Seasons Review: Directed by Easy Ferrer, the Filipino drama-romance movie stars Lovi Poe and Carlo Aquino in lead roles along with Sarah Edwards. The movie, about finding love in comfortable places, has a runtime of 109 minutes.
– Seasons Review Does Not Contain Spoilers –
Seasons Plot
Two best friends, after going through some horrible relationships, decide to try their luck once more to find the special someone. However, on the way, Charlie and Kurt realise that their platonic relationship might just end up being more than they bargained for. Is it possible for best friends to fall in love with each other and live happily ever after?
Seasons Review
From what I realised after watching Seasons, communication in any relationship is key. The romantic-drama movie is a cliched story about two besties who are in love with each other but refuse to be true to themselves and each other about it. While torturing themselves by hiding the truth, they also act out against the other’s spouse and make some horrible decisions in the process.
There’s nothing about Seasons that makes you feel moved in any way. The cliched story feels overused at this point, more so because so many problems could be solved with just one conversation. But no – Charlie lies to his best friend/love interest into going on a very odd road trip to… I don’t know, win him over or something. It’s just one bad decision after another.
You might want to feel some sort of connection with both leads, but Charlie is far too removed from reality, and Kurt is just there, so it never really happens. There are moments when you understand her pain – it truly does reach home sometimes. But then she does something absolutely manic that just takes away whatever little connection you had established.
This fake trip forms a chunk of the runtime of Seasons and a turning point for the two’s relationship but gosh darn, what a gnarly way to learn that your bestie might just be mentally unstable. Also, what kind of person just leaves their friend in bed where they bled all over; that’s just bad hygiene and plain insanity. Plus, we never truly learn about Kurt or any of his motivations – like, he looks at Charlie with lovey-dovey eyes, but we are never really sure whether he is in love with her or just loves her as a friend.
What this movie probably lacks is a clear direction and to take a step away from cliches. The characters are super flawed towards the beginning, embarrassing even, but they become quite relatable towards the end. Unfortunately, we don’t see this character arc happening. A bigger part of the runtime is spent covering Charlie and Kurt’s stupidity which makes us feel uncomfortable to be around them. The ending arc, unfortunately, comes too fast and finishes off on a confusing note.
I somewhat understand the ending, and I even respect it, but the movie doesn’t do any favours by going down this road, which feels a bit confusing. I personally would’ve liked the movie to have equal parts of past, present and future so that it had been balanced out and we got to know how the two characters picked themselves up and got to their present selves after their fiasco of a vacation. Since we don’t see that curve, this change just doesn’t stick and leaves us wanting a bit more to understand the characters’ sudden changes.
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However, I enjoyed the music a lot, and they were quite soulful and melodious, although I was reading the translated lyrics. The leads, Lovi Poe and Carlo Aquino, look cute as a button together, and although Poe’s character is a manic pixie girl on steroids, she still manages to land the moments well and looks really pretty while at it!
Seasons Review: Final Thoughts
Seasons is your typical cliched romantic drama that doesn’t try to give us anything new. The smallest details throughout most of its runtime are stuff you probably might have seen before, and although the ending does stick somewhat, there are still aspects of it that don’t really hit the mark. All in all, there are better romantic dramas out there that might just make you cry – this one isn’t that.
Seasons is streaming on Netflix.