The final season of Queen Sugar will premiere around the same day and month as its sixth season, which aired on Sept. 7, 2021. The seventh season has a Sept. 6, 2022 release date on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN).
Approaching its seven-year anniversary, the Ava DuVernay series based on the novel of the same name by author Natalie Baszile has maintained a history of hiring women and BIPOC directors for each episode, something DuVernay has advocated since the debut in 2016. As a result, the show has championed the likes of Tina Mabry, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Liesl Tommy, Julie Dash, and Keisha Rae Witherspoon.
The series also made audiences more familiar with outstanding actors Tina Lifford, Rutina Wesley, Bianca Lawson, Omar J. Dorsey, Dawn-Lyen Gardner, Kofi Siriboe, and Nicholas L. Ashe.
Since its inception, a busy DuVernay has directed three of the series’ episodes, with two of them being in the first season. She returns in the last season to direct the final episode in the 13-episode order. The critically-acclaimed series followed the lives of three siblings who inherited an 800-acre sugarcane farm after the death of their father.
Queen Sugar is winner of the 2016, 2017, and 2018 African-American Film Critics Association’s (AAFCA) Best TV Drama award, 2017 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Drama Series and Writing in a Drama Series, and was honored in 2021 for Best Drama and Best Writing by the AAFCA.
Queen Sugar premieres Sept. 6 on OWN and can be watched on Hulu, as well.
