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and today we'll be reviewing episode seven of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars
season 8 as well as covering the online drama that's bubbled up surrounding the
episode involving both Kandy and Alexis and season 15 girls Luxx Noir London and mistress
Isabelle Brooks and in today's episode our Queens are challenged to improv characters
in a Forensic Files parody called forensic Queens where we learn the truth about what
had happened to Lil Miss Pound Cake and the runway category was Miss fill in the blank
so let's Jump Right In with the big drama this episode everyone is quitting All-Stars
eight... well, it's over, sorry we ended up in a nina brown video well it's over
so first we had Heidi leaving the competition we know that but then this episode we've got Alexis
and Kahana discussing leaving as well and Alexis gets upset and begins to cry when the Queens are
selecting roles for the challenge this week she seems to have two choices for roles one of which
she kindly and so graciously gives to Jessica Wild and the other which ultimately goes to Kandy Muse
because she says that's her only choice yet again and she has not at all willing to budge [ __ ]
and like I would say is a gray area because this is after all this is a competition where the
Queens are trying to win two hundred thousand dollars and like they should be fighting for
what they want but I do think something also could be said about sportsmanship and sharing
and at the same time I think there could also be something said about Alexis making pretty much
every moment about her which thankfully she is at least acknowledging a little bit in retrospect she
even tweeted out a screenshot of a poll that green gay a YouTuber put on his channel this
week asking which Alexis cry is your favorite and I think it's great she is so willingly and
openly expressing herself and feeling her feelings but I can also see Kandy's side
here where she sees Alexis doing this thing again where she's crying and maybe thinking
this is a ploy this is a game why is she doing this I'm not playing this I'm gonna walk away
and in addition to tweeting that poll Alexis also tweeted this out before the episode
aired - let me say whatever conversation set me off that's not the fault of the Kandy Muse
or anyone else I take responsibility for the things that trigger me if you support
me cool but zero tolerance for hate toward my sisters and if you want to hate me touch grass
Kandy Muse though took a different approach on Twitter this week- someone tweeted out
a clip of what was happening in the work room which Kandy quote tweeted
and wrote those white women tears are dangerous which then led to different
people discussing this topic online and some season 15 girls got involved
Luxx Noir London wrote on Twitter quote tweeting drag race hashtag I stand with
Kandy Muse and then in a now deleted tweet Alexis responded to Luxx writing Luxx,
this is not the tweet my tears weren't about picking roles there was a lot
going on in my head and that's not on Kandy but please be a sister
which as I said was deleted at some point And Then followed up with a tweet from Mistress
Isabelle Brooks where she wrote, Luxx this is not the Tweet Alexis's tears weren't about picking
roles there was a lot going on in her head and it's not on Kandy but please be a sister but
back to the episode... after the Alexis Drama We then seek Kahanna struggling in the work room,
she is seemingly not happy that this is yet another acting slash comedy Challenge and
she's not so sure how she's gonna make this role work and it was at this point she actually has
a moment where she's packing her bags and Jimbo is seen asking what's going on she's leaving and
then several minutes later RuPaul burst through the door saves the day and takes all the Queens
to church her parting message being don't let your feelings in the moment sabotage the bigger
picture which seems to get the Queens back on track and allows us to finish the episode...
