If you like high school dramas with an exciting blend of crime, plotting, money, and simple youthful enthusiasm, this one is for you. Then you should watch Blood & Water, a South African teen drama series available on Netflix. The second season of the groundbreaking drama was finally published in September 2021 after being delayed by the epidemic. After a long hiatus (more than a year), the streamer has announced that Puleng Khumalo (Ama Qamata) and the rather spoilt privileged kids of Parkhurst High will return to our screens on November 25. Puleng and her lost-and-found-sister Fikile Bhele aka Fiks (Khosi Ngema) have been at the centre of a lot of drama since Netflix released a teaser for the upcoming season of one of its most-watched original programmes in Africa.
As Parkhurst High School principal Nicole Daniels (Sandi Schultz) welcomes the students back for another school year, the movie switches to the “cooler kids” of the school getting back together. In a conversation with Karabo ‘KB’ Molapo (Thabang Molaba), Reece Van Rensburg (Gretel Fincham), and Fikile, Chris Ackerman (Aro Greeff) declares, “So no flaking this year.” “Don’t flake!” The foursome chuckles at hearing Van Rensburg’s response. That assurance cannot be trusted. Puleng invites her cousin “Lunga” to the group, but Chris is typically unwelcoming, as is his Ackerman nature. Siya (Odwa Gwanya), the younger brother of Puleng and, by extension, Fikele, seems to have tangled with someone far larger than him.
To what extent Siya is featured more prominently than in the previous two seasons remains to be seen. In the midst of it all, Fikile is now accepting her situation and making efforts to get to know her biological parents. Thandeka Khumalo (Gail Mabalane), Fiks’ real mother, tells her that she is Zulu as her adopted father, Brian Bhele (Patrick Mofokeng), watches. Towards the end of the film, Ackerman and the foursome decide to organise a party, at which they excel. KB is overheard praising the perseverance of hardy people, and it appears that Van Rensburg has not yet given up her drug trafficking ways. Fikile and Puleng maybe still have to adjust to their new life and all the changes that have occurred, and the police are close by, as has been the case with the students of Parkhurst High recently.
It remains to be seen how Fikile copes with the flood of emotions she feels after learning that the mother she had always known, Nwabisa Bhele (Xolile Tshabalala), was arrested at the conclusion of season two for trafficking her. Also, keep in mind that the problem of a child trafficking ring still exists. The third instalment of Blood & Water is scheduled to hit Netflix on November 25. The portal also provides access to the previously aired seasons.