RPDR UK S1 E4 (spoilers)

[Kala]

As per request from @Alla - it’s SNATCH GAME week! Only spoilers around which character each queen does are allowed until 9pm On Thursday. After then, it’s free reign to discuss everything about the episode.

if anyone has official T then spill the beans!

If you don’t want to know, then don’t read any further.

 

[VoR]

I suspect she’ll do Kim Woodburn again but I really hope The Vivienne steals* my idea of doing Cilla from Beyond The Grave.

* I say steals, obviously we’ve never actually met or spoken.

 

[Pingu]

Spoiler: Blu Hydrangea is doing

Mary Berry

 

[Sheena]

THAT'S an interesting choice.

And do we need to spoiler things in a spoiler thread? I don't THINK SO.

 

[Sheena]

There's rich material there if it's done right but could just as easily be a "OH RU, YOU'VE GOT A SOGGY BOTTOM"/ TUMBLEWEED NOISE bomb...

 

[Pingu]

THAT'S an interesting choice.

And do we need to spoiler things in a spoiler thread? I don't THINK SO.

Oh yes true, I misread the original post.

 

[Phoenix]

From spoiler reddit, don’t know how accurate

Spoiler: Snatch Game Characters

• The Vivienne - Donald Trump
  
  
• Baga - Margaret Thatcher
  
  
• Sum Ting Wong - David Attenborough
  
  
• Divina - was going to do Margaret Thatcher but had to swap last minute to Julia Childs
  
  
• Cheryl - Gemma Collins
  
  
• Blu - Mary Berry
  
  
• Crystal - Rue McClanahan / Blanche Devereaux
  

 

[VoR]

That's a disappointing list if true. Two of them playing cis men? Another fucking Julia Child impersonation?

 

[Kala]

I’ve never heard of Julia Child. Who did her before? Can’t have been that good if I can’t remember.

I am surprised The Vivienne is not doing Kim Woodburn. Cheryl’s is predictable but you know she’ll be able to pull that off.

I wonder who Michelle was taking about. Baga maybe?

Also WTF at Sum Ting! Surely she’ll be bottom 2.

 

[lolly]

David Attenborough is probably a relatively easy one to do, but a lot harder to make funny.

 

[VoR]

Julia Child is an American TV chef. Meryl Streep played her in Julia and Julia. Milk did her on Season 6 and I could swear there was another but maybe I'm misremembering.

 

[SDF]

I absolutely cannot see how David Attenborough is going to be funny.

 

[Kala]

I absolutely cannot see how David Attenborough is going to be funny.

That’s exactly what I was thinking. Christ.

At least Trump can be made funny but even though he is well known it’s still quite a difficult character to get the nuances right, especially for a non-American.

 

[lolly]

Impressions are what The Vivienne does though, aren't they? And I think for Snatch Game the nuances aren't that important. If it's funny and delivered with gusto (and makes Ru laugh) nobody is going to care about nuance. It's not Dead Ringers.

 

[Kala]

Julia Child is an American TV chef. Meryl Streep played her in Julia and Julia. Milk did her on Season 6 and I could swear there was another but maybe I'm misremembering.

Milk. Says it all why I can’t remember. What an ODD choice for a UK show.

 

[lolly]

Is Julia Childs really someone who Divina would be performing regularly as part of her act? It is an ODD choice.

 

[Kala]

Is Julia Childs really someone who Divina would be performing regularly as part of her act? It is an ODD choice.

I doubt it very much. Apart from a handful of older gays and proper hardcore Drag Race aficionados (obviously I’m not either of those it seems) who the FUCK would know who she is!

Of all the British icons (Or infamous cunts in the case of Baga) that they have to choose from and we end up with this line up. It really beggars belief!

 

[Sheena]

Didn’t we already have rumours that there were a classic soap character or two?

Yeah, that list looks dull as fuck to me..

 

[Phoenix]

Julia Childs is not exactly obscure and considering that they clear the choices with productions Divina was probably gonna do it anyway.

 

[lolly]

I'd much rather a British queen did Fanny Cradock.

 

[VoR]

I only just realised - with Baga being a noted Conservative, her Thatcher isn't likely to be the hatchet job she deserves but rather an attempt to make her look 'fabulous'.

 

[Kala]

Julia Childs is not exactly obscure and considering that they clear the choices with productions Divina was probably gonna do it anyway.

To the general UK public, she is.

 

[Kala]

I only just realised - with Baga being a noted Conservative, her Thatcher isn't likely to be the hatchet job she deserves but rather an attempt to make her look 'fabulous'.

She Tweeted the other day that she’s voting for Jeremy Corbyn in the next election.

 

[lolly]

Didn't she say a while back that Corbyn was the reason she wouldn't vote Labour? And this was presumably filmed before she got called out for her political views.

I think she's one of those people who shouldn't really talk about politics.

 

[lolly]

Really interested to see Crystal take on Blanche Devereaux, although nothing he has done so far makes me think he can do her full justice.

 

[D5K]

I haven't heard of two of those... but I guess if you're just trying to impress Ru then it doesn't matter how accessible any of them are to a UK audience.

 

[Kala]

I haven't heard of two of those... but I guess if you're just trying to impress Ru then it doesn't matter how accessible any of them are to a UK audience.

Perhaps, but you also have to go on the reactions of the contestants - Stacey Dooley and Lorraine Kelly are not going to be laughing if they haven’t got a clue who the queens are meant to be portraying.

 

[lolly]

Well they have to impress Stacey Dooley and Lorraine Kelly as well

 

[lolly]

I wonder who Michelle's comment about 'perhaps the best Snatch Game performance ever' or something was about?

I've a feeling it could be Cheryl doing Gemma Collins.

 

[Yvonne Mondle]

I'd much rather a British queen did Fanny Cradock.

QUITE! Julia Child indeed!

 

[Yvonne Mondle]

To the general UK public, she is.

And even a swinging young with-it hipster like myself () doesn’t have a clue who she is (apart from being someone Milk did on Snatch Game). Anyway, that list could be bollocks and maybe she’ll do Diamanda Galás

 

[Tisch]

Sorry if already mentioned, I'm avoiding spoilers so just came in to post that apparently Vinegar was going to do Sandra from Gogglebox

 

[Berly]

The Vivienne should have done Lily Savage

 

[Tetris-Rock]

Why on EARTH would a British queen do Julia Child?

Is she even remotely known in this country beyond the Streep film?

 

[cwej]

What a bizarre set of choices. Julia Child is fine to be fair, but David Attenborough? You'd be better off doing David Dimbleby, David Brent, David Beckham OR David Bellamy than David fucking Attenborough.

Literally can't think of a worse David to do.

 

[VoR]

My only thought with Divinia is that she might have half an eye on the US viewership, and a game that resonates with them might make her more memeable if she pulls it off.

Still disappointing (in theory) though.

 

[Lucille]

Why do a MAN full stop. Lil Richard for Kennedy was an inspired choice, but quite annoyed at how it’s opened the floodgates for this kind of SHENANIGANS.

 

[VoR]

I can't decide if queens playing men or queens playing fellow Drag Race Alum annoys me more.

No, actually I can. Little Richard and Paul Lynde were both stellar. I think Nina Bo'nina as Jasmine Masters is the only time a queen playing a queen hasn't pissed me off.

 

[cwej]

Well obviously I don't want a man. I just am making the point of JUST HOW BAD Attenborough is. They could choose almost any HUMAN over Attenborough and it would be better.

 

[Lucille]

It works if there’s a level of femininity or camp value to the man, but Trump and Attenborough?!? It’s a drag competition not SNL.