There was much to queen out about in the world of Drag Race this year, and more than we could possibly cover. This week we’re looking back at the queens, quotes, moments, meltdowns and memes we loved from 2023, including highlights from Season 15, DRUK S5, All Stars 8 and Canada’s Drag Race S4 (and briefly, Dragula) as well as social media.Want even more Alright Mary? Become a Matreon (https://publish.blubrry.com/s-811386/episodes/e-90268786/edit/patreon.com/alrightmary) at the Sister Mary level to get access to our Canada's Drag Race Season 4 coverage, plus movie reviews and past seasons of US Drag Race, UK, Canada, Down Under, Philippines and more.Join us at our OnlyMary's  (https://publish.blubrry.com/s-811386/episodes/e-90268786/edit/patreon.com/alrightmary)level for EVEN MORE movie reviews, brackets, and deep dives into our personal lives!Patreon: www.patreon.com/alrightmary (http://www.patreon.com/alrightmary)Email: alrightmarypodcast@gmail.com (mailto:alrightmarypodcast@gmail.com)Instagram: @alrightmarypod (http://instagram.com/alrightmarypod)Johnny: @johnnyalso (https://www.instagram.com/johnnyalso) (Instagram)Colin: @colindrucker_ (http://instagram.com/colindrucker_) (Instagram)Web: www.alrightmary.com (http://www.alrightmary.com/)

Episode 432: The Best of Drag Race in 2023

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This week, we're bringing you the first 20 minutes of our discussion about a movie that must be included in the gay canon! If you want to hear the rest of the discussion, check out the link to our Patreon below!*Cruel Intentions* (1999) may mostly be about the heterosexual pursuits of Manhattan’s filthiest and richest, but it’s overwhelmingly queer coded. The cast includes Buffy Summers, Tracy Flick, Joshua Jackson with a box dye job, a cadre of older character actresses in supporting roles, a Tara Reid cameo, Selma Blair casually stealing the movie and even Eric Mabius as the Gregster. Plus Ryan Philippe’s butt, the spittle string when Kathryn and Cecile famously French kiss in the park, a soundtrack with zero skips, and a deeply satisfying female empowerment ending to the tune of “Bittersweet Symphony.”Want even more Alright Mary? Become a Matreon (https://publish.blubrry.com/s-811386/episodes/e-90268786/edit/patreon.com/alrightmary) at the Sister Mary level to get access to "Nuance," the Alright Mary aftershow, plus movie reviews and past seasons of US Drag Race, UK, Canada, Down Under, Philippines and more.Join us at our OnlyMary's  (https://publish.blubrry.com/s-811386/episodes/e-90268786/edit/patreon.com/alrightmary)level for EVEN MORE movie reviews, brackets, and deep dives into our personal lives!Patreon: www.patreon.com/alrightmary (http://www.patreon.com/alrightmary)Email: alrightmarypodcast@gmail.com (mailto:alrightmarypodcast@gmail.com)Instagram: @alrightmarypod (http://instagram.com/alrightmarypod)Johnny: @johnnyalso (https://www.instagram.com/johnnyalso) (Instagram)Colin: @colindrucker_ (http://instagram.com/colindrucker_) (Instagram)Web: www.alrightmary.com (http://www.alrightmary.com/)

Episode 450: Patreon Preview - Cruel Intentions (1999)

It’s time for Ru to pack up the pink limousine and peel out, but first—an uncanny valley version of a live finale! The Top 3 perform signature songs we’ve never heard before, and two of them are actually pretty great while one of them is sort of growing on us. (On an unrelated note, we do a full autopsy of “Bodysuit” this week.) We get some much welcomed mompreciation, plus Mrs. Wind and Mrs. Cristàl, Malaysia Babydoll Eagle, Sasha Colby (SASHA COLBY, Donna TaDonna) being She Her Hers, and finally, a “Padam Padam” lip sync on Drag Race between a vampire from Philadelphia and a boba-filled banana lady. Want even more Alright Mary? Become a Matreon (https://publish.blubrry.com/s-811386/episodes/e-90268786/edit/patreon.com/alrightmary) at the Sister Mary level to get access to "Nuance," the Alright Mary aftershow, plus movie reviews and past seasons of US Drag Race, UK, Canada, Down Under, Philippines and more.Join us at our OnlyMary's  (https://publish.blubrry.com/s-811386/episodes/e-90268786/edit/patreon.com/alrightmary)level for EVEN MORE movie reviews, brackets, and deep dives into our personal lives!Patreon: www.patreon.com/alrightmary (http://www.patreon.com/alrightmary)Email: alrightmarypodcast@gmail.com (mailto:alrightmarypodcast@gmail.com)Instagram: @alrightmarypod (http://instagram.com/alrightmarypod)Johnny: @johnnyalso (https://www.instagram.com/johnnyalso) (Instagram)Colin: @colindrucker_ (http://instagram.com/colindrucker_) (Instagram)Web: www.alrightmary.com (http://www.alrightmary.com/)

