Drag Race Recap: The Alyssa Edwards Show

Recaps

By vallegirl | Friday, February 22, 2013 | 11:00 am | 9 Comments
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Ru moves on to Team Coco who immediately informs Ru that she’ll be “good” Ru and that Alyssa will be “bad” Ru. Ru jokes about it being “life imitating art” while Coco agrees and Alyssa appears to make 143 bitch faces in 2 seconds. Ru says he was gobsmacked (I love that word, too!) when Coco chose Alyssa since they have beef and while Alyssa goes through another 18 bitch faces in a half a second, Coco admits she’s there to win.

Detox will be playing 90s supermodel Ru (and looks surprisingly cute in the big blonde wig but no make up) against Honey as 90s Diana Ross. She’s never done Diana, although she’s been asked but wasn’t able to, and gurr. TMI. This isn’t called “No Honeypologies.” Roxxxy establishes that she is modern-day Ru and Vivi…zzzz will be the generic next drag superstar, but then Roxxxy just loves those anvils and acts like bitch, again, and says that she’s just playing it for today, because she’s not going to win.

The eyebrows make sense with this wig.

Vivi…zzzz and Ru see that anvil and discuss how the judges have complained about just how boring Vivi…zzzz is. She speaks in broad strokes and bullshit about saying “fuck it” and being herself and bringing it and whatever. Alyssa sums it up, with maximum gossipy hen-ness, by saying Ru gave her a warning last week. It’s not going to fly again.

Ru gathers the queens to tell them that they’ll be working with choreographers Travis Wall and Nick Lazzarini, but the queens don’t watch So You Think You Can Dance and just politely clap. Bitches. Then Ru lets them know that Travis will also be a guest judge along with Chaz Bono…and gay gasp. Because as Alaska will have us know, “Chaz Bono came out of Cher’s…va-GIN-na.” Runway theme will be “divalicious” so gentlemen, don’t fuck it up.

On the main stage, Travis and Nick are pirouetting and leaping like graceful little fauns. Team Jinkx comes in and are immediately intimidated because you can fake a lot of shit but toe points are hard. Travis introduces himself leading Jinkx to inform us that both he and Nick are dreamy. Nick’s smile even sparkles and dings. Jinkx then remids us that the queens are pretty much in solitary confinement so they’re like cats in heat. Ivy licks her lips just to drive the point home.

Buckcherry likey!

Travis & Nick want to see how well each of the queens dance and most of them are solid enough to work with…until they get to Alaska. Her best dance move is the Macarena. Hehe. They show her a simple side jump but, again, toe points are hard y’all, and they move on to Lineysha and Jade.

They get through their big lift but Travis doesn’t think Lineysha’s playing Diana Ross grand enough because she is Diana Ross after all. Lineysha can barely focus she’s so high. In interview she says she can do this but when the producer asks if she even knows who Diana Ross is…she’s all unfocused again. Was this shot at the same time as the Top Chef finale? Because I think Lineysha’s been dipping into Sheldon’s stash.

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9 Comments

  1. 1
    April
    Posted February 22, 2013 at 3:53 pm

    Great recap!

    My favs are Jinxx, Roxxxy, Alaska, Detox, and Alyssa. Team Alyssa all the way. She really is just too much with her bitch faces and her shade throwing. You gotta love her because Miss Thing is entertaining. Plus as a former dancer I gotta support her for being a dancer. I always got annoyed a bit in the past when the Queens that can’t dance a flip won. I think dancing should be a basic skill for a Drag Queen honestly. It makes the performance more interesting. Just don’t let the dancing overshadow the performance but more like add to it. Alyssa seems to have that down. She still works the face while dancing. Love it.

    I predict Alyssa might make it to top 3. At least to top 5.

  2. 2
    Lee
    Posted February 22, 2013 at 7:56 pm

    I kinda liked Honey. She wasn’t top 3 material like I pegged her when the pictures and videos first came out, but she a least had some high points in the competiton like her lip sync video, and her Hollywood Coture outfit, where as Vivene is probally the most BORING queen in the history of the show, Nicole Paige Brooks can now rest easy as she is the 2nd most boring queen.

  3. 3
    Miss Molly
    Posted February 23, 2013 at 9:21 am

    Alaska did the best job as Ru’s momma AND Alaska had the best comment – “Chaz Bono came out of Cher’s vagina”.

  4. 4
    blueberrypancake
    Posted February 23, 2013 at 10:19 am

    @Lee You are soo right about Nichole Paige Brooks and Vivi being so pretty yet sooo boring! lol

    I actually kinda like Honeys video- she is a glamazon for real. too bad she couldn’t bring a bit more personality!

    Alaska was great as Ru’s mom! I am getting kinda bored withJade’s attitude- blah!

  5. 5
    patbsaid
    Posted February 23, 2013 at 3:26 pm

    If Honey had portrayed herself on the show the way she portrayed herself in her video she would’ve have stuck around much longer

  6. 6
    Jessi
    Posted February 23, 2013 at 5:57 pm

    The Princess said that they ask them who should go home every single week, just to make sure that the drama is extra heated for Untucked. That explains some things. She was furious at how bad the lip synch was, too.

  7. 7
    Cosmo
    Posted February 25, 2013 at 5:49 pm

    Most awesome: “I’ll go polish up her petard so she can foist herself when she’s finished.”

  8. 8
    badgerfreak
    Posted February 26, 2013 at 6:48 am

    I was so happy that Ru sent them both home. It was pretty telling when there was zero applause after the lip sync was over. Good on Ru for having the balls to not stick to formatting and keep one of them.

    I was sort of anti-Alaska, but she’s growing on me each week. And as much as I hated Viv…..zzzz I think Roxxxy is being a little overly bitchy.

    I also have to say, and some may call it rasict, but Ms Viv….zzzz was a let down for the Asian drag queens from seasons past. Jujubee and Manilla were superstars, and I had hope that Viv….zzzz would maintain the standard. Ah well. It just makes me love Juju and Manilla more.

    CAN’T WAIT FOR EDITH IN SNATCH GAME!!! Give me a winner Jinxy cat!

  9. 9
    c8h10n4o2
    Posted February 26, 2013 at 6:12 pm

    Thanks for the Stuart Smalley references! I just watched Stuart Saves His Family during our snow days and still adore that movie!

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