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Douban 9.5 points, why can "The Long Season" open the high open and fry away mode?

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9.0, 9.1, 9.2, to 9.3, 9.4, and then 9.5.

On the Douban drama rating list, almost no work like "The Long Season" can walk out of such a perfect word-of-mouth trend: it opened with a super high score of 9.0 points, and then the word-of-mouth steadily came out of the circle, and finally booked the 2023 explosive seats in advance with a score of 9.5 points at the end of the membership stage, creating a rare high-open explosion mode.

Douban 9.5 points, why can "The Long Season" open the high open and fry away mode?

Tencent Video X Theater's first work, "The Long Season", is a god, and director Xin Shuang has also completed his own transcendence.

As a new-generation director, after taking out "Hidden Corner" with a Douban score of 8.8 points in 2020, dormant for 3 years brought a "Long Season" with a different style, and compared with the previous work, new solutions have been carried out in terms of plot promotion, audiovisual language and ideological conception, finding new possibilities for genre innovation for suspense dramas.

What is the innovation of The Long Season? What does its success mean for Tencent's video and drama industry?

Warm, poetic,

Enigmatic season

"The Long Season" tells a series of unexpected stories about several families in a small northern city "Birch Forest" that spans nearly 20 years of history. Entertainment Business Watch chased the content of 12 episodes in one breath, and while being addicted, he also thought of Jiang Wen's masterpiece "Sunny Day".

Because in the traditional narrative, the sixties and seventies of the last century were turbulent and gray, but Jiang Wen used enthusiastic lens language to praise the youth and ignorant feelings of a group of teenagers. Similarly, the Northeast has always given people a sense of depression and depression, but Xin Shuang uses a warm lens to slowly tell the birth, old age, illness and death of small people in the context of the big era, presenting a bright and four-season hot land in the northeast.

Such ingenious capture and presentation gives the cold black earth a realistic temperature, and also makes the portrait of the elderly group seem so real.

Wang Xiang, a former Huagang train driver and current taxi driver, lived forever in the autumn of his son's death for 18 years from 1998 to 2016, and the lingering heart knot was like a deeper and deeper wrinkles on his face, and the pain of losing a child in middle age is difficult to describe with others.

Douban 9.5 points, why can "The Long Season" open the high open and fry away mode?

Gong Biao, the proud son of heaven in the nineties of the last century, was depressed because of love and various reasons, and became a somewhat obese and greasy middle-aged man 18 years later; And 18 years later, Ma Desheng, a retired criminal police captain who lost his wife in old age, has always been obsessed with Shen Mo Wang Yang's case, and is still determined to solve the case in his later years.

"The Long Season" makes time change, Wang Xiang's wrinkles, Gong Biao's hair blessing, and the bald head of the horse team all tell about their aging; But the long autumn seemed to be stagnant, and they were all trapped in the case 18 years ago and could not turn around, until Shen Mo appeared to solve the mystery, the case was solved and the time was changed and moved forward into the winter, completing a cycle of rotation and giving birth to new hope.

Douban 9.5 points, why can "The Long Season" open the high open and fry away mode?

If you dig deeper, the background of the story is of course sad, but the creative team calmly narrates with an almost poetic and romantic lens, coupled with the ubiquitous humor and comedy plot of "Iron Triangle", making this suspense drama interesting and more fascinating, just like the river that Wang Yang and Shen Mo jumped into, there are no waves and swings, but there is a silent magic like a deep flow of still water.

No wonder Douban Gaozan's comments sighed: The music is too nyima with feelings! There is also Fan Wei YYDS, I have watched him play since I was a child, and this year's two suspenseful films won an award! Besides, the director is refreshing, and the aesthetics have nothing to say! Then there is Qin Hao, this makeup is too surprising! It can be seen that the audience's eyes are still good at discovering fine products, giving this drama the greatest recognition and respect.

Douban 9.5 points, why can "The Long Season" open the high open and fry away mode?

