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According to O Globo , Netflix canceled the animation ' Super Drags ' after only one season.

Before its launch, the Brazilian Society of Pediatrics (SBP) issued a repudiation note to the production, requesting its cancellation, considering the show harmful for the children's audience.

In the official communiqué, the institution reiterates its respect for sexual diversity, but points out the dangers of using a language naturally considered childish to discuss themes intended for adult audiences.

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"The SBP respects diversity and defends freedom of expression and art in the country, however, warns against the risks of using an imminently childish language to discuss topics proper to the adult world, which requires greater cognitive ability and elaboration by of the spectators. "

In response, Netflix defended its positioning with a video, which brings Brazilian drag queen Silvetty Montilla dubbing the character Vedete Champagne, making it clear that the indicative rating is 16 years and it is the responsibility of adults to filter content for children.

The streaming giant relies on parental control, which limits access to certain titles when activated.

The series tells the adventures of three young men, Patrick, Donny and Ramon, who work day in a department store with annoying clients and a scrotum boss. At night, they release their inner divas to become Lemon Chiffon, Sapphire Cian and Scarlet Crimson, three fabulous Super Dragswho have been recruited to bring the LGBT community together and spread love around the world.

' Super Drags ' is created by Anderson Mahanski , Fernando Mendonça and Paulo Lescaut is produced by Combo Studio .

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There’s been an accident and you’re stuck in a traffic jam. As you crawl closer to the incident, you see the debris has been cleared to the side by emergency services. People can drive freely past. The reason why everyone’s slowing down is so they can stare at the destruction. It’s a psychological compulsion. You can’t help it. You do it too. This is what it’s like to watch Super Drags on Netflix.

I binge watched the whole thing and it’s terrible.

The show follows the life of three gay co-workers who lead double-lives as superhero drag queens. By day, they work at a department store in poorly defined job roles; at night they transform into magical drag queens fighting the forces of an evil queen and a conservative politician.

You might be thinking ‘That’s cute!’ You might be drawn in by the voice cast, with super-star Shangela voicing Donizete/Scarlet, and Willam playing the villainous Lady Elza. You might think it’s a harmless cartoon reminiscent of Powerpuff Girls but with slightly more sex jokes.

You are wrong. You are so wrong. This show is so fundamentally bad I can feel it in my bones. Just thinking about it causes such abject terror to my homosexuality that I can feel it fleeing from my soul through my pores.

It’s very, very, very, very, very, very, very bad
This hideous caricature of LGBTI culture begins with the Super Drags attempting to save a bus load of gay people. They were off to see a drag queen’s concert. However, an anti-gay terrorist has hijacked the bus, threatening to kill them and himself by driving off the cliff.

I’m a big fan of shock humor when done correctly but this is the art-form manifesting in its most puerile sense. It’s in pretty poor taste just two years after the Pulse shootings. And in light of the fact Brazil – who made the original cartoon – has just elected its most homophobic president in years, it’s pretty embarrassing.

‘Embarrassing? In poor taste?’ The show, presumably targeting me specifically, heard the cries. ‘We’ll show you embarrassing.’

The bus then drives off a cliff. Ralph/Sapphire – a muscle queen – attempts to save it using her (it hurts me as much to type as it does to read this Saw-trap-level-of-pain-inducing concept)… condom protective force field. It’s a force field but a condom.

Anyway, it doesn’t work and the bus crashes. Luckily it’s a cartoon so everyone survives. One of the heroes then sexually assaults the unconscious terrorist, before letting him go because ‘he’s cute’. They let a murderer go because he was cute. Our hero can’t control himself so sexually assaults someone.

This isn’t just offensive because openly gay superheroes are letting a ‘cute guy’ MURDERER escape. Or that our ‘hero’ is a monster.

It’s offensive to humor itself that such a lazy and outdated stereotype is allowed to exist, unparodied, in this queer TV show. I feel like some sort of homophobic necromancer has cast a curse on the LGBTI community by summoning this joke from the depths of your grandpa’s sense of humor.

That’s literally the first five minutes of the show.

SIGH
For some marks in the show’s credit: at least it’s consistent. The rest of the show is also like nails on a chalkboard, if written on the chalkboard is the complete history of LGBTI progress in the world.

