Season 3, Episode 8

Well, we’ve come to the end. We’ve been through so much — Milk’s tantrums, BeBe’s speaking in tongues, Shangela’s “Game of Thrones” fan-fic — and yet, so little. This season frontloaded its villains (Morgan McMichaels, Thorgy Thor, Milk), mishandled one hero (Chi Chi DeVayne) and let another (BenDeLaCreme) go on walkabout, and came up short on what’s usually so special about “RuPaul’s Drag Race”: heart and stakes and the sense that lives are being changed. What were we supposed to root for, longer meet-and-greet lines for Kennedy Davenport?

This week’s final episode picked up where the one before last week’s left off — before Morgan Airbnb’d the workroom for an additional day — with Kennedy, BeBe Zahara Benet, Trixie Mattel and Shangela in the top four.

For the final challenge, the queens had to perform their own solo in a production number to RuPaul’s “Kitty Girl” — the biggest in the show’s history, RuPaul said. “One last thing,” she added, “the eliminated queens are coming back, back, back again.” This felt uneventful; they were just there.

“Girl, they come back more than me!” Shangela snapped in a confessional. (Seriously: free Chi Chi.)

Human Instagram filter Todrick Hall led dance rehearsal, and paired each queen with a hunky backup dancer. Dance rehearsals on “Drag Race” are always repurposed into high drama — someone’s struggling and just can’t get the steps — and usually have no bearing whatsoever on the actual performance, where that person pulls it together just fine.