With a corrupt public office holder to battle and vengeance to seek, she’s for the most part too passive for what a fuelled-up Ntsiki should be, considering new revelations about herself. I’m really going to make this spoiler free, which we’ll achieve together.Īlready filled with rage due to a hinted past, the added tragedy that she suffers does not increase her rage by much. The problem is, with our lead character, so much is taken from her in the first episode to make a viewer want to invest their time in the rest of her troubled life.

She is a fearless, quirky teenager with so much rage in her to have been involved in a past of crime. In this community, we have our lead character Ntsiki (Sthandile Nkosi) who lives with her family. The residents of Ilanga face the threat of eviction due to the construction of a casino on their rural land area. It makes one wonder if and how much was gone on the cutting floor. However, the 6-episode series fails to cover the depth that the story should be going for in non-hour long episodes that’s accustomed to Netflix drama series. The Brave Ones starts off with a brief exposition of the lore behind the supernatural foundations of the series.

‘Ludik’ Review: Gripping South African Crime Drama with More Bark Than Bite All of these ingredients prove to be too much for a series whose episodes are mostly a quarter shy of the hour mark. It involves a group of elders, the mother of a dying child, a non-conforming character, underprivileged residents, an unrelenting construction company and corrupt government officials. Stirring the plot are the several interested parties who are unknowingly stimulating the arrival of the supernatural being and those hoping to use the powers of this being referred to as the brave one. Based on his original idea and helming the directorial effort of the first episode, The Brave Ones thrusts viewers in the centre of a government vs indigenes land drama, battle against modernity, and the anticipation of the reborn of a supernatural being that will fulfill a prophecy. Coming off his sports drama, Rise, on Disney+, South African-based Nigerian filmmaker Akin Omotoso follows with a 6-episode fantasy series on Netflix.

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