SHOWMAX SOAPS: HOT, FRESH & LOCAL
New year, new love! Slip into some dirty double-dealing drama with Showmax’s selection of local soapies.
Hmmm our horoscope tells us that 2019 is the year for experiencing passion and adventure… and for succumbing to a new obsession. No, wait, that was a TV guide! But we like where that was going, so we’ll be on Showmax searching for that certain something that gets our hearts racing. And in 2019, what would truly thrill us is to find a new soap to fall in love with. We might be a bit spoilt for choice already…
ISITHEMBISO
It’s young, it’s fun and Showmax already has over 400 episodes of Isithembiso (2017current) queued up and ready to run, with new episodes added just after Isithembiso’s weekday broadcasts on Mzansi Magic. If it sounds intimidating, remember that on Showmax there are no ad breaks, so each episode is just 22 minutes. Isithembiso was originally imagined as a telenovela based on the tale of Little Red Riding Hood-like Simi (Nandi Mbatha), a naive student from KZN being seduced by the Big, Bad Johannesburg-based Wolf Banzi (Hamilton Dlamini), until a brave, streetsmart Woodcutter-type named Zamani (Zamani Mbatha), who’s from a small-town in Limpopo, comes to her rescue. And since no fairytale is complete without an evil queen, we have Banzi’s trophy wife Claudia (Chichi Letswalo) who winds up ordering Banzi’s assassination after the family’s fortunes take a nose dive. With plenty of side- characters bringing in a comic touch, this is one bedtime story you will love curling up with.