Queen Sugar Season 3, Episode 6: "Daddy Lessons"
‘Queen Sugar’ Season 3, Episode 6: “Daddy Lessons”
Queen Sugar Ep 306 — Photo Credit: Skip Bolen / @2018 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved
Recapping a TV show is part review and part overview. In this week’s episode “Delicate and Strangely Made” a few things happen that not only could change the course of some relationships, they could change the course of the show. And maybe not in the best ways.
Let’s start with Charley (Dawn Lyen Gardner). Unbeknownst to her, her sister’s thinking of creeping with her ex-love interest. Never her man, let’s be clear. I doubt Charley would care that much as Remy (Dondre Whitfield) hasn’t been in her sights for a while now. And this kind of thing happens with sisters all of the time, even if Twitter thinks its verboten.
And right now, Charley has bigger issues. Someone is surveying Landry-owned land but it’s not the EPA. Looks like developers to us. Did Jacob Boudreaux (Lea Coco) lie (quite possibly) or was he being lied to as well? Guess we’ll find out.
Charley is also dealing with Davis’ (Timon Kyle Durrett) betrayal. A 13-year-old kid has been dropped, if not into her lap, into her psyche, which, understandably, makes her entire marriage feel like a lie.
Micah (Nicholas Ashe) is also dealing with that betrayal. But he’s got his activist friends to hang out with. So when a nasty white kid pulls up on them and calls his homegirl a Black bitch, Micah steps up and pulls the Confederate flag off the car’s antenna.
This is the South, so those flags do fly. Fortunately for Micah, either this kid wasn’t strapped or the guy who owned the property they were all hanging out on, got there in time. But why do I get the feeling that this is going to be a problem later on?
Nova (Rutina Wesley) is helping Aunt Vi (Tina Lifford) cook pies in an emergency since she’s the only one available who can follow Aunt Vi’s recipe. Aunt Vi is up to her elbows, literally, in pies but that lupus is making it hard. But as Black women do, Aunt Vi’s going to soldier on. And for good reason – she’s got an offer to expand the business. Seems like at this point, she’s going to have to hire some help to keep up with the demand.
Queen Sugar Ep 306 — Photo Credit: Skip Bolen / @2018 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved
Nova’s avoiding Remy’s calls and texts because she’s conflicted. She doesn’t want Remy, but maybe she does. That his whole sequence takes place over text is a little disappointing, as we’d like to see how Remy tries to justify the two of them getting together. After all, he’s been so strident about how Charley should be doing things.
Ralph Angel (Kofi Siriboe) is trying to hook up with Trinh (Vivien Ngô) his boss at the fishery’s daughter. They go on a cute date, but in my opinion, zero sparks are flying. And I have a real issue – after Darla, RA is banging the neighborhood women who are Black but takes the first non-Black woman he runs into on a date?
If this relationship was going to be believable, their relationship should have marinated more. It feels shoehorned into the show and is frankly, boring. We’re missing screen time with characters we already know, like Remy, Hollywood (Omar Dorsey) Keke (Tanyell Waivers) and others for this?
What doesn’t feel boring is anytime we see Ralph Angel and Darla (Bianca Lawson). I’m glad she’s back, if only because of the dramatic tension and frankly, the sexual tension, between them still. The two of them light up a screen together, which is why it’s too bad that they can’t figure out a way to resolve their differences. In tonight’s episode, Benny, Ralph Angel’s charity case ex-con, oversteps his limits by having some friends over for spades.
Well, what did you think would happen, dude? Darla and Blue (Ethan Hutchinson) walk in on some shady characters in the kitchen. Benny isn’t even there. This is clearly about to go left. Darla, a tough girl when she needs to be, clears the house and when RA gets in a few minutes later, Benny’s got to pack his things. Damn, Ralph Angel is sexy when he’s angry.
But not to Darla right now, who calls him out on his dumb decision-making, but not before things get tense and they start yelling at each other. This sends Blue out of the bedroom in defense of his mother and this is when Ralph Angel goes the hell off.
Let me say this for the record – his manner may not have been cool, but he was all the way right. Some mothers have a way of diminishing their children’s fathers in front of them. Blue needs some discipline. He’s cute and all, but he’s becoming a brat. While I understand the conflict was scary for Blue, his father ain’t gonna put his hands on nobody. Kids need to stay out of grown folks’ business and they need to listen to their parents.
Darla should have a say in their son’s life. But she put that child on Ralph Angel and declared him the father so at this point, DNA has nothing to do with it. All of a sudden Blue is “her” son? He and his family took care of ‘her’ son when she couldn’t. So stop it. That’s both of y’all’s child.
Queen Sugar Ep 306 — Photo Credit: Skip Bolen / @2018 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved
