By The Lady Cocotte RuPaul is set to announce the Season 4 winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars tonight. The All Stars franchise is notoriously tricky. Nothing in Season 1 made sense. Season 2 was plagued by favoritism (RoLaskaTox) and bribery (insert snake emoji). In most circles, it’s still not safe to mention Season […]
RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Discussion: Sex and the Kitty Girl
By The Lady Cocotte RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars is back with one last challenge before the finale. After last week’s scandalous elimination, the queens are willing to do whatever it takes to win. Join us for a rollicking discussion of every flounce, every ruffle, every backstab along the way. Warning: This post (and comments) […]
RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Discussion: RuPaul’s Best Judy’s Race
By The Lady Cocotte It’s taken me a lot longer than it should to admit I’m not able to recap RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 4. It’s been a great season so far. Gia Gunn, the obnoxious villain. All of Monét X Change’s leotards. The delusion of Jasmine Masters. And Latrice Royale. And Valentina. My […]
RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars: Roast in Peace
By The Lady Cocotte I’m not very active on Twitter but a highlight of my life was a retweet from Lady Bunny. Talk about drag legend. It’s not that she’s been RuPaul’s best friend since Michelle was Michael. It’s not that she forced drag into daylight with the Wigstock festival. It’s not even her uproariously […]
RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars: Jersey Justice
By The Lady Cocotte There are a handful of things RuPaul loves. iTunes residuals. A well tailored suit. And his two best Judys, Judge and Visage. RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Jersey Justice is an ode to Ru’s second fiddle. Merle who? This is Michelle country. It’s not much of a stretch to see Drag […]
A Very Late RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Snatch Game of Love
By The Lady Cocotte with purple pen by Tamara Tattles Sorry for the late RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars recap. Drag is my first love (sorry not sorry) but the holidays belong to family. Now I’m ready to ring in the new year with an All Stars version of Snatch Game. Our recent convert Tamara […]
RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars: Super Girl Groups, Henny
By The Lady Cocotte Stacy Layne Matthews’ triumphant return to the Drag Race stage evokes vaseline-smeared memories of the franchise’s early days. Before she was hailed as drag royalty by her RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars hosts, Stacey was an unpolished queen from Backswamp, North Carolina. Her season 3 arc was dominated by heckling from […]
RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Season 4 Premiere: All Star Super Queen Variety Show
By The Lady Cocotte The RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars season 4 cast is an experienced and talented group. They’re ready to wow from the minute they enter the workroom. Monique Heart and Gia Gunn show up in similar religious iconography, like bridesmaids at competing Catholic weddings. Monique is excited to prove what she can […]
RuPaul’s Drag Race: Holi-Slay Spectacular
By The Lady Cocotte For some of you, the RuPaul’s Drag Race Holi-Slay Spectacular heralds the Christmas season. For me, it’s a sign that RuPaul has a holiday album to sling. Mama Ru is the Bethenny Frankel of drag. She can, and will, sell everything. So here we are, watching Trixie Mattel (season 7, disputed […]
RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Season 4 Cast Announcement
By The Lady Cocotte I crave glitter. Paillettes. Sequence. Maribou. Wrap me in pink tulle and my problems melt away. So it’s no surprise that RuPaul’s Drag Race is my happy place. But Drag Race is more than idle distraction. In an angry world, the bravest man in the room is wearing a dress. My […]
RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars: The Bitchelor
By The Lady Cocotte It’s week three of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars. So far we’ve said goodbye to Morgan McMichaels and my girl Thorgy Thor. Will this week finally be Chi Chi’s turn or will she prove to be Season 3’s Roxxxy Andrews? Will the world finally see Milk as she sees herself? And […]
RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars: Divas Lip Sync Live
By The Lady Cocotte Thursday is quickly becoming my favorite day of the week because it brings me RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars. For an hour and a half, all of my worries fade and I’m home. Last week, BenDeLaCreme won both the mini- and maxi-challenge. She walked away with $10,000 but also had to […]
RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 3 Exclusive Queen Ruveal Special on VH1 Friday, October 20
By The Lady Cocotte Updated: VH1 originally scheduled the Ruveal as part of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars (which means it would be recorded if you have a series manager or pre-set) but they just made it it’s own special. I had to reset my DVR to record “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars: Exclusive Queen Ruveal.” […]
RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars: A Queen Is Crowned!
