Drag Race All Stars Recap: Period 5 Episode 5 — Is Alexis The Villain?

The really anticipated Snatch Match of Enjoy ultimately arrived on Friday’s Drag Race All Stars, even if there wasn’t substantially love to be felt in the workroom. From some shady predictions to a achievable conspiracy, the true obstacle was being performed driving the scenes.

It all began with the extraordinary Ru-veal that all people voted for Mayhem Miller to be despatched home — which include Mayhem. “You in no way give up on your goals!” Shea Coulee fumed. Miz Cracker then shifted the dialogue to a dialogue about the season’s top 3, asking her fellow queens to weigh in with any clear frontrunners. Dependent on overall performance, Cracker was named the most likely winner, with Jujubee and Shea subsequent closely powering. (As I have mentioned, I concur with individuals queens currently being the leading three, but I’m not positive I’d put them in that buy.)

Likely into the Snatch Sport, the queens’ feelings were all more than the map. Self-explained “power bottom” India Ferrah was sensation the force, promising the viewers, “I nonetheless have a ton of methods up my sleeves… and my pant slit.” Cracker, in the meantime, was arguably much too cocky. “Even if I base today, y’all just can’t get rid of me,” she claimed. “I just received!” And speaking of getting all above the map, that is in all probability the best phrase to explain the result of this Snatch Video game. Let’s see how the closing 6 queens fared:

JUJUBEE (EARTHA KITT) | Entirely knowledgeable of this iconic actress’ position in Snatch Activity herstory (formerly done by Chi Chi DeVayne and Valentina), Jujubee designed the aware final decision to “stand out by serving up this piece of p–sy.” I’m not even sure what she intended by that, but I sense like it’s exactly what she finished up offering us. Her voice was location-on, her mannerisms were hysterical and she performed off other contestants surprisingly effectively. (I particularly loved when she named out Blair St. Clair’s uncomfortable, joke-free of charge Ellen DeGeneres rants: “Back in the day, we termed this white sounds.”)

SHEA (Taste FLAV) | What else is there to say? Shea became Flavor Flav in this activity. A intellect-blowing 180 from her former Snatch Sport character (she recognizes that Naomi Campbell was a “safe” selection), Shea’s take on this musician-turned-reality icon was so great, it was practically scary. The voice, the physicality, the “14-inch… clock” joke. It was just perfection.

ALEXIS (WALTER MERCADO) | Significantly like visitor choose Jeffrey Boweyer-Chapman, I have no frame of reference for who Walter Mercado is, but I sense like I know him intimately soon after watching Alexis’ totally realized portrayal. I liked the way she handled Cracker unintentionally stealing just one of her thoughts (“It was my query, dumb bitch!”), one particular of numerous reducing interactions with her fellow contestants. Positive, she relied a little too greatly on the old “I didn’t see that one coming” regime, but it was giving me Jaida Essence Corridor/”Look about there!” power, so I savored it.

INDIA (JEFFREE STAR) | “Many individuals really like him, many men and women despise him — sort of like my daily life story,” India stated, justifying why she chose to portray the controversial splendor mogul. I just can’t say she did a lousy job of portraying Star, as she nailed his signature spooky seem, but I can say with self-confidence that she unsuccessful to come across the jokes. Not a single just one.

BLAIR (ELLEN DEGENERES) | As I said previously, Blair’s portrayal of the legendary daytime host was as unpleasant as it was absolutely devoid of humor. She nailed the hair and apparel, but that’s about it. And what was with that thick Southern accent? Blair has truly amazed me in the performing issues this time, so perhaps my expectations were a little greater than they must have been, but this was objectively terrible.

CRACKER (Woman GAGA) | Cracker remained speedy on her ft in this obstacle, as constantly, but this might have been the most uninteresting Gaga impression I’ve at any time seen. Why would you pick to portray an eccentric musician with an countless catalogue of legendary looks… only to settle on such a primary pink carpet gown?

The questionable selections carried via to this week’s “Prom Queen Fantasy” runway, which discovered Cracker battling some promenade night time pimples, Alexis supplying us quinceañera eleganza, India spending tribute to Morticia Addams, Blair serving “gender-bent illusion” in a pink tuxedo gown, Juju residing out her ’80s crimped hair fantasy, and Shea supplying her Season 9 elimination ensemble a Carrie-themed makeover. That past seem was genuinely a stunner, so it was no surprise to hear Shea introduced as this week’s winner, especially when you aspect in her spot-on Snatch Activity effectiveness.

Then factors received attention-grabbing. Soon following Ru declared that anyone not named Shea was up for elimination (“If you are not the major All Star, you are in the bottom”), India decided to get a thing off her chest. Two months in the past, Alexis and Mayhem allegedly tried using to get India to be part of them in voting for Shea. (Mariah Paris Balenciaga was eventually the 1 who went home.) None of the queens preferred to consider India’s tale, but Jujubee raised a good point: If India was lying, that would indicate she was a great actress… and she would have carried out far better at Snatch Recreation. Harsh, but correct. Alexis, meanwhile, presented this sound rebuttal: “India is the queen of stunts. She should have a display in vegas named The Stunt Queen.”

After hearing each India and Alexis’ sides of the story, Shea took on this week’s lip sync assassin (Alexis’ drag daughter Miss Vanjie!) in a high-kicking, dying-dropping display screen of ferocity to the tune of Madonna’s “Open Your Coronary heart.” And after what was clearly an exhausting earn, Shea admitted to the judges that India’s Ru-veal was weighing greatly on her thoughts. “I do not know if I can permit another person like that continue competing towards me,” Shea said, right before revealing that she selected to mail home… India Ferrah?! (I guess that system didn’t function out.)

“I can go away with my head held large because I bought to demonstrate all the sides of India,” the eliminated queen said on her way off the runway, also stopping to convey to Shea, “I didn’t lie to you.”

Do you agree with this week’s elimination? And do you believe that that Alexis conspired with Mayhem to send Shea house? Vote for the queen you would have sent dwelling under, then fall a remark with your ideas.