‘DAM’: Showmax Thriller Has Shades Of ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ & Is Helming South Africa’s Production Revolution

GLOBAL BREAKOUTS Showmax Thriller 'DAM' Has Shades Of ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ & Is Helming South Africa’s Production Revolution

There has been a quiet revolution in South African production over the last few years. In part triggered by Netflix’s entrance into the originals market in 2020, quality has been rising across the board and ambitions growing as more international shoots arrive on the country’s shores.

Season 2 is set three months after the culmination of the first run and explores Yola’s mental state after she returns from the funeral, as she is forced to put the missing pieces together and discovers “diamonds, mass graves and monsters surfacing in the dam.”Among the returning cast were Dladla and Loring, who won a SAFTA for her role as Yola’s conflicted sister, Sienna, in season one.

Locally, the show has been lauded for breaking the mould of South African TV, with its diverse cast, intricate storytelling and unique creative viewpoint. Showrunner Yazbek tells Deadline his vision was to include actors and crew from all parts of a local entertainment market that can be quite disparate, where white-, black- and Afrikaans-led shows and films tend to adhere to certain stereotypes. He desired a melting pot.

A student of South African literature, Yazbek wanted to mould all of those elements within a central idea to the country’s spiritual history: The ghosts of your past are always with you. “It’s the idea that if things aren’t going right, you haven’t done right by your ancestors,” he explains. “It’s an excellent idea that speaks to our mythology, religion and TV genres I love like horror and psychological thriller.

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