Hi Ugly, it’s me, Bussy!
And welcome back to Hot or Rot?!
And today we’ll be reviewing episode 3 of Ru Paul’s Drag Race All Stars Season 6.
In the main challenge, our queens created commercials to sell their special services
And the runway category was Rudemptions, recreations of looks from their original seasons.
We’ll be breaking down each of those runways, briefly taking a look at the main challenge,
and then addressing the alleged mistreatment of Pandora Boxx.
According to her tweets, it seems she’s feeling more like a glorified extra than an
actual contestant on the show.
Now, let’s get into it.
First up, Let’s play a Kylie Sonique Love Game
Kylie’s Rudeeming her Lady Gaga look from the original Snatch Game
And let’s just say this Rudemption is nothing short of extra planetary
Chromatica planetary in fact Which you may have recognized
Kylie actually shared with us on instagram that this look was worn by Gaga herself
I’m off to Chromatica And I cannot imagine that there is a better
feeling in the world than Rudeeming a look that you wore 11 years ago with a look actually
worn by the person that you were impersonating She even wrote trust on the glasses that she’s
wearing giving us a little nod to her original performance in snatch game
This look is hot Oh and shout out to the designer B Calla who
worked on this look as well as many of Kylie’s other looks including her Promo entrance and
press looks Wow now that’s what I called booked blessed
a B Calla’d Next up touch all of this renaissance it’s
Scarlet Miss Envy is Rudeeming her season 11 entrance
look today Honestly Scarlet is one of those queens that
probably has a difficult time choosing which look she wanted to recreate because she really
didn’t have any bad looks in her original season
That said seeing the original next to this Rudemption makes it look like a cheap forgery
of comparison and I always love seeing an all stars glow up, but it’s even more impressive
when a queen goes from amazing to even more amazing
Whatever she’s been drinking, make it three I need it
You could put Scarlet in a museum with this look and Mona Lisa would be shaking
She took me to Venus and back This look is hot
Next up there’s nothing fake about her except the fur, it’s Eureka
She’s Rudeeming her Season 9 faux fur runway This is actually another queen who didn’t
strike me as someone who necessarily needed to Rudeem a look
Eureka’s always been very strong on the runway, being you know an expert at porportionalizing
and all That said I think she picked a good one to
redo, the original was full of like dirty lines and the fur kind of randomly placed
on her body and the graphic colors are so intense that it’s just a lot to look at
This new version takes all of that and makes it more refined, sophisticated
This body suit has her looking like she could join the power ranger team with Kylie and
they would be an amazing duo This look is hot
Also, I do want to say that I don’t really agree with what Michelle said about there
being too much going on up top Sometimes a fuller bush is more fun
Next up, now in the organics aisle, it’s Rajah O’Hara
She’s Rudeeming her farmed runway design challenge look that actually sent her home
on her original season And when I say rudeeming here I think that
is a gross understatement This look is fabulously done, flawless
She went from like Charlie Brown Christmas from the original look to California Redwood
in this one It’s almost like a take on classic poison
ivy where she’s kind of the one with the plants, they’re growing out of her body,
she is the tree and she even has on those extra tall platforms to really give it that
extra emphasis and has the leaves on top of her head and I love that she’s giving a
nod to the burlap pants that sent her home by including what looks like burlap around
her arms like she’s just graciously carrying that down the runway
This look is hot Next up, looks like Pandora too had a visit
to the farm to recreate this look Now, ya’ll know I love me some Pandora I
really really do But I also try to be unbiased in my videos
Instead of trying to take an older, bad look you would say and making it better, she chose
to do a more thematic Rudemption She’s seeming to want to tell the story
of the young party girl growing up into the mature drag queen professional woman that
she is today I think that’s great and all but I really
don’t see the connection between the two looks besides the colors green and blue
In fact I like the original better I think it’s more whimsical campy and kind of tells
the story of who her crazy kooky character is a little bit better
Considered on it’s own I do like this Rudemption look I think it’s hot
But considering what they asked her to actually do I don’t think she really rose to the
occasion And for that reason this overall Rudemption
is gonna be a rot More on her later though
Next up welcome to the pageant it’s Yara The [____] looks stunning but it’s rare
that she ever doesn’t She’s Rudeeming her season 3 promo look
I think it’s really fun to look back on Yara’s old runways because she’s someone
who’s always marched to the beat of her own drum both in style and personality
But like back on season 3 she was turning looks on the runway that the other girls were
not ready for and could not even conceptualize at the time
I always think back on her hair extravaganza looks and Futurama glamorama look which is
like a Lady Gaga Alexander McQueen from the monster music video recreation
I do think her original promo look was pretty and I think this Rudemption is even better
Plus it’s got all of her signature things crazy contacts wild hair fierce makeups and
of course the bling Yara how’s your headpiece?
