Messy breakup + worse decisions = the therapy session you didn't know you needed.
1.025 minSeason 1 • Episode 8
LatestQueenie makes steps towards healing in a new flat of her own, but she still faces some difficult decisions about her future - and who she wants in it.
Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in south London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. After a messy breakup with her long-term boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places and begins to realize she has to face the past head-on before she can rebuild.
Acting
Dionne Brown's face does three emotions at once. Devastating.
Writing
Candice Carty-Williams adapts her own novel with zero punches pulled.
Production
Brixton as character, not backdrop. You can smell the jerk chicken.
Creator
Candice Carty-Williams
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The series joins a wave of British Black storytelling (I May Destroy You, Chewing Gum) that refuses to sanitize struggle for white audiences.
Candice Carty-Williams wrote the novel during her own breakdown; Queenie's therapy arc mirrors her real sessions, including the specific room location.
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