Queen Sugar

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Season 1
  • Network: OWN
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 6, 2016
Season #: 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
User Score
5.5

Mixed or average reviews- based on 30 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 30
  3. Negative: 12 out of 30
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  1. MphsTom
    Jun 29, 2017
    3
    Overly dramatic and predictable storylines. Really, driving while black? Writers couldn't come up with anything better? Micah is way to feminine, Blue and that lisp , and that grandmother is non-stop angry. Nova is definitely the best thing going in the show and Ralph Angel is hot. The background music, omg.
  2. TVW
    Dec 7, 2016
    1
    The show started out ok but made a drastic turn for the worse. This show is sick! Everyone has a problem. What is worse, one sister has sex with women and men. And you wanted us to watch the sex scenes. Oh no! Our Christian group encouraged others not to watch this show. Didn't take any thought to write this.
  3. Qldgamer
    Sep 9, 2016
    2
    The first 5 minutes is someone getting dressed! After that the excitement never stops. Very drawn out dull show. The overuse of music in every scene actual drowns out the voices...
  4. Bluebaby
    Apr 5, 2018
    3
    I like the sugar cane story line and the struggles of farming and running a business. Nova’s character is annoying and I fast forward thru her black woman rants. Why can’t they hey just write a successful black woman reporter role? A lot of prejudice scenes which will just encourage African Americans to keep blaming Caucasians for all their problems. Don’t waste your time
  5. Dddebra
    Mar 6, 2019
    1
    Why does Ralph Angel whisper in just about every scene he is in? Hate that! The only line Darla has is “Blue is asleep”. The constant music is filler...like commercials. I too ff thru Novas scenes; her character is a big zero. Everyone in this show constantly has advice for everyone else. Pretty bad show.

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58
#58 Best TV Season of 2016

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Metascore
75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 25 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 25
  3. Negative: 0 out of 25
  1. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Matt Zoller Seitz
    Sep 7, 2016
    80
    Queen Sugar takes its sweet time moving through a moment, lingering where other series tend to sprint, and it is generous with its searching close-ups of faces and hands and its images of the Louisiana countryside at dawn and dusk, an enchanted-seeming landscape of furrowed fields and gnarled, kudzu-covered trees. At its most navel-gazing, the show feels like Parenthood by way of Eugene O'Neill. But tell me you don't want to watch something like that.
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  2. Vox.com
    Reviewed by: Caroline Framke
    Sep 7, 2016
    90
    The show draws you close physically and emotionally, letting you witness its characters’ most vulnerable moments--the better to help you understand exactly what’s going on in their heads even when they try desperately to keep their thoughts to themselves.
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  3. Philadelphia Daily News
    Reviewed by: Ellen Gray
    Sep 6, 2016
    70
    Although Queen Sugar looks beautiful and introduces some great characters--including the Bordelon siblings' Aunt Violet (Tina Lifford, Scandal) and her much younger boyfriend, Hollywood (Omar J. Dorsey, Ray Donovan)--the three episodes made available to critics are scene-setters. The seeds for good drama (or at least quality soap) are there. We'll just have to see what grows.
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