“I really loved the intimacy of those scenes. But much to the delight of the show’s numerous fans, Season 5 ended with the Bordelon siblings and their extended family all in an optimistic place. What happened in Season 5 of Queen Sugar?ĭuVernay wound up rewriting the bulk of Season 5’s 10 episodes to reflect the difficult and unfolding events across the nation back in 2020 and early 2021-including the spread of COVID-19, the death of George Floyd, widespread police violence and its aftereffects on Black America and the nation as a whole. Queen Sugar returns with its Season 6 premiere on Tuesday, September 7 at 8 p.m. So you’ll see some of that in this season.” When does Queen Sugar come back? We try really hard to stay with the current time and what’s going on. We went from 100 million black farmers to 1 million black farmers,” she explained. I mean, look at what’s going on with farmers right now in this country.

“It’s what black folks face with their own land in the South that they’ve been facing forever. She also hinted at storylines that deal with the plight of Black farmers in America. What happens with our family, and all of the family actually dealing with all kinds of… again just kind of dealing with legal things. According to Essence, “The new season of the show aims to tie together some of the loose ends left during the previous season’s finale earlier this year.” Meanwhile, Queen Sugar director Lisa France told back in July 2021 that the action will have “ a little bit of a jump” time-wise between the end of Season 5 and the start of Season 6.įrance also teased some major bombshells when she told the outlet, “I don’t think we’ve ever seen anything like it, ever, what we’re going to see this year. Season 6 promises to be jam-packed, but all will not be sweetness and light. Ready to take it all in? Here’s everything we know about Season 6 of Queen Sugar on OWN. Although Season 6 (which was greenlighted even before Season 5 aired) will dive into the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic, there will still be much to celebrate with homecomings and reunions, plus quite a bit of drama and angst to capture and keep our attention.

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