A day in the life of a journalist in New York City isn’t hard work. Let me keep it 100 percent. It’s fun. We screen new projects, eat amazing food and meet celebrities, and we get to ask them the fun questions about their lives and their characters.

Keeping it truthful from start to finish, I’ve just become a fan of OWN’s “Queen Sugar,” and based on screening a single episode, which I’ve watched four times, I will plan my upcoming holiday weekend in full-tilt binge mode.

“Queen Sugar” is the top new cable series among all women (2016), and OWN has renewed for a second season.

“Queen Sugar” is created by award-winning filmmaker Ava DuVernay and inspired by the book written by Natalie Baszile, starring Rutina Wesley, Dawn-Lyen Gardner, Kofi Siriboe, Tina Lifford, Omar Dorsey, Nicholas L. Ashe, Timon Kyle-Durrett and Dondre Whitfield.

“Queen Sugar” chronicles the lives and loves of the estranged Bordelon siblings in Saint Josephine, La.: Nova (Wesley, “True Blood”), a world-wise journalist and activist; Charley (Gardner, “Luke Cage”), the savvy wife and manager of a professional basketball star; and Ralph Angel (Siriboe, “Awkward”), a formerly incarcerated young father in search of redemption. After a family tragedy, the Bordelons must navigate the triumphs and struggles of their complicated lives to run an ailing sugarcane farm in the Deep South.

The recurring theme, as evidenced by the questions from a mob of bloggers and journalists who were die-hard fans, was how the love of the Bordelon family was something we—as a culture—understand.

We all seem to have someone in our family group just like the rich characters who have made following the Bordelon family so important.

It’s also interesting to note that DuVernay assembled a predominantly Black writer’s room and she picked an all-female slate of directors to helm the show’s first season.

When asked why she chose women directors to bring life to the first season, DuVernay said that her main goal was to hire “dope directors” because she knew firsthand that it was difficult for even the most accomplished female filmmakers to break into episodic television.

“Queen Sugar” is the top new cable series among all women in 2016. It is broadcast Wednesdays at 10 p.m., ET/PT, on OWN.