15 years of "Tiger Mom and Cat Daddy", 16 years of "Little Parting", 19 years of "Little Joy" and "Young Pi"... In recent years, every year's blockbuster dramas must have a place for parenting dramas.
The reason is that this type of drama is real enough and grounded enough, and most importantly, it is because it is enough to make the audience empathize. After all, who doesn't have the trouble of getting a little up, going up, and going to college?
And this year's hit should be the just-broadcast "Grow Up with You".
This drama has only aired 4 episodes, why does Tomato Jun dare to boast for it?
Because the drama was broadcast on the second day of broadcasting, Kuyun ratings ranked first, the market share broke 2, and the network popularity continued to rise, quickly ranking among the most recent hit dramas.
First, the lineup is strong, and the actors are pleasing
The director of "Growing Up with You" is Chen Kunhui, a director who started as a cinematographer.
There are many national dramas in the works directed by him, such as the well-known "Huan Zhu Ge Ge", "Iron Tooth Copper Tooth Ji Xiaolan", "Kangxi Micro Service Private Interview", etc., all of which are from his lens.
After 2011, he began to try to be his own director, and also made many well-known works, such as the hit dramas "Let's Get Married" and "In the Distance", which shows that he has a good skill.
In terms of actors, a group of "parents rookies" were used - Liu Tao, Hu Ke, Li Guangjie, Tao Xinran, each of whom is a good actor with both appearance and strength.
Mrs. Gan, who Hu Ke played in "An Jia" before, was well received, but this time the style came to a 360° turn, playing a delicate Shanghainese; Tao Xinran, a bad guy professional, played a single mother with a bitter life; Li Guangjie and Li Zonghan rarely played their fathers.
However, the most amazing thing is liu tao.
The shawl is rolled in waves, the smart professional clothes, the sense of being unapproachable on Andy's body, and the fireworks of being a wife and mother, the appearance alone has picked up most of the good feelings she lost as a young girl in "The Words of the Great Song Palace".
However, the most attractive thing about this drama is not the lineup, but the plot.
Second, school district housing has become a common anxiety of contemporary parents
Everyone is complaining about the high house prices, but in fact, those houses with a unit price of 780,000 or 100,000 have always been in short supply, because they have been given a name that braves the golden light - "school district housing".
Although the policy of nine-year compulsory education allows every baby to learn, good schools are difficult to find, and school districts are naturally rising. In order to let their children win at the starting line, some parents would rather sell the large villa with a garden and move into the old and broken, just to give their children a brighter future.
However, because everyone sharpens their heads and wants to enter a good school, it often causes a saturation of good school students, and some families can only accept the policy arrangement to let their children go to other schools. Such news can be said to be common, and even bad developers sell houses in the name of school district houses, but in the end they cannot fulfill their promises.
And the protagonists in "Growing Up with You" are exactly 4 such "unlucky egg" families.
Su Xing (Liu Tao) and Xi Bin (Li Guangjie) are a Kochi couple, both of whom have decent jobs and a lot of income. Like everyone else in this class, they know how to enjoy life, and although they have become parents, they still maintain the sweetness of a small two.
No one could have imagined that pulling Yangchun Baixue into the world of the Lower Riba people would be the problem of their son's enrollment.
When the two families first bought a house, they looked at the school district house that the community was the most prestigious and old primary school in the district. But because of the saturation of students, just when their children were preparing to enroll, they were told that they could only attend a newly established school.
Disturbed by this "bad news", it is not only the awakening couple, but also the unlucky families like them.
Lin Yunyun (Ying'er) is a full-time wife, her husband Gu Jiawei (Li Zonghan) is responsible for earning money to support the family, and she is responsible for educating Niuwa.
Lin Yunyun's main task is to cultivate her daughter into a talented child with moral, intellectual, physical and aesthetic work, piano lessons, ballet, French classes are all arranged, in order for the children to go to the best school, the two also specially moved the hukou, the result is not as good as the sky, just stuck on the threshold of admission.
He Jinghua, played by Hu Ke, and Jiang Bo, played by Jia Jinghui, are a pair of parents with big hearts, who adopt a free-range policy for their children and feel that they are not well managed, so they should let their children go to key primary schools and let the teachers help manage them.
Shen Xiaoyan (Tao Xinran) is in a special situation, she is a foreigner, after divorcing her husband, in order to let the children have school, she had to agree to let the court judge the children to her ex-husband who has a local hukou.
For the sake of her children, she endured humiliation and burdens, and still lived under the same roof with her ex-husband, an alcoholic gambler.
When the door of the key primary school was closed, the 4 families were in disarray, and the eight immortals crossed the sea to show their magic, just to help their children fight for a place.
Gu Jiawei and his wife, who are the best in the family, use all family resources, and the old god feels that he will be able to send his children to a prestigious school.
After a series of data analysis, although he was ready to go to a new school, he still stared at the only special tweet student in the legend.
Mr. and Mrs. He Jinghua climbed up to the relatives of the director of the Teaching Office and wanted to get the admission ticket by relationship.
Shen Xiaoyan, who has no power and no power, does not hesitate to touch the porcelain principal at the cost, even if he loses someone, he must fight for the child.
Four different types of families, together spent a robbery called "school district house", who can become immortals from now on, who will become cannon fodder, it is really worth looking forward to.
However, the reason why this drama is good is far from just the discussion of school district rooms.
Third, tutoring classes and happy childhood, what is the right education
Reading has a future, probably the consensus of all Chinese. But when we were young, everyone's way of reading was the same, taking the same class, doing the same homework, which was considered "fair competition".
But gradually, cram schools appeared, and the word "inner volume" actually appeared in the education world at the earliest. Watching other people's children fall on the ground several cram schools a week, even Buddhist parents cannot avoid anxiety.
The awakening played by Liu Tao is such a parent.
At first, she did not pay too much attention to the education of her children, thinking that as long as she could go to a key primary school, everything would be fine, and other people's children would go to cram school during the holidays, but the couple directly sent the child to grandpa's house to let him play carefree.
However, when the desire to enter a key primary school was disappointed, this strong woman in the workplace saw that other people's children were high-intensity training, and she couldn't help but panic and start to prepare various preschool reading materials for her children.
Waking up is still like this, not to mention Lin Yunyun, who is bent on raising her daughter.
They enrolled their children in English, piano, ballet cram school is not enough, in order to make the children more different, but also to learn French, not yet in the first grade, to do a few math test papers a day.
Even if you don't have a talent for painting, you must try to paint and paint to cultivate an artistic atmosphere.
Watching these parents toss and turn like this is really tired for them. But this is indeed the current situation of modern Chinese parents, everyone feels tired, but no one dares to stop - after all, in the face of thousands of troops crossing the canoe bridge before the college entrance examination, no one wants to fall into the river, so everything has to start from the doll.
Just a few episodes, this drama has already explained many pain points in the current society.
Judging from the trailer, there will be more discussions about children's education and the way of husband and wife in the follow-up of the play, and it can be said that each point tightly grips the audience's heart.
For how the plot will develop in the future, and what kind of story the children will have after they go to primary school, let's wait and see.
(Rotten Tomatoes Movie Editorial Office: Yang Jing)