If you want to get this rest of this week’s discussion of Season 3 of Drag Race UK, become a Sister Mary or OnlyMary at patreon.com/alrightmary! (OnlyMary’s get an additional bonus episode AND Canada’s Drag Race post-show discussions each week on top of DRUK recaps!) Patreon: www.patreon.com/alrightmary Email: alrightmarypodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @alrightmary Johnny: @johnnyalso (Instagram) // @johnnyalso1 (Twitter) Colin: @colindrucker_ (Instagram) // @colindrucker (Twitter) Web: www.tasteofre...
Oct 13, 2021
James Cameron’s bombastic follow up to “Alien,” equal parts action and horror movie, may make us yearn for the Nostromo a bit, but more importantly it features our favorite cat owning, flamethrower wielding space mom, Ellen Ripley. The Extended Special Edition of “Aliens” gives us even more time in Act One with Ripley and Jones before pairing her up with eye candy like Bill Paxton, Michael Biehn and Jeannette Goldstein, to say nothing of one particularly beguiling robot. We’ve got mixed feelings...
Oct 11, 2021
If you want to get this rest of this week’s discussion of Season 3 of Drag Race UK, become a Sister Mary or OnlyMary at patreon.com/alrightmary! (OnlyMary’s get an additional bonus episode each week on top of DRUK recaps!) Patreon: www.patreon.com/alrightmary Email: alrightmarypodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @alrightmary Johnny: @johnnyalso (Instagram) // @johnnyalso1 (Twitter) Colin: @colindrucker_ (Instagram) // @colindrucker (Twitter) Web: www.tasteofreality.com/alright-mary/ www.alrightmary.com
Oct 05, 2021•25 min
Kathy Bates earned a much deserved Oscar for playing delusional and occasionally demented devotee Annie Wilkes to poor James Caan’s critically injured Paul Sheldon in “Misery,” and we spend most of this week’s episode praising her performance. We also Mary out on the overarching metaphor of addiction, the cautionary tale of Annie the Toxic Fan, Frances Sternhagen’s welcomed presence and fashioned sense as Deputy Virginia, what the movie would be like if Paul were a woman and played by Viola Davi...
Oct 04, 2021
Why aye pet, it’s already another season of UK huns! In this week’s special Patreon preview episode we give our first impressions and second guesses of the Season 3 queens, our takes on the first two runways of the season, and some strong feelings on those lip syncs. We have lots to say about the teen queens in the room, Anubis and Krystal, we’ll never say Kitty Scott-Claus correctly, Choriza may be an early favorite of ours, we appreciate the Home Alone fantasy that Ronnie Green and Scarlett ar...
Sep 27, 2021
Spooky season kicks off early this year with the announcement of a new season of Dragula! While the competition doesn’t officially start for another month, this week we’re discussing our first impression of this new crop of monsters, including an old familiar face from Drag Race here to potentially do backrolls over the competition. We also establish nicknames pretty early on for all of them, go on a brief tangent about Ripley and Jones in “Alien” and reminisce about some of the highlights of Se...
Sep 19, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the Gregg’s, the UK is giving us another season of drag royalty competing for potential superstardom once the show airs. This week we’re breaking down our first impressions of all 12 queens (well, 11 plus familiar face Ronnie Green), based largely on their Meet the Queens videos and very subjective evaluations. As per usual, we plan to be wrong (sometimes we even confuse past Dragula contestants for cancelled YouTube makeup artists) and look forwar...
Sep 12, 2021•1 hr 14 min
Hey Mary! We’re dropping this mini episode to catch you up on what’s to come on our Patreon feed this month, as well as everything we’ve posted from the past month on both our Sister Mary and OnlyMary’s levels. August was a month of brackets, broken hearts and, of course, what gays quote. September is going to be spooky and British, and at the OnlyMary’s level, it’s already getting a little naked. Become a Matreon at patreon.com/alrightmary to get access to new episodes plus 200+ episodes in the...
Sep 10, 2021•14 min
The final four are putting the C.U.N.T in “country” this week for a classic All Stars finale. There’s not much left to discuss or do except to learn more choreography from Jamal Sims, have a 30 minute consultation on stage with Ru in Michelle, and write and record verses for a new Ru song. (Can you guess what it’s called?) While it was anyone’s race by the end, Kylie Sonique Love Hewitt Michelle Gellar Lange brought the most twang to her track, a subversive look on the runway and an ascended mas...
Sep 05, 2021•1 hr 6 min
While it takes a real cunning linguist to say the name of this week’s episode, the Top 5: Part 2 queens deserve snaps all around for this storytelling challenge. Ginger, now doing almost too well in the competition, is given the “too polished” note while Eureka’s triumph over trichinosis finally nabs her a win (and with that lip sync win, a total of $25k just under the wire). Ra’Jah very briefly forgets her place (and later half her look, in a genius runway), Kylie rises up by sitting and Trinit...
