Speaker 1: Seven two Afternoons with.
Speaker 2: Seven o two Afternoon Spotlight Edition with BBC Brit. Find
Speaker 2: your happy every night and that's what we are doing.
Speaker 2: BBC BRIT's drama Slate is packed with mystery, charm and
Speaker 2: just the right amount of chaos. And helping us spotlight
Speaker 2: the best of it is entertainment commentator and content creator
Speaker 2: Buselo Vilagazi, known for his sharp fashion take, celebra commentary
Speaker 2: and must watch TV reviews on TikTok and Instagram, Buiselo
Speaker 2: has teamed up with the BBC Brit to share his
Speaker 2: personal happy time picks, shows that bring joy, escape and
Speaker 2: just the right dose of crime flate, crime flavored fun.
Speaker 2: On seven o two Buiselo, Welcome to the show. Thank
Speaker 2: you so much for joining us.
Speaker 1: Hey, how are you doing Listen?
Speaker 2: I'm trying to keep the energy of the new year,
Speaker 2: New me in July.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, it is really stressful, I know, and I
Speaker 3: like what I just spoke about. People now sort of
Speaker 3: with the goals and stuff from car to carpet.
Speaker 2: Yes, but sometimes it's not time for the car, it's
Speaker 2: time for a new cup.
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Speaker 2: Before we can go from Buslo tell us a little
Speaker 2: bit about what got you into doing what you do
Speaker 2: as an entertainment commentator and content creator.
Speaker 1: I love this stuff. First of all, I was studying.
Speaker 1: I remember studying in Cape Town. I was doing my
Speaker 1: master's in intellectual property, which is something very opposed to
Speaker 1: entertainment right. And then I was I used to watch
Speaker 1: TV and I used to have a lot of opinions.
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, actually, let me record myself.
Speaker 1: Then I started on YouTube. My audience grew from then.
Speaker 1: Subsequent to that, I went to TikTok. People loved my reviews,
Speaker 1: and now I'm doing this full time. Hey, now I'm
Speaker 1: doing this full time and I'm enjoying it. On I
Speaker 1: always love sharing my opinion controls of people organically, you know,
Speaker 1: I think, and also in a way that also resonates
Speaker 1: with people. Someone's like, oh, you know what what is
Speaker 1: saying is actually what was on my mind. I'm glad
Speaker 1: that he noticed that. So that's why I am doing
Speaker 1: what I'm doing today.
Speaker 2: Look, I love it for you, and I think the
Speaker 2: more entertainment commentators there are, the better for the industry
Speaker 2: as a whole, because people will look to individuals like
Speaker 2: yourself to say, hey, if this person says, go watch it,
Speaker 2: and there is a little bit of that culture that's gone.
Speaker 2: I mean, I recall the time when very Wrong was
Speaker 2: the person and everybody was like waiting for the late
Speaker 2: Barry Wrong and his soul raist in peace to share
Speaker 2: all of those details. So let's then jump into what
Speaker 2: you look for in a grade series.
Speaker 1: A sense of sometimes a sense of relatability, not entirely
Speaker 1: because I mean you also so that is the greatest
Speaker 1: cape for you. You know, just write something that is
Speaker 1: out of your world, you know, sometimes a sense of
Speaker 1: let let it resonate to someone if if even if
Speaker 1: it's something that is not in their world, but someone
Speaker 1: is like, hm, I actually relate in terms of why
Speaker 1: this person made this move. Of course, the affects such
Speaker 1: as you know, great storytelling, cinematography, how the story is
Speaker 1: written and then and executed. But I'm not I don't
Speaker 1: like a show that there is a lot of theatrics.
Speaker 1: For me, the simple the better, you know, I prefer storytelling.
Speaker 1: It's telling that it's just a thoughtless and simple not
Speaker 1: much to theatrics and all of that. I just love good.
Speaker 2: So you're not a fan of the Fast and Furious franchise.
Speaker 1: You know what that that that that kind of a show.
Speaker 1: I don't mind like sports shows like f one, like
Speaker 1: like you know those shows. I mean that's the premise
Speaker 1: of what the show is about. I just mean, don't
Speaker 1: it just just keep it simple, you know, sometimes less
Speaker 1: and small, you know.
Speaker 2: With you completely and really it is less. Definitely is more. Okay,
Speaker 2: So now let's talk about you and crime dramas. Apparently
Speaker 2: it's your version of self care. Please explain why our
Speaker 2: crime dramas your version of self care.
Speaker 1: So I think it started from my because I studied
Speaker 1: law right originally, so I dealt with a lot of
Speaker 1: cases when I was in the law field, and you
Speaker 1: find that sometimes in the eyes of the public, someone
Speaker 1: is guilty. But the more you read the the dockheads
Speaker 1: and all the details of the case, you find that actually, no,
Speaker 1: there is a loophole here. You know, it's not as
Speaker 1: how it seems, you know. So I think that's my love,
Speaker 1: actually best love for for crime drama, you know, just investigations.
