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So apparently the big guilt, the big secret from the male lead is that he has HIV

Why is this a guilt? Does he even struggle with it? He's a wealthy man who won't have an issue with medications or treatments.

This isn't the 1980s Rosy Ocampo

Is Dulce also HIV positive?
Why is a trans character who is poor, lonely, that is dealing with a disease and the center of a possible crime mafia not the lead character and is instead a prop?

Our main characters however are a "strong, independent, woman" who is urgent for a man, a feminist psychiatrist who falls for every stupid plan from her ex and her insufferable daughter, an old lady who is more interested in her ex husband than her pet shop and a poor student with a dumb haircut.