This is why my favorite Miss Congeniality win of all time is season 5's Ivy Winters. No drama, no backlash, no bullshit: just a likeable queen who wasn't a frontrunner for the crown (Jinkx/Alaska) or a fan favorite (Detox/Alyssa) but still deserved a little nudge of appreciation for brightening up the Werk Room with a…

Yes, because if there's one place where neither fixation nor ridiculousness is allowed, it's a RuPaul's Drag Race message board. Or did you miss your own post about how Trinity is a top with a big dick?

Thanks, but I'm aware Sasha is Russian. It invites Katya comparisons, which is risky in a comedy challenge, is all I'm sayin'.

Thoughts:

Nina and Aja were evenly matched in the lip sync, but this was one of those lip syncs that was over before it began.

Make that two (openly) gay men: Richard Hatch (Borneo) and Todd Herzog (China).

Multiple gays who don't discuss it? Damn, my Trump analogy holds up better than I thought.

Wow, you're right. Damn, this season of Survivor is like Trump's America if he wins the election: the minorities are wiped out, the strong women (Michaela, Lucy) have been silenced and the one gay guy (Brett) is careful never to mention it.

Meh. I don't know. I really like Alaska, and seeing her get the crown after killing it all season long should have been a blast. But it felt more obligatory than celebratory to me in a way that really put me off.

I can't blame Alaska for giving the chop to the clearly stronger queen this week. After all, it's RuPaul who afforded these girls the power to boot each other this season, and she knew controversial decisions like this would occur. And Alaska's whole "I'm getting rid of the queen who has brought prestige to the runway…

To be fair, Oliver Sava's write-ups used to be great. Go through the archives and read his evaluations of Season 4 or the first All Stars: there's some real insight in there about the queens, their strengths/weaknesses, their motivations in the competition, how relevant the challenges are in determining a drag…

Is anyone else thankful this was the first (and probably last) challenge this season where the win was shared by two queens? Last season had three challenges with dual winners. It felt a little "Everybody Gets a Trophy Day" by the end.

Damn, this season is Bob's to lose now, straight up. Three wins, constant runway praise (except for last week) and not a LSFYL on the horizon. And now the two queens who looked like his toughest competition at the start of the season — his NYC sisters, Acid Betty and Thorgy Thor — have both sashayed away.

I think we can safely say there will never be a Snatch Game better than Season 6. More queens than usual (10), two funny and invested guest stars (Gillian Jacobs and Heather McDonald), HILARIOUS and quick-witted performances (Dela, Adore, Bianca, Joslyn), and, perhaps best of all, the glorious sight of not one but two…

I remember this game, and the author is right: the seeds were there for something interesting and fun, but the difficulty and tedium of the gameplay murdered it (pun intended). Plus, Jason's appearances were so random (and lethal) in both the trails and the cabins that I was too afraid of a quick and certain death to…

These post-peak Simpsons episodes are a lot more enjoyable when you look at the parts rather than the sum. The storytelling here might be negligible, but the visuals remain inventive (I always LOL at Abe using Bart's old exam papers as a flipbook, the teacher-penned happy faces changing to ambivalent to upset to…

Oh sweet mercy Christmas, is there a greater irony in this universe than Ginger Minj and Kennedy Davenport devoting an entire episode to calling someone else a bitch? If that ain't the pot calling the kettle why-it-gotta-be-black, I don't know what is.

Aaaaaand this season of Drag Race is now officially a massive joke.

I've never been to downtown Pittsburgh either, but I'm guessing it doesn't look too much like the Church Street area of Toronto, which is where all those "gay nightlife" QAF scenes were filmed (and which, on the right night, actually does feel like gay Disneyland).

It wouldn't make sense for RuPaul to bring back Max; if she wanted to give Max a second chance, she would've made this week's LSFYL a non-elimination, saved both queens, and given Max a little speech about listening to critiques, breaking out of her comfort zone, etc. But then again, very few of the decisions Ru has…