RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars

  1. Episode 4 Episode Four
    RuPaul’s All Stars Drag Race Recap: Girl (Group) Trouble In which one of the “special guests” is Pia Zadora’s daughter.
  1. Episode 9 Reunited
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Reunion Recap: The Phi Phi of It All A terrific season ends on a dour, awkward note.
  2. Episode 8 All Stars Supergroup
  3. Episode 7 Family That Drags Together
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Miss Congeniality Can anyone challenge Alaska for the crown?
  4. Episode 6 Drag Fish Tank
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: When Life Gives You Lemonis Nothing is more joyful than hearing RuPaul proclaim, “Pants!”
  5. Episode 5 Revenge of the Queens
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Tough Crowd Phi Phi didn’t get the redemption arc she wanted, but she certainly got a lot of attention.
  6. Episode 4 Drag Movie Shequels
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: The Rise of Lil’ Pound Cake Mark it down: Alaska is the queen to beat.
  7. Episode 3 HERstory of the World
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: The Future Is Now Alyssa is one of the rightest queens in Drag Race herstory.
  8. Episode 2 Snatch Game
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Snatch Your Tears Phi Phi’s road to RuDemption™ hits a big obstacle.
  9. Episode 1 All Star Talent Show Extravaganza
  1. Episode 8 A Jury of Their Queers
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Season-Finale Recap: You’re a Winner, Baby Is it Shangela, Kennedy, Trixie, or BeBe Zahara Benet?
  2. Episode 7 My Best Squirrelfriend’s Dragsmaids Wedding Trip
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Screen Actor Children Will the Hall of Fame inductee be Bebe Zahara Benet, Shangela, Trixie Mattel, or Kennedy Davenport?
  3. Episode 6 Handmaids to Kitty Girls
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Messy Girls Can a reality show about drag queens jump the shark?
  4. Episode 5 Pop Art Ball
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Survival Art We’ve officially reached that fussy stage of getting granular with our remaining queens.
  5. Episode 4 All Stars Snatch Game
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Circle Loses the Square BenDeLaCreme just delivered one of the best Snatch Game turns Drag Race has ever seen.
  6. Episode 3 The Bitchelor
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Ho Thyself Kennedy has emerged as a Queen for All People.
  7. Episode 2 Divas Lip Sync Live
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Diva Behavior No other TV show can give you such bursts of queer joy.
  8. Episode 1 Episode 1
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Season-Premiere Recap: The Hookers Are Here We’re happy to report that All Stars 3 has us gagged.
  1. Episode 10 Super Queen Grand Finale
    RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars Season Finale Recap: Gag Rule A competitive top four is whittled down to a top-two showdown resulting in a gag that will define this season for better or worse.
  2. Episode 9 Sex and the Kitty Girl
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Life’s Not Fair Riding high off the gag of the season, Naomi takes some big swings in a Sex and the City-themed maxi-challenge.
  3. Episode 8 RuPaul’s Best Judy Race
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: A Star Is Fallen An emotional, Judy Garland–themed makeover episode culminates in an elimination that turns the season on its head.
  4. Episode 7 Queens of Clubs
    RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars Recap: Club Kids French Vanilla Fantasies will only take you so far.
  5. Episode 6 LaLaPaRUza
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars Recap: 4 Shots of Adrenaline It’s rare that an All Stars comeback episode delivers so thrillingly on its high-stakes promise.
  6. Episode 5 Roast in Peace
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Bye, Girl, Bye, and Hello Again The workroom mirror reveal is back, and more devious than ever.
  7. Episode 4 Jersey Justice
    Drag Race All Stars 4 Recap: The Bitch Was Back, Now She’s Gone and We’re Sad! We’ve gotta talk about all these New Jersey accents.
  8. Episode 3 Snatch Game of Love
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: She (Varying Degrees of) Ready! The Snatch Game gets a Dating Game twist that draws a line between the queens who came to play and those who came to slay.
  9. Episode 2 Super Girl Groups, Henny
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Don’t Funk It Up Miss Henny has entered the workroom, but even she can’t overshadow the D-R-A-M-A this episode.
  10. Episode 1 All Star Super Queen Variety Show
    RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars Premiere Recap: Faster Than a Speeding Death Drop All-Stars 4 charges out of the gate with the customary reads, a gag-worthy talent show, and multiple contenders for this season’s villainess.
