Who would have thought that the first word-of-mouth drama king in 2023 turned out to be a small online drama.
"The Long Season" rose to 9.2 points after an astonishing high score of 9 points on Douban.
Easily surpassed "The Silent Truth" next door, refreshing the highest level of suspense dramas in the past two years.
The lines, witty and funny, rich regional characteristics, the unique charm of the Northeast.
The characters, each with their own characteristics, full of fireworks, all struggle with a tragic fate.
The plot, ups and downs, and the parallel time and space around twenty years ago, will insert a succession of reversals into the story, which makes people more and more addicted the more they watch.
Style, the picture is bright and warm, fresh and healing, but behind the seemingly relaxed but heavy and painful, the high-level black humor tightly grasps the audience's emotions.
Production, each episode lasts 60 minutes upwards, a large number of details are collected, and the advanced lens language presents the audience with a sense of blockbuster vision.
Following "Hidden Corner", Xin Shuang contributed a higher-level work to domestic dramas.
The goose factory that "muffled to do big things" is also really winning.
At present, the plot has developed more than half, the relationship between the characters is basically sorted out, and the most critical questions have surfaced.
Is Shen Mo dead in the end? Is the dumb Fu Weijun the one who threw the corpse? Is Wang Yang really killing as Wang Xiang thought?
What kind of shocking secrets are hidden behind these three people.
Obviously, the comment area has boiled, and the audience has begun to brush up to find clues.
Of course, for an original script, all conclusions now are just speculation.
This time we walk into The Long Season from a different angle.
Combined with the characters, let's take a look at the performance of the actors, in such a high reputation of 9.2 points, who really lives in this "long season".
Seventh place: Li Gengxi (as Shen Mo)
To be able to contribute such a drama king, the actor is of course also contributed.
In Nan Feng's opinion, all the actors in "The Long Season" are not considered dramas, and it is their natural interaction that gives this drama a different kind of wonderfulness.
If I have to choose the one that is not very outstanding, then I will choose Li Gengxi.
Objectively speaking, Li Gengxi's performance in "The Long Season" is good compared with the previous "Knife in the Snow", "Twenty Not Confused 2" or "Flower Moon and Full".
But for the slow pace and euphemistic narrative style of "The Long Season", Li Gengxi's acting skills are not enough to portray Shen Mo's most poignant "miserable" pain point.
Judging from the audience's evaluation, everyone's views are basically the same.
In the main case, Shen Mo is the most central figure.
Through her, Wang Yang met the mute, thus pulling the male protagonist Wang Xiang directly into the case.
Orphans, raised abusive (and possibly even sexually assaulted), their entire lives are shrouded in darkness.
Shen Mo's seemingly pure and restrained appearance and pretentious strong disguise, actually hides and distorts the extreme heart.
And Li Gengxi's performance always feels "almost meaningful".
Wang Yang's jump into the river gave Shen Mo the idea of resisting, and she directly confronted the uncle and asked him to go back.
Uncle's words made her choke.
"People need to know your past, people can love you."
Poke the pain point, just such a bland sentence directly tear the scar, not to mention Shen Mo, netizens are already angry across the screen.
But Shen Mo at this time, dumbfounded, this is not the time to be "numb".
The scale increased, and the more Shen Dongliang said, the more wrong it became.
"Only with uncle, we are a family, only with me forever, you know."
When it comes to this point, resentment, extreme forbearance or fear and grief, you have to give some reaction.
However, Shen Mo did not either.
In the seventh episode of Shen Mo and Uncle "Against Gang", there is praise for Li Gengxi's acting skills in the barrage.
However, Nan Feng felt that at this flashpoint, Li Gengxi only showed two words "force".
All the muscles in the face were straining, including that bluffing laugh.
Here Shen Mo's laughter is deliberately angry, and he can feel the faint provocation, but there is less pervert who finally raised his eyebrows and tore off his disguise after experiencing various abuses.
Or for the suspected "suspended animation" behavior later, to pave the way for the ruthless decision.
In fact, there is less sense of contrast, the strength is not enough to make up, and there are fewer details.
In the laughter that shows the contrast of the characters, Nan Feng feels that Zhang Zifeng's look up in "Detective Chinatown" is actually more interesting.
Subsequently, Shen Mo's completely defensive crying scene was also "almost meaningful".
Finally had the courage to confront the uncle, and no one understood the grievances and pain, and finally unloaded the burden.
A sudden roar startled me, and then I closed my eyes with a grin, but there was no splash.
This kind of crying scene of "light thunder does not rain" is often seen in Li Gengxi's previous works.
But then again, Li Gengxi has performed well.
For example, the emotion of being beaten on the bed, although not to the extreme, is enough to make people enter the play, and there is also a clear emotional transformation in the bridge where he plans to make it clear with Wang Yang to break off the relationship.
It's just that Shen Mo plays a vital role in the core case and is also the most touching role.
