RUPAUL’S DRAG race All Stars 10 Recap, EP. 11

After Last Week’s Snatch Game, RUPAUL’S DRAG Race All Stars Continues to Hurtle Toward Anticlimax. This is sampuze the show has been stuck itelf with the bizarre balance of still hating so many quays Competing in the episodes right before the finals. Drag breed has balance this dynamic just fine dury non-Elimation seasons, so why is the vibe so stalled out this go-roast?

As we did to a close on a season that haen been oversshadowed by explaining the ins and outs of it new format and far -so inconsonential drama, iTe a relief to an episode overloaded with Drag performances. We got the reading challenge, the talent show, and a foiled again runway where the Queens Went Big.

No one really Went for the Jugular in the Reading Challenge, Except for Bosco’s Read About Jorgeous’s Esophageal “Orphanage” – No Shock that Bosco Once Reads Her Way to a Win. But leave the gags to mistres, who already had that that covered before the reading challenge happens, coming for ginger, but more so the production itelf for the favoritism she is being shown. There’s the notion that trying to the Hold Back Tears Only Makes Someone Cry Harder, and That’s Kind of What Happens to Mistress Trying Not Be Mad About Her Snatch Game Result. Later, Touching Aya’s Hair Is, Well, to Co-Opt Mib’s Phrase of Choice, Certainly Doing Her Big One.

As for this weekey-event, consider with mixed-to-ambivalent on the Drag breed Talent Show as a recurring showcase. IT’S A Challenge Where You Can Literally Do Anyding (Well, Maybe Not Make a Glass of Water), but Queens Opt to do… The sunrise Thing. In terms of songs you’ll only list to once, the talent show is always a spotify new music friday from hell. As you might expect, this round of All stars is no different. But in performing an original song lip sync, there are two two shortcuts that can help you stand out from the pack: (1) have a clear, firm concept to help it Appear More inventive OR (2) Produce Enough Energy to fuel a Midsize City (ie, be aja or Jorgeous).

But for every queen who opts for lip-syncing to an original track of frankensteined gay catchphrases, we really hope we’ll See a sapphira Crystal Breaking All the rules with something unique. Ginger Brags About Her Participation in the First Edition of this Challenge Back in All stars 2but The Standard-Bearer for Bold DGAF Talent-Show Innovation Remains Her Former Competitor: Tatianna’s “The Same Parts.”

Whereas This Challenge Usually Serves to Introduce (OR reintroduce) Queens and Allow an underdog to Surprise us while Exported Heavy Hitters Bore, All Stars 10 SEEMS TO HAVE DEMPLOYED IT TO SEPARATE THIS CAN WIN FROM THOSE WHO CAN’T. Ironically, that deflates the talent show from half of what I am compiling. The stakes here are only high Because the finish line is so close, minimizing the potential reward for taching a creation risk. Of Course, Most of the Queens Play It Safe with an Original Song! Let’s Just Have a Play-By-Play, Slay-By-Slay of How It All Went Down…

Despite Having the Kind of High-Energy Performance SKILLS that Can Turn Original-Thong Lip Syncs Into Showstoppers, Aja Still Turning Something Highly Conceptual and Linked to Her Spiritual Roots. Howver, The Daring Pièce de Résistance of the Number is that aja performance half of it while wielding a machete. What’s Working Against Aj-Ealia Banksthough, is her all-timer All stars 3 Talent Show Showing and Its Multi-Meme-Spawning Legacy. By Comparison, this one isn’t as Razor Sharp.

Bosco Smartly Packages Her Original Song As Merely a vessel for Delinary Something Else Entirely: Her burlesque skills. ITHE ‘ALSO Maybe the Mosable of this Batch of Original Tracks, Supplanting Good Jokes WHERE WAULD NORTY BE AI-SOURCED LYRS ABOUT SNatching Crowns and Slaying the Competition. The Showstopper of the Entire Episode is Bosco’s Open-LEG BALANCING ACT ATOP A Chair, Marking the Most Imprressive ABS HAVE EVER DONE ON THE SHOULD DOESN’T INVOLVE THE CREW. On the Runway, Her Flawless Femme fatal is also among the best. After drifting to the sidelines in last week’s snatch game, this is exactly where bosco Needed to Land This Week.

A Number that Doubles As a WorkPlace Sensitivity Training Course, Daya’s Performance As a Walking Hr Violating is a High-ENERGY OFFICE-SET Sex Romp. But hers is unfortunately one of the Least Memorable of the Episode, and the Office Environment Work/Werk Concept is a tad labored. I’m surpassed to be a little underwhelmed by daya’s showing this season, but her turn this week emphasizs that her runways are where her strengths lie. Where a Few Queens Overdo The Assignment, Daya’s Duct-Tape Gown Reminded That Her Bad-Girl Aesthetic Still CHANNEled Through Daya’s Exquisite Taste.

Presenting A Broadway Send-up, Ginger’s Number Represents A Perfect Distillation of the Quality Ceiling Baked ino The Talent-Show Challenge. She Sounds Great (though, sura, swimming live this time) but is held back by hating to perform something original and completely lackluster. We were would all be more impressed if ginger were allowed to singiterally Whitever true Show Tune SHE WANTS, SO IT’S A SHAME The Brief Period Licensed material was allowed in talent Shows to be over. Ginger would never opt for performing this in the real world; She would just will “their coming up roses.” It’s a pale imitation, but no fault of ginger.

