"RuPaul's Drag Race UK" The Snatch Game (TV Episode 2021) Poster

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6/10
what the hell??
ronaldoteen28 October 2021
Are you crazy Rupaul??, forced this elimination too much, honestly I thought this decision was too exaggerated.

We've had worse lipsyncs This season is very strange, despite having wonderful Queens.
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4/10
huh??
kawaiicookieunicorn29 October 2021
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The snatch game was pretty good, ella and kitty did amazing

what didn't make sense was the unnecessary double elimination that occurred probably due to producer rigging and " drama " yeah it wasn't the best lipsync but we've had worse that haven't been a double elimination

also not the best decision to send home 2 fan favourites.
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6/10
This season is...
jonascollins28 October 2021
I read the spoilers before watching the season and I knew this would be the absolute lowest point of the whole season with the elimination we got. After losing so many queens that under other circumstances could've easily been in the Top 3/4, this just was unneccessary in my opinion. It shows me that Ru and the production solely rely on shock factor and unexpected moments, rather than creating a show that showcases talented queens to support queer artists.
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1/10
That was a choice...
johnshields-5461328 October 2021
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Yeah to be honest, this is the point in the season where all hopes lost, Choriza didn't deserve her bottom placement and River clearly won the lip sync, the snatch game was also there, it was just fine... But it's clear now that Kystal is being pushed to the top while falling flat three weeks in a row, she's continually saved so she can go up against Ella for the crown, and by now, the top 5 is so genuinely awful that we already know who's going to win out of them.
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1/10
awful judging
aksiona29 October 2021
The judging this season is absolutely disgusting. It became TOO OBVIOUS that they're judging based on a pre-written script, not the actual performances. The queens are so good and nice this season, but producers are just making them all dirty with an unnecessary manufactured drama. Just take a year off and fire your old producers.
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7/10
Before the fandom gets in
zmxprbdz28 October 2021
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So

I actually think this was a decent episode up until the end. Snatch game was good, the looks were really nice and the untucked & pre runway stuff was really wholesome

I don't agree with the double sashay, because Krystal should've been in the bottom over Choriza. But River did more than enough to stay whilst based on the lip sync,Choriza definitely didn't do much for me. (And I love her

I don't want the 5 remaining queens to get hate mail from the vicious drag race fandom. It wasn't their decision and all 5 of them have done more than enough to stay there (especially Ella & Kitty)

I just wish the UK drag race would revert back to the dry, wholesome way it worked in 1 & 2 rather than trying to create drama for no reason.
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1/10
Worst Episode in RPDR UK history
luisarossil29 October 2021
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Ru just sent the 2 fan favorites home to save her precious Krystal and Scarlett. Scarlett's constant Home Alone scream was not funny at all on the Snatch Game. Krystal was a flop too. Choriza should have been safe. This went south real quick and the riggory is clearly evident. World of Wonder, next time don't rush production and use time better maybe.
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8/10
Wtf RuPaul?
howseisaac28 October 2021
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This episode was really good until that elimination. Seriously we've had worse lipsyncs than this such as Pearl vs Fame and Silky vs Nina yet this is the one that was double sashay worthy? River absolutely won that even tho she did look ridiculous without that bowl. Although yall just rating this 1/10 cuz your faves went home, we've had worse than this.
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7/10
Meh
Javi112228 October 2021
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Choriza didn't deserve her bottom placement. Krystal did worse, and Scarlett just repeated the same joke. River won the lipsync and should've stayed. This season just gets more and more confusing, but at least we had a good challenge and winner this week.
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1/10
What the f is going on in here on this day
michaueg28 October 2021
I created an account only to review this episode with 1 and honestly if I could, I'd give it -10. This is the reason why "Rupple's DR has fd up drag".

Make Drag race UK great again.
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9/10
Brilliant episode, but one flaw.
bredebg28 October 2021
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This episode had an interesting start to finish. It started with continuing the Scarlett vs everyone drama, which set the tone of the episode. The reading challenge never fails to entertain (although I believe it should've been someone other than Choriza winning it). The snatch game itself was good, not too great but still enough to meet Snatch Game standards.

My problem comes with the judging. The judging before deliberations were good, and I felt like Krystal was the only one that was obviously going to lip sync. Based on her performance and critiques as well. Krystal is my favorite queen so I feel like I can say this without getting hate; Ru not putting Krystal in the bottom shocked me, she reeled in less laughs than everyone and her look was read as well by the main judges.

While watching the lip sync, even before they showed clips of the judges not being impressed, I immediately realised that this was going to be a double sashay. I don't feel like this was too forced or that it was done because of the shock-value. This was simply a very bad lip-sync.

