Trixie sees a threat in Kennedy, who ultimately outpaced her in season seven. Ringing a big Texan bell? Trixie shades Kennedy’s ensemble for its ugliness, but coming from the patron saint of ugly drag, this is actually quite revealing. Also, let’s take stock: We have in Kennedy a cultivated pageant queen with real performance talent who has grown to embrace drag as fun and frivolous. She is a Bob Mackie fever dream, and it’s dangerous. We all loved when she came out as that bug on the runway during season six, just like we all loved Love & Other Drugs (an example we’re confident in using).Ī note for future recaps: When we say something is “stupid,” that means it’s good, and Kennedy Davenport’s entrance is so fucking stupid. Morgan reads her for being dated and out of touch, but Ben, like Anne, is here for a reason. Despite being named Miss Congeniality on her season, she hasn’t remained very popular with fans.
How much could she have grown in the months between season nine and AS3? Her clip package makes you wonder why the hell Valentina, a surefire All Star, isn’t in this roster, but alas we have Aja, who may or may not benefit from our underestimation.įollowing Aja is the Anne Hathaway of drag, BenDeLaCreme. Next, Aja scooters in looking elevated in neon, but it definitely feels too soon for us to see her here. While it might behoove a villainous queen to learn from Phi Phi’s mistakes in AS2 and have some self-awareness, will it be as fun to watch? After Milk makes a perfectly benign comment, for some reason Morgan says that she has no tolerance for “divadom” - on a drag-queen reality-competition show, no less. We then have this season’s requisite “deep cut” queen in Morgan McMichaels, coming hard for the title of the capital- b bitch. Will she find a new rival to distract her from the prize? Or will she let herself be the winner we know she can be? We really do love Thorgy, but we hope her edit becomes less Bob-centric soon or this won’t bode well for her. Thorgy Thor’s intro is very fun until it entirely becomes a retread of her season-eight arc: There’s lint stuck in her glasses, she’s surly, and Bob the Drag Queen is mentioned three times in less than 70 seconds. As we remember a Chi Chi who was restricted not only by her means but by her lack of confidence, it will be exciting to see what she does with what we assume is a lot more of both. A quick Chi Chi retrospective includes Michelle Visage wagging her finger and saying, “You don’t need money” to compete at a high drag level (which is, you know, not true). RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 3: Who Will Win?įan favorite Chi Chi DeVayne enters wearing a highlighter-yellow riff on the trash bag look she rocked when she sashayed into season eight. Not as memorable as how handsome she is out of drag, though, and while her post-show accomplishments register mostly in the world of male modeling, to dismiss Milk’s place in this competition is to wade in delusion, sweetie! Related Stories She didn’t make it far in season six, but her subversive style is certainly memorable one way or the other. Next up, #ZaddysHome! (Figured we’d get ahead of this hashtag.) Milk is back, and an interesting choice for AS3. She has conquered television, touring, and branding, which means anything less than a win would be an upset. She’s a self-anointed “crownless drag superstar,” and she’s right.
We’re immediately off to the drag races once Trixie Mattel Rollerblades into the werkroom. Sufficiently.Ī Handmaid’s Tale–inspired sketch sees Hall of Famers Alaska and Chad muttering about All Stars 3 and confirming that the format is the same as All Stars 2, with eliminated queens likely to return at some point for their poetic “RuVenge.” For a show that loves to shake up its own rules, this is an uncharacteristically early telegraph that portends certain catastrophe later, but for now, let’s clock these entrances, okrrr?! But we’re happy to report that this premiere of All Stars 3 has us gagged. Drama crossed over from our screens into real life. A legendary contestant was finally crowned. Hiiiiieeee sugar-children honey-children! RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars is back after a tectonic shift of a second season that seems impossible to live up to, given the circumstances.