April has not yet ended, and there are two dramas that have ended one after another.
One is the criminal investigation drama "Who Is He", and the other is the spy war drama "Infernal".
Although the two dramas belong to different genre dramas and are not broadcast on the same TV station, they have achieved high ratings without exception.
But unfortunately, it's all rotten.
But it's different, "Who Is He" is the most regrettable, and "Infernal" is the most thorough.
The reason why "Who Is He" is the most pity is because this drama obviously has a good beginning. The high level presented in the first eight episodes is enough to enter the forefront of the history of mainland dramas. But after eight episodes, he began to gradually pull his crotch and went to the abyss of bad dramas, and he couldn't extricate himself.
For the audience, the mood of watching this film was high at first, and then it continued to be low, and finally collapsed to the ground.
That's disappointment, that's regret, that's sighing repeatedly, I can't wait to watch it in the first place, and even send blades to the screenwriter and director.
The first eight episodes are gripping in suspense, detailed and grand. Case after case, case within case, people are caught off guard, unexpected, ups and downs of the plot, suspenseful and fascinating. Once you think of a real case, it is even more chilling and chilling down your spine.
Of course, the actors did not delay their legs, after all, they are all powerful dramas, and they are reasoning and investigating from the perspective of the criminal police, which is the most authentic criminal investigation drama. I saw Wei Guoping, played by Zhang Yi, with his brothers looking for clues in the mountains of garbage, and personally searching for evidence in the sewers, giving people a strong impact, such a scene picture mobilizes not only vision, but also hearing, smell, and devote himself to watching the drama, I have to say that this drama has a level.
The rare scale is also presented to the audience without shying away in this drama, which is a big improvement for the entire domestic drama.
The performance is there, the plot is there, the scale is there, the suspense is there, the detective is there, and everything is so perfect.
I thought that I would continue to perform everything after that, but who would have thought that after 10 episodes, it would take a sharp turn, it seemed to be on the wrong path, lost the way, and finally stumbled all the way, until finally fell into the cliff, can not be said to be crushed, at least half of the body.
In such a criminal investigation drama, the interspersed emotional lines are idolized, and even more than one party, or many. Can understand the role of the emotional line on the characters, what cannot be understood is that it has nothing to do with the main plot, and once dominated the main story, and the proportion is too large.
In addition, the main plot was also shelved, began to expand infinitely, continued to extend new cases, and even came a sweeping and anti-corruption drama in the later stage, mixed with chaos, making people unable to tell what this drama was going to do for a while.
The finale, for those evil elements, is inexplicably emotional.
The black and evil boss Nie Baohua was blown up, and the murderer of the throat cutting case, Jiang Guangshan, was moved to tears by Gu Weidong, and Zhao Gongzi did not dare to explain the human organ trading organization behind the shredding case, and could only be replaced by subtitles, and his umbrella brother failed to appear again.
At the end, the characters were separated from the previous ones, and the closing was quite sloppy.
Even if the screenwriter wants to dump the pot and only wrote the first eight episodes, the rest are not written by themselves, but so what, for this show, it is a failure.
It could have become a high-quality criminal investigation drama masterpiece in recent years, but in the end, he didn't even know his own mother.
The spy war drama "Infernal" is still very different from "Who Is He".
It's not a matter of the subject matter, but the show is rotten from beginning to end, and the end is even worse.
If there is a highlight, it is that "Infernal" has made a very new spy war drama. On the history of domestic spy war dramas alone, it has been 42 years since the first domestic drama in 1981 and the first spy war drama "Eighteen Years of the Enemy Camp". In these 42 years, one spy war classic after another has been born. Therefore, for spy war dramas, there are no latecomers who do not want to innovate and make breakthroughs, but they have already stood on the shoulders of giants, and it is difficult to go to a higher level. But someone has to dare to take this step and be the first to eat crabs.
"Infernal" has finally taken this step.
But this step is really not easy to take.
Give the special agent multiple identities, do suspense with identity, reverse with identity, and reverse every few episodes, just talking about technology, such a density, it is really enjoyable. However, for the audience, watching a drama is not only to see how the director and screenwriter show off their skills, but more importantly, the plot story, actor performance, and theme idea expression. And "Infernal" is quite bad in other respects except for technical proficiency.
But you can't deny it entirely, after all, every aspect has something outstanding.
For example, in the performance of the actors, although the two protagonists are difficult to say, the supporting actors are all superb in acting, Zhang Zhijian and Wang Zhiwen see the emperor-level performances, for the audience, watching them act is really enjoyable. But as soon as he arrived at the protagonist, he was full of discomfort, like sitting on pins and needles, like a mang's back, and like a cattle in his throat.
I really don't know what the starring actors are playing.
Perhaps like "Who Is He", under the moon before the flowers, talking about love, the affectionate eyes, make them self-absorbed and moved, but make the audience disgusting.
Please, this is a spy war drama, this is the anti-Japanese period, as a high-level agent, such a son-daughter love, how can you do a good spy war, isn't this a big delay.
The emotional drama has become a failure again.
In terms of plot story, although there are ups and downs, suspense, and constant reversals, the main plot, acting for nearly thirty episodes, is still rushing for a list, or busy for the identity of several characters, and does not advance the main plot at all.
Isn't this just making up the number of episodes, but it's making up through a higher level of means, thinking that the audience is watching with relish, but in fact, while scolding, watching.
And in the finale, one character after another went offline, and finally the protagonist Lu Feng also died under the dark gun, whether or not to make a sequel, no matter who killed Lu Feng, how can this treatment not make people scold. Because only one much-maligned flower is left, a dispensable, and even somewhat cumbersome character.
Whether it is "Who Is He" or "Infernal", there are similarities and have their own advantages and disadvantages, but it is still somewhat regrettable to end in this way as a genre drama. Even if it has long ended, looking back now, I can't help sighing, if the screenwriter and director were at the beginning, maybe another good drama would have been born.