Last year, Jinx posted a picture of her, Alaska and Roxxxy (ugh) all sitting together during the finale party when they watched the show and found out Jinx actually won. I haven't seen that picture yet for this season, but I wonder if it'll come soon. It was nice to see their real reactions.

I knew Courtney had no chance in hell of winning when the bitch wasn't even addressed until minute 58 of the show (outside of the little I'm in the top 3 song). They went through an entire segment with the top 3, cut to commercial, and then talked some more before Ru spoke to her.

I like Adore, but would much rather see her career get a nice boost from the show, and then come back to win the next season of All-Stars, once she's had a little more experience and time to polish her whole look.

I remember a few years ago seeing a "British Spelling Bee" one, where one answer was "a-l-u-m-i-n-i-u-m." Maddening.

The writers have been on point with their episode titling this season.
While I think that Shonda can be a bit heavy-handed, I really appreciate how she has consistently put very diverse casts on television (although seriously, a hospital with no Indian doctors?), and I especially appreciate how she has two out actors…

I rarely watch it live, between what else is on and because I feel like I need to watch it during the day.

I have no idea. If I watch the ads it's because I'm in a daze and forgot to fast forward, but there must be people who do, because it's a way that ads are sold.

Depending on how FX sells their ads, they can get credit from the advertisers for viewers who watch within 3 days, if they're watching commercials.

Live ratings are still bad, but DVR Playback is ridiculously high.

Thank you so much for posting that article. I particularly liked this section:
"Drag is punk and should never be subjected to politically correct ideals. The moment it stops provoking is the moment it fails as an art form. Trans people are forever indebted to drag for the mainstream explosion of gender as we see it…

Issues with Joslyn aside, while Trinity has definitely done better these past few episodes, she really seems to need so much handholding to get her out of her shell that I don't think in half a season she was going to have the stage presence and confidence to convincingly win over Bendela and Bianca.

EW had a recap of the finale taping, and if memory serves, they said Phi Phi was the third "winner" they taped, and she was so overwhelmed and shaken by the gotcha of it, that she was tripping while doing her Ms. America walk.
Schadenfreude!

And the "don't worry ladies, Baseball won't come up in the next round" made me almost throw something at the television.

Let us not forget, Conan's Tonight Show ratings likely suffered greatly by having Leno's 10pm show.

I also watch the majority of my shows on DVR, but the revenue streams still tip significantly for live viewing. So even if more people are watching the show online or on demand or two days later on their DVR, Logo is likely able to make more money off the people watching it live/same day on their TV.
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Totally possible. Logo doesn't have a huge audience to begin with (network that's not in a lot of households, plus it's programming to a very niche audience), so they could consider The Voice and Dancing With the Stars to be a bigger audience drain than a show on another cable network.

I do like Dela, I actually enjoy her the most in her talking head segments, but I feel like she reminds me of a less successful Jinx.

When it was revealed that Alyssa is Laganga's drag mother, it all made terrible, horrible, sense to me.

I just took a look at Logo's schedule for the next two weeks, and as they're not putting a new show in at 9, I think they just feel that they'd get better ratings with the show at 10. They likely feel that there's less competition (although I don't know what shows/nets they consider to be their competition).
Also, and…

The greatest act of TPIR sick day karmic retribution I ever saw was when the first player bid 850, and then the next three bid 851, 852 and 853. The little bell went off and the person who bid 850 was on the nose.