Secrets of the Harvest: Queen Sugar Season 2 Episode 13 Recap Nijla Mu'Min October 25, 2017 TV “Just because you wish something is meant to be, doesn’t mean it is.” ~Nova There’s a beautiful, painful circularity to this week’s episode of “Queen Sugar.” It begins with Ralph Angel and Darla outside of t... Read More
Queen Sugar Season 2 Episode 12 Recap: ‘Live in the All Along’ Nijla Mu'Min October 18, 2017 TV Queen Sugar is a show for directors. From the first frame of this episode, to the last, we are let into a carefully designed visual canvas of color, performance, and meaning. There was a time when the anticipat... Read More
The Past is Present in the Mid-Season Premiere of ‘Queen Sugar’ Nijla Mu'Min October 4, 2017 TV In this week’s mid-season premiere of “Queen Sugar,” we see that new beginnings often require a reckoning with the past. The episode, “Yet Do I Marvel,” named for a poem by famed Harlem Renaissance writer Count... Read More
Lena Waithe Delivers a Moving Exploration of Sexual Identity in ‘Master of None’ Nijla Mu'Min May 19, 2017 TV In the “Thanksgiving” episode of Aziz Ansari’s Master of None (Netflix), Lena Waithe delivers a moving exploration of sexual identity. Over the course of several Thanksgiving dinners, we witness her character D... Read More
