History Series / BayanKo

** So was Joseph's father, Ernesto Santiago, who ended up dead when thugs on a motorbike gunned him down (a common RealLife fate, alas, in one of the world's deadliest countries for journalism in peacetime).

* AnachronismStew: A slight or borderline case with the Lagros municipal office, which still uses IBM Selectric typewriters despite that—assuming this series is set in TheNewTens, since there's no real reason for it not to be—computers in some form can be had even for cheap, even with equipment overpricing as standard procedure. A few CRT-style monitors show up too but even they already feel a bit out of date. Either the office is stuck in a mini-time warp or it's really just that corrupt in there that it can't afford equipment less than a decade old.

** So was Joseph's father, Ernesto Santiago, who ended up a RedShirtReporter when thugs on a motorbike gunned him down (a common RealLife fate, alas, in one of the world's deadliest countries for journalism in peacetime).

* DisappearedDad: Joseph's RedShirtReporter dad has been dead since his adolescence.

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The slowness and tangle of local bureaucratic procedures is something Mayor Joseph, and his chief-of-staff Atty. Karen, come into office trying to change. The flipside of this however is that their insistence on following the rule of law—as for instance in going through proper bidding procedures—makes them look like this trope to Lagros' ''other'' government employees. After all, why go through the slowness and tangle of a bidding phase when, say, the local police already have a longstanding contract with an existing uniform supplier?

''Bayan Ko'' is a six-episode [[UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}} Filipino]] GovernmentProcedural miniseries from Creator/GMANetwork, created by [[{{Showrunner}} Nessa S. Valdellon]], and starring GMA regular Rocco Nacino in the lead role of Mayor Joseph Santiago, as he's sworn-in as the newly-minted mayor of the small, provincial (every)town of Lagros, in the fictional island province of Sibilan. Also stars LJ Reyes as [[HelloAttorney Attorney Karen Canlas, the municipal chief-of-staff]]; Mercedes Cabral as FemmeFatale Eliza Bauer; and veteran actor Pen Medina as Governor of Sibilan Antonio Rubio Sr.—''and'' his RealLife son Ping Medina as the governor's congressman son Anton, among others.

* HelloAttorney: Atty. Karen Canlas, Mayor Joseph's chief-of-staff, as played by LJ Reyes—very young-looking, cute, and well put-together. [[spoiler:It's little wonder Congressman Anton becomes smitten with her later in the series.]]

''Bayan Ko'' is a six-episode [[UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}} Filipino]] GovernmentProcedural miniseries from Creator/GMANetwork, created by [[{{Showrunner}} Nessa S. Valdellon]], and starring GMA regular Rocco Nacino in the lead role of Mayor Joseph Santiago, as he's sworn-in as the newly-minted mayor of the small, provincial (every)town of Lagros, in the fictional island province of Sibilan. Also stars LJ Reyes as Attorney Karen Canlas, the municipal chief-of-staff; Mercedes Cabral as FemmeFatale Eliza Bauer; and veteran actor Pen Medina as Governor of Sibilan Antonio Rubio Sr.—''and'' his RealLife son Ping Medina as the governor's congressman son Anton.

''Bayan Ko'' is a six-episode [[UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}} Filipino]] GovernmentProcedural miniseries from Creator/GMANetwork, created by [[{{Showrunner}} Nessa S. Valdellon]], and starring GMA regular Rocco Nacino in the lead role of Mayor Joseph Santiago, as he's sworn-in as the newly-minted mayor of the small, provincial (every)town of Lagros, in the fictional island province of Sibilan.

This being a series about Philippine politics, it's second nature that Joseph Santiago will run up against powerful, regressive, established political elements, in particular the Rubio dynasty, led by the corrupt, feudal patriarch that is Sibilan's governor, Antonio Rubio. His son Anton (who serves at the same time as Congressman) might not be so on board with the system into which he was born though.

* AnachronismStew: A slight or borderline case with the Lagros municipal office, which still uses IBM Selectric typewriters despite that—assuming this series is set in TheNewTens, since there's no real reason for it not to be—computers in some form can be had even for cheap, even with equipment overpricing as standard procedure. The production design scattered a few CRT-style monitors throughout the office though, but even they already feel a bit out of date.

* AntagonisticGovernor: [[CorruptPolitician Gov. Antonio Rubio]], who rules Sibilan province with the proverbial iron fist, and as part of the Philippine political establishment, is inherently at odds with Mayor Joseph's CleanUpTheTown approach to governance.

* AntagonisticGovernor: [[CorruptPolitician Governor Antonio Rubio]], who rules Sibilan province with the proverbial iron fist, and as part of the Philippine political establishment, is inherently at odds with Mayor Joseph's CleanUpTheTown approach to governance.
* BigBad: [[CorruptPolitician Governor Antonio Rubio]] (again).