If this is what the MTV era of Drag Race has in store for us, then I’m not sure this network move was the right call. Arguably the biggest story of the season is just over, with no real buildup in this episode. And in the episode where we finally get the climactic twin battle in the lip sync, there is absolutely no narrative content in the werk room that suggests this might be happening. The result is that standout queens are getting lost-Anetra hasn’t had a confessional in two episodes, for example.
But from a post-production standpoint, the editors are being asked to condense too much content into too small of a package. And from a production standpoint, these decisions are cool! Giving the queens Snatch Game early is a way to surprise them, although it’s going to basically guarantee some major bombs. It’s one of the most engaging groups of queens we’ve ever had on the show. That’s such a shame, because this cast is terrific. Why are we doing two Snatch Games, guaranteeing that some queens get only one chance to make an impression with their impersonation? It all reeks of a decision made after filming to edit the show down, and it’s making the season borderline unwatchable. The problem is that this size of cast, and the challenges that are being done at this phase, require more time to properly show. For the first eight seasons, this length was the norm, and it produced several classic runs. This version of Drag Race just feels anemic, and it’s not about the episodes being too short. RuPaul’s werk room walkthrough is excised from the episode.
Critiques are edited down to a line or two for each queen. Judges’ deliberations are cut out entirely. While Snatch Game itself is perhaps not as much of a mess as you’d think, the episode around it has to be crunched to fit the leftover time. It almost feels unnecessary to say this RuPaul’s Drag Race episode is a disaster on several levels. Well, yeah, how did you think a double Snatch Game with 14 participants in a 42-minute episode would go?
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