Frankie Doom's competitive side comes to play in The Boulet Brothers' 'Dragula,' 'Resurrection' and 'Titans'

I am so sorry this newsletter comes out on Sundays, because last night was drag queen Frankie Doom's last performance 🥀 She's not dying, she's just moving out of Alaska.

Think Monster High Doll meets The Exorcist. Frankie is one of my favorite Anchorage queens. She always picks good songs and she has a stage presence that is genuinely so funny.

She is well known for her features on three different Boulet Brothers' shows, first appearing on season one of Boulet Brothers' Dragula in 2016. In 2020, she was one of seven drag monsters in the two-hour film, The Boulet Brothers' Dragula Resurrection.

Boulet Brothers is like, horror-drag. It's giving ghoul. Filth. Glamour. Frankie most recently competed on the second season of The Boulet Brothers' Dragula: Titans, which aired in fall 2025. We spoke in the fall before the season premiere.

It was a long journey of always teaching myself things, and playing with makeup and playing with monsters and wanting to create these creatures, she said. I think at one point, I realized I didn’t want to create them, I wanted to be them.

Dragula

Taking it back to 2016, the winner of Boulet Brothers' Dragula would receive the title of the World's First Drag Supermonster and $10k. The first season is available on YouTube for free.

At that point, drag was very ‘Drag Race’ — it had to be beautiful, it had to be a certain aspect of drag, you have to be a woman, you have to be this — and I was not that, she said. I was seven feet tall with eight-inch stripper shoes, punk, dead corpse.

It is really cool to see Frankie's drag evolving over time, documented. She made it through to the finale (without winning any challenges) and finished as a runner-up with Melissa Befierce.

Resurrection

Frankie said she received a call from the Boulet brothers, asking her to come to California and participate in an unnamed project. She was living in Alaska at the time.

I thought it was a music video or something fun… it ended up being season 1 [of The Boulet Brothers' Dragula Resurrection], and it was incredible, she told me.

Resurrection has been described as part reality competition, part-horror movie and part-documentary, and the first spin-off for the Boulet Brothers.

Resurrection was a second chance for queens who competed in a previous season and fell, but showed great promise, per Dracmorda and Swanthula Boulet. The winner would appear on the upcoming season of Dragula, plus $20k.

You are here to compete in a grand Halloween showcase. You will prove your skills at the art of drag, filth, horror and glamor by creating three looks and performances, which you will present in three distinct floor shows, Dracmorda said.

Queens were judged on creativity, skills at costume design and creation, makeup and ability to perform. Scoring was based on ingenuity and overall vision of each challenge.

At the time, Frankie was working at Knott's Berry Farms as a scare actor, but was exterminated in the competition.

I went up to this guest, I jumped right in front of her and I screamed in her face and I swung my weapon, and she freaked out so hard that she literally uppercutted me in the nose, and the nose ripped off my mask. I mean, it was amazing – it's cool that I scared someone so bad that they beat me up.

Titans

In 2025, Frankie made their return to BB on Titans – another spinoff of the hit series, focused on queens who have previously competed but are asked back. Invite only.

The Titans prize pot increased to $100,000, plus the winner would headline the upcoming Dragula World Tour. And, they secured guest host Jennifer Tilly for an episode!! This is very important to me.

Titans is such a magical experience. I really want to show the audience the evolution of Frankie, basically. My fellow competitors should watch out, she said.

She was paired with Loris, Disasterina and Abhora in the first challenge. Although they did good as a team, each group had to put a monster up for elimination. Abhora had been put up by Dollya Black who won an earlier challenge, so it was between Loris and Frankie.

Disasterina said she couldn't decide who to vote for, so she flipped a coin to choose (at the reunion she said both sides of the coin had Frankie on it).

Frankie, Dollya Black, Cynthia Doll and Abohra then had to trek 10 miles (5 there, 5 back) through the desert at night and bungee jump off a bridge, in full drag. Now that's camp.

It's safe to say that Frankie was robbed on her return. She was the first boot of Titans season 2, taking the 14th and final slot. It felt like she hardly got any screen time during the first episode that she was featured in.

She did come back for the reunion, however, to shake her ass on stage. Classic Leo behavior (As a fellow Leo, I'm allowed to say that).

Frankie, you're part of the reason that I even considered doing this, Blackberri said at the reunion. To work and be in your presence was almost like living a fanboy dream.

(total watch time: 16 hours, 21 minutes)

The only celeb I want on Survivor is Mike White

Zac Brown appeared this week on Survivor 50 and had more confessional time in his 20-minute spot than some players have gotten in four episodes. We love Survivor Fact Checker, they basically accumulate all players' confessional time and make it mathy. Women have been under-edited in every episode. We are SO back, old school Survivor fans (no Cirie confessionals in lieu of ZB is not what I voted for, I just wanted these players to have some damn rice)!

One of the biggest artists in the history of country music fed the winning team tuna (that he *totally* caught), gave them libations from his own wine brand and played a new song for them that he hasn't released. How totally natural and non-self-promotional.

The TFP of it all

On Thursday, ABC announced they were pulling the plug on Taylor Frankie Paul's upcoming season of The Bachelorette, three days before it was supposed to premiere (tonight). The news comes after TMZ released a video from 2023, in which Taylor throws a metal barstool at her ex, and it hits her daughter in the head. It's bad.

The 19th News had a good write-up about the whole situation, and how choosing her in the first place risks normalizing domestic violence.

​I think it’s important that the networks respond to this moment and really become more conscientious of what it is that they’re greenlighting, who it is that they are platforming, whose narratives they are centering, Kimberly Bautista, founder and executive director of survivor storytelling nonprofit Justice For My Sister, said.