Diablog: May Sinner’s Roundup

Gemma: So what’s been on your watching plate lately?
Rasha: Well, I’ve been working on a lot of longer writing projects, as you know, and then just needing to clear a lot of other work, so TV’s been on in the background. I binge-watched Queen Sugar while revising my chapter. I recommend it.
G: Yes, so did my sister. It’s on my summer list. What makes you recommend it?
R: I would chat it with you. I love that the relationships among 3 siblings form the emotional core of the series, and it doesn’t hurt that the farm they inherited from their father is the central engine of plot. I am susceptible to farm stories. I love Cousin Tara, so I was always going to watch this show. I think you’d like that each character gets moments of triumph, and moments where their judgment is severely called into question.
G: Ooh, I do like those things. I am not susceptible to farm stories, but I am def susceptible to interfamilial shifts and tensions, and I love it when no one is righteous.
R: No one is perfectly righteous. They all get called out, and they are all glorious, you still cheer for them.

G: Awesome! Definitely on my summer list, then. In fact, it is my literal favorite thing when no one is righteous, now that I think about it. To the point where I think it’s kind of bleak that that has to be a favorite thing.