If you enjoy side-eyeing your wardrobe and spending the weekend in an emotionally compromised state, then you are in luck: Netflix has renewed their Emmy-winning hit Queer Eye for two additional seasons. What’s more, fans do not have to wait long at all for the return of the Fab Five as season four makes its fashionable debut in just one month, on July 19. The official Queer Eye Twitter page tweeted the much-anticipated announcement today.
Bobby Berk, Tan France, Antoni Porowski, Jonathan Van Ness, and Karamo Brown return to Kansas City to unleash their brand of unrelenting self worth in a maelstrom of color corrector, simple salads, flattering button-up shirts, and friendship. Maybe now would be a good time to put in your order for the Jones Sisters’ barbecue sauce that was featured during the Fab Five’s last trip to Kansas City.
Per a recent press release, season five will begin production on June 24 in Philidelphia and will premiere sometime in 2020. If you don’t feel like waiting the month to reunite with your favorite self improvement gurus, you can wade through the cameos of the latest Taylor Swift video and catch a glimpse.
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I enjoy the show but there really needs to be a long enough time in between seasons for me to miss the show. but on a quick wiki search, below, it seems like there was enough time between s2 and s3, but it felt like they were everywhere.s1: February 7, 2018;s2: June 15, 2018;s3 March 15, 2019s4: July 19, 2019
i think reality tv like this needs a bit more of a consistent drip. my issue is the seasons aren’t long enough. this kind of easy-to-digest, (presumably) inexpensive to produce show should have 15-20 episode seasons, IMO.that being said if there were 15-20 episode seasons i may agree that a longer break between them is better, so whatever.
It seems to me that 1/2 and 3/4 are more like single 16-episode seasons split over two 8-episode release dates. It’s really not that much television and allows Netflix to encourage people to binge over the release weekend while pushing new content at us regularly.
Are you sure? This is Netflix. These are probably just extensions of season three.
Actually yes — they filmed seasons 3 & 4 simultaneously in Kansas City last year.
Given the header pic, I can’t think of any men who I would be less willing to take fashion/grooming advice from. Carson was excentric for sure, but I would be willing to listen to him. Kyan was always great. And Ted would actually be who I would want advice from. These guys all dressed in hoodies like they are outcast teens, yeah I’ll pass.
I’m so confused by that picture. When did people start wearing sweatpants out in public? Don’t they know that means you’ve given up on life?
Awesome news! This is my favorite show on Netflix, along with many other people, I can safely assume. It’s one of the few seriously positive shows out there now that isn’t derivative and hokey, and it doesn’t resort to the conventions of formulaic reality TV. It’s a group of genuinely good guys helping people who actually need help, without the trappings of all the typical home makeover shows and such. In a perfect world, my wife & I would have constant seasons coming out because this is one of the few shows we have never gotten burnt-out on — Quite the opposite! The only downside is that reality TV doesn’t have much replay value (for us); But hey, at least two more seasons of QE is absolutely welcome: ASAP, please! QE would likely be the one show that would keep us subscribing to Netflix. Seems like their quality has been in a downslide lately, except for a few “fringe shows” lately (which have been the types of shows that have always been Netflix’s strength). It seems like the shows they put out that they obviously expect huge things out of tend to be duds or have great first seasons and then fizzle out quickly, while the shows in which it’s fairly obvious that they’ve handed the reigns to the creators tend to be far better quality (Duh — Keep the studio-heads and corporate influence out). We would keep Netflix for QE alone, as we would Hulu for Handmaid, etc. The quality resides in the vision of the artist, not in some office with a suit who thinks he’s in touch with the thinking majority, lol. Netflix used to trust the artists a lot, but the corporate influence is becoming more apparent, likely due to them preparing for Disney+. They just need to trust in the brands that have brought them success, look towards what has brought other streaming services success, and seek & build accordingly without sacrificing originality.
After we finished season 3, I got curious to watch the original show. And found that this incarnation is better in almost every way. The original is edited like it’s trying to take some MTV Real World flash, dress it in rave colors, and then add some sort of Gay Avengers Assemble vibe to it. It doesn’t give any element time to develop narratively, just popping in for some Carson quip as the Fab Five descend on some hapless dude’s microscopic New York apartment like Sassmanian devils. All the while rave music plays so relentlessly my wife said she felt her spinal cord deteriorating. The new version is so much more heartfelt and empathetic and seems to genuinely care about the happiness of its subjects. I only miss Ted Allen, but he’s done fine for himself.
The new version is often contrived and glosses over the tough issues, but is succeeding on a far higher level than could be expected given those issues.The old version was fairly trashy… but I enjoyed the shit out of it, so whatever. But the new version is certainly much better.