Alright Mary: All Things RuPaul's Drag Race

The race to the finish line takes a dramatic turn at the tail end of this week’s design challenge. Jimbo’s facekini was one big red herring as Alexis made pinkie promises with LaLa Ri that ended up being middle fingers, Jessica continued to give a masterclass in staying under the radar, and all signs pointed to a much dreaded bottom two spot for Kandy Muse. When Nicky Doll’s boots aren’t quite mad...

The queens are making a scene this week, and we’re not even talking about the challenge itself. Emotions run high early in the day and Best Supporting Ru makes an emergency visit to the workroom to keep more queens from quitting the show through the power of proselytizing. The true crime improv challenge itself is a slickly produced step up, and while no one is dead on arrival, there were likely c...

Tina, bring me the acts! It’s a Rusical this week as the surviving seven don their Mommies dearest for an Aunt Leland and Uncle Adam extravaganza of the ups, downs and Dunaways of Joan Crawford’s career. While no one was box office poison, Jessica went wild on those rose bushes, Lala was Mildred Fierce and Alexis gave Faye a run for her money. The judges go crazy for Kandy’s wire hangers and overl...

It’s love and war this week as our Top 8 seek Las Culturista connections in the Snatch Game of Love. Hearts are broken in the workroom when Heidi decides to go towards the light (and exit the studio), but of course none more than Alexis. The ruveals on the runway may have been big on bodysuits, but Jimbo’s Adam and Eve is a revelation. (To say nothing of that twisted Shirley Temple.)  Want even mo...

It’s pilot season this week as three teams of three produce trailers of their own TV shows. Best Friends 4 Never might get picked up, mostly in order to give Jimbo her own show, but Getoff Island gives off mid-season cancellation vibes. (And don’t even get us started on the grammatical decisions made by the title Run Queen, Run.) We have a lot to say about unrelated things like The Warner Brothers...

Our grand union of queens are off to market to stop and shop for a look for this week’s supermarket ball! LaLa, Alexis and Heidi shop rite, Kandy takes the safeway and Jimbo is covered in whole foods, but our Rochester queens just aren’t serving Danny’s favorite. (Okay, that’s a Wegmans joke.) Jessica’s trip to foodtown puts her in the express line to the top this week, which is frankly a giant su...

Hot on the heals of the premiere episode comes Drag Race's take on Saturday Night Live which, despite some jokes clearly written by ChatGPT, kind of nails the SNL energy. (Even if "RDR Live" really does't roll off the tongue.) Darienne and Alexis bring us home to Jersey and Jimbo and Jessica flourish as the manscaping McCall Girls, but Kahanna's Kitty doesn't have us Jonesing for more and Naysha g...

Eight is enough, except when it comes to All Stars! 12 familiar faces (well, except Kahanna, who looks completely different) are back in the workroom and on our screens this week for a brand new season. In lieu of the usual talent show premiere, we get a girl group challenge, a few dozen looks (including an iconic Eilish), some emotional ups and downs for Miss Hillz, a lip sync worth sliding into...

With one more week of off-season before All Stars 8, we're putting out an OnlyMarys discussion from last year on "Center Stage"! We queen out on the sheer presence of Debra Monk, Donna Murphy rubbing her neck, dancing the shit out of it in gray sweatpants, best supporting Eva, Marcia Jean Kurtz's moment, Cooper's apartment, that impossible final performance and the sheer number of times you hear t...

We are covering this season of Drag Race España as part of our weekly Matreon episodes! Here is our discussion of Episode 2's Dragvision rap battle/girl group fiasco. We're starting to pick our favorites in the cast, even if this episode wasn't our favorite of the series. We still got the Javis' furrowed brows, a stern reprimand from all four judges, an iconic talking head look and a vague educati...

As this brief off-season continues before All Stars 8, this week we're releasing our OnlyMarys discussion of Episode 3 of "The Last of Us" on the main feed! We break down the beats and nuances of Frank and Bill's Linda Ronstadt scored courtship, dissect all of the meaning in the line "Go take a shower, Bill" and totally Mary out on the evolution of this gay relationship in spite of the zombie apoc...

We are covering this season of Drag Race España as part of our weekly Matreon episodes! Here is our discussion of Episode 1's talent show and our first impressions of this batch of queens, plus our favorite moments from the always brilliant panel of judges as well as those ridiculously hot backup dancers. Want even more Alright Mary? Become a Matreon at the Sister Mary level to get access to our t...

It’s a time capsule within a time capsule this week as we flash back to a Matreon episode from June of 2019 about, that’s right, Drag Race time capsules! This is just after Season 11 ended as we make our choices for each season’s time capsule and veer off down memory lane for a tangent or two.  Want even more Alright Mary? Become a Matreon at the Sister Mary level to get access to our thoughts on...

