After the untimely 2022 death of Busisiwe Lurayi , we were wondering how the popular South American Netflix series How To Ruin Christmas was going to continue. It turns out that, instead of staying with the same crazy families that the original series featured, the show’s creators shifted to new families and a new person whose suspicious and jealous nature ruins everything. Opening Shot: A romantic beach proposal, with a band, family and friends.
Then a woman, visibly angry, storms the scene with a Champagne glass in her hands. She throws the glass at the couple, then starts a massive, wig-grabbing fight. The Gist: Forty-eight hours earlier, Zoleka (Sivenathi Mabuya), an actress who plays a popular character on a first-season telenovela, wraps her last scene on the season finale.
Her character gets poisoned at her wedding. When her co-star tells her he’s seen some scripts for the second season, Zoleka is alarmed that she hasn’t seen any. When she confronts the showrunners about her contract for the second season, they are noncomittal.
It doesn’t exactly make for a celebratory time when her boyfriend Kagiso (Bohang Moeko) visits her on set. They’ve been dating for three years and they have plans, mainly buying a piece of land that overlooks Johannesburg and building a house for their future family. They decide to go for it, to take their savings and buy the land.
But first, Kagiso needs to meet Zoleka’s super-demanding father; a long-in-the-planning lunch has been .
