Queer Eye to end with forthcoming 10th season after eight years

Netflix's Queer Eye is calling it quits with its forthcoming 10th season, bringing to a close an eight‑year run that took the reboot through numerous US cities and on trips to Australia and Japan. The series began as a 2018 reimagining of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, which ran for 100 episodes between 2003 and 2007.

The reboot shortened the name, moved away from focusing solely on straight men and emphasised emotional literacy, sensitivity and compassion rather than the shaming typical of early‑00s makeover shows. The five experts — Jonathan Van Ness, Tan France, Antoni Porowski, Jeremiah Brent and Karamo Brown — handled hair, fashion, food, interiors and emotional support; Van Ness had been best known for a Game of Thrones reaction series before the reboot, and Jeremiah Brent later replaced Bobby Berk.

Memorable episodes cited include Tom Jackson, a Georgia man in his late 50s who reconciled with his ex‑wife and died in 2023; the Jones sisters Mary and Deborah becoming sauce entrepreneurs; a Black Girl Magic episode about Jess, a young lesbian rejected by her family; and Nicole, who left a controlling husband and received a belated 50th birthday party.

While the reboot surpassed its predecessor in empathy and representation and became, at its best, pure comfort television, the piece argues its relentless sunniness increasingly feels at odds with the world and that its demise now feels inevitable.

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