"Super Race": High concept + strong cast, unlock quasi-explosive "super powers"
In recent years, South Korean film and television works have simply been "without ceiling", and in 2021, the popular film and television work "Squid Game" created by Netflix brought Korean dramas to the international stage. 2022's "Dark Glory" has set off a new heat around the world. In 2023, under the wave of continuous transformation and upgrading of Korean dramas, "Super Alien Race", which was launched this month, integrates science fiction, suspense, crime, and love, and once again surpasses people's cognition of Korean dramas.
"Super Otherman" is a film and television drama adapted from the Korean horror cartoonist Ginger Cao comic "MOVING", Ginger Cao's masterpieces include "Witch", "Fool" and "Lighting Store" and other popular works, and the domestic drama "I Love You" is also adapted from one of his works. At the beginning, as soon as the news that "MOVING" was going to be adapted into a TV series came out, a large number of viewers had expectations.
As one of Disney's most important Korean investment projects in 2023, the total production cost of "Super Alien" alone reached 65 billion won (about 350 million yuan), gathering the cooperation of more than 60 studios from 9 countries. In addition, the super luxury lineup of actor Liu Chenglong, big beauty Han Hyo-joo, male god Zhao Yincheng and Cha Taixian has also attracted attention.
The story of "Superpowers" unfolds between a group of superpowered high school students and their parents, a group of superpowered mortals who once worked for the Ministry of Security (the predecessor of the Korean National Intelligence Service), and in order to live peacefully in this world, they choose to hide their superpowers, and the story begins with their child Superpower II.
Zhang Xixiu, a senior girl with super healing ability and no feeling of pain, was originally just a good girl, but a super rich second generation was transferred to the class, and the rich second generation was targeted by campus bullies who were not used to the big ladies on the first day, they not only snatched her headphones, but also insulted her personality. Zhang Xixiu, who couldn't stand it, chose to expose the bullying incident to the school, but unexpectedly, these school bullies each had an extraordinary background, in exchange for a simple verbal warning from the school.
After the bullies were criticized, they did not have the slightest intention of repentance, but instead intensified their injuries to transfer students, and even took a bucket of water directly on the transfer student's head, see here If you think that this is just a copy of "Dark Glory" that focuses on school bullying incidents, then you are wrong.
Zhang Xixiu really can't get used to his classmates being bullied like this, directly 1V17, entangled with these seventeen high school students in the mire, shockingly, no matter how badly beaten is, Zhang Xixiu can stand up again! In the end, because of her excessive combat effectiveness, the school considered the initiator of the violence, and she could only be persuaded by the school to quit, and after her father Zhang Zhouyuan (played by Liu Chenglong) lost a large amount of money, Zhang Xixiu transferred to Jingyuan High School.
In Jingyuan High School, there is a group of superpowers like Xixiu, who came to this school for various reasons, but they don't know each other's identities and superpowers, and Zhang Xixiu's appearance has surged a huge storm on this campus.
In addition to these supernatural high school students, there are also their parents who have superpowers, and they are also superpowers inherited from their parents. Although they have been trying their best to hide, they can't escape the fate of being targeted by a mysterious killer codenamed F, the purpose of this person is to purge all superpowers, and there is a mysterious organization behind the codename F, and as the plot progresses step by step, the forces behind F will also be revealed step by step.
Zhang Zhouyuan (played by Liu Chenglong), who has a strong self-healing ability, is Zhang Xixiu's father.
Kim Doo-shik (played by Cho Yin-sung), who can fly high, has received secret altitude training, and tried to use flight to prevent the air crash, although it was unsuccessful, but he also fell in love with Han Hyo-joo;
Lee Mi-hyun (played by Han Hyo-joo), who has a super five senses that are different from ordinary people, can do clairvoyance and smooth wind ears, and is also a sharpshooter;
Jeon Jie-do (played by Cha Tae-hyun), a humanoid generator that can generate electricity;
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Seeing this, do you think that you are watching the Korean drama version of "Avengers", although the plot is interspersed with many popcorn special effects such as "flight", "teleportation", "perspective", "power generation" and so on that the audience can watch very coolly, but the most classic narrative style of Korean dramas is not ambiguous at all, and the family lines and emotional lines in the play are always entangled.
Human nature is synonymous with complex emotions, the indifferent killer codenamed F, in fact, is an orphan abandoned by his mother, after layers of screening and devil training in the United States, escaped from death to embark on this road, the heart is actually very lacking in love, all along, he has only one name that is F, but when he was dying, he still said his real name, and the details of the complex emotions are always touching.
Lee Mi-hyun (played by Han Joo-so) in order to hide his son's ability to fly. When her son was young, she carried him on her back all the time, and she had to feed him twice the amount of food at every meal, and she had super work ability, and opened a fried chicken shop incognito for her son to live his life safely.
In addition to these two family lines, a lot of ink is spent in the play to describe the relationship between the two generations.
In addition, the pure love of youth in the campus between the second generation of supernatural abilities, in order to protect the beloved girl, the boys' open and secret fights always make people watch the deer bump. And the hard work of the generation, you enter and I retreat, Han Xiaozhou and Zhao Yincheng tactfully portray high looks are also a feast for the eyes.
From all angles, this is undoubtedly a very anticipated masterpiece this year, changing the habit of Korean drama week, on the day of broadcast, "Super Alien Race" directly released 7 episodes, and as the plot unfolded step by step, the Douban score of 8.2 also gradually soared to 8.5, in recent years in TV series, the performance has been quite eye-catching.
There is no doubt that the pace of the subsequent plot will only become more and more compact and exciting, and those superpowers who conceal their abilities will also appear one by one with the foreshadowing laid before! Now, the plot is halfway through, and the little friends who are tired of watching idol dramas can look into the pit!
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