Drag You & Me is a 2023 Dramedy series on ABS-CBN's iWantTFC platform. It stars Andrea Brillantes as Betty, a cisgender woman who enters a local drag competition (the Manila Queen Supreme or MQS for short) in the hopes of earning enough money to buy back her family's drag bar and afford to go to college. She is the daughter of a trans woman and trans man, and she grew up with drag queens in the family.
She quickly hits it off with co-competitor Jason (JC Alcantara). As they grow closer, maybe even falling in love, Jason's drag mother Charlie (Christian Bables) wants to exploit their bond to distract Betty from winning the prize, as revenge for Betty's family disowning him as their drag daughter years ago.
The series is directed by JP Habac. It is available on the iWantTFC app globally with English subtitles.
Tropes
- All Just a Dream: In Episode 3, Betty has a dream where Jason starts flirting with her and asks to date her.
- Ambiguously Bi: In the first two episodes, Jason is this. He's fairly camp when he's not pretending to be macho in front of his family or their equally macho friends. His brother teases him about liking guys instead of girls, which he doesn't respond to. However, when Jason grows closer to Betty, his drag mom Charlie doesn't find it weird that he might have a romantic thing going on with a girl. Jason, on his part, doesn't mention anything about Betty's gender either when denying that there's anything romantic between them. Finally confirmed in Episode 3, when he outright says that he's dated both guys and girls. Betty says, "Ah, so you're bi" and Jason nods while smiling.
- Bisexual Love Triangle: Jason seems to be in one with Betty (a girl who's closer to his age) and Charlie (an older man).
- Camp Gay: There's a lot of this to go around. It's a show about drag, after all. A notable exception is Jason, who is bi rather than gay.
- Cast Full of Gay: Although the protagonist Betty is cis and straight, the show is about drag queens. So there's a lot of gay and bi people, as well as trans people.
- Everyone Can See It: Betty and Jason's attraction to each other is plain as day to everyone else, though they both deny it.
- Honey Trap: Charlie encourages Jason to toy with Betty's emotions to distract her from the competition.
- The Outsider Befriends the Best: Betty, a cis and straight young woman, gains the affection and friendship of much older and more established drag queens as she advances into the Manila Queen Supreme contest.
- She Is Not My Girlfriend:
- Betty does this with Jason.
- Jason also does this with Betty. But he also does this with Charlie/Bubbles. Even though Charlie is Jason's drag mother, other people also think there may be something romantic going on with them, and even Jason eventually wonders if there is.
- Smug Smiler: Charlie aka Bubbles Lacroix, who is the main antagonist of the show, loves to wear a smirk on her face.
- Working with the Ex: In Episode 3, Betty is upset to find out that her dad has secretly been working with his ex-girlfriend, knowing it would make her mom jealous.
