Yoh! Christmas follows Thando, a 30-year-old single woman who lies to her family about having a boyfriend. Now she must bring one home by Christmas. The series is currently streaming on Netflix.
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Plot summary
Thando has had enough of her mom nagging her about getting into a relationship. Meanwhile, the thirty-year-old and single Thando is tapped to work Christmas Eve.
At her best friend Charles’ advice, she goes to a Singles’ mixer and has a really difficult time contending with the awful bunch of singles there.
She later tries a dating app and that leads to her going on a date with Bheki, a man very insecure about his short height. After that date ends in a disaster, a candid picture of hers gathers a lot of likes and a celebrity named Xolani slides into her DMs.
In the meantime, she gets into a passionate sexual relationship with a 19-year-old Motheo.
It’s nothing beyond that, though, as she tries giving a much older Victor a chance, but that also ends horribly when she learns Victor might have more chemistry with her mother than herself.
Her experience with Xolani also goes poorly. At a work party, she confides her woes in Ben, and the two realize they have much in common.
Later, Sifiso, Thando’s ex-boyfriend who she passionately avoids, crashes the holiday gathering with his family. Charles and Minnie later help her collect herself.
Later, she spots her father having an affair with another woman. She reels from family secrets as she comes to learn a lot about her parents and their struggling marriage.
At work, Ben finally confesses, and before Yoh! Christmas rolls the credits, and Thando reveals her surprise to her family over dinner.
Ending explained:
The hunt for the boyfriend
Thando lies to her family that she has a boyfriend, after being so over their nagging and pressure to have one. Now she must bring one home at Christmas, which is 24 days away.
She has to try out the dating scene to make that possible, and her best friend Charles helps her greatly. However, she only comes across problematic suitors.
Bheki is a short man who is insecure about his height. Xolani is overtly concerned with his PR and public image as a celebrity. Victor is too old, and Motheo is too young.
Ben seems to be an outlier, a doctor working at the same hospital as hers with a visibly kind heart and even tastes in movies strikingly similar to hers.
He finally confesses his love to Thando but a medical emergency cuts that confession short. At the end of Yoh! Christmas, she has learned to love herself instead of bending to the pressure and expectations of others regarding her love life.
She does open the door to an uninvited guest and is shocked to see them, but the identity of this person is not revealed, and unlike the relationship status of Thando, it is kept ambiguous.
The family secret shakeups
Thando is so preoccupied with her dating woes that she starts ignoring what people close to her are going through.
Charles is affected by his job and wants to vent and share as Thando does, but she just doesn’t have any time to take a break from her own therapy sessions.
As a result, Charles gets upset and distances himself. Later, she learns that her father is cheating and says a lot of awful things to him without listening to what he has to say.
Her brother later tells her that their parents are going through the roughest patch in their marriage and that her father is seeing another woman with his wife knowing about it and allowing him.
She later apologizes to Charles and her father, reconciling with both of them. Meanwhile, she also stumbles upon Charles and her sister Minnie sleeping with each other.
In the finale of Yoh! Christmas, Thando learns that Minnie’s husband has been cheating on her with a woman he’s also gotten pregnant.
Thando realizes her errors and later bonds with them at the Christmas dinner gathering.
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