The Polygamist’s Netflix Success Signals a New Era for African Literary Adaptations
On June 12, Netflix released all twenty-two episodes of The Polygamist, a South African supernovela based on a novel that mainstream publishers had once declined to print. Within a week, the show had accumulated 19.1 million viewing hours and debuted at number four on Netflix’s global non-English TV chart, before climbing as high as number […]
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On June 12, Netflix released all twenty-two episodes of The Polygamist, a South African supernovela based on a novel that mainstream publishers had once declined to print. Within a week, the show had accumulated 19.1 million viewing hours and debuted at number four on Netflix’s global non-English TV chart, before climbing as high as number […]