first up Jessica Wild who in the challenge plays the character of your Ura Drag and
the setup of this Forensic Files parody is essentially there are queens like Jessica
wild and Kahanna Montrese playing characters who are coming back to All-Stars to film a
new season - Jessica's a former Miss Congeniality and gives us some rather
interesting testimony on Lil Miss pound Cake's disappearance and how she may or may not have
been involved in it and she noticed Lil Miss pound cake was missing because she left her
ETB card in the work room on Taco Tuesday and doesn't seem to know what happened but then
later admits that little pound cake actually stole her man making herself a suspect but she reassures
Us in the same testimony that she's not a Republican and she didn't get a little pound cake
and honestly Jessica in this was so so funny and I could listen to her talk endlessly for
ages because if you let her she will just escalate the crazy things that she's saying
to crazier and crazier Heights and it's just so entertaining plus I think she did
a great job of balancing the crazy words she was saying with a pretty
serious and like real performance she did a great job and this was and overall HOT
and on the Runway she escalates that Crazy One More Time and gives us a look that is themed after
sausages in fact she is Miss sausage titled from eating 15 sausages because why the hell not and
she's got them in a crown dangling off her waist I don't know this is wild Jessica Wild can't be
it's silly it's fun it's why we love Jessica because she's so pretty and so zany with what
she does and like does this make any sense no but is that also why I love it yes this look is HOT
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and Kanna was we mentioned was struggling to pick a character figure out how she was gonna
play the role and she ends up with this role Ima Fox which is basically just her and like
really Jessica Wild's character was just her too - I'm just having another moment where I'm like
I don't think that they picked these roles in the workroom at all I feel like they give
these roles to the queens before the season even starts and the illusion of them picking
roles is just like for entertainment but that's just a theory a drag Theory
anyway she's playing the character of Ima fox the pretty pageant Queen who
was a [ __ ] on her original season and is now a bigger [ __ ] and she in our little
skit is the prime suspect because she hates Little Miss pound cake and her take on it is
fairly serious which feels a little dry at times but I don't think she did a bad
job in this like Michelle said I think she is finding a comfortability with acting and
even comedy and I think her next journey is just gonna be figuring out where to and how
to add layers to make her characters more Dynamic so I give this like a warming up
and on the Runway she gives us Miss Tired Ass show girl and this title is meant to be her
take on a Vegas showgirl doing a pageant and my immediate thoughts were yes this
is another pretty look from Ghana she looks gorgeous but we also just watched her play
The Pageant Queen in the challenge and pretty much every episode she has done some flavor
of glittery Sparkle Las Vegas showgirl pageant which has been great she has absolutely nailed
that aesthetic down but again I think the judges and the fans are going to be looking for a few
more layers especially on Drag Race All-Stars and especially with her picking this title a
tired ass show girl this was her opportunity to show off some comedy or stupidity in a
way that complements all of her beauty yes this look is a very safe and beautiful HOT
and next up our favorite notes - lala Ri who we here saying this episode I need to win I
gotta win I need to win in a fire that she has lit under her own butt absolutely takes her to
the Finish Line this week she gets the character of 'Sheri-Sha' the 'Sha' is silent Coleman layers
right it's about layers and her character in this skit is a security guard who we do ultimately
learn is responsible for The Disappearance of little pound cake because she saw taking her
out as an opportunity to get into the biz in this character from La La was so real effervescent and
like completely brought to life the facial expressions hand movements everything about
what Lala was doing was fully in the zone and we have seen in the various acting comedy challenges
we've had so far flashes of this very funny Lala underneath scripts that were given to her
but I think having this opportunity to ad-lib improv and put her own flavor
into these silly characters that she does really
allowed her to shine this week she was definitely hot in this Challenge
and over on the runway she gives us a look she titles Miss Bootlegger and uh she's in
all gold- fake of course and she's carrying down the runway items such as fake Furs fake bags and
even a fake copy of an Asia O'Hare DVD it's stupid it's silly it's drag but in terms of
visual presentation I think it was a little rough around the edges which she was it seems trying to
sell as part of the look put to me it almost read as doing the easy way out here like just
kind of putting things on things instead of really bringing it to the Finish Line a fully realized
Elegance uh Vision right but I was entertained so I'm gonna give this like a three flame hot
and next up Kandy Muse who is not going to compromise and that's on period so in the
challenge she fights for and gets the role of detective Anita clue and RuPaul gives her this
critique of you made me laugh because you said you weren't a detective and then you were a detective
followed up with a lot of very obvious fake laughter and we also see them acknowledge
that she basically was just Kandy playing Kandy in this which is what she always does and most
of the time this works well for her because at the end of the day these challenges are really
about entertainment and not necessarily about acting skill or bringing a new other character
to life right it's about making your drag character shine and she does that but I'm
highlighting that to ask the question why is she so adamant about these different roles
if at the end of the day she's just gonna play the character the same anyways... ?
