April 8, 2023 | Issue 3199
It's been a long time since we last rated Douban's high-scoring works. Since the beginning of this year, the control has been relaxed, the general environment has become better, and the originally cold and silent film and television industry is gradually picking up. There are more movies to watch, and the dismal box office of the past has also risen. Reflected in the series, it is that the topic and traffic of the popular drama are surging again.
This kind of turbulence, in addition to hot searches, there is also a significant phenomenon is the increase in high-scoring dramas on Douban. Although the score of Douban has become more and more inflationary in the past two years, the high-scoring drama still represents a group social psychology.
This time, we selected 8 Douban high-scoring dramas. The highest score is 8.7 points, and the lowest score is 7.2 points.
In the first quarter of this year, the drama with the highest score on Douban was "The Three-Body Problem" with 8.7 points, and the most rated drama was "Crazy" with a score of 770,000 people, and there were 4 dramas that broke 8 points, in addition to the previous two, there were 250,000 people who scored 8.6 points "Go to a Windy Place", and 20,000 people scored 8.2 points "Today Should Be Cheered".
The high-scoring dramas of Douban in the first quarter have truly achieved genre diversification and aesthetic diversification.
Among these works, there are both the suspense drama "Moses on the Plain" with obvious literary and artistic temperament, the costume drama "The Silk Case of Daming under the Microscope" that breaks the topic along the historical context, and "Ligong: Once Upon a Time in the Northeast" that can be called "Jilin's "Ice and Blood Storm"" and the sweet and sadistic mythological drama "Starfall Condenses into Sugar".
Why did they become the favorite of Douban netizens in the first quarter? Here's the specific analysis.
"The Three-Body Problem" 8.7 points
From 8.0 to 8.7, there are 260,000 people grading distances
With a rating of 370,000 and a final score of 8.7 points, "The Three-Body Problem" is the domestic drama with the highest score on Douban in Q1 this year. From the perspective of Douban's rating formation, 5-star and 4-star praise accounted for 85.4%, and 10% of 3-star ratings, and the good reputation of "The Three-Body Problem" is almost uncontroversial.
From the perspective of the industry, "The Three-Body Problem" deserves a high score for roughly two reasons: first, it is expensive to resist the pressure, and under the circumstances of the difficult birth of the movie version and the unoptimistic situation of book fans, the top Chinese sci-fi IP has been shot beyond expectations; The second is that you are redefining the production level of domestic science fiction dramas and helping the series knock on the door of the hardcore science fiction genre.
Judging from the short comment, the reason why Douban fans gave "The Three-Body Problem" a high score is slightly different. Most of the core words of popular short reviews are "directly cut the book", "respect the original work" and "turn the book over", and finally "get food" from the film and television works book fans are ecstatic, and directly go up with five stars. Others are contrasting perspectives. For example, compared with the animated version of "The Three-Body Problem", the peer foil version of the five-star version; Compared with the Netflix version in the shooting, the national confidence version of the five-star version.
It is worth noting that the keyword of most of the Samsung reviews is also "respect the original". It's just that because of too much respect for the original, it is difficult for non-book fans to enter the story. In addition, the choice of a few actors, the slowdown of the pace of "famous scenes", and some lines suspected of misogyny (e.g., Bach is not music that girls will like) have also become the reasons for some of the bad reviews.
The Douban scoring curve of "The Three-Body Problem" is also worth mentioning. The Douban score of "The Three-Body Problem" is 8.0, and the number of scores is 100,000. After more than two months of slow growth, the rating rose to 8.7 when the number of scorers climbed to 360,000. This curve should be used as a reference for the growth of Douban scores for long-tail and slow-hot dramas.
"Go to the Windy Place" 8.6 points
Scoring keywords: rural fireworks, laughter and tears, no traces of performance
When "To the Windy Place" was first broadcast, the editorial department was worried that the slow pace and weak hook would make many impatient viewers abandon the show, but now the Douban score that has risen from 8.3 to 8.6 proves that a considerable number of viewers are eager to watch slow life in domestic dramas.
