South African TV is
rarely original. Often, you can watch a plot play out on three different shows
in three different languages with three different characters. The resolution is
usually the same. This is frustrating but it’s hardly anything new.
As a woman, as a
feminist, it’s often hard to consume TV on surface levels because real life is
really real* and putting it on screen as entertainment always blurs lines. (I
enjoy Law & Order: SVU with the rest of the cult fans but it’s still
triggering viewing.) Lately I’ve noticed a hardly-new way to tell stories crop
up again in daily and weekly TV shows: girls and women being preyed upon.
