10/10/2023 0 Comments Rupaul all stars 6 episode 4![]() The lip sync this week is to Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl,” the kind of song you’d have expected Drag Race to do forever ago. What’s most crushing is that you can hear how disappointed she is in herself. She correctly analyzes that she’s “not the Trixie that fans look for” in All Stars. Trixie even cries on the runway, just episodes after mocking Milk for crying about the results. ![]() But then, a fight with Shangela over a note Thorgy Thor left for Trixie rattles her, and she never recovers. She even promises she’s going to win at the top of the episode. Snatch Game is supposed to be her challenge. She’s melting under the All Stars lights, losing all of the tenacity she’s gained since season seven. It’s disheartening to watch, particularly because you can see Trixie herself realizing she’s bombing as she performs. Trixie, meanwhile, wildly overthinks her RuPaul impression, delivering a barrage of unfunny punchlines throughout the challenge. Chi Chi as Maya Angelou and Kennedy as The Real Housewives of Atlanta’s Phaedra Parks can’t come up with good material on the spot, and their looks both in Snatch Game and on the runway aren’t strong enough to save them. All three performances are bad, but the first two have a different problem than Trixie does. They both escape the bottom three, which is instead filled by repeat visitors Chi Chi DeVayne and Kennedy Davenport, as well as, in a shock, Trixie Mattel. Like in The Bitchelor, her concept is stronger than the execution, because she can’t improv that well. Bebe does the latter as well, but her Grace Jones is just OK. It’s not a legendary Snatch Game performance, but it’s a good one.Īja mostly impresses as Crystal LaBeija, her original character choice for the season nine Snatch Game, and once again turns it out on the Flower Power runway (in a look guest judge Kristin Chenoweth calls “Edie Sedgwick comes to life”). By just leaning back in her chair, she morphs into her subject and brings the attitude to match. Picking your friends can backfire: Remember Detox’s Kesha? But Shangela nails it by getting so into character she physically embodies Jenifer. She goes with a backup, her friend and actress Jenifer Lewis. She disposes of her first character, Miss Cleo, when RuPaul says her accent sounds more Irish than Jamaican. But maybe she’s just going full Bianca Del Rio, sweeping everything in an unstoppable march to the finale.īen takes the cleanest path to the win this week, but Shangela takes a riskier one. It feels like something has to happen to make her winning the season feel less like an inevitability. She has prepared for this competition to an absurd extent there has literally been no challenge too great for her so far. During season six, she couldn’t get beyond her drag character, but she’s the real deal this cycle. Like with the last two weeks, Ben is playing someone other than “BenDeLaCreme,” which helps me connect with her more. Ben also dominates the game, sneaking in jokes after others’ answers and building a banter with Ru. It’s a perfect Snatch Game character, akin to Alaska’s winning Mae West from All Stars season two: lots of quips, big vocal effect, and aimed right at Ru’s old-days-loving heart. I can’t remember such a definitive win in Snatch Game herstory even Alaska and Roxxxy Andrews gave Jinkx some competition in season five.īenDeLaCreme delivers the second winning male impersonation on Snatch Game, going full Hollywood Squares to play Paul Lynde. She just gives the two queens the win and sends them to the back of the stage. In fact, RuPaul doesn’t bother declaring a third member of the top. BenDeLaCreme and Shangela emerge on top this week, and it’s not even close.
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