Hi ugly, it’s me, Bussy, and welcome back to
Hot or Rot! from beyond the grave.
Did somebody say goth?
Today we’ll be reviewing episode 6 of Ru Paul’s Drag Race All Stars Season 6. Our
queens were challenged to act in a parody spin-off of American Horror Story. Ru-Merican Horror Story.
And on the runway category was: Oh My Goth. We’ll be breaking down each queen’s runway
and then taking a closer more analytical look at how our queens did in that main challenge.
That’s right. We’ll be breaking out the spreadsheets because I know you love them
to figure out if our queens were given a fighting change or if the producers rigged them an early
grave. And then at the end of today’s video we’ll be taking a look at Scarlet’s Letter,
see what I did there? to Ru Paul about the uncomfortable critique. Now, without further ado,
let’s put these bitches six feet under. First up, tonight on the runway, she’s just like any other
victorian teenage girl. She loves shopping, long strolls in the park, and practicing voodooism.
At first glance, I really loved this runway, but then I started looking a little too closely and
was like what the hell is going on here? It’s kind of like the gothic version of what Pandora
wore on the runway a few weeks ago, except it’s got this really strange length to it.
It’s like not long enough to have a train and then not short enough to really be that smock
kind of style dress. And it really just makes me want a little bit of a cinch at the waist or
a bigger flare at the bottom like maybe if there was a petticoat underneath to
give it a little bit more vavavoom. The other thing that was kind of confusing for me was
she’s got on this gray hair and she’s giving me very much like is she 50 or 15 vibes and
I’m like girl can we choose an age can we choose a dress length it’s just the whole thing is very in
between one and the other. I hope she won’t curse me for it but I am going to give this look a Rot.
Next up, let them eat cake. It’s Eureka! She says she’s giving us 16th century bride of Frankenstein
meets Marge from The Simpsons and I do see those two references but i think she may be a little
bit off from the time period, correct me if I’m wrong, I don’t think there’s anything necessarily
16th century about this. I think this is more 17th to 19th but that big poof hair that she’s wearing
kind of inspired by the Marie Antoinette’s if you will to give the most obvious example. But girl,
what do I know, it’s all in the past. But what’s more important is that she looks damn good.
The hair is fabulous, I love the little peekaboos of the lingerie and the whiter
paint that she’s used on her face. This is, um, I will say not necessarily the most
original thing we’ve ever seen on the runway. We have seen variations of this
look from I mean the very beginning back with Raja all the way to Detox to Miss Cracker on
All Stars I mean it’s been done again and again and again. Now we’re seeing it in
a little goth flare and I think that’s fun. This look had me dead and alive. It’s Hot.
Next up, it’s Trinity K Bonet in the Crowning. Any Schitt’s Creek fans out there? This very much
gave me Moira Rose but make it high fashion. And I’m sure that the Crowning is not what
she was inspired by, and in fact I’ve getting fierce vibes from this. Sasha Fierce vibes. I’ve
been practicing my shoulders, is it working yet? Knowing how much Trinity loves Beyonce,
I’m thinking this was probably inspired by Queen B’s Formation Tour look. I mean down to the tool
on the side and the big brimmed hat, I’m pretty sure that it was. But what I love about this was
that she really did make it her own. She applied it to this runway, the only thing I was a little
bit upset about, and this was not her fault, was the lighting on the stage, I feel like because
it was in all black, we kind of missed out on some of the details of the different fabric
textures and the sparkles of the stones. The whole silhouette is absolutely stunning from head to
toe and you all know I love a train, at least once a week. Unholy Trinity, this look is Hot!
Next up, pants on the runway, it’s Raja O’Hara. So this is the second week in a row we have seen her
in pants and you know she is like the one queen I think that can pull them off every single time but
I really would have loved to have seen her do something a little more elevated and challenge
herself for this runway. Because if there was a runway to go crazy and try something new,
this was it. Unfortunately she didn’t take that chance and yeah she looks pretty but I’m just not
living, dying, and resurrected, you know what I mean? I will say the top part of her outfit looks
super well made and I’m loving the little like appliqué details and the vintage gothic
almost like wallpaper vibes of the fabric that she used. There’s a little more structure
in it, but I wanted a little more goth out of it. When you stack this up against
everyone else’s goth look tonight, I don’t think it holds up. It’s gonna be a Rot.
