Series / Drag Race España All Stars

"The dynamic of this programme is Machiavellian, diabolic. Totally. The two best choose one of the two worst. And maybe you'll have to eliminate your friend."

—Pupi Poisson

Drag Race UK España All Stars is a 2024 Spanish Reality Show in which Drag Queens compete in challenges to impress host Supremme de Luxe. The show is a spin-off from Drag Race España and part of the international Drag Race franchise. It's produced by Atresmedia, Buendía Estudios and World of Wonder and was originally released via Atresplayer in Spain and WOW Presents Plus worldwide.

All contestants on Drag Race España All Stars are veterans of Drag Race España who've been invited to return and compete again, in the same style as the shows's American equivalent, RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars.

For the first season, contestants are drawn from the first three seasons of Drag Race España.

As with other Drag Race shows, challenges cover things such as modelling, makeup and fashion design - as well as comedy, acting and dance performances. Each episode usually includes at least one themed runway fashion show, which may or may not be related to the episode's other challenges.

As well as the challenges themselves, a large part of each show is devoted to conversation and events backstage, in the shared "Werk Room". This is where contestants prepare their costumes, do their makeup and rehearse for some of the challenges. Contestants aren't usually in drag during these segments, but still use their stage names - Drag Race largely avoids mentioning contestants' legal names unless contestants specifically share them.

Supremme's effectively the head judge, supported by a panel that also includes Ana Locking, Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi. There is often a special guest as a fifth judge, with several different celebrities during the season.

Drag Race España All Stars is filmed in Spanish and streamed internationally with subtitles. All English language quotes on this page are taken from the official subtitles.

The first season debuted on February 4, 2024. It was preceded by a short "Meet the Queens" special, introducing the competitors.

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Drag Race España All Stars contains examples of the following tropes:

