Hulu’s ‘Queenie’ Offers a Brilliant Take on Navigating Your 20s While Birthing a Star in Lead Dionne Brown: TV Review
variety.comAramide 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.
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