'‘Queen Sugar’ Series Finale: Ava DuVernay Unpacks the Bordelons
Finale: Ava DuVernay Unpacks the Bordelons
After seven
seasons, the Bordelon family’s journey came to an end
“Queen Sugar”
signed off on Tuesday night with a poetic series finale centered around the importance of
Series creator
Ava DuVernay wrote the finale, titled “For They Existed,” and returned to the director’s
(To note:
the remaining 85 episodes were directed exclusively by other women filmmakers, 41 of them to be exact
“In the
end, there was no sadness; I was just so pleased, so proud
It was
a satisfaction that was so deep, I hadn’t experienced it before
Winfrey chimed
in to explain why it was the right time to say goodbye: “It’s never
Going into
the finale, though, “Queen Sugar” fans had a few questions about how things would end:
DuVernay answered
some of those questions quickly — the opening scene reveals that Hollywood has become “St
Joe’s newest,
Blackest, beautiful-est school board member” — and others shockingly
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