Alright Mary is two parts Drag Race viewing party, one part queer studies lecture and a healthy dose of obscure pop culture references, all wrapped in a nuanced layer of dad jokes and pun-offs served weekly with a side of piping-hot tea.
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Colin Drucker Podcasts
Each week, we dive deep into our favorite awards show category--the Best Supporting Actress--and discuss the winners, nominees, and all of the acting choices and moments worthy of recognition, even if it's just our own.
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Each week, I explore micro-moments, acting choices and all of the magic in the minutiae--the nuances, if you will--that make a scene great. Take a drink every time I talk about a Best Supporting Actress nominee.
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Episode 517: Alright Scary - "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" (1998)
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Jennifer Love Hewitt is part of another doomed quartet of rising stars of the 90s getting terrorized by an omnipresent North Carolina fisherman out for even more justice because he still remembers what she did two summers ago. Brandy, Mehki Phifer and Matthew Settle join Julie James on the most convoluted all expenses paid trip from hell to the Bah…
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Episode 516: Alright Scary - "Malice" (1993)
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Alright Scary is back this month with a movie your parents probably rented in the 90s, “Malice”! Its ingredients alone make it a cut above the domestic thrillers of the era, with Nicole Kidman, Bill Pullman and Alec Baldwin in a triangle full of twists, a fourth billed Bebe Neuwirth doing her best Columbo, Ann Bancroft devouring an entire set witho…
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Episode 515: Drag Race UK S7 Ep2 - "Rumble in the Jumble" (Preview)
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It’s a jumble out there! The queens are turning challenge props from seasons past into, well, whatever they want. Viola gets strung out over the traitorous takes from a room full of Claudia Winklemans, and it only gets worse for her from there. Meanwhile Bones softens, Chai T gets lost between the cushions, Paige Three sends us on a necessary tange…
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Episode 514: Drag Race UK S7 Ep1 - Brit Gala
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The UK workroom is alive again with the sound of camp cows, Soho girls, Irish girls, indoor divas, the occasionally unclear pun name, both a violin and a nose flute, and a Gregg’s in a wig. The Pink Carpet sort-of challenge is essentially a version of Squid Game where you just hope to not get interviewed by Plane Jane, and the runway reminds us tha…
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Episode 513: All Stars 10 Ep 12 - Tournament of All Stars Smackdown for the Crown
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Mostly seven but briefly eight queens make it through to a final lip sync battle for the crown and the cash. Kerri hosts the viewing party as Irene is teleported back to Mars, Sister Mary Aja does her little walk and Daya wagon wheel watusis away against her Seattle sister. Lydia puts her whole butthole into Shakira and Bosco attempts to raise her …
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Episode 512: All Stars 10 Ep 11 - Tournament of All Stars Talent Invitational
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Before next week’s lip sync smackdown, we get this week’s lip sync smackdown in the form of a talent show! Will Aja jump from there? Will Lydia rely on cumbersome props to tell a bizarre story? Does anyone need to be reminded of the Pharmarusical? While everything comes up Ginger and Jorgeous has an intense reaction to turkey, Bosco’s pretty privil…
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Episode 511: All Stars 10 Ep 10 - Tournament of All Stars Snatch Game
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It’s time for the queens to come back eight months later and play the Snatch Game! Mistress ends up really taking it on the chin this week, as her Bracket 2 antics land about as poorly as her Natalie Nunn impression with the rest of the girls. Meanwhile Ginger doesn’t break a sweat as Reba and continues her winning streak (of Snatch Games and chall…
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Episode 510: All Stars 10 Ep 9 - The Golden Bitchelor
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Sometimes Dolores, being a bitch is all a drag queen has to hang on to. And this week, it’s what it takes to both win the heart and bone of that guy from “Fire Island” and win a spot in the semifinals. While Ginger aptly fetches her third win, Daya finally stops begging Alyssa for a point and retrieves the second spot in the top. Acid and Alyssa ar…
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Episode 509: All Stars 10 Ep 8 - Stagecooch
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The tonk is particularly honky this week as the queens bring the Grand Ole Opry to the main stage for a girl group challenge that is decidedly more Dixie Chicks than Spice Girls. Meanwhile in the workroom the bottom 4 are spinning their partners round and round over who is gonna nab that third spot in the semifinals, and that’s all before Ginger la…