• Audible Sharpness: A variation. Rather than using sound effects to demonstrate the sharpness of physical blades, the same sounds are added to emphasise cutting remarks by contestants.
• Big Labyrinthine Building: Most contestants make their debut by confidently walking through the Werk Room doorway and delivering an entrance line. Hornella Góngora instead runs past the door, runs back, and bursts in looking slightly dishevelled, claiming that she's been lost in the building ever since she was eliminated from Drag Race España.
  Hornella Góngora: I've been searching for the exit for months, and every night I find myself... back where I started!
• Blatant Lies: Onyx Unleashed uses her first Confession Cam to introduce herself as the winner of season two of Drag Race España. After a second she admits that no, she didn't actually win.
• Brainless Beauty: Several contestants comment on Sagittaria's reputation as a scatterbrained bimbo. Some take it at face value, whereas others wonder how much might be Obfuscating Stupidity.
  Juriji der Klee: Sagittaria. Gee, girl... I wanted to be the dumb bimbo this edition. You're going to make it hard for me.
• Character Catchphrase: Supremme congratulates challenge winners with "felicidragues" (as opposed to "felicidades", the Spanish word for "congratulations"). English subtitles turn it into a Share Phrase by translating it as RuPaul's usual version, "condragulations".
• Chirping Crickets: For Sagittaria's season one entrance, she confidently strides into the Werk Room, strikes a pose with one hand in the air, and says "And here's my catchphrase". There's a deliberately awkward pause and some chirping crickets as the smile starts to look a little nervous and she says "...that's it".
• Confession Cam: Contestants provide commentary via confessional interviews, which are recorded after the scenes they refer to, then spliced into the episode. Confessionals typically start on video, sometimes continuing as voiceover once the episode cuts back to the original scene. Confessionals are recorded out of drag.
• Dance Party Ending: Each episode ends with a few seconds of the remaining contestants dancing, then leaving the stage.
• Double Entendre: Supremme's video message at the start of the second episode is all about the need to be versatile in the contest, the importance of opening up, enjoying yourself, and reaching the... bottom. She ends the message by saying that "the writer really likes puns".
• Establishing Character Moment: The first episode deliberately gives each contestant a showcase to establish their drag style and persona when they make their grand entrance. Each queen walks into the Werk Room in full drag, pauses, poses and delivers a carefully chosen entrance line.
• Fashion Hurts: Drag isn't comfortable, and contestants are clearly happy to get out of costume after each challenge. During the second episode's "Redemption" runway, Pakita's Confession Cam mentions that the corset she's wearing for her period costume is killing her and she's hoping some pirate will "rescue" her character from it.
• Five-Second Foreshadowing: Pupi Poisson is the first Drag Queen to enter the Werk Room at the very start of season one, before the contestants meet each other. On Confession Cam, she says she hopes to compete against strong opposition, but "don't let in any more Canary Island queens", as they don't do well in the show. Drag Sethlas immediately enters the room, introducing herself as "the most famous Canary queen in the world"...
• Flashback Cut: When the contestants are introduced in the first episode, Confession Cam voiceovers and very brief flashbacks (sometimes with Split Screen) are used to summarise their Drag Race España history.
• Foreign Remake: Drag Race España All Stars is a Spanish version of the American shows that originally launched the Drag Race franchise. More specifically, it's mirroring the RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars format, with experienced contestants returning and changes to the franchise's usual rules for deciding winners and eliminations.
• Genre Savvy:
  • In the season one "Meet the Queens" show, Hornella Góngora, Sagittaria and Pupi Poisson all mention that they've learned some sewing since their first Drag Race appearances. Sewing challenges are a recurring theme in the Drag Race shows.
    Hornella Góngora: I'm great at sewing [laughs] I didn't know how to sew for season three, but for All Stars... [pause] I've learned a little.
  • In the first episode of season one, Onyx Unleashed says that she's taken dance lessons, acting lessons and voice lessons since her last appearance, ensuring that she's ready for All Stars.
• Girls with Moustaches: When Pink Chadora first enters the Werk Room at the start of season one, she's wearing a shoulder-length fake beard. She immediately rips it off and throws it away, saying that she's learned to hide her beard since her last appearance.
• God of Chaos: The voiceover introducing Onyx Unleashed's Talent Show dance performance explains that a pantheon of gods exiled her because of her chaotic nature.
• Hand-or-Object Underwear: Drag Sethlas removes layers of clothing as her Talent Show performance progresses. At the end, almost naked, she shows off her bare ass and covers her genitals with one hand. She does it again at the end of the same episode, removing her codpiece as the finale to her lip sync battle routine.
• I'm Not Here to Make Friends: In the season one "Meet the Queens" show, Hornella Góngora makes it clear that she intends to be a ruthless competitor and is not expecting to make friends on the show, noting that she has plenty already.
  Hornella Góngora: I'm not at All Stars to make friends because I've already got many, I have no blank spaces to write down telephone numbers. I'm here to destroy the others, one by one.
• Lady Drunk: Samantha Ballentines' drag persona is very fond of a drink, and enters season one with a cocktail in her hand, seeming slightly tipsy. She announces that the party doesn't start until she arrives, then drains her glass before joining the other competitors. A Flashback Cut shows her clutching a drink as she enters episode one of her Drag Race España season, in a very similar way.
• Meaningful Rename: Onyx Unleashed, who appeared in season two of Drag Race España, was previously using the stage name Onyx. She describes her previous appearance as "basic Onyx", saying that she's now the "premium version".
• Next Time On: Every episode (aside from the season finale) cuts from the onstage ending to a set of "Next time on..." clips. The clip montage introduces the week's main challenge and normally includes some judge's comments, but doesn't reveal who's being judged. Closing credits follow the clips.
• Nobody Here but Us Statues: At the very start of season one, Drag Sethlas and Pupi Poisson are the first two contestants to enter the Werk Room. Rather than waiting at the central table they pose against a wall with the mannequins, hoping to surprise the next contestant.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Sagittaria plays up her reputation as a Brainless Beauty, with her first season introduction accompanied by a Confession Cam joke thst she brought a few more brain cells this time. Samantha Ballentines is not entirely convinced it's true, and immediately says so in her own confessional segment.
  Samantha Ballentines: Fuck! Cool, Sagi's here. She's got her hidden weapons. I know it. Because she's not dumb. She seems dumb. Or maybe she is dumb and she's just lucky.
• Record Scratch:
  • In the season one "Meet the Queens" show, Hornella Góngora makes her entrance to a dramatic piece of Spanish guitar music - which scratches to a halt when she says she's known as "Miss Nothing", due to reaching the final of her season without winning anything at all.
  • During Pakita's season one "Meet the Queens" intro, the music scratches and briefly stops when she says that since her first season, she's become a "little more... bitchy".
  • Pupi Poisson's season one "Meet the Queens" intro scratches to a halt as she says she won't doubt herself if she has to eliminate her sisters.
• Share Phrase: Subtitles for Supremme use several of RuPaul's catchphrases from the original RuPaul's Drag Race series, including "Condragulations" (from the Spanish "Felicidragues") and "Good luck, and don't fuck it up" (from the Spanish "Buena suerte y no la caguéis").
• Sore Loser: During her first episode introduction, Samantha Ballentines uses her Confession Cam to joke that if she doesn't win, she's going to set fire to Atresplayer (who screen the series in Spain), Drag Race, the whole world and Drag Race's franchise founder RuPaul.
• Talent Show: On one level, the whole series is a talent show for contestants to showcase a wide range of drag skills, including acting, dance, fashion design and sewing. More specifically, the first episode of season one features a talent show challenge.
• Tear Off Your Face: For the second episode "Redemption" runway, Samantha Ballentines appears in ridiculously huge fake breasts, then cuts her own face off before baring her chest for a Fan Disservice moment.
• Toilet Humor: For the first season's talent show, Samantha Ballentines tells a funny, absolutely filthy story about her first enema.
• Torpedo Tits: For the second episode "Redemption" runway look, Juriji der Klee revisits her Barbarella look from Drag Race España. This time she's got a flamethrower effect, with breast-mounted sparklers spitting fire.
• Trouser Space: When Juriji der Klee enters the Werk Room at the beginning of season one, a phone rings. She promptly pulls an old-style landline phone out from under her dress, complete with a curly lead going back to her crotch. Innuendo immediately follows. Later in the same episode she reveals that she's also storing opera glasses there.
  Juriji der Klee: Why use 5G when we could play with the G spot?
• Voted Off the Island: Each episode the judges decide who the bottom two competitors are, but it's the episode's winning contestant who actually decides which one leaves the show. This contrasts with the usual Drag Race España rule, where the two contestants get a final chance to impress via a lip sync battle, and then the judges decide who leaves.

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"We're all here. We're all ready. This is war."

—Pink Chadora