The topics involved are sensitive and sharp, and if they can be performed better, the popularity will definitely go up a notch.
Sixth place: Liu Yitie (as Wang Yang)
Liu Yitie's performance is eye-catching.
In "The Long Season", he does not have the violent male appearance of Samsung in "The Road of Life".
Many of the rivalry scenes with actor Fan Wei are online, and sometimes more in place than Li Gengxi.
For example, the two camera transformations, elation and fear and panic, the two emotions are vividly interpreted.
Perfect to match the filter and soundtrack rendering, the contrast also makes people break into a cold sweat.
In Wang Yang, we can see the characteristics of a second-rate son who does not do business.
For example, sitting on a college campus looking around, standing without a look, habitually shrinking shoulders and carrying pockets, and so on.
But Wang Yang's essence is the same as his father's, kind and simple.
He is all idiosyncratic of the times, a little humble.
Sitting with Shen Mo and watching a movie, Wang Yang grasped the shyness of the "young boy" spring heart very accurately.
From the slight shaking of the body to the small expression, it is also a little cute.
Fortunately, he played well.
The few emotional lines in the whole drama are not abrupt, and his liking for Shen Mo is just right, which also makes the audience more curious about the truth of his death.
Fifth place: Jiang Qiming (as the dumb Fu Weijun)
There is not a single line in the whole process, but it is necessary to stand up a character with a tragic life and a cruel personality.
It's not that the ruthless person really can't play Fu Weijun.
Jiang Qiming did it.
He was even chased by the audience to the comment area and asked, "Are you really dumb in reality?"
Fu Weijun, played by Jiang Qiming, is reminiscent of the yellow-haired Li Hongwei in "Crazy".
It looks unremarkable, but it can make the audience enter the play instantly.
There are no traces of performance, and the supporting roles are extremely amazing.
This confused little look and not very clean clothes, I thought that some passerby had strayed in.
When Fu Weijun raised his brother's chin and looked at the other party's injury, his seemingly unchanged expression already revealed a fierceness.
Turning his head again, it's like a changed person.
His vicious eyes were full of murderous aura, his mouth was slightly deflated and he raised his eyebrows, and his patience was not much.
Sure enough, people are ruthless and "don't talk much".
The next second he shot directly, pulled out the rearview mirror of a motorcycle, and gave people two or three strokes to lie down.
What kind of swear words, agitated emotions and vicious expressions, that is useless trellis.
A ruthless character who really kills without blinking, does not need any bells and whistles to bless.
There are no emotional ups and downs, and killings and fights are commonplace.
Fu Weijun is like a "teenager's version of Li Toyota".
And Jiang Qiming really has the strength in Ning Li, and the plasticity is extremely high.
But now we see him indifferent and ruthless, the real murderer of the shredded corpse case is not necessarily him.
Fourth place: Qin Hao (as Gong Biao)
The person who contributed the most laughs in the whole drama.
Authentic Shenyang people, playing Northeast comedy is the right taste.
The character of Gong Biao is the soul that makes "The Long Season" perfect for local characteristics, and a casual spoken word can make people laugh.
Qin Hao also allows us to see more possibilities for middle-aged actors, obviously playing a greasy uncle, but not annoying, there is indeed something.
When Gong Biao was young, he was upright, amorous, had a good job and a bachelor's degree, and was a serious cultural person.
Later, he became out of shape and suffered from diabetes, and he also began to "let go of himself".
Reckless, brainless, and stops whenever something happens.
As soon as he heard that the deck driver was inside, he picked up the two guys without saying a word and went to work.
Without a little strength, he turned his head and blew it with the human girl.
The left sentence "drift", the right sentence "destined to not run", I don't know, I really thought it was his hand.
Whether it's standing diagonally with a pocket in his pocket, or tilting his head with his legs tilted.
In the play, Qin Hao's "death" makes people laugh at a glance.
It is clear that he carries the most baggage in the entire drama, but there is no trace of performance.
Qin Hao played Gong Biao's "Biao" to the fullest, the kind of tiger energy that has no great ability and whistles, but still starts working without saying a word.
At the same time, we can see that when his wife is overwhelmed, he can also take on the responsibility of the head of the family and resolve the crisis in two words.
Gong Biao is the most realistic little person, and Qin Hao's acting skills really don't say.
Third place: Chen Minghao (as Ma Desheng)
Chen Minghao is also too funny.
Although it is only three times, Ma Desheng is the most distinctive character in the entire drama.
In middle age, he was an old criminal policeman with high spirits, and he was a "riotous" and relatively serious little old man in old age.
Qin Hao just has no image baggage, but Chen Minghao is "clear oil" in the play.
In Chen Minghao, I seem to see Fan Wei when he was young, the talent for performing comedy characters.
Ma Desheng is the character who has changed the most in two decades.
Without sparing the slightest detail, Ma Desheng knows how to get along with different people in order to constantly find new clues.
To Wang Xiang, he gave a meal of painting cakes, pretending to recognize his brother, but in fact did not take him to heart at all.