Food For Thought anywho as the detective she is interrogating lala ri and eventually gets
out of her that yeah she was responsible for The Disappearance of Little Miss pound cake
and during all this she is pushing her performance further than many of the other queens tonight she
has got her feet on the table she's standing up she's yelling at the cameras she's playing with
her sucker I mean really she is doing things and adding layers even if they are additional Kandy
layers to this performance that make it very entertaining and I would give this performance
a very of hot over on the runway she gives us a look she titles miss arrogant I think the hair on
this look is amazing and the look itself I think is fun I'm not totally sure how the Arrogant title
really ties into everything that she's doing here I think it's more just meant to be like
look at me feel my oats and serve and scale my Charisma uniquing his nerve and talent but some
more clear Direction might have helped I think with the overall appearance kind of giving Cindy
Lou Who meets like the Grimace but it's fun and I would give this like a three flame hot
next up Alexis Alexis Alexis Alexis so in the challenge she plays the role of the reporter
investigator side of things she's Effie Lee Bailey and this character in particular I think
was a little stiff for what was going on with the rest of the Queen's characters which isn't to say
she wasn't adding little funny layers like she made a joke about holes and Michelle Visage and
like had toilet paper on her shoe walking down the hallway at one point but I agree with what
Michelle said about the role not really taking off it was kind of like there was such a serious
business and the way she would look at the camera that it felt like we weren't allowed
to laugh and similar to Kahana she felt in control of her character but just ultimately
wasn't entertaining but she wasn't bad just a little flat here so I'd give it a warming up
and over on the runway she comes out as Miss man Pig she says that she is feeling her gorgeous jock
fantasy with of course a red hanky as a train Google it it's RuPaul's favorite activity that
he loves to joke about and um this is a very gay look I'll say that and it's pretty enough as a
pageanty fantasy but there's something about the look that is just too obvious I don't like giant
letters across a chest and I don't love how the giant red hanky is just a red bandana I think she
could have done something a lot more interesting with that and made it more dynamic because it
really doesn't even match the rest of the look in my opinion I'm not sure if her goal here was
to be intentionally tacky but I just feel like it's lacking like a taste level for me it's a rot
and finally oh wow it's Jimbo who in the challenge plays Eva Dentz the scientist well German forensic
examiner who is investigating the case of Loomis pound cake and where she might be and the big
stick that Jimbo adds to this character is her stink finger which a really really wild really
wild like her mind is so crazy but this string finger is as she says something that she uses to
swamp and swipe at every crime scene to find traces of DNA or fibers of Miss pound cake what
have you again funny little weird ad-lib layers really brought this specific performance to life
and in such a small role something you gotta do you gotta have something really memorable
and Jimbo is so good at that this was and over on the runway she is Miss Mickey big surprise
I I guess there but still funny still a reverend still I think celebratory of her drag and finding
different ways to present herself this is very glamorous and beautiful for her but also still
can't be and silly it's very jumbo and I just really enjoy the different Jimbo characters
that we've gotten to see on the runway you know we've got fashion we've got Beauty classic drag
and I would give her double Z's a double and then when this episode goes to la la
ri very rightly so she's like the biggest most entertaining character in this skit and it just
felt really right to see her fully give us a lot of re-experience this season and loved what she
did in the bottom we've got Kahana and Alexis other picks that I do mostly agree with and I
think there is a debate maybe to be had Alexis versus Kandy here in the bottom because on one
hand we had Alexis who did have I think a fully realized character that was just not
entertaining and then we had Kandy who was an underdeveloped character that we've seen many
times but was very entertaining I do think the show will always pick the choice that's more
entertaining when it comes to things like this even when RuPaul himself at the beginning of
the episode says things like this challenge is all about creating characters it's not
so we then see la la ri lip sync to a lizard song which she does an excellent job too and
having no other competition on the stage I think she absolutely deserved the win here so
congratulations to Lala her ten thousand dollars and her first win of the season but concerning my
overall thoughts for this episode this was a challenge that I did ultimately actually
enjoy and I really found myself thinking that everyone did quite a good job however it was
also I think a difficult challenge to evaluate because these daytime TV shows like Forensic
Files are themselves kind of campy in a sense I think there are definitely a crowd of people like
myself and probably Rue who enjoy them and kind of ironic sense so recreating them as a parody almost
kind of feels like you're watching a parody of a parody and the other thing I found interesting was
I actually was expecting this to be more of a live action thing considering RuPaul did say the words
improv and it didn't really come off as improv right it felt more like the Queen's got the roles
wrote their their own lines studied them and then just recited them with some ad-libs and the Queens
did seem to be very specific about the roles that they wanted and why so I did wonder how much of
the character was truly outlined versus created by the Queens themselves and now it's time for
in the challenge I'm going to give it to LA LA Reid another Runway Jimbo and I also asked my
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