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Friday, 8 September 2017

The Unexpected Queerness of Playing House



In the season three finale of the USA sit-com Playing House, friends Maggie (Lennon Parham) and Emma (Jessica St. Clair), get sidetracked on their way to a double date with their boyfriends at a fancy restaurant. When their car breaks down, Maggie, as she often does when she thinks that the situation demands male intervention, turns into her male alter-ego Bosephus. But even a roughneck like Bosephus can’t fix their car, so they have to share a Lyft car with a stylist who is on his way to work. When he suddenly offers to give Maggie and Emma a makeover, Emma hesitates but Maggie immediately jumps on it on both their behalves. Cut to the dressing room in a gay club where former RuPaul’s Drag Race contestants Katya and Jiggly Caliente turn Emma and Maggie into drag queens for the evening. Although Emma is slightly reluctant at first, Maggie convinces her by declaring that they are both “just like one set of false eyelashes away from it”. After giving a show-stopping Tina Turner performance at the gay club they then hitch a ride in an ice cream truck called “Yas, Dairy Queens” and drive by one of Maggie’s patients to steal a wreath from her front door. After all these shenanigans, they finally make it to the restaurant still in full drag.