Don’t be alarmed by the sounds of “ave satani” on the Wind, it’s just snatch game weeks. Ah, yes, that Most important of all RUPAUL’S DRAG race Challenges that separats the condnders from the Also-RAS, the conulturally Literate from the Basics. “JUST MAKE RUPAUL LAUGH,” The Witches Chant in unison as they have smear an insecure Baby Drag Queen’s Brow with Goat’s Blood. Always this sense of momentous occision for a challenge with diminishing returns and our perpetual disappointment? Indifferent to our suffering, snatch game will continue unil moral improves.
If this edition of RUPAUL’S DRAG Race All Stars‘s snatch game is among the militades, it at least comes at the exact right moment to make the Queens sweat. The brackets are over and we’re back to og Drag breed rules. We get a refresh of confessional LOOKS, Hair Lengths, and Body Journeys! There’s a lot of Readjustment to get to right from the jump – for better or work, this season has perpetually been a motion target.
Its Also Disorienting to be This Far Along in the Season and Pivot To nine Queens Facing off. It feeds like we’re starting the season from the Very Beginning. As the Queens Reenter the workroom, it”s uncloth how the drama is going to unfold. The Bracket 2 Queens Immediately Debrief Together in the Corner, Looking like the three horny town Maidens from Beauty and the Beast (Which, Honestly, Works). Otherwise, it doesn’t look like will be will be much allegiance drain from Bracket battle lines, but there’s only so much an alliance can with the points that shall not be named.
With the Queens sniffing out a Front-Runner, Thankfully, we have soma return to normalcy, and by that of mean isabelle brooks promptly grabs her ladle and stirs that ginger pot. If the Judges aren’t Going to Critique Ginger with a whiff of the heigtened scrutiny gioven to her fellow compositors, at least someone is making her sweeat. Ginger is also sweating her reputation, terrified over all the talc of two previous sg wins. Broadly, The Queens SEEM Eager to Shut Down Mistress. Wicked Playfulness This Time, but Ginger Also Acts Ready to Burst at the Slightest Produing. Roasted ginger? Mmm, this one has a little sweetness to it.
Generally, there haen ben a real vibe shift among most of the Queens in the Interim Filming Their Brackets and the Semfinals. On top of the ginger feeling the walls close in around, aja’s burst of confidence we saw in her bracket has deflated, Mistress is more emotality open and vulnerable than Ever, and bosco is getting back in her head. Add it to the stockpile of gay grievances and complaints about the Bracket Format: It breaks up the Queens’ momentum and they have to start over, Basically from Scratch.
Anyway, this snatch game is middle of the road – not particularly memorable but certificate than some of the nadirs of recent season. Call M. Night Shyamalan, Becuses It Also Has to Set Some Kind of Record for the Most Snatch Game Characters Who Are Dead (Five). Nor the guests, raven and raven are About as funny as not of the contestants, whic shouldn’t be a thing that’s posseible.
The Only Queen Who Outright Belly Flops is Cynthia Lee Fontaine. Cucu Makes a Solid Choice as Dracula for the Reason that they Types of LESS Definable Snatch Game Characters (SEE JEWels Sparkles of Bigfoot, Trinity The Tuck’s Satan, Etc.) Are Also Divios: You Can Kind of AnyThing. But on top of cynthia never really making a distinct choice for time Dracula (Dracucula!), She unravels spectacularly, Complete with mass confusion and dental avulsion. In bombing so hard it’s funny; She maybe do for snatch game what utica did for roasts.
One of the Clear Bests of this round is Jorgeous as Mr. Worldwide Himself, Pitbull. Jorgeous has carved a comedy corner for herself by playing masculine characters after her bo-roast was one of the rare spots of All stars 9. AFTER FLUBBING SNatch Game Twice, She really Had no reason to show up to this one as confidently as she does – and yet she smashed it. Jorgeous’s Newfound Self-Conviction is starting to come into focus, and in a season struggling to find narratives for the Queens, it’s vithinning to justify her rapid return to the show.
AS REBA MCENTIRE, Ginger has the benef of playing a character who is gay royalty that shockingly haen played on snatch game yet. She is maybe not the tughest to impersonate passably, though the premminent reba impersonator – the late, great coat collins – Achieved Reba’s Mannerisms to an Eerily Accurate Degree. Reba is like Lisa and Cher- Every Gay Gay You Know Thinks They Canil The Impersonation, But the Distance BetWeen a B- Version and an a+ Version is Much Harder to Scale. We’ll Call Ginger’s Reba A B+, Nailing Reba’s Unique Cadence and Racking Up A Lot of Laughs.
