Rocking 'Rockville'

Drama series Rockville's second season came to a nail-biting end on Sunday night, leaving fans demanding a third season soon.

The Connie and Shona Ferguson executive-produced star-studded show has captured the imagination of its audience and given us something to watch on Sunday evenings on DStv's Mzansi Magic.

Producers Ferguson Films and Mzansi Magic are yet to announce a follow-up. Five things we learned from season 2 of Rockville:

• Mavis Mabaso is better than Karabo Moroka and Marang Lebone. It's clearly Connie Ferguson's grittiest role yet - not even as Karabo (through her drug addictions, miscarriages, failed marriages and kidnappings) on Generations was she this captivating.

As Mavis she is a religious mother of two, struggling to cope with the loss of her husband. And when her daughter turns to prostitution, she turns to the bottle (how epic is it when she opens a beer bottle with her teeth?) and turns her back on God.

• Owen Sejake is scary, period. When this man is your enemy on-screen, you will come out second best (except on Sunday night, when his character Cassius's luck ran out and he was shot dead by his son, JB, played by Shona Ferguson). Remember him in Zone 14 as Tiger Sibiya, or George in Yizo Yizo?

Still not convinced? Wait until you see iNumber Number, in which he plays villain Mambane in the upcoming feature, directed by Donovan Marsh.

• Sometimes all one needs is a friend to help you forget. Mavis is lucky to have loyal friends when her belief wanes.

Rebecca (Thembsie Matu) is always there to remind her of an uplifting scripture, and help her bake scrumptious cake. Then there is good ol' Gladys (Brenda Ngxoli), who won't ask too many questions.

She encourages Mavis to let her hair down and offers her a drink, and makes her laugh with her far-fetched analogies.

• Mavis has shades of Desperate Housewives' Bree van de Kamp. Both love to bake, both lose their husbands, and both their daughters go against their wishes. Also, both turn to liquor when heading their dysfunctional families gets too much. But while Bree tried to hide how her son Andrew killed Carlos's mother in a hit-and-run, Mavis is helped by her son Oupa (Lehasa Moloi) in covering up how she shot JB, the man her daughter, Lindi (Mbali Mlotshwa), loves.
• Dear casting agents, your country thanks you for the yumminess. Fact: Shona Ferguson was voted Sexiest Man at 2009's YOU Spectacular Awards.

Moloi appears as Mr December in the Cosmo Sexiest SA Men Calendar 2014. A year before that, Maps Maponyane (TLK) was voted SA' s sexiest man by the magazine's readers.

And Clint Brink (Trevor) was one of Sowetan's 2011 Mzansi's Sexiest finalists. How about Boity Thulo's (Mpho) and her ever-expanding list of endorsements and suitors? The reaction to her derriere on the Marie Claire Naked Issue says it all.