Queer Eye For The Straight Guy WTF

I am watching the Tan dressing Hasan Minhaj video now. Tan learns what a fuckboi is.

i love that video!

I was maybe a wee bit harsh on Antoni upthread - compared to me he’s a flamboyant, expressive, extrovert!

Good points in the thread and in the comments on that article about the role Karamo plays, and how “culture” is such a reductive label for it. I don’t think I’d properly realised his work/education background but it totally makes sense.

Yeah, it should be life coach or similar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWvL3O7oAVo

i didnt even know Nandos did chicken livers! but it’s been 10+ years since i last went to one so

The opening with Karamo getting pulled over was very misjudged.

― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 1 March 2018 16:46 (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

jesus srsly

The five commented on that somewhere, condemning it as such. Absolutely under no circs.

https://www.bustle.com/p/tan-france-almost-quit-queer-eye-you-actually-watched-the-moment-play-out-without-knowing-it-9034664

yeah that was fucked up

new season! first episode is awesome

i need a tears transfusion after the first ep and then the second ep and then the little skater girl

i love the way they are using karamo this season, going deep with some stuff, it’s good.

yeah, karamo setting up the meeting between wesley and the guy who shot him was incredible

In an email to Men's Health, Karamo said that up until five minutes before walking into the restaurant for their face-to-face meeting, Wesley and Maurice were both about to walk away. "I was navigating both of their fears and telling them to trust me," Karamo wrote. "The conversation they had lasted almost two-and-a-half hours. But in the end they were able to shed light on the violence epidemic that is facing so many communities, while also finding healing and closure."

I love this program.

really great interview with karamo here:

i had no idea he was a student at marjory stoneman douglas high and lost a former classmate in the mass shooting there

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/07/karamo-brown-queer-eye-season-4-gunshot-victim

The 2nd and 3rd episodes goddamn. Wesley is so amazing.

Lucy and her dad broke my heart. Also Michelle Kwannn. <3 <3

It was Wanda who really broke my heart. For her to develop a tough, no-frills life and let nothing in, presumably in order to protect herself and her girls, and then to find out that they are actually scared of her and that she didn't do as good a job as she thought she did... that was hard to watch. She genuinely did not seem to understand what was happening. I hope she and her daughters get some further help.

I loved Wanda but she seemed to need something much deeper than they could give her in a week - I got the feeling that her stepping back from her job was more lip service than anything? And she was so hurt by that talk with her daughters ... like maybe Karamo should be deployed to stay an extra month with her lol idk

That above interview with Karamo is so good.

I am at the beginning of a cold and watching the new season is killing me because crying is going to lead to chest congestion.

I know people rag on Antoni but i like him a lot. To be fair his remit doesn't really enable him to do much because changing diets and health takes years, not a week.

Although I still remember the peanut salsa that was supposed to be eaten with your hands.

In other news, I saw a French Tuck in the wild! First time and probably last time.

Antoni got pretty real w Wanda which was the first I’ve really see him challenge a guest, which was interesting tho maybe ill-advised

Yeah, he was NOT comfortable around her.

It was weird to see dairy farmer guy at the end. It was obviously a very clever makeover for the team to do: as they said, small farms like that need to attract new business, and that means learning how to deal with townies.

In other news, I saw a French Tuck in the wild! First time and probably last time.

― Funky Isolations (jed_), Sunday, July 21, 2019 11:41 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

This is weird bc I've been doing them (along with literally everyone else) since the late 80s when I was in jr high and high school and we all wore oversized men's tshirts. I still do it! I think they just put "French" on it to sound fancy.

french aka loose

Kenny's new dog was so well behaved. It broke my heart.

The Antoni and Wanda scene was so uncomfortable and confusing.

the whole wanda episode left a bit of a bad taste - the usual method for creating a good episode just seemed to go wrong in all kinds of unexpected ways and i ended up feeling kinda worried for the relationship between her and her daughters, she just seemed so shocked that her perception of them being three inseparable buddies was just not how they saw it at all

lmao at karamo just flat-out refusing to engage with / being horrified by rural life in farmer matt’s episode

thought Wesley's shooter could've at least said something like "I felt justified at the time doing what I did, but man seeing that you're still in a wheelchair from something I did in heat of the moment gives me pause". That Wesley still got closure from that encounter...props to him.

From the Karamo article, Wesley and the guy were there for 3 hours talking.

the way that shooting went down still seems v bizarre to me

it’s cool Wesley forgave him but i’d be like, “ok and all with your explanation but you fuckin SHOT me, dude. a LOT of times. over nothing? what the hell!?”

exactly! Def seems like being the victim of the shooting changed him a lot more (for the better) than being the shooter changed the other guy.

maybe that's the defense you build up to deal with what you did to someone. "I didn't want to do it but he left me no choice" or whatever his rationale was.

WOW. Okay. I got a very strong "anger" read off Wanda during that confrontation with her daughters. I could FEEL the defensive shutters slamming closed. Also, Antoni is my fave and I love him but he was not ready for that kitchen scene with her. He wasn't just pushing her--he was in his own feelings.

And then her almost violent renunciation of the drill team at the end, which hadn't been discussed with her assistant directors? That's not a transition plan. That's just plain rude and selfish--and I think still coming from anger.

All in all, a strange episode.

otm

the thing Wanda said after the meeting w her daughters to Karamo, that she was surprised that her daughters “required” love was very telling.

her subtext being “i gave them everything but obviously THAT wasn’t enough”

super defensive

Yessssssss very much so. Not...good.

should there still be a bracket wherein they admit that the life makeover didn't work this time? because it can't all be "yes queen" success.

MY HEART (this out of the blue japanese queer eye).

I want every season of QE to be in Japan from now on.

just want to say antoni was already my #1 dreamboat (karamo an extremely close #2), but last week a friend pointed me to antoni’s instagram and i literally fucking died

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Oh Yoko <3

Beautiful woman. Great episode.

Antoni doesn't know how to flip a tarte-tatin.

the first two japans are excellent, the final one is… distressing

oh... :(

I'm on Kan's episode. He speaks English with an English accent which is very cute.

They introduced the translator at the end of episode one and she's not been on screen again, which is a bit of a shame because she looked cute and fun. Since she's in the room I'd like her to be onscreen. Not all of the time but included. Maybe that's a minor niggle.

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Love that you are posting to it, mate.

i dont know if i can sustain this much crying for a whole season

jed <3

i dont know if i can sustain this much crying for a whole season

right? this japan collection is the best so far imo