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Episode 508: All Stars 10 Ep 7 - Wicked Good
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We are officially Nicole Paige Brooksless this week as Bracket 3 kicks off with a wickedly wonky team-based design challenge and six new queens with big shoes to fill. Of course we also have to hold space for contractually featured guest judges Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande. Ginger and Daya defy expectations to take the win while Acid Betty is st…
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Episode 507: All Stars 10 Ep 6 - Starrbooty: The Rebooty
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Mischief Isabelle Brooks is in full force for this final lap of the bracket and not everyone is feeling gapey about it. A rather on the nose villains vs heroes Starrbooty Rusical leaves Nicole in shambles, Tina overshadowed and Kerry robbed. Meanwhile Jorgeous is apparently Broadway bound, Lydia is a used Butthole but a fortunate pawn, and the true…
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Episode 506: All Stars 10 Ep 5 - Rappin' Roast
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This week’s roast is rapped up and hot to go! And for some queens it was even pre-written! The burns start well before the challenge between the feuding Brookses and one Texas diva left out of the alliance. Meanwhile Butthole is torn between two mother figures but Jorgeous continues to feel very muggy. Chappell Roan makes some noise on the judges p…
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Episode 267: The BSAs of the Best Supporting Podcast
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It is alas our last supporting episode! After almost six years, we are looking back on our Top 10 favorite episodes, performances, quotes and new obsessions born out of hopping on microphones every week to talk about women (and sometimes men!) in supporting roles that we love. As a wise woman once said, it was never a burden, it was an honor. But a…
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Episode 505: All Stars 10 Ep 4 - Eight Ball
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Bracket Two gives us a couple of Brookses, a Butthole, a Colby, a comeback for Mrs. Burner and a now three season veteran who is still too young to legally rent a car. We get the ball rolling with a ball, but this episode is mostly Isabella holding court in the workroom, derailing the Ru-Sees and dueling with Tina before getting royally face-cracke…
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Episode 504: All Stars 10 Ep 3 - Hoop Queens Makeovers
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It’s time to put pen to paper and likeliness to college basketball player for this week’s girl group makeover challenge that decides who will join Irene in the semi-finals. Principal Skye is in full effect, Bad Babysitter Bosco has the Goddess in capable hands, Olivia makes beautiful music with Heaven spelled backwards, and there’s no alliances lef…
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Episode 266: The BSAs of "Angels in America": Ep 5 & 6 (2003)
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It’s the end of the world, or at least the end of the world as Hannah, Prior, Louis, Harper and Joe know it. Roy is left with nothing but the haunting of Ethel Rosenberg in the end, who herself finds peace through tradition (and believe it or not, Louis). While Joe’s fairy tale comes crashing around him, Prior chooses life, Harper chooses San Franc…
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Episode 503: All Stars 10 Eps 1 & 2 - Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner & Murder on the Dancefloor
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As a wise woman once asked, are y’all ready to rock and roll? The first bracket of All Stars is kicking off this season with a glam rock girl group before getting their knives out for a southern fried murder mystery. Irene the Alien crash lands into a redemption arc, Aja is giving tristate area hair stories, Principal Skye is back from sabbatical, …
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Episode 265: The BSAs of "Angels in America": Ep 3 & 4 (2003)
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The Angel, some ghosts and Mother Pitt descend upon New York. Harper vanishes to Antarctica by way of Prospect Park, Prior turns prophet, Hannah ends up in the Bronx, and Joe and Louis kick off a situationship straight out of East Hell. Speaking of which, Roy Cohn has become the demon of St Vincent’s, but Ethel Rosenberg has arrived to keep him com…
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Episode 264: The BSAs of "Angels in America": Ep 1 & 2 (2003)
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We are taking on the heaven-sent HBO television event of 2003, “Angels in America” and specifically the first two episodes this week. Not only is it a Big Important Gay Story, it’s directed by Mike Nichols and stars Meryl Streep, Mary Louise Parker, Emma Thompson and a series of straight men playing impeccably gay, especially Jeffrey Wright. And th…
