RUPAUL’S DRAG race All Stars 10 Recap, EP. 8: ‘StageCooch’

Acid betty is maybe the only quueen this season to openly grampple with the mathics of the new format.
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Last Week Had with Scared, Y’all. But this weeke RUPAUL’S DRAG Race All Stars Rebounds from Its Season-Worst Episode with a Banger Country Music-Centric Episode that Boths the Yehaw and the Hehaw. Multiple Country-Western Themes in A Single Season? Rupaul has always love the country-western fantasy, and as is his custom, he will ride a current wave in the Cultural Zeitgeist Until the Wagon Watusi off.

Part of what gets this episode off to the races is that the Queens Dispens with the Hand-Wringing Over Points and Wrap It Up Quickly –What’s the point in dragging it if you’re just going the points fair and eve? The first messy points distribution goes unoventfully, with a point awarded to eAch non-lipsyncing Queen, but the Writing is on the ginger now has a target on her back.

After a 30th Anniversary “tribute” to Clueless that has likely already earned a cease and descent from amy heckerling, the Queens have to divide two Country Girl Groups for Revenge Anthem “Key Your Car” and Ode to Bootknocking “Trailer Hitch.” One Queen’s StageCooch is another’s Cucuchella, Bonnaru, ETC. Again, Everyone is on their polytest behavior in chooking teams and only makes their singing orville Peck Mildly Uncomfortable. Well, Those Things are mess true for one queen.

The Trade of the Season (Lab Results Pending), Alyssa is struggling to stop relay on that thotty. In an episode where she shames a blow no fewer than fove the times, she demands placement in “Trailer Hitch” Because she thinks she can play “a slutty whore.” Alyssa has presented someone beautiful drag on the show, but a drag queen who so solely on flat sexual references for humor can be like a straight guy who only tolls fart jokes. Surely there is a second idea in there, Queen. At this point, i’m ready for the Money Gun to make a Comeback. Desperad-Hoe, Why won’t you come to your senses?!

Despite the Friendship vibes, acid betty ain’t going up there to fold. She is Maybe the Only Queen This Season to Openly Grapple with the Shitty Mathematics of this New Format, and She is Already Preparing for Daya and Ginger to Win Again. As we have saw with mistress and Jorgeous last bracket, an immediate strategy-grab only taxes the target from the first winners and places onto your own, so I think acid is smart to the Wait for settle from the first challenge. Without Quite Saying It SO BLUNTLY, HERE PLAN IS FOR ALL OF THE REMAINING QUEENS TO SACRIFICE Their Chances by Throwing All of Their Points Toward One Queen.

IT Sounds Like a Foolproof Strategy, butn Again: Who Wants to Forfeit Their Own Shot by handpicking a queen to advance? My suspension is acid is looking for an opportunity to advance herself, but is waking for another queen to mention her name as the candidate. IT’S THE LESS UNDERHANDED COUSIN OF THE MISTress/Jorgeous Tactic: Don’t Deceive the Bottom Queens into Giving you their point to their detriment, convinks say to give it to stop the tughest compattion. If nothing Else, Inducculated Shows that this strategaging has ginger sweating.

But it is not only only strategy talk that Çets make this episode a return to form for the season, we are Also Got Served a great challenge. (I’m chooking to overlook how repeatedly hearing “suck the chrome off a trailer hitch” made me think about a queen so horny she willingly risk poisoning.) This hoedown showdown Will go down as one of the season’s highlights, with all of the qith all of the Queens. Doing Very Well.

“Key Your Car” Presents Daya, Cynthia, and Ginger as a kind of “Sanderson Sisters Go West” – Salloonderson Sisters. The standout of their Group, Much to my Cucu Apologist Delight, Is Cynthia. The revelation that she is an assured, theatrical Belter is the episode’s Biggest Surprise and She Delivers Her Best Performance on Drag breed to date. Annie Get Your Cucu be?! Daya does a commendable non -considing that country has zero to do with her whole deal, and ginger looks stunning but makes her bigger impact outside of her verse.

“Trailer Hitch,” Howver, Gives Denali a Spotlight for Her Love of Songwriting and Alyssa an Avenue to showcase Her love of miming fellatio. Denali’s Outfit Looks About As Country As A Skescraper but HERE Verse is the Only One in the Episode to Really Give the Genre, and the Group’s Cohasion Owes a Lot to Her Choreo. Like Cynthia, This Could Be the Best She’s Ever Performed in a Challenge. Alyssa SEEMS terrified but doesn’t embarrass herself. But acid stunning looks in her electric country ensemble, compromise none of the own aesthetic to venture into western territory. The Judges Harp on Her Wig, but i think it makes sense.