This look is hot Next up she’s a thousand years old and she’s
just waking up It’s Trinity K Bonet, queen of the damned
Miss Trinity’s Rudeeming her season 6 promo look
This is another look that I don’t really think needed a Rudemption but she probably
chose this because I don’t think she could possibly at all feel regretful about any one
of the looks that she turned on her original season
I think back to that wild animalistic crazy show girls thing with all the feathers that
she wore oh my god like the [____] turned some looks
So she chose the most relatively least exciting look she could and turned it the hell out
Sidenote random plug for queen of the damned that movie is amazing totally gay campy and
fun Go watch it after you finish this video
Trinity I’m ready for you to turn me Right there, just right there, one little
bite, thanks This look is hot
Next up she’s no longer just Jan, she’s glamazonian Jan
I was so excited to see Jan Rudeem this look this was the one look from her original season
that I was kind of just like eh But it was very high school freshman coming
in to high school and this is full high school senior going to prom and winning prom queen
I also truly don’t think that we’ve ever seen Jan look more confident and beautiful
on the runway because she’s wearing this gown, it’s not wearing her which we do see
a lot from her like she wears these extremely extravagant things that kind of like but wait
where is Jan in all that?
I actually love this Rudemption so much that I was a little bit offended when Michelle
was like your hair looks matronly I was like what
I mean yeah it looks more mature but like that felt kind of rude to me
Jan I think this look is hot Next up oh my sweet little Ginger Minj
she’s Rudeeming her future of drag look The biggest offense in the original look for
me personally was that crazy chopped off wig and makeup that she had with the look and
undoubtedly that is better this time around I love that little like visor headpiece thing
that she’s got on it’s kind of giving me like queen of Atlantis like maybe there’s
an underwater castle that she’s swimming off to after this runway
Which further does kind of make sense with the fish scales on the side and the rouged
sleeves and pants that are attached to the body suit which I really did not personally
enjoy I think she did kind of Rudeem the runway
a little bit and it deserves a soft hot But do I like the look, no, it’s a rot
Next up over in funky town it’s doctor reverend Silky Nutmeg Ganache PhD
She’s Rudeeming her 70s inspired makeup look that she did with Soju back on season
11 Now most of our queens tonight did their Rudemptions
in a way that were at least in some way a callback to their original looks
Silky took that old outfit threw it in the trash burned it forgot about it and started
from scratch And the Rudemption look is at least still
from that same style era so I think she deserves credit for that
Plus like Ross said she looks so damn good you don’t give a [___] what the old look
was because this was a million times better This is a look that I would love to see the
reverend doctor Silky perform in this look is red hot
Next up our butterfly is fully metamorphosed it’s A'keria C Davenport
She’s Rudeeming her season 11 caftan look which as Ross pointed out was not actually
a caftan This one today is so great she’s now on
theme with this Rudemption I was maybe slightly confused that we didn’t
really see any elements of butterfly in this look but also not too mad about it because
kind of like Silky the look is great she looks gorgeous
This blue color the blue crystals stunning and ya’ll know she’s gonna bring it to
you every runway this look is hot Now lets break down those main challenges
real quick Team drag exorcist
Kylie Scarlet Eureka Eureka stole the show no doubt about it her
character was insane It was giving me a blend of all the performances
that they did back in the Divine challenge Specifically was Ginger did with the eggs
Mixed with what like Vivacious did back when was just a head on a plate
Mixed with her own brand of craziness It was a treat to watch
As for Kylie and Scarlet I’m a little bit nervous if they have to do an acting challenge
again Because they were not as strong as Eureka
But then again having them have to play tone down was kind of necessary because having
them be so leveled out made Eureka’s seem that much wilder
All things considered I think this group did a great job and their commercial was hot
Why don’t you come around and exorcise me sometime ow
As for team fix it [____] which was made up of Raja Pandora Yara and Trinity they were
easily the best commercial of the entire group of queens tonight
I think theirs stood out because they did a lot but they also let each queen shine individually
They all played to their strengths and somehow all that kooky craziness all mixed up together
really worked out and they did an amazing job it was hot
It was also really cool to see Trinity do such a great job because she wasn’t so amazing
in the acting challenges back in her original season and she already flopped in the very
first talent show where she did comedy In this challenge she proved that she could
both comedy and acting so that was really like a triple Rudemption for her tonight considering
the runway as well Props to you mama
Team rent a queen was made up of Jan Ginger Silky and A'keria
Of the three teams I think their were undoubtedly the weakest and I think that was because they
tried to do a little too much and I think Ginger almost kind of like outshined the other
three like way too much like why was she featured so much more than everyone else in the challenge
It either tells me that the other queens didn’t speak up and say hey Ginger you have way too
many lines or they chose to cut some of the other queens lines in the final production
to basically emphasize how good Ginger was And Silky who gets eliminated this episode
had almost no lines and you know was that a coincidence did she not speak up we don’t
know what happened behind the scenes This commercial I would not rent or buy I’d
just throw it in the trash it’s a rot That said it really was not the worst thing
in the world Like the queens this season I think are really
evenly matched and that is what is making this season of all stars so damn good
The other twist that we have this episode is that the queens are judged as groups not
as individuals Which leads them to giving the win to Trinity
and arguably overlooking some of the stronger acting performances given by queens like Eureka
and Ginger, though I do think Trinity was a deserved winner
The other reason I was really happy to see Trinity win was of course because we get to
see her lip sync Our assassin today is Laganja yes god
I love her so damn much They both killed it undoubtedly
But you knew Laganja did not come to play the second she came and did like a jump split
onto the floor before the lip sync even started Laganja wins and reveals that the queens have
voted to send miss Silky home which is really sad but at the same time I think she really
needed to do an amazing job this episode considering the past two performances that she’s given
And like I said there’s just so much talent this season that one little mistake is going
to send these girls home Most of all though I was really happy that
Silky got to share her story about becoming a better person finding herself and learning
to look past some of the disappointing I would say behavior of the fanbase and how they treated
her because she really did deserve better Too often the plus size queens and the queens
of color receive way way way more hate and less positive attention than their white skinny
counterparts We all need to do better don’t send hate
spread some love and that’s that on that Now onto the alleged mistreatment of Pandora
Boxx On June 24 she tweeted hey thanks world of
wonder for making sure even though I was top three you had to make sure I was still the
only queen insulted during my entrance you def are consistent if nothing else @rupaulsdragrace
In that tweet she was referring to Jiggly saying “Elsa got old”
Then on June 30th she tweeted oh look I was actually on the show and I’ve got blue balls
times three Then on July 1st she tweeted it’s hard for
me to watch myself on television I mean I don’t have much to watch so far
And then after episode 3 just aired Rajah tweeted have you caught up with the latest
episode of Ru Paul’s Drag Race on Paramount Plus
Pandora responded am I in it this week?
