Can love overpower selfishness, resentment, and entitlement to save a family that has been strain by a supernatural tragedy brought on by leeches that have a taste for human flesh?
ABS-CBN presents another fantasy series that will teach viewers important lessons, “Parasite Island,” which started airing and widely tuned in nationwide last night (September 8) as the pilot episode recorded a national TV rating of 30% versus “Daig kayo ng Lola Ko’s” 17.3%, according to data from Kantar Media.
Talented paramedic Jessie (Rafael Rosell) used to have a lot of potential as a child but grew up bitterly as his brothers blamed him for the mysteriously tragic death of their father. This happened when young Jessie insisted on going swimming in a lake on an island called El Cuepo after it attacked his father after saving him from drowning.
While it truly was not Jessie’s fault, no one believes his story that a rabid woman covered in leeches tackled his father and dragged him into a crevice under the water’s of the lake, leaving no traces, not even a body.
Twenty-three years have passed, and Jessie’s conscience still burdened by guilt over his father’s death, which remains unexplained and unavenged.
Jessie comes home to El Cuerpo to surprise his mother Daria (Liza Lorena) for his mother Daria’s 70th birthday celebration. It will follow his arrival by his two greedy older brothers, Warren (Michael Flores), and Gary (Bernard Palanca) who both have sole intentions and aspirations of inheriting a large slice of their mother’s state. It will unravel true intentions in the party’s aftermath, while the strange epidemic takes over the island of El Cuerpo.
Courtesy of ABS-CBN Entertainment
