After the first elimination, Kahanna tells the girls Monica was also her choice to send home. The queens take a look at what’s inside the voting box and Darienne had four votes while Monica had seven. Kandy says Monica’s story about not having anything to come back to swayed her decision; LaLa Ri and Jaymes Mansfield felt the same way. At least the queens think the “Fame Games” are a great opportunity for the eliminated queens to have their looks seen and get the fans involved in the voting process.
The next day, Ru enters the Werk Room to announce that the queens will be starring in a sketch comedy show called “RDR Live.” As the queens go over the sketches: Alexis Michelle and Darienne Lake are doing a living room talk show as middle aged New Jersey women; Jessica Wild and Jimbo and Mrs. Kasha Davis take the gardening call girl sketch; Kandy Muse chooses the opening host monologue; Heidi N Closet, Jaymes, Lala, and Naysha Lopez are in a sketch about CDC doctors who are concerned about a drag disease; and Heidi, Lala, and Kahanna will be playing in the newsbroadcasters sketch.
Jaymes and Naysha practice playing the doctors while Heidi and Lala practice their newsbroadcaster roles. Jaymes helps Naysha get her jokes out faster and Naysha keeps saying she’s going to do so well even though she didn’t get the role she wanted…okay girl. Jessica and Jimbo are naturals at playing sluts. Bobby Moynihan enters the Werk Room with Ru to help the girls with this SNL-inspired challenge. Ru points out that Kahanna was eliminated on season 11 when Bobby was the guest judge on that episode. Is Ru trying to make Kahanna nervous before the challenge even begins? She would never…Bobby suggests Jessica and Jimbo should have a Bert and Ernie dynamic to balance each other out. Bobby fulfills Ru’s job of telling the queens the guest judge this week is Robin Thede and the runway category is “Net Gala.”
Jaymes and Lala reminisce on how they feel a lot more confident on All Stars as opposed to their original seasons. On another makeup station, the more strategic girls: Naysha, Kahanna, and Kandy, go over how they’d be voting this week. Naysha and Kandy think they should vote for whoever they don’t want to see more of. Lala then has a very staged meeting with Heidi about being in an alliance. Now Heidi has an alliance with three people in the competition.
There are no rehearsal scenes (Thank Gaga) this episode so they jump right into the challenge. For the CDC skit, Jaymes plays an older woman with a growly voice while Naysha plays a basic dumb girl who announces the drag disease to concerned doctors Lala and Heidi. The new epidemic is the growth of Drag Race franchises that began with superspreader RuPaul. After an alarm goes off, the queens take off their doctor’s coats to expose drag outfits followed by a heavily SNL-inspired introduction theme segment.
Kandy is a good speaker but honestly not much of her monologue is funny. The laugh track makes it awkward until Mrs. Kasha Davis walks in after Kandy calls her old. Kasha is pretty funny by calling out Kandy and tries suggesting new maxi challenges but ends up referencing season 14’s “The Daytona Wind,”, season 12’s “Gay’s Anatomy,” and season 7’s car crash of a challege “ShakesQueer.”
Jessica and Jimbo play the best slutty and somewhat turnt women who apparently help people with their gardening needs. I personally like Jessica’s bouncy breasts while Jimbo’s acting is spot on. Kasha comes rolling in on a Home Depot-like cart wearing a workout outfit and gushes about her experience with the “McCall Girls” and how successful they were with their services (wink wink).
Heidi and Lala play newsbroadcasters in “Queer News Update.” Lala makes jokes about Lady Bunny’s prolapsed asshole and Heidi talks about sinkholes with her funny gap toothed whistle. Kahanna then scoots in playing a cat and cat activist, and honestly I was so lost. I had no idea what she was talking about because she doesn’t know how to land a joke.
The last sketch is called “House of Love” featuring Darienne and Alexis who’s set and looks are covered in leopard and cheetah print. They play middle aged New Jersey women that talk about movies and shows. Since it’s all centered around Michelle Visage, a portrait of her is literally in the middle of most of the shots, it is a little kiss assy, but it was nice of the real Michelle to make a brief appearance.
