RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs the World

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.

With so much potential in this cast, I was ready to have my expectations blown away . Three episodes in and the strange editing choices and "holier than thou" attitudes emanating from some of the queens are starting to make them unlikeable and production unwatchable.

My guess is the finalists will not be from the smaller franchises which is so disappointing.

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.

Vs The World starts with a bang and ends as the most basic and uninteresting showing Drag Race has ever offered. I've never been less invested in a season finale and I really don't see anyone putting in on another international season when they'll know the goal is for the queens to be as mediocre as possible to get to the end.

When this show is based on talent, it has stakes and intrigue - once you take away all that, you're basically watching a lazily written sitcom. I was genuinely bored.

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.