The Trainee (2024)

OffGun magic is eternal

If you are looking for realistic yet fun drama this is for you. The trainee is going to resonate so much with you if you have ever interned or worked in your life. Some moments even hit home and makes you tear up a bit. The production is high quality for this one with subtle lessons to the viewer.

Its wonderfully written except a tiny flaw and that is Bahmee and her development in emotional phase. Professionally her growth wad perfect. Pah is a great character for someone like me who came from a small town and studied in an average college and yet har big dreams. He made me cry with his insecurities. Loved Pie because we all want to be her. Hard working and a great friend.

But all my heart goes out to Jane and Ryan. Ryan for being cute and shy yet so assertive when it comes to sharing his feelings and incredibly mature for his age. He is a kind soul and doesnt hold back his feelings. Gun did an incredible job of playing the innocent yet resilient young trainee. His is very convincing and we cry and laugh with Ryan.

Jane steals the show though. Off as hot, strict mentor wad everything. He is bit harsh and high strung on outside but he is an incredible mentor. He takes responsibilities, allow his mentees to learn, give him chances and guide them right. He is all about tough love or in Ryan's case just love. Watching them fall in love was beautifully and made me giggle and kick my feet in air after a long while. Their slow burn wad hotter than lava tbh. JaneRyan burned us all with that scorching chemistry and that's ever green offgun magic for you.

One of the better 2024 BLs. Highly recommend.

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Had potential but ended up average

I really enjoyed the first six episodes, the slow burn was great but after it started to concentrate on the second pair, it became a big disappointment for me. The screentime belonged to Ba-Mhee and her "love interests" while JaneRyan barely spent any time together and if they did, they were jealous, argued, Jane was moody... they had some cute moments but it really wasn't enough after so many eps. It got better in ep 11 but ep 12 was disappointing again as they did the time skip, Jane disappeared for five whole years to study and didn't contact Ryan at all which made him think that he lost interest and his selfish excuse that he wouldn't be able to control himself and stay in Hong Kong... man, Ryan knew nothing about you. He could be worried sick, feel abandoned, rejected, heartbroken and you just can't at least text him without seeing his face... when Anin and Pin can send letters to each other in the age without phones, you can lift up the phone and send him some lovely message so he wouldn't feel worried. It'd be realistic if Ryan found someone else and Jane realized that Ryan was not there to wait for him for those years without getting any texts from him. And then the house hunting being their online chat... I liked it but giving them a scene where they found a house and moved in together would be great. They really could get a special ep just like KhaiThird which would show the domestic moments which they could have without any interruptions

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The most relate story ever

Good story and good acting, this is combination that I love the most. I love BL series, and love to see my fav couple being sweet on screen, but as writer and someone with background in filmmaking, I love well writing stories the most. Honestly it so hard to find a BL series with a good story or well-written script. I feel so lucky to find this series. As someone who work in the field, I find it sooo relatable to me, both in Ryan point of view and Jane point Of view. I been a trainee before and eventually a mentor too. I was so surprised to see something new from Off Gun. This is so different from their past series and I love that they still offer fresh character. Jane and Ryan characters develop in the most natural way, I love it so much. It been my attention to how the writer put effort to side character to grow. All the trainee characters in this series is so relatable. My most fav sequence is probably in episode 6 when Jane asks Ryan why he sulking. Ohh how I love the conversation, it such as good dialog. I hope in the future a creator will put a lot of attention on character and story more than just "Pairing".

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Wasted potential

Honestly this show started of so so good, even from watching the trailer you could feel it would be a good one. Though as we kept on watching the story slowly felt like it was losing it's path and instead of going forward it started moving to different paths. One (and the most important) was the love triangle between Judy, Bahmee and Tae we wasted so much precious screetime for our boys and main couple may I add to a story that not only did it not live up to its hype it threw off the overall vibe of the series. Bahmee going back to Tae because she apparently missed him (more like missed playing mother and child) really did it for me. She completely forgot about her personal growth and her promises to not only Judy but to herself, lost all personality and became once again just Tae's girlfriend that also happens to work now as an AE. It's sad seeing gmmtv waste another gl by turning it back to a heterosexual ship. Gmmtv truly needs to open their eyes and understand just how big GL shows now are. Their actresses deserve so much more and so much better especially since many of them are way better at acting than many of their main men actors.
It was really disappointing seeing how the story ended up especially since they promoted it as a GL couple, I honestly wish they just never did it and use the time to build up Jane's and Ryan's relationship since we barely ever saw them at some point of the series. It got so bad that we got our first kiss and second kiss (the only to kisses between the MAIN couple) at the last two episodes. I hope gmmtv will learn their lesson and not waste such a good show again, because if done right the love story along side with the humour, the beautiful friendship between the interns and later on their mentors, the world building and the directing, the show would have been an easy 10/10 and one of the best shows they ever released.

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Title on point

Off-Gun new drama, of course here I come... As usual, their chemistry didn't disappoint us. But turn out this drama offer us more than typical BL drama. Fair warning, this drama does not focus on Off-Gun relationship, but rather a group of internship & how they become mature in their workplace.

Story about a group of intern that get their first step into workplace. As ordinary people, these bunch youngster also don't know what they did & what to expect in the workplace. They did a bunch of mistake, get yelled at & finally become good at what they did.

Ryan:
> A man that put his feet into the wrong place. Ryan comes to Good Pick to accompany his friend, but mistakenly been called into the interview place. But since Ryan also looked for place to do his internship, he decided to stay around, accepting his position in Good Pick.
> In the Good Pick, he got the fiercest mentor, Jane. Many bad rumoured around the company about Jane, at first, he also almost quit. But when Ryan work with Jane, he realizes Jane not as bad as people talk about him. And of course, since their our main lead, their feeling toward each other also blooms with their closeness.

