Episodes

The first international all-star season kicks off with your standard issue talent show, and to be honest, a few standard issue performances from an otherwise delightful pack of familiar faces. Jimbo launched into the lead with lunch meat, Pangina emptied the tank and set the stage on fire, Blu proved to be a triple threat, Baga Chipz was mostly crumbs, Janey took off her clothes, Cheryl served pizza, the Americans sang, and Lemon jumped from a Canuck fan favorite to bottom of the pack. We’re thr...

The queens are creating supersized trailers for satirical versions of a season of Drag Race that’s only just begun. And it’s one of the best challenges we’ve seen in a while. But how much of that is thanks to an “UNHhhh” level of editing? Who cares, we get Willow Pill desperately seeking Jeffrey Bowyer Chapman, DeJa Skye as both a Social Justice Corner queen and a cow, Bosco doing bashful brain surgery and Kornbread rolling off a table. The Night of a Thousand JLo’s didn’t necessarily have us ge...

This week we’re back to 14 queens, and just in time for not just one but two balls! With three categories each, that’s 42 looks on the runway. But frankly, most of the highlights for us this week were in the workroom. Whether it was the sisterly bonding over bugs and backstories, the TV ready banter or the emerging “What kind of teacher would she be?” energy, we could have focused on painting all day. Meanwhile a bittersweet twist is added in the form of 14 chocolate bars, one gold ticket and ho...

This week we’re back to 14 queens, and just in time for not just one but two balls! With three categories each, that’s 42 looks on the runway. But frankly, most of the highlights for us this week were in the workroom. Whether it was the sisterly bonding over bugs and backstories, the TV ready banter or the emerging “What kind of teacher would she be?” energy, we could have focused on painting all day. Meanwhile a bittersweet twist is added in the form of 14 chocolate bars, one gold ticket and ho...

This week we’re back to 14 queens, and just in time for not just one but two balls! With three categories each, that’s 42 looks on the runway. But frankly, most of the highlights for us this week were in the workroom. Whether it was the sisterly bonding over bugs and backstories, the TV ready banter or the emerging “What kind of teacher would she be?” energy, we could have focused on painting all day. Meanwhile a bittersweet twist is added in the form of 14 chocolate bars, one gold ticket and ho...

Nuance, the Alright Mary aftershow, is back this season for follow-up discussions and tangents on not only Season 14 but also the brand new UK vs the World season starting on February 1st! We’re kicking this week off by queening out on the 9 international queens returning (or in one queen’s case, moving to the other side of the judges panel) for some All Star style stunts and shenanigans. Then we catch up on some additional takes on that massive runway this week, send some love to the internatio...

The only thing better than one big opening is of course two big openings! This week seven more queens sashay into the cultural landscape of Drag Race, including of course the much discussed Miss Morphosis. We do have much to say about Maddy this week, from Ru’s interactions with her to the chords she didn’t quite strike in talent show. There’s also a brief rant/tangent on “And Just Like That” and the less said about “Schitt’s Creek” the better, but we also take a number of guesses at who these q...

Season 14 kicks off with a split premiere featuring seven new queens, Best Supporting Lizzo, a talent show and a surprising number of quotes just waiting to be driven into the ground. (By either RuPaul or us.) While it’s taking the Jambalaya a bit to heat up, Kornbread comes in hot, sweet and gif-able from the get-go. Alyssa Hunter looks like quite a Chase but her air guitar doesn’t strike a chord, Bosco petals burlesque on the runway and great commentator energy in the talking heads, Kerrie jum...

We’re kicking off what’s shaping up to be the draggiest year on television with Season 14 of RuPaul’s Drag Race! The competition premieres on January 7th, but this week we’re catching up on the newest batch of queens to enter both the workroom and the pop culture landscape of this show. Much has been said about the casting of Maddy Morphosis, and we have much to make of the topic, but we also have a baker’s dozen other amazing competitors, from the PNW’s Bosco to Kornbread Jete from LA, to feast...

We couldn’t choose just one holiday movie to queen out on this year, so we chose three–an old favorite of ours, this year’s Popular Mainstream Gay Holiday Movie and a camp classic that is destined to be a future tradition. We’re starting with 2000’s “A Diva’s Christmas Carol,” featuring more than one alum of the Drag Race judges panel, a particularly thicc Bob Crachett and a bonkers final act. Then we move on to “Single All the Way,” with a questionable central love story saved by Jennifer Cooli...

The time has come for the floor show we’ve all been waiting for. But it’s dinner before dessert as we catch up on the highlights of The Last Supper before breaking down the last 12 looks of the season from the first Top 4 of the series. Koco’s wisdom and Merrie’s glasses steal the show at the reunion and Saint’s unforgettable Filth look is a cat owner’s nightmare. Siggy keeps it glammy, Hoso for All Stars and congratulations to Dahli for a nearly impeccable run for the crown this season. Patreo...

*Apologies for some occasional audio fuzz on the first half of the episode. Just trying to bring the filth this season! Send in the clowns, it’s time for the final 4 to decide who are the big tops and who are the bozos of the bunch. But before this circus can start, there’s a trip to a dunk tank in the back alley hosted by none other than Merrie in a pair of slippers. Naturally. Bob the Drag Queen brings her brilliance to the judges box for a night of gumjobs, balloon mishaps, chicken sacrifice...

