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"The Bitchelor"
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars episode
Episode no.Season 3
Episode 3
Original air dateFebruary 8, 2018 (2018-02-08)
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"The Bitchelor", stylized with the "i" as an

reality competition television series RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, which aired on VH1 February 8, 2018.[1][2] The season's eight remaining contestants impersonate stereotyped characters on a The Bachelor-style improvisation acting challenge.[3] Constance Zimmer and Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, both from Unreal, itself a parody of The Bachelor-type shows, serve as guest judges, alongside regular panelists RuPaul, Michelle Visage, and Ross Mathews.[4][5] Like the rest of the season, the show has a themed fashion runway challenge, and the contestants get feedback on both challenges.[6] The top two queens vie in a lip sync battle with the winner choosing which contestant is eliminated.[7]

Episode

DragCon LA) and Constance Zimmer (right, pictured in 2014)—both stars from the parody drama Unreal
—served as guest judges.

As the episode starts, the contestants, as usual, are shown recovering from the events that just transpired in the previous episode—including the review of the "lipstick mirror message", written by last episode's eliminated queen—in real time within the last two days.[8][9] W magazine notes the series excels when it embraces the diversity of drag cultures, and cites this episode's tension between traditional Southern pageant queen Kennedy Davenport who some felt came off as bitter at times, and younger Club kid New York high-fashion, and seemingly entitled, elitist Milk.[8][10] The latter "savagely" saying "she would send Kennedy home, because her drag is apparently not groundbreaking".[11] Junkee noted that unlike Milk, prior to being on the show Davenport was a professional drag queen who "stakes her entire career on her work ethic, and ... [did not] necessarily have the luxury of experimenting and taking drag ‘to the next level’".[3]

The eight remaining queens are introduced to the maxi-challenge by RuPaul, "playing the best version of

She-MZ" parodying TMZ as examples.[10][16][17]

First, in the improv challenge with

thruple with Bowyer-Chapman, they took part in a date.[3] Aja played a "Super Needy Girl", paired with Kennedy Davenport portraying a "Party Girl"; Milk impersonated a "Psycho Stalker", paired with Trixie Mattel as a "Fake Bitch"; BenDeLaCreme portrayed a "Cougar", paired with Bebe Zahara Benet playing a "Shy Virgin"; Chi Chi DeVayne and Shangela impersonated a "Polyamerous Lesbian couple".[3][8][11][12][19]

Bowyer-Chapman in the end had to choose who he would give his "

class action lawsuit, The Bachelor introduced its first Black star in its 18-year history, Matt James, in June 2020.[22][a] In a further parody of the show, RuPaul filmed a confessional talk about her and Bowyer-Chapman, "[we will] do Good Morning America, then appear on Dancing with the Stars, and then "we'll get divorced" ... because that's what real life Bachelor winners do."[24]

Runway

RuPaul introduces guest judges Bowyer-Chapman and

Ruveal—into their runway looks.[10] The Culturess states, "The runway is delightful from beginning to end."[25] Although all the queens were good, a standout was Aja's Kawaii Superstar into an anime lush Sailor Moon.[21] The judges felt it was her best look ever, and it was designed by BCalla in collaboration with ISLYNYC and Dick and Virgil.[26]

Upon judgement, BeBe Zahara Benet, and Shangela are deemed safe. During the critiques, BenDaLeCreme, Kennedy and Trixie receive positive feedback on their performances and runway looks, with BenDaLeCreme and Kennedy winning the challenge.[10] Chi Chi DeVayne, Aja and Milk are all criticized for their performances and all are put up for elimination.[11] The A.V. Club felt Davenport, as one of the queens who may decide the fate of the bottom three, wasted a reality-TV opportunity by not getting more air time meeting each of the three because she had already made up her mind.[19]

Lip Sync

W magazine felt that neither queen, Kennedy Davenport, or BenDeLa Creme, "found a way to satisfyingly connect" with their lip sync of

