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On the domestic mystery track, the "family-only" Mango TV launched a new variety show called "Women's Reasoning Society" a few days ago. The show takes "the first all-female serial-style immersive reasoning reality show in China" as a gimmick, and invites six female artists such as Qi Wei, Zhang Yuqi, Li Yitong, Li Xueqin, Tian Xiwei and Zhang Yifan as permanent guests to form a "good reasoning group", and tries to cut in from the perspective of all women, and distinguish it from mature IPs such as "Great Detective", "Escape Room" and "Detective Academy" in Mango's existing fan label.
According to bone data, "Women's Reasoning Society" rushed to the first place in all online comprehensive popularity lists the day after it was broadcast, and so far, it has basically stabilized in the top three of online comprehensive popularity, and only on the day when Mango's own two large-scale hit variety shows "Detective Season 8" and "Endless Sound Treasure Island Season" are updated, "Women's Reasoning Society" will take a back seat, so the overall performance is acceptable.
For Mango, the fixed audience cultivated in the "Ming Detective" series and its subsequent fan variety shows is naturally its main target group, but in addition, "Women's Reasoning Society" has also attracted a group of "original fans". Just as "Star Detective" is a remake of the Korean version of the variety show "Crime Scene", "Women's Reasoning Society" also has Korean comprehensive genes, and "Female High School Reasoning Class", which has received a lot of praise in South Korea and overseas, is the original IP. Therefore, as soon as the wind of the adaptation came out, many original fans brought the glasses of the trial early and waited for the show to be launched.
Since "Star Detective" has achieved a program influence far beyond the original variety show because of its successful localization transformation, whether "Women's Reasoning Society" can achieve a program effect comparable to "Female High School Reasoning Class", let's take a look at the two episodes of the current update.
"The first all-female drama-style immersive reasoning reality show"
Like the name of the variety show "Women's Reasoning Society", "de-masculinization" is one of its important characteristics, and men mostly play the role of NPCs or "dead" in the show, which is also the same in the Korean version of "Women's High School Reasoning Class".
Therefore, the choice of female guests is particularly important. In the Korean version of the program, the production team invited Park Ji-yoon, Jang Do-yeon, Jae Jae, BIBI, Choi Young-na five female artists to form a reasoning group, they have different personalities and divisions of labor, Mango also noticed this in the process of giving "Women's Reasoning Society" a tray, and made a corresponding reference.
For example, the eldest sister Park Ji-yoon has served as a permanent guest for two seasons in the above-mentioned reasoning Han comprehensive "Crime Scene", and has relatively rich experience in reasoning fans, which coincides with Qi Wei, who is "sent out by Ming Detective Bao" in the mouth of netizens and serves as a "logic master" in "Women's Reasoning Society".
The second sister is Zhang Duyan, a "comedian" who is proficient in human feelings and is good at observing words and colors, corresponding to Zhang Yuqi, who knows how to use small gifts to make good relations with colleagues on the first day of work, and has a somewhat big personality but can always attract attention by words and deeds.
In addition, there is Jae Jae, who has a funny Internet celebrity temperament, although she is not outstanding, she can occupy the core weight of the team with her superior intelligence and eloquence. Obviously, Li Xueqin, the "talented woman of Peking University" who shows both humor and knowledge in "Women's Reasoning Society", takes the positioning route of Jae Jae.
For the remaining two BIBI and Cui Hena, Mango was integrated and supplemented with Tian Xiwei and Zhang Yifan. Among them, Tian Xiwei, who is neither afraid of the dark nor afraid of corpses, assumes the identity of BIBI's "armed shield". The cute qualities of Cui Yingna, who was born in idol, are supplemented by Zhang Yifan, who was also drafted.
As for Li Yitong, he belongs to the sixth person who does not exist in the original version. Judging from the performance in the current show, she is in the middle position of "no tipping, no tailing", with sometimes reliable reasoning and always-on appearance, playing the role of a free person in the entire team, which is a place where the composition of personnel has changed greatly compared to the original.
However, for an all-female reasoning variety show, "Women's Reasoning Society" has done a good job in the most crucial step of selecting resident female guests. Whether it is using Qi Wei, Li Xueqin and other variety show "old people" with a sense of artistic ability to ensure some weight, or relying on the new little flower Tian Xiwei to boost some popularity, the abacus of "Women's Reasoning Society" is hit a little.
