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| OWN | Release Date: September 6, 2016 |
Summary:
Based on the novel by Natalie Baszile, focuses on New Orleans activist/journalist Rutina Wesley (Nova Bordelon) and the return of her sister Charley Bordelon (Dawn-Lyen Gardner) from Los Angeles after the death of their father to claim an inheritance in the form of am 800-acre sugar cane farm.
Genre(s):
Drama
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Recent Episodes
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S7:E14. Take Flight: The Legacy of Queen Sugar
Air Date: November 29, 2022
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S7:E13. For They Existed
Air Date: November 29, 2022
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S7:E12. Be and Be Better
Air Date: November 22, 2022
Positive:
23
Mixed:
5
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Jun 22, 2017
Season 2 Review:
The unflustered audacity of the plot is just one of the elements that makes Queen Sugar a rare act of beauty and bravery on television. While it caters to the tropes and archetypes that television viewers want in addictive storylines, each episode is unquestionably cinematic in scope and execution as it weaves an enticing and unapologetically political narrative.
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Sep 6, 2016
Aug 25, 2016
Season 1 Review:
With DuVernay leading the charge, Queen Sugar boasts a promising cast, heavily populated by black actors in their first series-regular roles, and an all-female directing team, some established but many still launching their careers--meaningful footnotes to the quality of the show, which is high.
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Jun 22, 2017
Season 2 Review:
Queen Sugar does not occupy a soap opera's heightened reality, nor does it trade in clichés. Each detail--from Nova's impassioned, elegantly constructed arguments against mass incarceration to Ralph Angel's lack of concern that his son prefers Barbies to Transformers--feels carefully chosen to represent nothing more, or less, than people stumbling toward their best selves.
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Sep 2, 2016
Sep 6, 2016
Season 1 Review:
The pacing seems, at times, at odds with the narrative’s overabundance of conflict. Universally fine performances keep the Job-like series of events from overwhelming things, but DuVernay is so focused on her main characters that the secondary narratives, including lovely scenes between Ernest’s sister Violet (Tina Lifford) and her husband, Hollywood (Omar J. Dorsey), often feel like afterthoughts. ... Even with these distractions, Queen Sugar is an undeniably beautiful series.
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IndieWire
Sep 6, 2016
Season 1 Review:
Queen Sugar, at its best, finds quiet moments to contemplate the demands of having siblings as well as being someone’s son or daughter. Those fleeting scenes are few and far between in the first three episodes, and they’re often overwhelmed by unbelievable, exaggerated moments of crises.
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Mar 3, 2021
One of the best shows airing right now! I came because of Rutina and Ava but stayed because all the other actors, directors, writing and gorgeous cinematography and lighting is incredible. why isn't this show sweeping the Emmys?
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Sep 3, 2019
I love Queen Sugar and the amazing cast. I'm ready for a breakthrough for Darla. She's suffered and she's mentally and physically taken all that she can take. I want to see her happy....even if it's not with Ralp Angel
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Mar 11, 2021
"Calvin: Okay when did I become the bad guy?
Courtney: When you were born. Like every other heterosexual cisgendered white male."
Courtney: When you were born. Like every other heterosexual cisgendered white male."
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Season 7
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Season 7 Overview
Air Date: September 6, 2022
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S7:E14. Take Flight: The Legacy of Queen Sugar
Air Date: November 29, 2022
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S7:E13. For They Existed
Air Date: November 29, 2022
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S7:E12. Be and Be Better
Air Date: November 22, 2022
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S7:E11. We Can Be
Air Date: November 15, 2022
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S7:E10. They Existed
Air Date: November 8, 2022
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S7:E9. Whisper To Us
Air Date: November 1, 2022
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S7:E8. Never to Be the Same
Air Date: October 25, 2022
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S7:E7. Our Senses Restored
Air Date: October 18, 2022
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S7:E6. Soothing Electric Vibration
Air Date: October 11, 2022
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S7:E5. With A Kind Of
Air Date: October 4, 2022
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S7:E4. Spaces Fill
Air Date: September 27, 2022
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S7:E3. Slowly and Always Irregularly
Air Date: September 20, 2022
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S7:E2. After A Period, Peace Blooms
Air Date: September 13, 2022
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S7:E1. And When Great Souls Die
Air Date: September 6, 2022
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Air Date: September 7, 2021
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Season 5
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Season 5 Overview
Air Date: February 16, 2021
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Season 4
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Air Date: June 12, 2019
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Season 3
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Season 3 Overview
Air Date: May 29, 2018
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Season 2
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Season 2 Overview
Air Date: June 20, 2017
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Season 1
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Air Date: September 6, 2016
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