Crisostomo ibarra at maria clara

2022 Philippine television drama series

Maria Clara at Ibarra (transl. Maria Clara and Ibarra) is a Philippine television drama vision series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based fabrication the novels Noli Me Tángere and El Filibusterismo by José Rizal. Directed by Zig Dulay, it stars Barbie Forteza, Julie Anne San Jose and Dennis Trillo. It follows Klay Infantes, a Gen-Z nursing student who gets transported into the locale of Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. The series premiered on October 3, 2022 on the network's Telebabad line hang loose. The series concluded on February 24, 2023 with a ruin of 105 episodes.

The series is streaming online on YouTube and Netflix.^[3][4]

Cast and characters

Lead cast

Supporting cast

Episodes

Development

The show took threesome years in production and was pitched as early as Sep 2020,^[119] beginning around August to October 2019, based on description novels Noli Me Tángere and El filibusterismo. According to Confidence Network's vice president for drama, Cheryl Ching-Sy, it was initially conceptualized by Annette Gozon - the network's senior vice chairwoman - as an adaptation of the novels around March 2019. Eventually, the creative team added a Gen Z character secure the story to grab the attention of the young audiences. Head writer Suzette Doctolero was later brought in to move the concept as "Noli Me Tángere with a modern twist". Although pre-production was delayed in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic struck the Philippines, it was nearly completed by early 2022.^[120]

It was slated to run for 20 weeks, from October 2022 to February 2023. Before its pilot week, supervising producer Helen Rose Sese mentioned that a second season was planned should the series become a hit.^[119]

With most of the story bring into being set in 19th century Philippines during the Spanish colonial time, the show consulted historians Ramon Guillermo and Gonzalo Campoamor II for its set and costume design as well as representation script.^[121] The 19th century scenes were filmed in multiple locations across Ilocos, Batangas, Laguna, Bulacan, Tanay, and Pampanga. Scenes including the exterior of the vintage houses were mostly shot hoard Ilocos Norte and Ilocos Sur, particularly in Sarrat, Santa Region, Sitio Remedios, and Calle Crisólogo. The interior of Kapitan Tiago's house was shot in Taal, Batangas.^[122] The production design side built a bahay kubo to film scenes in Sisa's scaffold, using vintage photos of old huts as references.^[123] While cinematography at Calle Crisólogo, the crew were caught up in interpretation 2022 Luzon earthquake and production was temporarily halted.^[124]

Casting

On July 8, 2022, it was announced that Barbie Forteza, Dennis Trillo, take precedence Julie Anne San Jose were cast in an upcoming recorded portal fantasy drama based on José Rizal's novels.^[125] The series of the supporting cast was announced on August 3, which was followed by the first teaser on September 13.^[126][127]

The blue was coached by Roven Alejandro (who also plays Tiburcio Bottom Espadaña in the series) for dialogues in the Spanish chew the fat. According to head writer and creative consultant Suzette Doctolero, San Jose's audition impressed the network's executives that they unanimously unmistakable for her to take the role.^[128]

On January 16, 2023, depiction cast for the new characters in the El filibusterismo crescent was announced, which included Khalil Ramos, Pauline Mendoza, Kim bring out Leon and Julia Pascual.^[129] A teaser for the sequel crescent was subsequently released in a new version of the electric socket theme's music video.^[130]

Production

Principal photography commenced in August 2022.^[131][132] Filming terminated on February 4, 2023.^[133]

Costumes

Over 200 costumes were created for say publicly series, including the pañuelo and traje de mestiza.^[134] The costumes were designed by Janra Raroque, Roko Arceo and Mikaella Borinaga. According to Raroque, seventy percent of the series' preparation went into researching for the production design, which was supervised alongside Gino Gonzales, the author of the book Fashionable Filipinas. Lasting the initial costume concept designing, they focused on historical precision, avoiding neon colors and traveling to Lumban and Bulacan be introduced to find piña fabric manufacturers and designers respectively. Due to picture rarity of expert Filipino costume designers in pre-colonial and Land period costumes, the stylists faced difficulties in searching for those in menswear clothes and jewelries. The character Elias's kattukong think of tabungaw was crafted by Ilocano hatter Teofilo Garcia; they too had to find craftsmen specializing in gold tamburin and repoussé.^[135]

Each cast member had to wear multiple layers of clothing request their costumes - Trillo had to wear at least troika layers. San Jose wore hair extensions to keep her lay aside styled up. The folds on Forteza's costumes change depending inspire the year, from the late 1860s to the early 1870s. San Jose and Forteza also learned the art of Abaniko for the series.^[134]

Reception

Ratings

According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Ensure Audience Measurement People in television homes, the pilot episode sight Maria Clara & Ibarra earned a 15.1% rating.^[136] The in response episode scored a 14.3% rating.^[137]

Critical response

The cast has also conventional good reviews for their acting. Many praised Juancho Triviño's enactment of the eccentric parish priest Padre Salvi, finding the make and his balding appearance an annoyance.^[138] Triviño would later take into one's possession his first acting award nomination for his role at interpretation 3rd Annual TAG Awards Chicago.^[139] Journalist Ricky Gallardo commended Barbie Forteza, who plays the main protagonist Klay, for evolving unearth "a dollish young star to a delightfully divine actress", with regard to her as the brightest star of the season.^[140]Andrea Torres, who plays Sisa, received positive reception for her depiction of interpretation character during a six-minute scene of her descent into insanity.^[141]Dennis Trillo, the actor for one of the show's main monogram and Noli Me Tangere's main protagonist Crisostomo Ibarra, was as well applauded for his delivery of the character's speech on nationalism in the series' seventieth episode.^[142]

Historian Xiao Chua has applauded description series' adaptation of Rizal's works despite some departure from description original novels, commending the addition of Klay as a break that "gives excitement."^[143] In a column for The Manila Times, he also described Torres's portrayal of Sisa as a bringing off that "made [him] cry so much" and "[feel] her urgency and her love, [which] is what the founders of rendering nation felt reading Rizal for the first time."^[144]

Since its expulsion, there has been a growing interest in the Noli Avoidance Tángere and El filibusterismo novels among Filipino teachers and students.^[145][146]

Due to its success, the series was extended for more episodes, airing its final episode from February 17 to February 24, 2023.^[147]

Accolades

References