Unknowingly, Zhao Benshan's "Country Love" has been with you for 17 years, and the story of Ivory Mountain continues.
After the 16th part of "Country Wife" was broadcast during the Spring Festival, when everyone was still unsatisfied with this drama, a familiar TV series appeared in front of the audience.
is still in Ivory Mountain, still an old face, a familiar formula, with the unique charm of the Northeast, the title of the play is called "The Good People of Ivory Mountain".
However, what is surprising is that this drama does not continue the myth of "Country Love", not only the ratings hit the street, but even the bad reviews are surprisingly consistent.
What's going on here?
Zhao Benshan's new drama hits the street
On March 20th, when everyone was immersed in the sense of loss after the completion of "Country Love 16", another story from Ivory Mountain was quietly broadcast.
Until today, the show has been broadcast for several days, but according to the data released by many platforms, the broadcast volume of this drama, which is called "hometown love", is not ideal.
It can be seen in many ranked software that this "The Good People of Ivory Mountain" is almost ranked last, with less than 300,000 effective views of one episode.
At the same time, "Ode to Joy 5", which is known as the Shanghai version of country love, is also on the air, from the first part to the current fifth part, the single episode of this drama is still playing more than 10 million.
The story also from Ivory Mountain, the single episode of "Hometown Love 16" has more than 16 million views, which shows that even with such a topical new drama, it is still difficult to escape the fate of hitting the street.
This sounds a bit unexpected, and it stands to reason that the number of views of any single episode of the "Hometown Love" series can be close to 20 million.
The same story background, the same characters, why is there such a big difference?
Is it because the amount of publicity is not enough? Or is it because of the wrong choice of platform? Of course not, there is only one truth, that is, it is too ugly.
For this drama, the bad reviews have never stopped, but the reasons given by everyone are surprisingly consistent.
Bad reviews continue, and the water injection is serious
As the longest-lived light comedy, "Hometown Love" has been showing its unique charm from the Northeast since 2006.
But because there is only one per year, everyone is still very much looking forward to this sudden extra, but they abandoned the drama after watching a few episodes.
The reason why the early "hometown love" is good is because in addition to the TV series, the setting of the burden and the advancement of the plot are fascinating.
Each episode of it has several small stories or plots to back it up.
Then there will be a number of small branches behind each big story, so that when combined, each episode is watchable.
And what about this extra, the first four episodes have only one long plot, which is to find grandpa.
At the beginning of the story, the plot of the story begins, and Wang Dana leads his wife back to his hometown to go to the grave.
When I learned that the veteran Zhu Yongqun was living in a nursing home, I wanted to invite him to live in Ivory Mountain for a while.
The reason is that this veteran is not simple, he has saved Wang Dana's father before, and Wang Dana also wants to express his gratitude to him.
Then Wang Dana exaggerated how important this matter is, but what he did next was a bit of a reduction in intelligence.
He handed over such an important matter to his stupid son Wang Musheng to do.
Let's just say that the audience knows whether Wang Musheng can do this well or not, but his parents still don't know much about it.
Isn't this just a plot that insists on creating difficulties and injecting water.
Wang Musheng led his grandfather Zhu Yongqun, but it is conceivable that he couldn't even take care of himself and lost his grandfather.
But can this make the drama continue, so, the main task is coming, and all the people in Ivory Mountain are out to find this old grandfather Zhu Yongqun.
Seeing this, many people can't help but complain, what kind of society is now, shouldn't the old man be monitored first, but there is no mention of monitoring here.
The reason for this should be that the monitoring cannot be injected with water.
So the audience saw that just this one plot to find grandpa was 4 episodes in one broadcast, and the audience was so bored that they were about to fall asleep.
Among them, in order to make the process of finding grandpa funny, I added some inexplicable scenes to several characters.
For example, a drag racing car on the road hits a police officer.
Then the way to resolve this problem is very "northeastern", Liu Neng and the police are close, talking nonsense, and then patting people on the buttocks.
There are too many similar episodes, and there are funny ones, but this is a TV series, and it's not a sketch, so it's a bit far-fetched to forcibly shake the burden so much.
After watching the fourth episode in a row, I was still spinning in the plot of looking for my grandfather, and many people lost their enthusiasm for chasing dramas.
commented: Isn't this a water injection drama? Even the cartoon is much better than this drama.
In fact, there are similar problems in the later "Hometown Love", even if there is a lack of novelty in the creation, there is no compactness in the storytelling.
However, in view of the love of many audiences for Zhao Benshan and others, with a thick filter, the quality of this series will also get worse and worse in the future.
But what people didn't expect was that the quality of its extras was so poor, in addition to the water injection of the storyline, there is another reason why it hits the street.