Open up new possibilities for suspense drama

The success of "The Long Season" has opened up a new space for suspense dramas, that is, to integrate the narrative style of life flow into the suspense genre and find a new solution to genre innovation.

On the one hand, the entire story is promoted in three lines, smoothly switching in the span of nearly 20 years, giving the characters the length of time to grow and the suspense advance. Wang Yang Shen Mo's first acquaintance in 1997, the shredding case and Wang Yang's death case in 1998, and the deck car case in 2016 are intertwined, showing how Shen Mo rose up to resist in the trouble of sexual assault and staged a "golden cicada out of its shell" criminal drama; How Wang Yang drowned and other key stories to promote the development of the plot.

Douban 9.5 points, why can "The Long Season" open the high open and fry away mode?

Three timelines, three story lines are silky and unfrustrated, reflecting the profound content skills of the main creative team in the creation of suspense, case reasoning, and layer by layer reversal, netizens praised one after another: really invincible and good-looking, the line is buried deeply, and the three-line parallel narrative is not chaotic at all, the actors' acting skills are super good, funny and suspenseful.

On the other hand, what is valuable is that "Long Season" takes suspense dramas as a breakthrough point, and the content of the series shows the changes of the years to the fate of ordinary people, summed up by a divine comment from Douban netizens: What is good is not a murder case but fate, which gives depth to the content of the series.

Douban 9.5 points, why can "The Long Season" open the high open and fry away mode?

This is similar to the movie "The Piano of Steel", in the long process of development, the relationship between people and people, people and fate gradually changes, and what was once nostalgic is gone.

Under the turn of the storm, how Wang Xiang, Wang Yang, Gong Biao, Huang Liru, Captain Ma, Xing San'er and other little people survive by themselves and regain their identity is actually the epitome of every ordinary person in the tide of the times.

More importantly, on the basis of showing universal values such as justice and fairness, the series also conveys the courage of the "elderly trio" to face life positively.

"Look forward, don't look back..." At the end of the episode, the gray-haired Wang Xiang looked at the track, and when he said this sentence with a smile, he infected countless people, he said to Wang Yang, but also to himself who used to drive a train, but also to every audience in front of the screen, such a warm scene pointed out the connotation of the entire series, echoing for a long time.

Douban 9.5 points, why can "The Long Season" open the high open and fry away mode?

X Theater debuts

What to expect from The Long Season?

The success of "The Long Season" is a classic case worth studying, with at least the following multiple layers of significance:

First, for the industry, the success of "The Long Season" once again verifies the value of good content and strengthens the belief in long-term content theory. As we all know, the suspense track is a highly competitive and fully developed subdivision track, and many high-quality contents such as "White Night Chase", "Hidden Corner" and "Black Storm" have emerged, and the audience's aesthetic threshold is also increasing.

However, "The Long Season" can still gain audience recognition through genre innovation, showing that no matter how the industry develops, as long as you polish the content, respect the audience in details, surprise the audience at the turn, and lead the audience in terms of intention and logic, you can gain audience reputation.

Second, for the theater level, this is a two-way rush between X theater and content creators. X Theater gave the "Long Season" creative team enough trust and respect, willing to go on genre innovation adventures with them, and the final result lived up to expectations. The trend of "The Long Season" successfully established the Tencent Video X Theater brand, which can be said to be a win-win creation.

Douban 9.5 points, why can "The Long Season" open the high open and fry away mode?

As a new theater positioned with Chinese quality short dramas, X Theater does not adhere to the industry's genre-based theater model, but takes diversified and high-quality short dramas as the aggregation point, which not only fits the current content consumption trend, but also brings new case references to the theater model.

Next, the first season of X Theater will also launch a variety of themes such as era legends, costume detectives and other boutique short dramas, stylized significantly, full of exploration spirit and genre innovation, so overall, with the good content of "The Long Season" and good results in front, we have reason to expect better performance of X Theater in the future, bringing more dazzling results to the boutique of short dramas.

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