OWN Communications Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Hart / The Atlantic With its cinematic visuals and deep attention to the particularities of Black life, Queen Sugar has reimagined what television about the American family can look like. They’ve also applauded DuVernay’s choice to hire an all-woman directorial team-several members of which had never before directed scripted TV-to help tell this story about race, class, and inheritance in the U.S. Over the show’s run, critics have praised it for being sexy and engrossing. Since the show’s 2016 debut, loyal Sugar viewers have followed the lives of siblings Nova, Charley, and Ralph Angel Bordelon-as well as their children their Aunt Violet and her husband, Hollywood-as they’ve fought to maintain ownership of their family’s 800-acre Louisiana sugar-cane farm. This week, Queen Sugar returned for its seventh and final season, making it one of the longest-running Black family dramas in television history. “We never forgot that this had happened to him, because he would have never forgotten it.” That extended story line explored police violence and the lingering effects of trauma on the show’s central family, the Bordelons, as Black Lives Matter protests erupted around them. “I think, for other shows, it would have been ‘a very special episode of Queen Sugar about police aggression,’ but for our show, lasted for two seasons,” the creator, Ava DuVernay, told me. The officer put what turned out to be an unloaded gun in the boy’s mouth and pulled the trigger, informing Micah that he hates privileged, “fancy-talking niggers.” It isn’t until Episode 8 of the season that viewers discover what really happened: A still-traumatized Micah tells his father that before going to the precinct, the police officer drove him to a dark alley.
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“Ain’t nothin’ to be ashamed of,” she tells him, embracing her nephew while discreetly tying her sweater around his soiled pants.
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Meanwhile, when Micah’s Aunt Nova (Rutina Wesley) comes to comfort him, she notices that the boy has urinated on himself. After he’s released into the custody of his parents, the estranged couple argues in the parking lot. In the Season 2 opener of the OWN drama Queen Sugar, a teenaged Micah West (played by Nicholas Ashe) is pulled over in his luxury sports car for what appears to be an instance of driving while Black.