Ghost Invasion leads "Horror Month"
Time Network News American dramas are creating their own "horror moments".
After a long period of bumps in the new drama, Netflix finally waited for the long-awaited double hit of word-of-mouth traffic, and this new drama that helped Netflix win back the feeling of the hit was of course the horror drama "Ghost Invasion".
But this October is not only a new horror drama of "Ghost Invasion", due to the launch of streaming horror dramas, this month has become a veritable horror month, in addition to another Netflix "Riverdale" team to create "The Witch Girl Sabina", as well as Hulu's "Into the Darkness" and "Floating Party", the former also opened a new scheduling mode for American dramas.
But horror dramas are not the whole story of October American dramas. Also this month, <b>DC Universe's debut "Titan" was not only officially launched, this teenage superhero drama also gained a good reputation</b>, and this is just the beginning. DC Universe's next original series, Swamp Monster, is accelerating recruitment, and the latest development is that Kevin Duran, the impressive "vampire hunter" in Blood Clan, has joined the series to play the villain.
But DC Universe may not be Netflix's most feared opponent, with the acceleration of Disney's self-media TV channel, not only "Iron Fist", "Luke Cage" and "Daredevil" have been cancelled one after another, Disney's own series "Rocky" limited series has also been nailed down, in addition to Tom Hiddleston is determined to continue to play this well-known role, Marvel boss Kevin Feige is also personally responsible for supervising the show, and "Crimson Witch" and "Falcon and winter soldier" are also planned. If these episodes can really be launched one after another, it will undoubtedly create a powerful Marvel TV universe, thus completely changing the situation that Marvel dramas in the past are not DC drama opponents.
Titans made a great start for DC Universe
After the success of "Star Trek: Discovery", CBS All Access is expanding its "Star Trek" universe, and Yang Ziqiong's independent spin-off based on her character Indy Georgiou in "Star Trek: Discovery" is also in development.
When all the new and old players of American dramas are desperately trying to grab the audience's time, the audience's attention pie is not unlimited, <b>which is exactly the reason why the former "ace drama" "The Walking Dead" only has 5 million viewers per week this season, and the longest-lived magic drama in the history of American dramas, "Evil Force", has also fallen to the lowest rating in history of 0.3, so will Netflix viewers who are now in the sky also have a day of being diverted? </b>No one can predict the future.
But what is certain is that when the game gets more and more lively and more interesting, there will be winners and losers. The only one who can stand in an invincible position in this game is the audience.
<b>U.S. time from October 1 to October 31, 18-49 age group audience ratings (10,000 people / ratings).</b>
<b>American drama horror month, the most successful is the "horror version" of "Our Day"? </b>
"Ghost Invasion" Chinese word trailer
Audiences and the media have come to some surprise with their evaluation of Ghost Invasion. Until then, no one would have considered this classic horror adaptation to be the number one seed in October, and the film version starring Lane Neeson was generally evaluated, and this year's new Netflix family-themed dramas have been hit the streets one after another, and if the series fails, it is estimated that no North American media will be surprised, and it is likely to show an uncertain prophetic look and say: You see, I guessed so.
But the ratings of the series have made many people dumbfounded: IMDB 9.1, MTC rating 81, Rotten Tomatoes 87%, and even surpassed "Madman" to become Netflix's best-received new series this year.
As the highlight of Netflix this year, "Ghost Invasion" has obviously achieved greater success than the new science fiction dramas "Lost in Space" and "Quest", how does such a horror drama that is not optimistic in advance do this?
The main reason is that the audience's long-suppressed expectations for horror dramas have finally been met in this episode. The whole of Hollywood is entering a new golden age of horror films, horror movies are popping up in an endless stream, but which one was the last horror Drama that left an impression on the audience?
<b>"Ghost Invasion" just fills this market gap. The eerie Healy Hills, the horror visual effects created by the special effects, the horror atmosphere that was slowly created, and the excellent performances of a group of actors did not disappoint the audience's frightening expectations. </b>
But what really makes the series a big success is something other than horror.
"Ghost Invasion" focuses on portraying the family element and absorbing the mass market
<b>The series' emphasis on the portrayal of family elements makes the series more in line with the audience's aesthetics. The story of five brothers and sisters who grew up in the most famous haunted house is slowly laid out in various narrative tricks, allowing the audience to follow the director's lens through the thick fog of suspense and spirituality, but finally completely won by the word family. </b>
This is the "Shining" sequel "Doctor Sleep" director Mike Flanagan completed in a horror long drama to complete the technical exploration, only through the length of a TV series of 10 episodes, let the series step by step, multiple clues back and forth intertwined, in order to achieve the effect of the final hit.
