As soon as 2023 began, many popular dramas were launched. And with the end of the suspense drama "The Long Season", the audience has put more attention on the potential hit.
For example, "To Love for a Long Time" starring Yang Zi and Fan Chengcheng is a dark horse in the drama to be broadcast. However, the TV series "To Love for a Long Time" has not been scheduled for a long time, and this group portrait work focusing on youth and life has also consumed a lot of enthusiasm from the audience.
However, the audience did not wait for the launch of "To Love for a Long Time", but waited for the broadcast news of the 36-episode CCTV drama "Ordinary Road". The TV series "Ordinary Road" only aired 2 episodes, and it won a good score of 1 in the ratings, and the potential of "drama king" was revealed in the cast to the happy plot.
Point 1: Legal themes + realistic highlights
Although it is said that works with legal themes have become common in domestic dramas, such themes have the characteristics of professionalism, topicality and low threshold, so they can often broadcast good results.
The previously launched "War of the Roses" and "Lady's Law" are benchmarks for winning ratings and popularity in this genre.
And one of the highlights of the TV series "Ordinary Road" is the legal element. The whole drama focuses on three newcomers in the legal and political industry, telling the story of Pan Yan (played by Guo Qilin), Zuo Na (played by Jin Chen), and Shu Yinan (played by Yan Zidong), under the leadership of senior seniors in the industry, creating extraordinary struggle stories in the ordinary.
Judging from the updated episodes, "Ordinary Road" integrates legal elements and also incorporates many characteristics of life comedy, ensuring that "Ordinary Road" is on a professional and interesting road.
Of course, if a good drama wants to make the audience empathize, it must be grounded enough. And the portraits of the protagonists of "Ordinary Road" are mostly unpretentious workers.
In the final trailer of "Ordinary Road", the protagonist Pan Yan's painting style made the audience smell fireworks as soon as he appeared. On closer inspection, the shared bicycle, striped shirts, windswept hairstyles and huge woven bags all shape the protagonist's ordinaryness.
These real painting style filters are rare in domestic dramas, and of course they have become the highlight of this drama.
Highlight 2: Well-known directors + high-quality screenwriters
For workplace dramas, the professionalism of the script directly determines the quality of the TV series. The reason why "Ordinary Road" has attracted much attention is precisely because he has a high-quality team support.
Director Liu Jin himself is the director of many popular dramas, and in the field of urban workplace, he has two popular works, "Elite Lawyer" and "Ideal City". Among the word-of-mouth masterpieces, he also has high-scoring works such as "White Deer Plain" and "Cliff".
In terms of director strength, Liu Jin is very good at urban workplace dramas such as "Ordinary Road", and he also has the ability to raise the ceiling of this drama, maintain the ratings at the same time, and rush to word of mouth.
Moreover, the screenwriter of "Ordinary Road" Chen Tong is also an old partner of director Liu Jin, and the two have collaborated on "Elite Lawyer" starring Jin Dong, and they will only cooperate more tacitly in the face of "Ordinary Road" with similar legal elements.
From the perspective of the team, the partnership between Liu Jin and Chen Tong is enough to escort the production quality of "Ordinary Road".
Highlight 3: Popular actors + powerful lineup
In fact, judging from the cast of "Ordinary Road", the cast of this drama is still relatively low-key.
Starring Guo Qilin, Jin Chen, Yan Zidong are all actors familiar to the audience, they are very well-known, but the traffic is not top-notch. Getting together can bring a certain amount of popularity to the TV series, but it will not cause blood.
Guo Qilin, who plays Pan Yan, has played the advantages of his old profession, and Pan Yan, who plays Pan Yan in the play, talks a lot, seems to be stunned, but as soon as he opens his mouth, he is a laughing terrier.
From the perspective of character setting, although Guo Qilin has walked out of the comfort zone of male costumes such as "Qing Yu Nian" and "Son-in-law", Pan Yan's character setting is still within the "range" he is good at.
As for actor Jin Chen, he changed his previous label of an urban exquisite woman on the screen, with short and old-fashioned hair, creating a fierce and cold law doctor Zuo Na.
However, the role of Zuo Na also supports many contrasting points. She looks stereotypical and serious, but she also shows her cute side when she encounters awkward situations. For example, she in the trailer, she appeared in a fierce and handsome appearance, but in various accidents, her expression was out of control, and her strength interpreted the speechlessness of the workers.
It is not difficult to see from the plot of the first two episodes that Jin Chen's image shaping of the characters is very delicate, and it has also successfully aroused the audience's desire to chase dramas.
Yan Zidong, who also starred, can be said to be the bearer of appearance in "Ordinary Road". He has a handsome image and a straight figure, but a good handsome guy, with a setting with a "dog" brain, he played Shu Yinan appeared as a social assassin, and his enthusiasm was not inferior to the monkey on Mount Emei, which made the audience remember deeply.
As the protagonists of "Ordinary Road", Guo Qilin, Jin Chen, and Yan Zidong are popular and powerful, and they can fully afford the protagonists of this drama.
In the supporting role table of "Ordinary Road", many powerful people have appeared. Like Zhu Zhu, Sui Junbo, Zhang Zixian, Wu Yufang, they are all powerful actors familiar to the audience.
Among them, Zhu Zhu and Sui Junbo are frequent guests in urban dramas, and they often play some exquisite shopping mall women, which is in line with the audience's imagination of mature women in workplace dramas in terms of image and acting strength. And once, they are also destined to play steadily in the play and bring new surprises to the audience.
And Zhang Zixian, his own drama style is mainly light comedy, his role in "Ordinary Road" is mainly to cooperate with Guo Qilin, who has the same comedy route, to play a smooth Duanshui master, and the strength shows the scenes of a mature professional being severely tortured by rookie newcomers.
As for the last powerful actor, Wu Yufang is a proper powerful drama bone, and has also acted in explosive dramas such as "An Home", "Golden Years", "Love's Ideal Life" and so on. In these works, Wu Yufang often portrays supporting roles with a weak sense of existence, but her acting strength at the level of a film queen determines that her performance is destined to be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
All in all, the cast of "Ordinary Road" gathers popular actors and powerful actors, and in terms of the lineup, "Ordinary Road" is full of confidence and full of highlights.
Of course, "Ordinary Road" has only been updated for 2 episodes, and no one dares to guarantee that this CCTV drama will continue to raise its reputation. But I believe that from the perspective of the three advantages occupied by this show, as long as the publicity rhythm in the later stage is not wrong, "Ordinary Road" can get the ideal broadcast effect.
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