4/15/2024 0 Comments Rupaul's drag race fantasy gameSasha’s transparent black gown managed to equally evoke witch and scarecrow. Sasha, Jax, and Amethyst had unique interpretations of the prompt that made for memorable runways. Luckily, their differing interpretations avoided a new Kimono-gate from season eight. Robin utilized texture with a tarantula-inspired 1950’s Lady Dior silhouette. Anetra embraced sleekness in a latex black widow look. Mistress set her look apart with the crystal caging that evoked a spider’s web. Mistress, Anetra, and Robin seemed to be inspired by Kiss of the Spider Woman conceptually. She managed to flex her versatility with this runway. It wasn’t the best look of the night but it was complete, polished, and a smart departure from Loosey’s normal colorful camp. Loosey channeled Jason from the Friday the 13th franchise. Salina’s look was a little too much nightmare and not enough beauty. Unfortunately, the look called to mind Laurence Chaney’s Monster Mash look and Salina’s paled in comparison. While Salina called her look a zombie, it recalled Leatherface from Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Salina and Loosey appeared to turn to horror cinema for inspiration with differing effects. Perhaps it was the runway lighting, but the contrast between the color of her arms and the color of her tights was distracting. From the waist up it was disturbingly gorgeous, but from the waist down was just disturbing. Somewhere caught in the middle was Lux’s drowned bridal look. One outfit that reached the maximalist reaches of drag was Malaysia’s jaw-dropping lavender take on Where the Wild Things Are which suggests that they are at a gay disco. While she has been given the note to drag up her makeup, she really needed to drag up this look with exaggeration, fabrication, and at least a ton of sequins. Marcia played into people’s fear of the dentist, but her pedestrian look did not add beauty to the nightmare. In the end, the best part of Snatch Game was getting to know more about the Pit Crew. It wasn’t the funniest by a long shot, but she was so deeply in character and managed to get a few laughs while being forced to perform in the middle of the Sugar and Spice cyclone. Finally, Amethyst gave a performance that was so fully committed it deserves praise. She did the cardinal sin of saying something instead of showing something when she said “I’m so horny.” A horny Virgin Mary is a funny idea, but Salina failed to incorporate the concept into the performance. However, the issue with Salina’s performance is that if you’re going to do something provocative you have to make sure it is hilarious and it was not. It’s a smart approach to the Snatch Game utilized by performers like Gigi Goode, Symone, and Rosé in recent years. Similar to Jax, Salina took the approach of impersonating someone who’s actual personality is unknown. Her smile, and tongue slip was a good visual gag and her last-minute confirmation of “oil-based” paint showed she was paying attention after Amethyst missed the joke. Jax had a good concept and kept it simple. Three interesting if not totally successful performances came from Jax, Salina, and Amethyst. On the opposite end, Robin and Aura flopped with stiff and dull impersonations. In the horrible realm, Sugar and Spice failed with unfocused and messy performances. On the positive end, both Marcia and Loosey really transformed themselves, but it was Mistress and Loosey who really took control of Snatch Game. In the latter group were Anetra, Lux, Malaysia, and Sasha. The results of the Snatch Game produced a few good performances, a few horrible, but mostly mediocre and boring performances. How would Loosey and Mistress have interacted? Would there be a clear winner between the two? Would Mistress or Marcia had done as well if they had to deal with Sugar and Spices antics? However, the new format leaves too many questions. Snatch Game really excels in the unstructured moments of queens improvising with one another. The other issue was that by dividing the Snatch Game into two sessions there is no way to tell how some performers stacked up against one another. This combined with the sheer amount of impersonations let a lot of queens hide in plain sight. While we may not know how long the filming of Snatch Game was, the fact is that contestants only had the opportunity to introduce themselves and answer two questions at most. Part of the test of Snatch Game is that the contestants must embody their characters for a prolonged amount of time. The two most glaring issues were of duration and interaction. The combination of such an early Snatch Game with the truncated edit of the episode proved RuPaul’s claim that “too much is never enough.” There were too many contestants playing the game and it left with an unsatisfying result.
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