Queen Sugar ends tonight on OWN, and collection creator Ava DuVernay has mentioned the collection finale in an interview with Deadline. The present premiered in 2016 and wraps this night after seven seasons with a particular 90-minute episode.
Starring Rutina Wesley, Dawn-Lyen Gardner, Kofi Siriboe, Nicholas Ashe, Tina Lifford, Omar J. Dorsey, and Bianca Lawson, the collection relies on the novel by Natalie Baszile. The story follows the grownup Bordelon siblings of Louisiana who attempt to save the household sugarcane farm after a tragedy. Guest and recurring gamers embrace Glynn Turman, Tracie Thoms, Sharon Lawrence, Greg Vaughan, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Amirah Vann, Brian Michael, Kaci Walfall, Lamman Rucker, Reagan Gomez, Ann Nesby, Tanyell Waivers, McKinley Freeman, and Vivien Ngô.
DuVernay teased the next concerning the challenges of making the ultimate episode of Queen Sugar:
“You know, we had rather a lot to tie up, however we didn’t wish to drive drama and make something that felt that it wasn’t genuine to the story and lives of those characters. So, it’s a gradual unfolding of this pressure between Micah (Nicholas L. Ashe) and his mom, and actually desirous to be an grownup, to face on his personal and be supported within the life that he chooses. It’s Nova and Dominic (McKinley Freeman) , your namesake, coming to the tip of their journey. Which begs the query, what’s subsequent for her? Hollywood (Omar Dorsey) and Vi (Tina Lifford), they’re the bedrock of the household, they usually’ve wished to begin their very own. Does that occur for them, and what does that appear to be when it does, with out there being huge, loopy twists and turns.
What I hope for the finale is only a stunning, satisfying fruits of those tales, the place you get to the tip, and you are feeling like, proper, okay, acquired it. This is what they’re doing subsequent. You know, it was actually satisfying, but it surely was additionally making an attempt to have restraint in not conjuring a bunch of battle and loopy stuff, simply to finish it. Just to let or not it’s a sort of a lovely unfolding, and let all of them go on with their lives from after we’ve been observing them for seven seasons.”
The creator additionally teased how the emotional finale wraps the collection:
“I’ll say this, I’m actually, actually happy with the tip. I really feel, , it’s a tear jerker. There’s nobody who’s seen the final half-hour of, I don’t know, the final quarter-hour of the finale that isn’t in tears. If you’ve watched the present, and the present, I feel it’s going to be one thing which may depart folks feeling very happy with the journey.
I checked out all of my favourite reveals, and the way they ended. You know, I really like the best way that Six Feet Under ended. There are some collection finales the place you similar to, yeah, yeah I wished that to be the case for our viewers, and I really feel completely satisfied. I feel we acquired there.”
What do you suppose? Are you unhappy to see Queen Sugar finish? Would you may have watched an eighth season of the OWN drama?