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The Haves and the Have Nots (sometimes referred to as Haves and Have Nots and abbreviated as HAHN) is an American crime drama and soap opera created, executive produced, written, and directed by Tyler Perry. The premise of the series is based on Perry's 2011 play of the same name. The Haves and the Have Nots premiered on May 28, 2013, and ran for 8 seasons on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), for a...

The Haves and the Have Nots (sometimes referred to as Haves and Have Nots and abbreviated as HAHN) is an American crime drama and soap opera created, executive produced, written, and directed by Tyler Perry. The premise of the series is based on Perry's 2011 play of the same name. The Haves and the Have Nots premiered on May 28, 2013, and ran for 8 seasons on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), for a total of 196 hour-long episodes. The series finale aired on Tuesday, July 20, 2021. As part of the show's finale, a two-part cast reunion special consisting of all The Have and Have Nots main characters in front of a live studio audience was televised, part 1 on July 27 and part 2 on August 3. The Haves and the Have Nots was ranked among the top 2 scripted cable series with a majority African American cast. The soap opera led the ratings for OWN programming throughout much of its series run. It averaged 2.8 million total viewers across its 196 episodes. During its highest rated years from 2014 to 2017, the program averaged more than 3.1 million viewers each year. It was reported in June 2021 that the program is the most-watched scripted cable series among African American women and households. The Haves and the Have Nots was the first scripted and first fictionalized television series to air on OWN. Amid struggles to keep her network afloat before debuting The Haves and the Have Nots, Oprah Winfrey was quoted in a 2012 interview as stating, “Had I known that it was this difficult, I might have done something else.” The success of The Haves and the Have Nots, however, opened the door to many other popular scripted dramas on Winfrey's network, including Queen Sugar and Greenleaf. Synopsis The series follows three families and their lifestyles as they struggle to coexist among one another in Savannah, Georgia: the rich, powerful, and locally very public Cryer and Harrington families (originally regarded as "The Haves") and the poor and destitute Young family (originally regarded as "The Have Nots"). The Young family is headed by Hanna, a single mother who works as the Cryer family's maid and also serves as the best friend and confidante of the lady of the house, Katheryn. Included as part of The Have Nots is another domestic worker, initially for the Cryer family and later for the local hospital, Celine Gonzales. The Haves and the Have Nots centers on the toxicity, conflicts, corruption, hardships and dysfunctional family relations similarly experienced between the underprivileged Young family and their well-to-do counterparts, who only ostensibly live the life of Riley. Drastically and destructively flawed character traits abound from both rich and poor, perpetually creating for multidimensional chaos, tension and calamity. Circumstances on the program are regularly resolved through wild acts of violence, sabotage, rape, framing, murder, arson and other criminal acts. While the Young family versus the Cryer and Harrington families originally lead polar opposite lifestyles in terms of social class, economics, social status, and surroundings, they are each similar in that they lead exceedingly toxic, dysfunctional lifestyles with broken family units. At the root of the turmoil are deeply wounded, complex backstories among all the characters that precede the existence of this television series. Habitual fraudulence is also at the root of the turmoil, in which mass amounts of wealth are regularly misappropriated back and forth between the show's main characters. As a result, there are repeated shifts in which characters are regarded as "the haves" and which are regarded as "the have nots," extended through the entire course of the series. Broadcast Characters The Youngs Crystal Fox as Hanna Young. Hanna is Benny and Candace's mother, and the Cryer's maid. She raised her two children as a single mother. Hanna is very deep, soulful, religious, nurturing and compassionate. Though when it comes to those who have done wrong by her, Hanna has taken to obscenities and an especially harsh, overreactive, rancorous, and even violent nature. Haggard and long-suffering, she often displays the effects of overwhelming stress, overwork, and worry in her behavior. Still, she is very much a trouper who takes to prayer, singing of gospel hymns, and recitation of Bible verses in place of complaining. Conscientious and assiduous, Hanna also displays a strong work ethic. Compounded with this, Hanna is trustworthy and reliable and can be confided in about anything; this has won her the respect of her superiors and a close bond with her boss Katheryn. Tika Sumpter as Candace Young. Candace is Hanna's estranged daughter, Benny's older half-sister, and one of Jim's multitude of mistresses turned ex-mistress and archenemy who's less than half his age. Candace is nowhere near as easily subjugated as the rest of Jim's ex-mistresses, such as Celine for one example. Candace is portrayed as a roguish, crafty jezebel; mischievous, flippant, saucy, presumptuous, and extremely nervy. Much to Jim's shock, it’s Candace who subjugates others—central throughout much of the program—through her many forms of manipulation; extortion; low blows; and dirt she's able to obtain on individuals. Tyler Lepley as Benjamin "Benny" Young. Benny is Hanna's son and Candace's half-brother. He operates a tow truck company. Benny has a tough demeanor and is overprotective. Benny is personable, dutiful, and hard-working. In comparison to his conniving sister, he is less prone to cause trouble for his mother. Still and all, Benny has proven to be particularly reckless, foolhardy and hardheaded, on numerous occasions landing himself into troubling circumstances much to his mother and sister's displeasure. He