After Alexis Michelle’s win last week, the girls already miss Lala Ri’s presence. Jessica Wild is the producer of this episode because when the girls are chilling on the couch, she says, “But I think now we need to find out if everybody agree with your decision.” Kandy Muse takes the lipstick votes out of the voting box where she reveals that Lala received three votes to go home while Kandy only received one.
But oh wait, Jimbo is also a producer when she says, “I thought you told Lala you weren’t going to send her home,” and Alexis says she didn’t make a promise and that she won’t forget how Lala saved her in the previous week. Kandy then shares in her confessional that Alexis and her spoke about an alliance if Alexis lands in the bottom but Kandy only said to her, “The reality is only one person wins this competition. But that doesn’t mean that two people that come from the same place can’t look out for one another going forward.” Jimbo then talks about how she only made an alliance with Kandy and Heidi but just hopes Kandy isn’t working against her.
The next day, Ru enters the Werk Room to praise Carson Kressley for his accomplishments in television as well as random facts so that Ru can announce that this week’s challenge is a Carson Kressley roast. The girls can also read each other and the other judges and they will be working with Michelle Visage and Alec Mapa on their roast material. Since Alexis won last week’s challenge, she will choose the performance order.
Kandy says she doesn’t know what an equestrian is because she isn’t rich. Jessica and Jimbo talk about how this is their first roast on the show while Alexis reminisces about her epic flop of the Michelle Visage roast of season 9. Alexis tries out a joke and no one laughs, is anyone surprised though?
Jimbo says she’s going to be Joan Rivers during the roast because she won the Snatch Game on Canada’s Drag Race season 1 as Joan. Alexis says Joan has big shoes to fill, but Alexis you have big shoes to fill since you have a history of not being funny without being a character.
Alexis announces the order of the roast and says she will start the show while Jessica will go second, then Kandy, and Jimbo will close the show. Alexis thinks she can keep her momentum going from last week. To quote Bob the Drag Queen on season 8, “So brave.” Jimbo keeps her producer hat on by asking if Alexis was being strategic by putting Jimbo last. Alexis says her strategy only has to do with wherever she wants herself to be in the performance order. Kandy says to Jimbo that this could be her fourth win or her first time in the bottom but Jimbo confidently says, “Well, I don’t plan to prepare a bottom presentation,” and honestly the other girls seem a little shaken by that response.
When the queens workshop their material with Alec and Michelle, Jessica goes first and they love her material but told her to tighten it up; Kandy says she’s a bit nervous but does well and is told to pace her work and enunciate; Alexis bombs terribly just like season 9 and Michelle says it sounds like a wedding toast and has too much storytelling; and for Jimbo, it seems like her jokes require a decent amount of thinking and the audience probably thinks she’s going to do badly.
All the queens seem nervous for the roast but Katya randomly walks in looking amazing! I think Katya is there to help with this challenge until she asks them if they’d fuck any of the queens. I was wrong, she’s there to distract. Alexis says she wanted to fuck Lala Ri but now wants to fuck Kandy. Jimbo answers she wouldn’t fuck any of them because they’re all dirty whores. Katya says the girls should make each other cry because it’s a roast, not a sauté. When Katya says if they mess up, they’ll be dragged online forever, and the camera cuts to Alexis. Perfect.
On the runway, Ru’s wig needs help. She’s in an orange dress covered in lines of flat silver studs with a slit on her left leg, but her wavy and fluffy blonde wig is just too far back and looks like it’s about to slip off the back of her head. The only judges this week are Michelle and Carson, thankfully not some random so called celebrity.
Starting off the “Carson Kressley, This Is Your Gay Life!” roast, Alexis Michelle is in a purple and green sequined off the shoulder gown with a massive orange up-do wig. She does one mild ass performance with no real insults, it’s almost like it was approved for a roast at an elderly home. Jessica is in a green, red, gold, and black stripe patterned sequin dress with a slit on her left leg, and bracelets and a massive necklace in the same fabric. She does a fantastic job reading the queens, judges, and Carson because she brought a very sarcastic and energetic vibe to her performance.