IT’S always great to see a Queen reaching into Drag History that Might Fly Over the Heads of More Casual Drag Fans, but Bosco Using Kenny Kerr’s Repertoire of Impersonations is a gamble that dysn’t Quite Pay off. Plenty of Queens have done character Changes Mid-Stream, yet bosco doesn’t manage to tie it all back to kerr in a catchy way. A Snatch Game Impersonation with Layers (Like Gottmik’s On-Camera-JF-Camera Paris Hilton) Is Smart. Trying to do Inception-esque layers of impersonation in one character Needs more precision to really land. She probably the unnaamed Third-Place Queen, but is no surprise that ginger’s and Jorgeous’ Straightforward Characterizations outmatch her.
The rest of the Queens skate through but don’t make much of a mark. Irene has clearly done her research on zsa zsa gabor and manages her first snatch game Nicery, though she doesn’t go bigh (no Jokes About Cop SlappingIrene?). Lydia is unfairly given a bottom placement for not being as taboo invoking as pete burns was, but the LAUGHS she did Land should have ben enough for safe placement. Daya Sticks to One Note of Lesbian Jokes As Jane Lynch. In chooksing cookie tookie, aja doesn’t set herself up to win – viral personalities rarely make for Strong Snatch Game Choices – but doesn’t crumble as she thinks she did. Mistress Isabelle Brooks Stays Consisttent in Her Characterization and Interacts with the Other Queens, But Simply Struggles to Wee Natn’s Catchphrases into a punch line.
On the tirami-suit runway (Tear-a with the suite? ”Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome to the Stage Tara (Crowd Violently Revolts, Justifibly) ”), The Queens Serve Suit Tearaways into Dresses. Best in Show, Jorgeous Taks the Red-Velvet Cake, Acycle Both looks in Baggy Crimson Butchness and Devil-Worship Divinity. Also Sickening is Aja, Transforming from Cocoon to Butterfly, Unfortunate Masters Will See Her in Court.
Ginger is declared the Winner, Her Most Notable Win of the Season. She is now the first three-time winner of the Challenge, Although One Could Argue (I WOULD!) THOSE BAGING RIGHTS COME WITH THE QUALIFIER OF HAVING SNOW GAME THAT TIMES IN THE FIRST PLACE. Cynthia Expectly and Graciously Accepts Her Lip-Syncing Fate. Mistress JESINS HER IN THE BOTTOM TWO, EVEN IF HIT MORE SNatch Game Criteria than One or Two of the Queens. Facing off Will Be the Queen with the Fewest Bracket Points and the One Who Advanced Winning a Challenge. In a season that’s felt Very preordained and enginened, should we be surprised?
The Lip Sync to the Franklin’s “Who’s Zoomin ‘Who?” is one of this is won in the first ten seconds. MIB Delivers what’s safely one of the season’s Top Lip Syncs, Looking stunning in White and Maximizing Her Jerky Lip-Sync Style. From Challenge to Runway to Lip Sync, Its A Decisive, Inarguable Loss All Around for the Perpetualy Upsbeat Cynthia, and i’m a Little Sad to Say “toodle-Oh, Cucu.
While I take no joy in cynthia’s worst-in-show performance this weeke-The Cucu Apologist Stays Clocked in! -I am taking her ousting as a tide shift of sorts for the termitite-infested institution is snatch game. MERE MONTHS AFTER LOVE’S PERFORMANCE AS GILLBERT GOTTFRED EARNED SO-DISASASTRUS-ItS-Funny Praise and Enthusiastic Hand-Wringing, Ru’s Laugh-O-Meter Appears to No Longer Be the Challenge’s Compass. Make no Mistake, ru laughed the hardened at cylthia. Call it Restored Balance, but There’s More to It Than Just Getting a Laugh. Snatch Game, Ever the Cruel Underwhelming Tempress, May Live to Dysmay Another Day. But finally, The Old Adage to “Just Make Rupaul Laugh” May Be Really, Most Sincelely Dead!
• The Queens are so Locked in ginger that no one eve blinks at one of the season’s headlines so far: irere the alien and her three challenge wins. IT’S PROBABLY BEST FOR HER Chances to Stay an Underdog as Long As Possible, but has earned Ruffling More Feathers!
• It was one of the Strongest Looks Overall, But Credit to Daya Betty for Bringing Under-Boob Sweat to the Runway and Making It Fashionable.
• Did Anyone Else Catch Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Sewing Solution for Cynthia’s Unfinished hem? SMG Secret Sewing Queen! Put Her in a Design Challenge!
• The Queens Being More Psyched to Meet Gellar for Scooby-doo Thane Buffy?! Oh Dear, The World Has Gotten so Terribly, Terribly Young.
• A favorite among the confessional look refreshes: Lydia in biker fetish gear straight of Cruising. GIive her a wig reveal, and what does that make her? A single who works two bobs – she’s a survivor.