The series is set in Dali, Yunnan, with fresh and moving rural scenery, the flowers and plants of the farmland in Yunmiao Village, and Xie Granny who loves to play mahjong... Although the plot cannot escape the shortness of the neighbors, the rural style revealed by the small talk soothes the tense nerves of every urbanite, and even once stimulated the local tourism tide.
Judging from the keywords such as "Dali" and "countryside" that appear frequently in five-star reviews, folk customs are indeed an important eye-catching element of healing life dramas. Recently, the drama of the same genre "Restart Life" has been well received, also because the protagonist satisfies the audience's imagination and interest in foreign life every day. In this way, a higher concentration of dialects in "To a Windy Place" may have a stronger sense of substitution. The old people who live in the village all year round speak Mandarin with a straight voice, which is always difficult to believe.
Another important point around the praise is the starring Liu Yifei and Li Xian. Life dramas with weak plots often need to "people lead dramas", Liu Yifei and Li now bring their own traffic, temperament affinity, and naturally suitable for this genre. However, "Go to the Windy Place" is only the beginning of slow life dramas, and as the genre matures, the requirements for actors will become more and more relaxed.
"Crazy" 8.5 points
The triumph of emotional value
If there is only one drama to choose in the first quarter of 2023, it is "Crazy".
Whether it is the effective playback of 9.54 billion (Q1) feature films given by Yunhe Data or the 770,000 ratings of Douban, it fully shows that "Crazy" is a well-deserved blockbuster work.
Blockbuster models mean higher attention and more pickiness. It is undeniable that "Crazy" has also been criticized from the beginning to the final chapter. The slightly hasty finale made many netizens indignant. Although the opening score of 9.1 did not hold, 770,000 people scored a high score of 8.5, still showing its success.
The number of four-star and five-star ratings of "Crazy" Douban accounted for 44.8% and 41.4% respectively, the proportion of three stars was only 12.1%, and the number of ratings below two stars was negligible and negligible. From this data, we can draw two interesting theories. First, compared with the traditional sense of the unfinished drama, netizens are more like a kind of "spring and autumn sage blame" for "Crazy"; Second, most users of Douban like to score soon after the start of the series, and there are not many people in this group who are dissatisfied with the ending and then change the score.
The success of "Crazy" is essentially a victory against emotions. The thrill and refreshment of class crossing brings indescribable pleasure to the audience. In the hot comments of Douban's high praise, descriptions such as "becoming bigger and stronger" and "becoming a big guy step by step" accounted for a lot of ink. Good triumphs over evil, and the roots of evil are thought-provoking.
"Come on today" 8.2 points
Qualified instant noodles, but not a must-eat dish
"Come on Today" is the only comedy to break in among the 8 high-scoring dramas in the first quarter. The drama scored a high score of 8.2 when more than 10,000 people scored, and as of press time, the number of ratings was 23,466, with 8.2 points and stability, 54% of five-star, 45.8% of four-star, and 15.5% of three-star. On the same type of track, still a small dark horse.
This drama is adapted from the 2014 Korean comic "Gauss Electronics Company", and South Korea itself has a film and television version of "Gauss Electronics Company", which only got 7.6 on Douban. In Douban, which has a filter for Korean dramas, the reputation of domestic dramas crushes Korean dramas, which is very rare. Even Korean dramas themselves have not understood: Korean dramas with less than 8 points on Douban must have awkward and regrettable shortcomings in the plot.
In the front row of the Douban comment area, many people are contributing to it, emphasizing that the adaptation time is earlier than Korean dramas, but it is broadcast later than Korean dramas. The battle between the national drama circle and the Korean drama circle has raised the water level of this drama.
To some extent, it also borrows the momentum of a popular starring actor. Many comments that praised the drama and laughed at the end of the meal, and at the end there was another praise, "Wang Hedi's white horse handsome is too cute."
