Jiggly Caliente might have an even more drastic glow-up to present this season. Given the decade-plus since her first season aired and her finally being able to compete as her full self, Kylie Sonique Love is as close as this season has to a brand new queen. She appeared on the Drag Race Holi-slay Spectacular in 2018, earning impressed raves from fans who may not have remembered her first time around. But she's come a long way since then, famously coming out as transgender in the Season 2 reunion episode, the first Drag Race contestant to do so. Kylie, who went as simply "Sonique" in Season 2, was kind of a low-personality sidekick to Morgan McMichaels, ultimately losing out to Morgan in a lip-sync. Two other queens who exited early in their original seasons are Jiggly Caliente (Season 4, 8th place) and Kylie Sonique Love (Season 2, 9th place), but both have major comeback narrative potential and should both be considered dark horse contenders. Ra'jah's original narrative was that she kept getting into arguments, while Scarlet didn't have much of a storyline at all. It's tough to tell what either Scarlet or Ra'jah's ru-demption storylines might be this season. Both were part of the infamous six-way Lip Sync for Your Life that season, and although they both survived it, they were gone by the halfway mark of the season. The two other queens most in need of a reputation rebound are Season 11 queens Scarlet Envy and Ra'jah O'Hara. All Serena needs is one standout performance in the first week to turn her fortunes around, something that happened for India Ferrah just last season. Which is why she has the most room to surprise both the audience and the judges. None more so than Serena Chacha (Season 5, 13th place), who only lasted two weeks in her original season and who was basically blasted by both the judges and her fellow queens for being out of her depth.Įven though her original season was eight years ago, Serena still feels like obvious cannon fodder in this group of queens. And even if you want to put an asterisk after Eureka's name because in her second season she finished as runner-up, you can even that out with Pandora Boxx exiting first in her second season, so it all adds up to the fact that a lot of AS6 queens are looking to rebound from disappointing finishes. So let's look at the contenders based on the storylines they'd bring to the table: The Early BootsĪll Stars 6 features an unprecedented seven queens who finished in 8th place or lower in their original seasons. Season 6 has the stuff to be even more chaotic. Only All Stars 4 felt like a true competition among the queens at the top, and interestingly that was the season where RuPaul couldn't decide and just crowned Trinity and Money X-Change both champs. ever? Season 1 was all about Chad Michaels and Raven (who finished 1st and 2nd, respectively) Season 2 was tapped for Alaska and Alyssa Edwards (1st and 5th, respectively) and Seasons 3 and 5 were heavily favored at the outset for eventual winners Trixie Mattell and Shea Coulee. We haven't had an All Stars season without a clear favorite to win since. This season, though, it truly feels like almost any of these queens could finish anywhere on the spectrum from first to last, and that is exciting. Which can be frustrating if one of your personal faves (say, Mariah Balenciaga in All Stars 5) isn't among the anointed few. In the past we've generally been able to look at an All Stars cast and pick out who are the favorites to win and who are just there to fill out the cast. One could say that makes for a shaky season at the outset, but it also makes for a thrillingly unpredictable season. The queens gathered for All Stars 6 are a rather ragtag bunch - a mix of three-time competitors, early boots, fan un-favorites, and old-school queens, with precious few contenders for frontrunner status. This is the show's sixth All Stars season, and it's returning in a super-sized format, with 13 queens competing to join the Drag Race Hall of Fame, up from the usual ten. RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars makes the jump from VH1 to Paramount+ today, marking the first time that the streaming service will be premiering new Drag Race content.
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