Jordan Jayro’s Drag Race All Stars Season 8 Recap: Episode 5, Snatch Game of Love

June 5, 2023
JORDAN JAYRO

What’s the tea, Christine?! The time has come for yet another recap of the most recent episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race! It’s All Stars 8 episode five, and things are getting gaggy! Last week, the queens worked in teams to create funny trailers for imaginary movies. And also some posters that didn’t get addressed on the runway. I’m glad there won’t be teams this week. No one likes teams!

The queens are back in the werk room after Darienne’s elimination. She ended her lipstick message with “See you soon” leading some of the girls to wonder if that had any deeper meaning. All Stars seasons always are full of twists, so I suppose we’ll have to wait and see! I would love for all the eliminated queens to come back! Maybe behind the two-way mirror like on All Stars 2! But I’m guessing that probably won’t happen since the Fame Games is a thing. Now I’m just thinking in circles.

The lipsticks are revealed! And this was the first unanimous vote! Everyone voted for Darienne, except for Darienne, who voted for Jaymes. Jaymes says it's probably because she voted for Darienne twice before. That’ll do it! Another important thing to note is that now Jimbo has won two challenges! She is officially a front-runner! Where’s Pangina when you need her!? I’m joking! Maybe. Anywho! RuPaul enters the werk room and tells the queens that for this week’s Maxi Challenge, they're playing Snatch Game of Love! I admit that I don’t like the Snatch Game of Love twist. It’s fine, but I’m partial to the normal Snatch Game! However, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang are guest-judging this episode, so I’m hoping it’s still good. Let’s find out!

Let’s talk about the Snatch Game of Love! Immediately Heidi as Blackbeard and Jaymes as Jennifer Coolidge are standouts for me. Jessica as Iris Chacon was high-safe for sure! But Kahanna struggled as her mother Coco Montrese. Jaymes Mansfield as Jennifer Coolidge was amazing and I think it’s gonna be a good week for her! The second group was Alexis Michelle as Bea Arthur, Kandy Muse as Renee Graziano, Lala Ri as Sukihana, and Jimbo as Shirley Temple. Jimbo and Alexis are killing this challenge! Kandy and Lala also were really great in this. Overall this group played really well together. After seeing everyone’s snatches, it feels like Kahanna and Jessica could be in trouble. But you know the runway can change everything!

Speaking of! Let’s talk about the runway! This week, the category is RuVeal Yourself! Before the runway, Ru announces that Heidi has eliminated herself from the competition. As such, Heidi will not be eligible for The Fame Games. That entire scene in the werk room was really tough to watch. It seems like things were said off-camera that were brought to light on-camera. Ultimately Heidi made the decision to leave, and I’m really sad to see her go. I suppose we should talk about the runway now… Some standouts were Jaymes Mansfield, Kandy Muse, Jimbo, and Alexis Michelle. Some of my least favorites were Jessica Wild and Kahanna Montrese.

Jimbo is once again the top all-star of the week! Jaymes and Alexis are safe! And that means Jessica and Kahanna are the bottom two queens this week. Now Jimbo must face off against the super secret lip sync assassin who is… Jasmine Kennedie!! They lip sync to “Hallucinate” by Dua Lipa. Jasmine Kennedie devoured! She even did the little Dua Lipa meme dance!! She wins the lip sync and… plot twist! RuPaul decides that no one will go home! So we don’t get to see whose lipstick Jasmine had. I’m hoping it’ll get revealed next week. Speaking of next week, it’s gonna be a Russical!!! And it will be Joan Crawford themed!