Alaska is the most deserving winner and I'm glad people are starting to realize it!
Out of the remaining 3, Alaska's character is the most fully realized - ironically busted, awkward celebutante/starlet. Her character is a good-natured and confident but clueless wannabe glamor queen, who thinks she oozes eleganza in spite of her obvious bustedness. Her cheap gowns, gaudy jewels, tawdry blonde wigs styled into an aristocratic poof are a commentary on the deconstruction of glamour. On the cheap things we do to make ourselves "beautiful".
Alaska Thunder**** is the trailer park prom queen that was ditched by her date and goes out to a bar and tries cocaine for the first time. She's a 40 year-old trophy wife that hits the club by night and does MDMA with the college kids when she's not at home recording casting videos to send to Bravo's
The Real Housewives of Cleveland.
She is deliciously kitsch, and gloriously so. If drag is meant to be a parody on femininity and the culture that enforces it, surely Alaska's brand of drag can be seen as an embodiment of throwaway consumerist culture. She even has the body type perfect for that - that sickeningly skinny and long body, the always purposefully open mouth in a Bratz make up. I mean, on the first day she gave one of the best and most memorable runway looks the show has ever seen-- Tornado Barbie.
She's the whole package; a fully realized drag queen who came in with everything seemingly stacked against her. After an uninspiring start she started gaining traction, wisely detached herself from Rolaskatox, and repeatedly impressed with her razor-sharp wit and ability to adapt to whatever the challenge required. It's no fluke that the queen never appeared in the Bottom 2.
Turning the Tragic into Magic!
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