Shady, shady, shady is how RuPaul’s Drag Race season 7 episode 6 begins. Kandy Ho has decided that she’s the old lady slayer so Ru must want her to be shadier. Huh? Bye Mrs. Kasha Davis – I still miss your mug.
Meanwhile Max doesn’t want all the naughty words. The other girls are talking about sex & Max finds it vulgar. Don’t know if we’ll ever get an explanation for her modesty, not that we really need it. The show just seems to be focusing a lot on it. Maybe just because she’s different from the other queens in that way.
This week’s mini-challenge starts off confusing – there’s something about numbers and crotches of the expanded Pit Crew. Each crew member has a number in his pants. The goal for each contestant to get the highest number without getting a monster. Ginger Minj is the only girl that didn’t get a monster so she wins.
The mainstage challenge is – wait for it – ANOTHER group acting challenge! Hoo-ray? Groups of three are acting in a scene where one is RuPaul, one is Michelle Visage & the third girl is former judge Merle Ginsburg. As the mini-challenge winner, Ginger gets to pick her team first and assemble the 2 other teams.
Team 1 (from Merle’s perspective): Ginger Minj, Katya and Kennedy Davenport
Team 2 (from Michelle’s perspective): Max, Violet and Kandy Ho
Team 3 (from Ru’s perspective): Miss Fame, Pearl and Jaidynn
The #RuHollywoodStories is the story of whatever happened to Merle? Why isn’t she a judge on Drag Race anymore? Each skit is from a different person’s perspective.
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In Violet’s confession, she admits she’s kind of over these group acting challenges. Me too Violet! Me too!
This week’s Katya-gram: Ginger is gonna be the evil villain which is perfect because she’s playing it like Ginger Minj as Danny DeVito as Tony Soprano as The Fonz as Michelle Visage.
The filming of the skits goes as expected – at least 1 person per group has some kind of meltdown. Another person in the group is thinking “just get over it!” Miss Fame can’t stop talking, and I would bet that she’s actually talking to producers off camera. Won’t know for sure until someone spills some tea.
The runway is “Death Becomes Her” where each drag queen has to be a drag version of her death. Will she be stabbed? Burned?
We learn that Jaidynn hasn’t come out to her family yet. She loves her family but she gets messages like “I can’t wait for you to meet your wife.” from her mother. Eesch. Hopefully she’s had that conversation by now & it went well for her.
With the main challenge, of course Merle Ginsburg is one of the guest judges. Also Ariana Grande joins the judging panel. I wonder if anyone had to carry her like a baby around the set.
So how these drag queens died: Katya was eaten by a shark. Ginger was eaten by a bear. Who knows how Kennedy died. Max cut out her own heart. She also hasn’t moved away from the gray wigs. Kandy Ho is a vampire. Miss Fame is stabbed through the head. Pearl has multiple broken bones (she should’ve borrowed Max’s crutches). Jaidynn was in jail & tried to escape, but she didn’t make it. She’s probably one of the best deaths, although the judges aren’t into it. Violet is pretty with a tiny waist, but I have no idea how she died. I want backstory, dammit!
Ginger Minj’s video is the winner and YAY Katya finally wins a challenge. She wins some fabric. Hopefully she wanted it, or she can make good money off eBay for it.
Kandy Ho gets pretty bad feedback, including that her beard is back (which it is). Max gets the gray hair critique. Pearl got good feedback. Jaidynn doesn’t get great feedback. In the end Max, Pearl, Violet and Fame. Kandy Ho and Jaidynn are up for elimination. Hopefully Miss Fame will start being in the moment otherwise she might be gone soon.
Of course the girls are lip synching to Ariana Grande’s Break Free. Kandy is confident, which has been the kiss of death this season. It’s the most high energy lip synch thus far this season. By all rights, Kandy Ho should be going home as this has been her third time around these bases. Both performances are good though, so it could go either way.
Jaidynn Diore Fierce finally gets the girls to break free from the spell of Kandy Ho. She’s a talented queen, but it was maybe a week or two too long.
But let’s not dwell – next week is SNATCH GAME! Hooray! Looks like Fame & Violet are fighting over who gets to be Donatella Versache. What other drama will next week bring? Let’s speculate below!
Katya’s got some great insight to what you didn’t see on Untucked –
http://momsgoldteeth.tumblr.com/post/115822360816/mom-you-look-super-uncomfortable-in-this-weeks
Does anyone know who Bear from the episode is?
