Queer Eye For The Straight Guy WTF

18 yo songwriter Sean is terrifyingly beautiful and so self-possessed it's just not even fair. It is possible to be that 100% authentic and unguarded if you're a well-nurtured homeschooler uncorrupted by the whole idea of teenage-hood? Or is he secretly psychopathic?

He seemed more off than well-nurtured.

He was freaking me out until he started cooking an omelette.

he was a character all right, buti don't agree with orbit's assessment, to put it mildly.

I was cringing so hard when they took him to paintball or laser tag whatever it was, and the guys had clearly set those teens up - “I like your necklace” “that is a great shirt” etc. he sounded like an AI character out of Black Mirror.

He seemed to loosen up a lot more near the end, once he saw his new place.

he was fine considering the fact of the adoption and the homeschooling and the big liza minelli-ish songs but it kinda seemed to be more about making him actually seem normal in an 18 yo way, obv. yeah, he was a talented guy tho and i wouldn't want all 18 yo's to conform to what 18 yo's are like, but still.

It’s a shame Tan gave him the wardrobe of a 45-year-old.

He previously had the wardrobe of a seventy year-old, though, so I reckon Tan was meeting him halfway.

Liza Minelli is 72.

those SEAN jackets were hysterical and awful and adorable

If Burning Man dude didn't grow up with an emotionally abusive or unavailable hyperachieving father, I am ilx's most beloved poster.

Whose father from that decade wasn't like that?

The ones who didn't hyperachieve or who were emotionally available.

Ari the gamer dude has some kind of addiction problem. I know that style of lying all too well. Dunno whether it's gaming or the weed with roots in hell or something they kept out of the episode, but he's for sure an addict. He also had a look of sheer terror at certain points -- not just when he got caught in a lie -- that made that episode hard to watch.

I was really curious if he chipped his tooth from eating sunflower seeds.

Tan needs to stop making everyone do a french tuck.

Tan has some surprise super nice arms (as seen in the emmy instagram video).

Tan needs to stop making everyone do a french tuck.

I know this is his thing but one ep into s3 and I'm already screaming "NO MORE FRENCH TUCKS, GAWD!" at the screen.

lol

cried in the first episode WE’RE BACK BABY

I felt like Rob, whose wife died and who was moving into a new house, could have used some Marie Kondo magic to help him thank his old house and his old stuff. An opportunity for a crossover episode if ever I saw one.

This show should go on forever. And I love, love they regularly don't just do straight men anymore.

yeah me too

Papa Bear dad from final episode was cute AF omg

his daughter tho <3

one of the most cute moments #queereye pic.twitter.com/kbEZeq1ilJ

— luan (@chelamet) March 17, 2019

The second ep. was so sad. Rob, the camp director, seemed a great human who'd totally given up on himself.

yeah def

my eyes started leaking furiously during the jess episode
karamo finally did something useful and bobby got to take her to meet her sister <3
so tender

i mean she had met her sister before but not for a long time -- "meet up with" more accurate if we are being nitpicky

yeah that episode was so great

yeah and i also love it whenever Bobby gets extended airtime - he just does so much and is so good at putting in little touches that reflect the client's personality and needs.

I'm up to the grieving dad episode and the engraved memory chest got me all choked up.

Only just started watching this (halfway through S1) but I’m amazed how much Bobby gets done in a few days!

The episode I watched last night was AJ coming out to his stepmum. Really lovely.

I saw that Janelle Monae tweeted at Jess. *hearts*

xp Bobby and an entire TV/design crew

Of course.

i was glad bobby got to do something personally meaningful that didn't involve home renovations
he has lived a hard life. i didn't know he dropped out of high school!

Or had been homeless since 15! I love all of them but his history is very affecting.

Bless these people and this show for traveling the country finding deeply traumatized people who are incapable of being functional, whole people, and healing them of their wounds GENUINELY, as far as I can tell. This is a mitzvah. They're providing mental/emotional healthcare tbh.

And so often their unspoken opponent in a person's life is either bigotry or poverty or both. An indictment of America imo.

I don't remember his words but when Tan got choked up at the end of the Jess ep, I broke down.

i think specifically about how antoni was like "college was all about potlucks, someone brings the risotto blablabla" meanwhile we (and jess) are aware of her years of 100% ramen diet and he doesn't appear to understand that not everyone can relate to potlucks and abundance of community or food.

and then bobby takes her to meet up with her sister and i felt so much better, like at least someone here understands her in a profound way that she will be able to feel. they are definitely out to put a balm on human misery and some of them are def better at it than others. bobby is a quiet hero.

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3

i basically cannot get through an episode of this show without some welling up

would rate the fab five in order of usefulness bobby, jonathan, tan, karamo, antoni

I definitely paused what I was doing when Antoni talked about risotto at potlucks in college.

so tone deaf. antoni is definitely a rich kid tho

Someone posted this on twitter with a big old smirk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmpwzz5Yq8I

he dropped the fact that he was a restaurateur in the episode with the jones sisters and i was thinking "how bad is antoni's resto?"

still mad about those peanuts

I literally was just looking the menu for his restaurant. I remember when it opened it got mediocre reviews. Lukewarm paleo/vegan bowls.

On the summer camp ep, in the car, someone asks if any of them ever went to summer camp and Karamo says, "No, we were too poor for that" and Antoni is like, "I was just going to say something about going to horse camp and now I feel bad" and K is like, "It's okay, we know you were rich." lol

But otoh in some ep A is giving a cooking lesson and says, "My family wasn't functional, but at least we ate dinner together" and you feel like that's a pretty thin veneer he's putting on that, so, you know, everybody does have their own stories.

i like how we learn little bits and pieces of the fab 5’s history over time, and the way it is shared to usually help reinforce that x person isbt alone

I keep waiting for more of JVN's story tbh.