There is a good cast in this series but going by just the first episode, there is nothing compelling here. Queen is the story about Easter, the illegitimate daughter of James Jackson, III and her lifelong affair with plantation owner Tim Daly, which would result. The less said about the script the better. All I saw was people in bad wigs, there was bad facial hair and the acting was on the hammy side. Television had moved on by 1993 and the story of Queen was derivative and had nothing new to say. Although having some of the same producers as Roots. The older Queen (Halle Berry) is left in a vulnerable position. When the civil war breaks out, Jackson goes to fight. Jackson does not acknowledge his mulatto daughter Queen but when Lizzie is pregnant, he takes in the young Queen in his household, to be a servant and playmate for his own child with Lizzie. It tells the life story of a young woman and it shows the problems. He is married to Lizzie (Patricia Clarkson) not for love but because it is a good match. Alex Haleys Queen was directed by John Erman, and stars Halle Berry in the title role. It brought back to the consciousness of many white Americans the plight of the children of the plantation : the offspring of black slave women and their white masters, who were legally the property of their fathers. A plantation owners son falls in love with a slave named Easter and together they have a Biracial daughter named Queen. It shows her as she grows up on the Jackson plantation, while the Civil War is gearing up. Queen: The Story of an American Family is a 1993 partly factual historical novel by Alex Haley and David Stevens. Her mother is a slave and her father is a plantation owner. Easter is a black slave in the Jackson plantation in Alabama who is lusted by James Jackson Jr. Alex Haley’s Queen Queen is a three part ministries that depicts the life of a slave, who is half white and half black. Queen was Alex Haley's grandmother, the product of a white slave owner of Irish ancestry. Queen is based on the story of his father's ancestry. When Queen was published and made into a television series, Haley had died and his reputation had suffered for some alleged embellishment of his Roots story. Alex Haley's Roots was a landmark and compelling drama that looked at the author's ancestry from his mothers side.

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