Aug 29, 2021•1 hr 18 min
Crunch crunch, munch munch, Silky Nutmeg Ganache is here to eat the competition for lunch. The infamous game within a game is finally here–a weekly lip sync showdown between eliminated queens that very quickly becomes Silky’s unstoppable rise to potentially compete again with the Top 4. (Who, by the way, in a meta twist, spend the entire episode watching Drag Race with us. Ra’Jah provides great commentary throughout.) Along the way Serena squats, Jiggly pops and Yara strums. Scarlet looks the pa...
Aug 22, 2021•1 hr 17 min
Ooh baby, this week’s Drag Tots extended promo/design challenge really ended with a boom clap of a lip sync, and reigning assassin Kameron Michaels had something to say about it. We kick things off this week diving into the end of the episode, when both queens did the best they could with what they were given, which was also a running theme for this challenge. The PTSD flashback to junior high of a mini-challenge mostly knocks Moody K Bonet off her axis for a bit, but bossy, messy, gassy, shady ...
Aug 15, 2021•1 hr 16 min
Six celebrity Snatchelorettes try their luck at love and improv in this week’s perennial gauntlet of a challenge, Snatch Game (of Love). After Phyllis Diller and Dolly Parton play verbal volleyball over Whitney Houston’s head, Eureka serves extra helpings of a Divine that’s just fine, Ra’Jah lights up as LaToya and Pandora’s Kim Cattrall leaves us Samantha Jones’ing for more. While there was a lot of pop art on the runway, most of our fashion talk this week is about Cheyenne Jackson from the bar...
Aug 08, 2021•1 hr 10 min
This week’s girl group challenge takes on an activism twist with inspirational lyrics about self-love and positivity. (Okay, this may not be that much of a twist for a Drag Race song.) Jan takes the self-love note and runs with it, all the way to the bottom, joined by Pandora and her two left feet. The real twist comes when Mrs. Mateo shows up with not one but two lipsticks in her titty, for a melodramatic conclusion to Jan’s pitchy peaks and valleys run this season. Well, until the game within ...
Aug 01, 2021•1 hr 25 min
It’s already time to say “adios” to a fabulous season of Drag Race, but not before putting the Top 3 through the usual finale paces. We have less to say about the reunion than we do about the final challenge this week, and even then it’s mostly thirsting over Carmelo Segura. Killer Queen kills the challenge, Hugaceo and Arantxa steal the runway and Carmen wins the competition before the lip sync is even over with a brilliant wig reveal that left us dripping. We also discuss the merits of Ricki a...
Jul 28, 2021•1 hr 8 min
This week’s supersized ooky-spooky acting challenge casts the queens as witchy women from the world of Ryan Murphy–including some unfortunate typecasting of Jan as Leah Michelle, a perfect Pandora Crawford, and a lovely Lange from Kylie Sonique. (But how does it compare to Michelle’s?) Angela Bassett turns up to share some radiant wisdom over Skype, Ra’Jah gets misdirected to drop the voice, and A’keria is cursed with three times in the bottom. Kylie’s boobs win the lip sync, but Jan’s overalls ...
Jul 26, 2021•1 hr 24 min
The queens become ladies who chat this week on Pink Table Talk. First things first, can we get an extended cut of Trinity, Eureka and A’keria’s roundtable kiki? While Ginger won fair and square this week, we could watch that team queen out all day. Meanwhile the Jantasy has seemingly ended with a full on Dogvillination of Ms. Sport, who of course we try to defend this week. And ditto Scarlet, who was hardly as uncomfortable to watch as one of her fellow tablemates. Mayhem zips by to challenge Gi...
Jul 19, 2021•1 hr 14 min
Our final four Spanish reginas are giving birth to a quartet of rugby player-sized baby queens for this week’s makeover challenge. Pupi’s poison all season has been her rough aesthetic and it unfortunately transfers to her drag daughter, while Carmen’s season-long perfection results in a true “She’s All That” moment for her partner. Sagittaria spirals out of orbit as a non-sewer with two looks to make and Killer Queen is the true winner of the week for getting to personally tuck Fernando. We que...
Jul 14, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Pardon the crunchy audio, we caught up on Skype while Johnny’s on vacation in Mexico this week! Meanwhile our ten remaining superb owls give us a hoot of a halftime show, ranging from a wide-eyed Fergie to a shaky Shakira. While no one was in the red zone, Jan’s goo-goo Gaga and Trinity’s A+ Beyonce were the ones we’d most like to see an instant replay on. We huddle up on some strong feelings about Madonna, sack the notion that the Curse is broken and punt some ideas of who fumbled and who was j...
Jul 11, 2021•1 hr 42 min
We’ve seen some one-sided lip syncs before—even earlier this season when Inti quit—but none have been quite as fascinating and even frustrating as Dovima’s decision to just stand there while Sagittaria danced around her and Carmen cried in the safe zone. There are lots of tears this week, including from the judges, as well as Killer’s instinct for kindness, a puppet challenge that was no Lamb Chops, a roast that may have been a little undercooked and a clear path to victory for Farala. Patreon: ...
