Last week, Marvel's new drama "Wanda and Vision" ushered in the end.
The Douban score finally stopped at 9.1, which can be described as a great success.
Immediately after that, the six-episode limited drama "Falcon and Winter Soldier" will also be seamlessly connected, which can't help but make people full of expectations.
At the same time, the DC side is not to be outdone.
A new version of Justice League, edited by Zach Schneider himself, will go live this month.
It can be said that a thousand calls began to come out.
Not only that, but another highly anticipated DC drama has also begun to air.
It was only one episode, and it was well received.
Today, Uncle Fish will introduce to you -
Superman and Louise
Superman & Lois
In the past decade, DC can be said to have been hanged by Marvel in the field of movies.
But in the field of TV dramas, the situation is much better.
In particular, a series of episodes such as "Green Arrow", "The Flash", and "Supergirl" broadcast by CW Television in the United States.
The popularity has remained high, and it has also been turned into a new DC TV universe by CW TV.
The DC Television Universe, also known as the Green Arrow Universe, began with Green Arrow
This time, "Superman and Louise" is the latest work in this TV universe.
Superman is played by Tyler Hodglin and Louise is played by Betsy Tunock.
The two have previously guest starred in Superman and His wife in "Supergirl".
As soon as this drama was launched, it was a double harvest of ratings and word-of-mouth.
Not only did it break the previous record for the highest ratings in the CW prime time period held by The Flash and Roswell.
It also created the highest single-day ratings for new shows on the CW streaming platform.
At the same time, the Douban score reached 8.6 when it was the highest, the IMDB score was stable at 8.1, and rotten tomatoes also had a freshness rating of 86%.
Such a good response made it announce a renewal for a second season after the first episode was released, which can be described as a one-episode take-off.
This is indeed a bit of a surprise.
Because "Superman", as an IP that has existed for 83 years, is really a bit of a "rotten street".
Everyone is too familiar with it, so it is difficult to shoot tricks.
However, this drama has jumped out of the previous routine and made new attempts.
The protagonist of this drama is a middle-aged uncle Superman.
The beginning is like a marquee, leading everyone to look back at the first half of Superman's life.
As a baby, he came to Earth in a spaceship, was adopted by humans, awakened his powers, became a superhero, met Louise...
These episodes are familiar and can indeed be skipped quickly.
And "Superman and Louise" simply goes a step further, and even the paragraph of the upgrade of the monster in the middle is directly omitted.
Not only did Superman fall in love with and marry Louise, but he also had two twin sons.
Life goes straight into middle age.
Pretending to be a worker to go to work on weekdays, saving the world from time to time, and looking safe and happy.
But in fact, it is also a lot of troubles.
Both sons are in adolescence.
The eldest son is lively and cheerful and does not need to worry.
The younger son suffers from social anxiety disorder, is easily depressed, angry, and full of incomprehension of his parents.
Subsequently, the newspaper where Superman worked was forced to lay off employees due to financial pressure.
Unfortunately, he was "caught".
It seems that even if you have superpowers, you have to face the loss of middle-aged layoffs.
More is yet to come.
Another bad news came, and the old mother suddenly suffered a stroke and died.
Enduring his grief, Superman returns to his hometown with his family to take care of his mother's affairs.
And this trip back to home is also destined to be extraordinary.
In an accident, the two sons were hit by a pile of steel pipes.
But the brothers were unscathed, which surprised them and made them suspicious.
So he went to the barn where Superman's father had told him not to go near, hoping to find out the truth.
After some searching, I really found the spaceship that my father was riding in.
The brothers ran to Superman's father and asked why they had been hiding it.
Especially the younger brother, he even felt that his psychological problems must also stem from this.
Superman's father was helpless and had to admit to the long-standing "lie".
He also has his own difficulties.
On the one hand, superpowers are like Pandora's box, and it is too difficult for adolescent teenagers to control well.
On the other hand, one possible bad case scenario is:
If only one of the two has superpowers, how the other person will accept it is a huge problem.
Especially if the older brother has it and the younger brother doesn't.
The younger brother has always lacked self-confidence, and he will inevitably think that he is a waste and can only live in the shadow of his brother.
But no matter how Dad explained it, the children still couldn't understand it.
The two sides broke up in displeasure.
Family conflicts have reached a situation of "tearing faces".