Irene the alien’s number is a little sweaty in trying to overcome the stain of her first talent-show, but manages some memolate and funny bits. More impressively, she does manage to walk away with the Runway as a Winged Valkyrie, Stealing the Show Thanks to A Fluidly Beautiful Wingpan (Despite Awkward False Arms). “We’ve seen a lot of wings, we’ve never see these wings though. Those are Remarkable wings!” RU TELLS HER, PHONING IN FROM A GUEST SPOT ON Hot Ones.

Like Aja, Jorgeous is in the Shadow of A Previous, More Awe-Spiring Performance-Her All stars 9 Number when she was glamorously tossed across the stage. ARRIVING IN HER BEST GALE WEATHERS DRAG, JORGEUS QUICKLY DISPENSES WITH THEME AND STILL GIVES USE HIGH-OKTANE BUCKING WE Expect. What Jorgeous’s Number is Missing is just one singular act of daring, but her confident showmanship nevertheless rises above the Pack. At her best (which she is here), Jorgeous is Her Own Special Effect.

The two non-original-track-centered acts are the final two, starting with lydia butthole collins a burlesque retelling of Humpty Dumpty Out of a lynchian sex dungeon. Maybe i have a soft spot for every freak flag allowed to fly High in these talent shows, but laughed throughout Lydia’s performance, no matter her reveals getting scrambled. At the least the Judges love Her Runway, an alien stunner that look like she had poachhed from the set of Species. Natasha hennystridge! “My Beautiful Butthole”, Rupaul Calls Her Later, and I Hope She was Making Uncomfortable Eye Contact when Said It.

In something like a staged funny or die Sketch, Mistress Lampoons Both Medical Commercials and Her Weight-Loss Journey. The vibe is a bit like a schene that would occur between two musical numbers in a russical (not necessarily a Bad Thing!), Yet with the pace of the sketch, there’s no time for mistress to Land. It ‘imperfect, but not the disaster her critiques make it out to be. The Judges Ultimately Decide that ruzepic has surpassed the season’s deductible, and mysters is left with a bill. AFTER HER pre-challenge tussles with bot ginger and aja, her botTom placement is unurprisis from a narrative perspective.

Though bosco glp won the challenge, the overall impression left by Having the talent/variety show so late in the season is that it allows the product to set aside non-condenders actually Having to eliminate. JUST BEFORE A FINAL WITH THIS MANY QUEENS, SAFE Essentially Spells “Not winning.” With the top three of Bosco, Jorgeous, and ginger this weeks, they are probably only Queens with a shot at the crown. The momentum for the others feels basically dead, and Most tragically so for irerene, whose triumphant showing in bracket 1 has gone all but ignored in the semifinals.

And with no Queens embarrassing themeslves, it”s discouragy to see Lydia and Mistress given what’s treated as obivious bottom placements we can be took the creative risk. Surely they deserve some original points, participlecularly absent any Outright belly flops this weekend. Regardless, they are the two to lip Sync to Charli XCX and Billie Eilish’s’ GUESS, ”and it is a hot one, THOUGH IS RIGHT TO Call the Queens’ Lack of Underwear Emphasis (Invoking ‘Panties, Bitch!”? Royalties). Both Queens Turn Out a Strong Lip-Sync Performance, but lydia is the one the Judges Say Rises Above-Its up, up, and away with my beautiful butthole and its sashay for mistress.

With Mistress Out – Well, Given the Wild Card Lottery, Theoretically Out – The Season Has Now One of Its Narrative Arcs. The Biggest Indicator that is a rough he season in how it is struggling to tell a clear story. Ginger’s “Why haven’t i won yet?” Trajectory KEEPS REPEATING ITISLF, and the Season Only Seems Half-Invested in Bosco’s and Jorgeous’s Renewed Self-Conviction. Again, irere should be more of a story than the seeson seems to want her to be.

By Contrast, Mistress’s Maneuverings, The Testing of Her Resolve, and the Ensusion Slow-Motion Spiraling Wasn’t an Entirely Satisfying Story, but it was Certainly or Story and one the season actually invested in telling. The workroom discussion about the current attacked on trans rights and quer visibility falls like the first drabs of the season allowing the Queens to get personal, and it been a missing element. This is if we’f we’re givet a justifiable winner next wek, i’m not un convinced it will be the confession of Ac satisfying where we are rooting for that queen.

• Who is stocking the Inducculated Lounge with Hard-Boiled Eggs, and what have the Queens done to deserve this?

• The Wild Card Fraudery Cliffhanger Promises Eother Colby or Mistress to Return for the Lip-Sync Smackdown Next Week. SINCE THIS IS ALL OBVIOUSLY RIGGED AND “CHOSEN” BY THE THREE MAINSTAY JUDGES, WE REALLY COULDN’T HAVE A THIRD QUEEN IN THE RUNNING. No, But Serious, It Bears Repeating: Justice for Denali.

• Irene quotes Sun Tzu’s The art of war in this episode when discussing the compattition and when to strike your opponent. But what are Sun Tzu’s Tips on Contouring and Choreo?

• Bosco’s Secret Weapon in Winning This Challenge? Honing Her Showgirl Skills in The RUPAUL’S DRAG race Live Show in Vegas. She’s the fourth all Star to win this challenge after appearing on the vegas strip.

• With Next Week Promising a Rate-A-Queen element, Could the final actually see an All Star 3 Jury-Esque Shake-Up? Well, you know the rupeul opera Glasses Meme.