RuPaul's All Stars Drag Race: Snatch Game
September 3, 2016 5:13 AM - Season 2, Episode 2 - Subscribe
The queens impersonate celebrities in a quick-witted TV game show and burn rubber in a latex runway. With guest judge Ross Mathews. (synopsis from logotv.com)
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Ginger's Tammy Faye only hit on the most obvious note - mascara - and missed every other funny/interesting thing she could have done. And her outfit, as far as I could tell, wasn't latex. It moved and looked like tight shiny satin. She should have been in the bottom.
Adore broke my heart with her sadness. I've not been a huge fan of how Michelle goes after girls with a different aesthetic and this just solidifies for me that she holds the show back.
posted by donnagirl at 5:48 AM on September 4, 2016
Adore broke my heart with her sadness. I've not been a huge fan of how Michelle goes after girls with a different aesthetic and this just solidifies for me that she holds the show back.
posted by donnagirl at 5:48 AM on September 4, 2016
Fwiw, Adore said in a recent Periscope that it really wasn't just Michelle. Adore was having a rough year (her dad died, her boyfriend broke up with her abruptly over text with no explanation, she was exhausted from touring) going into AS2. At first she thought the challenges could be a useful distraction from what was going on in the rest of her life, but she actually started to feel like she'd made a mistake by accepting even before the talent show. Then, apparently Raven Symoné said something she found really personal and hurtful that wasn't aired (and Raven being pretty unpleasant was corroborated by a couple other queens at a viewing party). Carson also called her something along the lines of "sloppy," also not aired. And that's before the harsh critique from Michelle, who it sounds like she'd had more of a collegial relationship with on tour despite clashes about her aesthetic. Her decision really made a lot more sense after hearing all that.
posted by en forme de poire at 12:04 PM on September 4, 2016 [4 favorites]
posted by en forme de poire at 12:04 PM on September 4, 2016 [4 favorites]
Tati wasn't the worst in Snatch Game and did land a few jokes unlike Roxxy, but her outfit was pedestrian compared to the other girls up there, lots of whom killed it dead (Detox especially, Alaska, Katya, Alyssa). Her outfit also wasn't the worst, though: what the duck, Phi Phi. Autocorrect did that but I'm keeping it. Bummed Tati got eliminated so soon after her great showing last week. I think she isn't as practiced at improv as the other queens, despite having some natural talent, and that makes her a bit more inconsistent.
No problem with the top 2 or the winner. I frigging loved that lip sync, too, even though I think they didn't really show some stuff Katya was up to. Alaska's parody death drop will never not be funny to me, plus she kept changing it up in interesting ways, and the cutaway reveal was cute. Really excited to hopefully see both of them LS again.
posted by en forme de poire at 12:13 PM on September 4, 2016 [1 favorite]
No problem with the top 2 or the winner. I frigging loved that lip sync, too, even though I think they didn't really show some stuff Katya was up to. Alaska's parody death drop will never not be funny to me, plus she kept changing it up in interesting ways, and the cutaway reveal was cute. Really excited to hopefully see both of them LS again.
posted by en forme de poire at 12:13 PM on September 4, 2016 [1 favorite]
you know who else was a big fan of Katya's Snatch Game performance?
BJÖRK.
posted by heeeraldo at 8:41 PM on September 5, 2016 [10 favorites]
BJÖRK.
posted by heeeraldo at 8:41 PM on September 5, 2016 [10 favorites]
Adore. : (
Roxxy as Alaska = bad bad bad. I too was rooting for Tatianna and was looking forward to what she'd do with Ariana Grande (I loved her Britney in her original season) - but what a disappointment. Alaska definitely deserved the win, though. And my boyfriend couldn't stop laughing every time Ginger as Tammy Faye came on screen - though that was more for the look than anything she actually did during the Snatch Game.
I was half expecting that there wouldn't be an elimination since Adore left.
posted by SisterHavana at 1:23 AM on September 6, 2016 [1 favorite]
Roxxy as Alaska = bad bad bad. I too was rooting for Tatianna and was looking forward to what she'd do with Ariana Grande (I loved her Britney in her original season) - but what a disappointment. Alaska definitely deserved the win, though. And my boyfriend couldn't stop laughing every time Ginger as Tammy Faye came on screen - though that was more for the look than anything she actually did during the Snatch Game.
