It's not easy to make a sharp talk show.
With the slogan of "really comfortable", many netizens felt that they could directly change the name to "can't expand and talk".
A lot of disappointment comes from previous expectations, after all, Yi Lijing, Yang Tianzhen, Yang Li, Fu Seoul, anyone who watches it feels that this is a sharp, attitude talk show.
But the truth is that most of the topics in each episode are focused on the guests themselves, and they are very safe. A topic was thrown out, and the content that should have been answered by the guests was dissolved by the four hosts with a word, and I in a word. Even if he asked gossip such as "Is Li Dan a love brain", he couldn't hear Li Dan himself with a complete set of answers.
Among them, Yi Lijing, who has always faced the interview subject sharply, also "showed weakness".
From Ma Yili, Li Sheng to Brother Shui (Wang Yuheng), although Yi Lijing is already the most active question among the four, the sharpness of the topic has dropped sharply, and sometimes looking at the opposite side "playing Tai Chi" does not debunk, so he has never torn anyone's mask again.
This is not the first time viewers have been disappointed with it. As early as in the derivative interview of "The Brother Who Broke Through the Difficulties", Yi Lijing's firepower could not be compared with the interview "Sister Riding the Wind and Waves" a year ago, easily talking, interspersed with games, and the mode was upgraded, but the Douban score slipped from 7.8 points to 5.5 points, and he did not pass.
So, what makes Yi Lijing not sharp? And such a transformation, is it good or bad?
Personality
For most audiences, getting to know Yi Lijing began with "Sister Riding the Wind and Waves".
At that time, Mango TV not only invited 30 sisters, but also invited Yi Lijing, a media person who has been in the industry for many years, to have a dialogue with 15 of them, exploring their views and choices about emotions, careers, and themselves.
In this familiar battlefield, Yi Lijing exerted his professionalism and pursued curious questions, so there are still being spread "whether Wan Qian wants to be popular" and "how many stars is Jingjing" and so on.
"Definition", Yi Lijing and Wan Qian
The internal entertainment industry, which has not seen the emergence of "living people" for too long, has gained some vitality and color because of the brave and fearless sisters (after all, they did not let the program team delete questions or clips) and Yi Lijing, who is obsessed with letting them tell the truth. Because of this, the first season of "Sister" quickly broke the circle, and Yi Lijing's name began to be known by the public outside the media circle.
In the second year, Yi Lijing appeared on the stage of "Spit Conference 5", with an obvious personal performance style, completely sitting on the label of "poisonous tongue".
For example, when ridiculing traffic artists, she said this: "I will do my homework before interviewing guests, but Chen Zhuoxuan has no homework to do." Do you have a work? Song? Movie? Poetry is okay, do you have it? ”
When ridiculing stand-up comedians, she also showed no mercy: "Wang Mian, do you think the championship is well deserved?" Do you want to come up and prove yourself again? You don't want to, because you can't prove it. ”
When facing the main coffee Li Ruotong, she said in a paragraph: "As a middle-aged woman, I wonder, why do middle-aged women pursue girlishness? So what do you let the girl pursue? Middle-aged rich businessman? ”
Screenshot from "Spit Conference 5", Yi Lijing
After this battle (season), Yi Lijing has become a "ghost in the entertainment industry" in the hearts of the majority of netizens. But what needs to be recognized is that the performances on the talk show stage, especially the performances of the guests of the "Spit Conference", themselves need clear label symbols. Before each episode goes on stage, the screenwriter of the program team will conduct in-depth interviews with the guests, dig out their character highlights and interesting experiences, and quickly "package" them. In other words, the character is not clear, the complaining style is not clear, but it is a failed performance, and it is difficult to leave an impression on the audience.
Therefore, Yi Lijing's rhetorical question style and "poisonous tongue" character complement "Spit Conference 5". But with a solid character label, the space that Yi Lijing can play in variety shows has been further compressed.
In the "Goodbye Lover 2" that ended not long ago, there was also Yi Lijing in the observation room, but she was neither a star guest who shared her emotional experience, nor an emotional expert who used knowledge to deal with relationships, and after watching the entire season of the show, Yi Lijing's role has a bit of a mediator flavor, and will have an in-depth dialogue with amateur guests at a certain period. This is very much in line with her profession, but it is not the norm for romances.
Goodbye Lover 2", Yi Lijing
Returning to the current broadcast of "Unfold Talk", Yi Lijing's embarrassment is even more obvious. She is neither a variety show with a lively atmosphere, nor can she play the rights of the questioner.
When everyone else on the scene was a harmonious mess and did not pursue the truth and falsehood, Yi Lijing, who was obsessed with this, became a discordant existence and had to take the initiative to retreat.