  1. Episode 8 Clap Back!
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Finale Recap: Winner, Winner, One Chicken Dinner! The eliminated queens return, but for ornamental purposes only, on the way to crowning a queen who this franchise was pretty much made for.
  2. Episode 7 Stand-Up Smackdown
    RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars Recap: Roast Battle The much-anticipated stand-up challenge is effectively this season’s unofficial RuPaul Roast.
  3. Episode 6 The Charles Family Backyard Ball
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Family Matters India may be gone from the competition, but she is not done stirring the pot.
  4. Episode 5 Snatch Game of Love
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Et Tu, BRute? India Ferrah knows that a surefire way to deflect negative attention is to start bringing up some old drama.
  5. Episode 4 SheMZ
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: TMZip Zap Zop We are in the midst of a Drag Race cold war.
  6. Episode 3 Get a Room!
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Best Exotic MaRugold Hotel It’s looking like this season won’t be a runaway, and that the queens are eager to send a frontrunner packing at the first sign of weakness.
  7. Episode 2 I’m in Love!
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Man Crushes All Stars 5 is as much a competition as it is group therapy.
  8. Episode 1 All Star Variety Extravaganza
    RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars Recap: Jeff Probst’s Drag Race That’s right, henny, we’re doing Survivor now.
  1. Episode 12 This is Our Country
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars Season-Finale Recap: And the Winner Is … Kylie shows us what it means to be a true star: “To have that power means nothing if you’re not able to help people.”
  2. Episode 11 The Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve and Talent Monologues
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars Recap: All About Eve (Ensler) Now that we’re down to a real final four let’s indulge in good old-fashioned power rankings.
  3. Episode 10 Rudemption Lip-Sync Smackdown
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars Recap: Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like Silky The entire point of All Stars is redemption. And Silky Nutmeg Ganache’s redemption story belongs among the best in all of Drag Race history.
  4. Episode 9 Drag Tots
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars Recap: Drag Tots in Tiaras The “game within a game” has arrived in what is otherwise a weaker episode of the season.
  5. Episode 8 Snatch Game of Love
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars Recap: In the Name of Love With queens at the top of their games dueling with their best impersonations, we’re in for a thrilling Snatch Game of Love.
  6. Episode 7 Show Up Queen
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars Recap: Girl Gone The gag of this episode’s ending. It’s horrifying, it’s entertaining, it’s shocking … it’s drag. No notes.
  7. Episode 6 Rumerican Horror Story: Coven Girls
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Ryan Murphy’s Law The lack of a clear front-runner this season is making for exciting television and some unexpected narratives.
  8. Episode 5 Pink Table Talk
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: RuPaul’s Milgram Experiment Jan is just going to be psychologically tormented for the duration of this All Stars season, isn’t she?
  9. Episode 4 Halftime Headliners
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Rudemption Song If there’s one thing Drag Race is gonna do, it’s overproduce a highly entertaining episode with questionable judging.
  10. Episode 3 Side Hustles
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Hustlerz A bunch of even, middle-of-the-road comedy sketches produce a challenge winner that will have you saying, “Sure! Why not?”
  11. Episodes 1 - 2 “All Star Variety Extravaganza” & “The Blue Ball”
    RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars Season-Premiere Recap: Streamgirls The competition enters a confusing new era on Paramount+ with a glut of megamixes, some high-caliber looks, and a tough early elimination.
  1. Episode 12 Lip Sync LaLaPaRuza Smackdown
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Season-Finale Recap: No Contest Does this winner-deciding lip-sync smackdown feature some questionable judgment calls? Yes! Do they diminish the fun of watching it? Only a little!
  2. Episode 11 Drag Race Gives Back Variety Extravaganza
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Starstruck A huge twist changed all expectations we had going into the penultimate challenge.
  3. Episode 10 The Kennedy Davenport Center Honors Hall of Shade
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Boom! Roasted! The season has been long, and our frontrunners might be running out of steam.
  4. Episode 9 Dance Like a Drag Queen
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: On-brand A Rorschach test of a challenge allows the queens to get one of the last stars before the final four.
  5. Episode 8 Santa’s School for Girls
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: I Know What You Did Last Christmas With only a few challenges left, our one-star girls better step it up.
  6. Episode 7 Legendary Legend Looks
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Holy Trinity Y’all … is Trinity going to win this whole thing?
