History Series / QueenSugar

* AffairBlameTheBastard: Completely averted. [[spoiler: Charley is furious and horrified when she learns that Davis had been hiding an illegitimate daughter named Tia for most of their marriage, but directs all her anger at ''him'' for cheating. She doesn't want to close relationship with Tia, but encourages her son to bond with his half-sister]].

* MixedAncestry: Charley is the product of Ernest's relationship with a white woman.

* HourglassPlot: Charley and Nova, by season 4. Charley starts out more concerned about maintain her celebrity lifestyle while Nova is a dedicated activist. In season 4 Nova gets caught up in fame after publishing a best-selling book while Charley is focused on fighting to protect the local farmers from white corporate executives.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Calvin's daughter Courtney tries to be an ally to the Black community but repeatedly put her foot in her mouth, which causes her to worry that she's actually a bad person. However, Nova assures Courtney that her heart is clearly in the right place; she just needs to educate and improve herself.

** Vi helps guide her nieces and nephew after her brother's death. She was also Blue's legal guardian for a while during Ralph Angel's incarceration.

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The show tends to incorporate recent political and social issues, especially ones affecting the African-American community. In particular, the show focuses heavily on police brutality and corporate greed destroying small towns and rural communities. It also touched on the deportation of undocumented migrants from Latin America following the Trump administration's controversial measures to separate migrant children from their parents/guardians at the American-Mexican border.

* {{Transgender}}: One of Ralph Angel's childhood friends, Toine, is a transgender man who now works as a police officer. When Ralph Angel was first arrested, they saw each other at the station. Toine feared that Ralph Angel would out him and felt grateful that he didn't.

* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Charley becomes [[TranquilFury enraged]] when Frances Boudreaux tells her they're NotSoDifferent.

It stars Creator/RutinaWesley as Nova Bordelon, Dawn-Lyen Gardner as Charley Bordelon West, and Kofi Siriboe as Ralph Angel Bordelon. Also featured are Tina Lifford as Violet "Vi" Bordelon, Omar Dorsey as Hollingsworth "Hollywood" Desonier, Dondre Whitfield as Remy Newell, Creator/BiancaLawson as Darla Sutton, Timon Kyle Durret as Davis West, and Nicholas L. Ashe as Micah West.

It stars Creator/RutinaWesley as Nova Bordelon, Dawn-Lyen Gardner as Charley Bordelon West, and Kofi Siriboe as Ralph Angel Bordelon. Also featured are Tina Lifford as Violet "Vi" Bordelon, Omar Dorsey as Hollingsworth "Hollywood" Desonier, Dondre Whitfield as Remy Newell, Bianca Lawson as Darla Sutton, Timon Kyle Durret as Davis West, and Nicholas L. Ashe as Micah West.

* BlackGalOnWhiteGuyDrama: Nova's boyfriend, Calvin, is not only white, but a white police officer working for the department she antagonized. To make matters worse, [[YourCheatingHeart he's married with kids]].

* YourCheatingHeart:
** Nova is seeing married man at the start of the series, though they break up halfway through the first season. [[spoiler: Toward the end of the season, though, he leaves his family for her and they get back together, only to break up ''again'' in season 2]].
** Charley's husband [[spoiler: had a mistress named Melina Galoudian. Just prior to the beginning of the season he let his teammates gangrape her and she threatens to go public about their whole affair. To make matters worse, Davis later confesses he's been cheating on Charley with various women for most of their marriage and has a secret illegitimate daughter]].
** Ernest, the Bordelon patriarch, cheated on Nova and Ralph Angel's mother to conceived Charley. She grew up primarily with her mother. [[spoiler: Subverted when it's revealed that he and True had actually broken up before he got together with Lorna]].
** [[spoiler: Hollywood had a wife the whole time he was with Vi. They had been separated for years, ever since her mental breakdown, but were still technically married]].
** Micah learns that his girlfriend Stella had been cheating on him after nude pictures of another boy were found on her phone.
** Subverted with Charley and Remy. Despite their mutual attraction, they don't get together [[spoiler:until after she files for divorce from her husband]].

