Because the United States has its own rating system, not only movies have large-scale dramas, but even TV series and Internet dramas have a very large scale. Many big dramas have very yellow and violent welfare pictures, so that you can't watch it!
In addition to large-scale plots, the selection of American dramas is very extensive, "The Walking Dead", "Spartacus", "House of Cards", "Lust Slave", "Marco Polo", "Morning News" involves zombies, costume wars, politics, erotica, thriller, history, news, dazzling!
And the team filming American dramas, in addition to HBO, starz, Showtime, Cinemax and other veteran teams, Disney+, Netflix, HULU, Apple TV+, Amazon and other websites have joined the competition, so the current gold medal team is more and more, let's take a look together!
HBO
HBO Theater, (English full name: Home Box Office, HBO television network, abbreviated as HBO), headquartered in New York, United States, is a cable network media company, its parent company is Time Warner Group.
The HBO network began broadcasting in 1972, broadcasting entertainment such as movies, music, documentaries, sporting events and other entertainment around the clock.
HBO is also currently the strongest leader in American dramas, and after 22 years of development, HBO's top theater and its sister channel Cinemax have reached 35 million subscribers, accounting for 90% of the US pay-TV channel market. At least 9 out of every 10 U.S. TV channels pay subscribers regularly watch HBO.
HBO's series such as "The Sopranos", "The Wire", "Sex and the City" and "Game of Thrones" and "Westworld" are among the most popular series in American television, and their miniseries such as "Band of Brothers", "Pacific War" and "John Adams" are also sensational around the world.
In addition, HBO has also invested in TV movies such as "Fantasy Life", "Changing the Rules", "Kung Fu Dream", "Saddam Family", "Ordinary Heart", "Elephant" and other TV movies, and the production is exquisite, inviting Kate Winslet, Mark Ruffalo, Julia Roberts and other star celebrities, all filmed in accordance with Hollywood's top drama techniques!
HBO films specialize in low-cost small productions in order to win public praise and enhance HBO's golden brand. "Real Women Are Tangible", "Glory of the United States of America", "Elephant" and other films have also won many honors including the Palme d'Or, the New York Critic Award, the Screenwriters Guild of America Award and many other honors!
HBO's "Game of Thrones", "True Blood", "Six Feet Under", "The Sopranos", "Prison Storm", "Atlantic Empire", "Legend of Fallen Street" and "Roma" are all large-scale hot dramas.
In recent years, there have been many HBO popular dramas, such as "Big Little Lies", "City Girl", "Watch the Earth", "Westworld", "Band of Brothers", "Blood War Pacific", "Dragon Family", "White Lotus Resort", "East City Nightmare", etc., are all must be chased by many American drama fans.
HBO is also committed to expanding its Asian territory, such as the new Japanese female version of "Sherlock", and cooperated with Taiwan to launch the supernatural drama "Psychic Girl" and "The Distance Between us and Evil", cooperated with Hong Kong "Dream Hunting Agent", including the horror series "New Asian Strange Tale", and purchased the hit "The Legend of Zhen Huan", all with huge ambitions!
Netflix
Netflix (Nasdaq NFLX) Netflix Inc. of the United States, referred to as Netflix. is a member-based streaming platform headquartered in Los Gaitou, California, United States.
Founded in 1997, Netflix used to be an online DVD and Blu-ray rental provider, and later focused on video websites, and now they are on an equal footing with top Hollywood companies such as Disney and Warner.
In 2013, Netflix launched "House of Cards" to fight the gods. Director David Fincher + starring Kevin Spacey, the play directly writes that a politician's road to the president of the United States is very dark, and the male protagonist both cheats and plays with women, and engages in conspiracies to kill opponents, which is still very large-scale.
Subsequently, Netflix launched popular dramas such as "Hemlock Grove", "Women's Prison", "Stranger Things", "Copy", "The Crown", "Queen's Chess Game", "Narcos", "Monsters: The Story of Jeffrey Damo" series and so on.
In just nine years, Netflix has spared no expense to create popular dramas, and is now the best in the American drama team! And their "Love, Death and Robots" series, "Cyberpunk: Edge Walker" and other animated series, are also shining!
