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RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: A New Chapter


They finally figured out the top four episode!

It’s been years now of penultimate episodes that completely deflate the momentum of the season, giving us saccharine plots that remove all the stakes and result in terrible work from the queens (because the challenges are bad to begin with). Combine that with a themed runway (“finale eleganza” hasn’t produced any actual best looks since maybe All-Stars 5) and, thank God, a real elimination that is based on the queens’ performances for the week, and you get a fitting capstone on the pre-filmed portion of the season. “This season had a lot to love when it came to my very specific subset of interests: Becky G was a guest judge, we got a ‘Bloody Mary’ TikTok version lip sync, and Xunami Muse’s lackluster Snatch Game as the ‘gold tooth fairy’ was redeemed partly by a B.A.P.S.-inspired hairdo.

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