4 unmissable moments that kick off Youngins Season 2
Everyone’s buzzing at the start of a new term at Olifants High. After exposing and bringing down their predator principal in Youngins Season 1, “The Olifants Five” – Amo Mosweu (Ayakha Ntunja), Buhle Kunene (Kealeboga Masango), Khaya Jali (Toka Matabane), Tumelo Dibakwane (Lebohang Lephatsoana), and Mahlatse Jiyane (Thabiso Ramotshela) – are heroes. They even have their own fan club president and praise singer, grade eight student Tokollo (Katleho Mabote, Outlaws Season 1 and 016FM Season 1). Want your shoes polished? Call Tokollo. Carry your bag and give you sweets? Tokollo. So major props to Katleho, who has such great energy that this is endearing rather than annoying.
But when we said the new season is going to be fire, this wasn’t what we were asking for!
Here are our funniest – and most shocking – moments from the start of Youngins Season 2.
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Matron Lulu (Sannah Mnchunu) is back from holiday in episode 1, and her hair isn’t the only thing that has been laid. Before she was giving Home Affairs on a wet Wednesday, now she’s giving Woolworths at the start of Christmas. She welcomes Buhle and Amo back to the girls’ dorm with a smile and tells them, “I was with my man, guys. Do you see how happy I am? Not being intimate for a long time is a problem, Busi!” Season 1’s vibrator thief has a new lease on life!
This one we feel bad for laughing about. But you had to be there. Lesedi (Eyethu Mayeza), an old troublemaker, is back from being expelled and missing the whole of Youngins Season 1. And we do mean old. He looks like a nightclub bouncer and in episode 1 he makes his mark by threatening Tshepo, dragging him into the toilet stall, pushing his head into the bowl and flushing … like Tshepo should have done after he used it!
By episode 2, Tshepo has gone from upsetti spaghetti to stressy depressy thanks to the double-tap from Lesedi and finding out that Mr Ramathuba (Simo Magwaza) is the new principal at Olifants – something he’s so alarmed about that he starts swearing in Afrikaans. We know! Pearls were clutched.
Then when Mazambane (Kadiya Banyini) finds out that Lesedi is bullying Tshepo, he tries to stand up for his boy and speaks to Lesedi like a man who’s been to the mountain … until Lesedi backhands him so hard that he spins. So in episode 3 after Lesedi comes at them with a knife for trying to tattle to Mr Ramathuba, they beg Matron Lulu to intervene, and she tells them they’re crazy. She’s not going off on her own to confront a boy who nearly killed a teacher; she has too much to live for!
3. Chemically assisted gigglesIn episode 2, Mahlatse reveals his new gig: making and selling weed gummies. And the Olifants Five watch him cooking up a batch, oohing and aahing like he’s Walter White in Breaking Bad. Then it’s product testing time, but while they’re busy enjoying a quality Mahlatse gummy experience, Mr Ramathuba shows up to ask what’s going on. Laughter and horror collide as Mahlatse’s hand wobbles up to stroke Mr Ramathuba’s tie, and Khaya tells Mr Ramathuba that he loves him.
Meanwhile, Amo is still flying high when she has her first run-in with Lesedi, who tells her that he’s the king of Olifants High now, and he wants her as his queen. But under the influence, our quiet little stress queen blows off this knife-wielding, teacher-beating maniac with a “never heard of you” and a shrug before wandering off with her head still in the clouds, like tra la la, leaving Lesedi looking like he’s trying to calculate quadratic equations in his head.
PS: When Lesedi sleazes up to Palesa (Amogelang Telekelo) in episode 2, Alex (Gaositoe Moloke) warns Palesa that Lesedi is the kind of guy who’d take your panties off with a knife. So Palesa tells him that she’d rather hop into bed with Mahlatse. Why’d you have to cook our boy like that, Palesa?
At the end of episode 2, fire breaks out in Tumelo and Mahlate’s dorm room because it looks like Mahlatse left the hot plate on after cooking up gummies. And in episode 3, it grows into a raging fire. Youngins goes from having us rolling, to shock and horror as the fire continues to grow and we see Tshepo scrabbling around, trapped in the smoke. Tension ratchets up brilliantly as students are confused at first. Nobody knows what’s going on, some kids start running out of the dorms coughing and carrying their stuff, and people start phoning each other.
Real fear starts to sink in when Amo and Mahlatse don’t answer because they’re still making out together in a hidden room. Khaya frantically runs into the burning building yelling Amo’s name, and Mazambane and Khaya’s roommate Sefako (Tabile Tau) have to drag him back out, fighting and screaming, while a panicking Mahlatse tries to lead Amo out through the smoke.
There’s a genuine sense of fear as the teachers like Pearl (Keneilwe Matidze) try to count students to see who’s missing, and Sefako realises that nobody has seen his annoying cousin, Tshepo. By the time the firemen and paramedics rush into the dorm, we’re sitting out there with the Olifants kids in spirit, cheering as Mahlatse staggers out of the dorm carrying Amo. And we feel that jolt of fear as Mahlatse asks where Tokollo is … because he went back to the dorm to sleep off his weed gummy high.
Mahlatse’s dread takes us with him as the paramedics wheel out of the dorm with a body on their gurney, fully covered in a foil blanket. Whoever this is, they don’t need an oxygen mask anymore. As a terror stricken Tshepo finally staggers out of the dorm on his own and into Sefako’s arms, the kids and teachers start to realise that someone has died. Nobody stops Mahlatse when he steps forward to pull back the foil blanket and sees Tokollo’s face.
The boys’ dorm is now a crime scene, and the episode ends with Mahlatse’s tear- and smoke-stained face filling with horror as he realises that it’s all his fault. Olifants fam, we need you to hold our hands for episode 4!
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