7de Tronk wraps week one with a few twists turns, and naturally some crazy.
Day 4 & Day 5 Combined.
Let's recap the mad happenings inside
7de Tronk as it closes Week One in Cell Block 23 in nothing short of a crazy twist of events.
We pick up with Liefie and Miems confronting Vivian on whether she's really planning on escaping. I wonder if anything correctional gets done in this prison. It seems to be run by blind fools.
Naturally, Vivian denies this - and she's actually telling the truth. It seems that Viv isn't that stupid and deduces that the informant must have been Natalie. Of course it's her. It's always her!
Viv continues her rampage that she'll get revenge on Natalie just like she did on Bonita to her silent
extra sister inmate. She confesses that she lied about Daniel's death as revenge against Bonita.
It's official - Viv is the ruthless kind of crazy!
Bon-bon is the new Dora
Viv continues her crazy by wanting to use some saved faeces to put it in Natalie's food. Viv's revenge wastes zero time. However, Mands convinces her to try something more subtle and long term revenge-y.
Putting revenge to rest and putting on her SAFTA award-winning acting, Vivian pretends to comfort and be there for Bonita. Man, even the characters Vinette plays are eligible for the SAFTAs Best Actress Award.
What heart Viv? What heart?
We also see absolutely zero of her love interest Lips in Day 4 and 5. I wonder if she was a figment of her imagination?
Bonita collapses into Zombie mode in Day 4, but quickly turns up the crazy to delusional Bon-bon by the end of Day 4, upgrading very fast to pyscho in Day 5.
How many personalities does our Bon-bon have in Week 1 alone? - a circus truck of them apparently.
SAFTA Gods - you watching?
Mands and Bonita's BFF is further sealed when, during Miems' crocheting class, she expresses to Viv that she should see a doctor. I guess Amanda sees Bonita's instability - but Viv tells her to let it be.
If only they had visited
Dr. Alexa Welman the prison doctor, we wouldn't have to endure the levels of crazy we're getting from Bon-bon.
As long as it's not Dr. Alexa Welman
Amanda phones Justin to get more info on Daniel, but in true soapie fashion - no one asks if the child is dead or not. Amanda has a moment of weakness where she almost tells Justin she is expecting, but regains her senses.
It's kind of sad if you think about it, because these two would have made the perfect family. Except for the prison, and shootings, and murder, and blinding Lesedi etc. etc.
Sister Miems decides to drop the veil for a bit and old Emma - worried about her friend - tries to confront Bonita.
Naturally by Day 5 she's already delusional and she thinks Daniel is about to be born today. In her delusions, Daniel is being carried by Amanda. Miems does nothing when witnessing this crazy. Not even a straitjacket!
Mands knows something is up with Bon-bon when she continually addresses Jasmine as a "he" and pays way too much attention to
the pillow her unborn baby.
Forcing her to snap out of reality with the truth, Bonita momentarily realises Daniel is gone. This is what friendship should be about - snapping you out of delusions to harsh truths.
She even goes as far as being the concerned cellmate BFF by playing nice with Miems on advice for what best to do for Bon-bon.
The background cameos with Lissie and hubby are always the best.
I swear if we had a drinking game for everytime we saw a Lissie hubby cameo -
7de Tronk would be legit lit.
Why do you like stealing other people's children Bon-bon?!
After breaking a plate during breakfast, Bon-bon uses a piece to 'cut Daniel out of Amanda'. Clearly she has no patience and does not know how pregnancies work.
Then again, this is the same person who a week prior, thought a backyard bone marrow transfer in a shed by a silent doctor would save her son's life.
Can she just please leave other people's children alone.
Really Alexa, for years you pretended you were.
Speaking of which, let's see what's happening with Amanda's counterpart; the ever boring and righteous Dr. Alexa Welman.
Last time I pointed out that Alexa was not credited on the Hillside Clinic's Doctor board; but she clearly still is
the only doctor a doctor at the clinic.
It's like this line was written for all of us who for months before and when Fikani joined the clinic, believed Alexa to be the only doctor.
Enough of Hillside and back to
7de Tronk...
Natalie still has a bee in her bonnet to get Mariaan out of prison. Not because she cares, but because she wants that R250k.
The two continue to openly talk about their plans in the worst places - including loudly in their own room while Dora is sleeping.
