Just because Ru takes a break from her Heidi Klum role during All Stars, it doesn’t mean that her Tim Gunn alter ego isn’t needed. The closest we saw of that this week was pointing out Shangela’s Miss Clea accent sounded Irish, and that come off as more of an observation than guidance. She’s supposed to push back on the queens’ bad instincts and push them in the right decision. It wouldn’t have been some ground breaking Snatch Game moment, but it would have kept them both safe and kept the audience at home a bit more entertained.Īnd, listen, we get that it makes sense for RuPaul to be more hands off during an All Stars season and sit around doing things like watching Vanessa Hudgens lip sync against a pork chop instead, but she is supposed to offer some guidance here and there. They certainly have the skills to deliver the laughs using that “Icon + Funny Personality Type” formula. Likewise, Trixie could have basically done the exact same thing she did in “The Bitchelor,” told us it was Paris Hilton, and we all would have bought it.
It might not have been the most accurate impression, but we would have laughed. Now, just imagine last episode hadn’t happened, and Kennedy took her party girls character, tweaked it just a little bit, and told us that was Rihanna in her “give no fu–s,” afterparty mode. Sometimes what we really want is a passably funny icon from our Snatch Game wish list, and not someone completely flipping the script of what we expect out of the challenge. That doesn’t mean that the original Tatiana should be thrown out altogether, or that risks have to be taken by every single queen, but that it’s possible to take a risk. Winners and standout contests since have broken that basic blueprint time and time again, but they took those risks because they knew they’d pay off. The original Snatch champ gave us the template that most queens might be best to follow lest they have a trick up their sleeves: pick a well-known icon and boil their general public essence down to its basic form and build it back up into some general quirky attitude (in this case it was Tatianna doing Britney Spears as someone a little naive, a little dumb, but certainly happy to be there). Yet, two queens who excelled last week fell completely flat here.Īre the queens just overthinking it? Look back to That original Season 2 Snatch Game and you’ll notice every contestant has the instinct to chose a well known icon either of all time or, at least, of the moment (it’s easy forget how relevant Kimora Lee Simmons was in 2009). What went wrong here? The underlying skills needed for success in Snatch Game are more or less the same tested during last week’s “Bitchlorette” challenge: improv and embodying a character. It was doubtful many people were crossing any entries off their Snatch Game celeb wish list night (Remember, Ru had already been done by Jessica Wild all the way back in Season 2) and the selection of impersonations might have been the most random and niche in the show’s entire history. No Bette! No Babs! Technically, no Madonna! No Christina, no Lana, and no Rihanna! Not even a Divine! Sometimes the anticipation is more fun than the results we actually get, which was likely the case for most fans tonight. Put two RuPaul’s Drag Race fans in a room together and it won’t take them long for them to ask, “Ok, but who are you dying to see spoofed on Snatch Game who hasn’t been done yet?” After 11 installments of the show’s marquee challenge, the roster of gay icons who have been impersonated on that candy colored panel is only rivaled by those who haven’t.
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