The victorious Jimbo leads the queens into the werkroom after last week’s competition. Eliminated queen Naysha Lopez gets her final word in her lipstick message: “I’m still prettier than all of you!” Jimbo reveals that she would have eliminated Naysha had she won the lip sync. But…
The other queens have thoughts. The ballot box reveals that 7 queens voted to send Naysha home, while 3 voted for the episode 1 winner, Kahanna Montrese. Jessica Wild voted to save Naysha in a show of Puerto Rican sisterhood. Mrs. Kasha Davis was compelled by an emotional plea by Naysha to not send her home. How to vote off queens is a recurring topic of strategy, emotions and intrigue. Kahanna is not having it. As Kandy Muse notes, “Shit’s getting gaggy!”
This week, Ru enters the werkroom with his dictum, “A true drag queen finds inspiration wherever she goes.” Well, attention shoppers: the queens are going to the supermarket this episode. The maxi challenge is to serve three looks: Legen-dairy Queens, Fruity Patooty, and Supermarket Supermodel, which the queens will assemble from bags of groceries delivered by the Pit Crew. LaLa Ri collapses at the sight of Bruno in his pink briefs! I just know she wanted some mouth-to-mouth.
Lots of werkroom chat ensues. Kasha is very cranky about having to sew. “It’s 2023,” she notes. “I don’t sew. I’m not Amish. Do we have to whittle our own pencils?” LaLa is having shopping bag PTSD and reminds us she can’t sew either. It would have maybe helped if her sewing machine had thread in it.
Ru does a walk-through and chats with several queens. My favorite line came from Heidi N Closet, who described her aesthetic as “ignorant with a touch of restraint.” Go forth and use that line!
It’s Ball Day. First up on the runway are the Legen-dairy Queens. Milk is well-represented (but not the drag queen Milk), as are cows. Jessica adds color with the addition of fruity cereal. Kasha, in white, wears a cranky expression; we find out later she was serving sour cream. She needed a label.
In the Fruity Patooty category, highlights include “Banana Montrese” (who has a lot of a-peel) and Alexis in a blueberry gown, which Ru says is an “anti-oxidant waiting to happen.” I live for these quips!
Finally, in the Supermarket Supermodel runway, we see what the queens have concocted with their groceries. The looks are so finished and well-constructed that I can’t even figure out what the original grocery item was. One look fails miserably: Mrs. Kasha Davis. Judge Ts Madison reads her for filth. Savage!
The winner this week is Jessica Wild, who really turnt it out. In the bottom are Kasha (unsurprisingly) and Darienne Lake. Jessica lip syncs for her legacy (and for a $30K cash tip) against assassin Ra’Jah O’Hara to “Coconuts” by Kim Petras. Within seconds, Jessica reveals two bouncy, jiggly “margari-ta-ta’s” in red pasties that have the judges in hysterics. She wins the lip sync, snatching the large cash tip and the power to send Darienne or Kasha home. Kasha gets the chop and sashays away with disappointment and grace. In a nod to her old tag line, she reminds us that “there’s always time for kindness.” Amen to that.
Ok, our trip to the market is done. I think I’ll go make a PB&J sandwich. Must be jelly ‘cause that jam don’t shake! See you next week.
