This weekend I caught up on "RuPaul's Drag Race," and I'm glad I did. After being underwhelmed by the first episode (you can check out why here) and being similarly bored by the second, I found the last three episodes to be a huge improvement....

Well the first hour was excruciating, but by the end of Hour 2 (ugh!) we got at least four pretty good performances out of the evening. Too bad that not all of them will make the Top 12...
Von Smith chose Marvin Gaye's "You're All I Need to...

A LOT happened Wednesday night. We got our three winners from the last group of 12 - all of the right people made it through - and the judges picked the eight contestants who have a shot at the three remaining wild card slots. And the right...

I've been lusting for "Top Model" Cycle 12 since the girls' photos were released a few weeks ago. But after the premiere I have to say, I'm not that impressed. There's nothing wrong with this group of modelbes per se. I think it's actually one...

I wasn't even planning on watching Season 2 of Bravo's "Top Model" rip-off. I was so disgusted by the behavior of almost all the models by the end of Season 1, and so frustrated by the way the show was run, that I basically wrote it off as soon...

So we've got three spots in the Top 12 left (or DO we?), and eight potential candidates to take ‘em. Going into Thursday night I strongly disagreed with several of the picks, but things certainly didn't play out how I expected. Here's how...

The whole thing just felt neutered, and it's a song about street fighting. You cannot be neutered when you are street fighting!

So we can all calm down: the twist is not that the judges will be choosing who goes home. The twist is that the judges have one free pass they can give to one contestant who they think got unfairly booted once in the season. I actually think it's...

So we can all agree that Tyra hates Sandra, and is intentionally trying to break her, right? Why else would you saddle someone that gorgeous with hair most commonly seen on tranny hookers?

I cannot believe that just happened. "Rock of Love Bus" a.k.a. "Rock of Love 3" a.k.a. "Bus Full of Skanks with Bret Michaels" has been unquestionably the best season in the show's history. "RoL" 1 had its moments, most of them coming from the...

The theme was Grand Ole Opry, which is just a fancy way of saying "country night." Funny thing is, very few of the performances ended up sounding even remotely like country music. I think in a weird way that's a testament to the contestants, who...

There was so little content in this elimination episode that on top of the group sing-along (which HAD to have been pre-recorded; is this new, or have I just been ignorant for, like, years?), the drawn-out results, the Ford commercial, and not...

Last night's "Top Model" was one of those instances where it was clear from minute 1 who was going home. When boring Nijah, who I kept forgetting even existed, got tons of screen time and confessional interviews (which, improbably, made her...

Now THAT was a satisfying conclusion. The brilliance of last night's finale can be summed up in the following words, taken from the first stanza of Bebe Zahara Benet's rap contribution to RuPaul's new music video: "Face! Face! Face! I give...

It kind of figures that the theme week with the best source material would have the poorest cumulative performances overall. It was Motown week, and that meant more recycled Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, and The Temptations - songs we've heard on...

S-C-A-N-D-A-L!
Finally, DRAMA! I've been struggling with the fact that, while this season features a number of genuinely pretty girls, it's been awfully dull so far. That fact was underlined when C3's Toccara stopped by last night's episode to...

PLEASE let these results shows go down to a half hour. We had, what, four terrible musical performances last night? Egads. As if the cheesy lip-synched group sing wasn't bad enough, we got Ruben Studdard singing his dreadful new song (how did...

So allegedly the theme this week was the iTunes Top 100, but I remain confused how almost any of the selections fit that criteria. Are we talking the Top 100 songs from, say, 1976? Or Top 100 Billy Joel songs? Because then, maybe. But almost none...