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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Season-Finale Recap: Odds in Her FavorA long, difficult season draws to a close the only way it really could. But where does Drag Race go from here?
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: Closing ArgumentsThe remaining five queens get the full Top Four treatment as they make a final case for themselves to be in the finale.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: Return of the Cyst-ersA couple of go-to challenges, but with a new twist, frame what is definitely the most dramatic episode of the season thus far.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: Practically MagicThe queens are serving charisma, uniqueness, nerve, talent, and magic tricks, hunny!
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: You Have the Right to an A-Turnt-EyThe strong get stronger, and one queen takes a giant leap forward by embracing her inner fool.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: The Deadliest SnatchSeason 11 finally kicks into high gear thanks to one of the best Snatch Games this series has seen, a killer runway, and a lip-sync for the ages.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: Raw and UnfilteredWe’ve reached the point where Ru is demanding more personality from these queens, in the form of an unconventional-materials design challenge.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: Last DanceIt’s Team Glamazonia vs. Team Tuckpantistan in an Olympic choreography showdown that’s the season’s best maxi challenge thus far.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: Beauties and BeastsWhat this season needed was a good old-fashioned Ball challenge!
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: Make Season 11 Great AgainDrag Race gives its standard lip-sync musical challenge the Trump treatment, and it is truly bizarre.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: Glitter BombWhat has occurred here in this episode is straight up dis-re-spect-ful to Mariah Carey.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: Dragkanda Forever!A blockbuster-inspired acting challenge reveals which queens have what it takes to command the screen, and sets the season back on track.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Season Premiere Recap: Let’s Get Elevengendary!Season 11 is off to the races. Let the best woman … win!
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    Drag Race All Stars Winner Monét X Change: ‘It Makes Me Feel Invincible’“You can buy new clothes and you can get a bigger budget, but you can’t teach someone how to be funny.”
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 4 Winner Trinity The Tuck: ‘It Was Time, Honey’“Did I expect to win? Absolutely. Absolutely.”
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars Season Finale Recap: Gag RuleA competitive top four is whittled down to a top-two showdown resulting in a gag that will define this season for better or worse.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Life’s Not FairRiding high off the gag of the season, Naomi takes some big swings in a Sex and the City-themed maxi-challenge.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: A Star Is FallenAn emotional, Judy Garland–themed makeover episode culminates in an elimination that turns the season on its head.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars Recap: Club KidsFrench Vanilla Fantasies will only take you so far.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars Recap: 4 Shots of AdrenalineIt’s rare that an All Stars comeback episode delivers so thrillingly on its high-stakes promise.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Bye, Girl, Bye, and Hello AgainThe workroom mirror reveal is back, and more devious than ever.
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    Drag Race’s Latrice Royale on Her All Stars Shock: ‘I Won’t Join the Buffoonery’“Ugh, I just can’t go stupid! I can’t! I won’t.”
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    Drag Race All Stars 4 Recap: The Bitch Was Back, Now She’s Gone and We’re Sad!We’ve gotta talk about all these New Jersey accents.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: She (Varying Degrees of) Ready!The Snatch Game gets a Dating Game twist that draws a line between the queens who came to play and those who came to slay.
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    The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Bitch Stole My TalentThe forecast for the Housewives’ rainy day in Florida: partly shady with a some organized fun peeking through.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Don’t Funk It UpMiss Henny has entered the workroom, but even she can’t overshadow the D-R-A-M-A this episode.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars Premiere Recap: Faster Than a Speeding Death DropAll-Stars 4 charges out of the gate with the customary reads, a gag-worthy talent show, and multiple contenders for this season’s villainess.
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    Dancing Queen’s Alyssa Edwards on Drag Race Drama and Getting a Netflix Show“Let me start off by saying, oh, I’m 100 percent a diva.”
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    Getting Real With the Queens of RuPaul’s Drag Race“When you put drag queens in a room together, we all think we’re the biggest thing in the whole wide world.”
  30. Drag Race’s Asia O’Hara on Season 10 and Arguing With RuPaul“It’s just two people having a conversation about something they feel very strongly about.”
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 10 Winner Aquaria on Victory, Vigilance, and the Vixen“I gave it my all and I got it all.”
  32. lists
    Antoni Porowski’s 21 Queer Eye Recipes, RankedFrom grilled cheese sandwiches to that infamous guacamole, which is Antoni’s best dish?
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Season-Finale Recap: The Butterfly Effect, or Lack ThereofAn up-and-down season comes to a satisfying conclusion (except for some butterflies).
  34. lists
    The 100 Greatest RuPaul’s Drag Race Looks of All TimeThe absolute best looks in Drag Race herstory. It’s time to pay respects to the slays of the past!
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Reunion Recap: No Tears Left to CryThis season’s reunion show takes a surprisingly emotional turn.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: Four on the FloorWe size up the finalists ahead of the big finale, trying to figure out who’s likely to prevail.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: Gemini SeasonThe competition is whittled down to just four queens.
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    Here Are 11 Minutes of Unfiltered Tracy MorganEnjoy.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: Swipe Up for GlamourWe’re down to a remarkably great top five.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: These Violent Delights Have Gaggy EndsThe queens go Westworld.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves — and Billy EichnerIn a Cher-themed episode, the girls make the leap from lip-syncing to singing live.
  42. chat room
    Monique Heart Talks Success on Drag Race: “You Need Money!”“You have to look like you belong there and you fit the part.”
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: You Can Take My SnatchWe’ve got ourselves a tough episode to swim through, mermaid-style.
  44. Every Snatch Game Impersonation on RuPaul’s Drag Race, RankedOf all the Snatch Game performances throughout Drag Race herstory, which one is the very best?
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: Pros and Drag ConsAll hail these merch-peddling artistic geniuses.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: Zip Zap Death DropMiz Cracker is surely the front-runner now, no?
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: Pale Blue BallTo infinity and beyond, queens!
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    America’s Next Top Model Season-Finale Recap: Hangar In ThereA bizarre, convoluted, and self-congratulatory finale.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: Fun, Friends, Maybe MoreYou really need to watch Untucked this week, too.
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    America’s Next Top Model Recap: Too Sexy for ShampooThis is the Citizen Kane of reality-TV villain edits.
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