Drag Race All-Stars Recap: Who’s Carrying Who?

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By Sugarbush | Wednesday, November 7, 2012 | 12:57 pm | 19 Comments
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Michelle is serving us some She-Ra in the Thunderdome with her look this week and our special guest judges are Rachel Dratch and Janice Dickinson!  Yay!!  I love them both! 

Welcome to…Thunda’ boobs!

As I watch all these bad bitches stomp down the runway, I realize that I’m going to be upset regardless of what happens tonight.  I want them all to stay and I hope this team thing ends so we can keep queens around longer.

Apparently, one team outshined and outscored all of the others.  Who was it?  Team Shad!!  That means they’re the winnahs and I won’t have to cry…at least for them.  Then THE question is asked – who should go home this week.  Shannel feels it’s Yarlexis, because Yara is carrying the whole team.  GIRL, I’m with you on that one, for realz. 

Michelle:  Chad is giving us punk rock Carol Brady.

Rujubee – While Santino heartily applauds Juju for squirting cream down a man’s pants, they are read up and down by Michelle and Janice for their runway looks, especially Raven.

Jujubee:  Who would mess with this nasty bitch?

Yarlexis – No one was impressed with Yara’s challenge, but they all love Alexis’s runway look.  Of course, that was all Yara, but Yara doesn’t have the good sense to keep that part quiet until a more appropriate moment.

Ru:  She just washed her hair and can’t do a thing with it!

Latrila – Janice isn’t having any of Latrice’s Divine makeup and, for whatever reason, she just doesn’t get it.  I hate it, but I get it.  Santino loved Latrice’s Chaka Kahn look on the street and is enamoured with Manila’s runway.  It’s very Raja, which I love. 

Ru:  She looks like Christina Ricci

THE question is asked first of Rujubee, who chooses Yarlexis to go because they seem to place themselves in a box.  I totally agree, although I can’t get over how much I love Yara.

Alexis is fuming as THE question is asked of her.  She thinks Latrila should go home, but Ru keeps it light by pointing out that they’re their “biggest” competition.  Latrice jokingly says she’d send home Yarlexis, because she can’t understand the words that are coming out of their mouths.

WELL!  Alexis isn’t liking that and doesn’t see that Latrice wasn’t reading them at all.  She seems to think the problem they all have, legit, is that English isn’t their first language.  She loses it on them in a big move of desperation. 

NO NO NOOOOOOOO!!!!!  Yarlexis is safe!  I’m going to lose someone I desperately love no matter what!!!!  FUCK!!

Juju goes up against Manila and this should be the mother of all LSFYL.  They are probably the two greatest LSYFL’ers evah.  I’m going to cry…

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19 Comments

  1. 1
    blueberryPancake
    Posted November 7, 2012 at 1:30 pm

    Great recap!
    Latrice is fierce on stage and with makeup and her look, but she ( as he) lacks confidence and self esteem, and it effected her. What she said in the workroom about not having confidence and using drag as a way to feel beautiful said alot.

    Yarlexis is all Yar and no Lexis …i mean she dressed her and used the contacts and similar makeup ! She is un- pageant- queening her !
    Shad is professional and polished all around- that’s it…hard to beat
    Rujubee- has personality and confidence enough for all ( and them some) That could hurt them tho

    Ugh Tati…annoying( so glad she wasn’t an all-star!)

    That screen grab of michelle and rachel dratch …lol…

  2. 2
    Miss Molly
    Posted November 7, 2012 at 1:52 pm

    Michelle is morphing into a drag queen.

  3. 3
    April
    Posted November 7, 2012 at 2:54 pm

    The right team got sent home. Manila was doing a lot better than Latrice but it is a team thing. I still find Manila annoying. Yay for Yarlexis! They are doing fairly well. I am proud of them! I don’t like the other queens dissing them. They are still my favorites. Janice Dickerson is a nut. I love it.

  4. 4
    April
    Posted November 7, 2012 at 3:45 pm

    I am sorry but Manila’s LSFYL sucked. She just makes cross eyes and crazy faces. That is not sexy or killing it whatsoever. Juju schooled her.

  5. 5
    MsMmm MsMmm
    Posted November 7, 2012 at 3:50 pm

    Is Michelle wearing a breast plate?? LOL

  6. 6
    blueberryPancake
    Posted November 7, 2012 at 3:52 pm

    MsMmmm seriously!!! Thats what I thought in that picture! Those are the kind of tatas only money can buy!