<b>In the end, this innovative exploration of horror dramas not only won the success of word-of-mouth, but also broke the dimensional wall of horror dramas and attracted family drama audiences, thus making the series change from a series with a specific audience to a series that absorbs the mass market. </b>
But some explorations are not so lucky, such as Hulu and Hollywood's famous horror film producer Blumhouse's anthology series of new horror <b>dramas "Into darkness"</b>, although the series focuses on the new concept of "one episode per month", thus changing the broadcast habits of American dramas, but the final episode's reputation and traffic are not as successful as "Ghost Invasion".
The horror anthology "Into the Darkness" features the new concept of "one episode per month"
Aside from the quality of the episodes themselves, another hulu issue to consider is that an anthology dramas have never been a huge success, let alone horror anthology, and what makes the series initially eye-catching is that they completely cinematicize the story and present a gorgeous horror aesthetic that has never been seen on a small screen before. And when the audience gets used to it, the empty story behind the series will emerge.
Of course, the failure of the series also reflects another problem: the cooperation between streaming media and well-known film labels such as Blumhouse has not always been successful.
In contrast, it is Netflix and CW "River Valley Town" original production team to create the youth horror drama <b>"Witch Girl Sabina"</b> more successful, under the support of the mature TV series production team and more adequate budget, this and "Riverdale Town" are from Archie Comics, the same comic universe, and even the characters are from archie comics episodes, far more bold, heavier, and cooler than CW dramas.
The series is full of elements of exorcism and witches, like a youth version of "The Exorcist". It's the wonderful chemistry of the same production team and the streaming: the team is still that team, the story is still those stories, and the series is better.
After creating these successes and failures, it's time for Hollywood horror theater players to think about the future of horror production.
<b>DC Universe's maiden voyage was a success, but that's just the beginning of the Marvel DC TV Universe</b>
Compared with the victory and defeat of these traditional streaming players, the performance of another new drama this month is more significant for the platform behind it.
That was DC Universe's first episode<b>, Titans</b>.
This series that brings together a generation of Robin "Nightwing", Raven, Spark, Beast Boy, and vigilante couple Warhawk and White Pigeon, these teenage superheroes, is like the beginning of a series of DC series, and the series for DC is still the number one player of DC dramas - Greg Beranti.
But even the ace producer who single-handedly created a series of DC series such as "Green Arrow" and "The Flash", the individual superhero series in the CW have fallen into a process mode. From the pattern of the story, to the shaping of the characters, and even the lines, there is a similar trend. When superhero dramas become a standardized product, their appeal to audiences is not as good as before.
This time, Titans clearly got rid of these problems. Due to the platform nature of streaming, the same producer can create a new story mode that is darker and more emotional.
Titan
In addition, <b>because streaming dramas have shorter budgets and relatively more abundant budgets, the series has become faster paced than CW, the action scenes have become more dramatic, and the character development has become more direct, thus making it closer in texture to the superhero dramas that are easily accepted and loved by a new generation of audiences. </b>
Of course, what really makes Titan's success crucial is what the series means to the entire DC Television universe. Although this universe is only just unfolding, but one day DC will connect its own episodes, and the first victory obviously predicts the victory of a mode and the appearance of more episodes with different styles than in the past, such as "Swamp Monster" and "Doom Patrol" supervised by Wen Ziren.
DC Universe's success must come a little faster, as next year it will face the ferocious challenge of the newly launched Disney online channel.
Compared to DC's style of play, Disney online channels are obviously more focused on the creation of the Marvel and Star Wars TV universes, and the first step of this plan is to create independent episodes for second-tier superheroes and Star Wars characters who do not have a single movie, and the first to bear the brunt of the Marvel Universe are Loki, Crimson Witch and Vision, Winter Soldier and Falcon.
The Star Wars universe series is the first hit of the "Mandalorian" starring the "Red Viper" of the game of thrones and the unnamed "Star Wars: Rogue One" character prequel series.
Standing behind these episodes are marvel boss Kevin Feige and "Iron Man" 1 and 2 directors Jon Feiru and other heavyweight characters.
Titans is officially trailer
Compared with traditional dramas, these series are likely to be built according to the standards of blockbusters, and the emergence of these series is likely to mean the arrival of an era of Hollywood TV blockbusters, which will undoubtedly further rewrite the rules of the game of Hollywood TV dramas.
