Hulu’s ‘Queenie’ Offers a Brilliant Take on Navigating Your 20s While Birthing a Star in Lead Dionne Brown: TV Review
06.06.2024 - 19:25
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Aramide Tinubu Based on Candice Carty-Williams’ bestselling debut novel of the same name and adapted for television by the author, “Queenie” follows 25-year-old Queenie Jenkins (Dionne Brown, in a star-making performance), whose entire world is falling apart. Following a massive blowup at her boyfriend’s mother’s birthday dinner, Queenie finds herself single for the first time in years. In the absence of a romantic partner, the assistant social media manager realizes that her career and familial connections are also hanging on by a thread.
As she tries to navigate this new phase in her life, Queenie realizes she must face her strained relationship with her mother, Sylvie (Ayesha Antoine), and her own fragile emotional state to blossom into the woman she wants to become. “Queenie” opens in a gynecologist’s office in South London. As Queenie lies on the examination table, legs spread apart, she narrates her uncertainty and confusion to the audience as the doctors ignore her questions and concerns.
Unfortunately, the racially tinged microaggressions Queenie encounters continue after the unsettling news she receives following her exam. Queenie’s thoughts and ideas are again cast aside upon reaching her workplace, The Daily Reader newspaper. Diving more into Queenie’s life, the audience finds a young woman desperate to achieve her personal, professional and romantic goals but lacking the emotional tools and proper coping mechanisms to do so.
Smartly done, with witty, devastating dialogue, “Queenie” explicitly revolves around the hurdles that Black women encounter when navigating the world around them. For years, Black women have lived with the Strong Black Women trope hovering over us. It’s an idea that has done much more
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