The House Arrest of Us

- Season 1

(2020)

After years of being together, long-term couple Korics and Q finally decide to get engaged. As part of the Filipino pre-wedding tradition of pamamanhikan, the groom-to-be and his family visit his would-be bride to settle the wedding plans. Things get awry when the families begin to disagree. As Korics' kin backs out and plans to head home, a pandemic hits the metropolis, forcing the government to put it on lockdown. With nowhere else to go, the couple is stuck under one roof with their warring families.

Despite the disagreement between their families, Q proceeds in planning the wedding. Meanwhile, Korics becomes the household's tribute -- the one person allowed to have a quarantine pass and tasked to go out and get supplies. As Korics carries out his task, Q's dad seizes the opportunity to find something he can use against him. Now Q is forced to choose between her husband-to-be and her dad.

Korics tries to win over Q's dad, however, Daddy Sylver has other plans. Q's family helpers Yaya Marie and Mang Roger discover why the couple is rushing their wedding.

Yaya Marie and Mang Roger launch an investigation to prove their suspicion. Q and Korics decide to become fur-parents, unintentionally igniting a fierce competition between the people who raised them.

After seeing Q (Kathryn Bernardo) in a video call with another man, Korics (Daniel Padilla) suddenly feels jealous and this drives him to work out with the men in the house. Q gets paranoid and in turn, starts working out with the women, sparking a battle of the sexes. A betrayal looms in the background.

Power supply in the house goes off, cutting the WiFi and internet connection, and leaving everyone with no distractions. Tensions arise as their anxieties get easily triggered. Engulfed with her emotions, Mommy Zena mindlessly does something that compromises both families.

Mommy Zena gets paranoid as she goes in isolation after feeling COVID-19 symptoms. Korics' family also starts isolating for fear of catching Zena's virus. Meanwhile, Korics tries hard to win back Q.

Heavily guarded and isolated from each other, Q and Korics badly miss each other. Trying to sneak out to be together, they find themselves in the mercy of a family secret that may threaten their engagement.

The two families are in total chaos, pushing Korics to ask Q to elope. Yaya Marie and Mang Roger uncover the families' secret which threatens the wedding.

As Q's family business faces closure, the two families finally decide to have a truce. For the first time, they work together to make ends meet amid the quarantine.

Q and Korics prepare for a simple yet intimate wedding. Things are starting to come together when Berna receives bad news from the province that leaves the family reeling. Old wounds resurface, leading Q and Korics to question whether they are ready to get married after all.

After three months, the travel ban is finally lifted. Korics and his family prepare to go back to the province, leaving Q and her family for good.

Q and Korics go their separate ways. The two ask themselves whether this is their new normal.