Fatal Seduction volume 2 picks up after the events of the first part of this sensational drama involving lies, lust, and lethal twists.
Story
Jacob seeks revenge and makes Zinhle his target, taking her virginity as part of his revenge quest. Nandi confesses to Leonard about her affair with Jacob.
Leonard gets a letter threatening him with the truth about the Jiba case. He gets a heart attack and is hospitalized. Vuyo tells Nandi shocking things about Leonard. Meanwhile, Zinhle learns about Jacob and Nandi’s affair.
A man confesses to the police after getting caught that Leonard hired him to wipe out evidence incriminating him in Brenda’s murder. That, and other evidential discoveries lead to Leonard’s arrest as he recovers from his coma.
However, his condition worsens for reasons unknown as Vuyo extends help, liquidating Leonard’s assets and breaking him out of the hospital to keep him in a hideout.
Leonard later goes to take Nandi with her but amid his hysterics and gun-swinging, Zinhle impales him with a sword.
Nandi takes the blame and is arrested. Meanwhile, Vuyo, who learned that Zinhle is actually his daughter, seeks revenge on Nandi, planting evidence against her that makes her supposed attack on Leonard look like premeditated murder.
As she is denied bail and sent to prison, Vuyo reveals to her that he played her and Leonard, along with just about everyone else, all in the quest to get his revenge for Brenda, Benjamin Jiba, and himself.
Fatal Seduction volume 2 ends with Leonard in a critical yet stable condition, Nandi in prison, Jacob out of town, and Vuyo living with Zinhle and enjoying life until the Minister who forced Leonard to frame Jiba threatens Vuyo in a similar vein.
Performances
Ngele Ramulondi gets to do more this time around and her response to the series of absurd revelations about her seemingly perfect parents is really believable and effective. Her sorrow and guilt almost feel suffocating.
Most other actors are dealing with more or less the same kind of range and subject matter they’ve already dabbled in before and it’s a rather underwhelming aspect, to say the least. Thapelo Mokoena does try new stuff with Leonard’s complete breakdown, though.
Positives
Most of the positives in Fatal Seduction come about largely due to the creative intentions and decisions that are never made. It’s the unintentional moment of ridiculousness that evokes laughs and amusement.
That said, it’s not like the show strictly falls under the “so bad it’s good” genre of films and TV shows. There are some legitimate moments of commendable twists and turns that make the affair quite riveting.
The show takes the “everyone has a shade of grey to them” philosophy and builds on it till the foundations begin to quake. In this morally grey sludge, the aspects that deserve the most praise include the frenetic pace, the bold decisions, and possibly even self-aware moments.
Negatives
The degree to which all the characters in this soap-operatic affair are prone to miscommunication is incredibly hilarious but also tends to get grating at times when the unintentional humor doesn’t land as well.
The plot thus far has only focused and revolved around the primary ensemble while one who’s supposed to be the big bad antagonist only gets revealed in kinky glimpses at the very end. This deprives the show of better commentary.
While the show pans the wealthy and their lustful endeavors that care not what and how many underprivileged get trampled on the way, the Minister storyline would provide a much better chance to flesh and articulate these ideas.
Verdict
Fatal Seduction volume 2 takes what it did in volume 1 and cranks its intensity to an eleven, managing to somehow make it more engaging than boring.
As an installment sure to divide the viewers, the show wraps its first season going all-out with the twists and turns, hammering away at its messages about humans’ morally gray shade.
It does it through unintentionally hilarious lack of communication between the characters and abrupt shocking reveals, which either land or fly away like a deflating balloon.
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