In this post-Girls era of television, mid-20s-to-mid-30s women and their dramedies have really gained a foothold in the TV landscape, and Queenie nestles in quite nicely among these series. With a mildly unlikable female protagonist, plenty of prescient observations about sex and relationships and a hearty sense of doom courtesy of a quarter-life crisis, the show makes for a good enough successor to the likes of Fleabag and Insecure.

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Based on the book of the same name by Candice Carty-Williams (who also did plenty behind the camera to adapt her work for the screen), Queenie follows 25-year-old Queenie Jenkins (Dionne Brown) in the wake of some major life changes: the lifelong Londoner has had a miscarriage, her long-term boyfriend has broken up with her and her social media job at a shallow online newspaper is looking like a dead end. She’s also holding on to the unresolved trauma of........

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