There are many camps out there that each want different things from Drag Race. And so, we ask the following question out of genuine stupefaction: Can a reality competition show about drag queens jump the shark? Perhaps years from now, our queer historian-androids may look back on this episode and proffer it as evidence to say, “Yes it can, darling.”
It’s tough because it makes us doubt whether or not the All Stars format is really working. Your thoughts on All Stars 6 thus far? Grade the premiere below, then drop a comment with your take on Serena and Jiggly’s eliminations.This is an extremely tough episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars, not because the result is particularly devastating or because of an emotional reveal about a queen’s inner life or because Vanessa Hudgens speaks and the gay community winces. And in the end, Jiggly became the second queen of All Stars 6 to sashay away. Jiggly and Yara’s fates ended up in the hands of Ra’Jah and guest-assassin Brooke Lynn Hytes, both of whom slayed a lip-sync battle set to Janet Jackson’s “Miss You Much.” The splits! The death drops! The spins! The cartwheels! Jackson - sorry, Ms. Sure, Yara spent most of her time in the workroom goofing around, but her final hand-made look was solid. Rocking a confusing mess of streamers, Jiggly absolutely belonged in the bottom this week, though I’m not convinced that Yara deserved to join her on the chopping block. But I guess that’s what Drag Race has always been, really.Īnyway, there were some killer looks on that runway this week - “too much, too much to mention,” as Elphaba would say - but we can all agree that Ra’Jah’s Judy Jetson-approved dress alone earned her that well-deserved win. It was like Project Runway meets America’s Next Top Model meets crack. We’re talking 12 queens with 36 total looks, including one made using unconventional materials. With one queen down, it was time for the second main challenge of the season: a ball! And not just any ball.
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If you need to relive any of those moments, you can watch the premiere in full below: (We later learned that Yara was the only queen who chose Trinity’s lipstick if she had won, Serena would have stayed.) As Camille Grammer once said about her infamous dinner party from hell, the talent show “started out positive and it went down in flames.” Both Serena and Trinity found themselves on the chopping block, with Jiggly barely escaping to safety.Ĭoco Montrese - or “Coco Montreal,” as my phone insists on autocorrecting - turned out to be the first surprise assassin of the season, and she lived up to that title by besting Yara in a lip-sync battle to Bruno Mars’ “Uptown Funk.” (You know, that song all the gays love.) Coco then had the displeasure of revealing that Serena was the first eliminated contestant of All Stars 6. (Seriously, did we know that Stretch Armstrong™ manufactures breastplates?)īut Serena Chacha’s wiggy song-and-dance? Silky’s off-key gospel number? Trinity’s cringey comedy act? No, sir. But none of these performers could hold a candle to Yara Sofia, who basically gave us the “Heavy Boobs” choreography from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend while rocking the most hilariously elastic knockers I’ve ever seen. I was fully feeling the Jantasy with Jan’s glass-shattering vocals, I respected Pandora’s commitment to the time-honored art of silly string boob cannons, I was impressed that Ra’Jah O’Hara could sew a non-hideous dress in less than 60 seconds, and Scarlett Envy gave me a whole new appreciation for bubbles. And as the name suggests, the levels of talent on stage… well, they varied. Then came the premiere’s main challenge, an all star variety show.
Ginger Minj emerged the unsurprising victor of the reading challenge, thanks to her jokes about Jiggly being stupid and Pandora Boxx being old. Did you ever in your damn life think that you would hear Miss Piggy open up her snout and say, “The library is about to open, because reading is what?” That’s because this show, not unlike the Muppets, makes the impossible possible.
Of course, the real star of this two-part premiere was none other than Miss Piggy, who Zoomed in for a front-row seat to the queens’ first mini challenge of the season.