Lol all I know is that I had an amazing time with you this episode
Rajah said yes girl and you have lines and Pandora said I have lines wow I’m not a
glorified extra this week haha fix it [____] I saw her tweets and that made me kind of
sad and I was like yeah I guess she kind of has been more of a background character these
past three episodes but I feel like some other queens have as well
And y’all know me I decided to uh get the tea on the situation do a little math do a
little calculation and here we are I went back through each episode and counted
the number of confessionals that each queen has had so far and I will acknowledge that
yeah confessional don’t tell the whole story but they do give us an idea of where the storyline
is going for the episode And before I show you the juicy numbers I
do wanna tell you how exactly I calculated these
I counted a confessional as anytime the camera cuts to the queen’s out of drag speaking
to the confessional camera If a queen is giving a confessional and then
it cuts back to some other part of the show and the back to that same queen speaking on
the same idea I counted that as one confessional If a queen was giving a confessional and then
they cut to another queen giving a confessional but then back to that original queen giving
a confessional I counted that as two confessionals And finally I didn’t count confessionals
given during the runways since they pretty much always have them
In the first episode the talent show our winner Yara Sofia had five total confessionals while
the queen that was eliminated miss Serena got four
Notably Rajah and Trinity were tied for the most confessionals this episode having seven
each it’s worth noting that they placed high
and bottom respectively As for Pandora she this episode has three
total confessionals which was as much or more than Eureka A'keria Kylie Scarlet and Jan
It is worth noting Pandora was not involved during the dialogue this episode, hence her
tweets, but I think the more confessional time she was given was intended to balance
that out Moving into episode two, Rajah the episodes
winner, received five confessionals tied with Trinity
Jiggly this episode’s eliminated queen had a total of four confessionals which was the
same amount that Yara got who was the other queen in the bottom
Notably Pandora and Silky received zero confessionals and Pandora had zero lines in the work room
again And in today’s episode our winner Trinity
had a total of seven confessionals the most out out of any queen and Silky our eliminated
had six Pandora had two confessionals this episode
and quite a bit of dialogue in the work room considering she was essentially acting as
the team’s captain Every other queen had between one and three
confessionals besides Eureka who had zero however she had a lot of screen time in the
main challenge In general some trends I noticed through these
three episodes are that the best way to get screen time and thus confessional time is
to either win the challenge or be in the bottom or be eliminated and Pandora has done none
of those three things so far so I think it does kind of make sense why she’s been more
in the background But so has Scarlet and so has Jan her safe
sisters All things considered just looking at confessionals
she is in the middle of the pack with a grand total of five across the three episodes
Interestingly the show has favored Trinity K Bonet with a total of nineteen confessionals
but that’s also not surprising considering she was in the bottom in the first episode
and won episode three These numbers are fun but like I said confessional
time doesn’t equal total screen time For example while I counted more confessionals
from Pandora than Eureka it definitely feels like we’ve seen a lot more Eureka especially
because she talks a lot during the work room and also did really well in the third episode
and second episode So is Pandora being treated unfairly among
the cast?
Her experience is valid and I don’t want to discredit that just looking at the numbers
it does seem to me that she’s like kind of being treated averagely among other queens
like Scarlet Jan and Kylie who really haven’t had much screen time at all
Instead their stories have been pushed aside I would say in favor of the queens who have
won or been eliminated And ultimately I like to think that they are
saving those storylines for later when they begin to do even better in the competition
I guess we’ll see Let me know what you think though do you think
the coverage of our queens has been equal enough so far has anyone been treated unfairly
or maybe too favorably Let me know down in the comments below
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