Queenie Review: The Hulu Series Proves We're All Just Going Through a Quarter-Life Crisis
07.06.2024 - 17:13
/ glamour.com
By —Hulu's latest series, from Candice Carty-Williams' bestselling novel and —isn't the first show to depict the wild, messy, and often hilarious ride that is being a woman in her twenties.
It just does it so well.The series kicks off with a scene that is every woman’s nightmare: Queenie at the gyno, prodded and poked, her discomfort ignored.
It sets the stage for how men and the medical system continually treat her—a powerful commentary on the need for women, especially Black women, to stand up for themselves in places where they shouldn’t have to.Dionne Brown, in her first leading role in a globally streaming series, is magnetic as Queenie, a 25-year-old Jamaican woman from South London navigating the wreckage of a messy breakup while juggling her job as a social media assistant.
Just when Queenie thinks things can’t get worse, she finds out she's had a miscarriage moments before a disastrous blowout at her white boyfriend’s mother’s birthday bash.
Her unraveling, boosted by a touch of generational trauma, is a spectacle that draws viewers into the heart of her storm.Ah, the tumultuous twenties—filled with so much self-discovery, heartbreak, and confusion.
If you didn’t have a quarter-life crisis, were you even doing it right? As someone deep in the trenches of my own, I felt Queenie's struggles on a spiritual level.
Been there, done that, got the existential dread to prove it.The initial blow typically hits hard in the early to mid-twenties, slamming you with feelings of dissatisfaction and being stuck.
You're lost in the maze of life, playing a relentless game of comparison.
And then guess what? A sequel hits around the big 3-0, and it's just as brutal.
Career shifts, breakups, moving cities—you name a disruption,
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