No mini-challenge this week, so we dive right into the cast selection, with last week’s maxi-challenge winner Pythia as casting director. But what the acting challenge actually captures perfectly is how the Scream movies send up the tropes of horror, as “Screech” effectively and sometimes pretty brutally lampoons the tropes of Drag Race.
Sure, you’ve got a masked killer and a scene involving Drew Barrymore-er, sorry, Gia Metric as “Blue Scarymore”-picking up a phone and dying for the act. “Screech” is ostensibly a parody of the Scream movies, but it’s a good bit more clever than that. While Amanda gets her first major chance to stand out this week, it’s the queens who shine brightest in what is a shockingly good acting challenge. As Brooke Lynn Hytes gets more comfortable in the main host role and Brad Goreski settles into his quips during the runway, it’s Amanda who’s coming across as the most assured on this newly reconfigured panel.Īmanda Brugel takes centre stage among the three judges this week, making good on the promise that she showed as guest host last season. She raises the energy without taking the spotlight away from the queens, and her able direction and judging round out her skill set. She proves herself to be more than up to the challenge, delivering her host dialogue with exactly the right mix of excitement to be there and confidence in her role. This week, we get our full, proper introduction to her as not just a judge, but a presence guiding the queens in the workroom and directing them in their horror movie parody. To that point, may I make the case for Amanda Brugel-“TV’s Amanda Brugel,” as Brooke Lynn Hytes likes to call her-as one of the most quietly impressive judges Drag Race currently has on its roster? I really liked her guest host appearance in Season 1, but that was a small sample. And most impressively, the judging panel has drastically improved, shaking off any too-gentle jitters from the premiere to really find their voice.
The show looks and works a lot better bringing in Trevor Boris as showrunner has clearly tightened a lot of the screws from last season. This is a fun, feisty crop of queens that has more than matched their preceding class in entertainment value. From what we’ve seen so far, the Season 2 blessing continues with Canada’s Drag Race.
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