Ginger Minj is a bear – both in the challenge & real life, according to Untucked
OMG – Really, guys, watch Untucked. Let’s just say, Fame didn’t fall far from the tree. There’s some pot-stirring going on.
“Hopefully she’s had that conversation by now and it went well for her.” That line killed me.
“Hopefully she wanted it, or she can make good money off eBay for it.” You’re killing me. Your recap is funnier then the show.
I hope Miss Fame steps it up next week.
Bring on Snatch Game!
Thanks SusieQ! It’ll be interesting to see how Fame handles the Snatch Game. She hasn’t shown a lot of improv skills.
I agree; these are good lines. I’d say better than poor Miss Fame’s repartee but that isn’t enough of a compliment (love Miss Fame, though).
Fame is great – I love a lot of things about her. But she’s got to learn to listen. We’ll see if Snatch Game is her undoing or if it’s her redemption arc (like Pearl or Kennedy)
Snatch Game!!!
T-minus whatever number of hours in your particular time zone! For me it’s 5.
THANK THE LORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! KANDY IS GONE, GONE, GONE!!!!! I mean I’m sure the girl puts on a good show (although she strikes me as a pageant girl) but she was just not doing it for me on the show in the challenges or the runway so I was not getting why the judges kept givin her a pass. It’s like she’s not like Adore who had charisma coming out of her ass so you kinda get why she kept getting by, Kandy was so over it, I was ready for her to go home…plus I liked Mrs. Kasha Davis so I was sad to see her go. I feel like now it’s a real fair fight of all the girls who want to be there and are ready to truly FIGHT so you know it’s gonna be intense next week, cuz Snatch Game don’t play, and considering it’s season 7 you better bring that A game! I’m so happy, I’m so excited, I’m so ready for next week! Let’s do this Ruth!!!!
Kei!
Next week is definitely going to be interesting. I think most of the girls are going to do great, but I’m concerned for Fame and maybe even Max. Max might not be funny enough since Snatch Game is best when raunchy. Kennedy might be too quiet. Jaidynn needs to stay out of her own way. Check out Untucked – the Best Friends Race is having a bumpy ride.
I disagree, while Snatch Game can benefit from some blue humor, raunchy is NOT how you win, it’s how you get put in the bottom 2, look at Kenya Michaels and Detox. Max I think is going to be playing the RPDR version of Sharon Needles, not the real life drugs and racism Sharon Needles. And let’s be honest, I think that’s who we honestly WANT to see, Season 4 Sharon, not cringe-worthy live performance Sharon.
True – raunchy isn’t how you win, but if hearing raunchy stuff makes one quiet, as it does Max at this point, then she’s not going to do well in the game. If she can change the subject in a funny way, she should do well. Folks on Reddit are talking about how she’s in one of the ‘winner’s seats’ where folks have typically done well.
Ruthie darling!
Well if Max IS gonna be ms Sharon Needles, then she had better had better bring it, this is more than just a character you’ve seen and can fake it, this is a former contestant, and that’s a lot more pressure, and Sharon wasn’t exactly the cleanest gal, she described herself and sexy, spooky and stupid if memory serves so Maxy better turn it up. As far as looks go though I thought she was spot on, but then again trinity looked amazingly like Niki Minaj last season but did nothing really with the character so it just sailed in the middle which might work for some but you can tell Max wants critiques ya know? Yeah I’m not sure about Kennedy either…I think she thinks she’s funnier than she is at least in challenges…in Untucked with her one-liners she is hilarious, but the challenges…not so much. She’s kinda just lucked up to be in the right group if you ask me cuz that one challenge she did win for, I thought Jaidynn was funnier and should have won, not that Kennedy isn’t funny, it’s just like I said, not as funny as she thinks, so we’ll have to see. I think that’s Fame in the Versace face, and she did LOOK like her, now it’s a question again if she can make her funny, like when Ivy Winters did Marilyn Monroe, she did look like her, but she didn’t know how to make her funny. Untucked is definitely not the best friend race, it’s the shade friend race…I’m still not in love with this “room” they’re in…feels like somebody’s garage with furniture but what’s going on definitely feels real…and darn entertaining!
I can’t wait for Snatch Game – most of all at this point to see these queens work independently. We haven’t seen them on their own since the first episode.