By The Lady Cocotte It’s the finale of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars! This season went by too quickly for my taste but RuPaul is ready to crown a winner (and whatever Mama Ru wants, Mama Ru gets). I’m still feeling a little traumatized from Alaska Thunderfuck’s massive meltdown last week so I’m not sure […]
RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars: Family That Drags Together
By The Lady Cocotte Last week we had a lovely episode of RuPaul’s Best Friends Race, All Stars edition. With this season’s villain gone baby gone, all the girls were loving and supportive of each other. It was all unicorns and glitter, disco balls and cotton candy. Or it was until an undercover snake […]
RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars: Drag Fish Tank
After last week’s highly emotional RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars, I’m ready to put the Phi Phi situation to bed. But first, we have to check in with the girls and get their reactions to her elimination. She uses her message on the mirror (“I wanted to avoid hugs because of tears! LOVE […]
RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars: Revenge of the Queens
By The Lady Cocotte This week RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars doesn’t mess around. We’re right back in the middle of Phi Phi O’Hara’s rant about Alyssa Edwards when the four evicted queens show up in the mirror. Now, production originally planned huge drama from the shock of seeing the supposedly eliminated queens back in […]
RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Drag Movie Shequels
By Contributing Writer The Lady Cocotte Have you recovered from last week’s controversial elimination of Ginger Minj on RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars? Well, the contestants haven’t. Before Alyssa Edwards cleans Ginger’s message off the mirror (If men can look this good, there’s no excuse for ugly women! ♡ The Minj), she tries […]
RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: HERstory of the World
By The Lady Cocotte RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars is back following last week’s surprising tap out (Adore Delano) and mostly disappointing Snatch Game. Hopefully the queens can recover from all of the drama and bring us a HERstory-making episode tonight. As Alaska wipes off Tatianna’s message on the mirror (Thank You! ♡ Tati) […]
RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Snatch Game
By The Lady Cocotte After a pretty phenomenal premiere last week, RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars is back with a super-sized Snatch Game episode. All. Stars. Snatch. Game. The best of the best in my favorite challenge of the season? Yes, please! But before we can have too much fun, we have to revisit […]
RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: All Stars Talent Show Extravaganza
By The Lady Cocotte It’s time to put on makeup, it’s time to dress up right, it’s time to raise the curtain on RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars tonight… The girls have been in serious lockdown so they don’t know who they’re competing against. They’ve heard rumors but they won’t know who else […]
(Re)Introducing the Cast of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 2, A Herstory Lesson: Part Two
By The Lady Cocotte Hieeee! Are you ready for the new season of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars? I hope so because it starts this Thursday! Last week I talked about the not so successful herstory of All Stars 1. Well, RuPaul has made some big changes this season. The team aspect is gone […]
(Re)Introducing the Cast of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 2, A Herstory Lesson: Part One
By The Lady Cocotte In 2012, after four seasons of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Logo TV brought us an All Stars version. All Stars? A cast full of our favorites, without any filler queens? Sign me up! What could go wrong? Well… a lot, actually. For some reason, producers decided to mess with their winning […]
RuPaul’s Drag Race recap: Book Ball
It’s time for another exciting episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race! I didn’t really enjoy last week. It might have been because I was sick. It might have been because my girl Thorgy Thor was eliminated. Or it might have been because it was a bad episode (I’ve found this season a bit inconsistent). But hope […]
RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: Shady Politics
By Contributing Writer, The Lady Cocotte Sorry I’m a little late with this week’s RuPaul’s Drag Race recap. The Spring flu got me and replaced all of my snark with fluffy cotton balls. I feel like the Scarecrow from Wizard of Oz (which would have been much more fitting last week). “If I only had […]
RuPaul’s Drag Race recap: Wizards of Drag
By Contributing Writer Lady Cocotte After last week’s disappointing Snatch Game, I’m praying things turn around on RuPaul’s Drag Race. I still have PTSD from season seven so any dip in quality scares me… Come through, Mama Ru! Seriously, I’m begging you. Come through. Just to rub salt in our wounds, we start with Acid […]