Unconsciously, 2017 has entered the end,
When major foreign media and film critics are predicting this year's Oscar awards, The editor remembers the scenery of "Philharmonic City" winning multiple awards at the new Oscars at the beginning of the year.
Before the Oscars, the "tearing war" let's not mix,
Today, Xiaobian would like to review and inventory the "Top Ten American Dramas of 2017" with you.
If you want to choose this year's "best TV station", Xiaobian will definitely vote for Netflix.
Netflix has never stopped this year.
From the shocking return of the opening year's "Super Sense Hunting", and suddenly released the news "The third season was ruthlessly cut" when everyone was looking forward to the third season;
The next one is called "money laundering version of Breaking Bad - "Black Money Resort""
And at the end of the year, the sudden accumulation of thick hair - "Defenders", "Godless", "Narcos", "Stranger Things", "MindHunters", "Darkness" The return of various divine dramas and the launch of high-scoring new dramas,
Not only did it expand the European market, but it also bought the copyright of our domestic drama "White Night Pursuit".
It can be said that the global market has played 6 times!
However, HBO, the brother of the "yellow riot poison" in the American drama industry, has rarely produced high-scoring new works this year, and only one "Legend of Fallen Street" has a good reputation rating, but unfortunately it has not caused a sensation in the ratings.
However, with "Game of Thrones" such a popular divine drama as the "top card", when discussing American dramas, HBO will always be our favorite topic!
Next, please return to this year's top ten American dramas with xiaobian again!
Come and see if there are any dishes for you? Or, chase them all before New Year's Eve? Of course, the editors of "Shameless" and "Black Mirror" did not line up, after all, one is not over, and one has not yet started broadcasting.
(The following American dramas have an average rating of about 9 points, ranking in no particular order!) ）
10. The handmaid's story Douban 8.8 points, imbd 8.6 points
The winner of this year's Emmy Awards is undoubtedly the new drama - "The Handmaid's Story", and the best drama series, best actress, best supporting actress, best director, and best screenwriter are all pocketed by this crew;
Even the novel author of the same name of the play has become famous for this play and has become a popular candidate for this year's Nobel Prize in Literature!
One of the top ten American dramas of the year!
"The Handmaid's Tale" tells the story of the future world suffered severe pollution, the birth rate plummeted, and parts of the United States experienced a bloody revolution to establish a male totalitarian society Gilead.
Polygamy is practised by those in power, women are treated as state property, fertile women are called "maids" and forced to use as reproductive tools of the ruling class.
The heroine, Offred, is one of them, who struggles between the ruler, the ruler's murderous "wife", and the elderly "Martha", who does a lot of housework for the ruler, and wants to find her daughter who has been taken while surviving.
In recent years, there have been more and more American dramas with women as the main characters, whether it is "Homeland Security" and "Proud Wife" in previous years or "Game of Thrones" this year, "Double-Faced Grace", "Godless",
Yes, it is increasingly discovered that the world has never been easier for women; but women have never chosen to compromise.
Everyone is also more and more aware of how shameful the love idol drama of the early years of the taunt selling cuteness for a lifetime only to sleep until the rich and handsome, the real woman should be like this - independent, confident, kind, strong, brave!
In such a TV series that metaphorically describes the future, we can even see the injustices suffered by women in the current society. And to our delight, the women in the film have never been overwhelmed by male power and violence.
"Absurdity is reality" can see us in the present in a science fiction film; it can make us see endless resistance and hope in pessimism and repression. It was the success of this adaptation!
Nemesis: Betty and Joan Douban 9.0 imbd 8.6 points
This year's drama with female themes is really a wind of righteousness that cannot be contained! And the oldest and biggest name of all the new shows is undoubtedly this "Nemesis: Betty and Joan".
Two starring Jessie Carlange, Susan Sarandon, Oscar queen, one "Fang Ling" 68, one "Fang Ling" 71.
In Hollywood, the bustling scene of "only seeing new people laughing and not seeing old people crying", two great actresses once bloomed like tea, and now they are still in their best years!
The supporting characters of this drama are also amazing women-
Oscar actress Kathy Bates, Oscar Best Supporting Actress Catherine Zeta Jones, "Banana Sister" Sarah Paulson.
What the? Spelling acting? We're not afraid!
Such a luxurious lineup interprets the story of two of the most classic female stars of The Golden Age of Hollywood, Betty and Joan.
Various Oscar-winning actresses competed to interpret the tearing war of the golden age, fighting in front of and behind the scenes, and the whole process used their hearts and minds and aura to stage the most wonderful tearing drama between women in Hollywood epic in the last century.
Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, the names that haunt our dreams, appear again and again in the film.
The palace-level acting skills, epic tearing, the beautiful retro painting style, and the revenge stories of a group of "old women" make us feel excited.
After watching this play, I can't help but ask myself: What else do I want from American dramas?
Game of Thrones Douban 9.2 imbd 8.7
What is the most anticipated drama in the world in 2017? Undoubtedly the seventh season of HBO's blockbuster drama "Game of Thrones".
That's right, it's the seventh season of Game of Thrones, which only had 7 episodes in 2017 about the Battle of the Seven Powers.
To be fair, this episode departs from Martin's original book and script, and the entire story structure collapses;
However, it is good to have a solid foundation support for the first five seasons. It still sits on the throne of the drama.
This may be the most climactic of the entire seven seasons, but the "highly anticipated" villain, the Ghost, is finally online!
And the woman who vowed to take back the Iron Throne, Daenerys Targaryen, finally set foot on the continent of Westeros for the first time.
The historic meeting between Mother Dragon and Snow, the first confrontation between ghosts and humans, and the hall-level King's Landing assembly of Cersei James Snow's little demon Mother Dragon Will be a scene in the annals of history in "Game of Thrones".