  7. Episode 6 Total Ru-quest Live
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Bringing Up The Rear With a satisfying last-to-first place situation in this episode, the competition in All Stars is more level.
  8. Episode 5 Draguation Speeches
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Happy Graduation Why try untested challenge ideas during the all-winners season?
  9. Episode 4 Fairytale Justice
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: I’m Frantic The improv challenge remains a tough sell despite the cast of strong performers.
  10. Episode 3 The Realness of Fortune Ball
  11. Episode 2 Snatch Game
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Monsoon Season Jinkx has reached the apex of what it means to compete in Snatch Game.
  12. Episode 1 Legends
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Season-Premiere Recap: A Winning Twist This season is already one of the best we’ve seen from the franchise, and it shows no sign of slowing down.
  1. Episode 12 Grand Finale
    RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars Season-Finale Recap: And So It Ends This is a well-deserved win. It’s just too bad it had to happen this way.
  2. Episode 11 The Fame Games Variety Extravaganza
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Drag Race Gives Back The episode comes and goes without a lick of drama — and, sorry, but we watch for the drama.
  3. Episode 10 The Letter L
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Three’s a Crowd What is Zooey Deschanel doing here?
  4. Episode 9 Carson Kressley, This Is Your Gay Life
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Let’s Get This Roast Cookin’! All Stars keeps reminding us of better previous seasons, which only highlights how lackluster this one is.
  5. Episode 8 You’re a Winner, Baby
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Gowns, Beautiful Gowns Alexis is a star, though maybe not the kind she wants to be.
  6. Episode 7 Forensic Queens
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Yes, And? Some of the recent seasons’ worst, most intolerable challenges have been improv-based.
  7. Episode 6 JOAN: The Unauthorized Rusical!
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Mommie Queerest The girls voting one another out is a great catalyst for drama, but it leads to the same plot points over and over, season after season.
  8. Episode 5 Snatch Game of Love
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Jimbo’s Drag Race It’s starting to feel like we’re in a loop.
  9. Episode 4 Screen Queens
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Sketched Out The queens who understand how reality TV works are setting up story lines for down the road, but they’re not playing out just yet.
  10. Episode 3 The Supermarket Ball
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: She Has a Great Personality The group’s chemistry helps make up for an overall weakness in challenges.
  11. Episodes 1 - 2 The Fame Games / It’s RDR Live!
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Season-Premiere Recap: The B Tier… Wins! With a different approach to casting, Drag Race All Stars has turned itself back into a comedy.
  1. Episode 12 Grand Finale Variety Extravaganza: Part 2
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Season-Finale Recap: All Right … We have great queens who show out, yet we’re left with a confusing ending to a forgettable season.
  2. Episode 11 Episode 11
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Well, That Stank! This episode is impossible to recap since nothing happened, but let’s chat anyway.
  3. Episode 10 Lip-Sync Lalaparuza Smackdown
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Lip-Sync for … Some Fun! If you don’t think too much about iconic lip syncs from past seasons, this episode ends up being a lot of fun.
  4. Episode 9 Episode 9
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Cweepy How many of these queens have actually seen Rosemary’s Baby?
  5. Episode 8 Make Your Own Kind of Rusic
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Everything Sew (Un)complicated It’s another decent episode in what feels like a forgettable season of Drag Race.
  6. Episode 7 Meeting in the Ladies Room
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Okay! The season lacks real drama, and this week’s middling episode isn’t helping.
  7. Episode 6 The National Drag Convention Roast
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Stop the Steal Writing your own material for stand-up challenges is not a requirement, but your routine shouldn’t be a complete rip-off of a well-known set.
  8. Episode 5 Property Queens
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Quenching My Drama Thirst If the rest of the season continues like this, consider my mouth shut.
  9. Episode 4 Smokin’ Hot Firefighter Makeovers
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: The Firefighter–to–Girl Group Pipeline This week’s twist is a lot of fun, but the stakes are too low and we’re devoid of any real drama.
  10. Episode 3 Snatch Game of Love
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Woof, Woof A season with no penalty for doing badly can only succeed if no one does badly. Enter: Snatch Game of Love.
  11. Episodes 1 - 2 Drag Queens Save The World / The Paint Ball
    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Season-Premiere Recap: Reading the Dawl A solid start to the season nonetheless raises some early red flags.

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