Without selling saccharin, the third season of "Like You and Me Too" makes people who are afraid of love brave

"In previous shows, falling in love may rarely talk about the past." Zhang Shaogang pointed out the significance of this season's "awakening", "We will come with all the guests to recall their past." The purpose of reminiscence is not to draw any conclusions, the purpose is that you need to face up to all the problems you have encountered in the past in your relationship. Because we have sorted out the past, we can have a better expectation and description of the future. ”

From April 6, the third season of "Like You and Me Too" was broadcast exclusively on iQiyi. Jiang Dunhao, Qin Xiaoxian, Ying Cai'er, Zhou Jieqiong, and Zhang Shaogang formed the "Awakening Family", which not only observed the exploration journey of seven high-value single men and women with their own doubts, but also allowed more emotional issues to be discussed in their stories and achieved positive interaction with a broader group of single young people.

A "wake-up" journey through the reality of love

Insight should be hot and cold

"Love is black and white, is it a very correct thing", "I just need love, or do I need marriage", "I'm not sure if I really still have the ability to take the initiative to love", "Work pressure, there is no love for a long time", "At our age, fit is more important than heartbeat"...

In the pilot film of the third season of "Like You and Me Too", each guest comes with their own confusion, but also allows the popular word "black pineapple phobia" to be placed in a serious discussion space. "Black pineapple" is the Cantonese "like you" harmonic sound, have not talked about love because they do not know how to talk and are afraid to fall in love, and those who have talked about love are afraid to fall in love because they have been hurt. From not knowing how to break the circle of fear, to fear of falling in love, to being afraid of companionship, "want to love, but dare not love" has become the social status quo of contemporary young people.

According to the "2021 Contemporary Youth Marriage Status Research Report", 55.5% of people who are of marriageable age (20 to 40 years old) are currently single. In an era of thirst for efficiency, the love "program" of young people has also been rewritten according to the rules. The foothold of the third season of "Like You and Me Too" is to gain insight into the real psychology of young people facing emotional life at present, and present every living "person around you" around you and me.

In the first episode of the show, each guest can generously talk about their emotional attitude and past experiences, whether it is the disappearance of good memories, or the confusion after a long period of solitude, or the unacceptable type, etc., all of which are slowly unfolded in a relaxed way in the show. Not to avoid the heavy and light, nor to deliberately hide, these stories or details convey the power of reality, so that the audience can also be more courageous to awaken their own unconscious "past".

The design of the program mode revolves around "awakening", including "love fragments", etc., advocating that we must face the past calmly and face ourselves in order to better meet the future; menus, song lists, bills, etc. appear before meeting, so that the impressions of male and female guests can be gradually spread out; through the "King's Game" link, we can also open gifts to each other, and also let everyone discover the frequency of mutual resonance, laying the groundwork for a more natural love... The fundamental reason for these designs is not to distinguish between different people, but as Zhang Shaogang said, "There is no correct answer in love, it does not matter whose question it is, the key is whether that person can wake you up and overcome the problem together." ”

It can be seen that the third season of "Like You and Me Too" appropriately "cold thinking" of the current "hot topic", analyzing its social psychological symptoms, and de-falsifying the truth in complex reality, not only finding the real problem, but also giving meaningful "good ideas", and generating its own unique value in the interactive feedback of the audience. Even in the face of "black pineapple phobia", the three processes analyzed by Wang Zhaoyu also directly hit the root cause of the problem, dismantling it step by step, and providing specific steps for breaking the barriers to love.

Flesh-and-blood love group portraits

What is seen is the confusion and expectation of the public

In the solo date between Jiang Linling and Li Junliang, the girl asked: "So you are a girl who likes humor", the boy did not answer the question positively after thinking for a while - this scene directly provoked the "debate" of the guests in the observation room, and when Qin Xiaoxian thought that the "sideways 45 degrees" communication when they first met was understandable, Zhou Jieqiong said that "I like this kind of direct giving, and it is not okay to directly say that I like it or not like it."

The characters in the love group portrait often have differentiated functional positioning and personality colors, and audiences with different orientations can find a favorite one from it.

