Queenie Review: The Hulu Series Proves We're All Just Going Through a Quarter-Life Crisis
glamour.comBy —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.
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