HUMOR & TALENT
The Paramount+ competition, where drag queens from around the world sing live for a chance to win $250,000, is back, with a contestant whose drag name belongs in a hall of fame.
Coleman Spilde is a Brooklyn-based entertainment critic for The Daily Beast covering pop culture high and low, from celebrity gossip to the latest in film, television, and music. He studied Media with a concentration in Analysis and Criticism at Hunter College where he learned to dissect subjects to the minutiae while finding the humor in everything. His work has appeared in Taste, WhatCulture, and his newsletter Top Shelf, Low Brow, among others.
SPOILER ALERT!
What’s usually the funniest episode of a “Drag Race” season—Snatch Game—ended up being surprisingly dramatic when one queen decided to quit the competition.
SEE/SKIP
A guide to the week’s best and worst TV shows and movies from The Daily Beast’s Obsessed critics.
SLAY
Alexis Michelle returned to “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars” with leveled-up fashion, a craven desire to win, and the same unapologetic tone-deafness that makes her such great TV.
KILLER QUEEN
Season 2 comes to a long-awaited close with a frustrating finale—one that has the show stop spinning its wheels for a second, only to come to another abrupt, painful halt.
POOR UNFORTUNATE EARS
Whatever you think of the new live-action “Little Mermaid,” we can all agree that the ghastly new song “Scuttlebutt” is one of the worst songs in Disney history.
CUFF IT, BABY
The six Ks are back, and this season they’re dancing around to “Renaissance” on roller skates, driving stick shift, and having surprisingly intimate heart-to-heart sessions.
SO CREEPY
In Hulu’s “The Clearing,” young girls are kidnapped, forced to have the same haircuts, and tortured—and it’s all based on an actual cult that operated for decades in Australia.
SEE/SKIP
A guide to the week’s best and worst TV shows and movies from The Daily Beast’s Obsessed critics.
EXTREMELY ONLINE
The award-winning actress’ chaotic social media feed must be seen to be believed, between her unintentional “The Whale” quotes and bizarre utensil choices.