MTV Shuga Down South is back with the sophomore season. It is set one year after the events of season 1, and all your favorite characters are back, with a few new additions to the cast. Down South made headlines last year for including a gay narrative in its storyline, taking us through the struggles of Reggie as he navigated through friendships and family with the secret of his sexuality.
In Season 2, he is estranged from his family because of a homophobic father and is out on his own, hustling his way through life. It doesn’t appear to be easy, but he has made connections with some new LGBT friends, through which he made the acquaintance of Odirile, the young man who would go on to be his lover in Episode 5.
Watching this latest episode and the scenes where Reggie and Odirile get it on after a conversation on PrEP and safe sex, I was struck by the realization that this could be the first time gay intimacy, however moderately explicit it is, is shown on any entertainment platform starring Africans. I can’t think of any other television show or film that has featured more than a brief second of kissing between two actors playing gay characters.
Or is there? If there are such shows, let us know in the comments section.
MTV Shuga Down South airs new episodes every Thursday on its youtube channel. Check below for a clip of the scenes between Reggie and Odirile.
At least they showed us both guys kiss.
Unlike TIERS and that movie that is still paining me in my intestines.
You think if TIERs could do it they will not? Only fair to understand things that goes on before hiding behind computer to type
LMAO!
Go and watch pornhub na
O.M.G like seriously.. Wow I’m speechless