Are You Ready for the Truth?: White Lies crime series on M-Net
Friday, March 08, 2024 | 430 Views |
Are You Ready for the Truth?: White Lies crime series on M-Net
She is rapidly pulled into the nightmarish aftermath, when she’s reunited with her orphaned teenage niece and nephew in the most difficult of circumstances. As Edie hunts for the killer across the complicated, beautiful city of Cape Town, she crosses from the leafy Southern Suburbs of white privilege to the poverty-ravaged badlands and back again, discovering that evil knows no boundaries - and it doesn’t discriminate.
The story dissects an inward-looking, affluent community, structured around a very personal psychological and emotional journey, in the vein of bingeable shows like Big Little Lies and Sharp Objects. White Lies is at once a gripping mystery, a complex family drama and a searing examination of a deeply divided society struggling to reckon with the sins of its past.
It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...