In addition to the fans who scored high scores for starring Wang Hedi to watch the show, most of the 3-star and 4-star evaluations given can be summarized in one sentence: good-looking, but not on top.
The attribute of integrating with short videos makes it fall into the strange circle of "editing is better than the main film", and the not tight rhythm dooms its high-energy famous scenes to evacuate, which can be opened at any time for dinner or abandoned at any time.
As a short review said, "not perfect, but the emotional value provided to me is worth 5 stars", the accurate sniping of workplace waste and the excavation of the pain points of young people's social animal life have made this drama more than expected word-of-mouth returns.
"The Silk Case of Daming under the Microscope" 7.9 points
Scoring keywords: Chinese aesthetics, Ming Dynasty anti-black and evil
100,000 users scored a score of 7.9 for "The Silk Silk Case of Daming under the Microscope" (hereinafter referred to as "Daming") on Douban, which is the best performance of costume dramas in the first quarter of this year.
Ma Boyong's historical novel is a "fragrant gluttony" adapted from film and television dramas. Recent works "Fengqi Longxi" and "Fengqi Luoyang" focus on spy warfare and unsolved cases, and the word-of-mouth scores have their own ups and downs.
The creative perspective of "Daming" goes down the temple hall and goes deep into the people.
More than seventy percent of Douban users gave this drama a high score. Among them, 45.7% of users rated four stars, and five-star ratings accounted for 26.6%.
Douban users' favorability of the series is concentrated in: first, the classical aesthetics in the picture. The Hui-style architecture in the play, as well as the costumes of the characters, bamboo baskets, paper umbrellas and other daily utensils, one by one, highlight the elegant artistic conception of classical aesthetics. As Douban Short Review said: "A new model of Chinese aesthetics, the texture is amazing!" ”
Second, feel refreshed. "Silk Silk" is a tax dispute in the subtleties of history, the stubborn handsome Jiamo pleaded for the people in a dangerous environment, and the defective lawyer and quack officials assisted, and the whole drama shot a cool drama perception that evil does not suppress righteousness.
"This cannot be stored for the time being, otherwise the account will be uneven, and the accountants will hear the DNA move" and "See the microscopic knowledge: a more real ancient anti-gang and eliminate evil". Judging from Douban's highly praised comments, this story has also successfully broken the sense of separation between ancient and modern, evoking the emotional resonance of the audience to punish evil and promote good.
"Moses on the Plain" 7.7 points
The fate of the "academic" episodes - the rating is not low, the controversy is not small
With a rating of 52,000 and a final stable score of 7.7, "Moses on the Plain" is a 6-episode short drama series that was launched at iQiyi Mist Theater, and the single episode reached an astonishing 70 minutes.
Nostalgic atmosphere, extremely realistic art style, soothing rhythm, a large number of non-professional actors... These characteristics common to art films make "Moses on the Plain" very different from other suspense dramas on the market. Such a degree of differentiation has brought a threshold for watching dramas, and has also caused controversy in Douban's word of mouth.
Like this drama, 67% of them give 5-star and 4-star praises, 25.3% of them are 3-star reviews, and the remaining 6.7% are more fierce bad reviews.
Most of the audiences who praised it will list that this film is the same as that of directors such as Hou Xiaoxian, Jia Zhangke, Diao Yinan, Wang Xiaoshuai and other directors, enjoying the rhythm of the still water flowing in the series. Audiences who gave a bad review said that they could not accept a suspense drama launched in the Misty Theater, so daily, so slow, and so authorial.
But I think this word-of-mouth differentiation cannot be explained by the threshold of watching movies.
In the short review of "Moses on the Plain", it was very surprising that famous film critics and expert scholar-type Douban users scored bad reviews. A well-known film critic believes that this drama ignores the difference in the drama structure of film dramas and gives a 1-star evaluation. There is also a senior film director who has been active on Douban for a long time and is respected by the industry and outside, who does not recognize the drama's large adaptation of the original work, giving this drama 3 stars and "The Three-Body Problem" 5 stars.
