Only 5 episodes have been broadcast, and the suspense drama "Long Season" Douban opened 9.0 points!
It is not only the highest-rated suspense drama so far in 2023, but also the highest-rated suspense drama in the past three years. This is another 9-point suspense drama after "The Silent Truth".
Coincidentally, the director is also the director of "Hidden Corner" Xin Shuang, after two years, he returned to the suspense drama again, and he played a king fried again. Although it is no longer the Misty Theater, it is once again hopeful for the entire suspense drama, and it is also the strongest opponent for the Misty Theater.
Previously, "Thirteen Years of Dust" broadcast by the Misty Theater had saved a lot of reputation, but I didn't expect to encounter such a strong opponent this time.
"The Long Season" is not a traditional suspense drama, but opens the mode of "life suspense".
Starting from "Taxi Deck", and then in the transition of two decades and the shuttle of three times, a confusing case of shredded corpses 18 years ago is dragged out. With the reunion of Wang Xiang, Gong Biao, and Ma Desheng, three tired and troubled elderly people, the fate of several families in the "Birch Forest", a small northern city spanning nearly 20 years, was unveiled.
This is another suspense drama with a very Northeast flavor, and in the past two years, it has also given birth to a series of Northeast style suspense dramas such as "Double Detective", "Coward", "Meritorious Past Events in the Northeast" and "Moses on the Plain". However, "Long Season" is different from other genres, and the environment presented is not solemn and cold, but focuses on the warm and sunny, bright and vibrant Northeast autumn, which is very life-like pyrotechnics, and more prominently shows the enthusiastic, positive, optimistic and humorous attitude of Northeast people.
As a suspense drama, the play does not focus on suspense and detectives, nor does it deliberately present the changes of the times, but reveals the unknown sad past behind each character little by little. This is not a single person, but a group of people, a generation, under the great waves of the times, on the crossroads of life, making new choices and moving forward.
Although it does not focus on suspense and detective, there is an atmosphere of suspense fog everywhere.
Deck case, shredding case, sexual assault case, laid-off tide, the mystery of his son's death... The 5 episodes that aired seem slow, but in fact there are undercurrents, and each episode has too many details and clues worth digging. Underneath the bland narrative, there is a chilling abyss of sin.
Lost father, dead lover, reunited old friend, two eras, three story lines interspersed, 1997, 1998 and 2016. The intersection of three lines, time and space are staggered, and the suspenseful and mysterious atmosphere inadvertently chills people's spine.
The narrative of life makes the play look relaxed and natural as a whole, and aside from the shell of suspense, the play focuses the camera on a group of small characters at the bottom, telling their life stories and emotional entanglements.
Fan Wei, Qin Hao, Chen Minghao, the three powerful drama bones even staged "plastic surgery acting", which is amazing.
The middle-aged and elderly makeup of the three people achieved the effect of "fake and real" through physical makeup.
Wang Xiang played by Fan Wei, from the Huagang train driver to the small town taxi driver, under the ordinary appearance, but hidden mystery, seemingly unhurried, with a smile, but with an unusual calm calm and delicate mind, and such a character and Fan Wei are highly suitable, under his weighty interpretation, the image is about to come out, and the gestures are all dramas, once again dedicating the actor-level performance.
And Ma Desheng, played by Chen Minghao, from a criminal police captain to a Latin dance lover, was once dedicated and enthusiastic, but now lazy and free, under Chen Minghao's interpretation, it can be described as a wooden three-pointer.
The most amazing thing is Qin Hao, he plays Gong Biao, rosacea, big belly, dark skin, middle-aged blessing, greasy look, reckless and blindly confident. And this is not weight gain, but physical makeup, which is completely unrecognizable to Qin Hao, and Qin Hao also shows the "Biao" strength on the character to the fullest. From a promising college graduate, after more than ten years of ups and downs, he has become a failed middle-aged man out of shape.
This is also Qin Hao's second cooperation with director Xin Shuang after "Hidden Corner", from the previous "Sven scum" to today's middle-aged greasy, I have to say that director Xin Shuang really dares, and Qin Hao really dares to act, which is what an excellent actor should look like.
Three actors, three characters, the years have left traces of decay on them, which is completely transformed like a living person, and the sacrifice of the three powerful actors for the role is praiseworthy and admirable, and it has taught young actors a good lesson!
In addition, the soundtrack of the play is also unique personality, whether it is the opening or the end, there is a unique soundtrack for each episode, the rhythm of the music and the rhythm of the image complement each other, so attentive and very sincere, in today's domestic dramas are really rare, but also make people reluctant to skip the opening and ending credits.
"The Long Season" combines suspense with realism, and integrates pyrotechnics and poetry into the narrative with a unique audiovisual language, greatly expanding the dimension of the suspense theme. Not only aimed at young people, but also focused on middle-aged and elderly people, presenting a three-dimensional and vivid group portrait, under the suspense, there are small people at the bottom working hard for life, and the warm portrayal of each other.