RuPauls Drag Race All Stars
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Lets go ahead and be real.
Do we like real?
With Jasmine, Farrah, and Gia gone, the competition can nowactuallybegin.
Now, it just depends on how each lady rises to the challenge each week.
You cant make mistakes.
This is like surgery if surgeons werent required to tuck their hair back into a scrub cap.
Drag queens, unlike surgeons, often let their hair be big and everywhere.
This weeks maxi challenge is an improvised courtroom comedy calledJersey Justice.
Is it a missed opportunity that we dont let the contestants create their own courtroom scenarios?
Probably, but the ones were given could be worse.
Latrice, Monet, and Monique will be arguing How Bout Them Cakes?
which is topical in that it focuses on cake-making discrimination.
Already, Im nervous about everyones accent, across the board.
I can say this, Im one of them!
Seconds into rehearsal, Latrice is having similar issues to the ones she had duringSnatch Game.
Just being real, because we love that!
Even Naomi can look small!
You heard it here first!
The improv will be the issue for Valentina in the improv challenge.
It becomes clear that You Made Me Look Like a Bitch, Bitch!
will be about how Naomi, a hairdresser, made Manila look too much like a dog.
The two swear to tell something like the truth and we get into it.
Manila is a talented performer who is very in her element here.
You know, the dog kind of bitch.
Its just a case of one performer outshining the other.
I will give Naomi points for an answer to one of Michelles questions about her usual clientele.
They normally got four legs, and they normally got some anal glands goin on.
They got some anal glands goin on!
The story gets totally lost at this point.
It is funny in a we are being funny way.
Obviously it would benefit the contestants to have only one other scene partner.
We couldnt have waited til next week for this one?
The mother of that expression, Trinity The Tuck, nee Taylor, is up next with Valentina.
She recovers immediately and commandingly.
Shes not winning an award, or anything, but its serviceable!
We know where this bitch lives.
Overall, the contestants are all feeling good about their performances, and I can see why.
None of what we have seen has been bad, however some girls were overall quieter than others.
Trinity and Valentina assure Ms. Royale that shes so beloved that shell be fine.
The ladies will swang em in front of comedian Erica Ash and queen Zoe Kravitz.
Manila is first, and I think it may be her weakest effort on the runway thus far.
Not because its bad, but because its not pushed to the next level like weve seen.
Michelles assessment of it as Cruella de Vil meets Reese Witherspoon is dead on.
It just doesnt feel like this category is taken to an All Stars level here.
Naomi Smalls delivers aStepford Wivestake on the theme, and this is a little bit more like it.
Were finally seeing a behipped Naomi, and its nice to see her do something different.
I also enjoy how she performs her character throughout.
Valentina … makes a choice.
She says shes giving us fashion, everything that drag is before it becomes a final piece.
And Im not really buying it.
An unfinished drag look on purpose?
How is this Curves and Swerves?
My eye is on her, and its brow is raised.
She looks like a lumpy cow!
Latrice Royale is giving you a beautiful blue diamond-studded gown with a cinched (!)
It wasnt as much as Manila was giving, say the judges.
So, it could really happen.
Latrice Royale could really go home.
Its really all a bit much, and we know exactly where Manilas head is at.
Monique, however, has a more difficult decision ahead.
She isnt blinded by friendship, per se, close as she may be with Monet.
If you look at the report cards of the two girls before her, neither are great.
Its all a big question mark until the lip sync.
Still, here we have our first week when its really tough to see someone go home.
Somehow comes in seventh place.
It doesnt feel right, but its going to have to be okay.
For now…
SAID THE BITCH!
….Said the bitch!!!!
In this game, you gotta be airtight.
I have to wonder if this duo will have more words about this exchange.
And not the Monet kind.