And they have cooperated with teams around the world to make big dramas, with South Korea "Lee Corpse Joseon", "Squid Game", "Juvenile Court", "I am a relic organizer", with Spain "Money House", with Germany "Dark" and "Brute War", has been successfully deployed worldwide!
Netflix has also been preparing to hit the Oscars and global theaters in recent years, and they have cooperated with big directors such as Spielberg, Martin Cosis, and the Russo brothers to launch popular movies such as "Roma", "The Trial of the Chicago Seven", "The Irishman", "Munich: The Edge of War", "Shocking Rescue", etc., which are favored by fans.
However, although Netflix has thrown a lot of money, their works are also uneven, such as "Marco Polo", "Zombie Campus", "Suriname" and other masterpieces, which are obviously not as expected, so to Netflix still have to watch boutique dramas.
Disney+
Disney+ (D+) is an online streaming platform launched by Disney's streaming service. Launched on November 12, 2019, the platform mainly focuses on film and television content produced by Walt Disney Pictures Group, and is currently the top team of American dramas.
The platform will offer about 7,000 TV episodes and 500 movies. Movies and TV series produced by Walt Disney Pictures Group can be viewed through the platform, including Disney and Pixar animated film series, Disney live-action film series, Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, Disney nature documentaries, etc.
"Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.", "Wanda Vision", "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier", "What if...?" "Daredevil", "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." and other Marvel series, "The Mandalorian", "Boba Fett's Book" and other Star Wars series, as well as "Monsters to Work", "Great White", "Ice Age" and other animated series, each drama is very popular!
hulu
Hulu is an American video website that was incorporated in March 2007 by NBC Universal and Fox. After 09, Disney obtained "full operational control" of streaming giant Hulu from Comcast, and it is not possible that one day it will merge with Disney+!
At present, on the Hulu partner website, you can see the full-length "The Simpsons", "24 Hours" and "Very Suspect" and other new and old TV series and movies for free.
At present, Hulu has launched dramas such as "Do What You Want", "11.22.63", "Dr. Chance", "Polar Assassination", "Famous Sister", "Under the Banner of Heaven" and other dramas, which are popular topics.
The most eye-catching in large-scale dramas are "Famous Sister" and "The Handmaid's Tale"! "The Handmaid's Tale" also won an Emmy Award for Best Drama Series in the Drama Series category and a Golden Globe Award for Best Drama Series in the Television category.
In addition to launching American dramas, HULU also often launches new large-scale films such as "Massacre on the Nile" and "Predator: Prey", while the erotic thriller "Deep Water" and the "Cannibal" theme "Fresh" have also gained good topics, Disney can't make large-scale dramas after all, and the HULU they acquired makes up for this vacancy!
ABC
American Broadcasting Company, Inc, abbreviated as ABC, is one of the three major commercial broadcast and television companies in the United States, funded by advertising broadcasting. Currently, the largest shareholder is The Walt Disney Company, a member of the Disney-ABC Television Group.
With the advent of "Lost", "Desperate Housewives" and "Grey's Anatomy", ABC has three super-rated TV series. Sweep away the sluggish situation in TV dramas. It also makes ABC TV have more audience resources at its disposal.
At present, ABC's popular American dramas such as "Growing Pains", "Lost", "Desperate Housewives", "Fairy Tale Town", "Mature Town", "Revenge", "Grey's Anatomy" and other popular American dramas have become a sensation in the market.
Starz
Starz Cable (formerly used to use Starz!, but has been using Starz since 2005, also known as Starz Network, Starz Television) is an American cable pay television channel that broadcasts Hollywood hit movies and airs some original episodes.
Starz has launched the blockbuster "Spartacus", with the visual sense of the movie "Spartan 300", the realism of "Gladiator" and the nudity of the series "Roma", which is surprising! Such "unscrupulousness" is not only a bargaining chip to establish a male audience, but also a challenge to the largest scale of American dramas.
Starz has also launched popular dramas such as "Holy City", "Leonardo da Vinci's Demon", "American Gods", "Crash", "White Queen", "Power Lust", "Black Sails" and other popular dramas, the themes are relatively bold and feasting your eyes!
Showtime
Showtime is an American paid cable television network, Chinese translated as Entertainment Time Television Network, which is part of CBS Group. Entertainment Time Television Network has opened up the world of gay-themed American dramas, and has broadcast a series of bold and alternative film and television dramas.
