Loosey as Joan is almost like seeing one of the greatest comedians to ever live spring back to life and tell us that she was just resting her eyes. But that’s perfectly fine, because Loosey LaDuca’s Joan Rivers is there to corral the entire group with one of the most pitch-perfect impersonations we’ve seen on Snatch Game yet. Sugar’s Trisha Paytas has no impression involved-which I say because Sugar already has the bimbo act down pat-and Spice’s Miley Cyrus has some of the most nefarious energy I’ve ever seen manifest on television. If only the twins could’ve realized that they were being handed an express ticket to the bottom two. Putting Sugar and Spice in the same group together was sure to be great (and unbearable) television. In the second group of queens, things quickly turned for the worst. Leading with the same delay of silence followed by, “Sorry, I was answering in my mind,” would’ve been much more Lepore. Luxx Noir London’s Amanda Lepore looked the part, but stumbled after the first joke about answering a question with Amanda’s “other set of lips.” Sure, Amanda Lepore has big smackers, but she’s also an incredibly eccentric personality. She made a delightfully silly decision that paid off in only a smidgen of camera time, and the shot of Anetra breaking in laughter sent me to the floor. On the other side of that coin, I think Anetra’s Gorgina Ramsey got the shaft. The impression was a little lacking of Rosie’s idiosyncrasies and even resulted in Mistress Isabelle herself dipping out of character into Abbey Lee Miller. I am a Mistress Isabelle Brooks stan through and through already, but I didn’t think her Rosie was as fabulous as the judges did. Sitting just past Marcia were Mistress Isabelle Brooks as Rosie O’Donnell and Anetra as Gorgina Ramsey, a dragged-up version of “her brother” Gordon. Though, I do think it could’ve been even funnier if she had kept the energy of her first joke about the Pit Crew’s speedos and made Tim Gunn a horny lech. Sure, a Tim Gunn impression isn’t that hard to do, but Marcia took cues from both Ru and the other queens in the room and turned in a fabulous performance. Marcia has had three weeks in a row with robust comedic performances-stronger than many of the other girls who openly call themselves “comedy queens”-and she should be seen as a bigger threat than the judges are giving her credit for. Marcia Marcia Marcia’s Tim Gunn was a hoot. In the calculated dance that is Snatch Game, loud asides never work in your favor.Ī few slumps aside, the remainder of the group held strong. It was a strange choice that occasionally threatened to derail her group’s overall strength, with her trying to steal the camera by screaming about immaculate conceptions. Malaysia Babydoll Fox (whom I have tragically, accidentally called “ Malaysia Babydoll 370” too many times to count) as Saucey Santana faded far too much into the background for a bombastic personality, while Robin Fierce’s elegant RHOP housewife Karen Huger was a bit too classy and demure.Īnd then there was Salina EsTitties as the Virgin Mary. Of course, there are a few whose weaker performances are more noticeable among such strong showings around them. The first group of queens is mostly fantastic. Half the episode is spent on Snatch Game, which is a godsend that has realigned my chakras and snapped my third eye wide open. While some might miss the tension that builds when Ru inevitably says something like, “Hmm, how’re you going to make Samara from The Ring funny?” I didn’t mind cutting the misdirections and faux stress this time around. Ru doesn’t stop in like he usually does to grill the queens about their choices of celebrities to impersonate. With the newly trimmed episode lengths and 14 queens to show off in every Drag Race fan’s favorite challenge, there’s no time for any shenanigans in the workroom. The queens are competing in two rounds of Snatch Game, each round with seven queens doing their very best impressions. As a supporting actress in Bradley Cooper’s A Star is Born once said, “ Halleloo!” But a super-sized season deserves a super-sized Snatch Game, and that is exactly what we’ve been blessed with this week. To throw the contestants off the scent, it usually appears when only seven or eight queens are left in the competition. In the past, Snatch Game has been a rite of passage that only a select few Drag Race queens get the privilege of competing in. It’s like my Nana always used to tell me, “Hell hath no fury like a Loosey LaDuca scorned!” Each of the remaining 14 queens has had a jolt of fear run through them after feeling the fiery flames of elimination graze their padding, and right on schedule: It’s time to play the Snatch Game! After making a brief pit stop on the road to perdition last week, the fallen angels of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 15 have picked themselves up and bounced back with a vengeance.
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