Speaking of steamrolling, Milk’s stalker character commandeers the entire scene without letting Trixie or Jeffrey get a word in edgewise. It’s another solid outing from the self-anointed Daenerys of drag, which is a label that we will accept despite it not falling into any traditional drag identity. Shang ends up steamrolling Chi Chi with canned jokes and clear character wants (like a sample of Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman’s semen) and she carries the whole thing on her death-drop-bruised back.
Chi Chi doesn’t consider herself to be a comedian and spends a good deal of the episode handwringing over her performance, which for some reason involves addressing Shangela (her onscreen lover) as “Mama” as the gears visibly turn in her head. Here we have another moment of identity-solvent distress. We’re not saying these queens wouldn’t slay a pattern game or an Invocation, but there is just so much room for failure here beyond Ru telling the girls to just “yes and.” We then get some quick peeks at the queens crafting their personas, like Bebe making a choice that her shy virgin character will be a chaste African princess and Chi Chi going for a Crenshaw-meets-British hybrid, for example. Anyone who has taken an overpriced Scenework FUNdamentalz workshop knows that (1) This challenge is just a big shoddy improv warm-up with a set designer, and therefore (2) This will be tough to watch. Milk laughs off the lipstick-drawn phallus that Thorgy tastefully leaves everyone and tells a disturbed Kennedy she wouldn’t understand the nuance of it because she’s not a “clown.” Ugh, labels!Īfter a lengthy A-block, we finally cut to the girls getting briefed on their maxi-challenge, which is to improvise in a Bachelor parody with assigned personality types and backstories. We start the episode with Milk and Kennedy clashing over Thorgy’s elimination, which Kennedy is naturally okay with since her jewel-encrusted mug has been spared. As for the drama of the lip sync? More on that later. She gave you comedy, she gave you fashion, she gave you choices and commitment thereto, mama. Davenport was all things this episode, and her talents appealed to all sectors. “I never think of you as a comedy queen,” Ross tells Kennedy, “but you are!” This is where labels lose their meaning, because Ms. One of the more important moments of this week’s episode was Ross clocking his own subverted expectations of Kennedy, whose performances across the board were nothing short of stellar. ” And if she’s an All Star? Sound her death knell, bitch. Pageant girls butt heads with Instagram girls or some such, and while we love a Drag Race contestant who knows her strengths and leans into them hard, it’s worrisome to hear her say she’s “not good at doing. After nearly a decade of watching Ru Girl after Ru Girl label herself as a comedy queen or fashion queen or postmodernist-metadiscursive-Lacanian-Dadatrash queen, we know that the identity politics of drag can become restrictive to the point of sectarianism.
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