Queen Sugar Episode 1.01 First Things First

In the series premiere, directed by Ava DuVernay, Charley (Dawn-Lyen Gardner, "Unforgettable"), a savvy wife with an upscale Los Angeles lifestyle, who manages her husband's professional basketball career, returns to her family home, an 800-acre sugarcane farm in the heart of Louisiana, after her father suffers a stroke and she receives alarming news about her husband.

In Louisiana, she reunites with her estranged siblings: Nova (Rutina Wesley, "True Blood"), a worldly-wise journalist and activist; and Ralph Angel (KofiSiriboe, "Awkward"), a formerly incarcerated young father in search of redemption. Together, they must navigate the triumphs and struggles of their complicated lives in order to run an ailing farm in the Deep South.