Those British and American dramas that have attracted much attention and have been discussed by countless people, we don't need more evaluations, but under those hilarities, there are still some unknown undercurrents that exist peacefully, they are equally sophisticated, wonderful, but lack of attention.
"The Rift" Damages
As a legal thriller, the duel between the two males is one of the best ways to present, not to mention that this drama is also a duel between the two female protagonists. The rivalry between Glenn Cross and Rose Byrne has finally been perfected. This drama has experienced a resurrection from the dead, which shows the producer's entangled attitude towards it. In terms of quality, it is impeccable, and commercially speaking, it may be a little too cold. So, in the final season, trying to get closer to the WikiLeaks events that are happening in reality to attract viewers, but this approach is actually harmful to the quality itself. The two characters played by Glenn Cross and Rose Byrne have a very obvious symbolic meaning, initially, one is an idol, one is a fan, one is blind to everything, one is trembling, and the young girl's dream in life is to copy herself into the way she was. But ambition accomplishes itself and tears itself apart. Rose Byrne watched her life being swallowed up by the flames of ambition, as if replicating the encounters of her predecessors. At first, it was they who joined forces to handle one case after another, but later, it became a confrontation between two people, and eventually, it became a confrontation between themselves and themselves. If at first they all had clear opponents, in the end, they all became entangled with their own demons.
《盾牌》The Shield
An excellent drama in the "Good Cop/Bad Cop" genre. "Twilight in the Blue Sea," starring Jennifer Lopez, has a homage to The Shield, but the choreographed stories of the latter are like a joke compared to the roughness and authenticity of the former. Everything in The Shield is gray, and you can't see clear moral standards at all. This group of policemen who uphold justice is also wrong, they have their own bottom line and complex, flexible morality, and they rely entirely on their own temporary conscience discoveries and whims to judge whether a thing is unforgivable or acceptable. Before Michael Cheeklis became a complete fat man, the bald male star played a rough but considerate and unique role. The point of this drama is the ambiguous moment of moral choice, and the curve of human nature rises steeply and falls sharply. Here, you can't tell the good from the bad, and you can't tell the difference.
The Inside
Among the many episodes that focus on serial killers and perverted crimes, this drama ranks in the top three in terms of the darkness of the atmosphere. It is dignified, oppressive, slow, and desperate. This is a group of people who stare into the abyss and look back at the abyss every day. The way they look for criminals is actually to put themselves in the heart of the killer. In a way, on the surface, they are fighting against a group of twisted criminals, but in reality, the more urgent enemy is the psychological dark side of their own being stimulated. They need to make sure they don't get swallowed up by the darkness. This highly rated drama was cut shortly after it aired, and I don't know if it was related to the fact that it was too dark for few people to really accept. Get ready, when you look through the screen at the "masterpieces" of the killers, in fact, you are also looking into the abyss.
The Jury
It belongs to the legal drama and also belongs to the drama drama, which starts from a group of people with special identities and writes a new dimension of examination of the legal system. If legal dramas featuring judges, lawyers, and criminals focus on "special groups", then this drama focuses on a group of unknown people in an anti-dramatic form. They come from all walks of life, have different understandings of law, justice, and sin, and they are bound to be in a small room and need to make judgments about the fate of a person they don't know. And this thing that is not allowed to be told to others is also changing their own attitude towards life. Compared to the bizarre deaths and performative murders in crime dramas, the show is much more plain, and he shoots a group of people who are involved, some of whom vent their emotions, and some of whom heal themselves.
"No Way Back" by Rubicon
This is a play that I cherish myself, rarely mentioned to people, and rarely known to anyone. It was so bleak that it had only one season of life, even from the setting to the performance, even the props were so impeccable. It's a low-key, internally written, doorway-filled spy story. It's gray, depressing, but often chilling. As a spy story, it firmly chooses to stand on the opposite side of 007, despising those full of fake models and fake fists and embroidered legs with solid analysis and desk work. It's the story of a bunch of people huddled up in a dilapidated building on a street corner, using data, words, and minds to save or subvert the world. Analysts who lost their children and wives in 911, and a group of colleagues who could not reveal their true identities to outsiders, faced with hidden or obvious intrusion vulnerabilities every day, analyzing data that was enough to destroy or save a person. Some people hold the torch of idealism, and some people use the job as a way to liquidate dissidents. In a way, this group of people are trapped in the worldly gods, they look at the world from a high altitude and see everything. This is the truly decent story of the hardcore spy. Originally meant to be a pawn across the river, today it is engraved on the famous jeep as a commodity logo, but here it has become a symbol of the fate of those who "know".
The Tracing Team without a Trace
To be honest, the pressure of this show is not high, as a unit drama with a new case per episode, it is similar in genre to "CSI". But its depiction of this particular team searching for the missing is even more insightful. Unlike the brutal murders, the seclusion in the vast city itself has an inexplicable philosophical atmosphere, some of these people are coerced, some are self-escaping, and this group of agents in charge of searching for people, to some extent, are also lost in this world and life. One of the episodes is impressive, the team boss is in a long period of loneliness and alienation, the marriage has been on the rocks for a long time, there is little communication with children, caught in a hot and seemingly fruitless office romance, one day, he had a dream, dreaming that he was dying of old age, sitting alone in a room full of file boxes and objects full of memories, sitting alone, not knowing where to go. The entire episode is devoted to this lonely and philosophical story, which is awe-inspiring for a commercial drama. It is also these deep explorations for each person's heart that make this drama stand out from the crowd of unit detective dramas.
Messiah
This is a series of crime dramas, and the serial killer's bridge section itself is difficult to shine again, and for this kind of subject, it is a way to write against the wind and adventure. Eerie, symbolic, vengeful, outrageous, all sorts of lynching methods show us the malice hidden in the deepest recesses. The play throws evil at you with an undisguised attitude, and when you feel that you have penetrated the darkness of human nature, you will find that it is only a short stay, and there is even darker one ahead.
Kingdom of Fighting
A group of men in the fighting industry, with muscular bodies and fragile hearts, outsiders feel that they are all a group of invincible people, shouting, sweating, blood can explain their whole, but only they themselves know, those soft lines inside and the voices that are ashamed to express. Since the first season, it has revealed a meticulous screenwriting skill, and the second season has dissected the plight and past of each character in depth. They crush their opponents in the ring, but they fall into self-destruction in their lives. In the final scene of the second season, the son kills his father with a fighting throat locking action, giving this person who has been trapped in a wheelchair for many years a relief, and what causes all this is the reckless fist of his youth and the discord between father and son. What could be more abusive than that?
"Scavenger" ray Donovan
A man who helps celebrities in the entertainment industry deal with "trouble", makes a living in the gray area, he has his own values and morals, he deals with the dirty things behind those glamorous characters, and he must also maneuver in the whirlpool of his own family.
UnReal
At the moment when reality shows are emerging in China on a large scale, this drama comes at the right time. It pierces the "performative reality" of reality TV, and the masters behind the manipulation of the participants are also trapped in their own desires, struggles and secrets. They self-righteously manipulate the actors, and fate plays with them. The flashy content of the reality show and the real life of those who manipulate the direction of the reality show have become mirror images of each other, illuminating each other's absurdity, helplessness, unbearable and faint but always flickering human light.