Netflix went live in South Africa on 6 January 2016. The arrival of the subscription-based content streaming service was a game changer for the country’s film and television industry, as it had been for other countries.
At about the same time – in 2015 and 2016 – there was another turning point for South Africa’s film industry: the arrival of a new, commercially successful genre, the black romantic comedy.
For the first time, the country’s black filmmakers were able to make an impact at the box office – and go on to licence their films to streaming platforms.
In South Africa, Netflix signalled the turn to streaming for watching films and television series. Despite a recent slowing of subscriber growth, Netflix has over 200 million paid subscribers worldwide. These numbers – and the way streaming services are reshaping content production, distribution and consumption – represent the most radical change in the film industry in recent years.
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FIREFLY LANE (L to R) KATHERINE HEIGL as TULLY and SARAH CHALKE as KATE in episode 107 of FIREFLY LANE. Cr. COURTESY OF NETFLIX © 2020
Netflix’s
Firefly Lane is a story about best friends. But, like fellow time-hopping drama
This Is Us, it’s also a show about tragedy and television’s ability to tease out that tragedy over an entire season.
Firefly Lane’s second episode, “Oh! Sweet Something,” is the first episode to signal death is ahead for heroines Kate Mularkey (Sarah Chalke) and Tully Hart (Katherine Heigl). The chapter ends with a two-year time jump. In the future, Kate and her teenage daughter Marah (Yael Yurman) look mournfully over the edge of their backyard while wearing outfits fit for a funeral. Both women appear to talk about Tully in the past tense. “I miss her,” Marah laments. “I miss her too,” Kate
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Netflix s
Firefly Lane is based on a book of the same name by Kristin Hannah, and the series is proving to be just as dramatic and addicting as the original novel. Following two unlikely friends, glamorous talk show host Tully and a back-in-the-workforce housewife named Kate, the show presents a friendship that s full of ups and downs, traversing love, kids, careers, and death, too. By the second episode of the time-hopping drama series, we see Kate and her daughter Marah in the future talking about how much they miss Tully, dressed in head-to-toe black as if for a funeral the question is, whose is it?
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