Kandy is in an aqua blue leotard with ostrich feather trim on her wrists and edges of her mini-skirt along with a piss yellow curly wig. She digs at her competitors the most and brings a very entertaining energy to the stage that livens the room. Jimbo is next as Joan Rivers in a multicolored paisley print dress with blue and green ostrich feathers on one shoulder and on the trim of her short in the front long in the back dress with a yellow and black striped lining. Jimbo’s set goes by so fast because she is professional in the roast making sure she beautifully insults everyone she can.
From Secret Celebrity Drag Race season 2, Jackie Would aka Thom Filicia, who was also from the main cast of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy along with Carson, shows up to perform. She is not good but I think Ru wanted to act like this was a special moment by having one of Carson’s friends show up. Thom then magically becomes the celebrity guest judge on the panel.
The category on the runway this week is “Snow Bunny”:
- First up is Alexis Michelle in an icy blue catsuit covering her heels and hands with a wreath-like upright collar made out of a silvery patterned fabric that matches a big ski bag in her right hand. In her other hand is what looks like a tail but it’s actually the end of a really long icy blue Santa hat. Her white Karen wig makes this kind of a ‘90s look along with the big pearl necklace.
- Jessica Wild is in a blue catsuit with a black belt and white mukluk boots that match the fur trim on her wrists and hood. Her matching blue coat with silver snowflake designs and ski goggles makes her look like a sexy skiing spy who’s also ready to party.
- Kandy Muse is in a shiny silver rhinestone bra and panty set but the panty looks like a pad that’s held up by chains on her matching mini corset. But there’s a cardinal sin, flats. She has on rhinestone tights but her silver snow boots are flats. Unforgivable. She also has on ski goggles and a white fur coat that she got at Macy’s.
- Jimbo looks like Björk in a white dress covered in white and silver stoned stripped cock feathers that reach almost a foot off of her body, yet the look does not swallow her. She has on a silvery blue iridescent fabric on her chest with matching gloves and her slick and rhinestone soft-served updo makes her look like the most elegant queen from Whoville.
Alexis is told by the judges that she didn’t have a point of view and lacked as many laughs as the other queens but her look is very well received. Jessica is praised by Carson and the other judges for the roast as well as her look and Ru says she has evolved so much with her looks and performances and states that Jessica is never the bud of the joke, she’s in charge of the joke.
Kandy was told she enunciated but she didn’t let the room breath and kept the pace going a bit fast yet she commanded the audience and the judges really liked her look. Jimbo’s risk of being Joan Rivers had a huge pay off because she embodied her spirit and her look is praised for being very extra. Ru even calls her roast an honor to watch.
Jimbo is deemed the winner of this week’s challenge and Alexis, Jessica, and Kandy are in the bottom three. As the queens submit their lipstick votes for who they want to go home, Jessica chooses Alexis, Alexis chooses Jessica because of her alliance with Kandy, and Kandy breaks her alliance with Alexis because she can’t trust her. Jimbo is in her UK vs the World talent show look in a white, pregnant, plastic full body suit that makes her head look like the head of a penis, along with massive black lipstick and black circle eye shadow.
The lip sync assassin this week is the queen who has won the most lip syncs in Drag Race history, Silky Nutmeg Ganache. She’s wearing a dress with a mishmash of neon yellow, orange, green, and pink paired with leopard print. The lip sync song is “Freak-A-Zoid” by Midnight Star and Jimbo campily dances around like a weirdo while not really trying except to make Ru laugh. She rips bologna out of her vagina and Silky reveals into a catsuit with basically the same colors just with neon lines that accentuate her figure. Jimbo wins her first lip sync in Drag Race history and wins a cash tip of $10,000. Silky jokingly says this is going down in history having lost to Jimbo. It is then revealed that Jimbo sends home Alexis Michelle. When Alexis says to Ru, “Thank you for letting me be a part of your family,” I eye rolled because she did not treat all of her sisters as family.