Nobody has had as terrible a day, month or year as Queenie Jenkins. The 25-year-old British-Jamaican protagonist of Candice Carty-Williams' novel "Queenie," has jumped off the page and onto the television screen in Hulu's series adaptation of the same name.
Queenie (Dionne Brown) is a 20-something Black woman working as a social media intern trying to make it as a writer. Meanwhile, she has a complicated breakup with her long-term white boyfriend and is dealing with painful traumatic experiences in her immigrant Jamaican family, specifically her fraught relationship with her mom. Although she has the support of her best friend, Kyazike (R&B singer Bellah), the conflicts in Queenie's life come to a head as she deals with the damaging fallout of her breakup and not feeling understood or heard at her predominantly white workplace. Queenie struggles to hold it all together like she thinks she should, but she is a gaping, bleeding wound of raw emotion.
