Part of the issue is that the makeovers just aren’t that exciting. Unfortunately, it didn’t bear out in the episode. When you have a season like this one, where that group of high-level competitors is relatively small, and you need to fulfill an episode count, it makes sense not to bring back a queen (which they often do on All-Stars seasons) and instead opt to have that top group just continue to compete. As you continue along the stretch of any competition show, the goal is for the season to become more and more competitive with the queens who can’t handle the competition or don’t have a shot at winning winnowed down to a group of high-level performers who are handed increasingly difficult challenges and expected to knock them out of the park anyway. Drag Race has never done this before, but if there was any season to try it, it makes sense that it’s this one.
I’m talking, of course, about having a competitive episode dedicated to the top three, bringing the final down to the top two.
Now, for the first time, this season has innovated, figuring out a new way to be mediocre. The queens were mostly doing just okay, and few seemed to be motivated to the level that would cause any real pathos. It plodded along, slowly eliminating the competition without much incident or drama. The season has been an extended ode to Jimbo’s dominance without her ever faltering and the futile attempts by the other queens to catch up.
How many ways can one season of television not work? All-Stars 8’s answer seemed to be just one, and that one way was protracted over an entire season. For much of this season, we’ve just been circling the drain. Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Azerbaijan Republic, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Cook Islands, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Dominica, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Fiji, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Iceland, India, Iraq, Jamaica, Jersey, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macau, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Republic of the Congo, Reunion, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City State, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S.Photo: World of Wonder/Paramount+/World of Wonder/Paramount+
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