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Now let’s get back to it. Next up, a queen I owe an apology. A’Keria C Davenport. You heard
me right. Apology. Turn on your screen recorders take your screenshots because this does not happen
very often. Last week I gave A’Keria’s look a Rot because I was too ignorant to understand
her concept. I was looking for basic printed patterns when in fact she had elevated above
and beyond the rest of the competition and become and actual dress pattern in a face-kini
with measuring tape to boot as a look. It truly is a gag. I was very wrong, ok. I admit that.
Thank you for the thousands of comments letting me know how wrong I was. But let’s be honest,
yall know I’ve never touched a sewing machine in my life, so how’s a girl like me supposed to
know? A’Keria did measure up last week, in fact, she was a cut above the rest. This look was Hot!
Now onto this week’s runway. Mama, this is what I’m talking about. This is the drama the drag
that I was looking for from this runway category. The headpiece of it all girl girl this is amazing.
And she’s matched that giant cross wreath detail with crosses on the sides of her hips. It is an
amazing silhouette. And I dunno what those little spikes are made out of, maybe metal, because she
was saying that it hurt her to wear this outfit, but hey, that’s when you’ve got a good look
because beauty is pain. Plus, you know, kind of on theme with the whole goth thing. She is adorned
in crosses but don’t take her near a church because she is Hot enough to burst into flames.
Next up, she’s alive, but only barely, it’s Jan, she is giving me full undead goth glamorama
eleganza. if there was queen in this competition that I was excited to see do this runway, it’s
little miss sparkles, rainbows, and sunshine Jan. Because you may or may not know this, but several
years ago, she started this little YouTube review channel called the witching hour where she was
reviewing Dragula and turning spooky looks every single week. And that was my introduction to Jan,
I was like oh cool, I love this like horror spooky campy fun, crazy queen. And then she went on Drag
Race and she became Jan from the Brady Bunch. So I don’t know what happened there, or if she truly
is just the most versatile queen of them all. Ow ow. Anyways, here we are, I love the cage sleeves
of this outfit. They’re reminding me of gotmix promo a little bit, I’m also living for her little
collection of pentagrams throughout her look on her forehead and her hair. And I think she was
one of the only queens to really take this gothic fantasy all the way with the makeup. Oh and that
coffin backpack was a perfect little campy touch to this look. Jan buried me alive. This was Hot.
underworld where it belongs. Am I right? I love the little red zipper details on the back when
she turns around, I mean I could stare at her in this look for hours. It’s like gothic fifth
element with a twist of underground punk matrix vibes. Kylie is a queen that proves time and time
again she knows exactly who Kylie Sonique Love is and how to accessorize and clothe that drag
character on brand every single time. Uh. And I live and die. This look is Hot.
And finally on the runway, you better run away before she marries you or your husband,
kills you, and steals your fortune. It’s Pandora Box. Pandora is another queen tonight
that truly brought drag to the runway like she is giving me camp, she is giving me glamour.
She’s telling me a whole story and have I heard this story of the widow at the husband’s funeral
collecting the fortune yada yada yada before? Yes, but Pandora found a way I think to make it fresh,
fun, and in her flavor. I love that giant veil box thing that’s on her head and her whole dress looks
like a giant yummy ruffly cake. She also did what I really wanted her to do last week on the runway,
and that was to match her makeup to her look. She’s got that smudged black eye shadow from all
the tears that she’s been shedding. Fake tears, I’m sure, but nonetheless she’s been crying and
it’s sad. Pandora, you’re going straight to hell, and I’ll see ya there. This look is Hot.