As a guest, Pang Bo once said on the show that Yi Lijing is very gentle in private, which may be the truth. But what the audience wants to see, is it her tenderness?
"Unfold Talk", Yi Lijing
Expand and talk, say what?
I have to say that Yi Lijing can choose to give up the question, "Unfolding Talk" does have a big problem.
In fact, Yi Lijing had several "angry" moments.
For example, the title of the third issue is: "Yi Lijing vs. Li Sheng, Yang Li instigated." And the fact is that Yi Lijing had to "confess" first, and the conversation with Li Sheng lasted less than 10 minutes, and Yi Lijing, who was interrupted to ask questions many times, couldn't help but ask Fu Seoul and Yang Li: "Why can you answer this question for him?" ”
Screenshot from the third issue of "Unfold Talk"
At the end of the fifth issue, after hearing the guest Brother Shui say, "You take good care of me", Yi Lijing took the lead in saying frankly: "No, I want to ask you, but they keep interrupting me and won't let me ask you..."
After watching a few episodes of the program, it is difficult not to sympathize with Yi Lijing. When three people on the opposite side solve and explain to the interviewee at the same time, no one can succeed in the "big battle". Even if it is not sensitive to "are you a love brain" and "do you think you are sexy" and other questions.
As a talk show that wants to show its true temperament, "Unfold Talk" currently has many problems in program mode, topic selection, and guest selection.
First, is the "1v4" model really necessary? The official introduction of the program is: four mature women with both eloquence and emotional intelligence, with curiosity about the world, with unique perspectives and interesting souls, in a vacation home called "True Comfort", chat with a visitor every issue about the topic of "sister has no answer". But now, I don't see any visitor coming to discuss with the sisters with questions, and the sisters may be more comfortable talking to each other by themselves.
Secondly, the overall conversation style is mild, which also limits the space for the topic, there are no sharp questions, and there are few thought-provoking answers.
For example, before Li Dan came, Yi Lijing had been saying that he was curious about whether he himself "knew and acted as one", but this curiosity was not responded to at all, and Li Dian's entire speech in "Unfolding Talk" may not have been said as much as a sister, and the audience could not understand Li Dan better after watching it.
In just over 40 minutes, the program group also set up a question session for guests "who is most curious about the four hosts", and sometimes it is a long conversation, and as the audience will also be in a trance: Who is the protagonist of the dialogue?
Besides, is such a setup really necessary? Pang Bo (the fourth guest) didn't remember who he was most curious about when he was recording, and he didn't seem to be too curious.
More importantly, Yang Tianzhen once warmed up the show in his video, saying that "Unfold Talk" will invite guests from "all walks of life", but so far, most of the guests are from her circle of friends, and two of the six episodes are even Xiaoguo's stand-up comedians, and in the sixth issue, there is only one female guest Ma Yili.
As Yang Tianzhen himself said, "It's a man who faces four women will be cramped", so what else can you expect to talk about?
epilogue
Objectively speaking, nowadays, it is not easy to make a sharp talk show.
To some extent, "Unfolding Talk" also has pressure similar to that of "Strange Talk" in later seasons. The seventh season of "Strange Words" plunged headlong into "Gou Ji", creating extreme contradictions in "Gou Ji". At the root of the day, did Mi not misjudge the audience's attention? Or is it actively or passively catering to the increasingly conservative tide of ideas and the black-and-white public opinion environment of today's cyberspace? Many people already have the answer in their minds.
Just a few months ago, "Expand Talk" didn't have that name. After going through the finalization, offline line, name change, and official launch, "This Can Be Said" became "Expand and Talk", and the audience also found that these contents are indeed something that can be said, which can be described as lackluster.
As for Yi Lijing in "Expand Talk", after either actively or passively unable to continue her identity as a "ghost in the entertainment industry", her concession and lack of sharpness may be a necessary transformation from a media person to a celebrity, and it is also a multiple confrontation between personality and self.
Today's Yi Lijing signed a contract with Yixin Entertainment, participated in many variety shows, flew to Europe to participate in fashion weeks, and is getting farther and farther away from the identity of the media person familiar to the audience, and making the audience more and more strange.
But what exactly is the self? The Yi Lijing who kept asking Wan Qian "if he wanted to be popular" was real, or Yi Lijing, who let go of Brother Shui, was real. When the "poisonous tongue" character has a preconceived idea, after enjoying the dividends of the character, it must also accept the consequences brought by it——
Perhaps Yi Lijing, who stepped into the entertainment industry, can only "poison his tongue", otherwise it will disappoint the audience.
"Unfold Talk", Yi Lijing