On the other hand, as a super British drama, how the big villain is rare.
Just as Superman was busy dealing with a field of chicken feathers, the enemy appeared.
Dressed in armor, he was unusually powerful, and he and Superman fought from the ground to the sky and into outer space.
Speed and strength are not virtual superhuman at all, and the defense is also super high.
And in the language, it seems that superman is particularly familiar.
Knowing clearly the few weaknesses of superman is to rush to kill him.
The development of the story here really makes people feel the charm of the plot.
The excellent choreography is a good reflection of the two sides of the character of Superman.
He's not just a superhero who wants to save the planet all the time.
At the same time, he is also an employee who has lost his job, a father who is not good at words, and a son who has just lost his mother.
A middle-aged man who is experiencing a midlife crisis.
Next, the rhythm of the whole play is still steady.
Superman's youngest son awakens his superpowers in a fit of rage during a conflict with a human.
It turned out that it was he who had inherited superhuman powers.
In order to allow the "problem boy" to control the sudden power, Superman then takes him on the path of finding his roots.
The relationship between father and son is full of points of view.
On the villain's side, from his recollection, he seems to have come from some parallel time and space.
The superman of that space-time completely lost control and went on a killing spree on the planet.
In order to get revenge, he begins to search for Superman in every time and space.
So, will this space-time superman also get out of control?
This is also very exciting.
"Superman and Louise" is indeed a surprising super-British TV series.
The plot is clear and smooth, and the story unfolds without hurry or rigidity.
In terms of special effects, although it is not as rich as Disney, it is not lacking in big scenes.
It is also very prominent in character shaping, and the relationship between the characters is in place.
On the one hand, a family has an ordinary and loving daily life.
Superman and Louise are deeply in love, and the two sons are brothers.
On the other hand, there are complex clashes between the two generations.
What is particularly obvious is the contradiction and dependence between superman and the younger son, between superpowered father and son.
In addition, the title of the play "Superman and Louise" is also a deliberate move.
Although taken together, Superman is the most influential and powerful top superhero.
But previous adaptations were still too flat and didn't pay any attention to the people around him.
In Superman and Louise, Louise is no longer the "vase" role she used to be.
As a strong woman in the press, she has a lot of side lines interspersed with her body.
It not only regulates tense family relations, but also strives to dig deep into various capital shady scenes.
While helping the residents of Superman's hometown, he plays his own value.
The emergence of the next generation is also very reasonable.
Their growing pains and Superman's midlife dilemmas are intertwined, greatly enhancing dramatic tension.
Superman is no longer the only protagonist, the whole family is.
In fact, in the 1990s, there was a TV series called "Louise and Clark" (Superman Earth is called Clark).
Although the naming method is similar to "Superman and Louise", it also focuses on the similarity of Superman to ordinary people.
But it's more of a sitcom with love as the main line, and it still lacks some depth.
Louise and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
And "Superman and Louise" is somewhat similar to Pixar's classic "The Incredibles" series.
Focus on the B-side lives of superheroes and photograph where they meet ordinary people.
Midlife crisis, family conflicts, cruel youth, reality gap and so on.
It can be said that the old hero is filmed into something new.
The Incredibles 2
It turns out that DC is still capable of competing with Marvel.
Marvel may indeed be in the plot design, suspense laying out, the scale of the scene is better.
But DC also has its own strong aspects, it has always been known for its excellent personality.
DC superheroes are usually more complex and have a variety of personal problems.
For example, Superman lost in his own identity, Batman who is deeply traumatized by childhood, The Joker who pursues absolute evil, Rorschach who advocates ultimate justice, Dr. Manhattan who knows all the power but is melancholy and powerless...
Rorschach in Watchmen
Therefore, through the hands of the director, DC comic films can emerge "Batman: The Dark Knight", "Watchmen", "Joker" and other entertainment and seriousness of the "god work".
Audiences can experience both the coolness of genre films and the empathy they can easily find in them.
This "Superman and Louise" also portrays a superhero image that has never been seen in a novel way.
Give this old IP a new charm.
For Superman, he still hopes to show less of his divinity and more of his humanity.
Imperfect characters can achieve perfect artistic shaping.
With that in mind, then —
Even if he becomes such a "middle-aged uncle", he is still the number one superhero in people's hearts.