For Shen Dongliang, Ma Desheng clearly saw through the nature of this person, but he could still smile at each other.
The same expression of being confident and seeing through the truth was put on his old face, but he felt differently.
It is clear that he is a well-maintained and delicate old man, but the same expression is obviously shouting helplessness, and there is a bitter face tempered by the years.
The state is very different.
Among the three protagonists, Ma Desheng's setting is not as brilliant as Gong Biao, nor is Wang Xiang's rich, and there are not many scenes.
But Chen Minghao, a Beijinger, can be naturally funny and very brilliant when he is caught between two northeasterners.
It's time for this treasure actor to be discovered.
Second place: Fan Wei (as Wang Xiang)
It can be said that the first half of "The Long Season" was completely carried by Fan Wei.
Director Xin Shuang did a lot of foreshadowing in the early stage, the pace is not fast and the time is lengthy, if there is not enough strength, it will not be able to catch the audience at all.
Suspense is not enough acting skills to make up, Fan Wei can play the bland plot particularly eye-catching, and he plays the male lead beyond the character itself.
The young Wang Xiang is macho and nosy.
A decent job gives him an absolute say at home, neither to his wife nor to his son.
When he saw the old lady picking up garbage, he had to say two words, but the next day when he saw people drying the sheets, he immediately stepped forward to help.
The knife-mouthed tofu heart is Wang Xiang.
He is a bit noble and pretentious, so he will be out of place with his colleagues, and he is not allowed to do things like stealing chickens and dogs
In his old age, he once lost all his scenery, replaced by desolation, and he could not see any hope of life in his eyes.
His wife was separated, his family was destroyed, and Wang Xiang and his adopted son lived alone in the world.
His former arrogance made him pay no attention to his wife's illness and made him unable to express his love for his son.
Their departure caused great trauma to Wang Xiang, who has been living in guilt.
When watching the play, I can deeply feel the comfort of director Xin Shuang's cooperation with Fan Wei.
The director integrates the irony of the times, the tragic fate of the little people, and the attitude to life into the plot characters and pictures, and Fan Wei can just play the feeling he wants.
Because Fan Wei is so natural.
On the surface, Wang Xiang is resourceful, nosy, optimistic and kind.
In fact, he has long understood the coldness and warmth of the world and brought his pessimistic and negative attitude to life into the depths of his heart.
Fan Wei did not deliberately show Wang Xiang's pain and sorrow for losing his child, and even when he found the murderer's back, he smiled and comforted his fantasy son.
But the more funny he is, the more the audience can feel the sadness behind the characters.
The shredding case is not so much the starting point of his bitter life, but his hope to live.
The back of the suspected murderer Fu Weidong made him suddenly wake up after twenty years of numbness, allowing him to reunite with his son when he returned from his dream.
Even when watching Fan Wei's performance, I thought of Zhao Benshan's "Fallen Leaves Return to the Roots".
In the darkness of life, following that little bit of starlight persistently, Wang Xiang is already much braver than us in reality.
First place: Hou Yansong (as Shen Dongliang)
Completely stunning, the most hated character in the entire show, there is no one.
Being able to act the perversion to the extreme in such a cryptic performance technique, Hou Yansong is the one who completely relies on acting skills to get out of the circle.
The three protagonists still have to rely on styling, and only Hou Yansong plays the most extreme character in the most modest style.
Blowing air into the child's wound, the action itself does not have any hint.
Shen Dongliang made it, but nothing was right.
After blowing a word of concern, it is the elders' habitual love for children.
But you look at this old pervert, there is no seriousness, and the squinted eyes are disgusting.
Miraculously, once outside, Shen Dongliang was completely a "normal person".
He found Shen Mo's roommate to understand the situation, and his tone and attitude were exactly the same as those of his elders.
In fact, Shen Dongliang's expression did not change much, but as soon as he arrived in front of Shen Mo, he seemed to have changed as a person.
Buy a dress for your niece and try it to see the effect.
Shen Dongliang would pinch the small lace of the skirt, sort out the bow, and scrape off the child's nose to praise her for her good looks.
There is nothing wrong with just reading the words when he says it, but when he listens to his voice, the two words are "disgusting".
After Shen Mo left, he still had to smell the trademark he had just taken off, the aftertaste.
It seems to be perverted in the bones.
Shen Dongliang also has a scene of facing and showing his personality.
For example, tying up Shen Mo and smoking, arrogant and arrogant in the police station, like a leader inspecting and raising people.
But these are far from the bridge that secretly pokes and pokes the interaction with Shen Mo.
Acting the ordinary plot so that the audience jumped to their feet, Hou Yansong deserved to be a guest professor of Chinese opera.
No matter how long the season is, there must be an end, and the people in this season cannot live in the past forever.
Who is the real culprit behind the scenes, and whether Wang Xiang can get his wish to explore the truth of his son's death, we will wait and see.