IN ORDER TO COMPETE WITH HBO, SHOWTIME PAID CHANNELS HAVE LOCKED IN AN ALTERNATIVE AVANT-GARDE ROUTE, AND BLOOD, VIOLENCE, AND HOMOSEXUALITY ARE ALMOST REPRESENTATIVE THEMES OF THE ENTERTAINMENT TIME TELEVISION NETWORK, SUCH AS THE SERIES "GAY AND MORTAL", "CALIFORNIA LOVE", "BLOODTHIRSTY JUDGE" AND SO ON.
They also launched "Shameless", "Master of Sex", "Homeland", "Tudors", "Twin Peaks", "Bird of God", "American Dancing Man" are all well received.
Cinemax
Cinemax is one of the priority paid channels in HBO Group's (owned by Time Warner) max series, streamed from San Francisco, California. Cinemax also broadcasts late-night in the United States, so it is also known as "skin-a-max" (showing the most skin).
The platform began broadcasting in August 1980, and this channel was proposed by "RobertKulp". "Kulp" introduces Cinemax for all shows only about movies. The schedule is full of movies from the 1950s to the 1970s. Now this platform will show adult movies, in order to make a lot of money!
The most famous drama they launched is "Black Eats Black", a total of 4 seasons, this drama is compact, violence, plasma, beauty, money, action, everything, a word does not match, very enjoyable!
Another big drama is "Femme Fatale", which mainly describes the story of those strong, sexy and dangerous women, which is deeply loved by American drama fans!
Cinemax also has popular dramas such as "Warrior", "Outlaw", "London Gangster", "Counterattack", "Nickelodeon Hospital", "Very Human Trafficker", "The Exorcist Ronin", "Female Snitch Jet" and other popular dramas, which are eye-catching!
FX
FX is short for FX cable network in the United States, FX TV began broadcasting in a large "unit" in Manhattan on June 1, 1994, FX was the pioneer of interactive television, but their broadcast mode did not persist until its success.
The network is best known for its original TV series and National Auto Championship programming, and they also broadcast baseball leagues and hockey leagues. By 2007, FX was watched by 90.6 million viewers across the United States.
At first, it was just a replay of some FOX TV series, such as "The X-Files" and "Haggard Pan Lang/Dragging Family with a Mouth", as well as some Twentieth Century Fox TV series such as "The Merry Doctor Pretty Nurse and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer".
Since 2002, FX has slowly developed into an influential major cable channel, with a mixed reputation for controversial TV series. This began when "The Shield" aired in 2002, a TV series that surprised viewers and critics because of its very extreme plot.
In 2003, "Plastic Surgery Room" continued, and the later "Save Me" and "Rumors" also walked on the forefront without deviation. Unlike other TV networks, FX is always willing to take risks with its series, so it is often controversial.
They have also launched big dramas such as "Rescue in the Line of Fire", "Philadelphia is Always Sunny", "In the Name of Law", "Rich and Floating Clouds" and other big dramas, which are very popular.
Amazon
Amazon, or Amazon, is one of the largest online e-commerce companies in the United States, based in Seattle, Washington. In 2010, Amazon launched the idea of original series to increase the thickness of the $99 annual Gold membership service, so that more consumers can become Amazon Gold members.
In the fourth quarter of 2014, Amazon began using TV ads and billboards to promote its two original series, "Transparent Life" and "Mozart in the Jungle", which were bold in scale and won numerous awards, which began to taste the sweetness.
Then, Amazon launched popular dramas such as "The Man of the High Castle", "The Giant of the Law", "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel", "London Life", "Jack Lane", "The Expanse of the Sky", "Carnival Murder", "Black Robe Pickets", "The Wheel of Time" and other popular dramas, which quickly occupied the mainstream market of American dramas.
Amazon also launched The Lord of the Rings: Ring of Power in 2022, telling the origin of the "Ring of Power" before the "Supreme Lord of the Rings". The first season has a total of 8 episodes and a budget of up to 465 million US dollars (about 3 billion yuan), known as the most expensive American drama in history, although the word-of-mouth controversy is huge, but the benefits are not bad!
