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!

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.

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.

This is my first "allstars" format from the ever-expanding and slightly creaky RuPaul franchise and so I wasn't accustomed to a lot of the format decisions on display here but a lot of them don't work particularly well. Going into it though - I was hyped, there were some solid queens on show and it promised to be fun. The eliminations though, were poorly constructed, and ended up favoured tactics over talent which soured the experience somewhat. I call this the "Big Brother 4" effect - and it means you get fireworks early on but you end up with an underwhelming finale. Otherwise though it was still a proper hoot to watch, really nice to see some underrated international queens get a chance to shine in front of Ru.