Episode 449: Drag Race S16 Ep 16 - Grand Finale

Instead of hashing out old fights while perched on stadium arranged bar stools on either side of the stage, the queens of Season 16 are reuniting to face off in a lip sync bracket for $50,000 and, in Megami’s case, a total rudemption arc. It’s a brand new stage (from Secret Celebrity Drag Race?), a playlist of top tier lip sync songs, Bruno just happy to be there, some girl in the audience high off her heels, and an opportunity for the top three to sit back and be judgey gays in the workroom while the best of the rest put on one of the most entertaining episodes of Drag Race ever. Want even more Alright Mary? Become a Matreon (https://publish.blubrry.com/s-811386/episodes/e-90268786/edit/patreon.com/alrightmary) at the Sister Mary level to get access to "Nuance," the Alright Mary aftershow, plus movie reviews and past seasons of US Drag Race, UK, Canada, Down Under, Philippines and more.Join us at our OnlyMary's  (https://publish.blubrry.com/s-811386/episodes/e-90268786/edit/patreon.com/alrightmary)level for EVEN MORE movie reviews, brackets, and deep dives into our personal lives!Patreon: www.patreon.com/alrightmary (http://www.patreon.com/alrightmary)Email: alrightmarypodcast@gmail.com (mailto:alrightmarypodcast@gmail.com)Instagram: @alrightmarypod (http://instagram.com/alrightmarypod)Johnny: @johnnyalso (https://www.instagram.com/johnnyalso) (Instagram)Colin: @colindrucker_ (http://instagram.com/colindrucker_) (Instagram)Web: www.alrightmary.com (http://www.alrightmary.com/)

Episode 448: Drag Race S16 Ep 15 - LipSync Lalaparuza Smackdown - Reunited

The workroom becomes a writers retreat this week as the top four put pen to paper, photo to book cover and personality to podcast for a memoir-able final lap before the finale. Oh and there’s some casual waterboarding during the mini challenge, but at least it comes with a trip to Puerto Vallarta! Nymphia discusses the challenges of meeting Western beauty standards with Matt Rogers, Sapphira slues her way to the top, Q takes a bite out of soup, Plane finally descends to the bottom 2 and RuPaul gets his life as director of those photo shoots. Want even more Alright Mary? Become a Matreon (https://publish.blubrry.com/s-811386/episodes/e-90268786/edit/patreon.com/alrightmary) at the Sister Mary level to get access to "Nuance," the Alright Mary aftershow, plus movie reviews and past seasons of US Drag Race, UK, Canada, Down Under, Philippines and more.Join us at our OnlyMary's  (https://publish.blubrry.com/s-811386/episodes/e-90268786/edit/patreon.com/alrightmary)level for EVEN MORE movie reviews, brackets, and deep dives into our personal lives!Patreon: www.patreon.com/alrightmary (http://www.patreon.com/alrightmary)Email: alrightmarypodcast@gmail.com (mailto:alrightmarypodcast@gmail.com)Instagram: @alrightmarypod (http://instagram.com/alrightmarypod)Johnny: @johnnyalso (https://www.instagram.com/johnnyalso) (Instagram)Colin: @colindrucker_ (http://instagram.com/colindrucker_) (Instagram)Web: www.alrightmary.com (http://www.alrightmary.com/)

Episode 447: Drag Race S16 Ep 14 - Booked & Blessed

What happens in Vegas doesn’t really ever stay in Vegas anymore these days, which is all to say that this week we finally get the makeover challenge! Five backup dancers from Drag Race Vegas LIVE (!) are perfectly paired with our five remaining showgirls--but oh also, we didn't get nearly enough Showgirls references this episode, I know that much. We have a lot to say about Monopoly, GUESS WHO, the blushing police, Ru’s roots in San Diego, that Plane and Lazy workroom connection, the audacity of TS Madison to notice a color story, the potential in the name Susan, this moment that country is having and why Sapphira very much won that lip sync while looking like one of the Knicks. Want even more Alright Mary? Become a Matreon (https://publish.blubrry.com/s-811386/episodes/e-90268786/edit/patreon.com/alrightmary) at the Sister Mary level to get access to "Nuance," the Alright Mary aftershow, plus movie reviews and past seasons of US Drag Race, UK, Canada, Down Under, Philippines and more.Join us at our OnlyMary's  (https://publish.blubrry.com/s-811386/episodes/e-90268786/edit/patreon.com/alrightmary)level for EVEN MORE movie reviews, brackets, and deep dives into our personal lives!Patreon: www.patreon.com/alrightmary (http://www.patreon.com/alrightmary)Email: alrightmarypodcast@gmail.com (mailto:alrightmarypodcast@gmail.com)Instagram: @alrightmarypod (http://instagram.com/alrightmarypod)Johnny: @johnnyalso (https://www.instagram.com/johnnyalso) (Instagram)Colin: @colindrucker_ (http://instagram.com/colindrucker_) (Instagram)Web: www.alrightmary.com (http://www.alrightmary.com/)

Episode 432: The Best of Drag Race in 2023

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