Tae:
Your typical geek friend. He got internship for editing team. He did his best in the editing team, but that's also mean he started to abandon his girlfriend, Ba-Mhee. And this later will trigger problem for them.

Ba-Mhee:
The girl that went to Good Pick just to become close with her boyfriend, Tae. She got internship as Client Relation (CR). She first thinks CR just pretty girl that sit around do nothing. But when she did her internship, she found out, this work not that easy.

Pah:
Your slow friend. He got internship as art team. He is one slow mind people, not in action, but rather in the way he is thinking & loading information. In Indonesia, we call this kind of friend as 'lemot'. But he's one loyal friend.

Pie:
Lastly, we got Pie. Your awesome friend. She knew what she did, or think she knew. Cause she's ever made short film & get award for it. So, she's got used to with shooting place. But as we always said, work for small project and big project/firm is so different. So yeah, she also got shocked by how in the Good Pick she's nobody & know any better.

That's pretty much the story about our character.. Now what I like & don't

What I like:
+ The pretty realistic workplace. How the intern been treated, Good Pick is really good place to train the intern.
+ How much our groups grow into adult that ready to take their place into workplace.
+ They never shy to said sorry, even if their higher up in the company. Like the Accounting manager, for yelled at Pah several time, but when she knows that Pah literally don't know what he supposed to do for the finance report, cause no one teach him in the team, she apologizes to Pah for being so harsh.
+ Ba-Mhee & Tae learn how to be better in their relationship.
+ This drama for talk about the sensitivity of sexual preferences. I mean with Ba-Mhee, how she confuses of her feeling between Tae & Judy.
+ How trust your partner. Like in Jane & Ryan case in the last episode.
+ How to find your passion no matter how old you are. Like in Jane case.
+ End scene. There are explanation of production house / shooting related at every episode before the credit scene...

What I don't like:
- Their communication are really sucks. Jane - Ryan or Ba-Mhee & Tae

Overall, this one really one good drama. If you hope for romance, just stay away from these. Because we got so little almost no romance, especially Off-Gun.

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I Laughed So Much (10/10 for Offgun!)

I love the setting. It's refreshing to watch different roles & departments that bring a movie alive. I really love this aspect and the aspect of internship is also pretty nice.

The only thing is- I really don't enjoy Tae & Baeh min relationship from the moment they appear on screen. It just doesn't land well on me. That said, Sea looks cute and hot in that glassess!

I pretty much fast forward all non-Off Gun scenes- I just glimpsed enough to know whats going on

OffGun chemistry is SOOOO good- as usual! Its a familiar dynamic done in a different way, which never gets old coz honestly- there's something about OffGun chemistry that's unique to them- which makes me a fan from day 1 till now!

It seems the show these days have a mixed of BL, GL and Hetero- its a hot mess. I miss the old classic BL show where OffGun just falls head over heels over each other- with main screentime on them.

GMMTV- We seriously need a real good OffGun series as main couples, when i say MAIN, i mean- the kind of main where I don't have to fastforward more than half of the show.

Otherwise, I really enjoy OffGUn interaction here- I LAUGHED so much, its been a while I had a real good laugh. Thank you!!!

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Avant-Garde

A very fresh and different series that didn't follow the usual format of a bl. It explores the challenges we all face when we get our first job, combining it cleverly with comedy and romance, while being educating. It had a solid plotline with very well written episodes (for the most part at least) and gave room for all the characters to grow, not just the main ones. Jane and Ryan, as main leads were such an interesting pairing. For me, after "Not me" these two were the best characters portrayed by Off and Gun. They served so much chemistry and I got the butterflies and everything as if watching them for the first time act together.

With all that being said, there were some bumps on the road when it comes to the distribution of the screen time to the point where the development of the main couple became a bit unfulfilling. It's not an exaggeration to say that Off and Gun turned into a side couple in the middle of the show, which was the most disappointing part. Such a great set of characters kinda went to waste. It's one of those rare instances when a show could actually use a few more episodes, because it had so much more to say. Regardless, it's still a great series hence my rating, but it's a bummer because it could have easily been an almost perfect series if there was more care to the main pairing.

I highly recommend it if you like romance, office love or if you're just tired of the same old recipe. If you are not convinced, give it at least a try for OffGun. You're not gonna regret it!

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Great show - don’t be fooled by negative reviews ?

I’m honestly not sure why people are rating it so low, some are valid and constructive whilst others just seem to give it a low rating for the sake of hate.

Either way, despite only being one episode in, I kind tell this is gonna be a show I’ll like to watch.

It’s fun, entertaining- the comedy writing is super funny, the cinematography/producing/directing is of a high quality, and the acting is on point. The plot is also very interesting/intriguing. For one, because it’s relatable, and two, because it’s going to be interesting to see what the finale is going to be like and how it’s going to turn out that way (most significant to me, personally being, how do Jane & Ryan get together and what kinds of struggles they’ll meet along the way).

If anything, know that OffGun has never had a bad series and takes extra consideration into each show they choose, so it’s likely it’ll be enjoyable at least to a good extent, if you’re wary of that.

The one constructive criticism I’ve really seen is of the volume of the music, esp in comparison to the talking volume - which could be easily fixed (it is only one ep so far so don’t worry that much). <- Personally, I was so invested that I didn’t pay attention to that at first. Also I trust that some of the worries about the substance of other characters or the uniqueness of the plot in general, will be fixed as the plot develops :)

Either way, highly recommended watching & seeing for yourself how you feel about it - please don’t go in with preconceived notions as a lot of good effort was put into making it 🙏

Thank you! 😊

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