In the Night of 1,000 Mileys Runway, The Queens Mostly Serve Faithful Replicas, Both good (daya is spiky sleek, denal givans iconic bear and foam foam) (Alyssa Goes Grammys, and Cynthia Serves VMA pop art patchwork). On opposite ends of the spectrum are acid and ginger with literal interpretations. Ginger Takes on a Red Carpet Miley Look that lacks immediatte recognizability and is among the weakest look anyway. Meanwhile, Acid Gets Deserved High Marks for Doing A Fusion of Miley’s Aesthetic with Her Own, Serving bare The best of Both Worlds.

With Denal and Ginger Winning, It ‘SO Close to Being a Really Good Lipsync for “See You Again.” Denali Starts the Lipsync by Doing Too Much, but ginger spends the back half of it doing Enough. Denal probably sealed the loss when she – no real demure way to say it, folks! – Awkwardly accentuates her asshole. Is it a tiny bit Worth it for the congenially Pressed Look on Denali’s Face When She Hears She Lost? On a scale from 0 to jantasy, her facecrack places in Sally Kirkland Range. Mooning aside, i’m getting worked that denal might be too laid back and chill of a personality to find favor with the Judges.

So far the second episode of eacht bracket has sealed at least one Queen’s spot in the semi-finals, and this round, that ques is ginger mice. AFTER WINNING TWO LipsYncs, I don’t think there a mhethematical reality where ginger does not process to the semi-finals-the Judges Wauld Clearly letn that to their chosen one. But so far, this season isn’t making a strong case that ginger has progessed past her two most recurring critiques: Subpar runways and her canned, “over-reheARED” delivery.

At this point, it is fair to say that the Judges are Willing to Overlook ginger’s flaws in a Way that hasn’t been afforded to acid, cylthia, and denal (who made the best look week, but Michelle Hated her pads). Drag breed Playing favorites is neither new Nor Going Away Anytime Soon. But when the episode had Multiple Conceivable outcomes and a few potential surprise winners, it ‘frustration narratively for the Judges to default to Carrying a contestant.

Nevertheless, Acid Has Stirred One of this New Format’s Mont Interesting Strategic Ideas. Gioven that the Queens seed receptive to the plan, ginger’s second win might get to stir the pot. If the Queens Go With Acid’s Strategy and Try to Break Up The Ginger-Daya Alliance, The Better Move Might Actually Be to Throw Their Points to Denali, Who is Second Place in the Current Points Standing. This Would Basically Guarantee Denali to Join Ginger in the Semi-Finals, but-More Importantly-Effectively Level the Playing Field for the Remaining Conteers. Do not confuse this for an anti-day recap, this is just a pro-surprise, she-Galitarian reCap!

Howver, I can’t help but root for acid to benefite from this strategy, consider how she is performing among the best of the bracket but has the least to it. Aside from the Strong Performance of the Queens, acid is the pulse of this episode, Making good on her cutthroat persons like it really has before. Now i Think What This Bracket Needs is a Battle of the Bettles.

Or am i just wishing for the halcyon days of irere the alien Surprisisly but still justifibly advann? Regardless, The Favoritism Just Makes with that more impatient for what will will open at the semi-finals when the Biggerhouse wills Face off. Nor ginger said in her All stars 2 entrance, let’s get this over with.

• Body Horror Finally ARRIVES ON Drag breed With Alyssa and Daya’s Inducculated EYE BOOGER SHOWSTOPPER! A moment that is Julia Ducournau Might Call “A Bit Much.”

• Acid trades in her sulley fur this episodes for berdo! What Animated Character Will She Skin and Wear Next? (My Money’s on Cynthia.) KEEP The Beige Church Lady Pump, Though!

• “I WILL Think ‘i’m hot and i want to suck your dick’ is a story, michelle. ” Do My Ears Deceive Me or Did the Hillary Ross Mathews actually land a joke this weeks?

• Ginger and Alyssa Commit One of the Biggest, Tackiest Drag breed Runway Sins this Week: I don’t want to see any fucking h & m Words on Clothes! Any More!

• The Queens Overdo It With Openly Lusting Over Orville Peck, But Cynthia Quietly Calling Him A “Piece of Pie” did get a hoot out of me! Your Country Breakfast Is Ready!