The intensity of reasoning is not high, and the threshold is intentionally lowered
After watching the composition of the personnel, we have to look at the program setting again, after all, under the gimmick of all women, the essence of "Women's Reasoning Society" is still a reasoning reality show.
In the content of the first two episodes (each episode is divided into up and down, currently a total of four episodes), the show mainly introduces the first main task of the "Good Reasoning Group", that is, joining the live broadcast department of "1111 New Media Company" as a new employee, and launching a secret investigation into the disappearance of the company's employee Cheng Lala. In the process of investigation, we will also trigger side tasks such as "stand-in anchor", "yin and yang contract" and "employee falling from a building" one after another. Only after all doubts have been reasoned clearly, the reasoning group can be considered complete.
At present, the progress has basically completed the existing branch line, and there is still the second half of the main line waiting for completion. During this period, the reasoning group also carried out some puzzle solving, such as the two highlights in the first four issues are on the variants around knowledge points such as chess and pinyin.
However, compared with the Korean version, the brain-burning puzzle of "Women's Reasoning Society" does not account for a high proportion of the overall space currently exposed, and in the latest issue of the reasoning to clarify the real murder modus behind the "employee falling building" incident, the degree of brain-burning is also relatively rudimentary, and there is no high threshold. This style orientation is very different from the hardcore sense of the original "High School Reasoning Class", and the probability behind it has a lot to do with the production team's preference for strong reasoning and suspense and specific operational capabilities.
In fact, Zheng Zhongyuan PD, who created the Korean version of "Female High School Reasoning Class", was famous for his escape room explosive variety show "The Great Escape" series long before the production of this show, which was also introduced and adapted into another ace variety show "Escape Room" by Mango TV.
Zheng Zhongyuan and his team's enthusiasm for brain-burning reasoning, obsession with suspense atmosphere and immersion, and the momentum of burning funds once brought a good viewing experience to the audience, and this fine tradition was naturally brought into the creation of the follow-up "Female High School Reasoning Class".
And the Gan Yi team that produced "Women's Reasoning Society", the past masterpiece is "Detective Academy Season 5". Because he took over the comprehensive N generation IP halfway, it was difficult to present a strong personal style, so in contrast, the first appearance of "Women's Reasoning Society" was more like the debut of the Ganyi team.
Therefore, perhaps in order to retain more audiences, in the process of introduction, "Women's Reasoning Society" intends to lower the viewing threshold by incorporating "homophonic terriers" into NPC names, adding part-time work bridges that are not related to reasoning but funny part-time work bridges, and other ways to weaken the intensity of reasoning.
Pearl jade in front, how do you look?
If you watch "Women's Reasoning Society" with the barrage open, you will definitely remember the word "houcai" deeply. Along with the spit remarks, the audience's dissatisfaction with the interruption of the immersive reasoning process. It can be said that although "Women's Reasoning Society" has just aired two episodes, the fundamental crux of its "insufficient immersion" has initially appeared.
Especially when the audience has basically clarified the reasoning logic in the plot of the main film, it is still necessary to "repeatedly strengthen and consolidate" in the back of different guests' "psychological feelings> reasoning ideas", which will indeed reduce the coherence of the plot to a certain extent and affect the audience's immersive experience. Compared with the short and often interesting aftermath of the Korean version of "Women's High School Reasoning Class", the editing of "Women's Reasoning Society" is somewhat back.
But that's not enough to be the root cause of the show's "not immersive enough." The puzzle setting that reduces the difficulty in order to achieve the public orientation, the obvious traces of the scene, the slow pace with moisture, and the protagonist of the shot that uses character performance rather than story reasoning all forcibly weaken and dissolve the tension that a reasoning variety show should highlight.
In addition, the resident guests' concentration on solving puzzles and the degree of entry into the character's identity will also have a strong impact on the audience's perception. In the six-person reasoning group, it can be clearly observed that the higher the degree of investment, the higher the activity, in other words, the more important the highlight lens weight, Qi Wei is one of them.
However, in addition to reasoning, "Women's Reasoning Society" still continues the attention that the mango fan complex system has always paid attention to social issues, such as deeply paying attention to the chaos in the live broadcast industry that is currently on the cusp, and giving a certain focus on social topics such as yin and yang contracts, workplace PUA, workplace sexual harassment, and overtime phenomenon.