We “required” some sort of resolution for Frederica simply because they had the insurance fraud thing on the table already, and it had to go somewhere. As I mentioned before, at least this time around when Ryan Murphy hired LuPone, we at least got some Sondheim out of it, where she was totally wasted in AHS: Coven…

I don’t have any idea why, but every time I hear Sylvester’s “Mighty Real” tears well up in my eyes.

Lulu getting into the swing — literally — of the dominatrix game was an amusing sidelight , and it’s fun to think that it will facilitate payment for her accounting degree in the long term.

Out of left field: I find myself curious as to how “hands on” the real Eileen Ford was with all the many models that were represented by her agency at any given time. I mean, I get that we’re supposed to be focusing on Angel as one of the show’s central characters, but realistically, hundreds of models booked through…

Amd yes, this is most definitely Billy Porter’s Emmy reel for 2020, and if he doesn’t win an Emmy for season one, he’s a shoe-in for season two.

This much I’ll say right off the top: over the past several years, I have grown weary of television shows casting Patti LuPone and then not letting her sing, so this episode was wish fulfillment.

If anyone needed evidence that Jennie Livingston is a consulting producer up in this, it’s this episode. The name “Venus Xtravaganza” is writ large here, even if it’s never spoken. The only disconnect is that Elektra has no Angie Xtravaganza moment.

So Papi was pining for Angel even while he was in the House of Ferocity after Blanca busted his chops for dealing drugs? Clearly, the Ryan Murphy writers’ room is counting on us not remembering Papi’s history in the House of Evangelista. Three episodes to go from 0 to completely smitten. I’m guessing that Papi was…

More casting trivia: another Drag Race alum joins the Pose family, with Peppermint as the assaulted prostitue. FX (or at least Ryan Murphy) seems to be doing right by Ru Girls for the last few years.

So life at Ebony is becoming decreasingly fabulous with each passing day?

It took me a second to realize that Syd, the woman leading the ACT UP meeting, is Sophie Von Hasleberg, who is, if memory serves, Bette Midler’s daughter.

I offer no argument to your assessment. If she thought she could take Yvie out, then why not Brooke?

Ru wisely does not stretch things out…

A point was made elsewhere (it may have been Willam on “Race Chaser”) that reveals for the sake of reveals during these final lip-syncs has perhaps become cliché or stale. When Sasha Velour whipped out the rose petals during season nine, it actually served the tone of “So Emotional,” and she only did one such reveal…

There was room for one of the more amusing among the season’s mysteries that the finale let slip: “What’s the tea, Christine?” what with Christine covering “Sissy That Walk.”

I’m not sure that calling shenanigans on Silky’s lip-sync choice is out of order. Her choice of Brooke basically ensured that Silky was going to lose; the smarter choice would have been A’Keria, whom Silky might actually have beaten, but that would have med Brooke and Yvie the semi-final, which would have flattened…

Silky’s entramce look was a call-out to Ricki Lake in Tracy Turnblad’s final look from the original 1988 Hairspray.

I’m a little frustrated with the Debbie Allen thing, because they got a close enough match for her look and style, but then I completely missed her name in the end credits. It would be weird but appropriate if it was the same actress who portrayed Anita in the bilingual Broadway revival of West Side Story that…

The first episode this season where I read the reviews before actually seing the episode (it’s not available on iTunes yet), and now I may not bother watching it at all.

Yup. But after Jeff Loeffelholz committed suicide, that kind of got blown out of the water, to an extent.