This year, Korean dramas have a suspense genre, but few can be played.
Either the ratings are not good, or under the guise of suspense, they go on the path of strange and chaotic gods (such as the much-criticized "Zhiyi Mountain").
As a lover of suspense films, I feel that there have been fewer and fewer hardcore suspense mystery dramas recently (there are not many wonderful Benguet mystery novels), and more and more social reasoning that is storytelling.
Korean dramas are also this trend, from near and far under the inventory of high-scoring suspense crime Korean dramas, the classic is actually only a few.
This year's hottest suspense Korean drama not only won the best TV series and best screenplay of Baixiang, But Shen Hejun also won Baixiang Emperor.
Although the main suspense, the suspense of who the murderer is has been revealed as early as episode 4.
This drama is what I said earlier, using the case to talk about the realistic social suspense.
The screenwriter has no intention of telling the truth of the case, she is more concerned with the worse "truth" behind the case.
For example, what should you do when you know who the murderer is, but you can't get evidence?
South Korea's constitution even has a "protection ordinance" for murderers, and this magical reality provides a steady stream of inspiration for Korean screenwriters.
"Monster" with a solid script, all the staff excellent acting skills, from 7.9 points to the end of the play rose to 8.4 points, counterattack has become the annual drama.
Even so, in the process of watching the play, I wanted to abandon the show several times, because the pace of the plot was too slow.
In the first 5-6 episodes, the plot mainly relies on the dialogue between uncle He and Lu Zhenjiu, the two male protagonists.
Moreover, I don't like director Shin Na-yeon's shooting method, she really loves to play with structure.
In contrast, he prefers the style of director Kim Chul-gyu of "Flower of Evil", and he has "snatched" the best director award from "Monster".
The only thing that can compete with "Monster" this year is our more popular "Snooping", which not only has a higher score, but also has more than 110,000 viewers.
I remember that when this drama first aired, it was always on the hot search, and the whole network was guessing who the murderer was.
The first few episodes are particularly well written, especially the first episode about the story of Uncle An Zaixu when he was young, which is very emotional, and various 19 forbidden.
This drama uses suspense to discuss a moral dilemma, whether to strangle the fetus with perverted genes in the cradle, that is, how likely is it that the child of the perverted killer is also perverted?
But its biggest problem is that it is too long, the volume of 20 episodes, the playback process has been disrupted, for suspense dramas, the rhythm is disrupted is very affecting the perception.
Screenwriter Cui Lan has written "God's Gift - 14 Days" before, her style is that the front is good to see the flying, and the back writes and begins to mess up, after all, the amount of episodes that are too long can only be filled by water injection.
So I saw that the next few psychopaths all got together, and they were all in a precinct, even the motives and methods of the crime were similar, many people were killed, and the names of people were intricate, making them in the clouds.
I hope that Korean dramas will be on par with Netflix's dramas in the future, and the script will try to be done within 6-8 episodes, and the excitement will be greatly improved.
One of my favorite suspense dramas last year, mixed with various elements such as thrillers and crimes, is still one of the few sugar dramas for the sanity (secret rubbing) of married loving couples.
The show still had a high score of 9.1 in the last episode before the end, and the amnesia terrier at the end was deducted points by many viewers.
The rhythm of a suspense drama I think is controlled by the screenwriter's hands, whether there is a waste play, whether there is a lengthy length of long lines, all depend on the screenwriter.
One of the things that Liu Jingxi writers are particularly bullish about is that they are obviously writing suspense dramas, but they do not engage in the mysterious set at all, clean and direct, and do not drag mud and water.
Sprinkling sugar is not excessive, and the abuse is moderate.
Manifested in the lines and human settings, that is, Lee Joon Ki and Wen Caiyuan, the CP pair, are both happy and unscrewed straight ball players.
As mentioned earlier, I like the style of director Kim Chul-gyu, and the directors of suspense dramas in general like to use editing techniques to create suspense, and if they don't play well, they are mysterious.
You can pay attention to the beginning of each episode of the show, the director's treatment of the plot editing is that each episode unveils a suspense and unfolds the story like a cocoon...
