Queen Sugar Recap: The Horizon Leans Forward

Queen Sugar / Season 3, Episode 12 / OWN It’s the penultimate episode of Season 3! Everything is on fire right now. In this episode — written by Mike Flynn and directed by Kat Candler — we’re getting some resolution to some of the main threads. For starters, Charley’s going to have to come clean about the deal she made with Landry Enterprises. We begin at her house, where she’s catching Violet’s segment on “Wake Up, NOLA.” Prosper’s in the kitchen, ending a phone call with his daughter (who we still haven’t seen). We know he isn’t being completely honest with her about his health, or anything else. It seems she still doesn’t know about the eviction, because he’s talking as though he might be able to go back to his house. When he notices Charley waiting to talk to him, he preemptively tries to excuse his daughter’s absence: saying she’s busy, working a big project at her job. Charley has to feel something about this. This isn’t so different than her dynamic with Ernest before he passed, after all. Her guilt about that is one of the reasons she’s taken Prosper in. Anyway, we know from Prosper that the council vote on the prison is a couple of days away, but the parish meeting is tonight. He says he and the other farmers want Charley to speak on their behalf in front of the council. She demurs, knowing what’s going to happen. Even if she doesn’t want to be, she’s now implicated in anything the Landrys do because she sold them the mill. She finally admits this to Prosper — tha…