My Freaky Love Story (2022)

Good cast, but not much else

This is one of those series you only stick with because the cast is really attractive. There is some good acting as well, but unforunately not much material for them.

JC Lopez does a great job of playing a woman in a man's body, not overdoing it but quite convincing and funny - for as long as the plot remembers that he is, in fact, a woman. There was really no purpose to the transformation and it might have been better to skip it. There's no reason Charlie couldn't have started out with the same insufferable qualities as a man. There's a dance scene he has that's so cute and hot that it alone makes the series worth watching. Actually, this would have been more enjoyable if it were just 12 episodes of JC dancing.

Kaleb Ong is fantastic as usual, but unfortunately a bit wasted on his character's story, which is unbelievable and contrived.

Finally, Orly Mejia was a bit surprising, being not just beautiful but quite a good actor as well. The rest of the cast was of varying ability but overall good enough.

The story is repetitive and way too preachy. I don't want to be lectured about gender & love in a BL comedy, and the point hammered isn't really applicable to the real world. It should be that whichever gender you love, your love is valid, not that everyone can be in love with all genders, and in any case it never seems to apply to Trans characters, who all end up alone, so let's not pretend any of these series have any real sense of social responsibility. The message is that only attractive boys deserve love. If you're trying to make a serious LGBTQ+ point, it can't be that all you need to do to get a straight guy to love another man is to pursue him until he gives in, which is not going to lead to many happy outcomes in real life.

In the case of Felix & Kajo, for the entire series Kajo showed no romantic interest or hint thereof toward Felix until he suddently did in the last few minutes. If Kajo had repressed feelings from the start, then we needed to see that procession, not just a light switch flipping between straight and gay.

That lead to the other problem I had, which is there is way too much and too repetitive unrequited love, which grew tiresome and unpleasant. Not enough happened between the main pair to be interesting, and Kaleb Ong is too good at portraying pain to make his storyline something I want to watch in my leisure time. The plot of this is so thin that it felt like watching the same episode over and over after whatever story ideas the writer had ran out after the first handful of episodes.

And dividing it into 12 episodes was a mistake. Having to wade through the same really long credit sequence with the overbearing main theme just ads to the feeling of running in circles.

The direction and other production qualities are OK - it's hard to tell because the script is so weak.

I did enjoy looking at the cast - JC is so naturally cute and sexy that it's hard to look away - but if you need a coherent and interesting story, you won't find one here.

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Simply Philippines ... I had watched the series, now finished.
Pros: the acting side of many and also that some of the actors and actresses were watchable (Kajo made sure of it...), from the beginning it looked like a fresh piece, the music wasn't so great anymore, it seemed very, very same to me, as with other pinoy projects, the trannys were less and they weren't even that dismembering, in that they were surpassed by the affected acting maid, which in the Philippines is a "normal" acting actress.
I liked less that everything was stretched "on a shoestring", the middle part is about almost nothing, all the time, minutes of credits before and after and that some creators try to instill in the audience that everyone can love everyone, regardless of orientation and gender . It's just that everyone has a given orientation, even though they may behave differently, ambivalently or completely opposite sexually. But overall satisfaction for a pleasant finish, freshness and openness.
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Prostě Filipíny ... seriál jsem měl rozkoukaný, nyní dokončeno.
Klady: herecká stránka u mnohých a též, že na některé z herců i hereček se dalo dívat (Kajo to jistil ...), ze začátku to vypadalo na svěží dílko, hudba už ne tak top, zdála se mi hodně, hodně stejná, jako u jiných pinoy projektů, transek méně a dokonce nebyly tak pitvořící se, v tom je předčila afektovaně hrající služka, což na Filipíny je "normálně" hrající herečka.
Už méně se mi líbilo, že vše bylo natahováno "na skřipec", prostřední část skoro o ničem, pořád dokola, minuty titulků před i po a že někteří tvůrci se snaží divákům vštípit to, že všichni mohou milovat všechny, bez rozdílů orientace a pohlaví. Prostě orientaci má každý danou, i když sexuálně se může chovat jinak, obojetně nebo zcela opačně. Ale celkově spokojenost pro příjemný závěr, svěžest a otevřenost.

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