Netflix - Queer Eye

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I liked the original series but wasn't prepared for the emotional impact of this one. Surprisingly it wasn't the Fab Five although they seem to be very genuine guys that you would love to have as friends but the guys targeted for help (saw the first two episodes).

In both cases the two targets for help were completely cut off socially from their friends and family by negative self image and the Fab Five were able to simply get these guys to see themselves in a new way. In the first episode (both were shot in Georgia) a guy that looked like a red neck beer drinking oaf turned out to be a wonderfully infectious guy who was a very good sport and lots of fun, just needed to have a little more confidence. It was surprisingly moving.

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Agree and we (wife and I) really enjoyed! And someone is ...

gaining from their help. Can't beat that...

[demmiblue]

2. I am sorry, not so sorry, yet kind of sorry that I binge-watched it...

because now I have to wait patiently for Season 2 (there WILL be a Season 2, right?!).

Here is a really interesting interview with Tan France:

'Queer Eye's' Tan France: I took the job to be blunt to, and befriend, Republicans.

Tan France wasn't supposed to be a TV star.

But as of publication, the fashion designer has over 183,000 Instagram followers and a number of giddy, straight husbands asking to take his photo to show their wives at his local grocery store in Utah. "I can't walk the street without somebody stopping me," he explains earnestly, still surprised that complete strangers would recognize him. (Maybe it's the hair?)????

France, who'd never held a job in the entertainment world before, says he was reluctant to audition for "Queer Eye," a Netflix reboot based off the original Bravo series, "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," that's become an overnight cultural phenomenon since premiering in early February.

But France went to the audition anyway. And now he's a member of the show's Fab Five — the stylish, sincere queer guys who bombard their "heroes'" homes and make over their closets, diets, and, really, entire existences in just a few days.

The reason France ended up taking the offer, he says, had nothing to do with fame or fortune. It was the series' shooting location, of all things, that sealed the deal.

Unlike the original, the new "Queer Eye" found its heroes to "make better" in deep red, rural Georgia. For France — a British-Muslim immigrant to the U.S. with Pakistani roots — the opportunity to build bridges and befriend straight, southern Republicans was an opportunity he simply couldn't pass up.

I sat down with France to chat about the first season of "Queer Eye," what it's like representing gay Muslims on the world stage, and which member of the Fab Five he secretly loves best.

http://www.upworthy.com/queer-eye-s-tan-france-i-took-the-job-to-be-blunt-to-and-befriend-republicans?c=hpfeatured

[AtomicKitten]

3. I binge-watched it too because it was so good.

Now there are no new ones left for a long time :/

[demmiblue]

4. Here you go:

[AtomicKitten]

5. thank you!!!

very much appreciated