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    RuPaul’s Drag Race is subverting our ideas of mainstream TV | Jack Bernhardt

    Wit, drama, Lady Gaga … Drag Race has it all. And it’s achieved its success without seeing any need to conform
    by Jack Bernhardt Feb 08, 2018 3 minutes
    ‘Watching Drag Race is a bit like watching Alpine skiing at the Winter Olympics – at the start I don’t know how any of it works, but by the end I feel qualified to make completely uninformed criticisms.’ Photograph: Logotv

    Is RuPaul’s Drag Race mainstream? I had always assumed it was, because I like it, and I am an Incredibly Mainstream Man (I know most of Hamilton from memory and I won’t eat a brand of crisps I haven’t seen advertised on TV).

    But last week, as I was trying to explain the most recent episode of the Drag Race All Stars spin-off – specifically the part where BenDeLaCreme performed as Maria from the Sound of Music to the – to a group of people who had never seen the show before, it, pussy ’bout to end this drought” in my best Julie Andrews voice, before reading the vibe of the room. As the waiter subtly cut me off from receiving any more coffee, I was left thinking it was everyone else’s loss: now in its 10th season, RuPaul’s Drag Race is the best thing on TV.

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