HBO Makeover Show ‘We’re Here’ Takes on Drag Bans With a Recast Season 4: TV Review

variety.com:

Alison Herman TV Critic The premise of the drag makeover show “We’re Here” is that queer liberation hasn’t extended as far as it could.

For three seasons, a group of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” alumni have traveled 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 — many locations are scattered throughout the South and Midwest, with occasional detours to California and Hawai’i — didn’t anticipate their own art form coming under such intense public scrutiny. “I would never have predicted that, four seasons later, it’s actually harder to be out and proud,” Priyanka says in last month’s premiere.

The “Canada’s Drag Race” winner is one of several new faces this season, which bids farewell to Bob the Drag Queen, Eureka O’Hara, and Shangela in favor of a complete cast turnover. (Shangela, legally known as Darius Pierce, currently faces multiple accusations of sexual assault, but her voice appears in a baton-passing introduction that implies there’s no bad blood in the previous hosts’ departure.