Lana’s paint is all about RuPaul, destroyer of dreams. He pops the balloons of artists dreams. You cannot do boom to Lana! You cannot!
Rio goes all-in and creates the story of Cheryl Ann being thrown under the bus from last week’s drag challenge. Dawn Marie also paints Cheryl Ann on a horse riding away from the competition. Kyle’s ‘dirty’ under-the-sea creation is weird. Don’t ask Kyle to do things that require words or explanation. His brain doesn’t work that way.
The top 3 painters are Lana, Rio and Aryn with Rio taking the prize. Jigsaw tells the artists that they will be divided into 2 teams. The teams must create cohesive paintings from horror & gore. Cheryl Ann is the only painter without horror & gore experience.
As mini-challenge winner, Rio gets to pick his team and he goes with Aryn, Avi and Kyle. That means Lana, Dawn Marie, Sammie and Cheryl Ann are the other team. Eesch.
Back at the house, the teams spend some time fleshing out what their strategy & theme will be for this week’s challenge. In each team someone feels like they’re being left out – Kyle & Dawn Marie. They take opposite strategies to deal with this perceived problem. Kyle speaks up, while Dawn Marie hangs back. No surprise, Kyle’s strategy is more effective.
Rio’s team goes with Kyle’s “crazy” idea of “see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil.” In the other team, the artists are having a hard time coming up with a theme. Ideas are brought forward and pretty immediately shot down.
The next day, we learn that Tobin Bell from the Saw movies is the special guest judge. We also learn that Kyle & Avi know each other before filming.
The group with Cheryl Ann, named Nightmare on Hill Street, is fighting any attempt to have her lead the group. She’s annoying, but is also occasionally bringing up good points – like the models should know what they’re doing on the mainstage. The other painters in her group brush her off & continue painting.
On the other hand, Rio’s actively leading his group Team Gore Lords, and they work well together. Unfortunately, he doesn’t spend enough time on his own paint so the entire team has to come together to help finish his work.
Mainstage time! We’ve got a couple of broken dolls/clowns from Nightmare on Hill Street & I’m having a hard time not comparing them to the Face/Off dolls from Darla and Sasha. Look below & see if you have the same problem.
Awesome
Way awesome
Pretty good.
Cool face, meh body.
Right? I mean, I know the Face/Off folks have 3 days & sculpt stuff and the Skin Wars people have 5 hours & just makeup but the Face/Off dolls are SO MUCH CREEPIER.
The story Nightmare on Hill Street comes up with makes no sense. There’s a girl & a pole dancing brother & a vampwolf or a werepire or whatever it is is attacking them. Note to future contestants – when you have to read a manifesto to make any sense out of a story, it’s too complicated.
Rio’s team, Gore Lords, doesn’t use any narration, but instead has the models act out what happened. It’s easy to understand what’s happening & it’s way creepy.
RuPaul, destroyer of dreams, asks Nightmare on Hill Street who should win & who should lose of their team. He loves this crap. The show focuses on the losing, of course. Most of the women through Lana under the bus. The Gore Lords threw themselves under the bus instead of throwing each other. “No, MINE had less detail!” “I’m honored you would say that I should win, but I really think I had less detail…”
Robin thinks Skin Wars is changing Kyle’s painting for the better. No, Robin, it was just that it’s a horror challenge & he’s really into it.
Team Gore Lords is the winning team. No surprise there. Rio & Aryn are safe and Avi & Kyle are the top 2 painters with Kyle winning his first main challenge! Yay!
From Nightmare on Hill Street, Dawn Marie & Cheryl Ann are safe, leaving Sammie and Lana up for elimination. In the end, Sammie is the one going home. Also not surprising since we’ve seen a lot more from Lana than we have Sammie.
How much longer do you think they’re going to keep Cheryl Ann around for good TV? I mean she can paint, but she’s not that good. What kind of challenge further Drag Race-crossover guest Carson Kressley will bring? We’ll find out next week on Skin Wars!