Cameron Esposito hosting a season of King of Drag with Ginger Minj and Yvie Oddly as guest judges sounds like a dream I had once. Except this one is really happening, as Variety confirmed earlier this week.
Because the gospel of this show still needs to be spread, a brief recap is necessary: King of Drag is a Revry original reality show, filmed in the style of a certain drag competition juggernaut franchise, except this one spotlights the underappreciated world of kinging.
The first season was one of Them’s best shows of 2025, and we praised it for not only delivering a memorable winner — no spoilers— but for capturing some of the scrappy upstart energy of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 1, which lest we forget was filmed in the basement of a Burbank studio. I’d like to see King of Drag get access to Ru money, but there’s also something really cool about being into the show in its early days, and hoping that it can help do for drag kings what Drag Race has done for the queens.
And lucky for me — and the other fans who watched a combined 33 million minutes of season 1 — Variety’s report on season 2 just gets better with each sentence: Cameron Esposito of Take My Wife and Brooklyn Nine-Nine is hosting (yes, please, also go buy her memoir Save Yourself). The main panel of judges — known as the Kings’ Court — will feature the legendary Gottmik, Vico Ortiz of Our Flag Means Death fame, and the show’s co-creator/EP Damian Pelliccione.
The guest judges list is absolutely stacked, too. In addition to Ms. Oddly and Ms. Minj, it includes Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black; multiple season 1 contestants like Henlo Bullfrog and King Perk; and Laith Ashley, whom many might recognize as a trans actor who played Taylor Swift’s lover in the “Lavender Haze” music video. But as excited as I am to see buzzy names on the judges list, what I mostly feel is excitement for another cohort of drag performers to get the spotlight.
As Esposito emphatically puts it at the end of the season 2 teaser: “People want more drag kings.”
The season will begin streaming on Revry September 20.
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