RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Everything Sew (Un)complicated

I person nary much critiques to springiness this season. Everything I said earlier holds true: It’s boring and forgettable, and it has nary stakes. Notably, this play feels further from the halfway of sermon than possibly immoderate Drag Race play earlier it. People aren’t watching it, aren’t sharing the moments from it, aren’t discussing it. And that doesn’t consciousness similar an inherent Drag Race problem: Just a fewer months ago, the Nymphia vs. Sapphira statement heading into the finale was a immense moment, and the wide treatment of the apical 4 oregon truthful queens felt heated and exciting. This play is, uhhh … not causing that benignant of stir. And I get it! We’re each present apt due to the fact that we person a compulsive request to ticker everything Drag Race produces similar the gluttons for cheery punishment we are, and that’s fine. I would ne'er miss an episode. But, remarkably, Drag Race is coming disconnected specified a palmy play and the adjacent happening it produces is this.

Within the discourse of this season, this occurrence is perfectly fine. I similar sewing challenges. Some of the looks were successful. The articulator sync was good. That’s astir each I tin ask.

The occurrence opens with yet different treatment of blocking. One of the much absorbing things this play has been however the girls person gotten continually much and much offended by being snipped, adjacent portion the snippers person not been effectual adjacent once. This time, Gottmik is pissed that Angeria is utilizing strategy, which is reasonable. Still, I deliberation Angeria’s strategy is the champion anybody’s utilized successful either non-elimination season, and I was gladsome to spot it happen. I privation it would person paid disconnected this week, honestly. I bash deliberation the amusement is dumb for letting Vanjie narrate this season, due to the fact that Vanjie’s POV is that Angeria’s prime was a atrocious one, but (and however bash I accidental this nicely) … I don’t deliberation Vanjie needfully has a caput for strategy.

We determination swiftly to the mini-challenge this week, wherever the girls person to photobomb. It is bully enough, if not peculiarly exciting. Nina wins, yay for Nina. They should marque the prizes for these mini-challenges much standard; lately, they’ve conscionable been random. Jorgeous got a prima 1 time? How’d that happen?

The situation this week is simply a sewing situation based connected RuPaul songs, which is the benignant of “pick situation descriptors retired of a hat” happening that they sometimes bash connected All Stars seasons. Remember connected All Winners erstwhile the girls had to sew outfits that looked similar RuPaul outfits? Or past play erstwhile they had to sew outfits based connected erstwhile All Stars winners but not Chad oregon Alaska? That was random.

Nina is picked past to take her box, and the amusement tries to unreal similar she’s ace offended. Why would she be? It’s precise improbable that she would triumph this challenge, and it’s not similar she was going home, truthful it’s benignant of null and void. Nina doesn’t propulsion it. This is what I mean astir nary stakes.

There is small to nary hostility this week. I similar that they had RuPaul consult with the girls — arsenic acold arsenic abstraction fillers go, that 1 is informative. Her transportation to Shannel, arsenic 1 of the girls successful the archetypal season, is real. They should truly bring backmost Rebecca Glasscock.

Everyone talks astir however overmuch they privation to triumph this challenge, and I judge a fewer of them. Mostly, I judge Roxxxy, who hasn’t really won a sewing situation since the archetypal occurrence of her archetypal play connected the amusement — that’s wild. She truly does look determined.

Let’s conscionable get to what everybody’s present for: the runway.

Plastique Tiara gets “Star Baby.” Stars are not truly my style, and I deliberation this is simply a small tacky. But also, it is an unthinkable feat of execution; she looks beautiful, and she’s 1 of the champion seamstresses the amusement has ever seen. It’s truly singular stuff. That prima train? Genius.

Jorgeous is unlucky to travel Plastique. It’s awesome that she manages to enactment unneurotic a ’fit that looks similar a existent Jorgeous outfit — that’s however she won that sewing situation connected her play — but it’s not precisely jaw-dropping successful ambition.

The judges similar Gottmik’s braided dress, but I deliberation it’s ugly. I’m a defender of Mik’s season-13 shot win, but I can’t enactment my value down this. It’s bulky and the silhouette is bland. Not for me!

I can’t archer if Shannel is trying oregon not. This outfit is passable but ugly. It’s not adjacent tasteless successful a fun, Shannel way. It’s conscionable large but small.

Roxxxy’s “Lady Cowboy” is perfection; she looks amazing. Perfectly tailored to her body. It’s leather and denim successful a sexy mode and looks designer-created. Wow!

Miss Vanjie has the aforesaid occupation arsenic Jorgeous — it’s a competently made outfit, but determination is perfectly nary wow origin oregon ambition. Do you deliberation that if she was trying to marque definite she couldn’t beryllium successful the bottom, Vanjie would person made this?

The large astonishment of the week is Nina, who turns retired a competent look that is proportioned amended than astir of her looks this season. In fact, this is astir apt Nina’s champion look each season. Take this arsenic a lesson, Nina West! More of this!

Angeria wears that sculpted hairsbreadth she wears each the time. It’s fine, but I bash deliberation the thought that it pairs with everything, including an highly mean pinkish jumpsuit, is not correct. She looks polished, per usual, but Angeria’s not 1 to propulsion herself successful presumption of design.

Plastique and Roxxxy correctly win, meaning each the huffing and puffing astir Mik’s snippers didn’t matter. Again, per the uzh. Before the articulator sync started, I was like, “Oh, nice, this is erstwhile they’ll implicit Plastique’s arc and springiness her a win.” That is not what happened. The 2 lip-sync to “No One Gets the Prize,” and Roxxxy unhinges her jaw and swallows Plastique whole. The opus is each astir personality, and erstwhile it comes to lip-syncing, Plastique continues to person none. Roxxxy’s “back off” is an all-time bully enactment delivery.

So Roxxxy wins the past artifact of the season, which she, surprise, surprise, uses connected Angeria. At this point, Angeria, Roxxxy, and Plastique are beauteous locked successful arsenic the last three, barring a prima twist. Would I similar to spot Mik successful determination implicit Plastique? Yeah, probably. But if that doesn’t happen, I’ll beryllium okay. It’s not similar this play had immoderate stakes anyway.