For the “Net Gala” runway:
- Naysha Lopez walks in with a black, wavy patterned netted dress and draping on her right arm. The thigh high boots, fingerless gloves, and black lipstick is punk in Naysha’s eyes.
- Jaymes Mansfield is in a shimmery pink catsuit with ostrich feather trimming on the off the shoulder collar, wrists, and ankles. The only netted part is her massive beehive hair with purple hot rollers covered in a pink net. She also has a fake hair spray bottle for just a little bit more camp.
- Kandy Muse is in a confusing look. On her chest is a design of her face made out of black and hot pink tulle, but the border around the triangle face looks messy; the tulle also acts as a cape, which also looks messy; and she has on a hot pink catsuit underneath. She also has the same blush from the last episode. No shade though, I’m still a fan of it.
- Mrs. Kasha Davis is holding a butterfly net with flowers on it, a netted long sleeve shirt with a purple velvet corset over it with more multicolored flowers, a black tulle half skirt exposes the front of this awkward skirt length that makes her legs look very short. At least her muted peach updo has butterflies in it too.
- Jimbo took this runway category in the direction I was expecting. She’s in a dark purple, almost black catsuit with a shiny, black netted dress only exposing a chaps-like shape on her lower half. She also has on a rather massive silver vagina plate, silver breastplate, phones coming out of her back to shine lights on her face, a metal face guard, and round Matrix-like sunglasses.
- Jessica Wild is in a white, netted, almost sculptural chapped catsuit that still shows her figure underneath. Butterflies are placed throughout the look and she tops it off by holding a butterfly net. Cute and slutty, my kind of look.
- Heidi N Closet is in a Naruto inspired look. The whole piece is made out of a dense black netted fabric in the shape of a modern ninja costume but in shorts, and of course she has on five shiny gapped toothed smiles on the piece. Her asymmetrical shaved and long hair looks badass.
- Lala Ri is in what looks like a glittery long sleeved leotard with puffed shoulders and a mesh fabric added at the bottom to fit the assignment.
- Kahanna Montrese is in a look made out of silver, blue, and white crystals. The bottom half are chapps while the top half exposes the sides of her midriff and hips. She also has on a crown and septer made out of the same crystals and a blue cape to make her look like a drag superhero pageant winner.
- Darienne Lake is in a “basketball-gown” (I’ll be here all week) as she holds up a massive basketball net that she then wears as a necklace.
- Alexis Michelle is in a gorgeous taupe ball gown with massive, structured pleatting and an off the shoulder collar. The dress is covered in a light black netting so it fits the criteria.
Kandy, Kasha, Jessica, Lala, Darienne, and Alexis are deemed safe. Naysha is told she looks good but not big enough for All Stars and her acting kept getting lost; Jaymes receives good critiques for her acting and her elevated runway look; Jimbo is praised for her runway look, Michelle even calls it iconic, and all the judges loved her comedy in the acting challenge; Heidi gets great critiques as the newsbroadcaster as well as for a very different and improved look; Kahanna gets amazing critiques for her look but her performance was quite a flop, Robin Thede even says, “the pussy was a little dry for me.”
Ru claims Jimbo is the winner of this week’s challenge, winning $5,000. Jaymes and Heidi are safe while Naysha and Kahanna are in the bottom two. The segment where the queens dramatically make their votes is so draggy and extra and I love it. Jimbo is in a colorful ‘80s look and the lip sync assassin is none other than Pangina Heals. Jimbo exclaims, “How could you?” to Ru. They perform to “She Bop” by Cyndi Lauper. I’m not sure if Jimbo isn’t trying at all, but Pangina dominates the stage and wins the lip sync. The $20,000 rolls over onto next week’s tip. Pangina reveals the group’s vote to send home Naysha Lopez.