I forget if it was Trixie or Katya saying it (on Hey Kween! probably), but the quote is something along the lines of - the only people that come away from All Stars salty are the ones that go in with expectations.

I remember that critique, and both then and now - found it cutting both ways.

Apparently, for being the height of Brooklyn hipsterdom, Thorgy’s never heard the legends of Night of a Thousand Stevies.

I can’t help but sense next week is gonna be a massive flameout for Milk - she seems to be edging into Phi Phi territory.

The key difference I’m finding is how much more relaxed and confident Trixie is in her boy-confessional talking heads. She’s spoken at length about the permanent deer-in-headlights anxiety of her season 7 experience. So one is hoping that she’s taking the chance to coast, and then look for opportunities to exploit in…

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This seems like a pretty common refrain throughout many critical approaches to Discovery.

I’m not here for country music, and I wouldn’t call myself a Trixya stan, even if I’ll admit to an unhealthy attachment to UNHhhh.

Don’t forget the Handmaid’s Tale bump at the end. Of all the eliminated queens to be extra-salty upon returning, picture Morgan’s stone-cold bitch face waiting for you on the other side of that one-way mirror.

I also get the sense that Dela’s also been continuing to work in Seattle’s pretty robust cabaret and underground theatre scenes, kind of outside the big bundled drag tour circuit that most of the Rugirls stick to.

Bebe acquits herself pretty damn well in the Library. Comedy didn’t occupy such a central place in Season 1, to my recollection. Her reads are cutting and funny (even if not quite to Ben and Trixie’s level), but they do so managing to stay on-brand for Bebe’s regal bearing.

Last season featured the Library in the opening episode, as well. Especially for returning queens, it seems to highlight the relationships the queens have developed on the tour circuit, and at least as importantly, reintroduces us to the thin character sketches we need going forward, in case you’ve forgotten Chi Chi’s…

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One wonders if they’ve got a bit of a spread-the-wealth ethic in the editing bay, more than during a regular season.

I suppose it’s ‘clueless’ with a helpful side of naive; the way she makes the assumption that the consensus falls on the side of fairness.

But then where would we have had the opportunity for half-an-episode’s worth of homoerotic lingeringly loving shots of KJ Apa’s nubile, hairless body?

Appropriation is certainly one thing.

This is the guy that keeps posting the same thing week after week, right?

I’ll give this much credit - Tyler/Voq is decidedly far more telegraphed, in a lot of ways overshadowing Mirror Lorca. There’s something to be said for setting up an easy Twist! to give the more difficult Twist! just a bit more of a rug-pull.

There are possibilities that we can conjecture that might make it worthwhile.