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BLOOD & WATER

DRAMA / MYSTERY 

SOUTH AFRICA

2020-now

BLOOD & WATER is a South African teen crime drama television series developed by Gambit Films for Netflix starring Ama Qamata, Khosi Ngema and Gail Mabalane. BLOOD & WATER consists of 25 episodes of 53 minutes.

STORY: The series revolves around Puleng (Ama Qamata), a high school girl whose sister Phume was kidnapped as part of a human trafficking network shortly after birth. On the same day of Phume's birthday Puleng was invited to a party of Fikile Bhele (Khosi Ngema), a popular athlete studying at Parkhurst College, a prestigious school in Cape Town. After Wade (Dillon Windvogel), a new acquaintance points out their resemblance, Puleng starts to suspect that Fikile is Phume. She has lived in the shadow of her sister all her life so she decides to get to the bottom of things.

GAY COUPLE STORYLINE: Chris Ackerman (Arno Greeff) is a pansexual swimmer in Fikile's friend group. Mark Tedder (Duane Wiliams) is a love interest of Chris.

Chris Ackerman (Arno Greeff) & Duane Williams (Duane Williams)






ARNO GREEFF (2020-2021) March 14, 1995, Johannesburg, South Africa 






DUANE WILLIAMS (2020-2021) ?, Cape Town, South Africa

SPECIAL: As pedestrian as teen dramas may seem to the rest of the world, it is a refreshing change to have a South African drama that features teenagers and isn’t a public service announcement about HIV and Aids, alcohol abuse, teenage pregnancy and all the other societal ills the collective loves to moan about. Blood & Water also makes an effort to feature a gay character without centring that character’s story on the overt and sometimes latent homophobia they experience on a daily basis.

 

AWARDS:  ‘BLOOD & WATER’ 3 wins and 8 nominations.
6.5 IMDB