7de Laan is an award winning South African 30 minute soap opera, airing on SABC 2, Mondays – Fridays, 18:30 to 19:00. The show follows the life and sorrows of people living in a small community in Johannesburg. Like all soapies the story lines all seem a little too familiar, but after years and years on television you can’t really expect anything else. Characters come and go from time to time but at least they haven’t brought anyone back from the dead…yet.
Being Human is a series (based on another series of the same name but from the UK) that centers around two (lets say 3) roommates but the one is a vampire, the second a werewolf and the third is a ghost that can’t move on. Now the whole werewolf-vampire thing has been done to death but somehow making them friends that share a house with an emotional ghost saves this series from the hundreds of dreadful fantasy based series that get cancelled long before they even finish airing an entire season. At the end of the series the werewolf impregnates his girlfriend and infects her with the dreaded I’m-also-gonna-turn-into-a-wolf-thing-come-full-moon-virus and the vampire gets appointed as head of his vamp-family in the city and the ghost misses her door out of the land of the living. With all the action packed up and downs I’m sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for season 2. So, what happens next? Ester PienaarThis is a series based on bullshit, yes, bullshit. Penn & Teller spends their 25 odd minutes per episode declaring most things in our society as being bullshit. This show isn’t meant to be taken seriously but every now and then you have to think to yourself : ‘yes, I can see why that could be bullshit’. They cover topics from hypnosis to bottled water, from anger management to prostitution, from ghost busters to psychics and astrology. You name it and they’ve probably had a go at it and declared it to be bullshit. One las time, all together now, this is all Bullshit. So, what happens next? Ester PienaarJill of all trades, master of none. Bones is a television series centered on a forensic anthropologist working with a FBI agent to solve crimes. Every season has a main theme or story line that it explores, usually character driven, and season 6 is no different. This series ends on a high note with Angela and Hodges becoming parents to a baby boy and Dr. Brennan (Bones) declaring that she is pregnant and that Booth is the father. It is evident that Bones is apprehensive until Booth clearly shows that he is overjoyed at the prospect of becoming a father again. So, what happens next? Ester PienaarJill of all trades, master of none. |
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