Ruth Boulet, Author at StayTuned Magazine

Skin Wars Season 3 premieres tonight!

April 20, 2016 Ruth Boulet

Skin Wars season 3 starts tonight, Wednesday April 20 at 10pm Eastern time on GSN. All of the judges from season 1 & 2 are returning: RuPaul Charles, Craig Tracy and Robin Slonina. And of course, host Rebecca Romijn also returns to season 3. Let’s learn a little bit about this season’s artists: In this premiere episode, it looks like the artists will have to paint a costume onto a showgirl-type performer. Each one is wearing a different headdress & that needs to inform the artist’s choices in their paint job. Let’s watch a clip courtesy of GSN: Are you […]

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RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 8 episode 7 recap: Shady Politics

April 18, 2016 Ruth Boulet

RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 8 episode 7 begins by letting us know a teeny-tiny bit of T. Apparently Derrick talked for a LOOONNNNNGGG time during the last mainstage judging. Thorgy thinks Chi Chi wasted everyone’s time yesterday. How she did that, I have no idea. She may have wasted her own time, but that’s on her. Let it go, Thorgy. The mini-challenge has the queens placing the expanded pit crew into the top or bottom of a giant bunk bed. I would hope that if you’re watching Drag Race & reading this blog, I don’t have to explain it to […]

Who won Face Off Season 10? A finale recap

April 13, 2016 Ruth Boulet

In this 2-part finale, we find out who won Face Off season 10. But first our artists have to create 2 horror makeups for a short film. Jason Blum of Blumhouse Productions is happy to be there and will be helping judge the final makeups. There’s a lot of thanking and happiness. Thank you, thank you, happy, happy. Over polite Face Off is my least favorite Face Off. These artists will be working with up & coming directors on a different take on the same story by Christopher Denholm, Hell Hole. Their movies will be set in this random oil field […]

Face Off Season 10 Finale preview

April 13, 2016 Ruth Boulet

Face Off season 10 is coming to a close with tonight’s episode. Will Melissa, Walter or Rob take the title? As we saw last week, Rob’s screen test ended with him having to re-sculpt everything. Yes, everything. He’s freaking out & I really can’t blame him. Melissa has a medium amount of work – re-doing a chest piece & her victim makeup. Walter appears to be sitting pretty with some minor edits & additions. I think I’m putting my bets on Rob – he’s been consistently strong over the entire season. If he can rally & get a crap ton […]

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RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 8 Episode 6 recap: Wizards of Drag

April 11, 2016 Ruth Boulet

RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 8 Episode 6 starts with a bit of Acid Betty shade. It seems very forced because if you watched Untucked you know that Acid Betty wasn’t that bitter. And you guys! Naomi Smalls puts a lot of effort into her looks! Does she have to wear a turtleneck now? Ru’s in the workroom, and he introduces Marc Snetiker, an Entertainment Weekly writer. He says the EW audience loves Drag Race recaps. Huh? Wonder who else does that? And I don’t see many recaps from this season on the EW.com web site. Sure isn’t linked off the […]

Face Off Season 10 Episode 12 recap: Skull Island

March 31, 2016 Ruth Boulet

Face Off season 10 episode 12 sends the final 4 to Skull Island. It’s a cross-promotion for some new theme park at Universal Orlando. Whatever. What follows is an extended commercial for this new theme park – opening Summer 2016! So the actual challenge is to take a creature from Skull Island: Reign of Kong and imagine how that creature would evolve into an intelligent species. Mel is second-guessing herself. Again. She comments on how this is the worst time to be second-guessing herself. But Mel, you’ve been doing it THE ENTIRE SEASON! Why stop now? Walter is freaking […]

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RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 8 Episode 4 recap: I Want Party

March 29, 2016 Ruth Boulet

RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 8 Episode 4 begins with a dissertation on Derrick Barry. Who is Derrick Barry? What motivates Derrick Barry? Does Derrick Barry have a soul? Is that different from having soul? Does Derrick Barry know what soul is? (Answer key: Don’t know; Unknown; Probably not; Confused; Nope.) This week’s guest judges are Lucian Piane, Chris Stein & Debbie Harry from Blondie! Purse first! Bob’s decided that the purse he made in episode 1 shall now be featured in every episode going forward. So it’s purse first into the workroom! We apparently haven’t had interesting conversations waiting for […]

Face Off Season 10 episode 11 recap: The Art of Warcraft

March 23, 2016 Ruth Boulet

Face Off Season 10 episode 11 takes us to a very specific war – The World of Warcraft. Melissa and Walter are seriously excited since they’re avid gamers. They’ve got to take one of the video game’s characters & create a real-life version. We’ve got goblins (Yvonne), the Draenel (Walter), the Pandaren, the Tauren (Rob), trolls (Mel) and the Worgen (Melissa can’t get there fast enough). Melissa can hardly contain herself. Mel, Rob and Yvonne don’t know much about World of Warcraft, so they’re especially freaked out. We’ll see if having knowledge of the game actually helps or hurts the […]

Face Off Season 10 episode 11 preview: Art of Warcraft

March 22, 2016 Ruth Boulet

Channel Guide Magazine has received another exclusive preview clip of this week’s episode of Face Off. This week’s episode is The Art of Warcraft: The game World of Warcraft is making its way to the big screen this summer. In this clip, we get the setup of the challenge – the artists are being asked to create a character based on a World of Warcraft character. Melissa and Walter are super-stoked for this challenge. They both play the game & are geeking out. Mel and Rob on the other hand don’t play, so they’re a bit apprehensive. And Yvonne is […]

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RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 8 episode 3 recap: RuCo’s Empire

March 21, 2016 Ruth Boulet

When we last watched Drag Race, we were left with a double elimination and a mysterious phone call to someone from RuPaul. So of course RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 8 episode 3 begins with much speculation. Victoria PorkChop Parker? Shangela? WHO DID RU CALL!?!? Sensitive, shady mentor Ru enters the workroom, still rocking the hats. Oh, and did you know his suit was from Klein Epstein Parker and they’re made to order? Wow! I had no idea. It sounds so casual & in the midst of conversation rather than actually advertising a product. Wink. But before we answer the question […]