Queen Sugar Recap: A Little Lower Than Angels

Queen Sugar / Season 3, Episode 5 / OWN This is a big, beautiful episode from writer Chloé Hung, directed by Shaz Bennett. Ice Cold. We begin with Darla and Blue coming back from the field trip to the aquarium that she wanted to chaperone. Blue still doesn’t understand that his parents are split up now, and there’s not going to be a wedding, and Darla sends a text to Ralph Angel saying they need to tell him. In the meantime, Blue’s spending the night with Violet and Hollywood, who haven’t seen Darla since she returned to St. Josephine. While you may consider the heat in Louisiana stifling, it would seem Darla supplies her own air conditioning since folks are so cold to her when she arrives to drop off Blue. Vi refuses to even acknowledge her as she greets her would-be great nephew and escorts him into the house. Taking her cue, Hollywood focuses his attention on fixing up the freezer truck they’ve procured for Vi’s pie deliveries. On the farm, Remy is still hanging around, as he’s had his students out there all week, showing them what an active, self-sustaining Black independently-owned farm looks like. (Spoiler: a unicorn. It looks like a unicorn.) Nova’s also still hanging around, all inspired and shit, working on her book proposal. Ralph Angel suggests she take a shower and stop dirtying up all his dishes; Remy suggests she put her laptop down and go fishing with him. Meanwhile, Micah is entertaining his new friends at home. They’re talking about what their next action sho…