Review: Canada's Drag Race, S2 E3 Screech

Each week Toronto based comedian Chris Middleton will review the latest episode of Canada’s Drag Race. Season two premiered October 14 on Crave.

As someone who is currently going through a moment of watching horror movies to not be so scared, this acting challenge came at the right time. I mean, I know they released this around this time because it’s the spooky season. But this recap — like everything I write — is about me.

To be honest, I always dread acting challenges because, usually, whoever has the biggest, most palatably annoying presence always ends up winning. It’s like improv, which is probably why I’m so triggered. Though — spoiler — Adrianna won and was not that. Thank god. I’m glad a French Canadian queen is getting her roses for an acting challenge after last season's Kiara snub. No, I haven’t forgotten. No, I never will.

The scripts for these acting challenges are also running longer than Dune, and we don’t need all that. Last season, it was the Heritage Minutes being more like Heritage Hours. With this script, the only thing they weren’t trying to slash was the fat out of the script. If you’re going to go that long, at least give us a Denis Villeneuve directed Oscar Isaac near nude scene. Dune at least gave us all the courtesy of that.

That being said, I think everyone did decently well in the acting challenge it was hard to pick an absolute flop performance. The only one to stick out in a bad way was Synthia, which makes sense, cause she got in her head. Girl needed a knowing look to make her escape.

I thought the acting note the judges gave to Kendall was misplaced, though. I understand Amanda wanting her to read the script, but I think Kendall’s ad-libs fit well. As someone who’s had a total of 3 on-screen roles in my life, I don’t think getting the line exactly right is THAT big of an issue. It probably speaks more to the fact that everyone did well enough they had to nitpick little things. Again, I’m more partial to when a queen doesn’t go that huge, because again, all my trauma stems from improv.

The runway was excellent. I couldn’t tell if those mold spores Gia Metric had on her dress were put there on purpose or developed over the course of her lengthy speech during her critiques. It was also very jarring to hear them praise Stephanie Prince’s Dorothy runway to her face just to critique it later. She had one of the better runways! An all latex is such a killer to wear for extended periods of time. It’s why I broke up with my last boyfriend. 

Sadly, her runway wasn’t enough to save her from the bottom, and Synthia spun her way to safety. Can we do one of those change (dot) org petitions to get Stephanie back next season? She was doing so well, and it’s hard seeing someone with such talent get kicked off this early.

Fefe Dobson was so sweet at the end! Amazing of her to come back into the zeitgeist in this way. Though, no shade, but Kimora saying that Fefe Dobson was the first Rihanna really got me. Saying that is like saying the first Taylor Swift is Skye Sweetnam. Technically, she did release an album before her, but one’s a billionaire and the other lives in Bridgenorth, ON — I assume.