Season 1 • Episode 13
LatestWith the final bits of the story ready to air, Adri faces a big decision. Meanwhile, Daniël has his own plan about who should hear the full truth.
Adri Joubert has been the cool, calm, reassuring face and voice of the evening news for two decades. But then her husband is murdered, and her life becomes news as a national crisis shakes the country. She is forced to put aside her personal trauma to guide viewers through the state of emergency from behind a red-hot news desk.
Acting
Rolanda Marais delivers career-best compartmentalization.
Direction
Jeynes and Cassuto weaponize the news format itself.
Writing
Adri's scripts become her real confessions.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rolanda Marais shadowed actual SABC news anchors for three months, including practicing teleprompter reads while listening to fake traumatic headlines.
The fictional 'state of emergency' deliberately echoes South Africa's 1985-90 State of Emergency, with Jeynes noting the series asks 'what if apartheid's tools were inherited by chaos instead?'
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