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RuPaul's Drag Race All-Stars 2
Sep. 17th, 2016 06:19 pmI usually don't watch any "reality" TV shows. I think they have wrecked TV for the most part for years. TV seems to be recovering a bit these days with more interesting sitcoms and dramas. However, despite my usual dislike for it, I have watched "RuPaul's Drag Race" since the beginning because I find it to be a fascinating window into a particular part of gay life and entertainment.
After eight regular seasons and one previous All-Stars season, the second season of "All-Stars" is currently running. For those who don't watch it, All-Stars brings back queens from previous seasons for a second chance for the crown and the money. This season is fun because it brings back a lot of fan favorites like Alaska Thunderf*ck, Detox, and Alyssa Edwards, as well as known "villains" Roxxxy Andrews and Phi Phi O'Hara. One particular spin is that instead of the bottom two queens lip syncing for "their lives" and the lesser being eliminated by RuPaul, the top two queens perform for "their legacy" and the winner eliminates one of the bottom queens of her choosing. I personally didn't like this twist, but it does create more drama and changes the dynamic in the work room.
In her regular season, Phi Phi O'Hara was pretty vicious to the eventual winner Sharon Needles. Phi Phi blames the editing, but there were things she said that you couldn't have viewed differently no matter how you edit the scenes. She herself admits that she was too aggressive in her season, that it hurt her ability to get gigs afterward, and that she had received death threats and attacks online. She supposedly re-invented herself as a cosplay queen, doing some pretty impressive looks online, and the perception of her seemed to change.
She came on All-Stars to get a TV redemption, proving that she had grown and she wasn't the vicious person TV made her out to be.
While she's not the yelling shrew she was in Season 4, she still seems a bit devious, giving advice to queens that makes them change their minds about how they pursue a challenge, usually to their detriment. Now that the show is being aired, Phi Phi has gone online stating that the show is editing her scenes again to make her the villain.
I was reading her twitter and she's gone off the deep end, ripping on RuPaul and the show overall, promising to skip the reunion show where they crown the queen (which makes me think she gets eliminated at some point). It looks like RuPaul herself has unfriended her. Phi Phi just dropped a new album. She's using the hype to push her new album under her male name. Somehow, I don't think pissing off RuPaul, the unquestionable queen of drag, is a smart idea career-wise, but it looks like Phi Phi is shooting for a real music career out of drag. However, she's definitely dropping hints about the show, so the producers may have a case to sue her for breaking her confidentiality agreement. It's real drama, versus the staged stuff that the show might have made.
Sadly, I was hoping Phi Phi had changed as I respect her for her new looks, but she's coming across as a loon. And I have to admit that I find Jaremi (Phi Phi out of drag) kind of cute, but looks aren't everything.
After eight regular seasons and one previous All-Stars season, the second season of "All-Stars" is currently running. For those who don't watch it, All-Stars brings back queens from previous seasons for a second chance for the crown and the money. This season is fun because it brings back a lot of fan favorites like Alaska Thunderf*ck, Detox, and Alyssa Edwards, as well as known "villains" Roxxxy Andrews and Phi Phi O'Hara. One particular spin is that instead of the bottom two queens lip syncing for "their lives" and the lesser being eliminated by RuPaul, the top two queens perform for "their legacy" and the winner eliminates one of the bottom queens of her choosing. I personally didn't like this twist, but it does create more drama and changes the dynamic in the work room.
In her regular season, Phi Phi O'Hara was pretty vicious to the eventual winner Sharon Needles. Phi Phi blames the editing, but there were things she said that you couldn't have viewed differently no matter how you edit the scenes. She herself admits that she was too aggressive in her season, that it hurt her ability to get gigs afterward, and that she had received death threats and attacks online. She supposedly re-invented herself as a cosplay queen, doing some pretty impressive looks online, and the perception of her seemed to change.
She came on All-Stars to get a TV redemption, proving that she had grown and she wasn't the vicious person TV made her out to be.
While she's not the yelling shrew she was in Season 4, she still seems a bit devious, giving advice to queens that makes them change their minds about how they pursue a challenge, usually to their detriment. Now that the show is being aired, Phi Phi has gone online stating that the show is editing her scenes again to make her the villain.
I was reading her twitter and she's gone off the deep end, ripping on RuPaul and the show overall, promising to skip the reunion show where they crown the queen (which makes me think she gets eliminated at some point). It looks like RuPaul herself has unfriended her. Phi Phi just dropped a new album. She's using the hype to push her new album under her male name. Somehow, I don't think pissing off RuPaul, the unquestionable queen of drag, is a smart idea career-wise, but it looks like Phi Phi is shooting for a real music career out of drag. However, she's definitely dropping hints about the show, so the producers may have a case to sue her for breaking her confidentiality agreement. It's real drama, versus the staged stuff that the show might have made.
Sadly, I was hoping Phi Phi had changed as I respect her for her new looks, but she's coming across as a loon. And I have to admit that I find Jaremi (Phi Phi out of drag) kind of cute, but looks aren't everything.
