Acting Challenge: L.A.D.P: Los Angeles Drag Patrol
For this week’s main challenge, RuPaul’s Drag Race meets Cops in L.A.D.P: Los Angeles Drag Patrol. The queens are paired off and have to improvise their lines for this hot new TV show, starring Fortune Feimster and Cheyenne Jackson as the arresting officers — and can I just say how lovely and gay that is?
The show plays out like Cops, where Cheyenne and Fortune get called to the scene of a crime and the perps in question are played by the queens. Brooke Lynn won and she got to pair everyone up, so she put herself with a strong, funny competitor in Nina West, and made sure to split up all the other threats so no other team could be as solid. She’s a smart cookie, that Brooke Lynn Hytes (it’s because she’s Canadian, obviously).
Brooke may have been worried, especially after her less-than-stellar Snatch Game last week, but she absolutely killed it. I was sure Nina would be a larger than life character and overshadow Brooke, but it was the other way around!
She played a nude sunbather who was laying out in the sun in front of Nina’s trailer. She is fully naked the entire time and she used her body to her advantage — and not only was she using her physicality for laughs, but she was saying some really funny things! Overall, they all just worked so well off of each other, but Nina seemed a bit bitter about Brooke taking over.
I'm switching to Level 4 Veganism!@Bhytes1 @NinaWest @cheyennejackson @fortunefunny #DragRace pic.twitter.com/PrQ7L2GzEC
— RuPaul's Drag Race (@RuPaulsDragRace) April 26, 2019
As much as it pains me to say, another standout was Silky. She definitely overpowered her partner, Sugah, but if there’s one thing Silky knows how to do, it’s to be over the top and this time, it fit perfectly with the task at hand. She was playing some street scammer who was selling faulty hip pads to queens, and she didn’t have a single bad moment. But there’s still one problem: Silky is pretty much always playing herself. It was funny this time, but it’s going to get old fast.
Even though I love them both dearly, Plastique and Vanjie missed the mark. Vanjie is always funny, like I said, but she doesn’t know how to harness all that Vanjie personality properly, which is what Ru is trying to get her to do. Plastique kept getting lost in the character and the storyline just didn’t come across. Not to get ahead of myself, but as much as it hurt my heart, they both landed in the bottom and I wasn’t surprised.
Yvie was kind of under the radar this week, considering how present she has been in the last few episodes both in the challenges and in all the backstage drama. She was good as the twerking daughter of Akeria, but her mama blew her out of the water with her twerk skills! Though I thought Brooke Lynn would snatch the win, Akeria came out on top. I’m not too mad at that, because she has definitely been a dark horse.