RuPaul's Drag Race Seasons in Order

I have been catching up on seasons of Drag Race that I missed because there are so many. In order to keep track of the seasons and attempt to watch the ones I've missed in order, I needed to make a little spreadsheet to help me. Here's what I've come up with. There have been (quite literally) fifty-three seasons of Drag Race. I've seen around forty-five.

2/2/2009 USA 1 3/23/2009 

2/1/2010 USA 2 4/26/2010

1/24/2011 USA 3 5/2/2011 

1/30/2012 USA 4 4/30/2012 

10/22/2012 US All Stars 1 11/26/2012

1/28/2013 USA 5 5/6/2013 

2/24/2014 USA 6 5/19/2014 

3/2/2015 USA 7 6/1/2015 

3/7/2016 USA 8 5/16/2016 

8/25/2016 US All Stars 2 10/27/2016 

3/24/2017 USA 9 6/23/2017 

1/25/2018 US All Stars 3 3/15/2018 

2/18/2018 Thailand 1 4/5/2018 

3/22/2018 USA 10 6/28/2018 

12/14/2018 US All Stars 4 2/15/2019 

1/11/2019 Thailand 2 4/5/2019 

2/28/2019 USA 11 5/30/2019 

10/3/2019 UK 1 11/29/2019 

2/28/2020 USA 12 5/29/2020 

6/5/2020 US All Stars 5 7/24/2020 

7/2/2020 Canada 1 9/3/2020 

9/18/2020 Holland 1 11/6/2020 

1/1/2021 USA 13 4/23/2021 

1/14/2021 UK 2 3/18/2021 

5/1/2021 Down Under 1 6/19/2021 

5/30/2021 España 1 8/1/2021 

6/24/2021 US All Stars 6 9/2/2021 

8/6/2021 Holland 2 9/24/2021 

9/23/2021 UK 3 11/25/2021 

10/14/2021 Canada 2 12/16/2021 

11/18/2021 Italia 1 12/23/2021 

1/7/2022 USA 14 4/22/2022 

2/1/2022 UK vs. the World 1 3/8/2022 

3/27/2022 España 2 6/5/2022 

5/20/2022 US All Stars 7 7/29/2022 

6/25/2022 France 1 8/11/2022 

7/14/2022 Canada 3 9/8/2022 

7/30/2022 Down Under 2 9/17/2022 

8/14/2022 Philippines 1 10/12/2022 

9/22/2022 UK 4 11/24/2022 

10/20/2022 Italia 2 12/6/2022 

11/18/2022 Canada vs. the World 1 12/23/2022 

1/6/2023 USA 15 4/14/2023 

2/16/2023 Belgique 1 4/6/2023 

3/5/2023 Sverige 4/23/2023 

4/16/2023 España 3 7/2/2023 

5/12/2023 US All Stars 8 7/21/2023 

6/22/2023 México 1 9/7/2023 

6/30/2023 France 2 8/25/2023 

7/28/2023 Down Under 3 9/15/2023 

8/2/2023 Philippines 2 10/4/2023

Mind you, right this second on 10/30/2023, there are four seasons currently airing – Brasil, Deutschland, UK 5, and Italia 3 – and another thirteen officially announced. I will continue to try to catch up.

No Ordinary Man (2020)

A really different and completely fresh approach to telling a trans history. This film basically interviews only trans people in order to tell the story of Billy Tipton – a trans man who lived a life in secret, married to a woman and fathering three kids. The filmmakers try to see the story in a new light through imaginative flights of fancy, some really brilliant commentary by Stephan Pennington, Riley Snorton, and other trans theorists, and a very charming set of interactions with Tipton’s loving son, Billy Jr.

Kursk / The Command (2018)

Thomas Vinterberg’s direction is (as usual) tight and smart, and Matthias Schoenaerts is wonderful as always. But although this is a tense story, and a bit of a nail-biter, I can’t say I enjoyed it all that much.

Perhaps the strangest thing about this movie is that it is populated entirely by European actors from Belgium, Sweden, France, Germany, and the UK who are all speaking English to tell the story of a Russian submarine.

Please Baby Don't

Please Baby Please is truly terrible, unwatchable nonsense. This is a “musical”? That is a laughable categorization. There are some bad dance numbers, sure. And there is one song sung horribly by a character we meet only once. This movie is a vehicle for some very stupid gender politics and a bizarre performance by Andrea Riseborough. I watched the whole thing and I’m sorry I did.

Le Bleu du Caftan

I wish Maryam Touzani's The Blue Caftan (القفطان الأزرق) had surprised me a little more, but it feels quite conventional and straightforward in a way that I wasn't really expecting. It’s beautifully made and so well acted that I didn’t mind too much. Lubna Azabal is stellar (as she was in Touzani's wonderful Adam), and I completely fell in love with Saleh Bakri and Ayoub Missioui.

La Amiga de Mi Amiga

Zaida Carmona's Girlfriends and Girlfriends is a cute bit of lesbian fluff. I wish it had been a little more laugh-out-loud funny, but maybe I’m just not enough of a lesbian.

The title, incidentally, does not quite correctly translate La Amiga de Mi Amiga, but it is a reference to Éric Rohmer's L'Ami de Mon Amie, which was released in English as Boyfriends & Girlfriends.