TQS StaffSeeing as this week’s Drag Race episode was all about Willam, it seems only fair that this article should be all about her too. Sorry ‘bout it. If this whole show is meant to be finding “America’s Next Drag Superstar”, somebody who can step into Ru’s (fabulous) shoes, to come close they’ll need to be pretty, highly intelligent, witty, verbose and likeable, all at the same time. That’s a pretty tough bill to fit, don’t you think? By those standards, of all the queens to strut down the Drag Race runway this season, Willam is one of the top contenders… Roy Ward returns with his take on the latest episode of Ru Paul’s Drag Race SNATCH GAME! The two words every Drag Race fan longs to hear. What the hell is that?, I hear you cry. Well, do you remember Blankety Blank? The gameshow where D-List celebrities would help contestants finish an amusing sentence, presented by the blonde bombshell herself, Lily Savage? Well in the States, they had their own version, Celebrity Match Game. The Drag Race version is Celebrity Snatch Game (snatch is a euphemism for….well….Google it.) The queens have to impersonate a celebrity of their choosing – they… 
The first time I ever watched an episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race I remember being astonished by the amount of unabashed product placement. I also remember being particularly taken with Ru’s “strutting down the runway” music, Cover Girl from her album, Champion. I downloaded the album and ended up loving it. Then the next album, Glamazon, came along and I got it, and I bloody loved that too. This week’s Drag Race combines my favourite things: rampant product placement and RuPaul’s albums. Yes, mama! The queens were split into two teams to create infomercials for Champion and Glamazon, each girl… 
There’s something almost comforting about a sense of routine, of knowing roughly what’s going to be coming around the corner. I know, for example, that the second episode of every series of Drag Race always involves the queens being put through their paces in some kind of performance-related challenge. Last season it was acting in their own short science fiction films, and the time before that it was working the stage (and the pole) at a burlesque club. Then again, sometimes it’s good to be surprised. This week saw the production values of RuPaul’s Drag Race go through the roof,… 
Reality TV: We love to loathe it. The last few years have seen the death (and subsequent Channel 5 rebirth) of Big Brother; Simon Cowell emigrating from The X Factor; and the rise of “structured reality shows” like the intellect-sapping The Only Way is Essex. And then there’s RuPaul’s Drag Race. And what is that, I hear you cry? Well, it’s probably the greatest reality show ever made, and I defy you to disagree with me. Imagine a show that combines the catwalk glamour of America’s Next Top Model (minus Tyra “Crazy Bitch” Banks) with the creativity and sartorial genius of Project Runway, and which…
