As with most reality series, the work of an editor starts with sifting through a mountain of footage to craft a tight, well-paced and clear story. But perhaps the greatest strength of Queer Eye, Netflix’s reboot of Bravo’s Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, which debuted in 2003, is its emotional core.
“It is all about uplifting people, and the entire tone of the series is about making people feel good. We wanted to include the funniest, most informative and most heartwarming moments to make sure that it connected with people,” says supervising editor Thomas Scott Reuther, who shared editing duties with his fellow Emmy nominees Joe DeShano, A.M. Peters, Ryan Taylor, Matthew D. Miller and Brian Ray.
Season one of the revival was set in Georgia and introduced a…