July 16, 2024
Directed by: JR Frias
Headwriter: JR Frias
Co-writer: Kiko Soto
Sweetie (Eunice Santos) was a medical representative carrying "surgery drugs" like pain killers and anesthesia. She just drove in from Manila to the village of Maliko to promote her products to the doctors and pharmacists there. She was ready to do anything so her products into the formulary of the hospital. One day, she met a barrio lass Leng (Sahara Bernales) and her buff boyfriend Nardo (Chad Solano), both of whom had caught her fancy.
Vivamax had already bastardized a number of occupations by insinuating that offering sex can get you ahead in your job. Now, the med reps of the pharmaceutical industry are on the hot seat, as well as the doctors and pharmacists they cater to. Of all the life-threatening diseases out there, Leng's father Otay (James Lomahan) had to suffer from an infected boil in his axilla. The story was so thin, there was even an orgy party from out of nowhere. Terrible. 1/10.
Directed by Sid T. Pascua
Screenplay by Quinn Carillo
Kap Danilo Adlawan (Apollo Abraham), barangay chairman of San Roque in La Union. He was now grooming his youngest son James (Nathan Rojas) to run next, but the young man did not want to. Meanwhile, a mysterious woman who called herself Hiraya (Rica Gonzales) was being nursed back to health by Manang Flor (Tabs Sumulong). However, the men in the village were all tempted by her feminine wiles, and she does not resist their advances.
Writer Carillo attempts to blend politics and with the supernatural here, but this mix was not smooth. It was more an indictment of toxic masculinity in a rural town than anything else. The corruption of Kap Danilo and his eldest son Rommel (Itan Rosales) and the fake sincerity of niece Diana (Carillo) were just incidental. Rica Gonzales was not ready to play the central role of Hiraya. Her acting was so weak, it came across as comical instead of ominous. 4/10.
Director: Iar Lionel Arondaing
Headwriter: John Carlo Pacala
After Ella (Micaella Raz) just got laid off from her job, she tried doing online live sex shows on Pleasure Hub to earn dollars. One night, Ella's best friend Cara (Rob Guinto) walked into Ella's room while her camera was on. Cara had just learned that she lost her scholarship right after she got betrayed by her rich boyfriend Migo (Matthew Francisco). Ella's viewers got excited seeing the two girls together and clamored for a collab.
The three lead actors already look too old be college students, so hearing them so concerned about the student council and their scholarships made me chuckle. Being among the more senior Vivamax babes, Raz and Guinto had an electric chemistry together, especially in that scene with the neon glow-in-the-dark body pain. In contrast, the scenes of Guinto with Francisco looked more painful than ecstatic, perhaps on purpose. 4/10.
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