Aquaria wins the mini-challenge as well as the main challenge, which has contestants create three looks a climate change-themed ball. Dusty Ray Bottoms is eliminated from the competition, after placing in the bottom two and losing a lip-sync against Monét X Change.
For this episode's mini-challenge, the contestants photobomb celebrity pictures. Aquaria is declared the winner.
For the main challenge, the contestants are tasked with creating three looks for The Last Ball on Earth: Alaskan Winter Realness, Miami Summer Realness and Martian Eleganza Extravaganza.[4]Climate change is the ball's theme.[5]
Oliver Sava of The A.V. Club gives the episode a rating of 'B+'.[10]Screen Rant said RuPaul's outfit was the episode's most memorable.[11] The "Pound the Alarm" performance ranked number 31 in The Spinoff's list of the show's 162 lip-syncs to date.[12] In 2022, Bernardo Sim of Out magazine ranked the performance tenth in a list of Drag Race's best lip-syncs with stunts.[9]