This is the first time ever that Alaska's been at risk of going home, and she does not handle it well. This is the least savvy she's ever been, both in terms of meeting the challenge and in managing her own reputation in the episode. On Season 5, Alaska also struggled to make a strong impression in the makeover…

Kristen Kish won Top Chef after being eliminated midway and brought back after winning a bunch of cooking duels (granted, the episode that sent her packing was a real controversial bullshit episode as well).

That ass ain't cheap though.

This is one of my least favorite kinds of Main Challenge. Not all the roles are created equal, and the written material is so very weak. It's also the kind of challenge that Katya, with no reasonable opportunity to play weird, struggles with. Alyssa shakes things up with her choice to save Katya (Nice!), but because…

There's a Youtube video that was titled "Drag Queens Trying Kim Chi For the First Time" but it turned out to be the food.

For me, it's that Bob, who is in nonstop comedian mode, will say a hundred things but only ten of them will genuinely make me laugh. When you can edit and refine those things (like the standout political ad) you have a great product. That Chocolate Chip Cookie performance was funny, but dragged on too long near the…

One of the most well-rounded, likable Final Fours in Drag Race Herstory. Not one queen that acted the piss in the lemonade. Them hugging each other in jubilation after the lip sync felt genuine, and I got the sense that they all liked each other but also had no qualms about throwing some entertaining shade.

If she won, Kim Chi would be the second Asian queen to win (I'm counting Raja), arguably the first plus-sized queen, and possibly the first VIRGIN queen??? Would the show crown two Team Look queens in a row, though?

Kim Chi wasn't kidding when she nicknamed this season "Season H8". My goodness, all the incredible venom this episode. Bye, Derrick. Competent LSFYL-er. Could have been smarter about everything else.

At least this season's runway looks are much better than Season 6's (mostly due to Naomi and Kim Chi), which was also shaping up to be just as predictable and telegraphed with its winner by this point. This was probably Kim's biggest performance bust of a week, even more so than the dancing challenge where she was at…

I do remember her saying that, and it does seem fair to think that after seeing the first three winners. But if Bianca did her homework, regardless of before or after being cast, she already saw enough to know how to play the game. That claimed ignorance would be temporary, at best.

Bianca "claimed" to be ignorant of the show? She must have seen enough of it to compare Trinity's Snatch Game wig swap to a lesser Chad Michael's, and to comment that Milk reused one of Jujubee's reads in the Library challenge (in the Extras).

This was about a middle-tier Snatch Game. Better than Seasons 3 and 7 overall, but with nobody higher than those highs from the other season. 6 was so good, I actually think Joslyn, Darienne, heck, even Courtney's performances could have reached the Top Three for this season.

Oh, you know, she was trying to be humble.

Even Willam couldn't do anything memorable in those scenes, and rumor has it she had some prior acting experience too.

I wouldn't quite give the episode a C+, but it was a pretty rough first half (mostly unmemorable mini-challenge followed by the twist that —gasp— Naysha comes back. Cue trombones.) It's a good thing Thorgy and Bob were incredible lead performers, doing a lot of heavy lifting on a fairly lackluster script. Also the…

For 2112!

I'd say it depends on who comes back. If it's a returning queen from a previous season (i.e. Katya or Shangela), then I'd say it was super pre-planned. No way they don't forcefully make room for one of them. If it's Naysha again or a brand new queen, I'd be more convinced it was more of a back pocket option. But the…

I thought so too, but in those same shots, you can see Chi Chi sweating quite a bit too, though it doesn't look like the cartoonish flop sweat that Dax had.

A gold star for the editors for leaving that sad pause after that moment. You can actually pinpoint the exact second her heart rips in half.