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Episode 502: RuPaul's Drag Race S17 Ep 16 - Grand Finale
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It’s been Onya’s season to win since she walked into the workroom in that vest, but this finale had us a bit nervous. Sam’s red carpet and Lexi’s rollerskates left them both primed for an All Stars comeback, and Crystal winning Miss Congeniality mayo feel righty real! But it all came down to the burger queen of Cleveland vs Tampa’s answer to Tracee…
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Episode 263: The BSAs of "Grey Gardens" (2009)
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Edie, get some ice cream! We’re celebrating 2009’s “Grey Gardens” with that fine HBO polish, impeccable prosthetics, a sweeping score, the wild range of Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore working harder than anyone to bring Little Edie Beale to life in all her glory, misery and resilience. Jeanne Tripplehorn’s Jackie O, Malcolm Gets’s Gould and Ken H…
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Episode 501: RuPaul's Drag Race S17 Ep 15 - Lip Sync Lalaparuza Smackdown
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The Top 4 take a break while the eliminated queens duke it out for $50,000 and potential reputation redemption. We get a Liza With a Z disrobing, wall to wall wig whipping, Joella’s little skirt, Crystal’s condiment heavy compliment, Bruno’s hosting skills and a final showdown between the Poor Little Matchstick Girl and the HBIC. Become a Matreon a…
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Episode 262: The BSAs of "The White Lotus" - Season 3
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How wonderful for us, to spend another 8 weeks in a season of “The White Lotus”, a show made up of essentially all supporting characters. We’re counting down our favorite guests, staff and scene-stealing accomplices as we pack our bags and head off towards whatever becomes the next pop culture moment to feed the meme machine and produce endless Tik…
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Episode 500: RuPaul's Drag Race S17 Ep 14 - How's Your Headliner?
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The final five roll the dice on the chance to join Drag Race LIVE! in Vegas, but first they need to do a pseudo TicTac lunch with Latrice and film a kiosk promo for an act we know nothing about and never see. We do get a Ru directed photo shoot, but it also feels 14 weeks late. Then it’s coats and a cloche on the runway and two different Rosses on …
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The 2018 Mary Kay Place vehicle “Diane” may be a bit of a gloomy drive around a weathered stretch of the Northeast, but luckily it includes a bevy of character actresses and Broadway legends in the passenger seat. Estelle Parsons, Andrea Martin, Joyce Van Patten, LaChanze, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Phyllis Sommerville, Dierdre O’Connell and Glynis O’Con…
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Episode 499: RuPaul's Drag Race S17 Ep 13 - Drag Baby Mamas
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It’s time to make the Top 5 cry by bringing in their moms and dads for a makeover challenge. Which also means it’s time for us to play casting director. We get to see Suzie as Mrs. Toot’s son, the hurricane of emotions that is the Loves, Mrs. Star as Debbie Novotny, a sparkling sausage daddy and Nunya Bidness LaBelle. Become a Matreon at the Sister…
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Episode 260: The BSAs of "Forrest Gump" (1994)
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Pull up a park bench at a bus stop cause we’re talking about a true 20th century American classic, “Forrest Gump”! Despite its comedic quotability and punchline of a lead character, it taught millennials with cable in the 90s so much about Vietnam, drugs, dad rock, and just about every way you can have shrimp. Gary Sinise’s Lt. Dan is everything yo…
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Episode 498: RuPaul's Drag Race S17 Ep 12 - Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve & Talent Monologues
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As a wise woman once said, this is interpretive dance. The Top 6 are pairing up to present their childhood traumas while their partners shimmy and slither their version upstage. Things then get ugly on the runway. Become a Matreon at the Sister Mary level to get full access to our recaps of "The White Lotus" this season, plus movie reviews and past…
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Episode 497: RuPaul's Drag Race S17 Ep 11 - Ross Mathews vs the Ducks
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The season has been no stranger to feuds, even passive aggressive ones started through mirror messages, but this week it’s between the queens and a sombreroed Ross Mathews with a compromised larynx. Or is the feud really between director Cheyenne Jackson and his leading man/unofficial AD? Then of course there’s Lexi vs Lexi’s idea of Suzie, and app…
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