Queenie

Just finished the first (and only?) season and loved it! On the surface it seems like a carefree comedy/drama, but it's so much more. I felt it was actually deep and moving. I will not be able to review it as eloquently as it deserves so just take my word for it and watch it. It has everything - drama, comedy, romance, it'll make you cry, and hello, Samuel Adewunmi... My favorite characters were Queenie of course, but also Grandma and Frank. I loved them all actually (except all the random men). One of the best shows I've seen lately - and I'm hard to please! It was a little hard for me to understand at times so I had to use the subtitles lol.

This isn't normally the type of show I watch. Admittedly, I put it on for noise in the background while I did other things however, pretty much right from the beginning it grabbed me. It's a very honest look into young women's lives and makes it OK to feel the way we feel, I don't have any information on producer Director or actors but I can tell you that they did a great job writing and casting this show. I am almost done with the eighth episode and I'm very excited to get a season two to see what is coming for Queenie. By the way, she is a great actress and I hope to see her more things Love love love.

This is EVERYTHING I hoped it would be and more. I'm a real book lover girlie so ofcourse I read the book first and I was sooooo excited to know there would be a tv adaptation. I had the release set on my calendar and everything! OH MY GOSH...From the accuracy in casting of even the most minor characters to the attention to detail, I felt like I was reading the book all over again (in the best way possible)

I LOVE Queenie and nobody could have executed the role as well as Dionne Brown did. Thank you to the Producer for making magic and bringing to life the crazy world of our beloved "Queenie"💐

My Jamaican parents immigrated to the UK during the Windrush generation. My father was offered a job in the United States, so thy relocated to America. I was brought up in the U. S., and I am grateful for the opportunity that it has given my family. However, it was nice to see a realistic portrayal of a West Indian family living in England. The only time Jamaicans are portrayed in movies or shows, they are dreadlocked pseudo-rastafarian drug dealers, or brain-dead weed heads, who only know two words in English. "Yeah Mon!" FYI -English is the official language of Jamaica, and Jamaican patois is not a language. Queenie is a great film and a treat for West Indians.

I'm currently only 4 episodes through this series but so far it's been honest, refreshing and raw. Also from what I remember of the book (I read it a while ago) it's pretty true to its original form, which I'm glad of as I found Candice Carty-Williams portrayal of heartbreak, female friendships and complex family relationships heartwarming and relatable.

Despite other reviews I haven't found Queenie 'one dimensional', I think her actions and presentation are true to a young girl with unresolved trauma battling through the best she can. Personally I think this is what's so refreshing about the show and book. She isn't perfect, you definitely find yourself wanting to scream at her to stop and think sometimes when she gets herself in dangerous, damaging and embarrassing situations. But as a 26 year old woman it's true the group chat, who hasn't felt like that about a friend or themselves in retrospect sometimes!

I can't wait to watch the rest of the show, well done to all involved.