The wildly-successful Kapamilya series will spread again like wildfire, but this time on the streaming giant, Netflix.
ABS-CBN’s top-rated drama pre-primetime drama, Wildflower, arrives on Netflix on September 9. The debut will take place more than five years since the series premiered on ABS-CBN’s pre-TV Patrol slot and began dominating early primetime in ratings.
The series had a massively successful run, completing 257 aired episodes. It follows the story of the woman, Lily Cruz (Salvador), whose family suffered the sinister wickedness of the infamous Ardiente family. Using the guise and new identity of Ivy Aguas, she returns to Poblacion Ardiente to exact her revenge against her family’s oppressors, who have long believed that she was already dead.
Wildflower is known for its feisty confrontation and campy scenes, and has undoubtedly put a premium on Salvador as a new queen of the revenge genre. It did not come as a surprise that her follow-up series, The Killer Bride, also bears similar themes.
Wildflower is not the first series starred by Salvador that found its way on Netflix. The first few seasons of the longest-running TV series on Philippine TV, FPJ’s Ang Probinsyano, also had a run on the streaming giant. Her TV5 series, Niña Niño is also now available for streaming on the platform, alongside movies I’m Drunk I Love You and Arisaka.
Wildflower is one of the last two acting projects that Salvador made with ABS-CBN, the other being the gothic revenge drama, The Killer Bride, where she starred alongside Geoff Eigenmann and her niece, Janella Salvador.
Presently, Maja appears on her sitcom on TV5, Oh My Korona, to which she stars alongside RK Bagatsing and Joey Marquez. She is also a mainstay host of the longest-running noontime show, Eat Bulaga.