Detached from reality
There is a reason why "hometown love" can make people chase again and again is its down-to-earthness.
A group of people who speak Mandarin in the Northeast, dressed in rural clothes, are also discussing things in the village.
And the drama "The Good People of Ivory Mountain" interprets the lives of these rural people very exaggeratedly.
This group of people in rural life is no longer the cabbage, green onions, and bicycles at the beginning.
Now Ivory Mountain, every turn is a car, and a while there are big high-rise buildings in the city.
If these are just following the development of the times, then the entrepreneurs who appear at every turn in Ivory Mountain are not grounded.
It is an exaggeration that the entrepreneurs in Ivory Mountain cannot get on the stage without any big projects, and the women in the village are getting more and more heavily wearing makeup.
It can be said that although it is an exception, it exposes all the hidden shortcomings in "hometown love".
Many fans of the drama came in with great expectations, and silently changed the channel without looking at it twice.
To say, such a problem has actually gradually emerged in "Hometown Love", and the current drama is estimated to be difficult to save even Zhao Benshan himself.
So how did the local drama that was the pinnacle in everyone's mouth come to the point where it is disappointing today?
The fall of "hometown love".
Speaking of the first two parts of the drama "Hometown Love", the first impression of most viewers is still funny and simple, and at the same time, this drama also has the most youthful time for many actors.
makes this drama a light comedy that seems to be light-hearted and funny, but has a compact structure and a plot that can withstand scrutiny.
Especially in the second part, although Zhao Benshan himself is not good at deconstructing filming, he has one biggest advantage, his comedy clips are good enough.
So many people commented that the second part of "Hometown Love" should be the pinnacle of this series, which is both funny and does not lack a local flavor, which makes people can't stop watching.
From the 3rd part, this drama has gradually begun to break away from the masses, with more and more characters, and the role as the protagonist has been dispensable.
Of course, "hometown love", does the theme of the story still have to tell the love story between the protagonists, if the protagonist is no longer prominent, doesn't it mark that the show can be renamed?
So many netizens feel that the name of this drama is "The Story of Ivory Mountain" is more appropriate.
After the third part, the main plot is nothing more than three things, marriage, conflicts, and divorce.
And the reason for the contradiction is particularly speechless, forcibly joining the misunderstanding, as if these characters can explain clearly, but it is as if they have no mouth.
Unless the misunderstanding becomes a contradiction, it will eventually escalate to a divorce.
Of course, in addition to the increasingly blurred main story, this drama will add new slots after the broadcast one by one.
It is better to say that with more and more characters in the third part, the story is inevitably injected with water, and the plot can be changed because of the needs of the story.
Among them, in the 8th part, Xie Yongqiang has begun to improve from a state of paralysis, of course, paralysis has recovered enough to walk, which is a major logical problem.
Of course, this is not the most serious, at the beginning of the ninth part, we see Xie Yongqiang return to his wheelchair.
In addition to the logical confusion, the show also has other problems, that is, the behavior of the characters begins to be confusing.
The more it is broadcast in the future, the more you can see Wang Musheng and Fang Zheng pretending to be crazy and stupid for the sake of being funny, and sensationalizing the public.
The plot of more than a dozen films is nothing more than the change of the owner of Wang Dana's hot spring villa, from Wang Da to Liu Da's head to Wang Musheng and so on.
Then the girlfriends of the characters in the play are changed, and the marriage partners are changed, and such a plot may be filmed without worrying about changing the screenwriter at will.
Maybe it's because the burden has shaken to a certain extent and the creation has dried up, so they can only make the audience laugh in this way, but many viewers said that the more they see them pretending to be crazy and stupid, the more they want to fast forward.
In addition to these, the most disgusting point expressed by the public is that product placement advertisements in the play have begun to emerge in an endless stream, almost everywhere.
But it is not without merit that this drama can be broadcast to the 16th part, at least it is much better than many sexually sensational sketches at the party.
Secondly, many fans of "Hometown Love" believe that "Hometown Love" has been chasing it since 2006, and "Hometown Love" is no longer just a simple TV series for many people, but more like a feeling.
However, then again, no matter how good a drama is, it can't stand up to consumption.
Like the appearance of the drama "The Good People of Ivory Mountain" this time, it is obvious that this drama has embarked on the route of playing smart.
If this continues, many people will have to remove even the initial filter, and the drama "Hometown Love" will not go far.
epilogue
I believe that more than ten years have passed, watching the drama "Hometown Love" has become an indispensable leisure project for many people during the Spring Festival, just like the Spring Festival Gala.
Of course, this is also a gift that Uncle Benshan can present to us after many years of absence, with his unique taste.
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