![]() Vicki, unfortunately, can’t quite keep up, and so it’s curtains for the winner of the very first RuPeter Badge back in the premiere. A terrific performance, and likely the best lip sync of the season so far. When she does a jump into the splits, and then scooches across the stage in the splits? Amazing. She’s confident going into the lip sync, and delivers both the kind of out-of-pocket dance excellence we love in a lip sync as well as true comedy. The lip sync song is guest judge Alexandra Burke’s “Heartbreak on Hold”-“Any relation?” Ru jokingly asks Alexandra-and holy hell, DeDe delivers this week. They deserve their spots in the Lip Sync for Your Life.Īlexandra Burke and Carol Vorderman are our Snatch Game players this season. We’ve seen queens fall prey to this countless times over the years, and with just seven competitors on the panel, their inability to stretch their material is all the more glaring. And almost immediately after the introductions, Vicki runs out of runway with her characterization.īoth DeDe and Vicki run into a familiar trap with Snatch Game: not having enough of an idea of the character to make it work across the whole challenge. Ginger will later tell the judges that what she realized about Dame Barbara is that she is a character who would want to be at Snatch Game. She chooses to do restaurant critic Fanny Cradock, and I’ll give Ginger credit for realizing the problem right away: Fanny is too negative of a character. Vicki’s runway look is stunning-Elizabeth I meets the Queen of Hearts-but it can’t save her from a bottom two spot after her Snatch Game. She says in Mini- Untucked that she knows she won’t be the fashion queen of the season, but the problem is that her looks are just well below the standard of this season at this point. Moreover, her Heart On runway look-a kind of Anything Goes homage with hearts cut into her tights-is really underwhelming. However, in deliberations, Ru indicates he’s getting a lot of the same notes from Kate, which is a big red flag. I’d say her performance was better than both Cara’s and Michael’s. Kate is actually quite good in Snatch Game as a funny take on Kate Bush, and it’s surprising to see her anywhere near the bottom. She ultimately just misses out on the win next to Ginger, and I think it’s the correct call. But while Ru finds the performance gut-bustingly hilarious, I’m not as fond. It’s a lesson in taking the notes Ru gives you and running with them, à la how Ra’Jah O’Hara changed her approach to LaToya Jackson in All Stars 6’s Snatch Game of Love based on the walkthrough. Meanwhile, Tomara Thomas gives us another take on how to handle Ru’s advice, as she adopts a whole new host of accents while ostensibly playing Mrs. Ginger’s quite good at Snatch Game, and while it may not be as revelatory a performance as the judges make it out to be, it’s definitely the best of this crop. And when the game gets going, she knows how to lean into the things that Ru will like about her, particularly her feud with Ru’s beloved Jackie Collins. Ginger, on the other hand, explicitly says she picked Dame Barbara because of her appeal to Ru. However, Cara’s Dionne is very clearly based on the Twitter characterization of Dionne, which has become a big hit among users of that platform I shan’t be referring to as “X.” When it comes to the game, Cara’s actually quite quick and keeps up with the improv, and her characterization is funny. And that’s the thing that makes UK Season 5’s Snatch Game a bit disappointing, if not an out-and-out disaster.Ĭara’s choice of Dionne is an interesting case study to compare against Ginger Johnson’s choice of Dame Barbara Cartland, the writer dubbed the “Queen of Romance.” In both cases, I think they’re picking characters meant to appeal to RuPaul himself. But the problem is that if you don’t have that kind of legendary central character to focus on, you’re left with a lot of time spent on okay-not-great performances. Think Bimini as Katie Price in Season 2, or Ella Vaday as Nigella Lawson in Season 3. ![]() However, I would argue this has consistently produced some issues in terms of pacing that, in the past, have been easily ignored because of one commanding performance. The first round featured a much more even distribution of jokes from the eight collected winners, showing how balanced it could be-but we also got a second round dominated by Jinkx Monsoon’s all-time great Judy Garland performance, indicating that if one queen is shining, you can spotlight her in an eight-queen format as well.ĭrag Race UK, on the other hand, seems to have largely settled into seven being their magic number. ![]() All Stars 7 basically sold me on eight being the right number across its two Snatch Game rounds.
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