RuPaul’s Drag Race: TV’s most radical show?

The New York Times

Since its premiere in 2009, RuPaul’s reality franchise has found a broader and younger audience, reflecting an era that is fixated on gender and identity, says Jenna Wortham. “Drag Race has become a staple of modern television for the way it skewers expectations and attitudes about gender, much as a show like Black-ish works to challenge stereotypes about black families in America," she says. "That isn’t to say contestants on Drag Race don’t bicker or trade petty insults, as in other reality-TV shows, but the program doesn’t leave viewers with the same existential dread about the future of humanity as, say, any of the Real Housewives franchises.”