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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: Happy RuPaulidays!It’s finally time for the first elimination of the season, but first we must endure the first acting challenge of the season.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: Tamisha Said I Had PotentialEpisode one’s “losing” team mount an impressive production number that surpasses last Friday’s installment from the “winners.”
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: The Spy Who Dragged MeThe highly anticipated epilogue of RuPaul’s Psychological Warfare Race gives way to a far more normie season premiere/RuPaul infomercial.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: Pair of QueensAs Drag Race format shakeups go, this year’s lip sync battle falls somewhere in the middle, but a great cast of queens help give it a boost.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Finale Recap: Winner, Winner, One Chicken Dinner!The eliminated queens return, but for ornamental purposes only, on the way to crowning a queen who this franchise was pretty much made for.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars Recap: Roast BattleThe much-anticipated stand-up challenge is effectively this season’s unofficial RuPaul Roast.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Family MattersIndia may be gone from the competition, but she is not done stirring the pot.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Et Tu, BRute?India Ferrah knows that a surefire way to deflect negative attention is to start bringing up some old drama.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: TMZip Zap ZopWe are in the midst of a Drag Race cold war.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Best Exotic MaRugold HotelIt’s looking like this season won’t be a runaway, and that the queens are eager to send a frontrunner packing at the first sign of weakness.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: Man CrushesAll Stars 5 is as much a competition as it is group therapy.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars Recap: Jeff Probst’s Drag RaceThat’s right, henny, we’re doing Survivor now.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Season-Finale Recap: Long May She ReignEven when you take away the pageantry and production value, you’re still left with a show with a hell of a lot of talent, creativity, and heart.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Reunion Recap: Bedroom QueensDrag Race embraces the circumstances and turns out a tasty, socially distant snack that leaves us hungry for the finale.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: Luck Be a LadyA long-form advertisement for Drag Race’s Vegas residency (womp womp) gives us our final three queens, and a multitude of reasons to stan each one.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: #MethmentumGiven the overall strength of this top six, it’s surprising how messy these one-queen shows turn out to be.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: Drag Brings JoyWe’re given a top-tier makeover challenge thanks to a group of delightful, endearing guest stars who help our queens become loving drag moms.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: Patriot GamesDrag Race has every right to make an episode that speaks to the current moment, but whether it can do so successfully is another matter entirely.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: This Is Heidi’s NightThis season’s brand challenge provides a much-needed shakeup, and shows this race is ultimately just getting started.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: Get Into the GRuveMadonna: The Unauthorized Rusical is the best musical challenge in Drag Race herstory. That’s right, no qualifiers.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: Gigi’s Drag RaceIn an episode full of RuPaul trying to produce queens into botching the Snatch Game, one in particular refuses to break pace.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: The Girls Are Fighting!This year’s acting challenge proves to be one of the better installments in the Drag Race adapted screenplay canon, but the real drama is in Untucked.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: It DO Take Balls!A classic ball challenge brings with it some classic ball-challenge tropes, plus a guest judge who belongs in the Drag Race hall of fame.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: Improv EverywhereAll 13 queens assemble for the season’s first acting challenge, social distancing be damned! But one in particular gets a curious lack of screen time.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: Fosse/BurdenSeason 12’s six remaining queens enter the competition amid a distinct feeling of déjà Ru.
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    RuPaul’s Drag Race Season Premiere Recap: The Bitch Is BackA jam-packed season premiere trots out some familiar twists from seasons past, along with an impressive (half) crop of new queens.