In 2021, Amazon also launched an erotic thriller "Voyeur", which looks like the story of "Rear Window" is packaged in curious erotica, with large-scale passion drama and thriller suspense, but the twists and turns are full of loopholes, which is staggering.
At present, Amazon's dramas cover genres such as science fiction, magic, crime, suspense, and biography, and many of them are limited works such as "Mozart in the Jungle", "Carnival Murder" and "Voyeur", allowing the audience to feast their eyes.
Apple TV+
Apple TV+, Apple's streaming business, launched in November 2019, 11 days earlier than Disney+'s launch. Although Apple is not as powerful as Disney's film and television resources, it announced at the time to invest 6 billion in the development of original programs, and also borrowed the market coverage of Apple equipment, invading at a low price, full of ambition.
At the Sundance Film Festival in January 2021, Apple TV+ won the distribution rights to the remake of the film "Listening Girl" at the highest price of $25 million in the entire film festival. And when "Dog Power" swept the Oscar preseason awards, "Listening Girl" came out on top and won the Oscar in a counterattack, which was shocking!
Apple has also started a boutique buying strategy, such as "Greyhound", "Listening Girl", "The Tragedy of Macbeth", and the animated fantasy film "Wolfwalker", which scored 8 points on IMDb, which they bought out heavily.
Apple does dramas, but it is also a difficult bone to gnaw, once regarded by Hollywood as the most difficult sci-fi masterpiece to remake, several projects and died "Base"! Although the quality is not as good as expected, insisting on working with the behind-the-scenes team members of a group of high-scoring American dramas has also brought huge benefits to Apple TV.
Just like "Football Coach", which won the Emmy Award for Best Drama Series in the Comedy category, starring American talk show benchmark Jason Sudeikis, or "Morning News" starring Jennifer Aniston of "Six", Oscar-winning actress Reese Witherspoon, and comedy star Steve Carell, shine!
The adventure series "Amazing Legends" invited Steven Spielberg as a producer, which follows the old version of the "Amazing Legends" series broadcast in the 80s of the last century, telling 5 imaginative stories; The thriller sci-fi drama "Severance" (aka "Life Cutting") is also well received!
They also started the Korean drama route, cooperating with Kim Ji-yun's sci-fi thriller drama "Dr. Mind", and Yoon Rujung, Lee Min Ho, Kim Min-ha starring in "Pachinko" ("Pachinko"), which is an epic drama spanning more than 70 years.
According to the "Pachinko Game" production team, they had approached many platforms with the project, but when they proposed to ask for a production fee of the scale of "The Crown" (about 16 billion won per episode), the vast majority of platforms chose to refuse, and only Apple TV+ was willing to give this funding!
Then, Apple frequently has big moves: British spy war drama "Driftman", crime drama "Shining Girl", female drama "Roar", fantasy series "Serpent of Essex", crime detection drama "Blackbird", science fiction drama "See"... This new platform takes the strategy of "heavy quality and light quantity" as the core and ranks among the mainstream of the market!
CBS
CBS, abbreviated as CBS, English full name (Columbia Broadcasting System) is one of the three major national commercial broadcast television networks in the United States, founded in 1927, released in 2020 the world's 500 most valuable brands, CBS ranked 158th.
Beginning in 1938, the broadcast of "Mercury Theater in the Sky" was broadcast every Sunday night from 8 to 9 o'clock EST, and the team adapted H.G. Wells' science fiction novel "Star War" into a science fiction drama on a whim.
Later, CBC launched popular American dramas such as "The Big Bang Theory", "NCIS", "Ironclad Evidence", "Crime Scene Investigation", "Everybody Loves Raymond", "Bankruptcy Sisters" and other popular American dramas, firmly ranking among the top teams.
In addition, the six major public stations in the United States are CBS, ABC, FOX, NBC, CW and PBS, like this kind of TV station with red roots, because as long as there is an antenna, every family can receive it, in order to protect minors, the control is very strict, and the scale is often very small.
But with the rise of Netflix, Apple, Amazon, Hulu and other American online drama teams, more and more restrictive American dramas began to emerge one after another, and there are many dark horse products of American dramas, often subverting the cognition of ordinary audiences, the content listed in this article is only the tip of the glacier, I hope everyone can get knowledge and fun from it!