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Aired winter 2012 · Logo · the format clicks

Season 4

The Logo era hits its stride. A cast with real range across comedy and craft, a Snatch Game that lands, and a workroom that runs at a temperature the earlier seasons only reached in flashes.

Filmed
Los Angeles, California
Premiered
Jan 30, 2012
Logo · Monday 9/8c
Format
Standard format
Logo at full stride
Host
RuPaul Charles
RuPaul, with the Visage panel set
01The take

Season 4.

The Logo era hits its stride. A cast with real range across comedy and craft, a Snatch Game that lands, and a workroom that runs at a temperature the earlier seasons only reached in flashes.

02The shape of the season

A rhythm worth tracking.

The season the Logo formula clicks fully into place. Season 4 carries a cast with genuine range: comedy queens who can turn a runway, performers who hold a lip-sync, design talent that survives a sewing challenge. RuPaul Charles and Michelle Visage anchor a panel fully in sync. The workroom runs sharp and personal, the kind of friction the show later learned to engineer on purpose. It proved the small-budget era could deliver a contest with no soft spots.

03Where it sits in the canon

The #06 slot.

Slot #06 of 13 in the RuPaul's Drag Race Editor's Canon. The neighbors below frame what we ranked above and below it.

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06Also appears in

Cross-references.

Also appears in
RuPaul's Drag Race S4 — Season 4 — tiered.tv