" Luke (Edward Barber) is of course referring to Shine (Maymay Entrata), the dark-skinned and wiry lass he falls in love with in Giselle Andres' Loving in Tandem. The touching words of the Filipino-American who finds himself miserably trapped in one of the many slums of his estranged mother's motherland, however, can also apply to what ABS-CBN thinks of Entrata, the breakout star of the latest iteration of Pinoy Big Brother, the reality show that has evolved to become a star-making vehicle.
Loving in Tandem has no aspirations for far-reaching novelty for its overused genre.
It pulls off all the genre's familiar tricks and tropes. It also doesn't avoid a lot of the rom-com's many pitfalls, starting with a clear chauvinist slant with Shine's questionably desperate efforts to please Luke, who is initially characterized as offputtingly privileged and heartless. It doesn't seem to mind the antiquated worldviews it espouses, relying heavily on comedy to render all the questionable scenes somewhat palatable.
Loving in Tandem could have been an obnoxious mess but thankfully, it's not.
Amid all the problems it doesn't avoid, it ends up surprisingly charming thanks mostly to Entrata who turns out quite an endearing actress. She could have easily gone the route traversed by Ai-Ai de las Alas, Pokwang and Eugene Domingo, actresses with non-mainstream beauty whose onscreen romances with their male leads always had them enunciate the glaring and supposedly humorous gap in looks. She, however, churns out a more dignified performance, one that is grounded not in discrepancy but on very relatetable appeal.
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