![]() You suddenly realize how long ago these queens filmed the season, as Shea comes for Valentina, even dropping references to their most recent tour. Attention is turned to Valentina for the first time and this whole portion of the reunion is goddamn delicious. The one true shocking elimination of the season is left for last. Who knows? With All Stars season three filming immediately following season ten, anything is possible! I don’t have much more to say about it, but barring a Trinity win, it would be a delight to see these two compete in a future All Stars season. It’s a wonderful change to see someone like Sasha be a little bit of a bitch for once.Įureka’s segment ends up being the most purely sentimental moment of the reunion, which is a relief. Perhaps it’s the power of being top four or the last couple months of social-media stardom, but all four finalists seem particularly willing to speak their minds in ways they weren’t in the season proper. Even with an array of excuses, the queens don’t buy it and Shea and Sasha especially seem to go for the jugular. As Trinity points out, he should have picked one of his many excuses and owned it. Charlie doesn’t really acquit himself here very well at all. ![]() All of which, of course, makes complete sense to everyone. Apparently, he couldn’t lip-sync because he doesn’t make sushi, but Trinity does make sushi (every day), and unfortunately this is a sushi competition, so if you can’t make sushi you gotta go home. He once again repeats a few excuses that have been bantered about online since the fateful day he left the competition, along with a few fresh ones which are news to everybody. Charlie’s elimination felt so long ago at this point, it took me a moment to realize it was included in the “shocking elimination” category. Ru moves quickly onto the three “shocking” eliminations, and here is where things really start to get cooking. Eureka lip-sync would have been a sight to behold. The interplay between Trinity and Eureka - and later on in a segment devoted to Eureka - is especially fun and it makes you realize what we missed out on not having these two around all season. What we get is by and large much better than the actual reading challenge we saw during the season. All the queens at some point or another jump in, and you’d almost feel a little bad for Alexis if it weren’t, you know, Alexis.īest of all, Ru decides to open up the library for all the queens on the stage. But after one cartoonishly big eyeroll from Farrah Moan, it’s clear things are a little different. Alexis continues to dig her heels in on her defense of “I thought body talk was off limits,” and with this infamously friendly crew of drag queens, you might even think they’d let her get away with it. It was a relatively minor blip in the show, but I think it’s when fan resentment finally began to overwhelm the online discourse about the New York queen. The producers also do a pretty great job of picking out the moments from the season that we actually want to talk about, even if they felt somewhat slight in the actual episode.Ī perfect example of this is Alexis Michelle’s seeming inability to be read. ![]() It’s just the highlights instead, and while it certainly leaves many queens with little or nothing to say - I’m looking at you, Jaymes Mansfield - it keeps us away from any awkward one-question interviews with Ru. Thankfully, this reunion does not dedicate an entire segment to each girl, doing away with the convention seemingly for good after season seven. But boy was I wrong! This, in many ways, felt like the first time we were seeing these girls drop the shiny reality-TV masks they wore for most of the season, and really act like, well, drag queens. The Between Two Ferns vibe in All Stars was so stilted and largely uninteresting (can you recall a single moment?) that I was worried we’d see much the same from this lot. When I heard that Drag Race would once again devote a full episode to throw the girls a reunion, I was nervous.
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