“My dreams have continued to come true this year: being able to showcase myself on All Stars 6 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, and the new season of American Horror Story: Double Feature, and wrapping season 2 of HBO’s We’re Here,” Eureka adds. “2021 is kind of an extension of 2020, and I think that reconnecting, getting back in the world, and overcoming our global trauma surrounding the coronavirus” were high priorities. “I think that we all had some pretty big obstacles,” Bob says of the challenges that she has experienced this year as a continued result of the pandemic. Luckily, the folks at HBO and the show’s queens - Bob the Drag Queen, Eureka O’Hara, and Shangela - were able to roll with the punches and come back for a bigger, even more heartfelt second season of the show, which sees the drag legends traveling to conservative pockets of small-town America to help LGBTQ+ folks find community and love where they least expect it.
And while the first season got off to an inspiring start, the future of the show was almost up in the air after production halted when most of the world went into lockdown. HBO’s reality drag series We’re Here, created by Stephen Warren and Johnnie Ingram, may have been groundbreaking and GLAAD Award-winning, but not even it was impervious to the effects of the ongoing global pandemic.
