Like the 2019 novel by Candice Carty-Williams that it’s based on, the Hulu series Queenie – which premiered Friday – explores the quarter-life growing pains of lonely South Londoner, Queenie Jenkins.
The first of her British Jamaican family to go to university, Queenie is a struggling writer awkwardly straddling multiple worlds. An unwanted breakup with her white, longtime live-in boyfriend Tom sends her painfully reeling — spiraling into, and then climbing out of, destructive behaviors and onto a journey of growth and self-acceptance.
And though it’s her first screen acting role, hip-hop artist Bellah is bubbly and fierce as Queenie’s bestie Kyazike. As her loving and protective Jamaican grandparents, Joseph Marcell and actress and comedian Llewella Gideon steal every scene they’re in. Pivotally, BAFTA-nominated actor Samuel Adewunmi, so powerful in the crime dramaThe format allows the audience to go deep
Despite the production’s extensive management structure , it’s clear she succeeded. The show teems with the sometimes-painful, subtly-political observational humor and confessional motif that made the book stand out – and all the elements work well together.Still, though faithful to the novel’s quarter-life crisis story, with the book's most memorable thoughts and lines of dialogue making the leap almost verbatim from page to screen, the script bears some important changes.
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