  7. 7
    vallegirl vallegirl
    Posted November 7, 2012 at 4:48 pm

    Michelle admits that they’re better boobs through science. But, yeah…that was some infrastructure she was showing.

  8. 8
    April
    Posted November 7, 2012 at 5:29 pm

    I am sorry but Michelle Visage’s outfits and look gets worse and worse. She critiques the Queens, please girl.

  9. 9
    VelocityBird
    Posted November 7, 2012 at 5:58 pm

    Michelle has repeatedly said that she is a drag queen in a woman’s body, and this episode really hammered that home. Those massive mammaries looked more rubberized and artificial than any of the queens’ breastplates have ever looked.

    Sad to see Latrila go home over Yarlexis.

    I usually enjoy the fuzzy pink box surprises, but I didn’t really see the point of Tatiana reading everyone. It seemed really disconnected to have her just show up out of the blue like that. Personally, I always enjoyed when the \library\ when they get to read a bitch face-to-face. It’s always in good humor and everyone laughs. This seemed kind of mean-spirited and I didn’t feel right about it.

    And geeezus…is it just me, or are the pit crew’s bulges getting freakishly large? What is Ru feeding those boys!!!

  10. 10
    cbc-cca
    Posted November 7, 2012 at 6:48 pm

    Great recap, Sugarbush. Thank you!

    It was heart breaking to see Mama Trice and Mz. Luzon sashay away. I was actually surprised that Manila picked Latrice twice in the first episode. However, I thought she was really smart to picked one of the most loved queens on the show ever. I loved watching their two different styles meshing to create a sisterly bond. Incredibly sweet.

    Manila’s outfits are always polished and intriguing. Girl has some fierce fashion sense. I wish she would have been able to guide Latrice a little better.

    Latrice went from Season 4 straight to Drag U then right back to AllStars. Maybe Lashawn Beyond just didn’t have enough time to put together some new outfits for her to compete on the same fashion level.

    Before the lipsynch began, I loved watching Raven cuddle up to Latrice.

    Alas, each week I feel sad at watching the queens sashay away. *le sigh*

    What confused me was Shad scored the most points in the \Queens Behaving Badly\ challenge, therefore they won. I would have thought that the team with the least amount of points would lip-sync for their lives. I listened to an interview with Manila and Team Manila had the second highest score. Watching \Untucked\, Alexis admitted they had the least amount of points. Hmmmm …

  11. 11
    cbc-cca
    Posted November 7, 2012 at 6:54 pm

    Side Note:

    Photos of the queens as queens and as sans drag along with their boy names. I didn’t know all of them. All of the queens on all of the seasons.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZpuIo3CiMg

  12. 12
    chaosbutterfly
    Posted November 7, 2012 at 7:00 pm

    Damn damn damn, no trip to la biblioteca. I want to go. :(

    I love Chad and she looked amazingly gorgeous out there on the street, but that was kind of grimey what she said about Shannel. It’s super true, but damn…she could have tempered it by saying that Shannel also brings something to table. Nope, she was just like…absolutely. Can’t wait to cut this albatross from my neck. I mean…that’s your partner though smh.

    I just knew Latrice was gonna drag down Ms. Manila. Although that lip sync was not it….too much crazy, not enough sultry bad girl. And I feel like you should never get in front of Ru and just start deconstructing your outfit from the jump. I feel like he hates that.
    I know I do.
    Ruining the illusion and shit.

    Did you guys see the full-length pictures of the judges panel on facebook?
    When I say Michelle had on some tragic pants to go with that crazy top and that hair….those pants gave her that weird bulge of fat right above the cooch, and then they had the nerve to be highwaters at the same time. But she tried to come for Raven’s panty. I like Michelle, but she has no room to talk about anyone else’s clothes. NONE.
    Ru ain’t shit either, for coming in every day looking stunning and then letting his best friend sit there next to him looking like that. He knows this shit is gonna be on tv!
    I thought her boobies looked wonderful though.

