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Snatch Game! Snatch Game! It’s Drag Race Mexico‘s first Snatch Game! Will this be a total charmer like Drag Race España Season 1 was? Will the judging be as wildly different from my perception as it was for the most recent episode of Drag Race France? There’s only one way to find out and that’s by watching this week’s episode!

Gala Varo, fresh off a win, is reading Serena Morena once they come back to the Werk Room, calling her “not a great drag queen” but “a great person.” The shade of it all.

The next day comes and it moves very quickly as well, with not even a discussion of Argennis winning last week’s Lip Sync for Your Life, which is a shame since she did really well. Although the bar is pretty low because the lip syncs the past few episodes are not it.

This week’s mini challenge is doing La Catrina makeup on their faces, which I am only now discovering is an integral part of the Dia de los Muertos celebrations. I love when international franchises bring in something that is uniquely rheirs!

After a prolonged look at the Anastasia Beverly Hills makeup they’re going to be using, the girls now have to do the La Catrina makeup on their faces without a mirror. And in three minutes. I am not even a makeup person but I already know that skull face can’t be done well in three minutes!

And predictably, the makeup is terrible. Lady Kero…I can’t even talk about it. Margaret Y Ya’s? My god. Regina Voce ends up winning and gets rewarded with P18,000, which she says is worth a two-day stay in Acapulco.

The girls then get told that the main challenge this week is Snatch Game, and both Cristian Peralta and Lady Kero seem ready for it. The runway theme is revealed to be “supernatural” and the clothes better be as gag-worthy as Viñas Deluxe’s was in Drag Race Philippines.

They didn’t do the whole table thing where the hosts critique the queen’s choices for Snatch Game, so I am going to be very honest when I say I don’t know who’s who, other than Margaret Y Ya because she’s got a bugger build. But at the very start, the queen playing Veronica Castro looks to have an edge over the other queens. So does the one playing Luna Gil. I think this one is Lady Kero? Because of the fake titties?

Veronica Castro, who I think is Cristian Peralta, is doing well, as well as Regina Voce’s (?) Walter Mercado. Argennis’ Gloria Trevi — I think it is Argennis — is a dud, and I think this is her last episode on the show and probably the last time a lip sync is going to be compelling this season.

Matraka’s Adela Micha — I know it’s Matraka because Cristian complimented Matraka’s portrayal — is probably giving her a safe placement this week, while Gala Varo’s La Llorona seems a little one note for me. She even admits it the day after!

As they prepare for the Supernatural runway, Cristian confesses to feeling a little homesickness, what with being away from their child and partner. Cristian also reveals that they plan to propose to her once the show is over and WOW!

While the queens were congratulating Cristian, Argennis was just in her corner, and she reveals that she just couldn’t congratulate Cristian just yet because hearing Cristian talk about family just reminded her of her own family and her promise to her mother to lift them out of poverty. I fear this focus on Argennis’ situation is her goodbye because this is literally the first time that she has spoken in the episode — not including Snatch Game.

The runway starts and these girls immediately shut me up because these outfits are gorgeous. If there’s anything to criticize it’s the lack of variety, I guess? It’s either a La Catrina or a La Llorona. Surely Mexican culture has a lot more things than those two?

This is why I was so amazed by Matraka’s outfit because it was neither of those two things! It was an alebrije, which I now know as Mexican folk art of supernatural creatures. It’s frustrating that she hasn’t posted it on her Instagram just yet!

Margaret Y Ya’s nahual — a personal guardian spirit — is also memorable because it’s different from everything else. However, she kinda ruined it with a reveal into what basically amounts to The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina cast-offs from the Netflix series.

Regina Voce is the only safe girl this week, and from the judges’ comments it looks like Matraka has a good chance of winning again. Now, did I fully understand her character or find it funnier than everyone else? No. But that may be because I just don’t know the references and the language and says nothing about her skill during Snatch Game.

Instead of Matraka, it’s Cristian Peralta who snatches her third win and honestly, deserved! Her Veronica Castro was still funny and understandable, even if I had no idea who she was or know the nuances of the person. Cristian looks to be this season’s winner but hopefully the show gets to throw a wrench into the works so it isn’t painfully obvious who the production wants to win.

The two queens who end up at the bottom are Argennis and Gala Varo. From the way the queens talk about these two in their confessionals, you’d think it’s an Anetra v. Sasha Colby situation, but judging by the state of lip syncs this inaugural season, I highly doubt that.

And you know what? This was the best lip sync this season! Maybe not Anetra v. Sasha Colby, but has not set up the bar really high for the other queens when they find themselves in the bottom. And additionally? This should have been the double save of the season and not that first episode lip sync.

Because what the hell was this?