Sister Miems, as usual, just waltzes into a room at the most inappropriate times and is it me, or does she never show her hands?
Is it a power thing or did Emma get gang initated in Cell Block 23?
I don't know how Sister Miems buys that nothing is going on with these two, as Mariaan's fake smile is clearly a dead giveaway that something is very wrong. Please don't do it again Mariaan. Ever.
Throughout the episode Natalie and Mariaan loudly discuss plans to break Mariaan out of jail. With zero consideration that Dora needs her beauty sleep.
Seriously though, something must be wrong with Dora - not mentally - she did poison her friends' tea; but she's always sleeping in every cell scene. Can someone get her a doctor to check if she's alive?
Apparently someone from Block A recently died, which means that Dora, who's sleeping on the biggest mattress in the world, is getting a new mattress.
I personally wouldn't want to sleep on the mattress of someone who died on it, and what exactly could be wrong with her mattress that it's comfortable to sleep on all day long?
Dora, is our explorer; and knows something's up here.
Okay Dora does ressurrect when it's time for Sister Miems' crocheting class, but again Natalie and Mariaan openly speak quite loudly about their plans to break Mariaan out - right in front of Dora.
I am waiting for Dora to one day reanimate and take revenge on these two, based on their stupidity alone.
Apparently Mariaan Welman is, Miems.
Remember when I thought she stayed up all night to knit her
EFF cap beanie? It turns out that Mariaan is actually terrible at crocheting and clearly found it in lost and found.
Natalie has the bright idea to then stuff Mariaan - because she's the smallest character ever - into Dora's old mattress when they swap it out.
However Viv picks up on Natalie and Mariaan's hush talking - well, they're not trying to hide it or anything - and with her silent cronies, confronts Mariaan on what exactly is going down.
Mariaan confesses to Viv what is going on exactly. Viv demands to be cut into the action and have her take over Mariaan's prison break escape.
When Mariaan takes her time getting back to instant Viv (two scenes), she fakes a beat up from Mariaan during a black out. Which lands Mariaan for her first appearance in The Hole.
How dumb is Liefie if she thinks scrawny Mariaan Welman can beat up the crazy bull that is Viv?
One day in The Hole seems to break Mariaan Welman, but through a phone conversation with Chris she finds out that Daniel is alive and eventually deduces that Vivian lied.
She threatens Viv, saying she'll tell crazy Bon-bon the truth and that Bonita will go crazy and have Viv's throat for the deception. This seems to do the trick and freaks the holier than crazy Viv into listening to Mariaan.
Seems like Mariaan's got her groove back!
Speaking of things Mariaan's got back; Amorey decides to visit Mariaan in jail to show some support to
her father Chris. The two finally reconcile and we finally put this year-long hate feud to rest.
I'm sure, when you finally escape Mariaan, you can try pole dancing.
Natalie slices up Dora's provincial sized mattress and Mariaan slips into it and hides. Hey, where's Dora sleeping now?
Miems and Liefie however can't tell the difference between what a mattress feels like and what one stuffed with a full sized convict weighs. This prison is like the My Little Pony of delusion.
Oh, speaking of Liefie, as predicted on Day 2 - she comes out and confesses her crush to Miems again. She's apparently in awe of Miems and she's the perfect lover for her now that she's getting paroled.
Miems, disgusted, turns her down - which doesn't seem to paint a pretty picture for Liefie. I'm guessing the bitterness is going to make her less Liefie and more Corporal Punishment to the fellow inmates. Never scorn a Warden Emma. Never.
Things definitely get crazy in Day 4 and 5 of 7de Tronk; where Viv starts looking like some of the saner inmates.
However, crazy Bonita wants to reunite with Daniel and plots a suicide (mass suicide) and sets her mattress on fire - which accidently sets fire to Dora's mattress - hey, Mariaan's living in there.
7de Tronk is literally
lit on fire with all the crazy.
Okay, not to take any attention away from our #1 Crazy Girl Lissie - but can we ask why he seems to be missing an eye?
I'm genuinely worried about him - the first thing in a fire that goes - besides hairspray - but no one has to worry about that - is a plastic mannequin. They melt up fast.
This could be the end of Lissie's hubby. RIP.
Then I'll be excited to see what kind of crazy our girl Lissie brings to the drama!
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