has unconditional love and care for his mother and sister, and is often caught in the middle of their acrimonious mother/daughter relationship, or lack thereof. Jordan Preston Carter as Quincy Delon "Q" Young Jr. (seasons 2–4, guest season 8). Candace and Quincy's mild-mannered son, Hanna's grandson and Benny's nephew. The Cryers John Schneider as James "Jim" Cryer. The take-charge, self-assured, demeaning, crooked, unethical and thoughtlessly destructive patriarch of the Cryer family, and a Savannah criminal courts judge who has his eyes set on becoming Governor of Georgia. A major reason for Jim's rising to where he's at professionally and socioeconomically is because of his wife Katheryn's family. Although a kind-hearted and sensitive man at heart, Jim's urges, vices, greed, and self-preservation often get the better of him and cause him to act rashly, disloyally, destructively inconsiderately, and even abusively as far as his rank and power. Given his position as a wealthy judge in high society, Jim has certain dirty measures at his disposal from which to gain the upper hand on anyone that crosses him, to which he's never above resorting to. Reneé Lawless as Katheryn Cryer (née Hargrave). Katheryn is Jim's deeply warm, sensitive, caring but passive-aggressive wife. Katheryn often displays her anger, hatred, bitterness, and stress in a suppressed but still very detectable fashion. She is filled with melancholy, rancor, and sullen indignation primarily as a result of the various trials and tribulations brought upon her as it relates to her family, particularly her cheating husband to which she regularly spews vitriol. Aaron O'Connell as Wyatt Cryer. Wyatt is the deeply troubled, one-track-mind, drug-addicted, unfeeling and brazen son of Jim and Katheryn. In the first episode, it's learned that Wyatt is so incorrigible in his vices that he's on his third stint in rehab for drug abuse and alcoholism. Despite his parents repeated efforts to get him help and rescue him from disaster, he shows no love for either of them nor anyone else in the program but his addictions. Jaclyn Betham as Amanda Cryer (Season 1). Amanda was Jim and Katheryn's naïve college-aged daughter who was friends with her father's mistress, Candace. Amanda has had issues with self-harm and suicide in the past, having engaged in cutting herself. It has been hinted in the series that the reasons for Amanda's battles with self-harm may stem from some traumatic sex abuse incident from her distant past, involving Wyatt and a priest. The Harringtons Peter Parros as David Harrington. David is the level-headed, grim, and gravelly-voiced husband of Veronica and father of Jeffrey, who often acts as a voice of reason. He is a judge and is also Jim's business partner and loyal friend, sometimes going along with Jim's misdeeds at the ire of others and at his own peril. Angela Robinson as Veronica Harrington, the wife turned ex-wife of David and mother of Jeffrey. Although appearing refined, composed, and classy, Veronica is actually an extremely no-holds-barred, vicious, cold, calculating, manipulative, and catty snob. She customarily delivered stinging barbs to receiving parties in either her trademarked cool, calm, collected manner or a plainly mocking, taunting manner. Whenever Veronica perceived herself as being crossed in the series, she orchestrated barbarically retaliatory measures through thugs and convicted felons while, in and of herself, bearing a facade of innocence, thus typically able to evade serious repercussions. During the show's original run, Veronica was advertised by OWN and various media outlets as "The Ice Queen." Very obdurate, Veronica more than proved to be set in her anti-gay and diabolic ways. It's later learned by the series end that the character was involved with a man (Jeffrey's biological father according to Veronica) who had come out of the closet during their relationship, providing backstory elements to her behaviors. Professionally, Veronica is portrayed as an insurmountable attorney with a knack for winning legal cases. Gavin Houston as Jeffery Harrington. Jeffery is David and Veronica's beleaguered, conflicted, ill-at-ease, dismissive and aloof son. He started out on the series as Wyatt Cryer's 24/7 substance abuse counselor in the Harrington family's drug rehabilitation program. Much to Wyatt's displeasure, Jeffery's counseling is full of preachy remarks, frequent urges for Wyatt to open up about his feelings and secret admiring. After being closeted throughout much of the first season, Jeffery spent much of the series being harassed himself by a conflicted, closeted, predatory officer named Justin. Much of the series also centers around Jeffrey regularly being persecuted by his anti-gay mother. The Malones Brett Davis as Mitchell "Mitch" Malone (Seasons 3–8; recurring season 2). Mitch is a friend of Benny, recruited to work at Benny's new tow truck business. Mitch is later revealed to be related to the Malone crime family but chooses to live a straight and narrow life, though seen as the outcast within his family as a result. After suspecting War as bad news and witnessing War sexually assault Candace at the tow yard, he protects her and Benny, by throwing War in jail, putting drugs in his car to make it look as if they were his. Oscar Torre as Vincent "Vinny" Malone (Seasons 5–8), Mitch's dour, tough-talking, negrophobic, murderous and authoritative uncle. Michael Galante as Sandy Malone (Seasons 5–8), Mitch's petulant, negrophobic brother, who has difficulty living up to his uncle's cruel expectations of him. He is also a domestically abusive stalker of his biracial ex-girlfriend and later love interest of Benny. John Kap as Salvador "Sal" Malone (Seasons 1–2, 5, 8), Mitch's cousin Derek Russo as Tony Malone (Seasons 4–5, 8), Mitch's cousin Cameron Radice as Sammy Malone (Season 4), Mitch's first brother Brandon Stacy as Zeek Malone (Season 5), Mitch's youngest cousin Chris Caldovino as Don Malone (Season 5), Mitch's fourth oldest cousin Stelio Savante as Dino Malone (Season 5), Mitch and Sandy's cousin John Emil D'Angela as D. Malone (Season 1), Mitch's third uncle Alessandro Folchitto as Al Malone (Seasons 1, 4 & 8), Mitch's se