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Win Jaime's Heart philippines drama review
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Win Jaime's Heart
3 people found this review helpful
by puwupy
Jul 6, 2022
6 of 6 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 6.0
Story 6.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 1.0
This review may contain spoilers

I don't get it

This is the first time I watch a Pinoy series and end up feeling this disappointed.

I usually don't mind scenes that are meant to depict sexiness, but since they make me bored very quickly I'd rather have more plot developments and character introspection. Well, this series has so many "sexy" scenes that at some point I was wondering whether it was meant to be a story or just an elaborate Jaime-themed thirst trap. Rather than being able to enjoy "the view" (or whatever those scenes are supposed to be), they made me so uncomfortable that I had to either skip forward or look away.

The idea for the plot is there, but the characters' intentions are all so ambiguous in every episode that they make everything confused.
Starting from Jaime: he seems to have a vague interest in Heart at the very beginning, but he finds Winston's profile right after and seems to have a much bigger interest in him from the get-go. I was 100% convinced that he had "volunteered" as a match for Heart just so that he could get closer to Winston, but then he seems genuinely surprised as he realized that he's "falling for Winston". They were concerned with showing Jaime's horniness and flirty behavior so much that they forgot to give us a better perspective on his mind, which ruins the entire series since he's obviously the Main main character.
Winston was shown slightly better than Jaime, but not so much. We were shown that he has a bad relationship from his father, that he genuinely loves his friend Heart and wants her to be better, and it's pretty clear that he is completely lost when it comes to liking a man, or having a man flirt with him. What's still unclear to me is his relationship with social media and his fans, because I don't understand how filming every moment of Jaime and Heart together could possibly be helpful to anyone except... well, himself. This topic was hinted at in the series, but never really explored.
Finally, Heart. We're never really shown anything about her, probably because she isn't the main focus of the series, but the entire time she looks like she's merely going along with whatever Winston suggests just because he's her friend and he means well. There are a couple moments when Heart and Jaime seem to be getting closer to each other, but other than that it literally feels like she's third-wheeling. The dynamic was supposed to involve her a lot, but it just feels wrong instead.
The parts where the characters talk to each other felt kind of unnatural. It was always either flirty lines, or lines that seemed to come straight from a list of inspirational quotes about love and life. I feel like I was supposed to be impressed by it, but instead it felt like a maneuver to make the show "deep" that failed miserably.

Finally, I believe that the main reason why so many people are asking for a second season is that the story doesn't have a proper conclusion. The question marks about the characters are all left unresolved, the main characters aren't a couple (not Jaime and Winston, but not even Jaime and Heart!) and the finale just feels incredibly unsatisfying because of that. It feels like there should be at least double the amount of episodes to give everything the proper room to be properly explored, but there isn't any - and since the time of the existing six episodes was used very recklessly, I'm not sure having six more episodes would really solve anything.

I'm not giving a lower vote because, despite everything, I was able to finish the series - the actors did a good job with what they had to work with and the music is pretty good too. Unfortunately, this doesn't make it a series I'd recommend.
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