Speaker 1: And I got to work us at the law clinic
Speaker 1: where we used to help people looking at afford you know, lawyers,
Speaker 1: and I got exposed to the either side, so I
Speaker 1: always love to watch that on TV.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, And I mean in terms of crime dramas,
Speaker 2: are you more for the American style or the British
Speaker 2: because they're really not the same. And I think the
Speaker 2: Brits they do really well in the who Done It
Speaker 2: genre and it's got a very different pace the American
Speaker 2: crime dramas. They do have a little bit more theatrics,
Speaker 2: if we're gonna call it that. But I feel like
Speaker 2: I have space in my heart for both. But which
Speaker 2: which are you feeling?
Speaker 1: I'm all British. Hey, I'm all British. I'm all Brettist.
Speaker 2: Love it, love it, love you know, I'm.
Speaker 1: All British, you know, because I think the Americans, again,
Speaker 1: theatrics just a lot of unnecessary stuff. It's gout predictable,
Speaker 1: you know, how and how how it detective walks, you know,
Speaker 1: they add, they throw papers, they they you know with
Speaker 1: What I like with the British approach to crime drama
Speaker 1: is it's very witty, funny and at the same time
Speaker 1: it's all about, you know, let's get to business. The
Speaker 1: pacing is a bit slow compared to you know, the
Speaker 1: American crime drama. But they don't have all these unnecessary things.
Speaker 1: Just there's just drama, you know, that is just unnecessary
Speaker 1: and that is quite predictable. But I love I love
Speaker 1: the British approach, approach when it comes to when it
Speaker 1: comes to crime drama. Yeah, compared to the one in America.
Speaker 2: Okay, now you've picked a few favorites on BBC brit
Speaker 2: from Beyond Paradise to did Velly. Let's talk through some
Speaker 2: of them and what exactly you love about them?
Speaker 1: All right, all right, right, no problem. Starting with Death Valley,
Speaker 1: led by the incredible Timothispol people know him as because
Speaker 1: actually on Harry Potter, actually Peter pere Grew. I am
Speaker 1: excited for this one specifically. So he's portraying this guy
Speaker 1: who wasn't who's an actor. So the actor he's been
Speaker 1: all his life is portrayed a detective, right, and now
Speaker 1: he has to be a real life detective. It's one
Speaker 1: thing to be an actor portraying as a certain role.
Speaker 1: I can be an in a show, I can be
Speaker 1: a radio host, but it's one thing when I have
Speaker 1: to really host a radiosol in real life, you know.
Speaker 1: So from acting, now he has to really go investigate
Speaker 1: and his colleague is actually younger than him, so that's
Speaker 1: it's very fun the age difference. I like to say,
Speaker 1: when it comes to Death Valley, they just a mixed
Speaker 1: matched duo, but also a great match in there, like
Speaker 1: a match made in heaven, because they sort of compliment
Speaker 1: to one another, you know when they do agree, you know,
Speaker 1: to certain things. So Death Valley is an amazing show,
Speaker 1: and the reception also in the UK has been exceptional.
Speaker 1: People are looking forward to see if there is going
Speaker 1: to be a season two because there's something different, you
Speaker 1: know that people have not seen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, this value from prime time to crime time.
Speaker 2: It sounds like something that we can just makes you
Speaker 2: check out, especially if they have that dog comedy about it.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, okay in the common thread between all In fact,
Speaker 1: with all these shows that I recommended, they all have
Speaker 1: bent at the same time. It's all about okay, let's
Speaker 1: get down to business, you.
Speaker 2: Know, definitely. All right, then you've also chosen Death in Paradise.
Speaker 1: Yes, Death in Paradise beautiful story. So it's set on
Speaker 1: this fictional island, Saint Marie, you know. So there is
Speaker 1: a there's detective, uh, there's a new detective who comes
Speaker 1: from London and he's here too. He's there there in
Speaker 1: the in the island to solve some crime. But there's
Speaker 1: a plot twist surrounding a wonder result. But there's a
Speaker 1: there's a huge plot twist when it comes to the
Speaker 1: island and it's something attached to his family that he
Speaker 1: discovers while working and saving the community. There's a huge
Speaker 1: plot twist there, so he has to make a follow
Speaker 1: there's it's amazing. It's really really amazing. I would highly
Speaker 1: recommend it. But yeah, people must look look back to
Speaker 1: the plot. There's just going to be a very shocking
Speaker 1: plot toast that everyone's gonna like, whit, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: this happened?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, And I'm nervous about this because this is
Speaker 2: season fourteen. I mean, how much catching up does one
Speaker 2: need to do to get up.
