A 25-year-old British Jamaican journalist navigates the wilds of work, love, sex and family in Candice Carty-Williams' series.
is taken aback. So much so, it takes her hours to realize that’s what’s happened, and weeks more to understand that he’s not coming back. What doesn’t surprise her, however, is his reasoning. “You’re too much, Queenie,” he sighs. “And there it is,” she thinks.drama is how much care and compassion it holds for its heroine, no matter how disastrous or self-destructive her choices get — or how occasionally uneven its storytelling becomes.
So it’s odd that as intimately as it understands Queenie’s difficulties, the show struggles to articulate who she is outside of them. Moment to moment, the series errs on the side of over-explaining her thoughts, in lines presumably lifted from Carty-Williams’ novel of the same title. “Physical touch is not one of my love languages,” she tells us unnecessarily, when we can already glean as much from how she shrinks from a relative’s friendly embrace.
But amid the generally serious, if not downbeat, mood, the jokes sink without making a splash. Although the source material has been touted as the “Black,” the show lands too heavily to evoke a similar lightness, despite obvious homages like the Playboy costume Queenie dons for a party.‘s idea of Queenie could stand to be sharper, though, it’s touchingly resolute in the idea that she’s worthy of love — ours, her own, her community’s. To that end, it surrounds her with warmth.
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