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<em>Call Me Mother</em><strong>’s Dallas Dixon Dishes On Season 2 & The Power Of Drag</strong>
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Call Me Mother’s Dallas Dixon Dishes On Season 2 & The Power Of Drag

Speaking with PRIDE the host teases working with drag icons and which queen he’d like to call mother.

Hosting Call Me Mother is a perfect gig for Dallas Dixon, who has returned for the sophomore season of the drag reality TV competition series. For one thing, he’s a lifelong fan of the art of drag, who fondly recalls escaping his small town to go visit drag shows in Toronto, where he found himself fascinated by the artistry on display. But it also takes a lot of charisma and energy to stand out among a group of drag queens, but fortunately Dallas has a seemingly endless supply of both.

For those initiated with the OutTV series, up-and-coming drag queens and kings compete for the title of “First Child of Drag”, but to do so they first have to earn their spot in one of the drag houses led by three icons of drag: Peppermint (House of Dulcet), Crystal (House of Glass), and Barbada de Barbades (House of Harmonie), who each mentor the queens they select to join their families.

Read more on Pride.com.

 

Watch the First 15 Minutes of Call Me Mother Season 2
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Watch the First 15 Minutes of Call Me Mother Season 2

The first 15 min of Call Me Mother season two are here, and we couldn’t be more excited about this upcoming cycle!

Just like the first season, Call Me Mother will once again feature Crystal as the mother of the House of Glass, Barbada de Barbades as the mother of the House of Harmonie, and Peppermint as the mother of the House of Dulcet.

Crystal describes the House of Glass as “fashion, subversion, punky aesthetics. The perfect Venn diagram of hot, dangerous, and sweaty.” Barbades wants her drag children in the House of Harmonie “to become amazing superstars.” While Peppermint believes that the House of Dulcet is all about “art, activism, and compassion.”

The first step on Call Me Mother season two is the audition process, which consists of three phases: Look (where the mothers watch the contestants walk the showcase in their best drag fashion), Talent (where the contestants must perform a talent show number), and Tea (where the contestants plea their cases to the mothers and explain why they deserve a spot in the competition). During each of these phases, a few auditioners will be adopted into the three different houses on the show… but some drag artists won’t make it past this first round of the competition.

You can watch the exclusive first 15 minutes of Call Me Mother season two below.

Read more on out.com.

<em>Dragula</em> winner Landon Cider joins <em>Call Me Mother</em> season 2 as permanent judge
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Dragula winner Landon Cider joins Call Me Mother season 2 as permanent judge

The drag king boards the OutTV competition’s panel alongside season 1 mentor Farra N Hyte, the mother of RuPaul’s Drag Race star Brooke Lynn Hytes.

Daddy is headed to Call Me Mother.

EW can exclusively reveal that The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula season 3 winner and world-renowned drag king Landon Cider will join the cast of the show as a permanent mentor for season 2.

Cider will advise the contestants — the full roster of which EW exclusively revealed earlier this month — alongside returning mentor Farra N Hyte, the leader of the House of Hytes and drag mother to RuPaul’s Drag Race season 11 runner-up and Canada’s Drag Race host Brooke Lynn Hytes.

Landon and Farra will oversee the drag kings, queens, and nonbinary artists as they navigate weekly challenges and performances among the houses of the show’s resident mothers: RuPaul’s Drag Race UK star Crystal, RuPaul’s Drag Race season 9 star Miss Peppermint, and drag legend Barbada de Barbades.

“As a fan of Call Me Mother season 1, I’m incredibly honored to bring a kingly perspective to the judging panel this season, and to share this experience with the beautifully talented Farra N Hyte,” Landon said in a statement. “I can’t wait for you all to see these creative artists grow on and off the competitive stage.”

Read more on Entertainment Weekly.

EW - Call Me Mother season 2 cast of drag queens, kings, and nonbinary artists is here to serve
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EW - Call Me Mother season 2 cast of drag queens, kings, and nonbinary artists is here to serve

EW exclusively reveals the new cast set to compete for RuPaul’s Drag Race stars Miss Peppermint, Crystal, and legendary performer Barbada.

A new generation of legendary children is ready to shake what their mamas gave them on Call Me Mother season 2.

EW can exclusively reveal the 15-strong cast of Canadian drag queens, kings, and nonbinary performers set to appear on the second season of OutTV’s reality competition series, which also welcomes back returning house mothers Miss Peppermint (RuPaul’s Drag Race), Crystal (RuPaul’s Drag Race UK), and legendary performer Barbada de Barbades to oversee the contest.

The roster includes a queen who hilariously describes herself as the “fashion slut princess of Toronto,” while another participant works as a television weather reporter by day.

Read more on Entertainment Weekly.

All in the family: How Call Me Mother stands out in a sea of drag competition shows
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All in the family: How Call Me Mother stands out in a sea of drag competition shows

Featuring drag artists of all genders from across Canada, the series pushes the genre in a familial direction.

The mammoth that is the Drag Race franchise has become a genre of television to itself as of late. Currently, there are two Drag Race editions airing concurrently (the third season of U.K. and the second of Canada’s very own) with a third on the way next week (the latest spinoff, this time from Italy). But the RuPaul Industrial Complex finally has a bit of competition.

On the heels of Shudder’s spooky The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula (currently in its fourth season of naming “The World’s Next Drag Supermonster”) and HBO’s non-competitive We’re Here (which is in its second season and just aired an episode set in Selma, Alabama that deserves all the awards), OutTV recently debuted the Canadian-produced Call Me Mother. The show, which was filmed in North Bay, Ontario earlier this year, stands out as a drag competition series for being both fully inclusive to all drag artists and for being centred on drag family.

“I had some hesitations about going on a reality TV competition, despite the fact that I would obviously be a judge this time rather than a contestant,” says Miss Peppermint, a Drag Race alum who is one of the show’s three titular mothers. “But [the producers] let me know that the approach would be different than other drag reality competitions that we’ve seen before in that they wanted to be inclusive as possible, and that it really is about that family element. So once I heard that idea, I said yes immediately.”

“I was really excited for the opportunity to be able to show that, of course, drag can be cutthroat and competitive — but it can also be loving and nurturing.”

Read more on cbc.ca.