Now how about some analytics and some spreadsheets? I know you want em. In
order to determine if our queens are given a fair chance at success in this acting challenge today,
I counted the words spoken by each of our queens one by one and yes,
it took forever, but I love you and I did it for you. Here’s what I found:
Ginger Minj, who played Emma, like Emma Roberts our guest judge tonight, justice for Scream
Queens, had a total of 124 spoken words during the sketch. Accounting for over 15% of this sketches
verbal Scream time, Eureka’s role had 93 words, Trinity 74, her twin Raja, 82, A’Keria only had
71 words. Jan 95, Kylie Sonique Love, wait for it, 189 words as Jessica the main character,
and Pandora’s role had 91 words. Now, numbers are fun, but they don’t mean anything unless we take
a deeper look. The interesting thing to me about this data set is that it almost perfectly
predicted how our queens placed this episode. The queens with the most spoken words: Jan,
Kylie, and Ginger, were guess what, our top 3, and Kylie who had the most words, won. And of the
queens with the least amount of words: Trinity, Raja and A’Keria. Raja and A’Keria landed in the
bottom. And poor A’Keria with the least amount of words was eliminated. She had only 8.67%
of the total words in this entire script. Many points below all of her peers. But what do we
make of this? Why did this happen like this? It is a little spooky scary, don’t you think? Boo! But
before I answer that, I will say that I agree with the judge’s decisions tonight. Kylie was excellent
in her role and truly stepped up to the plate and she completed an important character development
story arc. She went from shy Sonique to crazy Kylie and I will also say Ginger would have been
an amazing pick for the win this week as well. She is an amazing actress. And in the same vein,
A’Keria failed to make us laugh and Raja made weird acting choices that didn’t translate well
to us as viewers, but then I got to thinking and was wondering if I was a little bit bias to agree
with these placements because I subconsciously associate screen time with performance capability.
Or was it possible that the characters with more words and the scripts were just written better?
Or did these queens with larger character roles simply have more chances to succeed? For example,
they gave Eureka negative critiques and I agree, she had a rough start, but because she had more
words, I think she had more time to recover her performance, whereas A’Keria wasn’t given that
same chance. And I think it’s also possible the editors may have cut parts of this sketch
out to better align with how our queens were actually placed by the judges. Finally I want
to point out that the directing was not totally fair, at least from what we saw. For example,
Michelle showed Kylie exactly how she wanted those lines performed and apparently is a killer
actress, but from what we know, A’Keria, Raja, and Eureka didn’t get that same learning opportunity,
or any other queen for that matter. And I do wanna make it clear, I’m not discounting anyone’s acting
ability or disputing the placements, because like I said I agree with them, but I just think it’s
important to look at the raw numbers and look at where things may have gotten a little bit riggy.
But let me know what you thought about this challenge. Did you enjoy it? Did you catch all the
American Horror Story references? And do you agree with the placements? And now for Scarlet’s Letter.
As you all know, Scarlet was eliminated in last week’s episode after receiving a critique from
Ru that her performance made Ru uncomfortable. In an exit interview Scarlet did with Nylon,
this is what she said about Ru’s critique: “It was absolutely crushing. Specifically because I was
embracing my vulnerability in telling that story and sharing this aspect of my world.
My response to Ru Paul would be that maybe being uncomfortable isn’t such a bad thing.
Why are you uncomfortable? Maybe we can look at that. Sometimes art makes us uncomfortable.”
She later clarified that she was actually embarrassed to be going home on the talk
show episode because it was something she considered herself to be good at. She also
said these pink table talks are based on red table talk Jada Pinkett Smith’s show. And the
conversations are quote, “not supposed to be comfortable. They address things that maybe do
make people uncomfortable.” Basically defending her performance and how it made Ru feel.
She also said that may have quote “gone a lot different if she was the moderator. But
she wanted Kylie to know that she believed in her as a friend and as a competitor.”
I think this take is really interesting from Scarlet and keep in mind this is what she’s
saying in retrospect maybe like a whole year after her elimination. But let me know what you
think about all of this, were you uncomfortable by Scarlet’s story? Was the uncomfortable that
Scarlet seems to be describing the same type of uncomfortable that Ru seemed to be feeling that
day? Or maybe could we chalk all that up to weird editing and strange judging? And finally did she
deserve that elimination she seems not to think so even after given all this time to think about it.
And finally it’s that time again, my hottest Hot on the runway tonight goes to Kylie Sonique Love.
I also asked my Patrons to vote on their hottest Hot. And this week they’ve also chosen
Kylie Sonique Love. Ah, a match made in heaven. I mean hell.
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Ow, owww, god I look good, ok. So, oh I can’t decide if I wanna get closer I think
maybe. Closer’s always better my children. There comes a time when you just say fuck it