It stars Rutina Wesley as Nova Bordelon, Dawn-Lyen Gardner as Charley Bordelon West, and Kofi Siriboe as Ralph Angel Bordelon. Also featured are Tina Lifford as Violet "Vi" Bordelon, Omar Dorsey as Hollingsworth "Hollywood" Desonier, Dondre Whitfield as Remy Newell, Bianca Lawson as Darla Sutton, Timon Kyle Durret as Davis West, and Nicholas L. Ashe as Micah West.

* WhamLine: At the end of season 4, episode 7: [[spoiler: "The mill's on fire."]]

* BiTheWay: Nova is openly bisexual. She has dated a man named Calvin and a woman named Chantal.

Nova, the eldest, is a determined journalist and activist trying to changed the corrupt New Orleans police department. Charley, the middle child, lives a charmed life in Los Angeles until a scandal threatens to tear her family apart. Ralph Angel, the youngest, struggles with getting his life back together after being released from prison.

It stars Rutina Wesley as Nova Bordelon, Dawn-Lyen Gardner as Charley Bordelon West, and Kofi Siriboe as Ralph Angel Bordelon. Also featured are Tina Lifford as Violet "Vi" Bordelon, Omar Dorsey as Hollingsworth "Hollywood" Desonier, Dondre Whitfield as Remy Newell, Bianca Lawson as Darla, Timon Kyle Durret as Davis West, and Nicholas L. Ashe as Micah West.

* FalseFriend: Octavia tries to steal a writing opportunity from Nova and then pretends otherwise. Nova sees through through it immediately.

* HourglassPlot: Charley and Nova, by season 4. Charley starts out more concerned about maintain her celebrity lifestyles while Nova is a dedicated activist. In season 4 Nova gets caught up in fame after publishing a best-selling book while Charley is focused on fighting to protect the local farmers from white corporate executives.

* NotMeThisTime: Sam and Frances both deny responsibility for [[spoiler: the arson attack against Queen Sugar, though they aren't exactly torn up about it]].

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The show tends to incorporate recent political and social issues, especially ones affecting the African-American community. In particular, the show focuses heavily on police brutality and corporate greed destroying small towns and rural communities. It also touched on the deportation of undocumented migrants from Latin America following the Trump administration's controversial measures to separate migrant children from their parents/guardians at the American-Mexico border.

* WrongfullyAccused: [[spoiler: Charley is framed for the arson attack against Queen Sugar, but soon manages to prove that it was actually Frances]].

* ParentalSubstitute: Vi helps guide her nieces and nephew after her brother's death. She was also Blue's legal guardian for a while during Ralph Angel's incarceration.

* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Among the Landry family, Sam and Jacob may be slimeballs, but Frances far more cold and calculating.

* OffTheWagon: [[spoiler: Darla gets breaks her sobriety after inadvertently learning that she was sexually assaulted during a party]].

** Defied with [[spoiler: Charley]]. She points blank tells [[spoiler: Davis]] that she refuses to be a surrogate mother to his daughter.

* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Sam and Frances's grandmother was a black woman who managed to pass as white and married into the Landy. She was a Bordelon by birth]].

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The show tends to incorporate recent political and social issues, especially ones affecting the African-American community. In particular, the show deals with police brutality and corporate greed destroying small towns.

* AffairBlameTheBastard: Completely averted. [[spoiler: Charley is furious and horrified when she learns that her Davis had been hiding an illegitimate daughter named Tia for most of their marriage, but directs all her anger at her ex for cheating. She doesn't want to close relationship with Tia, but encourages her son to bond with his half-sister]].

* CategoryTraitor: Charley's assessment of [[spoiler: Parker Campbell, a black woman who's willingly working with Landry Enterprises and Old World Energy to start fracking in Saint Josephine's, something that will devastate the predominantly black community]]].

* EasilyForgiven: Averted.

* INeedAFreakingDrink: Played for drama. In season 4 Charley has a HeroicBSOD and runs off to go day drinking in New Orleans without telling anyone. Her family and friends becomes increasingly worried about her safety until Nova finds her.
* HourglassPlot: Charley and Nova, by season 4. Charley starts out more concerned about maintain her celebrity lifestyles while Nova is a dedicated activist. In season 4 Nova gets caught up in fame after publishing a best-selling book while Charley is focused on fighting to protect the local farmers from white corporate executives.