The Fab Five go global in the trailer for Queer Eye: We're In Japan!
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Netflix has sent its award-winning Fab Five to trot the globe before—including a brief, yet impactful sojourn to Yass, Australia—but their next trip comes with a decidedly bigger mission. Queer Eye heads to Tokyo for its aptly titled special, Queer Eye: We’re In Japan! The four-episode special season sets out to help four new heroes with the help of model/actress Kiko Mizohara and comedian Naomi Watanabe. The new recipients include a “painfully shy radio director,” a generous hospice nurse, a manga artist who sustained bullying, and a man who who wants to introduce his boyfriend to his family. Naturally, we’re already rooting for everyone, including Bobby Berk, who will undoubtedly build at least three new, swanky mansions from scratch. That’s when he’ll have reached his final form, right?
The official synopsis, per a recent press release: “The Fab Five – Antoni Porowski (Food & Wine), Bobby Berk (Interior Design), Jonathan Van Ness (Grooming), Karamo Brown (Culture), and Tan France (Fashion) – will bring their expertise to Tokyo, working to make-better four heroes while experiencing Japanese cuisine, fashion, design, grooming and culture firsthand.” You can check out the new trailer below, which should provoke just enough emotional instability until the special launches globally on November 1.
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Happy to see Berk get a name check – I feel like he’s the least flashy of the group while also doing, pound for pound, the most work (yes, I know he has a team of folks helping him with all that renovating).Also, they really, really, really need to find a better title for Karamo.
Fully agreed on Karamo, I don’t think many people realize that he has real experience as a social worker.
I certainly didn’t until after the first season. I remember distinctly watching the first episode wondering “what the shit is this guy supposed to do?” and thinking he was going to help curate their client’s music collection or something. By the end of the second season I realized some of the most powerful parts of the episodes were the Karamo segments.
I think they’re the shows lynch-pin. The show very purposefully makes the argument that it’s not just a makeover show (like in the original), but that it uses those aspects to help the underlying people. Without the Karamo section doing it explicitly, the other parts of that would come off as trying too hard, I think.
100%. Which I think also surfaces one of my biggest issues with Antony. People rag on him all the time for the easy dishes he makes, but I don’t think that’s the problem, or that it’s even Antony’s fault. I think the problem is that this is a missed opportunity – instead of “Food & Wine” consultant, they should have tweaked the role to be “Food & Diet” and made the focus not on preparing sophisticated meals but on nutritious meals (that also taste good.) Imagine how much more powerful – and genuinely helpful – the show could have been with that additional impact.
I.CAN.NOT.WAIT! Though I can’t imagine why a Japanese person would need help from the Fab Five.
I was pleasantly surprised thier sojurn in the heartland didnt have multiple shots of a beer can bouncing off one of thier heads and a truck peeling off with a guy yelling FAAAAAAAGGGGOTTTTSSSSSS!!!!!!.
They don’t speakee the english? Everything has to go through a translator?
Forget it. I couldn’t stand that womans cleanup show for that reason.
The trailer wasn’t that emotional, but it’s a reflex now: I see Queer Eye, I tear up. I’m conditioned.
my eyes are filled with tears at work now and I watched it on silent 🤷♂️