Exclusive First Look: Emotions Run High on RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars
The very concept of an "all star" season of a reality competition series is pretty standard this day and age. Past players return to compete and win a prize. We've seen it on the greatest of reality shows, from Survivor to Project Runway. In a move that nobody really saw coming, RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars took that format and decided to make the competition that much harder. For the first time this season, 18 queens had to compete in three brackets. The top three from those brackets then move on to the final round to compete against each other.
The cast of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 10.
The cast of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 10.
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This concept isn't unheard of, but it does feel like a fresh new take on a familiar format, giving new life to the franchise and, hopefully, ensuring many more seasons to come. One big advantage of this change is that the show can now bring back fan favorites who have already competed on past All Stars. A few perfect examples of this are three queens currently in the Top 8: Ginger Minj, Aja and Jorgeous, all of whom have competed on past seasons of All Stars.
While this change in format is very new for the franchise, there have been hints of it these past few years. Season 9 found the queens competing for charity and never facing elimination, a rarity in reality competition television. Then there was an All Winners season, which wasn't technically an All Stars season, but it was for all intents and purposes. Both of these seasons were incredibly popular with fans, culminating in this season, which has proven to be an even greater success with fans. In fact, the season premiere is Paramount+'s second most-watched reality series premiere, just behind that previously mentioned All Winners season premiere. This season also is up in viewers by eight percent over last season, according to The Wrap.
If RuPaul's Drag Race was looking to compete with the latest popular entry into the reality competition landscape, The Traitors, then they've done just that with season 10 of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars.
Stream RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars this Friday exclusively on Paramount+.
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