Enjoyed this episode very much, the only minus point is Krystal being saved from the bottom two. That's where she should have been placed.
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6/10
great!!!! up until the last 10 minutes.......
daanvanve29 October 2021
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Snatch game was good. Ella and Kitty's snatch game's were iconic. Scarlett and Vanity were fine. The judging was kinda off.... first i think Choriza shouldn't have been in the bottom. Krystal should've been. Second of all river did better than Choriza by a long shot. Bad lipsync? Yes. Bad enough for a double shantay? Maybe. Runway was pretty bad. But Ella did amazing overall. So not bad. Not great. I'll miss Choriza and River a lot. 😢
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1/10
Skinnnnnny
bereczmb28 October 2021
It's nice knowing that you can be just a skinny 19 year old and Rupaul will eat you up on the spot. It's clear that she doesn't actually care for any of the contestants this season.

The worst thing about this is Ru's clearly forced laugh trying to convince the audience she actually enjoys the queens, but in reality just sees them as easily marketable.

The judging this season is awful, so many talented and interesting queens wasted so that the most boring contestants you saw on television history get to make it far.

Remove Rupaul live and legally.
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3/10
Disappointed on Ru
sbypw28 October 2021
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The snatch game was fun, the bottom was okey, the double sashay was rigged. Ru wanted River out and Choriza didn't go a good lip sync, but River did. I'm tired of Ru playing with the audience for views and dramas: BE FAIR.
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1/10
Anyways
mvwmtbfsr28 October 2021
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I mean what a sad season at this point. The judging all seems strategic and not real at all. Last week followed up by this is just too much. They saved 2 white queens and then eliminated the only Spanish queen and the only Asian queen. Just a mess for being one of the most uninclusive drag race casts/this regional series as a whole. Telling choriza that hers was too on the nose yet scarlet just regurgitated home alone lines... anyways dragula season 4 has been great and the boulets actually connect with and care about their cast. Drag race is on a downward spiral and they're running out of time to fix it. I feel like with Victoria gone the storylines all fell to mush on episode 3. Tragic.
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6/10
Umm....
robertochoa4829 October 2021
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So I liked this episode up till the end.

I think RuPaul exaggerated that double elimination.

It wasn't even a double elimination lipsync. I did enjoy the lipsync. I do think however that River won the Lipsync imo. But Choriza should have been safe in this challenge because she did better than Krystal.

Krystal to me deserved to be in the bottom over Choriza though.

Hopefully next week episode isn't rigged like it was this week.
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1/10
I literally created an IMDb account to share how bad this episode is.
tuckerperry-5397628 October 2021
The snatch game was alright, but MY GOD the judging on this season is even worse than Canada's drag race season 1. RuPaul if you are reading this I think it is officially your time to step down as host. You are killing the queer community and writhing the knife around inside. I hope you choke.
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10/10
LOVED IT!!
whitelodgekid29 October 2021
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The episode was amazing, yes the elimination was a shame, but people are over reacting just coz they are the fan faves, like chill a bit? The lip sync was definitely bad and was granted and double sashay. The episode itself was amazing, and u shouldn't make the rating low just coz ur rioting over an elimination... or 2 💀
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7/10
Good snatch game. Unjust elimination
richardlouw28 October 2021
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The Snatch Game wasn't bad. Scarlett, Kitty and especially Ella performed well as their characters. The runway also wasn't bad. However, I think Vanity deserved to be in the bottom 2 instead of Choriza. While the lip sync could be justified as the double sashay that it was, Choriza didn't even deserve to be in the bottom in the first place.
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1/10
Production Decisions Ruining the Show
jtbswartz31 October 2021
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I give my absolute warmest regards to the queens of RPDR UK s3 as well as the staff who help the show come together and the guest judges who were lovely in this episode. If you could remove RuPaul from the show, this would be one of the best episodes of the season. Sadly decisions from the top absolutely wreck it. During the Snatch game prep, Ru delivers some of the most awkward moments in the show's history, such as forcing Choriza to do a "Spanish cher" impression as well as essentially demanding that every queen change who they're going to portray. You can tell that the cast is not behaving naturally at many times because they know they need to placate Ru (Scarlett) or they know they're being forced into a bad edit the whole time and there's nothing they can do to save themselves (Choriza). The judging in this episode seems to be accurate when it begins, but it's only the edit making it look fair momentarily, because they throw judgement out the window when making the final decisions Queens who did objectively worse at being entertaining such as Krystal and Scarlett stay out of the bottom and Ru axes two other queens seemingly because the script needed drama. Honestly this is just such a tragedy because the queens are so likeable but the production is so ANTI-viewer it's insulting. I'm rating this episode one star on principle because our ratings are the only possible way Ru can see that viewers are displeased with the terrible showrunning lately. If you want to see a drag show with fair judging where the vibe is actually natural, check out Boulet Brothers' Dragula on Netflix or Shudder.
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9/10
Logically thinking
pidobinson29 October 2021
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So, this episode is devastating that two of the funniest and well likes Queens went home, but when we think about the actual Lip sync, it was pretty poor. The wig that Chroiza had on and kept adjusting, the poor splits that River did and the general lacklustre of performance. The Queens could have been much more hyper and jumping up and down, waving their hands in the air, getting the judges to "shout" etc and they didn't.