Even in the end, there are 2 episodes to end, the director is still revealing, and the whole process remains high-energy.
If it weren't for Uncle Ha, I think Lee Joon-ki and kim Ji-hoon would have the hope of winning the acting award.
In the end, Kim Chul-gyu won the best director, which is well deserved.
Suspense + fantasy is a subject matter that Korean dramas love to shoot, in which time and space travel is a routine that can never be played badly, either it is off the line, or it has become a classic drama. For example, the following:
Screenwriter Song Zaizheng's fengshen work, and later several of her works all hit the street, and everyone said that nine times may be ghostwriting.
The plot is similar to "Butterfly Effect", the male protagonist Li Jinyu accidentally obtained nine incense sticks left by his deceased brother, so that he can travel back to the past through time and space and change his fate.
This kind of time-travel drama was amazing to watch at the time, and now it may feel general, and even have a lot of bugs.
Because "Zhiyi Mountain" hit the street, everyone also began to suspect that Kim Eun-hee's "Signal", which was canonized, was not her main writer (screenwriters are also a profession that is easy to turn over).
Some people even commented that the plot in "Signal" borrowed from real cases, and the form of dialogue between the two time and space male protagonists borrowed from a Certain Hong Kong film to have the success of this drama.
In any case, after watching this drama at that time, I was still very impressed by the fact that although the two could change the past through parallel time and space, they still could not change the "fact that the world is unfair".
Last year's largest dark horse drama, the suspense drama of the time and space travel type, the volume of 12 episodes, is not a brain-burning, you can watch it in one breath.
Different from other cross-genre themes, this drama takes a group portrait play, and such a setting has advantages and disadvantages.
If the plot is set up cleverly enough, the intertwined fates of all people, after the reasoning of stripping away the cocoon, will certainly produce a dramatic effect far greater than that of a drama with an individual as the protagonist.
This drama did not do well in the first half, making people watch in the clouds, which is also the reason why many people abandon the drama in the middle.
However, once the reasoning process is over, the plot direction begins to become clear, and it looks like it is open and hanging.
The setting of the double male protagonists of Jeong Kyung-so and Park Sung-woong is also real luxury.
Remade from the British drama of the same name, there is a solid script as the foundation, coupled with reliable acting skills, so the look and feel of this drama is very good.
It mainly tells the story of the criminal police who travel back to the past due to sudden accidents, and begin to use modern thinking to solve ancient serial murder cases.
The same theme is also Yin Shiyun's "Train" (Douban 8.0 points), Shen Chenglu's "Turning Time into a Machine" (Douban 8.5 points), and those who like to cross suspense dramas can go to see.
If you prefer a real crime plot, don't miss OCN's suspense drama.
Recently, OCN's suspense drama "Chimera" was ridiculed by the group because the ratings were too low, and I did not watch this one or comment on it.
In the Korean cable station, OCN started by filming criminal investigation dramas, and it is still insisting on it.
It filmed a series of suspense dramas in the early days, and the texture is not even inferior to American dramas, such as the classic TEN series, god's test, vampire prosecutor series, etc.
Among them, my personal favorite is the following one:
This show and the TEN series are the same director, but with a completely different texture.
Kim Kang-woo and Park Hee-soon, the two male protagonists, are completely movie café-level performances, and the screenwriter is said to be in the mixed film circle.
The rhythm of the drama follows the style of British and American dramas, 10 episodes and 10 cases, without dragging mud and water.
It focuses on the fact that only 1% of all crimes are missing, and behind each missing person there is a story involving social justice and moral degeneration.
At that time, after watching this drama, I was looking forward to the sequel every day, and now 6 years have passed, and there is no drama at all.
OCN also has a famous VOICE series, which has been filmed for the fourth season, and those who are interested can also go to see it.
Hardcore suspense dramas are good to watch, but they are not easy to write, and the requirements for screenwriters are very high, and if they are not careful, they are all bugs.
The above recommended high-scoring suspense dramas, some of which are also bug-rich, but have superiority in acting, setting or a certain aspect, and are considered to be the best in suspense dramas.
What are the good suspense dramas, welcome friends to recommend ~