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The Trainee thai drama review
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The Trainee
21 people found this review helpful
by Finster
Sep 15, 2024
12 of 12 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 4.0
Story 4.0
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 2.0
Rewatch Value 1.0
This review may contain spoilers

Not a BL, NOT an OffGun series!

I feel terrible for OffGun! Going from being the stars of their own series to being relegated to just a side couple with a terrible story. I feel like GMMTV really did them dirty on this series. Instead of an OffGun BL, we get a Bahmee and Tae story with a little Ryan and Jane thrown in. What makes it worse, the BL side couple story is terrible! And I absolutely HATE shows that do a time skip at the end - "5 Years Later". Does anyone like when they do that? It's the laziest form of writing! This is why I ended up not liking "Last Twilight" because of the stupid time jump at the end.

The BL side story was terrible, and I wonder what show the other reviewers at MDL who liked the show were watching! [Spoilers from here on] There was no explanation as to why Jane even liked Ryan. He was a sniveling, clumsy, mistake-prone annoyance. I guess it was because he was cute?

Then, Jane lets Ryan's project get stolen and takes NO responsibility for it; he just disappears and doesn't even contact Ryan who needs an answer as to what happened. Ryan writes several times and Jane leaves him on read! Then, when he finally shows up a couple weeks later - even not coming to the goodbye party for the interns, he just ends their relationship without as much as a discussion with Ryan! He says he's going to Hong Kong for graduate school, and just leaves... and doesn't contact Ryan at all for 5 years. WHAT? When they meet together all that time later, they ask each other "Has anything changed?" and they get back together. There is really no story here, it's not sweet at all, and you literally don't want either couple to be together in the end. I can't remember a series where you are actively rooting against the couples! Bamee and Tae? Bamee cheats on Tae, and then at the end they take a picture with the girl she cheated with? So infuriating! I see a divorce in their future. And as far as Ryan and Jane - I just don't care. They didn't give me anything to care about, and how Jane treated Ryan, I want Ryan to find someone better.

GMMTV better not try again to get viewership for a series by lying and misrepresenting it as a BL by a major couple when it is not! They purposely tricked us to watch this show to get the views by trying to dangle a little OffGun in front of us. Look at the poster! Which couple is front and center? The real main couple of this series is huddled together in the back left! Read the explanation of the show - it's all about Ryan and Jane, although their story and screen time was pitiful. Rarely have I regretted watching a series - but I do this one.
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