(Maybe.) Violet warns Ralph about letting Darla back in, which Darla overhears. It brings tears to his eyes, and gives me hope that maybe, just maybe, Darla can get it together long enough to actually be in Blue's life. In an episode of tense arguments, we do get a tender moment: Ralph watches over Darla as she tells Blue a bedtime story. We see Violet's guard come down a little, but she walks away, still hurt. He explains his side of things, saying that he simply decided to leave his past in the past. "You never hit me, but you sure knocked the hell out of me," she tells Hollywood. Hollywood walks in on Violet as she prepares for bed (In her scarf! Yas!), and Violet proceeds to compare Hollywood to her physically abusive ex-husband. There's still one more confrontation to be had in episode 8: Violet and Hollywood. "I may be bougie," she adds, "but at least I'm not having an affair with a married man." Thunder claps. Goosebumps, here, both from the incredible acting, but also the realness of what Charley said. I'm not gonna put my son in a position to be killed, shot, or in need of a $10,000 bailout," Charley shouts. When Nova offers that Micah stay with her during the week if he gets into the NOLA-based private school he's hoping for, Charley says she's not having it because Nova's lifestyle isn't exactly fit for a teenage boy.
We all know anger plus liquor is no bueno. The tension between Nova and Charley only intensifies from here, especially as the showrunners make sure we get close-ups of the multiple glasses of alcohol each sister pours. When Charley suggests that Nova just move out of the ninth, Nova snaps: "Everybody doesn't run from home and family just because shit gets tough." Damn, Nova. Once everyone arrives at Violet's house safely, Nova reveals that things are already pretty bad in the ninth ward, the same (mostly-Black) area that was hit hardest by Katrina. Damn it, Hollywood! But we still have hope, as Charley invites Remy to stay with the family at Violet's. But before they can kiss, a hurried Hollywood interrupts them on his way out the door. They run inside for shelter, and the chemistry is so dynamic, there might as well be physical sparks flying across the screen. She takes off her wedding ring as they get to work, and suddenly the rain hits.
She's irked to have yet another unwelcome visitor, seeing as her estranged boyfriend Hollywood has also shown up uninvited to board up her windows.Ĭharley and Remy are back at the farm, preparing the house for the storm. Of course, when Violet sees her, she isn't happy. She wanted to get stuck in the hurricane, forced to shack up with Blue and Ralph Angel, and I can't say I blame her I wouldn't mind getting stuck with Ralph Angel in a storm, myself.īut we see Ralph Angel soften a little, and he invites Darla to come with them. I shook my head here, because homegirl knew exactly what she was doing.
Ralph Angel is getting ready to head over to Violet's house, which has been designated the family's storm safe house, when Blue's mom Darla shows up unexpectedly with a birthday gift. What's especially brilliant about this episode is that as the anticipation of the hurricane builds, so does the electricity of the story, right until the final scene.
In Episode 8, a hurricane is coming to Southern Louisiana, and the writers of Queen Sugar do not tiptoe around the fact that this could be devastating to the Black communities in New Orleans and South LA that are still reeling from Katrina, more than a decade later.