Ava DuVernay's Poetic 'Queen Sugar' Series Finale Emphasizes the Eternal Nature of Family

After seven seasons, the Bordelon family journey is coming to an end. “Queen Sugar” ended Tuesday night with a poetic series finale centered on the importance of family – in all its forms.

Series creator Ava DuVernay wrote the finale, titled "For They Existed", and returned to the director's chair for the first time since the pilot and second episode helm. (Note: the remaining 85 episodes were directed exclusively by other filmmakers, 41 of them to be exact.)

In the cover of Variety's Power of Women celebrating the legacy of the series, the Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated filmmaker said she was "euphoric" about finishing the series as director and insisted she was "completely satisfied" with the farewell ode.

""Queen Sugar" is the longest engagement I've ever had - and we let's talk about relationships too – and I tried my best every day,” DuVernay explained, sitting alongside executive producer Oprah Winfrey. “At the end of the day, there was no sadness; I was so happy, so proud. It was such a deep satisfaction that I had never felt before. »

Winfrey chimed in to explain why it was a good time to say goodbye: "He didn't never got to a point where people were like, 'Oh, they should have quit two seasons ago…'”

And after watching the giant 90-minute episode, it's easy to see why the pair felt so well satisfied to let the Bordelon family - led by siblings Nova (Rutina Wesley), Ralph Angel (Kofi Siriboe) and Charley (Dawn-Lyen Gardner) - "take flight" one last time.

Will Ralph Angel tell Blue (Ethan Hutchinson) the truth about his biological father against Darla's (Bianca Lawson) wishes? Will Violet (Tina Lifford) and Hollywood (Omar J. Dorsey) start welcoming another child (or children) — and will he win the school board election? Speaking of elections, does Charley win her congressional bid? Will Micah (Nicholas L. Ashe) start acting right after he jeopardizes his campaign with his reckless NFT describing the moment she confronted husband Davis in the middle of an NBA game? ("What have you done?" she cried.) Will Nova find new, true love now that Dominic is no longer in the picture? And above all, do the Bordelons recover their dad's land? (After all...hasn't this fight been the heart of the story for the past seven years?)

DuVernay answered some of these questions quickly - the opening scene reveals that Hollywood has become "St. Joe's Newest, Darkest, Most Handsome School Board Member" – and shockingly others. In a twist, Charley loses the election, but she and Micah reconnect and find a common ground before he left Xavier to take a job at L.E.A.P. (a connection to DuVernay and Array's real-life social justice initiative).