Queen Sono made its debut last week Friday on Netflix and the response has been nothing short of phenomenal. Making their voices heard on social media, the record-breaking crowd who watched the first episode of the six-part series had nothing but praise for the trail-blazing show.
Queen Sono is the first-ever Netflix-commissioned African series, and its been receiving international attention since it first aired.
The series, in a nutshell, follows a highly trained South African spy, played by Thusi, who takes on her most dangerous mission yet while facing changing relationships in her personal life.
Thusi has been posting viewership figures on her Twitter account and in amongst the Twitter feed was a post by one of her fans saying that he was going to download the series. This led her to plead with him, and everyone else, to not pirate the series. Her reply read, “Babe please don’t pirate our show. We worked so hard on it and the numbers via the platform itself will help the success of the show and other shows out of Africa on Netflix.”
Babe please don’t pirate our show. We worked so hard on it and the numbers via the platform itself will help the success of the show and other shows out of Africa on Netflix. ?? https://t.co/Y6C68KOgh1
— #QueenSono (@PearlThusi) March 2, 2020
Praise has been forthcoming not only for Thusi but for other local actors Chi Mhende, Mbali Mlotshwa and Loyiso Madinga and of course director and executive producer Kagiso Lediga.
The series was shot in 37 different locations with an all-African cast and crew, a variety of languages are interspersed with English throughout the six episodes, including Afrikaans, isiXhosa and Swahili.
Fans are already asking for a second season.
