Budoy, ABSCBN Show

Philippine drama television series that premiered on ABS-CBN. It tackles the story of Budoy, who is mentally challenged, and his family, relationships and social issues.[1] [2] It topbills Gerald Anderson[3] [4] [5] [6], Jessy Mendiola[7] [8] and Enrique Gil[9]. The theme song was "Saan Darating Ang Umaga" sung by Angeline Quinto produced by Jonathan Manalo.[10]

Synopsis

The story is about a well-renowned family of doctors, the Maniegos. Bound to success but with no child, Dr. Anton Maniego performs an artificial insemination on his wife Luisa. She gives birth to their child "Budoy". Budoy's birth is a family blessing, but later on turns into the family in shame when they discover that Budoy is suffering from Angelman syndrome, which delays his intellectual development. Predicaments arise against Luisa, who becomes very protective of Budoy and the rest of the Maniego family. On Budoy's fifth birthday, he goes 'missing' after his grandmother gave him to a caretaker to save their family from shame. After Budoy's caretaker dies, Elena, the caretaker's hired maid for Budoy, adopts him. Meanwhile, to save Luisa's sanity, Grace, the wife of her brother-in-law, suggests to their family to present a fake Benjamin. Unbeknownst to them, the fake Benjamin "BJ" is in fact Grace's son.
Years later, Budoy is recently moved out of his other home with his guardian Elena. They later live with her father Renato Dante Rivero and Budoy befriends Max. He attends a university and finds his old friend Jackie Jessy Mendiola and befriends BJ Enrique Gil. Budoy learns that the school is going to kick him out because he didn't pay for his college. So, at a party in BJ's house, Budoy speaks with people who work for BJ's father's company to give some money to donate so he can be able to go to college. Everything starts to be fine until BJ starts cheating on Jackie on another girl by accident. Then they get accepted to Pilipinas IQ, a game show, so that the school can earn some money. They won, but Jackie still didn't like BJ. After they exit the game show, it starts raining. Jackie is running away from BJ since BJ wants to apologize. Budoy, who went to see the game show, followed them and tried to stop BJ from attacking Jackie. Bj hits Budoy and knocks him out, and the two leave him. Thunderstorms start growling, and Budoy later wakes up. He tries to find them but ends up falling and rolling in a hill. Then, his foot gets zapped and hits his head in a rock.
Weeks later, he luckily survives, but the Maniegos already figured out that Budoy was their real son and BJ isn't. This makes them more associated with Budoy, especially Jackie. Budoy starts recovering from Angelman syndrome like looking directly and sometimes talking normally. Meanwhile, BJ got in a car accident, but survives. He starts getting really upset about the fact that Budoy keeps on receiving the love of his parents. With Budoy out of the hospital, his parents decide that Budoy would live with them. The more they are with Budoy, the more upset BJ gets. One day when Budoy wanted to play with BJ, he started getting really mad, throwing his beer causing a fire. Budoy starts panicking and later goes into a temporary state where he is focused. He gets a fire extinguisher and knew how to take away the fire. BJ tries to talk to him and Budoy talks in a regular voice, and BJ knew he was starting to change.