My Only Love, GMA's latest sine novela

I caught the first day of the series and was impressed. For once it had details not normally found in Filipino works for TV. The young girl was actually part of a ballet recital, the young man competed in motocross. Director of the series is Louie Ignacio.

why do I find these details significant? Most telenovelas focus on the relationships of the characters and do not have any supplementary details on them. This propensity makes any TV series flat, unlike Korea novelas which show what people actually do on a normal day. For example, Love in Heaven shows the male lead as a news anchor, while the female lead was formerly a competent make-up artist. Now we have Ysabella showing the lead as a chef, Marimar showing the male lead as owning a company that deals with cars and mug wheels.

I can't wait for the day when Filipino telenovelas will have musical scoring using classical music. Though I like the theme of Marimar, a haunting love song in Filipino.