Estrella Nouri

Max is surprised to find she wants to be more than just friends with her pastry school partner, Deke (recurring guest star ERIC ANDRÉ). Meanwhile, Caroline is “hot for teacher” — the married Chef Nicholas (recurring guest star GILLES MARINI).

Eric is informed that the network is interested in Drama's show; Ari attempts to fashion a new persona at work and at home; Turtle searches for new sources of funding; Vince tries to convince Sasha to turn down a high-paying offer.

In the series premiere, directed by award-winning filmmaker Ava DuVernay ("Selma"), Charley (Dawn-Lyen Gardner "Unforgettable"), a savvy wife and manager of a professional basketball star living an upscale Los Angeles lifestyle 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. There, she reunites with her estranged siblings Nova (Rutina Wesley "True Blood"), a world-wise journalist and activist, and Ralph Angel (Kofi Siriboe "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 New South.

The Bordelon siblings attempt to return to their everyday lives, as Ralph Angel (Kofi Siriboe) struggles to run the family farm amid setbacks. Charley (Dawn-Lyen Gardner) resumes managing her husband’s troubled professional basketball career and legal issues despite their strained relationship, and Nova (Rutina Wesley) seeks justice for a friend’s son who she believes to be wrongfully imprisoned, which gives rise to issues between her and Ralph Angel.

Nova (Rutina Wesley) and Charley (Dawn-Lyen Gardner) clash when Nova makes public comments about Charley’s marriage, and Ralph Angel (Kofi Siriboe) struggles to exit an illegal arrangement, which leads to issues at work. Charley and her husband Davis (Timon Kyle Durrett) form a united front to face his accuser, but things take an unexpected turn when she reveals shocking information about what really happened during the night in question.