Then comes the big reveal as RuPaul asks the ladies to stretch their Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve, and Talent this week for the Snatch Game, Drag Race’s marquee maxi-challenge that separates the wheat from the chaff and sends any remaining cannon fodder flying. We smell a spat wafting over from a commercial break away! Eureka bucks convention and reads all of the queens as she blasts their inevitably lazy jabs at her weight, and she goes on to win the mini-challenge while Vixen rolls her eyes. For the most part, everyone does a decent job delivering some classic setup-punch line reads, with recurring targets in both Aquaria’s insipid personality and the Vixen’s thirsty wigs. Because reading is what? Deeply alarming in the United States due to sluggish child-literacy rates and we should all be concerned and vigilant in pursuing Betsy Devos’s removal from her position of power. The credits roll and Ru greets the girls the next day by opening the Library for the perennially delightful reading challenge, but not before taking a dig at the Department of Education. It’s a completely valid point that the judges (Michelle in particular) are always quick to shut down during critiques, and it feels as though an underdog narrative is being set up for Ms. ![]() Monique then laments her constant safety despite turning out some great performances and looks, and brings up the cost-prohibitive aspects of the competition working against her limited resources. It’s like, come on, Eureka! You’re gonna poke the bear by literally mentioning the bear? Oof. Moments after wiping down Blair’s lipstick message, the Vixen gets some seemingly warm words of encouragement from Eureka, who quickly takes a left turn in her pep talk once she invokes Vix’s ursine behavior in front of everyone. Add to that a most disappointing exit by a fan favorite, and we’ve got ourselves a tough episode to swim through, mermaid-style. That distribution holds true for Drag Race season ten, but as we go through the yearly exercise of snapping out of our collective amnesia to say, “Oh yeah, the Snatch Game is usually just okay,” none of these queens even break into the top 20 all-time best Snatch Game impersonations.
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