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This anti-reality TV moment is something that highlights, not so much the idea of reality, but just how unreal these productions are. There’s something about this refusal that might be more real than offering all of yourself to the cameras and to production. It draws attention to how (un)real the world around these drag queens is how they’re asked to play a part, one they might not even understand until after the fact, until they’ve been edited to look or act a certain way. But Jimbo’s answer to the question of who’s rooting for is: “The whole world is rooting for me.” This is a moment of refusal - and of course, it’s performed just as so many moments of vulnerability, those perfectly named confessionals are - but to refuse in reality TV is something that still feels daring and unique. This lets a lot of the queens talk about their hometowns, their families, and the people who they hope are able to see them on TV. I can’t remember what she said - this feels right, like it’s what she would have wanted - but there’s a moment, in the Werk Room, when the final four are talking about who’s rooting for them. Jimbo made it to the final four on her season - the part where you get asked by the judges to talk to your younger self.

Versus the World - emerged as both a major threat in the competition and someone who wasn’t really willing to play the game of being on a reality TV show. Back in Canada’s first season, Jimbo - drag clown, and one of the few highlights of the frustrating U.K. In the summer of 2022, Canada’s Drag Race returned for its third season - the sixth season of Drag Race to air, just halfway through the year. Some of them - knowingly or not - aggressively buck the trend of what a Realty TV Contestant looks and acts like. Those contestants never last very long.īut not all contestants are like that.

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It’s even gotten to the point where a contestant will go onto the show convinced that they’ve cracked the code, that they understand the perfect path to the crown. Even now, at least one of the bottom two queens in the first episode of any given season, will cry. After all, the show has multiplied and mutated to the point where it’s basically always on TV. The structure of a season of Drag Race - with enshrined double saves certain challenges all but guaranteed to appear the DNA of pageantry in the final episodes - is maybe the best example of this.

One of the things that makes long-running reality TV shows work is their adherence to formula.

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