Merry merry, Mary’s! RuPaul and Company are queening out for Christmas on VH1 in a campy, kooky and occasionally filthy send-up of Hallmark holiday movies. Ru iconically appears alone in front of a green screen for most of her screen time, but acts her holiday heart out. There’s a cavalcade of Drag Race alum, from first outs Jaymes Mansfield and Victoria Porkchop Parker in lead supporting roles to both Latrice and Mayhem in separate bus related cameos. Brooke Lynn Hytes does her best Russian Can...

The power of $100,000 and the title of Dragula compels the Top 5 to bring their acting chops to the main stage for the black box theater version of a horror movie challenge. Saint extinguishes her smoker’s voice and hops into Zavaleta’s iconic sweatshirt to play Mom 1, Dahli keeps Mom 2 on brand in white face paint, Siggy wrings the weird out of her four lines, Zavaleta gives us both Father and Sister, and Hoso possesses the coveted second win for the season as the demonic daughter. By some mira...

It was supposed to be a reality show with a twist. In a sun-drenched villa in Ibiza, six hot guys compete for a cash prize and for the love of the beautiful and mysterious Miriam. It’s meant to be her big break: the moment she becomes the superstar she was born to be. But this is the era of “cruel reality TV” and the show producers have a different goal: they want to surprise the men with the fact that Miriam is trans. A new six-episode investigative series from Wondery, the makers of The Shrin...

Things get pretty hairy on stage this week, but a lot less scary in the boudoir as the Top 6 settles into a friendly monster energy for hopefully the remainder of the competition. Zavaleta’s inner pre-school teacher is brought out, perhaps by that sweater and glasses combination. The Boulets revealed the real reason in a recent episode of their podcast, and we discuss the pros and cons of their demonic intervention. Hoso finally catches a win as a misunderstood monstrous moth, Dahli remains the ...

Things are getting goulishly glamorous for this week’s haunted high seas floor show, but the monsters are making even bigger waves in the Cauldron in one of the series’ most chaotic conflicts. Dahli is the only one smooth sailing through this week while Jade finds a key and loses a seat mate in Betty, Saint’s biscuits aren’t rising and neither is she in this competition, Sigourney’s experience with glamour proves to be a double edged sword and Zava zeroes in on a new opponent. Meanwhile, Hoso is...

The perennial Monsters of Rock challenge usually leads to more than a few broken guitar strings by the end of the floor show. This season was no exception, though to be fair, things fell apart for Glam Rot long before they got on stage, and the real show was the encore in the Cauldron between Sigourney, Merrie, Jade, and Betty when she could get a word in edgewise. Meanwhile, Dahli finally nabs the win they came here for and leads Zenith to a clear and drama-free victory. We try to address much ...

Our audio went a bit south for this week’s trip to out west, so apologies all around, but it’s a monster mashup of genres this week as the wild west meets outer space at its spookiest. We have much to say about who perhaps should have won this week, but we also have a lot to say about horse girls and old Vines. And we have a lot to say about that fact that Merrie Cherry has a lot to say. We also navigate Zavaleta’s emotional rollercoaster, celebrate Betty’s summer camp charm, and imagine Siggy a...

To finish out this year’s Alright Scary, we’re revisiting Scream’s less impressive little sister “I Know What You Did Last Summer.” This movie unfortunately did not age well, and while we’re always excited for late 90’s nostalgia, Jennifer Love Hewitt’s heel-length dress, Elsa’s implacable anger, and the quick clean-up of those crabs were just some of the things we couldn’t get hooked on. Sarah Michelle Gellar is a bright spot in the cast, but we completely forgot about Anne Heche and the footba...

There’s blood in the water for this week’s 60’s themed vampire beach party, pairing the monsters up as moonbathers with a mouthful. Season 2 standout and Resurrection runner-up Dahli casually strolls back into the competition, but the parent-child reunion with Astrud is short-lived this season when her bikini killer leaves a salty taste in the judges mouth. Bitter Betty is giving Elusive Elizabeth while Koco Caine can’t even with Merrie, though both are saved by the Boulets. Saint is canonized a...

Pass the chianti, because this week we’re raising a toast to Queen Anthony and Jodie the Great in the essentially perfect “Silence of the Lambs.” We’re celebrating the generous dose of camp sprinkled throughout the multiple Oscar winner, from the dandy Hannibal Lecter reading Clarice to filth to Diane Baker as Senator Ruth Martin wearing that impeccable suit. Plus: Brooke Smith singing Tom Petty in the car, the importance of the pets, best supporting Kasi Lemmons, Scott Glenn’s BDE, and the trou...

Season 4 of The Boulet Brothers’ spooky, filthy drag competition kicks things off with a warehouse of horrors, a workroom of shade-slinging and a floor show full of legends. Familiar faces Jade Jolie and Saint keep it congenial, but La Zavaleta and Merrie Cherry make sure Brooklyn is well represented in the boudoir, Sigourney and Betty plan to take on this competition one tit at a time, and Koco is hopefully our narrator this season. Astrud ends up as queen alien of the week, but Hoso has an eye...

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