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Hermoso: Season 2 (Filipino Series)

By Golu
Season 1 ended on a cliffhanger with someone drowning in a storm and honestly I assumed it was Kyle but it turned out to be Andre, the fisherman boyfriend. I was actually surprised the makers came back for a second season given how that first one went. This one is marginally better because at least there's an attempt at a story, even if the execution leaves a lot to be desired. 13 episodes but only about sixteen minutes each, so it moves fast and you're done before you know it. A year after Andre's drowning, a doctor living alone in the mountains finds him and nurses him back to health. Andre wakes up with no memory of who he is or where he came from and the two slowly fall in love during his recovery. Back home Kyle is running the business, still missing Andre, and has this gut feeling that Andre might still be out there somewhere. His trans friend is in a relationship with another fisherman from the village but things between them are rocky and they're talking about s...
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Hermoso: Season 2 (Filipino Series)

By Golu
Season 1 ended on a cliffhanger with someone drowning in a storm and honestly I assumed it was Kyle but it turned out to be Andre, the fisherman boyfriend. I was actually surprised the makers came back for a second season given how that first one went. This one is marginally better because at least there's an attempt at a story, even if the execution leaves a lot to be desired. 13 episodes but only about sixteen minutes each, so it moves fast and you're done before you know it.

A year after Andre's drowning, a doctor living alone in the mountains finds him and nurses him back to health. Andre wakes up with no memory of who he is or where he came from and the two slowly fall in love during his recovery. Back home Kyle is running the business, still missing Andre, and has this gut feeling that Andre might still be out there somewhere. His trans friend is in a relationship with another fisherman from the village but things between them are rocky and they're talking about splitting up. When word gets out that someone matching Andre's description was spotted in the mountains, Kyle, his trans friend and her boyfriend head out to find him. On the way the boyfriend starts flirting with a local and that pretty much ends things between them. When they finally track down Andre he has no memory of Kyle at all and refuses to leave with him. Kyle has to stand there watching the man he loves be in love with someone else. He tries everything to convince Andre to come back but nothing works. Then it comes out that the doctor is actually a fugitive and the police are after him. Kyle tips off the cops but right at that moment Andre's memory comes flooding back, and instead of being relieved he blames Kyle for cheating on him with his ex, which is a whole season 1 thing, and walks away from both of them. The final episode does this sudden twist where the doctor apparently comes back and he and Kyle go together to find Andre and somehow the three of them decide to just be in a relationship together.

Turn your brain completely off and treat this as the guilty pleasure it absolutely is. The guys lose their shirts at any given opportunity for absolutely no reason and it's pretty obvious why this show exists. Not complaining though because they are all genuinely good looking and the show delivers plenty of eye candy. That said it's hard not to laugh at how conveniently everything falls into place. There's zero explanation for what happened to Andre during that entire year. His memory comes back with no real setup. The trans friend's boyfriend literally meets a random guy in the mountains and just decides to stay there. Another fisherman from season 1 shows up out of nowhere and confesses his love for the trans friend and suddenly they're together. Kyle is honestly the weakest performer this season and the less said the better. The doctor on the other hand is extremely easy on the eyes and the mountain location and the house are genuinely gorgeous. The scenes between him and Andre are pretty hot. But there's only so much skin can carry. The short episode length is genuinely a blessing here. Critiquing the acting feels pointless because acting ability clearly wasn't the main hiring criteria.

Season 2 is just as logic-free as the first one and leans way harder on looks than on storytelling. But the eye candy is real and as a gay man you really can't complain too much. (4/10)
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