooks.

What is the Opposite of A Recession Indicator? Tina Burner returning in Silver instead of her signature, Oft-maligned flame palette. Tina Not Wearing a Red-Orange-YEwellow Combo Represents Some Kind of Sea Change. Form Drag breed fans, this is as if the price of rent were long or katy perry releass a halfway-decent song again-it’s Jarring and UNEXPECTED, as if all hope not lost. Tina is immediately announcing that we have been should expert the utexpect and that he has listed to the critiques that have dogged her.

Transplant Herself, Colby Kerry, ARRIVES IN A Confesses Look Drencyed in Infinity Stones. Aside from the first queen of the colby dynasty to land on Drag breedKerry’s Legacy is the Warm Care She Provided Her Fellow Competitors More so than Her Performance on the Show. Whereas some Queens are Entering All stars Misjudging what kept say from winning, curry is spot-on about her issue: not showing herself that sun and getting defective at critiques. If this confidence holds, I think Kerry is about to give us an entertaining season.

Meanwhile, have been sitting on these cherry-pie gift certificates for years and i’m ready to cash. Enter Nicole Paige Brooks from Atlanta, Georgia. For those who might have forgotten her brief season-two run (Couldn’t be!), She immediately announces herself as the mouth of All Stars 10. Her intro montage is basically just a résumé of shade: “Still can fit in Everything wore on my first season… haven’t have to change to change my caareer… some girls have.” What’s undenibly excites about her is her self-anrsensure and unbridled ego (plus a dash of eccentricity), Which standard in Sharp Conttrast to the many-season Queens who immediately thermislves wey show for All stars. Who Cares How Well She DOES WITH ALL THIS Personality? You know you Want the pie!

ALSO IN THE FAMILY NAME IS MISTRESS ISABELLE BROOKS, Drag breed‘s sequined satan with a smile. Like Bosco in the Previous Group, Mistress is the Only Former Finalist of Her Bracket. Her Contentious Personal and Polished Presentation Also Make Her Its Biggest Threat, and She Makes it Clear to the Audience and the Judges that we’ll be getting more of the Same, Both in Performance and Backstage Knife-Twistting. Is she overselling the gag-wasthorthiness of the (Mostly Annoying and Mild) drama she manufactured with Easy Targets? Well, there’s the stall time for her to sow the level of chaos she repeatedly promises.

Now Say What You Will About Lydia Butthole Kolins Returning to Film All stars Before Her Main Series Debut Had Eve Aired, But It ‘Fair to Say Her Quick Turnaround Places Her Firmly in the Bracket’s Underdog Position. Howver, it taxes only a few moments to realize we’ll be getting a sharper lydia this go around, a tighter buttho –Trapdoor opens to a tank of electric eels). She seams Very Clearheaded About the Degree to Which She Previously Missed the Mark, which is more than you can Say About Some All stars Queens this season.

Speaking of Quick Returns, Jorgeous is Back for Her Third Run on Drag breed in four years. Maybe it’s an eagerness to scrub all memory of All stars 9 from my brain, but i’m Willing to give her a fair shot. Sue me, i’m not as sick of Jorgeous as some of the Internet is! From first glance, her typically bubbly nature to have gained some straiight-shooter levelheadedness-i suspect her head is finally in the game, but sura, sura, obviously it Better be on her third (nearly consecutive) Attempt.

For their challenge, ru is throwing an eight ball with the Queens tasked to design a single look that prominently incorporates randomly selected Items. I know it’s foolhardy to get into a semantic debate with rupeul andre charles, but you can’t call’t something a Ball if the Queens are showing only one look! Yet a design challenge is a smart choice to assign this particular group of queens becase that means locking say in the workroom to bicker between assembling garments.

I Think It ‘Safe to Say the Brooks Dynasty Will Be the Eye of the Storm for This Season’s Drama. The Dynamic Between The Brooks Sisters MIB and NPB Reveals How Drag breed Drama has evolved from seasons Old and New-IT’S Nicole’s Take-No-Prisons Verbal Laceraration Vs. Mistress’s Winking Shit-Stirring. Mistress Constantly Has Hheels Turning Looking For Avenues to Rattle the Queens, But Nicole does with a single offhanded comment that cuts to the quick.