Jul 07, 2021•53 min
This week’s episode gave us two long overdue redemptions: Trinity K Bonet won a main challenge and lip sync assassin Laganja Estranja won All Stars 6. The marketing maxi challenge and re-do’s on the runway are practically afterthoughts to one of the most exciting lip syncs of the series, which we discuss beat by beat, as well as a deeper appreciation of Silky’s rocky road after Season 11. We also come to consensus on who Scarlett reminds us of, present a similar question about Yara, try to solve...
Jul 04, 2021•1 hr 21 min
This week’s acting challenge features the filthiest high school in Spain, with an undead Carmen stealing the show with those bananas, a wet and wild Principal Pupi, Sagitarria with a rising moon in Uranus and Hugaceo at her horniest. The runway is a literal art museum that had us saying, “Hello, Dali!” with guest judge Alaska on the judges panel calling most of the shots and certainly helping Pupi finally secure her first and much-needed win. Patreon: www.patreon.com/alrightmary Email: alrightma...
Jun 30, 2021•1 hr 11 min
If there’s one thing Drag Race isn’t giving us this year, it’s blue balls. We not only got an All Star talent show this week that sent Serena out of the competition and into the game within a game, but we had 36 looks on the runway for the Blue Ball. Yara’s bounce to the top becomes a sag to the bottom when her breastplate does her no favors this week and her tarp dress looks like a tarp dress. Jiggly at least does better than her iconic baked potato couture of Season 4, but that’s unfortunately...
Jun 28, 2021•1 hr 26 min
Get ready for another season of redemption, reinvention and in the case of this week’s talent show, repetition, as we kick off another season of All Stars! 13 familiar faces (well, more or less, thanks to fillers and Botox) return to the workroom to not only get their hands on a crown and scepter, that ubiquitous $100,000 and maybe some cash tips for lip syncing along the way, but introduce or re-introduce themselves to an ever-growing Drag Race audience. (Well, so long as they’ve got Paramount+...
Jun 28, 2021•1 hr 20 min
Whether it’s Down Under, over the border or across the Atlantic, Snatch Game is always one of the most highly-anticipated challenges of a season. Spain not only paired theirs with a reading mini-challenge but a full on ball on the runway, resulting in 21 looks and well over half of the episode dedicated to the main stage. While fave of the podcast and gold star pizza queen Arantxa does end up sashaying away, Killer Queen emerges as more than just the spitting image of Tyne Daly, our love for Pup...
Jun 23, 2021•1 hr 5 min
It’s time for the queens to prove they’re a triple threat–a quadruple threat if you count a football mini-challenge that ends up being the least chaotic part of this episode. In teams of two, they’re selling women’s lifestyle magazines, running for dear life on a treadmill while lip-syncing to “Cha Cha Bitch,” and acting out bizarre mprov sketches that involve slapstick lesbianism and familial phone sex. A hometown roots runway is the final straw for a misunderstood Inti, Supremme divinely inter...
Jun 16, 2021•1 hr 5 min
While this episode was primarily a classic girl group challenge, the singing and dancing portion of the episode was largely overshadowed by a Veneno-inspired runway and queer royalty on the judges panel. Carmen snaked her way to the top of the pack while Vulcano fell from those platforms to the bottom against Arantxa in a quintessential pizza queen look. Patreon: www.patreon.com/alrightmary Email: alrightmarypodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @alrightmary Johnny: @johnnyalso (Instagram) Colin: @colindru...
Jun 09, 2021•1 hr 4 min
The Drag Race empire expands to Spain! It’s your classic first episode of the first season format–photo shoot and a sewing challenge–but with a decidedly goosey Spanish twist. The cast is full of charisma, the drag is exciting, some of the contestants are just as exciting out of drag (Vulcano…) and Supremme and friends on the judges panel are a deluxe delight. Not to mention the workroom is the size of an IKEA showroom. The episode wraps with an exhaustive lip sync that sends a potential comment...
Jun 02, 2021•1 hr 2 min
C’mon, All Stars 6, let’s get Paramount+ accounts! The game of second chances is back with another season of seasoned queens, from Pandora and Yara of yesteryear to Jan and half of Season 11. To say nothing of a longtime favorite on this podcast, Trinity K Bonet, the surprise of Serena, a welcomed third go of it for Ginger, and the big Barkin energy of Kylie Sonique Love (Hewitt Michelle Gellar). We make super early predictions, hypothesize on casting choices, call out a missing queen, and close...
May 30, 2021•1 hr
We have been referencing this on the podcast for years and finally needed to give it its own episode. There is a video from 2012 of Dida Ritz performing at The Scorpio in Charlotte that we can’t stop queening out about. We spent 45 minutes breaking down (shutting it down, if you will) this epic 7 and a half minute performance. The truth is, we could have gone on longer. Watch it here!: https://youtu.be/HyhI-AszEnA Patreon: www.patreon.com/alrightmary Email: alrightmarypodcast@gmail.com Twitter: ...
May 24, 2021•55 min