I can’t speak for the Brazilian dub, but the American version felt like an amateur production. In some weird double-torture, the jokes are either mumbled at super-speed so only Sonic Original Characters in terribly written fanfics can hear them, or screamed so loud I kept leaving my room to explain to my flat mates I wasn’t watching some sort of horrible porn.

One joke is that Trixie Mattel’s Champagne has a robot helper called Dildo. It’s shaped as a dildo and she uses it as a dildo. Every time it’s needed for the plot, she screams ‘Dildo!’ and the characters basically wink at the screen. What’s the joke? This is marketed towards a gay audience, right? I’ve seen more shocking things in a gay club toilet. A dildo is in the bottom three least shocking things I’ve seen.


I joke with my straight friends that LGBTI people have the best culture. That their’s can never compete. It’s a fun little bit we do because we live in a deeply homophobic and transphobic society, so it’s cute to subvert expectations.

Now what am I supposed to do? I make a little jab and they can bring up Super Drags. It’s over. This is the Big Bang Theory of gay culture. If a high school bully wants to tell me that I’ve dropped my gay card now, I’ll say they can have it. We’re officially #cancelled. And that’s that on that.

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Illustrator and designer Wil Vasque , 46, accuses Netflix of plagiarizing a project of his own for the creation of the Super Drags series, which debuted on the platform on 9 November. According to Vasque, the production copies the story of Drag Dragons , an animation created by him in 2010. On Saturday, 22, Netflix confirmed to E + , by means of note, that Super Drags " will not be renewed for a second season."

Days after the launch of the series on Netflix, Vasque, represented by the lawyer Thiago Bueno, filed a lawsuit against the streaming company and asked for compensation. In an interview with E + , the illustrator said the platform, at first, contested the accusation without reading its contents and called it "lunatic." He says the judge in the case has asked for visual evidence and is awaiting a hearing on the indictment.



"I'm already feeling victorious in a way, because the fact of taking [no continuity of the series] is already a presumption of guilt," Vasque said. The illustrator believes that the cancellation, despite the manifestation of groups calling for the suspension of the series , is motivated by the process. Without official confirmation, it was speculated that Super Drags would have two more seasons.







E + contacted Netflix and asked for a position on the case. The report also questioned the reason for the cancellation of Super Drags and whether the discontinuity would be related to the lawsuit filed by Vasque. In note, the company responded as follows:



"Super Drags will not be renewed for a second season on Netflix.The series did not have as big an audience as we expected.We are very proud of the production and we are very grateful to our partners in Studio Combo, to the talents and fans who supported the series. Super Drags will be in our service for years to come, spreading its highlight and its message of friendship and tolerance. " - a spokesperson for Netflix.



The report also made phone calls to Combo Studio, the producer of the series, but did not get a response or find an electronic address to request a positioning. The space is open if the company wants to pronounce it.

Super Drags and Drag Dragons


Wil Vasque, who worked for five years as animation director of the Brazilian comic site Humortadela, says he created Drag Dragons characters in 2010. The material was presented the same year at Blue Space, a nightclub famous for the performances and shows of drag queens .



At the time, the project counted, according to him, with original characters until "the owner of the nightclub bought the idea and wanted to get Silvetty Montilla to make one of the voices" of the animation. Silvetty Montilla is also in Super Drags dubbing the character Vedete Champagne, which, for Vasque, was a surprise, according to he reported in a publication on Facebook .



"The idea was unprecedented and entertaining, there were no drags on cartoons, not even in the RuPaul universe, and it took years of script study, voice, including my cousin and a good theater class," Vasque wrote in the social network on November 3 , days after a Super Drags launch party. The story he created is made up of four characters ( Super Drags have three) who lead a normal life and, at night, become super drag queens heroines. The premise is the same as the Netflix series.



In late October, the streaming company launched the animation at The Week nightclub. The illustrator tells us that the owner of Blue Space knew about the party, and he and the people who knew Drag Dragons thought Vasque was part of the production.



After eight years of the creation of Drag Dragons , the illustrator did not register the characters as his own, but has already made a notorious statement about the facts and presented the Drag Dragons videos that are published on his YouTube channel, dated 2010.

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