Kevin O'Keeffe

3 weeks ago | xtramagazine.com | Kevin O'Keeffe

Suffice it to say there were some initial hesitations in the fandom about the RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 10 “Tournament of All Stars” format. Even with an understanding of all the reasons why such a format needed to be instituted to keep All Stars alive, there were still concerns that the “bracketed” season would be too confusing to follow—and worse, that it would deprive us of enough time with the various queens cast.

1 month ago | xtramagazine.com | Kevin O'Keeffe

Welcome to RuPaul’s Drag Race Power Rankings! Every week, we’ve debriefed the newest episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 17 to determine which queens were riding high, and which needed she-mergency care. But now, with our winner crowned, it’s time to take one final look back at our final four queens’ journeys to the endgame. Though she didn’t ultimately snatch the crown, Lexi did the next-best thing in this finale: she won the crowd back.

1 month ago | xtramagazine.com | Kevin O'Keeffe

The conventional wisdom goes that RuPaul’s Drag Race finales are bad. This is mostly rooted in memories of the mid-Logo era, when the show shifted to big-theatre final episodes but had minimal content to fill time. Seasons 7 and 8 introduced one-queen original songs, which helped fill the time, but it wasn’t really until the show moved to VH1 and introduced the Lip Sync for the Crown that finales got more interesting.

1 month ago | xtramagazine.com | Kevin O'Keeffe

Welcome to RuPaul’s Drag Race Power Rankings! Every week, we’ve debriefed the newest episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 17 to determine which queens were riding high, and which needed she-mergency care. But this week is special, as we join back up with the eliminated queens to see who can triumph in a LaLaPaRuZa smackdown for $50,000. Gotta give Hormona her props for nabbing “Say Liza (Liza With a Z)” before Suzie Toot could get it.

1 month ago | xtramagazine.com | Kevin O'Keeffe

There’s always anxiety in the air when RuPaul’s Drag Race repeats a hugely successful twist. Drag Race is ultimately responsive to itself, so when, say, Sasha Velour changes the game with a rose petal reveal for the ages, it’s unsurprising when Aquaria shows up looking like a Jiffy Pop bag in the next finale. And we won’t even get into Asia O’Hara’s butterflies.