RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 3: Curse of the Talent Show
Warning: this post does include spoilers so if you haven't seen the episode, I suggest you go watch it now!
The Olympics/America’s Next Top Model/Hunger Games of drag is back! RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 3 began as it always does, with the returning queens doing their entrances into the workroom and if you don’t remember who’s starring on All Stars this year, here’s a quick a reminder: Trixie, Milk, BenDeLaCreme, ChiChi Devayne, Kennedy Davenport, Morgan McMichaels, Shangela, Thorgy Thor and Aja!
In an epic twist, we finally saw who the 10th queen is, I’m so surprised Ru didn’t keep us waiting longer, it’s Bebe Zahara Benet! I’m not sure if it was that amazing a twist or maybe I was just happy it wasn’t Cynthia Lee Fontaine but I was SHOOK. She looked amazing and I loved how intimidated the other girls looked! Just like last All Stars season, the episode kicked off with a reading challenge, which Dela won but my favourite read was Milk’s read of Shangela: ‘I always thought her name was Angela and people were just telling her to shut up.'
It's strange seeing this group of queens together, last season it was a bit obvious who the top 3 were going to be but this season seems like it literally could be anyone! The frontrunner seems to be Trixie, who may just be the most successful out of the group but we all know Ru loves drama so who really knows? Also am I the only one starting to like Trixie a bit less everyday, it just seems like she's trying a bit too hard to be funny and it's starting to veer on just bitchy but again could just be me! I think for now, I'll leave my top three prediction as Trixie, DeLa and Aja/Milk but anyway back to the episode summary:
source: VH1
Just like last season, the first maxi challenge was a talent show! Quick list of the acts everyone did:
Aja, Kennedy & Chi Chi: Dancing
Milk, Morgan, Shangela & Bebe: Lip-syncing
Dela: Burlesque
Thorgy: Violin
Trixie: Singing
I already assumed that Aja, Kennedy and Chi Chi pretty much had it in the bag, Aja completely destroyed the other girls, jumping off a box into a death drop, she literally had everyone screaming! She was top two along with Dela who had an amazing and hilarious burlesque act. Kennedy and ChiChi were awesome too which is why I was surprised that ChiChi was put into the bottom two (over flat shoes but okay) over Milk. Now I adore Milk but that performance was boring as hell and nowhere near better than ChiChi’s. The only thing I wasn’t surprised by was Morgan being in the bottom two, she’s another one of my favourite queens but her performance wasn’t on the same level as the others so even though I was upset that she was eliminated, I was happy it wasn’t ChiChi because she wouldn’t have deserved it!
You read right, Morgan McMichaels was eliminated! Dela and Aja went head to head with a lipsync to Anaconda and Dela came out of top and sent Morgan home. Now I’m not sure if that was just because Morgan said she would eliminate all the strong competitors when she got the chance but it seems like a bit of a coincidence!
This week’s summary is coming a bit late but next week’s will be right on time, I needed time to recover after seeing this first episode! Next week’s episode is a lip-synch extravaganza and all the promo clips are making it look like its Shangela vs Milk! Can’t wait to see how this turns out and I wonder who is going home next!