BLIND ITEM # 2 : Epic Fail Teleserye

I was drawn to watching the first few episodes of this prime time teleserye of a “family” network, for the reason that I was intrigued by its mind-twisting title.  

Consequently, I learned that the story revolves around something sweet and irresistible – chocolate. The principal character is an heiress of her father’s chocolate manufacturing company, and her supposed to be love interest is a chocolatier – a person who makes confectionery out of chocolate.

The chocolatier comes from a middle class family involved in a small chocolate business, and was hired by the heiress to be their company’s yes, chocolatier.

Having chocolate as the element that glues all the goings on in the story is quite creative, in the sense that it is the first of its kind in the history of Filipino teleserye sagas. The question, however, is its applicability to our socio-cultural norms, since chocolate making is more identified with western countries.

Though our country produces and exports cacao, the Philippines is yet to be mentioned in the same breath as Belgium, Switzerland, and the US are mentioned for example.

The story has all the condiments of a Filipino teleserye – love, hate, deception, and revenge, to which many Filipino viewers can easily relate to. But with the plot or theme that runs around chocolate making, I don’t think so.

Hence, an epic fail (and corny as well).