The final episode of All Stars 11’s pink bracket, a makeover challenge featuring real gay dads, was the best instalment of the season so far.

How much does a boot order, a slang term for the order of elimination on a reality competition show, matter on Drag Race?

The LaLaPaRuZa has come and gone—congratulations to our new Queen of She Done Already Done Had Herses!—but we're still thinking about all-lip-sync episodes of Drag Race. Which format is your favourite?

Much ado was made about performance order in this season’s roast episode, to the point of nearly shattering close friendships. This begs the question: how much does a stand-up challenge’s performance order actually matter?

The United States held its presidential election last week, and the results were awfully familiar—emphasis on “awful” for this writer. But this turn of events reminded me of something unexpected.

This most recent edition of an all-lip-sync episode of Drag Race has us reflecting on how the format has evolved over time. Which version remains the best we’ve seen, and how can the main series continue to improve this format?

Xunami Muse and Morphine Love Dion dancing together. Marina Summers and Hannah Conda breaking into their steps from the challenge. Hannah and Tia Kofi holding hands raised high together at the end of their performance. Are we in a peak age of the Lip Sync with Your Friend on Drag Race?

A moment in Untucked in which the queens toast to no longer being “local girls” spurred some discourse online. As Drag Race itself becomes more and more global, it’s worth taking a look at how the local scene continues to matter.

The choice of Erasure’s “A Little Respect” as the final lip sync song in RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Season 5 was an inspired one. But it is notable to remember how, once upon a time, selecting a song by a non-Ru male vocalist would be an aberration from the norm.

A recent viral clip of M1ss Jade So, a finalist on Drag Race Philippines’ second season, proved once again how much more entertaining queens can be outside the confines of Drag Race’s challenges. So why is there no consistent way for these performances to be rewarded?

This week saw the culmination of the Fame Games, with LaLa Ri and Jaymes Mansfield winning big multipliers for their fan vote totals. It’s an interesting twist — but how does it compare to the others we’ve seen in All Stars seasons?

Long has the Drag Race fandom obsessed over perceived “high” and “low” scores, trying to make them fit into various track record calculations. But has All Stars 8 done what Wikipedia moderators could not: killed the “high” and “low” for good?

The infamous “Are you #Team?” fan votes on social media have been part of Drag Race since Season 4. But how much they really matter depends on which show you’re talking about—and how the decision for each show’s winner seemingly gets made.

We often think of Drag Race episode performances in a binary: you’re in the top or in the bottom. But what happens when a queen turns a bottom placement into a win?

Sasha Colby is stomping the competition this season, earning her third maxi-challenge win this week. But she’s actually not the fastest to three wins. So, who outpaced her?

RuPaul’s Drag Race has always been a show that loves to reference itself. But this season, the queens are taking the meta jokes to a new level—and it’s not necessarily for the better.

How has Joan Didion’s beloved L.A. fared on Drag Race, and is there a chance for another Angeleno champion this season?

This week’s challenge incorporated elements of an acting challenge, an improv task and a branding task. It’s left us thinking about the evolution of the “acting” challenge on Drag Race, and wondering: which incarnation is the most enjoyable?

What format, and what length, is optimal for Drag Race?

For this approach, I’m going to try and imagine what both the competition and narrative of All Stars 2 might look like had Adore stayed in.