{"id":620303,"date":"2024-05-13T23:21:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T20:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-new-cast-new-format-more-politics\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T23:21:04","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T20:21:04","slug":"watch-new-cast-new-format-more-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-new-cast-new-format-more-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch New Cast, New Format, More Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2884e7132fe\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2884e7132fe\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-new-cast-new-format-more-politics\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_New_Cast_New_Format_More_Politics%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online New Cast, New Format, More Politics&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-new-cast-new-format-more-politics\/#%E2%80%9CNew_Cast_New_Format_More_Politics%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;New Cast, New Format, More Politics&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_New_Cast_New_Format_More_Politics%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online New Cast, New Format, More Politics&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CNew_Cast_New_Format_More_Politics%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;New Cast, New Format, More Politics&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The premise of the drag makeover show \u201cWe\u2019re Here\u201d is that queer liberation hasn\u2019t extended as far as it could. For three seasons, a group of \u201cRuPaul\u2019s Drag Race\u201d alumni have <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ed to small towns throughout the country, helping members of the local LGBTQ community assert their identity and visibility through gender-bending performances. But even a project that deliberately targets places where gay and trans people might feel cut off from a sense of camaraderie \u2014 many locations are scattered throughout the South and Midwest, with occasional detours to California and Hawai\u2019i \u2014 didn\u2019t anticipate their own art form coming under such intense public scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cI would never have predicted that, four seasons later, it\u2019s actually <em>harder <\/em>to be out and proud,\u201d Priyanka says in last month\u2019s premiere. The \u201cCanada\u2019s Drag Race\u201d winner is one of several new faces this season, which bids farewell to Bob the Drag Queen, Eureka O\u2019Hara, and Shangela in favor of a complete cast turnover. (Shangela, legally known as Darius Pierce, currently faces <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-features\/shangela-rupaul-drag-race-sexual-assault-1234974148\/\">multiple accusations of sexual assault<\/a>, but her voice <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ears in a baton-passing introduction that implies there\u2019s no bad blood in the previous hosts\u2019 departure. Pierce denies the allegations, which go unmentioned in \u201cWe\u2019re Here.\u201d) But the new episodes also pick up on a thread that began with Season 3\u2019s finale, a two-part spotlight on Ron DeSantis\u2019s Florida and its widely condemned slate of anti-LGBTQ legislation. \u201cWe\u2019re Here\u201d has leaned into this structure with a season that\u2019s more serialized, allowing an extended focus on both its local subjects and the increasingly prejudiced political environment they\u2019re trying to live their lives within.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Priyanka is joined by Sasha Velour, Jaida Essence Hall and Latrice Royale, all graduates of TV\u2019s leading drag queen competition show. (Other than mining it for cast, \u201cWe\u2019re Here\u201d is unaffiliated with MTV\u2019s \u201cDrag Race,\u201d and airs on Warner Bros. Discovery\u2019s HBO, and not a Paramount Global network. This leads to some amusingly awkward moments in which the \u201cWe\u2019re Here\u201d queens allude to past TV experience without invoking that <em>other <\/em>show by name.) Though the production team, led by creators Stephen Warren and Johnnie Ingram as well as director Peter LoGreco, remains intact, the six-episode season splits itself into two halves rather than a half-dozen individual parts. The first arc, which concluded last Friday, takes \u201cWe\u2019re Here\u201d to the battlefront of the culture wars: Tennessee, a state that attempted to severely restrict drag in a 2023 law that was quickly suspended via injunction, though the statute remains under appeal in federal court.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The \u201cWe\u2019re Here\u201d crew sets out to stage a drag show in Murfreesboro, a small city that responded to the drag law\u2019s suspension by passing a so-called \u201cdecency ordinance,\u201d an ambiguously worded law that put the city\u2019s annual Pride celebration in jeopardy. (Following litigation by the Tennessee Equality Project and ACLU, the ordinance has since been repealed.) The lead queens show up to public meetings and permit applications in full drag, often expressing worry they could potentially be arrested. Some of this drama may be played up for the cameras, with drag deployed as political confrontation and law enforcement an ambiguous threat. But these scenes are an intensified version of an all-too-real dynamic \u2014\u00a0not unlike how drag reveals the absurdity of typical gender expression by cranking it up to 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    If Priyanka, Jaida and Sasha are bringing the situation in Tennessee to a national audience, their new drag children live through it every day. In addition to political context, the expanded canvas of Season 4 allows more room for these compelling characters: a trans woman finally exploring her intersex identity; an openly gay ex-mayoral candidate who once had a bullet fired into his home; a Christian musician who wants to show support for his queer and trans children; a queer wrestler who wants to carry the confident flamboyance of their ring persona into everyday life. Not all of the locals featured can fully commit to going onstage; a former professional baseball player backs out of the show, fearing it could hurt his new music career. Those that do stick around for the duration are rewarded with warm, empathetic portraits, not to mention professional-grade production quality for their drag debuts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Even with the extra runtime, \u201cWe\u2019re Here\u201d doesn\u2019t focus much on the mechanics of these transformations. (For that, there are plenty of Werk Room scenes that get into the dos and don\u2019ts of tucking.) Instead, the show goes deeper into the challenges its subjects face, whether in their day-to-day existence or in a larger <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> struggle. In the season\u2019s back half, set in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, \u201cWe\u2019re Here\u201d even gets into internal divisions <em>within <\/em>queer advocacy when a local pride group expresses concerns over a TV production potentially inflaming existing tensions around the queer community. The previous year, a drag performance during Bartlesville Pride had sparked aggressive backlash from locals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Unsurprisingly, \u201cWe\u2019re Here\u201d doesn\u2019t give much credence to these critiques of its approach. (The queens have a point when they argue a pride organization that fails to fight for visibility is undermining its own purpose.) The meta debate is still an example of what \u201cWe\u2019re Here\u201d can add to what\u2019s otherwise a \u201cQueer Eye\u201d-style comfort procedural with its change in focus and format. The world has made drag, already an implicit challenge to gender norms and social conformity, into even more of a lightning rod. \u201cWe\u2019re Here\u201d has adjusted accordingly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    <em>New episodes of \u201cWe\u2019re Here\u201d Season 4 premiere Sundays on HBO and Max at 9 p.m. ET.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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