"Crazy Theater Troupe" premiered, starring Guo Xiaoting and Chen Xinzhe, sitcom, the quality is very good

On June 23, a TV series called "Crazy Theater Troupe" was launched on many genuine video platforms such as Tencent Video, Youku and iQiyi without any preview publicity. This TV series has a total of 23 episodes, a single episode with a plot duration of more than 40 minutes, belongs to the sitcom genre, starring actors such as Guo Xiaoting and Chen Xinzhe.

In our previous sitcoms, the plot duration of each unit was generally between 20 and 25 minutes. And this "Mad Theater Company" has achieved a plot length of more than 40 minutes per episode. This mode of more than 40 minutes of plot duration may be to cater to the mainstream habit of broadcasting on satellite video channels. However, the show did not achieve star broadcast in the end. This is a great pity.

Based on the quality of "Mad Theater", I think its level is still very high, and it should be more advanced in the current sitcom works. Of course, sitcoms have a hard time surviving in the current TV drama market. The reason is really because the audience no longer likes to watch comedy works similar to farces. How to find fun outside of farce is a problem that all sitcoms face.

The first problem that current sitcoms need to face and solve is whether the main structure of the story is established. For example, in our once popular TV series "Family with Children", the main structure of the story is a reorganized family, there are many children, lively and lively, and there are constant problems. This structure is established. Many of our current sitcoms are like farces, and the main reason is that the main structure is not established.

In fact, in recent years, sitcom-like works include the first of the "Love Apartment" series and "Ode to Joy". I'm using something similar here. Like in the first part of "Ode to Joy", several women with different personalities rent or buy to live on the same floor in the same neighborhood and become neighbors, and a lot of interesting things happen between them. This kind of sitcom-like approach may still become a hit.

Back to "Mad Theater", let's talk about its problems first. It has no way to go deeper into life, especially to find the real pain points in life. At present, many urban dramas have begun to dig into the pain points in life and seek realism. This "Mad Theater Company" is similar to many current sitcoms, and its ability to dig into the pain points of life is a little worse.

However, its main structure is established, and the comedy story content formed on the main framework can also make people laugh. "Crazy Theater" is about a group of young people working in the troupe. The troupe is sustained by market profits. Therefore, the actors and choreographers of this troupe need to rehearse and perform a large number of fresh plays to win the recognition of the market and the audience and make a profit.

This structure, on the contrary, is familiar to the audience. At present, in many big cities, similar small theater companies exist. Most of these troupes are also composed of young people, and among the troupes, there are their joys, sorrows and sorrows. In addition to the establishment of the main structure, this sitcom mostly adopts the daily rehearsal and performance of the troupe to provide fun for everyone. Mad Theatre is a relatively young sitcom that aims to laugh without any obligation to satirize.

My "sarcasm" here is only valuable satirical content, not some humorous little jokes. In terms of small irony, "Mad Theater" still has its own achievements, after all, an important source of comedy laughter is irony. For example, in the play, episode 2 satirizes that after the successful performance of the drama, the boss received a lot of product placement advertisements for the play, and these advertisements were put into the work, which has reached the point of making people laugh.

Behind these little ironies, there is little need for brains. The audience can follow the plot and simply smile. Most of our relatively young comedies are in a less mindy way. And the satirical comedy that used to be very brainy needed to be very brainy to figure it out. Similar to the irony of this product placement, a very brainy comedy, you need to see a lot of helplessness and welcome behind commercialization.

If we only look at "Mad Theater" in the context of the current sitcom sequence, we will find that it is actually of higher quality than we think. This is not a shoddy work. On the contrary, in this sitcom, the audience can reap a lot of laughter. And this group of young actors, in the play, also have comedy sincere performances, these performances, has brought a lot of laughs.

It's a younger sitcom, and I don't know if it represents the direction of youth sitcoms today. But nowadays, it is true that many young people like to play similar memes. (Text/Ma Qingyun)