Playing small-town Texas excess for campy laughs

Boston.com – By Matthew Gilbert – Globe Staff

Sordid Lives: The Series; on Logo; tonight, 10-10:30

For our first glimpse of drag queen Brother Boy in the premiere of “Sordid Lives: The Series,” the camera is very tightly focused on his lips, which gleam and glisten with lipstick like red patent leather… As the camera pulls back, we gradually see the full face of actor Leslie Jordan, who plays Brother Boy, dolled up as a demented Tammy Wynette and looking as if she is exactly what ever happened to Baby Jane…