Vulture disagreed noting "BenDeLa’s interpretation is less layered in comparison to the full-diva gravitas Kennedy brings to the song while honoring its gradual buildup to the chorus. The reveal of a second wig and a jewel-encrusted black dress under her robe is breathtaking, and Kennedy easily nabs the win for an all-around amazing lip-sync performance"; she holds the lipstick of the episode's loser.[10] Milk ended up being eliminated when Davenport won the battle and the $10,000 cash tip.[11][7] Billboard felt Chi Chi should have been eliminated instead saying, "Milk and Chi Chi flopped ... but Milk’s failure was trying too hard at something that’s not natural for her, and Chi Chi’s failure was that she didn’t even try in the first place."[29]

Episode Contestants
(Pick for Elimination) 		Song Winner Up For Elimination Eliminated
3 BenDeLaCreme
(Chi Chi DeVayne) 		vs. Kennedy Davenport
(Milk) 		"Green Light"
(Lorde) 		Kennedy Davenport Aja
Chi Chi DeVayne
Milk 		Milk
  The contestant was eliminated after their first time in the bottom.

Reception

Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve, and Talent]."[11] They went on to point out, "drag is about performing certain traits of femininity, but it can get super-uncomfortable when no questions are asked, when the butt of the joke is the woman and not stupid societal portrayals of femininity. When the jokes landed this week they were literally a laugh a minute, but when they flopped we didn’t even need the infamous cricket sound to amp up the awkward."[11] The New York Times Magazine said it appreciated "the way that it slyly highlighted how our culture coaxes us to treat finding love as a competition".[15] The A.V. Club felt The Bitchelor should get its own television series with the "dreamy" Bowyer-Chapman reprising his role.[19] They felt "This is the most difficult challenge yet because funny improv is hard, but it allows the best All Stars to show off their talent and their personality by performing on the fly."[19]

Towleroad felt that Aja successfully carried out her vision for her character, but that the vision was wrong.[30] Aja was supposed to channel "needy" but kept inventing non-related backstories.[8] Jezebel’s reviewer felt Davenport’s portrayal in the Bitchelor was "perhaps the funniest performance in an acting challenge [in the series] to date—second only to Ginger Minj’s star turn with Trixie Mattel in Season 7's John Waters tribute", a Rusical about eating eggs.[31] The A.V. Club stated, "Kennedy has an outrageous side that she reserves for these comedy challenges".[19]

The A.V. Club thought BenDeLaCreme's "drunk cougar" had the best one-liners like "Have you ever taken out a catheter?", with "most involving creepy infantilization and suggestive bananaplay. Her comic timing is fantastic, and even though she has a massive personality, she doesn’t push her partner out of the scene."[19] The New York Times seemed to agree saying BenDeLaCreme's "boozy matron, spilling a Cosmo and sliding along the side of her limo toward Mr. Bowyer-Chapman with her skirt hiked up and crotch pixelated, made me howl."[12]

Vulture felt Milk "steamrolled" over Trixie and Bowyer-Chapman, yet lacked the self-awareness that her performance was subpar.[10] Billboard felt she partly redeemed herself with possibly her best runway look to date.[29]

Screen Rant felt the episode was the best show of the season with all the queens ultimately doing a good job.[32]

Further reading

  • Barthwell, Ali (2018-02-08). "Everything RuPaul's Drag Race Got Right About The Bachelor". Vulture. Retrieved 2020-07-30.
  • "RuPaul's Drag Race: Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman Tells Us What It's Really Like to Guest Judge the Reality Sensation (Bonus Podcast)". TheWrap. March 8, 2018. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
  • Brant, Joseph (February 9, 2018). "RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars recap: "The Bitchelor"".
    Out & About Nashville
    . Retrieved July 30, 2020.
  • Sheehan, Paul (February 15, 2018). "'RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars' 3 elimination interview: Milk spills all the dirt on being bounced from 'The Bitchelor'".
    GoldDerby
    . Retrieved July 30, 2020.

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