War Of Y (Thai Series)

20 hours of my life (or anyone's time for that matter) that we are never gonna get back. 20 full episodes, each of 1 whole hour, four stories of 5 episodes each, trying to expose the Y industry in Thailand. Although to be honest after first two episodes, I started to watch in fast forward motion, because my intuition was telling me that this will be an ordeal to watch, and man was I right!! But what a mess this was. With a plethora of characters introduced in the very first episode, I was so confused as tow hat really is going on, I had my head scratching. The show is a huge mess in more than one ways, the excessive length being definitely one of it. Also way too many characters, who suddenly disappear for episodes at large only to reappear. There is no way anyone can keep up with this show. And I am shocked beyond words that the series has received generally a favorable review online. Either I am missing something or I have completely lost my taste for content consumption.

Story 1- New Ship

Before the ship, it wasn't easy. But this new era is even harder. In this first story of the drama one of the managers all but prostitutes their actors and goes behind their backs striking deals left and right with only their own wallet in mind. This effects the actor who feels trapped between their manager, an upcoming ship and his ship-partner, with who he develops feelings, but who gets better career opportunities which puts strain on the relationship. The actors mental state is getting more and more unstable until he chooses himself over his career.

Story 2 - War of Managers

The story of a shipped couple who are privately a real couple. Managers and drama clash until the couple is forced to separate. I'm sure some managers do try to exploit or benefit from rookie actors who get poor advice from them but the way this was portrayed in these 5 episodes was quite exaggerated and 99% of the things we saw would merit some jail time for so many criminal acts. 

Story 3 - Y-Idol

A reality search for new actors—who can sing, dance, and act—and the chaos of the Idol Camp. The plot revolves around 2/3 aspiring BL couples. Nobodies' motives are clear, everyone has an agenda and honesty to another or even themselves seems non-existent. This story wanted to highlight the obstacles some of the trainees (in this case, trainees for a BL series) might face like a bad or mismatched partner, a non-approving family, producers/networks who prefer a specific trainee over another, etc., but all these issues were poorly acted and not explored that much because of all the other drama they had to fabricate.

Story 4 - Wife

When one half of a shipped couple has a wife, will their future in this industry be ruined? So what does happen when 1 shipped partner is in love but the other is already in a relationship? 

By the fourth story, I had almost lost my sanity and desire to live and watch anything ever form This Bl industry. This show is sooooo bad. I understand the intentions are maybe novel on trying to sort of expose the behind the scenes and things that possibly happen in the BL world, but man, I have not seen something so stretched and elongated just because to fit in someone's whims and fantasies of making the greatest BL show ever made in the history. I mean, how can one make such a messed up series? Also how much of what is shown in really true or made up or something else, the audience will never know, but just focussing on the subject of this show, it is a HUGE no from me. I just feel I will need the longest break ever from Thai shows to recover from this long running torture that took forever to end. Please have some mercy on your audience. I am so angry, mad and upset and all these new feelings for me while writing this review. I mean there are bad shows but they never claim to be extraordinary, but the audacity of this series is they think its masterpiece in the making, a history for future but instead its a shit show. (0.5/10)