The interaction between these characters is also full of highlights, people with different personalities collide together, whether it is the directness of CU (Guo Xiyu), in the process of first meeting with the girl, directly confessed that "I chose another"; or Jiang Linling humorously told a cold joke in the voice self-introduction, "Although we are not very familiar now, but when the weather is hot, we will become familiar with it in a while"; or Li Junliang left a blank in his self-portrait and wanted to "leave more possibilities to explore together"; even like Feng Yu, Wang Bei may not have many words to start with... Cheerful or shy, both stimulate new love imaginations.

More crucially, the third season of "Like You and Me Too" creates an opportunity for us to understand the many wisdoms of dealing with emotional relationships, and everyone and every group has the opportunity to get corresponding projection and feedback from them. Wang Zhaoyu also concluded, "Strong social skills do not mean that we can get acquainted with anyone, but that everyone feels comfortable and makes everyone feel more secure in an atmosphere of conversation." ”

When love itself is no longer the focus of attention, people in love, and the very different ways of facing love, have become a mirror for contemporary young people to see their attitudes and tastes. They walk into the program with their own confusion and expectations, including whether they are old enough to help, whether it is too rational or not, and at the same time let the young people with temperature, dare to love, and thinking enter the public vision, presenting flesh and blood love group portraits, awakening more people to be brave to love.

"What's the most anticipated thing to come to the cottage?" When Wang Bei asked this question, Guo Xiyu immediately straightened up, "The first day." In fact, after that, everyone will become more and more familiar, and the state of the first day is a more curious and novel state. "The more active state of engagement of the guests is generating new forces of connection.

The love group portrait extends out, in fact, it is a diversified life sample of China's urban youth. From personal life to social growth, the third season of "Like You and Me Too" is not to hunt for curiosity or conduct a closed love experiment, but to focus on a broader social topic and let people communicate with society in the process. It is this diversity of samples that is a leading role for more audiences, especially urban youth who want to love but dare not love.

Love synthesis creation breakthrough path

It's about making people braver to be themselves

The variety show market in 2022 ushered in a wave of boom with the broadcast of love variety shows. But after several years of development, this type has also begun to extend in the direction of more subdivision verticals. In addition to observing the dating process and attitude of single young men and women, it also extends to more sub-segments of single people over the age of "30+", divorced people, and people who have never been in love.

Although the creative mode and expression perspective of domestic love variety have formed a certain routine, must the direction be narrower and narrower?

The third season of "Like You and Me Too" pulls this genre into a broader vision, and we find that "like you" and "I am also" are just an important clue, and the presentation of the lifestyle, mental outlook, personal pursuit, and emotional understanding of people who dare not love in this process is the potential "unspoken meaning" of this show.

Not only focus on love, but also advocate becoming a more confident and communicative person. As the observation room guest suggested, "When you get along with your friends in the future and enter a new environment, you can also express yourself boldly, confidently, loosely, and humorously" "Sometimes self-confidence is not necessarily initiative, but to interact with everyone with a calm mind."

The third season of "Like You and Me Too" not only presents the process of different young people re-engaging themselves in the process of daring to love, but also advocates people to face the matter of love more courageously through a positive social state or a pluralistic lifestyle.

From the innovation of this show since the three seasons, we can also clearly perceive that today's love market is no longer just a simple superposition of "sweetness", but should be through a fuller, unique character relationship and narrative context to see through and reflect on the emotional state of the current young group. Let the creative pattern of the love complex type jump to a broader value space, and also give the emotional narration a thicker realistic concern. In the face of this set of tensions and contradictions, the third season of "Like You and Me Too" gives a relative balance, thus also handing over a stable and innovative answer sheet for the market.

From the perspective of the platform, behind the third season of "Like You and Me Too" is iQiyi's long-term concern about social pain points, and contemporary youth not only enjoy a single and comfortable life, but also desire the psychological needs of companionship - this insight path also enlightens the breakthrough of love. Although the group portraits depicted in the program cannot be perfect, the brave melody is connected, focusing on real life, and the meaning of observing itself can be released to the greatest extent.

It is not terrible for a certain type of variety show to appear in a bunch, and the creation of specialization, differentiation and quality will naturally take us to find a way out. The new situation opened by the third season of "Like You and Me Too" may only be a starting point; and the imaginative attempts around "awakening" and "bravery" are also on the way, and it is worth looking forward to.