In the past, Netflix was a game changer, but when the disruptor became the subversive, the new changes began.
That's what makes this story the most appealing: disruption.
<b>Amazon HBO's blockbuster drama has not exploded, why did the veteran producers of American dramas collectively lose their hands? </b>
Compared with the re-enactment of Netflix and the first victory of DC Universe, Amazon and HBO are more like the losers of this October, their new dramas have not been able to become the protagonists of October, and behind these two defeats stands an American drama ace producer.
Amazon's new drama is the ambition of Matthew Wiener, screenwriter of "The Sopranos" and "Mad Men", and "Descendants of Romanov", which has amassed an Oscar lineup.
Descendants of Romanov is the ambition of Mad Men screenwriter Matthew Wiener
Compared with the successful works of the creator's past, the series is more like a long-form literary film, telling the independent story of the descendants of the last royal family of the Russian tsar, Romanov, in seven different cities, including New York, Paris, and Mexico. The series is exquisite, classical and slow-burning, and even with the star cast of Isabelle Huppel, Jon Hamm, Alan Eckhart, Christina Hendricks, Diane Lynn, Amanda Pitt, and Jack Houston, it still does not look like a commercial blockbuster.
Whether in the industry or in the hearts of fans, Matthew Wiener is already a fine American drama symbol. His Mad Men represents a style and a level. That's why the series can attract so many stars, let Amazon invest a lot of money in it, and get a lot of attention before it starts.
However, to say that the standard of the series is as usual, I am afraid it is a bit far-fetched. It is more like Matthew Wiener's attempt to take the side of the sword, and compared with the previous super high evaluation, IMDB 7.0 is far from a good result, such a title, content and not a blockbuster level of word of mouth, it is doomed to the tepid of the series. For the ambitious Amazon, this large-scale literary drama is not a success.
But the frustration was stronger at HBO, where another classic American drama, the creator, suffered an even more brutal Waterloo: Lena Dunham's new work Camping, which had built "Sisters of Decline."
Like Matthew Wiener's work, this new show is also star-studded.
Jennifer Garner, who returned to the small screen for the first time after "Two-Faced Female Spy", The old Doctor Who's Doctor Who David Tennant, and a bunch of American drama familiar faces jointly ensure the quality of the acting skills of the series, but this black comedy that reflects the marriage and family and midlife crisis in the United States with weekend camping, IMDB is only 4.4 points, which is far from the 8 points of "Sisters of Decline". The latest ratings plummeted to 265,000 and 0.07 prove that this black comedy is also unpopular with American audiences.
Camping poster
Within a month, the star-studded new dramas created by the two ace producers have been thwarted one after another, which may be just a coincidence, it is not even enough to show that the creators who have created classic series such as "The Sopranos", "Mad Men" and "Fading Sisters" have lost the ability to make blockbusters, but there may be a hidden inevitability by chance.
As more American drama players pour into the American drama market, the once relatively fixed lineup of American drama creators is also being injected with new blood, creating "Ghost Invasion" is the film upstart Mike Flanagan who has made horror movies such as "Ghost Blindfold", and these new creators will also bring different styles, and eventually bring about the overall evolution of American dramas, in this wave of change, some traditional players will continue to be in the water, such as "Titan" creator Grieg Beranti, and some creators must face the changes in the trend.
Like matthew Wiener's own story in The Sopranos, times are constantly changing, there will always be kings in the streets, and the question is only who the king of tomorrow will be.
October American <b>Drama Promotion:</b>
<b>After watching this tear-jerking horror hit, I am even more looking forward to the sequel to "The Shining"</b>
<b>《鬼入侵》（The Haunting of Hill House）Netflix</b>
Referral Index: ★★★★★
Description: A modern adaptation of Shirley Jackson's classic novel of the same name, telling the story of five siblings who grew up in America's most famous haunted house. As adults, they reunite because of the suicide of their youngest sister and must face reality and inner ghosts.
Comments: First admit one thing: the ending set is indeed almost interesting. But the fifth episode deserves an Emmy Award, and the sixth episode makes people eager to give the Oscar to it, so the series still deserves the biggest surprise of this season of American dramas.
The series is like a horror version of "Our Day", and at the end, it is even found that the warmth is greater than the horror. The tone of the series is heavy, based on the perspective of many people, the alternating elements of time and space are reflected in the level of play, photography and editing, and the time and space transition of several times to unveil suspense is even more magical, and the long shots of the clouds and water stretch the definition of time and space, so that the terrifying psychological nightmare seems to never end that day, and also expands the boundaries of the horror series.
