Make A Wish (Filipino Series)

This series' execution was amazingly amateurish. When you start with a basic story, get some bad actors and do a shoddy job of direction, even the smallest of episodes becomes very challenging to sit through. At 6 episodes of about 20-25 minutes and a seventh special episode, this show is not worth your time. I am never gonna be able to recover the time I invested in this crap.

Isko is a young boy who lives with his aunt and some dream haunts him. He gets bullied by a social alled friend Tonyo whenever they cross paths. Isko is shy and is repeatedly told he is ugly. One day at the coffee shop, a mysterious lady leaves a cross necklace for him. And then we have young boy Alexeuz who comes to Earth from another planet to complete his mission, which he doesn't know what he mission is. He meets Isko by chance and slowly it turns out his mission might be to help Isko and fulfill his wishes. It turns out there ewes a guy named Zion, whom Tonyo used to like, but Zion prefers Isko's company. But in a misunderstanding, when Tonyo sends men to beat up Isko, they accidentally beat up Zion who then dies. And this is the past that keeps haunting Isko. Isko's wish is to forget past and make life better for him. Magically Tonyo has a change of heart and the two boys are friends.

Firstly, I am not sure honestly if this was a BL show. Yes, we all plenty of trans characters, but none of the leads was shown gay or had gay kissing or anything. What was Zion's relationship with either Isko or Tonyo is never actually clarified. In fact both Tonyo and Isko are seen wanting to date a girl. So I am confused when I read everywhere that to was a gay relationship. I thought the arrival of alien (hahaha) would make things spicy and interesting but that also was such a yawn. The guy Alexeuz would randomly keep showing up and then disappear throughout the day. The whole thing was so childish and amateurish that I can't even begin to write. Each of the character just rambles away for no reason and there was no reason this series should have ever been made. Also, what was up with telling Isko like 10 times every episode on how ugly he is. I just don't get it. And then he has a magical makeover after going to these spas and salons. WTF!! How was that relevant to anything that was going on. Please stay away from this one. (2/10)

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