Everyone's Being Really Normal About 'Drag Race' This Season
No surprise there.
On Friday’s latest episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars, the show did the same thing it’s been doing since its inception: It gave the win to the queen that RuPaul alone felt was most deserving. But as is often the case with the Drag Race fandom, a meltdown occurred online over what a more vocal faction of the extremely online fandom felt was a robbery.
This is nothing new in the show’s trajectory (see: Jade v. Rebecca Glasscock in Season 1) and is, in my estimation, part of the appeal of watching a show like Drag Race in implicating the viewer to ask: Did Ru get it right? It’s also something that distinguishes it from its predecessor, America’s Next Top Model, where a panel ultimately decided who went home week to week. But one of the great things about a show like Drag Race having an All Stars extension is that Ru’s decision is seldom the final blow. And some of the biggest upsets (Valentina, baby, I’m thinking about you still) have led to incredibly welcome All Stars dominance later down the pike (Tatianna, we see you).
So is this anything new? Not at all. Then what’s causing the uproar?