No, but I understand the confusion because "Vonda Shepard" sounds like a Shonda Rhimes character name.

Refusing to go vulgar and then choosing to impersonate Sharon Needles is the definition of not playing to your strengths.

At least for Stacy Layne food was part of the character (referencing Mo'nique's character in "Precious"), so she gets a pass. Minj's accent made me laugh but I thought it was pretty hideous to turn an elegant woman who gets enough criticism for her weight into a monster. Can we at least let one fat woman in the public…

For the first few episodes I had trouble telling them apart in drag, then decided they were the mini and maxi versions of each other. Add in a chicken-raising backstory and it's pretty easy to tell the difference.

To be honest I thought Raja was kind of a villain. She seemed like the main perpetrator of the "heathers vs. boogers" thing (which read as friendly rivalry to some, but I found it to be genuinely mean girl-ish) and was unreasonably mean to some other competitors like Yara.

I wish Courtney got more of the bitch edit, because that way we could have gotten rid of Darienne eons ago and kept a better contender in her place. Plus I think that's a more natural narrative —- the polished professional vs. the plucky amateur, Adore.

I'm a fan of Adore, but I really do think she's coasting a little too much on natural charisma (even more than Courtney is resting on "pretty"). I don't think she's stepping her game up as much as other people are giving her credit for. She's like the kid that never does her homework but gets an A for flirtatiously…

I don't think Courtney has been getting enough credit for being very, very polished. Her weaknesses are that she doesn't use the criticism to push herself forward and a lack of vulnerability which makes her less likeable. But to me she's a clear winner in the vein of Raja.

This is probably the most upset I have felt about a RPDR elimination, and I'm not even a huge fan of De La. I didn't think she belonged in the bottom 2. I think the panel missed what she was going for in the executive realness category. I interpreted it as the kind of businesswoman in a 1940s melodrama. She nailed…

Usually if they *aren't* horrible bitches they get eliminated immediately (see: Victoria Parker, Penny Tration).

I thought they were a flash-in-the-pan rip-off of Travis who I thought were going to be *huge.*

Honestly Yara Sofia's routine had me *rolling*. In good conscience I couldn't name her the winner because of that offensive sight gag, but everything about her commitment and the actual jokes themselves just slayed me.

Yeah, but I think it just works better when things vaguely follow the theme (ie., Madame LaLaurie in the New Orleans season, cult murders in the Los Angeles murder house season). AHS works best when it doesn't feel slapped together.

This sounds really horrible and derivative, especially considering the existence of "Carnivale." I had heard a rumor next season was going to be set in a New Mexico community and I thought the combination of Roswell alien stuff with Georgia O'Keefe imagery, retirement, and desert horror was going to be exquisite. At…

Hey, don't mock Karl Pilkington. At the very least he's the most legitimately comedic Ricky Gervais sidekick.

And Balthazar Getty, of course, is a Getty. I presume that even if his acting career was limited to strutting around his house in a gold gilded nightgown reading Richard III monologues he'd still be one of Hollywood's richest.

We're saving that for the Skid Row VH1 miniseries.

It's not really a trope, but I can't stand how characters *NEVER* close a door behind them when they enter a room. When that happens I can't think about anything else.

While I do feel bad for her as an individual, I have always thought her star power and talent were mediocre and absurdly overrated. I agree with your assessment, but even in Mean Girls her performance is far from the best. If anything, Lacey Chabert's career is the only one I'm mourning from that film.

Newsfront! I caught part of that movie on TV a while back and didn't finish it or get the title. It was like peeking inside of an Australian historical narrative I wasn't at all familiar with, and I had been trying to seek it out ever since. I'm glad I've found it, I'm just sorry it's under these conditions.