According to ABS-CBN, a whopping 36.2 percent of households surveyed by Kantar Media watched its final episode in June 2014, wiping the floor with its competitor that night, another kabit serye, which clocked in at 8.8 percent.

Photo: Screenshot from a YouTube video/GMAĪnother kabit serye, The Legal Wife, posted even higher ratings.

While the show ended with Georgia’s death, Rome was forgiven by his wife Emma (Sunshine Dizon). When Ika-6 Na Utos ‘s year-long run came to an end in March 2018, 10.4 percent of households surveyed by AGB Nielsen watched it, nearly double its closest competitor that day, according to local entertainment website Pep.ph. The kabit serye’s popularity is indisputable. All too often, the mistress serves as an emotional surrogate for enemies and situations they believe they’ve faced in their own lives. In the Philippines, there are millions of women like Irene - and not a few men - tuning in each week for the emotional fix provided by those comeuppances. Welcome to the world of the kabit serye, or “mistress series,” a Philippine TV genre in which evil mistresses busily wreck otherwise happy families in their pursuit of someone else’s husband, until, of course, their dramatic comeuppance. “It was not enough for all the evil things she did!” she told her roommates, still fuming. It was a violent death, a painful death, one straight from the typically overwrought playbook of Filipino soap operas, but Irene wasn’t satisfied - Georgia deserved far worse. As she struggles to breathe, coughing up prodigious amounts of blood, fire licks toward the tanks on the truck as she watches in horror, letting out a scream just before they explode, consuming the car and roasting her alive. A piece of metal from the truck pierces her chest.

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