‘Queenie’ Boss Candice Carty-Williams Breaks Down Season 1, Adapting Hit Novel
deadline.comSPOILER ALERT! The following reveals major plot points for Season 1 of Hulu’s Queenie. Best-selling author Candice Carty-Williams met with 15 production companies to discuss adapting her book Queenie before the award-winning novel was even published.
She wasn’t much older than her titular heroine’s age when she partnered with Lionsgate and it would be six more years before she completed her team with the addition of Channel 4 and Onyx Collective.
Their 8-episode collaboration is available to stream now via Hulu. Across Season 1, Queenie (Dionne Brown) comes to terms with her upbringing in a Jamaican British family that raised her to be strong and to avoid tough emotions.
So when her boyfriend Tom (Jon Pointing) wants to take a clean break from their relationship, Queenie spirals. She resorts to finding other men who don’t treat her well while past trauma resurfaces forcing her to face her demons in therapy. “When I was writing, I didn’t have any expectations beyond [completing it] and forcing my friends to read it.
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