Wow! A great showing from Denali this episode. Another strong week in the books for the season-13 narrator. On the runway, Kandy’s dress is cool, avant-garde, and editorial. The contrast could not be clearer between her and, say, Olivia Lux, whom she eats RIGHT up both figuratively and literally (in the case of her banana). Kandy doesn’t have any lines as Patrick Starrr that are particularly genius, but the rhythm and cadence of her delivery is top of her class.

I mean, she wolfs down half a banana (including the peel) in a single bite … need I say more? The other skill Kandy has on lock is the ability to land a joke. In a weaker season’s Snatch Game, Kandy might very well have claimed a top placement. Silky did it, Sasha Velour did it, Roxxxy did it, and all to great success. Kandy elects to employ a tried-and-true strategy for the Snatch Game: Find the most Kandy Muse–adjacent celebrity and use them as a vehicle to let her own personality shine. For the fascinator runway, Rosé sports a dress made of roses, which Michelle says she “didn’t hate.” High praise! To sum up, I’d give Rosé a B+ in Snatch Game, but an A+ in her NYU Tisch voice-and-speech class. While I think she does a solid job, I simply didn’t find Mary nearly as memorable as Harriet Tubman. That said, I’m surprised to see Rosé placed in the top over Symone this episode. There are some funny beheading jokes, and Rosé is able to riff affably with Ru (I think? Again, I barely understood most of it). After spending her preparation time styling her wig while casually flexing her Scottish-dialect work (we get it, Gary Oldman), Rosé sails to a very solid (albeit mostly unintelligible) performance in Snatch Game. The fact that this forces production to pull a Renaissance painting as a reference photo in lieu of a red-carpet photo makes this choice instantly worth it. The light at the end of the tunnel? We’ve made it to the Snatch Game! After a fever dream of a mini-challenge in which Tina Burner wins for shaking that ass (which appears to be filled with some sort of not-yet-classified non-Newtonian fluid), we get right to the good stuff. Randy Barbato wants direct payments, but Fenton Bailey argues that Tamisha Iman Hightops4All will have a greater economic impact. We’re fresh off a double shantay, nine queens remain, and the producers at World of Wonder are deep in talks with MyBestJudyMerch on how best to roll out a stimulus package to the beleaguered Drag Race fandom. It is month three of Drag Race season 13.

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