magesh may be a “good” man but it’s only because jonasi is worse, and that’s why a lot of men rush to defend him. he’s a liar, coward, enabler and manipulator with no real morals but his sins are more passive than jonasi’s active evil so he’s “not that bad”
you’re weird if you’re “traumatised” by seeing Celeste bent over in a sex scene. news flash, “older” women, have sex. fat women, have sex. bo “auntie Celeste” ,have sex. hope that helps.
SA and Nigerian male tik tokers LOVE drag.
There needs to be an African drag convo about this form of drag ‘queenery’.
It unamusing to me because usually it uses sexist caricature
I don’t find the “Jonasi was misunderstood” jokes/takes funny because Jonasi was raping and abusing his wives. Jonasi wasn’t just a womaniser, he was an abuser.
I’m so glad that class act happened before the number of followers determined who gets roles. We wouldn’t have know abo Sdumo Mtshali, what an actor man!!! #ThePolygamistNetflix
The Polygamist on Netflix is not a show about a man with many women. It’s a show about what happens to women when they organise their entire lives around one undeserving man.
Magesh yena is the show’s quiet thesis statement. A man who watched everything, enabled most of it and only chose otherwise when the harm became impossible to ignore.
He is every man who considers himself “one of the good ones” while covering for the bad one.
No gun violence, no business family feud just brilliance. And maybe because it’s based on a book but South Africans rarely have such good television.
More of this, please
What I loved about #ThePolygamist is that it highlighted the realities people live with every day but rarely talk about openly. GBV, STIs, complex family dynamics, relationships, & the consequences of our choices were all woven into the story without feeling preachy.