I was half expecting that there wouldn't be an elimination since Adore left.
posted by SisterHavana at 1:23 AM on September 6, 2016 [1 favorite]
I feel like there's now an opportunity for a non-elimination episode as decided by the winning queen, since Adore left... Which would cause crazy drama and I heartily approve. I could imagine Katya winning a lipsync and refusing to pull out her lipstick.
The girls did Snatch Game live as part of the Battle of the Seasons tour and I watched several of them on YouTube because they would occasionally do different celebrities. Ginger has a Michelle Visage that I thought was even better than Sharon Needles's, it's magical, so I was disappointed in her Tammy Faye, she was a very weak character in comparison.
I started rewatching S5 because it's been a while and in the first episode, Roxxxy puts on this little sundress thing while she's doing her makeup and calls it her makeup dress... So now I'm thinking that's what she was wearing when Ru came into the workroom and asked her about her character. I couldn't figure how she was going to play a flat-chested Sophia Vargas. She just wasn't entirely dressed. So we'll never know how that would have turned out. Her Alaska was painfully bad -- you'd think that you'd be able to imitate one of your best friends pretty easily. She didn't even really get the voice right. I was listening to a recap podcast yesterday and the three hosts lapsed into Alaska impressions while they were talking about Roxxxy, and all three of them (one a biological woman) sounded better than Roxxxy did.
I feel like Alaska should have taken the opportunity to eliminate Roxxxy here -- she's way more dangerous to Alaska considering how far she got in S5 and how much she's improved since then. Detox has peaked (imo, she's kind of a lazy look queen most of the time, who occasionally turns out something amazing like this week's runway) and there will probably be another acting challenge to take care of Tati, so she didn't need to worry too much about them. I love the strategy elements of this season.
posted by possibilityleft at 4:48 AM on September 6, 2016 [1 favorite]
The girls did Snatch Game live as part of the Battle of the Seasons tour and I watched several of them on YouTube because they would occasionally do different celebrities. Ginger has a Michelle Visage that I thought was even better than Sharon Needles's, it's magical, so I was disappointed in her Tammy Faye, she was a very weak character in comparison.
I started rewatching S5 because it's been a while and in the first episode, Roxxxy puts on this little sundress thing while she's doing her makeup and calls it her makeup dress... So now I'm thinking that's what she was wearing when Ru came into the workroom and asked her about her character. I couldn't figure how she was going to play a flat-chested Sophia Vargas. She just wasn't entirely dressed. So we'll never know how that would have turned out. Her Alaska was painfully bad -- you'd think that you'd be able to imitate one of your best friends pretty easily. She didn't even really get the voice right. I was listening to a recap podcast yesterday and the three hosts lapsed into Alaska impressions while they were talking about Roxxxy, and all three of them (one a biological woman) sounded better than Roxxxy did.
I feel like Alaska should have taken the opportunity to eliminate Roxxxy here -- she's way more dangerous to Alaska considering how far she got in S5 and how much she's improved since then. Detox has peaked (imo, she's kind of a lazy look queen most of the time, who occasionally turns out something amazing like this week's runway) and there will probably be another acting challenge to take care of Tati, so she didn't need to worry too much about them. I love the strategy elements of this season.
posted by possibilityleft at 4:48 AM on September 6, 2016 [1 favorite]
What this episode taught me is that I would check twice if PhiPhi told me my face was on fire.
posted by Jilder at 10:49 PM on November 21, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Jilder at 10:49 PM on November 21, 2016 [1 favorite]
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I agree Alyssa was good but like Ru said "well that made no goddamn sense but it sure was entertaining" which is pretty much Alyssa in a nutshell really.
Katya was good, she wasn't really Bjork but whatever. Her runway look was perfection.
I get that not everyone has the benefit of a latex outfit just lying around, but doing a basic black latex garment is so... expected. Detox mixed it up, looked great, but her Nancy Grace was not so graceful. Whatever it was Ginger was wearing wasn't expected, but then again, neither was it good.
Everyone else, meh.
posted by the uncomplicated soups of my childhood at 2:18 PM on September 3, 2016 [1 favorite]