Television series

We're Here

Name: We're Here
Released: 2020
Cast: Caldwell Tidicue, Eureka, D.J. Pierce, Sasha Velour, Priyanka

Comedy
Light-hearted

We're Here sends drag queens into small towns across America to teach locals to perform, celebrate their stories, and leave them transformed. It's a documentary-adjacent feel-good show that swaps judgment for joy. For anyone who's ever felt like an outsider, or who believes art can heal.

TVMaze rating

1.9

Should you watch it?

Watch it if you are drawn to quiet, human exchanges, where a single visit to a small town can turn a skeptical local into someone who laughs along with the performers.

Skip it if you want a tightly plotted series with sharp stakes, since this is more an ambling, feel-good visit than a story driven by conflict, and its heart can feel repetitive.

What it asks of you: Twenty-six hour-long episodes across four seasons, so it rewards settling in over many evenings, and it moves at an easy pace with a warm, gently comic tone.

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