It is easy to have a divine drama for a while, but it is difficult to think of a divine drama all the time.
Like the rotten "Game of Thrones", the unpopular "Westworld 3".
However, there is such a short and pithy small cost drama in the United Kingdom, with six seasons, and each season has been canonized!
The Douban score is almost 9+: 9.0/8.9/9.2/9.4/8.3/9.2
Let's talk about it today -
Secret Affair 9 Season 6
Secret Affair 9 is a British dark comedy launched in conjunction with the BBC, with each 30-minute episode and a total of 6 episodes.
Each episode is run through by a mysterious number "9" that never changes.
Equally unchanged are the two main actors.
Whether it's a stupid thief who is stupid and cute,
Or a mother and son who love and kill each other,
Even couples full of affection.
They all don't care, almost acting like anything.
You said that these two people are not the top stream, how can there be them everywhere, there is a backstage?
Needless to say, they are really hard in the background to the super-program.
Because the screenwriters are big enough of them.
Writers: Steve Pemberton, Reece Shersmith
Starring: Steve Pemberton, Reece Shelsmith
The Secret Story 9 series has six seasons, each of which is written and performed by two of them.
If you can always maintain such a high-quality output, there is no one else who has the business ability!
The first episode was titled Wuthering Robbery (I read the version translated incorrectly).
My intuition told me, "It's a robbery plot." ”
Indeed, they are plotting a diamond theft project.
When you think there will be gunfights, murders, bloodshed, violence, etc.
Then you are very wrong, here is not like the previous Dark Series of British dramas.
Not only are there no gun battles, but there are no big scenes and big productions.
With only a warehouse set, even the lens will not go beyond the scope of this framing.
Such a simple configuration supports the side plot.
The boss is the boss, he is in charge of the overall situation, and the narcissistic captain, Arlo, who always clamors for a sandwich,
Emotionally entangled boss daughter, gay Mario, Mario's father as a doctor, and police undercover logistics Curley, a total of 6 robbers.
Here, they are beginning to perform Oscar-winning screenwriter Quentin Tarantino's debut film "Falling Dogs" in the form of a stage play.
And the bold and silly robbers in "Whoosh Robbery" are like the color gentlemen temporarily summoned by "Falling Water Dogs".
During the robbery, the 7 robbers were ambushed by the police, the boss's daughter died on the spot, and Mario and the captain returned to the warehouse with Arlo with an injured foot.
After a while, Curley, Mario's father, and boss also returned to the warehouse.
Several people recalled the scene at the time of the crime, suspecting that there were undercover informants, robbers were suspicious of each other, and a diamond battle was inevitable.
If you just say that "Whoops And Robbery" pays homage to "Falling Dogs" in terms of plot and scenes, it will inevitably make the audience bored.
But what is more fanatic is that the audience eats the black humor of "Secret Matter 9".
For example, undercover cop Colin,
She imitated the tone of Fleabag, the heroine of "London Life", staring at the camera cheaply to tell the audience her inner monologue.
Official complaint: "Don't pretend to be 'London Life'! ”
What are the words used in film reviews such as "side characters" and "plot",
Through the technique of "breaking the fourth wall", she communicates directly with the audience, absurd and ironic.
Stephen Chow's classic film "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang" uses this technique.
The screenwriter's play, the audience can only constantly pause the replay, and then worship.
When the narcissistic captain introduces himself to the boss daughter,
"I'm captain (sick)"
A pun that makes the dramatic character jump out of the page.
For example, when the lyrics of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" are quoted many times in the lines,
"Why don't you keep talking?"
"Because of copyright issues, this paragraph cannot be issued."
When the doctor boss arrives at the warehouse, Colin reminds Arlo,
"The doctor is coming."
"How do you know?"
"Because I accidentally read the back of the script."
Saying that it is a stage play, it is more like a sketch, and the knife is mended from time to time.
When Mario questions whether the boss daughter is really dead,
BOSS: "I know how to tell the difference between the living and the dead." ”
Colin also doesn't forget the source of cue: "From King Lear." ”
When four people turned their guns against each other,
Mario also quotes the Dead Poetry Society classic,
“oh，captain！my captain！”
In an instant, a ridiculous diamond robbery has the glory and epic sense of classical English literature.
However, this kind of improvisational performance not only does not make people feel plagiarized, but also exerts the black humor of British drama to the extreme.
Here, funny and reversal is the highlight.
But it does not affect the appearance of "he loves her, she loves him, he loves him" love old terrier.
The boss forces his daughter to marry the captain, a bomb expert, but the daughter does not like the captain.
At first everyone thought that the boss daughter liked Mario,
But mario is actually gay, and he likes captains.
In fact, this seemingly insignificant emotional entanglement was finally reversed again.
It turns out that boss's daughter's old friend is the doctor, which is Mario's father.
In fact, the daughter did imply that the letter was addressed to the doctor.
But the maid gave it to the doctor's son, which may also be what the audience thinks.
The plot here is reversed everywhere, and even the last second is not spared.
Colin thinks he's in control of the big picture, but in fact, it may be The Echo that Arlo and Arnold are exactly the same.
The boss thought he was the winner, but it was the seemingly stupid Arlo.
In this way, the whole drama relies on only one set, a few actors, dense lines and a large number of amazing reversals, creating one exciting plot after another.
However, the screenwriter still does not forget to complain about himself,
"This is the sixth season, you should also allow the writers to dry up!"
As soon as the sixth season returned, it maintained a high score of 9.2,
It does not affect the high black level of the "Secret Matter 9" series this season.
I'm afraid I don't have any misunderstanding of the exhaustion of talent?
In addition, the two creators also said that there will not only be a sixth season, but also a seventh season.
Such a high-scoring drama promises me to keep filming!