Speaker 1: To this up to date? You do not need to
Speaker 1: even catch up just to watch the Currencys in because
Speaker 1: every every episode there is and it's it's like sort
Speaker 1: of your Law and Order kind of vibe. Every every
Speaker 1: episode has its own case.
Speaker 2: Oh there's a stand alone situation.
Speaker 1: Precise there's no you don't need context from maybe the
Speaker 1: first season and all of that, No, you don't need
Speaker 1: all of that. You just each episode is a standalone
Speaker 1: there's a new case, so you don't They don't even
Speaker 1: make reference to things that have happened in the past,
Speaker 1: so this case is treated differently. So I love that
Speaker 1: you asked that's actually and then so I know you're
Speaker 1: gonna go to to Beyond Paradise. So Beyond Paradise is
Speaker 1: actually a spin off from Deaf in Paradise.
Speaker 2: Oh, so it follows one of the characters doing something
Speaker 2: else somewhere else, but within.
Speaker 1: The same genre, within the same genre. So on season one, two,
Speaker 1: season four of of of Death in Paradise, there's this detective.
Speaker 1: His name is Humphrey. So he was on season on two,
Speaker 1: season four. Right, now he got his own spin off
Speaker 1: because he was a fan favorite. It's called Beyond Paradise now, right,
Speaker 1: So there was Deaf and Paradise. Now it's Beyond Paradise.
Speaker 1: So he's he's moved into this small town with his
Speaker 1: with his partner, and he also gets to investigate in
Speaker 1: the same sort of style from you know, Death in Paradise,
Speaker 1: but it's this city. It's in a small town. But
Speaker 1: this small town has a lot of sacrets and it's
Speaker 1: very mysterious but also very witty and suddenly people are
Speaker 1: going to enjoy it. Honestly, this one is extremely funny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I literally am feeling like there's a very clear
Speaker 2: trend when it comes to some of you your favorites
Speaker 2: based on those three, if you had to choose your
Speaker 2: number one recommendation.
Speaker 1: Oh, I would say death in Paradise. Death in Paradise
Speaker 1: because I think if you like the Caribbean style, because
Speaker 1: it's in a space and it's such in this frictional
Speaker 1: Caribbean island, the accent, the vibe, the people. You know,
Speaker 1: people in the Caribbean are very like dramatic in the
Speaker 1: very dramatic in how they speak now in their approach,
Speaker 1: I would say Deaf in Paradise. And I think that
Speaker 1: the plots that I told you about is going to
Speaker 1: resonate with a lot of people, you know, because yeah,
Speaker 1: it touches something that everyone their family basically, So people
Speaker 1: are going to be like, oh, okay, I actually relate
Speaker 1: to this, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, well definitely try them out. And then finally
Speaker 2: BBC Bridge, I mean, they really have quite a variety
Speaker 2: of dramas. Why do you think it really is becoming
Speaker 2: the go to for shows a feel good and that
Speaker 2: are groupping.
Speaker 1: You know what, I think I love the shows on
Speaker 1: BBC Bridge because they're not too heavy. You don't know
Speaker 1: something that's gonna weigh on you. You know, you kind
Speaker 1: of even sleep at night, you know, because even in
Speaker 1: real life, you know, even if one is working as
Speaker 1: a you work in the police division, you still have
Speaker 1: moments where you get to breathe and have fun and
Speaker 1: make coffee and make jokes with your colleagues. You don't
Speaker 1: want something that is too heavy that you kind of
Speaker 1: in sleep. So I like the right balance the investigation.
Speaker 1: But also again you still feel good man, you know
Speaker 1: after watching the show, and also you see yourself in
Speaker 1: these characters. And I love I like laughing, so I
Speaker 1: like good bad better on it. So even if it's
Speaker 1: the theme could be or general, could be serious, but
Speaker 1: can we laugh a bit because we've been in real life.
Speaker 1: We all go through situations, but we always find a
Speaker 1: moment to laugh. In Zulu City Fee.
Speaker 2: You know, I am all for laughing and all the
Speaker 2: listeners will know that for a fact. Weselo can be
Speaker 2: found on the socials, Instagram and TikTok at Buiselo Vila
Speaker 2: Gazzi for all he is doing and more and all
Speaker 2: the shows that he recommended on BBC brit which is
Speaker 2: DStv channel one twenty Beyond Paradise Mondays at eight pm,
Speaker 2: Death in Paradise that is season fourteen, but don't worry,
Speaker 2: standalone episodes that you can watch Mondays at nine pm
Speaker 2: and Death Valley on Tuesdays at eight pm. Thank you
Speaker 2: so much in Buiselo for your time