STREAMING GIANT NETFLIX WILL keep its date with the holidays with a much-anticipated Season 2 sequel to the original hit African series, How To Ruin Christmas. Reprising her role as Beauty Sello is South African actor and radio DJ, Thando Thabethe, who was also FORBES AFRICA’s 30 Under 30 list-maker in 2019. This year too, the series comes with its share of high jinks but also with a funeral thrown in for good measure.
In an interview with FORBES AFRICA, Thabethe reveals more about the plot, and how it will be different from the first series, which centred around a wedding. “There’s a lot of difference but there’s also a lot of the same, I mean, it’s still How To Ruin Christmas. So still a lot of drama with regards to family,” Thabethe says. “My character is now married. And so she sees a whole different obstacle in this season. The season also [is a] sort of redemption for her. She seems like the one who is always ruining Christmas.
But I think we find that in this season, even though we still blame her, it’s not really her fault. I am trying to not say too much,” Thabethe laughs about the comedy that has since Season 1 played on key themes such as family, tradition and modernity in the South African context.
“I think the one thing about this show that makes it so different is in as much as it’s a comedy, it’s sort of rooted in truth and rooted in drama,” Thabethe says. “Because people are multifaceted. We are many things that I think this one show [portrays]. We are not slapstick comedy but what this show does is that you can laugh at your own pain and laugh at your own hurt. And I think with the difficult times the whole world is going through right now, [in] this season, we’ll hit a nerve. But in a good way.”