Not only are there adorable dogs aplenty, Kenny finds teary-eyed catharsis when he encounters one that reminds him of his dearly departed pal and subsequently adopts and names his new companion after the Fab Five. The sequence in which JVN and Antoni accompany Kenny to his local shelter is one of the best the show has to offer. Our hosts draw Kenny out of his shell, appealing to his love of Croatian culture, getting him out of sports apparel, and, most crucially, taking him to a shelter to find a new furry friend. He's also desperately lonely, still keeping around dog food for a pup that is also no longer with him. He stayed in his childhood home, but let it fall into disarray with ancient newspapers, dust, and mouse droppings coating everything. On the surface, this is one of the most traditional Queer Eye scenarios: Kenny's a lifelong bachelor who lived with his parents until they died, while the rest of his large Croatian brood started their own families.
Now that we've had time to absorb all five seasons of Queer Eye available, we've made a primer on the best the series has to offer. (His dishes have gotten more fanciful as the series has gone on.) Culture guru Karamo Brown gave pep talks, fashion maven Tan France espoused his love of a tailored pant and the French tuck, and hair extraordinaire Jonathan Van Ness was generally hilarious. Everything was fodder for memes, from designer Bobby Berk's seemingly miraculous ability to redo a house from scratch in no to time at all to food "expert" Antoni Porowski's endless uses for avocados. When the first episodes dropped, skepticism as to whether the format was passé in 2018 slid away as fans became attached to a new crew of gay men that sets out to help "heroes" across Georgia and (in Season 3) the Kansas City area, be they men or women, straight or gay. Hell, the tagline for the second season was: "I'm not crying, you're crying." Do you get it? This series will wreck you, but you'll love it. Now that we're on the fourth season of Netflix's rebooted Queer Eye, we know one thing is certain: It will make you weep.