Something Different for Halloween: Dead Places (Sundance Channel)
Set in South Africa’s beautiful Mother City Cape Town and Johannesburg, Dead Places is Africa’s own X-files with its unique twists and turns.
This 43 minute each, 8-episode African Monster of the week show will leave you tantalised, at least it did for us!
Unbeknown to both Will and Kelly, they are connected more deeply. This will reveal itself as the series reaches its climax.
The paranormal team is quickly assembled, Will, the confident, self-assured author riddled by the guilt from his sister’s death, Kelly, the beautiful young, social-media savvy millennial who is haunted by her own trauma and Joe (Rea Rangaka) the ex-cop who drinks, and smokes more than he should, is impulsive, witty, street-smart on the surface, yet complex who is also dealing with his own personal ghosts and inner demons....
Each story is original, unique, and rooted in African folklore, mythology, real and imagined monsters.
The Series exposes that ghosts and monsters lurking in the dark are often the least of our worries, real evil and danger is often found in everyday ordinary people.
https://www.afrikaiswoke.com/dead-places-netflixs-riveting-monster-of-the-week-series/