At the beginning of Season 4 of Queen Sugar, the Bordelons look triumphant. In the first episode, entitled “Pleasure is Black” Aunt Vi (Tina Lifford) has left the High Yellow behind for good to open up her own diner Vi’s Prized Pies And Diner. She and Hollywood (Omar Dorsey)have just come off a honeymoon in […]
Whoo, chile. The Season 4 trailer for Queen Sugar is here and it’s making us wish the season started tomorrow! As you know, the drama of the Bordelon family has engaged us over the past three seasons as siblings Ralph Angel Bordelon (Kofi Siriboe) Charley Bordelon (Dawn Lyen Gardner) and Nova Bordelon (Rutina Wesley) try […]
Ava DuVernay has landed a second series at Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network. In addition to her series adaptation of the novel “Queen Sugar” for OWN, Variety reports that the award-winning director will also serve viewers an anthology titled “Cherish the Day.” According to the publication, “the series chronicles the romance of one couple, with each episode spanning a single day. […]
Tevin Campbell has been rarely seen since his prime in the 90’s but it looks like we will be seeing a whole lot more of him in the near future. Campbell took to social media to make a big announcement that he was on the set of Queen Sugar and will be joining the cast! […]
You know him as Michah from Queen Sugar, but his real name is Nicholas Ashe. He’s taking his talents to the stage for his Broadway debut in Chior Boy. Ashe calls working with Tarell Alvin McCraney, who is the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Moonlight “unreal.” Chior Boy, like Moonlight is a production “questioning the black gay male’s position […]
Well, if you tuned in for the last episode of the third season of Queen Sugar you were richly rewarded, although it did take a minute to get to the good stuff. This season had its ups and downs in terms of content and flow, but there were some payoffs in the end. Let’s start, […]
We are winding down on Queen Sugar Season 3 as next week’s 90-minute episode is the last of the season. But of course, we can look forward to Season 4, already announced, not that it seemed like it was in question. As I’ve communicated this season has been a little rocky but in the last few […]
Let’s start with the good news – this was one of the best episodes of this third, sometimes uneven season of Queen Sugar. But the good news continues. Anthony Sparks, already a supervising producer for the show, will replace Kat Chandler as showrunner next season. I don’t want to cast any aspersions on Chandler, as […]
This season of Queen Sugar has been both moving and frustrating as one good episode is often followed by another that doesn’t live up to the show’s full potential. As many of you know, the showrunner was changed this season and it has felt at times as though she is trying to find a rhythm. […]
They should have called this episode ‘The Charley Episode’ because even though she’s not in every scene, Charley Bordelon (Dawn Lyen Gardner) dominates Episode 9, officially called “The Tree And Stone Were One.” Sadly, there are only four episodes left as Queen Sugar takes no midseason break this year. That’s too bad, as it finally […]
Right now on Queen Sugar, nobody’s happy. In Episode 8, of what is, this year, a 13 episode season (down from 16 last year) everyone’s trying to get there but struggling to do so. Charley (Dawn Lyen Gardner) is tasked with not only moving Prosper Denton (Henry G. Sanders) into her place but figuring out […]
Due to yours truly traveling down to Miami for American Black Film Festival, we missed a recap week. So this week, we’ll recap Eps. 4 and 5. In last week’s Episode Four, officially titled “No Haven In My Shadow” Darla (Bianca Lawson) returns. And we’ve finally found a way to age the 39-year-old beauty – […]
