These days, with so many different things to watch and ways to watch them, it can be hard for one thing to make an impact if it’s not, say, a six-episode HBO miniseries or the only new Netflix thing that everyone wants. ridicule. And then there is The Haves and the Have Nots, an original drama on OWN that will come to an end later this year after 196 episodes over the course of eight seasons. a lot of. Credit for the longevity of the show goes to creator Tyler Perry, who always rated the quantity higher than … you know, the other, although it isn’t The Haves and the Have Nots (which is a lumbering title) was an underdog series that no one has ever seen. As reported by Deadline, the series has an average of 3 million viewers and is ‘always’ ranked as one of the most watched cable shows for black women.
But that will soon all be a thing of the past, because once upon a time the show – that Sonia Saraiya a ‘Black Downton Abbey“ in a AV Club review eight years ago– returns from its mid-season in May and will air the final set of episodes in its eighth and final season. Oprah Winfrey, the OW in OWN, said the show’s success is entirely due to Perry’s “creativity and very vivid imagination,” with Deadline teasing that it will have a “finale that no one will see coming.” Exciting! But apparently not exciting enough for Perry and OWN to get to a whopping 200 episodes. It can’t be that hard to write four episodes of a TV show, can it? Come on, Perry!