Filipino Teleserye 2014

Ang Dalawang Mrs Real (The Two Mrs Real) Fdrama Review & Summary

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• Genre: Romance, Marriage, Bigamy, Family, Crime, Adultery, Older Woman/Younger Man
• Release Date: 2014
• Origin: Philippines
• Teleserye: 10,000 Episodes LOL

 

Cast:

• Maricel Soriano as Millet
• Dingdong Dantes as Anthony Real
• Lovi Poe as Sheila
• Robert Arevallo as Millet’s father
• Cielito Legaspi as Millet’s mother
• Connie Reyes as Anthony’s mother
• Tommy Abuel as Sheila’s father

 

 

During the last month of the Legal Wife, a Filipino drama serial, I discovered the joy of watching teleserye or television drama series courtesy of FreePinoyTv.com. 😉 I have to admit that I was hooked on the Legal Wife that after it finished I felt a bit bereft so I started watching another drama of the same genre. ie feckless husband, etc.

 

This new drama is called Ang Dalawang Mrs Real, which in English is The Two Mrs Real.

It started slowly at first and rather mind-boggling to say the least, still is to a certain extent.

The story revolved around Millet and Anthony Real and later on Sheila Real.

Millet was a successful teacher and business woman; she owned a school. She came from money. She was 17 years older than her husband. She was already around 40 years old when she got together with Anthony, who was then 23?!!! Millet’ biological clock had well and truly run out of batteries and stopped ticking.  Rather late to get pregnant and give Anthony his own flesh and blood son or daughter!

How they met?

Anthony witnessed Millet’s road accident. He stopped and helped and one thing led to another until it ended up them getting married. Despite the age gap, Anthony and Millet led a happy and contented life despite not having a natural child of their own. But this was easily remedied by adopting a baby boy whom they named Anthony Real IV.

They were happy together but like any other married couples, they had their shares of ups and downs, exacerbated by their in-laws. Millet’s father was rather authoritarian/dictatorial whilst Anthony’s mother has some confidence/self-worth issues. She thought that Millet’s parents look down on them.  She often goes mental if she thought her children are being maligned or treated unfairly, especially by Millet’s father.

These were the things that were rather unbelievable at first because when the show started Millet and Anthony have been married for at least 10 years and they would have known how everyone ticks and yet they let their in-laws’ idiosyncratic behaviors affect their married life, surely after ten years Millet and Anthony are savvy enough to just ignore or confront these little things their  own way.

Anthony, to start with was a decent guy. He would help anyone in need (just like he did Millet). One of these needy people was Sheila who was at that time  in Manila.

One day Anthony came upon Sheila who was being accosted by a man, Anthony intervened. The fracas ended with Sheila suffering from epileptic seizure. She was taken to the hospital and that was that. They parted ways. Sheila went back to Cebu and Anthony continued to live a fairly contented life with Millet.

Millet’s father awarded the contract to  to build a school in Cebu to Anthony’s company.  Anthony is a Civil Engineer.   So went Anthony and his brother to Cebu to make the building happen. Their company is one of the worst I have ever known.  LOL It has been a year and yet the building was barely started. In real life, Millet’s father would have been incandescent with rage as he is losing money from the protracted building construction. 🙂

Anyway in Cebu, it turned out it was such a small world. One of the first people Anthony saw was Sheila. He was attracted to her and she to him. Before you know it, Sheila’s panty was thrown over her shoulders and her legs were akimbo ready to receive Anthony’s seeds. Hahaha

Sheila was so fecund that her one night stand with Anthony resulted in pregnancy.

Sheila’s father by the way is one of those corrupt ex-police officials.  He  is a bully, who loves nothing better than brandish his Magnum 45 especially when he’s drunk. Being the retired police chief, their family has a certain reputation to keep.  Sheila will never be allowed to be a single mother.  The person who impregnated her has to marry her or else, he is dead meat.

Anthony told Sheila’s mother rather weakly that he can’t marry Sheila as he was already married, he was not believed. And it seemed that the thought of having his own biological child is greater than the love he shared with Millet and therefore made up his mind immediately to live a double life and be married to Sheila as well.

Anthony married Sheila bigamously with the connivance of his own parents. Again this is unbelievable. Decent, intelligent parents would not knowingly allow their children to do criminal acts.  They knew the potentiality of Anthony ending up in jail for bigamy. Anthony’s mother was introduced in the outset as someone who lives for her two boys.  She was a loving, over-protective tigress to her cubs and yet she did not do anything much to prevent Anthony from making a big, possibly fatal mistake.

Anthony settled with Sheila in Cebu and now and again would go back to Manila to Millet and their adopted son “Ton-ton”.  After months of toing and froing by Anthony, Sheila became suspicious and did her own detective work.  She ended up finding out the real state of affair – she was married illegally to Anthony.  But by this time, Sheila was so in love with Anthony, she was willing to suffer in silence.  She  gave birth to a baby boy.   When Sheila’s father suggested that the only name appropriate to give to the newborn was Anthony Real IV, Anthony did not say anything, in fact he agreed with such alacrity.   What can he be thinking?!!!  He is on a suicide mission! 🙁

But all the lies are beginning to undo Anthony. One of these trials was when he had to make a choice.  Stay with his and Millet’s son’s party or go back to Cebu to his sick baby?

Of course, he had to go back to Cebu.

At this point Millet finally begun to get suspicious.  Someone, a stranger, told her point-blank that Anthony had married someone else in Cebu.  Millet was informed of this marriage before but she was not in a state of mind to believe and just thought of it as a vindictive idle gossip.

The confrontation between Millet and Anthony was trending mightily high worldwide. Maricel Soriano, who played Millet, so far the best actress of them all, was in her element.  Her Millet made Anthony pay only a wronged wife can do. She pinched Anthony’s face, slapped him 23 times and in between pulled his beautiful lustrous hair. It was brilliant. Maricel’s acting was top-notch, it was so believable, I ended up in tears in front of my computer. Crying with Millet, feeling Millet’s grief.  I had to tell myself, it was not real!  It was a television program and I must not board a plane for the Philippines and go find Dingdong  and Lovi and knock their heads together,  They were only in characters and doing a good job wrecking havoc to our emotions. LMAO!  Brilliant actors.  Actually the show has a stellar cast.

I read somewhere that the story will follow a natural legal outcome. It means probably that Anthony will pay for his bigamous shenanigans and ends up in jail.

 

There is a moral ending to this drama.  Rightly so (to serve as a reminder to those bigamists and those thinking of committing bigamy) Anthony ended up in jail for his transgression.

He was incarcerated for five years.  Millet stood by him and waited for him to come out.  He did choose her.

Sheila on the other hand went to work in Italy and had started a new life, leaving Bubot, her child with her parents.

The saintly Millet learned to be forgiving to both Sheila and little Bubot.  Sheila is now engaged to be married.

Millet and Anthony’s son had grown up into a respectful and loving teenager.

Millet and her father had a good heart to heart talk and forgave him for all the wrongs that he had done.

In the end, Millet lives with Anthony, who had learnt his lessons well.

You cannot have a cake and eat it too!  Or rather you cannot have two cakes and eat both at the same time!  🙂