  13. 13
    Xouille Xouille
    Posted November 8, 2012 at 6:25 am

    Is it just me or the episode was pretty lackluster. It felt like watching two mini challenges back to back.
    The last time in this show the queens were sent on the streets (the strippers episode in season 2), it was just a part of the challenge and they had to create and perform a group dance routine and a solo routine as well.

    Thank god that bitch Ru was there to inject some necessary drama by asking her favorite question : Who should go home ? And inviting Janice Dickinson was a genius move. She was at her best : crazy, loud and completely drunk.
    And Michelle dressed as Lady Tata… I was waiting for one of the queens to pull a Tammie Brown and read her ass for the second week in a row but alas, it did not happen.

    So many cringeworthy moments on Untucked :
    * Tatianna’s whole shtick : she said some true things but seriously if you’re gonna read a bitch, do it to her face.
    * Alexis getting more and more bitter each time a queen confirms that yes, Yara Sofia is carrying her. She was sending so much shade and excuses left and right, I started to have a case of second-hand embarassment.
    * And Chad, there is a thing called hubris, look into it.

    And finally I was sad to see Manila and Latrice go but Manila sucked during that LSFYL… the ugly wig, the not blended enough/too white make-up… she looked like a ghoulish mess on that stage.
    Well at least we’ll still have Mac Arthur Park (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tatoplO2A70).

  14. 14
    April
    Posted November 8, 2012 at 6:41 am

    I heard they are doing the library minichallenge this week. So excited for it! Juju can read a bitch!

  15. 15
    jarthon jarthon
    Posted November 8, 2012 at 8:47 am

    I died when Manila pulled her picture from the wall and the other fell like she really just couldn’t give two shits about it. While I totally think Latrila was perfect together, Latrice really did hold back Manila. I really want Logo to give a FULL season to All Stars and fix this team injustice. Manila really should have won or at least been in the finals again, not sent at the halfway point. But I think you hit the nail on the head saying how hard it is seeing any team go now that Mimi and Tammie are gone since everyone wanted them to go anyways.

  16. 16
    vallegirl vallegirl
    Posted November 8, 2012 at 9:01 am

    Hopefully, now, Manila will address her wonky padding. I love her and think she’s a great, young queen but her makeup can go horribly wrong some times and her padding always makes me sad. Juju pads a big juicy ass but she always balances it out for an hourglass figure but Manila, bless, always gives herself a pear shape. He’s a thin guy so there’s no excuse for it.

    Where’s Raja to explain the power of illusion and corseting to get the most feminine shape out of her natural body? Manila’s tall so she could pull off looks similar to Raja rather than attaching two foam pillows to her ass.

    But I’ll defend Tammie and point out that it was likely Nina and not Tammie who sunk them in the Gaff In challenge. Tammie was “funny” for those who like her act and per the other queens she was pretty solid in the lip synch, too. I love Nina and she’s still one of my favorites of all time, but they lost because of her, not Tammie.

  17. 17
    chaosbutterfly
    Posted November 8, 2012 at 11:25 am

    ^ But Tammie easily had the worst look on the runway that night and tried to come for Michelle (which I’m sure didn’t help her case), so it balances.
    They both did poorly that week and deserved to be sent home.

    I think Nina would have lasted longer if it were an individual season because her runway would have saved her.
    But Tammie didn’t hit the main challenge the way she needed to (she was Tammie herself, not Tammie Faye Messner up there) and the judges didn’t like her 60′s look. So she would have been going home at that point anyway.

    Man I do not understand why Ru would do this team nonsense.
    What was he thinking?

  18. 18
    Liz
    Posted November 8, 2012 at 8:15 pm

    Juju’s name is Airline??

  19. 19
    badgerfreak
    Posted November 12, 2012 at 6:34 am

    What a tragic ending!! Losing Manila was painful. I love Latrice, but girl, Manila beats you hands down every time. Her LSFYL was way off though. Crazy eyes and faces don’t make a winner (not all the time anyways). JuJu beat her fairly. I was very sad that Yarlexis didn’t go home.Yara is definitely carrying the team and Alexis needs to learn to take some criticism better. How has she made it this far without hearing worse comments?
    Untucked was honest, but uncomfortable. I LOVE CHAD! Such a class act. And I think by him saying, “absolutely” that he was just being honest. Sure, he could have said it a little nicer probably, but he was being truthful.
    And Michelle’s boobs are out of control, girl! Get those things in check before they take over the stage!

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