RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs the World

I am a massive Drag Race fan. This was a great concept and had an exciting line up... but what a waste. All the best queens went first- only 2 queens in the finale even had a win, it says it all. They REALLY need to rethink AllStars rules.

Terrible snatch game. Weak group song. Boring final.

And don't get me started on the winner. One note all the way through- just very annoying in general. Won because they were the best of a bad bunch of lip syncers.

Thankfully, the season was short. Every cloud and all that!

This has tarnished the brand significantly. The format doesn't work. We were left with the dregs. Basically the show was fuelled by these queens insecurities. I think this was even worse than Australia and Italia. Painful.

The first episode was one thing, but we're to #3 and the production messing with everything is already out of control. To save the show from being the world vs 1 UK queen they are protecting queens from the bottom and offering others up as bait. This thing is a mess. The show has the same problem of the UK version of being poor and offering no good prizes to these queens. It gives queens no good reason to want to win the lipsyncs and essentially makes them try and avoid burning bridges/passing off fans all for the opportunity of a co-song with rupaul? They put the judging on the queens to make the choice of who goes and to keep their control they make sure to rig the bottom to try and save the queens they want.

I haven't watched the entire franchise, but this is the worst season I ever watched in dragrace herstory.

By the announcement, i thought finally something was coming and it would be good but episode by episode my hopes diminished more.

Especially while watching the last 2-3 episodes, i thought maybe I am boring watching a million seasons of drag race in 1 year but no, US season 14 is keeping my interest alive by every week. This one was bad. With these drag race stars, putting on that show really needs talent.

SEASON 1 (1.5/5)

It's a shame that the first international all-stars season was a miss, after all the hype it gave. I always found "the winner chooses who leaves" rules from the previous All-Stars seasons entertaining, but this time it condemns the show to exit strong and charismatic participants way too early in the competition leaving us with drag queens that don't make good TV or that doesn't have a real motivation to win (one of them was merely putting any effort but still get to the finale). Because of that, the finale was pretty deceiving, and the winner didn't seem to merit the win.

Also, some little changes in the presentation made things a little off and cheap, which is not worthy of the "international" premise of this show.

SEASON 2 (3/5)

A huge step up after the awful first season. The cast was memorable even if some of the contestants were quickly overwhelmed by the level curve of the competition. La Grande Dame and Manilla were the stand-out of the season.

The season was still missing some good lipsynch, despite having a very good dancer like Manilla, and the challenges were not very funny or interesting, snath game included.

The winner feels right from a narrative point of view but it's hard to not see more talented drag queens in the cast.