It can only be said that "controversy" may be a drama with a distinctive author's style, and it will inevitably encounter the fate of word of mouth.
"Meritorious Service, Old Events in the Northeast" 7.6 points
Hovering between excellence and mediocrity, Fan Wei made great achievements
I abandoned the show in episode seven. The owner of the black dance hall raped the wife of the criminal policeman, and the criminal police calmed down under the persuasion of Lao Shang (played by Fan Wei), perfectly missed the rescue opportunity, and the bloody drama began to be staged, making people's blood pressure soar.
But this is at most an opportunity, "Ligong Northeast Old Things" plays the multi-line narrative very boring, which is the biggest challenge to the audience's patience, and the evaluation on Douban also reflects this.
After crossing 8 points at one point, it eventually slipped to 7.6 points, with 64.4% of those who gave 5 or 4 stars positive, 30.1% of 3-star reviews, and 5.5% of bad reviews.
Most people who like the show mention "Ice and Bloodstorm", mention the Coen brothers and Guy Ritchie, which shows that it attracts audiences who love magic and black image style. For these audiences, the text of the series is important, but the spirit of exploration in this field of domestic dramas is more worthy of encouragement, so it is more tolerant when evaluating.
Another type of praise believes that it shows the social style of the 90s of the last century excellently, qigong, aliens, supernatural events in the deep mountains... The nostalgic style is strong without losing texture. At present, domestic dramas that can do this will not be low in scores on Douban.
The audience who gave a bad review recognized the actor's performance, especially gave Fan Wei high praise, but had a lot of opinions on the multi-line narrative and character creation that did not master the fire well. To put it simply, "Ligong Northeast Old Things" is a typical example of having too much appetite but supporting itself.
"Starfall into Sugar" 7.2 points
"Buffalo Sound" pulled popularity and also pulled down the rating
As the finale of the "Honey Trilogy", the score of "Starfall into Sugar" on Douban finally fell at 7.2 points (83,000), lower than the 7.8 points (480,000 people) of "Honey Sinks Like Frost" and higher than the 6.9 points (145,000 people) of "Rock Sugar Stewed Sydney".
Due to the collapse of the reputation of "Who Is He", "Starfall into Sugar" is lucky to become the "gatekeeper" of the high-scoring dramas of Douban in Q1 2023.
Although this drama continues the behind-the-scenes team of "Xiangmi", it has exposed a "corner change storm" during the preparation period, resulting in a low impression. At the beginning of the broadcast, the response was relatively dull, with novel characters, high-density comedy, and generally online acting skills, and after several episodes of broadcasting, it gradually gathered popularity.
The original voice has become a double-edged sword for the show. Soon after the series started, many viewers complained on the Internet that the male number one Chen Xingxu was a "buffalo sound" and "angrily beat the low score". These complaints have made the first wave of hot search drainage. Many young netizens entered the pit with a curious attitude, but they were stuck to the series, which boosted the popularity of Youku station.
In the evaluation of Douban netizens, 5-star praise accounted for a small proportion, only 18.4%, and most of them can be seen to be fans of the two leading actors Chen Xingxu and Li Randi. The performance of the two in this play is indeed eye-catching, so these 5-star praise praise for the starring actor's acting skills and CP sense are often also high praise and short reviews.
The largest proportion are 4-star praise (35.4%) and 3-star medium (35.7%), and the evaluation is more objective, with both approvals and praises. The fairy version of "on the wrong flower sedan to marry the right lang", sisterhood that does not tear up and does not compete with the female, social fear god king VS the princess of words, etc. are common words that are well received. Most of the bad reviews in the early stage came from the spit on the "buffalo sound", and the low plot in the later stage was the most concentrated attack point of the bad reviews, but it still ranked on the high score list as the only mythological drama.
【Text/Five Finger Mountain】