After reading it, I especially admire the courage and execution of the creator. The most difficult thing is not the music, the picture, the performance, the camera, the editing, all above the standard, the difficulty is that the series is repeatedly interspersed between reality and dreams, past and present, real ghosts and psychological fears, but it does not make people feel incomprehensible, and the narrative skills are successful.
Although it is an American drama, the text level is richer than most Hollywood horror films, with family emotional entanglements, confusion caused by childhood memories, intergenerational relationships, thinking about life and death, and even conflicts and reconciliations between parents and children, including diverse and profound life experiences.
The lack of strength in the closing stage to attribute everything to the family made the whole drama less evocative and also lowered the standard of the whole drama. Fortunately, the director's grasp of emotional details is still delicate and sensitive, so that this story with a somewhat loose ending is still not lacking in moving.
This drama not only makes people understand why the director can take over the sequel of "The Shining", but also makes people look forward to the sequel of this classic film history.
<b>The era of DC dramas may really come</b>
<b>Titans DC Universe</b>
Referral Index: ★★★★
Synopsis: The series tells the story of a generation of Robin Nightwing who led a group of teenage superheroes to grow into a team of heroes.
Comments: IMDB 8.3, the media and audiences have been well received, and it is really appropriate to use a teenage hero series as the opening of DC's independent channel.
Raven fighting power and character charm boundless, a generation of Robin and White Pigeon Warhawk CP effect is too good, in the design of the fight scene is very innovative, the regular super British fight and violent fight here has been renovated, the plot development is neat and wonderful, and successfully brought out Batman Lord and Butler's Easter eggs countless, and even for the next appearance of the doomsday patrol to complete the paving, DC fans should be able to see the eyebrows flying dance.
DC channel began to explore the different paths of traditional DC dramas and Marvel dramas represented by "Green Arrow" and "The Flash", darker and more pro-people, the overall style also stepped out of the mode of hero narrative, and the DC universe has more grafting, with the upcoming debut of the second generation Robin, the reputation of the series may be able to go up to the next level.
<b>When Mad Men met Woody Allen</b>
<b>The Romanoffs Amazon</b>
Synopsis: Written, produced, and directed by Matthew Wiener, the first season of the 8-hour anthology links independent stories from around the globe, each with people who believe they are Romanov descendants.
Comments: Still very Much matthew Wiener's style, but with a little more woody Allen flavor, including delicate emotions, a nice opening song and a special urban feel. The director still tells a slow story in his own way, which is quite rare in American dramas. Several of the scenes were handled very well, and the actors played very well, especially Aunt Huper. But it seems that it is not very flattering to broadcast on Amazon, because the series is too literary, even weaker than the story of "Mad Men", and the final topic reputation did not meet expectations, I don't know if it is because of the "water and soil" of streaming media.
<b>The upgraded version of Riverdale won</b>
<b>Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Netflix</b>
Description: Based on archie comics. Sabrina is one of the most popular characters in Archie Comics, but did not appear in Riverdale, after CW announced that it would develop her single-player series, which was eventually taken over by Netflix. The story focuses on the supernatural story of the young witch Sabrina battling the evil forces that threaten humanity.
Comments: IMDB 7.9, although it is the same universe, is much more magical than "Riverdale", and the visual effect is more cool. The series is between magic dramas and youth dramas, but compared to the CW girl tearing plot style retained by "Riverdale Town", the plot of this drama is cleaner and cleaner, and the plot tension is stronger. The heroine, who looks very much like Hermione, deserves especially praise, performing a quirky performance, fully interpreting the aura of Sabrina in the comics. The only puzzling thing is that the North American reputation far exceeds the domestic reputation, is the youth magic drama the favorite of North American teenagers?
<b>Playing horror dramas, Hulu is not yet</b> <b>a rival to Netflix</b>
Into the Dark Hulu
Referral Index: ★★
Synopsis: A new horror anthology produced by Hulu in collaboration with Blumhouse Television, which releases one episode a month. The story will be reminiscent of many horror movies such as "The Shining" and "Snake and Scorpion Beauty".
Comments: The actor's appearance has become the biggest point of view, the black humor paragraph has increased but less of blumhouse's "Escape from Desperate Town" sense of comedy horror, on the horror paragraph is not as good as Blumhouse's "Latent", "Ghost Shadow Record" series, each story section is written very perfunctory, inexplicable character motivation and villain meaningless hunting action, are lazy on the play, the audience is not Amazon and the famous horror film dealer's strong combination, the series is not good, It will definitely make the episode ratings "go into the darkness".