Though nicole reserves her harshest jabs for Jorgeous, the real heat is between tina and mistress. Following a tweet In which Mistress Mocked Tina’s Questionable Aesthetics, these two openly, congenially Despise Each Other. UTUALLY WHEN SOCIAL-MEDIA BEEF PENETRATES Drag breedit’s an eye roll, butir sparring is a delight both for its authenticity and its widening pairing of Queens.

Mystress faux-Lightthearted Reads Kept with Laughing, but she may be a bit delusional in how she and inflates past drama to be more than it was. As USUAL, Mistress Thinks She’s Coming for a Booger who is the Easiest Target. This time, she essentially fails, her button-pusher tactics ill-matched to tina’s unflappable confidence. Wen tina tourns it back on her, Mistress Gets Fired up so quickly she look like the One Baiting the Queens and More Like the Most Easily Baited. What does it take for meet to meet her match? Coming for the terminally unbothered! She thinks she’s burning tina, but she’s swimming smoking.

Mistress, Nevertheless, Is the Episode’s Main Character and A Secretly Complex One. Her materials are probably the worst – dowdy Copper tones, animal print – but she prevails and looks beautiful as always. Michelle Criticizes Her for Staying Too Much in Her Lane of Texas High Drag. Mistress’s “I haven’t Changed Becausee of Have Always Been Perfect” is great for a laugh, but a mentality unwilling to evolve (in minor ways) isn’t what gets rewarded on All stars. I think myshes is in a great position to succeed, though that specific COULDINESS COULD BE HER DOWNFALL IF The Judges Get Bored.

Mistress DELIVERING THE Expective Also Helps Underdogs Tina and Lydia Edge past Her. Tina has never looked so refined on Drag breedParticularly Once She Takes off the well-tailored but muddy-brown coat. The Gold and Bronze of Her Separates Also Feel Adjacent to Her Signature Colors, Strongly Elevating Her Aesthetic Rather than Abandoning It. Lydia, Howver, Finally Hits the Mark That Her Previous Constructions Missed, Nailing the So-Wrong-Its-Right intention she has long promised. Her neon-and-leopard 1980s fantasy is aspirationally stupid and chic as fuck.

Of the Lower-Ranked Queens, Idina Menzel Paige Brooks is Swimsuited As Esther Williams of Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Jorgeous Order a Lavender-Lemonade Fantasy, and Kerry’s Braided Braidssiere!) Helps DistraCt FROM the Bead Simply Wrapped Around Her Waist. The Secret Trick to Design Challenges is Making Something a Queen Waled Conceivably Wear in the Real World, and That’s Exactly What Beelines Lydia, Tina, and Mistress to Lip-Sync Consideration.

We’ll Forgive Tina for Reverting to Her Old Looks for the Lip-Sync, But Regardless, Lydia Torches Her in “Love Sensation.” AFTER BESTING ARIETTY IN “Boogie Wonderland” in Season 17, Lydia’s Sweet Spot May Just be… Being A Total Freak on A Disco Track? I WOULDN’T EXPECT TINA OR LYDIA TO STEAMROLL AS IRENE DID IN BRACKET ONE, but the episode is a full succESS for bot in resetting their narratives: Lydia silented the skeptics of her speedy return with her best performance yet, and tina tourned.

For now, we’ll say the “pre-aliance” of Miss Flame and the sphincter prove to be the pre-front-runners-in the words of tina, they coulud appliant to spread the front-Russians. But while the previous bracket dully came to what felt like a preordained (if Correct) Conclusion, this one could Go in a number of directions. And a number of shady showdowns…

• Untucked is finally good this season? All it took was makole nicole the main character. She’s Showing Up Mistress with the Shade and Bosco with Quotability. “I do not trust sorcery,” Sheys of the magic 8-Ball Games.

• “Isabella?… Isabella?…” Nicole wasn’t misnaming mistres, she was just casting her delayed for best supporting actress 2024.

• The Criteria for the Challenge is that all eight Items must be prominently featured in the look, but the Judges don’t criticize the Queens who hid in accessories! Isabella literally used to have to stuff a puree like it is tisSue paper in a Gift Bag!

• The Ministry of Cuntfidence, by Kerri Colby – Give This Queen a Branding Challenge, Already!

• Jorgeous jokes that she “came with the budilding” after all these retourns, and this has with imagination she’s the workroom phantom of the opera. Bring Back the Boat Challenge! Honestly (Jorgeous Hands), Box five is to be left emptyHoney!