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The following post contains spoilers for the February 8 episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars season three.
This third episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars has me reevaluating my choices, as Tatiana would say. Did I really want Milk to win? Has he really been my favorite all along? Have I really hated Kennedy Davenport with the fiery passion of a million herpes outbreaks?
Yes, all of that was true, but I’m not sure anymore. Of course Kennedy decided to spill the Milk and send the fashion queen home, and, I have to say, it was much deserved. Her fate was really sealed in the first moments of the episode, when she talked trash about Kennedy’s drag and tried to make Shangela and BenDeLaCreme justify why they sent Thorgy packing instead of Kennedy. Later, when they were all getting ready, Kennedy let us know what really hurt was that she thought she and Milk were best Judys from being on tour together.
Of course when Kennedy was in the top two and Milk was in the bottom she knew exactly whose lipstick she was going to pick. No need to interview the other girls, no need to pass go, no need to collect $200. (Because, well, she collected $10,000 winning that lip sync.) Kennedy would have been stupid to send home Chi Chi or Aja when the one queen who was gunning for her the whole time was up for elimination.
It all started when they learned that this week’s challenge would be an improv challenge where they would be all contestants on a dating show parody called "The Bitchelor" and were given characters to play while out on a date with dreamy UnREAL star Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman.
The first date was Bebe Zahara Benet, dressed as Eddie Murphy’s mother from Coming to America and BenDeLaCreme playing a “cougar” that sort of looked like Christine Ebersole on a bender during a Broadway at Sea package cruise. Bebe was supposed to be playing a virgin, but she just kept giggling and throwing roses at Jeffrey’s feet. Meanwhile Ben was totally stealing the scene by chewing up a banana and spitting it out, an activity usually reserved for the backroom at the Cock.
Trixie Mattel played a fake bitch, and she was just perfect. She was on her phone the whole time like every girl in line at Sweetgreen pretending like she cares about other people but just wants to make sure that her Everlane delivery will make it on time. Milk was supposed to be playing a stalker. Not only did she look like the drowned ghost that Michelle Pfeiffer sees in What Lies Beneath, but she was incredibly extra. She was more extra than a sugar-free gum commercial on crystal meth. Trixie, who nailed every line she got in, was clearly frustrated and started talking trash about Milk right to her face. Luckily she was in the right character.