<b>The low-grade beautiful girl version of "Death is Coming" was filmed as a small era of spirituality</b>
Light As A Feather Hulu
Synopsis: The story of five teenage girls who play a game of floating urban legends that lead to a series of supernatural events.
Comments: The story of the development of the face "Midnight Bell" + "Death is Coming" + "Hereditary Doom" finally evolved into a girl urban legend, as a teenager drama, the viewing is acceptable, but the pattern is small, the plot and scene design lack highlights, originally thought to be a dark horror drama, the result is a silly white sweet thriller version of the small era.
The youthful foreplay is too long, and it is a bit banal after entering the horror. The horror version of the small era is not impossible, but the plot needs to have texture. The plot leaves a foreshadowing, it seems that there is a sequel, and I hope that the next wave of horror sisters will continue to work hard.
Rookie Cop poster
<b>The new drama of the male protagonist of "Firefly" and "Spirit Book Detective" is a bit suspenseful</b>
The Rookie ABC
Referral Index: ★★★
Synopsis: Based on a true story, Nathan Felian plays the oldest rookie cop in the Los Angeles Police Department. The protagonist, who is considered by his superiors to be in a midlife crisis, must deal with the dangerous profession of the police like his young companions.
Comments: Nathan Felian has boundless charm, and after losing weight, he has returned to a bit of the "Firefly" era, but he is still slightly old when he is nearly 50 years old and plays a 40-year-old rookie.
Originally thought to be a copy of the "Spirit Book Detective" detective comedy, who knows is a serious inspirational drama, the case design is difficult to innovate, but the victory in the performance of life, the role is grounded, the group portrait character is unexpectedly outstanding, can also perform the middle-aged ambition of the middle-aged inspirational sense, unfortunately the ratings have continued at around 0.8-1.0, although the 20 episodes of the full season booking, but the second season depends on whether the rookie can turn over.
Vampire Descendants poster
<b>The descendants of the CW "vampires" are difficult to support</b>
<b>Legacies CW</b>
Synopsis: The Vampire Diaries and The Vampire Ancestors co-spin-offs, set in the Salvatore School, where 17-year-old werewolves, vampires, witches, triple-blood heroines and other young people with supernatural bloodlines grow up, either becoming heroes or becoming the main villains in the story.
Comments: The story follows the finale of "Vampire Diaries", Matthew Davis still plays his immortal headmaster, hope is replaced by a third version of the actor, the appearance can still crush the whole play, but the combat effectiveness is unexpectedly weak.
All the settings, all the plots, all the characters are in a serious way to continue the routine of the standard cw youth magic drama, of course, but also added the condiment of feelings, the ratings are tepid, and the last incense of the CW vampire drama that once spread all over the United States flashed between the light and the end.
CW Ruin Classic Series?
Poster of The Virgin's Curse
<b>Charmed (CW</b>).
Referral Index: ★
Synopsis: Based on the WB hit of the same name, the background is changed to a modern timeline, telling the story of three sisters Macy, Mel and Madison who live in the university town and discover that they are witches.
Comments: From the script, starring to the production are too weak, completely did not capture the essence of the classic, the plot is warm and swallowed, regardless of the story concept or special effects tension is not in retreat, such a series is filmed, it seems to be used to make people miss the classic.
<b>HBO can't laugh this time</b>
<b>Camping HBO</b>
Description: Based on the British drama of the same name, it tells the story of the male protagonist who was supposed to spend a pleasant camping weekend in nature on his 45th birthday, but accidentally encountered a weekend full of trials and even crimes.
Comments: The group drama is actually very wonderful, the actors' acting skills are in place, but unfortunately, the British story is not satisfied, the emotion is not right, the fun is insufficient, the mid-life crisis meets the American version of the story of menopause, there is only an embarrassing basket left, and the comedy processing of the "Fading Sisters" is not a panacea after all.
<b>Paramount Network's adaptation of the classic is much more reliable than CW</b>
<b>Heathers Paramount Network</b>
Synopsis: The classic Cult film "Sid Sister Gang" tells the story of three girls in the school who form a group "Sid Sisters Gang", and the girl Veronica tries to survive under their influence, but is involved in unintentional murder.
Comments: Campus love mix and match cult and campus horror, surprisingly unexpected zone sense, and completed the perfect upgrade of the classic version, the sister gang spirit core unchanged, the story and casting continue to innovate, thus completing a wonderful era variation, it is recommended that the recent adaptation of the classic CW carefully observe and summarize.