Ambitions is a TV drama series that premiered on June 18 2019, airing on OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network) at 10 P.M. eastern time. It has one season with 18 episodes, the show is created by Jamey Giddens and produced by Will Packer courtesy of the Will Packer productions and Lionsgate Television.
The show revolves around the lifes of the Carlisle,Lancaster and the Purifoys families.
Stephanie Carlisle (Robin Givens) is a formidable woman who believes in enacting her revenge where it hurts most. She’s married to Atlanta’s mayor Evan Lancaster (Brian J. White) and their marriage a’int the normal fairy tale we’d expect. Evan has several mistresses, Bella Tru (Erica Page) is one of them with whom they have a son together and a lot of drama. Their major fight is about the footballer star Bella is seeing, Roderick. Bella is a fashion designer who is insta famous, an has an E-Commerce store but wants ro grow her career and open a physical store with the help of Evan, he is not so fortcoming on this though. Evan and Stephanie have a daughter Carly who Stephanie finds out is gay and seeing their family long time Nemesis’s daughter Lori, her mother is not happy.
The Carlisle/Purifoy battle has existed for a long time but awakened when Stephanie’s sister, Tracy dies from an overdose by a drug produced by Purifoy Pharmaceuticals. Stephanie takes upon herself to file a $500,000 suit against the Purifoys whom General council is Stephanie’s long ago Lover Titus Hughes (Kendrick Cross) who recently moved to Atlanta from Birmnigham with his wife Amara hughes (Essence Atkins) who was a Sorority sister with Stephanie back in law school but hqve been beefing since Amara “stole” Titus from her . Amara is a US attorney with the Department of Justice and the case she’s working on is to dig up the Mayor’s dirt, this investigation brings up a lot other discoveries.
The reason for the Hughes move is Infidelity drama. Amara cheats on her husband with her colleague Daman Collins (Alexander Mulzac) who through Stephanie’s plot and blackmail is forced to move to Atlanta. This moves leads to a lot of tension between the Hughes who were just starting to build back their marriage.
Another key star is Rondell Lancaster (Brely Evan), who is Evan’s Sister. Another formidable woman who is determined to fight for her neighbourhood and especially her Mama’s Restaurant, Thelmas Place, against demolition from Greg Peters (Gino Anthony Pesi) construction company. This fight between the two spikes a lot in the show where the Carlisle are on Greg Peter’s side, and they don’t play clean in their ways of solving issues.
The show however good and intriguing as it is, unfortunately got cancelled and won’t be priemiering for a second season. The rumours were confirmed by one of the show’s cast Brian J White on his instagram page who is sad to see it cancelled but grateful to all who supported the show. He continues to say that the show opened may doors for him.
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