Out of the two, River did do a better job than Choriza in the lip sync so could potentially have stayed. But, we know that this is the way the franchise has been going both in international and in the USA. Maybe commercially for Paramount+that's why it has been heading over in that direction and the producers have just followed for international versions. I still don't believe that this episode is worse than what we got with Down Under, and overall it was a good snatch game and Ella is now starting to show herself.
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7/10
Good episode for the most part
elementalmishap29 October 2021
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The reading challenge isn't a thing that I've ever really found funny but I can tell whether it's awful or not. It was okay.

The snatch game itself was good enough. It wasn't the best snatch game ever but Ella and Kitty did really great. They both really embodied their characters and did really well.

Pretty everyone did at least decent on the runway. The only one who didn't do well is River.

The main problem of the episode was the judging, not the challenges. I agree with the top 2 and with the winner.

Let me get this out of the way before I talk about the bottom 2. I have not watched Home Alone and so I don't think that I can really judge Scarlett's performance. It didn't make me laugh, but since I have never seen the movie she was referencing, I can't really say whether she actually did well or not. All I can say is that I don't think she should have done the character she didn't get in drag. She just put a jumper on and went with it. Her runway, in my opinion, wasn't good but I still can't say whether she should have been bottom 2 or not, since how she did in both challenges matters.

River definitely deserved to be in the bottom but I don't think that Choriza should have been in the bottom 2. It should have been Vanity or Krystal. With the bottom 2 we were given, I do agree that a double sashay was justified. Whilst River did better than Choriza in the lipsync, she still didn't do well at all.

Most people are just upset that Choriza and River (the fan favourites) went home and so are rating this episode lower than it deserves. Don't get me wrong, I love River and Choriza, they are 2 of my 3 favourites this season, but this episode was not bad enough to be called "the worst episode in drag race history" or given 1 star. This will most likely be an episode that people don't mind as much after they've calmed down about the elimination.

Overall good episode with judging that was a bit off.
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5/10
Weird
jamieaholding29 October 2021
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I really wanted to like this episode but just couldn't.

Firstly the reading challenge was really good and fairly judged based on the edit. This is when the episode starts to go downhill.

Ru tells almost all of the queens to not do their first choice and either throws a name at them or tells them to do their second. This is really unkind as historically the ones that change recurve favourable treatment even if they perform worse.

The snatch game itself had a clear winner. But I was kind of shocked the bottom 4 weren't Krystal, River, Scarlett and Vanity. Then we get to the judging and this was all over the place, the critiques weren't backed up so the bottom 2 feels very wrong.

Then a double sashay? None of the last 3 lip syncs have been double sashay or double shantay worthy. Bit annoyed that UK3 is going to fall to the depths of AS1 and DU1.
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1/10
Poor show plot
setasic29 October 2021
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This episode started out strong with a great reading challenge. It was fun and you could tell the queens were having a good time.

But then, to switch to the workroom wherein Rupaul spends his entire time with the queens trying to change their characters to be more palatable to his taste/US viewers tastes was just the beginning of this episode going downhill.

The forced laughter for the McCauley Culkin impression was just too much, Ru is not as good of an actor as he thinks. Michelle saying she wanted to see it again and again when she has levelled critics against previous queens who do the same note thru snatch game was also unconvincing. As well, to save Krystal after not showing the audience any funny or even compelling moments was just not right. The judging was just too glaringly biased towards the skinny young white queens this episode.

To then do a disrespectful double sashay, it was all too much. I love Choriza, but River absolutely did do better and should have stayed. To send her packing after seeing the energy she put into that lipsync...just horrific. This was thru and thru not good story telling. That is what makes it a bad episode.
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1/10
Over-Producing
reneelangton29 October 2021
Producers, heed this warning: if you continue to over-produce these episodes and encourage unfair and ridiculous judging, you are going to run this franchise into the ground.
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