The season of the Sasha Colby meet and greet ended, appropriately enough, with a Sasha Colby crown and scepter. And maybe we should have seen that coming since Kerri Colby uttered her name at the beginning of last season. It certainly felt obvious in the finale, as Anetra, Luxx and Mistress delivered good warm up act performances of Leland songs before Sasha gave us G-O-D-D-E-S—you know the rest....

Ru brings back her girls for a supersized reunion. Well, more like a Mistress Isabelle Brooks meet and greet with guest host Luxx, cameos from Anetra and Sasha (GOLBY), Poppy’s homage to entrance jeans, Loosey determined to show us how loose she can let, Kevin Bacon’s VHS collection, the pizza queen adjacency of the Golden Boot, moments of garbled insight from Spice, a non-response response to nog...

The final four are headed to space this week courtesy of the RuZQ to add their two cents in eight bars to RuPaul’s “Blame It on the Edit.” But first, we debate whether it's Anetra or Sasha getting the winner’s edit based on the narratives of these Tic Tac lunches and Blame it on the Amazon for having to sit through so many mop commercials. The girls are out of small talk in the workroom, giving us...

Trailblazing Portland drag legend Darcelle XV passed away on March 23rd at the age of 92 after a Guinness World Record making career in drag. We were beyond fortunate to interview Darcelle (aka Walter Cole) back in 2019, along with Anthony Hudson aka Carla Rossi (and co-host of Gaylords of Darkness podcast), as part of the Listen Up Podcast festival. In memory of Darcelle, we're sharing our conver...

Our Teachers of Drag Race fantasy comes true with this week’s makeover challenge. We could talk all day about Sasha Colby in a parent teacher conference with America’s next Tamisha Iman, to say nothing of Intro to Art queen Miss Tang and Mistress cutting up after class. But who we have the most to talk about this episode is actually Loosey, including everything we didn’t see in the show. (Shoutout...

Art imitates life this week as the Top 6 mounts this season's polished and prophetic Rusical "Wigloose"! We have much to say about the unfortunate inspiration for the challenge but we also have a lot of love for Salina EsTitties, even if we can't agree on those gloves. We get some mini therapy sessions with workroom Ru while Loosey's breaking point proves to be less entertaining than Mistress thin...

It was really seven queens and about three good jokes in this week’s standup comedy challenge, but let’s be honest, the real star of the episode is that lip sync. We also get Sasha Colby (Taaaassha Gooollllby) quoting an Emmy winning icon, No More Mrs. Nice EsTitties having a mirror micromoment with Mistress, the pure rush of endorphins that was that mini challenge (unless of course you’re Aja), a...

It’s a lesson in active listening this week as the queens channel their inner Barbara Walters (or, Hugh Downs in a wig) for the C-List celebrity chat show 50/50 (or 33/33/33 in some cases). Love Connie drives away with our hearts, and Luxx more than keeps up. Frankie Grande and Loosey just can’t stop quoting “Aliens,” Mistress misses her first beat all season, and Sasha tosses both her cards and C...

It’s not just any old ball this week, it’s the Reference Ball! Or, no, the Crystal Ball. Either way it’s the 200th episode of Drag Race! If you like queens quoting queens, you and Luxx are in for a treat this week, as the mini-challenge, the producer prompted workroom banter and two of the runways are inspired by balls, gags and the most iconic bodysuit in Drag Race herstory. Mistress shines in he...

It was a big week for Bruno! He got to call the balls (silently of course) for this week’s lip sync smackdown AND sit at the judges’ table! But more importantly, we got wall to wall lip syncs for 34 minutes, including some that just tore the roof off the house. Selina transformed Celine, Marcia put on more makeup (and won her lip sync!), Mistress didn't miss a beat, Spice did about as well as you...

This week’s acting challenge took a huge swing into absurdist territory and many fans said, “It’s not funny.” We found a lot to love, including the Too Many Queens opening credits, Sasha’s eye acting, that Latrice laugh and the mere idea of a surprise Danny Trejo. Malaysia and Mistress stole the show in both the challenge and the episode, and gave us lots to discuss about evoking the Bully Card an...

The Season 15 speed run continues with golden oldie girl groups this week. Metalgate almost turns the workroom into a mosh pit but we also get Mistress’s old school charm and Sasha Justice Corner. We give Robin more airtime than the show did, identify deeply with Malaysia, discuss campy Drag Race narratives, and have an impromptu PSA about a very important topic: stretching. Also: big bingo update...