When a man (Snow) tries to save the world with intuition and reasoning, he becomes a lunatic... And the world chooses to hit the big luck!
Putting aside those historical disputes in Westeros, the real war is finally about to begin.
What the editor can't forget is the reunion of the three cubs of the wolf family, the elegant and calm Lady Sansa, the first faceless female assassin in Westeros, Arya, and the Great Mage Bran, who knows everything known and unknown.
When these three physically and mentally exhausted children strolled through Winterfell in the snow, how many people burst into tears?
It's snowing in King's Landing, and Jaime's leather gloves are covered with snowflakes...
The tribal language that the wolf family had been shouting for seven years finally came to the stage of power with the footsteps of winter - Winter is coming!
Wind Riot Lawyer Douban 9.5 points imbd8, 3 points
When writing this list, Xiaobian thought of the drama that he had been chasing for seven years- "The Walking Dead", and his heart was in pain.
Once upon a time, when the first season of "The Walking Dead" shined, it was also topped with the brilliant aura of "Game of Thrones" today.
However, the quality and ratings of the recently returned eighth season have fallen again and again, and the score of the big walking corpse, which has never scored 8 points, has fallen below 8 points for the first time, which is heartbreaking.
The editor is also unclear whether "The Walking Dead" has changed the screenwriter or the current screenwriter really can't go on the whole story;
However, Xiaobian believes that this must not be a problem for AMC TV.
As we all know, AMC TV is very good at creating stories of marginal characters, with the background of the yellow sand desert, desperate characters, absurd and disorderly story development, chaotic world out of the rules...
The once black humor + midlife crisis + chemistry teacher drug drama "Breaking Bad" is a phenomenon-level American drama, not only in the classic high-scoring American drama rankings for a long time;
And escaped the terrible doom of the American drama "high open low", becoming a divine drama that was not optimistic in the early stage and counterattacked in the later stage.
The third season of "The Wind Lawyer", which AMC returned in April this year, still follows the absurdist route of "Breaking Bad", and even many of the characters in the story are derived from the previous game.
An American lawyer with a slippery tongue and a good tongue, but he shows the tragedy of a deep and complex life;
In such a drama that laughs and giggles when watching, but is full of all the problems of life when reminiscing about it – what are we living for? What step did things get to where did it start to go wrong?
When you find that when you live to a certain age, such a life is not what you want, and how to be good? Maybe we can only laugh as sadly as the lawyers.
The picture style and lens language of this drama seem to be created according to the standards of artworks:
The open hall lit up the black silhouette of two people, the endless yellow wilderness but suppressed the white clouds of the sky, and the light fell straight down the negotiation table, one person in the light and one person in the dark classical composition oil painting texture;
Such a modern series has such a retro color scheme and graphics.
Can't help but marvel, is this an absurd literary work or a Renaissance oil painting? Or maybe.....it's just a perfect episode with a rating of nearly 10?
Drug lord Douban 9.5 points imbd score 8.0 points
Which is Netflix's top card? Xiaobian can only show that he does not know.
The warm power of hundreds of millions of moves, spanning 7 countries, realizing the greatest dream of mankind and no longer being lonely, "Super Sense Hunting";
With the children's acting skills, he created a new type of TV series "Stranger Things".
If you ask Netflix, "What's your best show?" I think Netflix's screenwriters will smile calmly and say, "The best is always the next one." ”
This sentence is also perfectly appropriate for "Narcos", which scored 9.2 points in the first season, 9.3 points in the second season, and 9.5 points in the third season.
While game of thrones ratings are falling, the ratings of this drama are skyrocketing.
Yes, this year is a year of blowouts for women's-themed tv dramas; but the hormonal world of men fighting wits and courage will never be out of date!
The building of the Medellín Group, which dominates the drug world, collapsed, and the Cali Group, which colombia was fighting with each other, gradually rose.
Before the motorcycle crushes the traitor, it is necessary to enjoy an elegant and sexy tango with the beloved boyfriend under the psychedelic light, which is the gentle and cruel and bloody of the drug lord;
Do you want to call the police, be a police informant, or single-handedly take us to the end? Sorry, the entire telephone market has been monopolized by us.
Tough stories, sharp style.
The show relies on layers of plots to advance reversals, characters who coexist evil and charm, and an airtight atmosphere of urgency and anxiety.
All you can do is that you can't stop and see that you can't stop.
Mind Hunter Douban 9.0 imbd 8.7
In the play, David Fincher last created the first season of the American drama "House of Cards" that created a cinematic texture, and it has been 4 years now.
At the end of this year, when we were shivering in the cold wind, David Finch silently joined hands with Netflix to release a new drama with excellent texture, "Mind Hunter".
It is not an exaggeration to say that this drama is the biggest surprise at the end of the year.
In this drama, Xiaobian saw the shadow of the leader of the detective film "True Detective".
And this "Mind Hunter" although playing with the "two detectives" routine, but continuing David Finch's minimalist and luxurious texture.
The semi-realistic approach to filming almost takes you into a spooky crime scene; the excitement of detective and the uncertainty of the truth cancel each other out;
The protagonist is constantly groping and following intuitive trial and error; it is about the nascent stage of criminal psychology.
It is still david Fincher's paranoid black and white gray tone of sexual frigid beauty.
Yes, detective dramas will never go out of style.
Our day Douban 9.5 points imbd 9.0 points
The editor admitted that in addition to "Shameless" for the Life Drama Category of American dramas has always had a feeling of disgust.
Watching the characters on TV watching tv and eating takeout days, I feel that there is no excitement or twists and turns, which is really boring.
And two dramas changed my prejudices, one is "Shameless" with no lower limit but extreme principles;
The other is this American drama "Our Day", which was recommended by film critics to participate in the Oscars.
Although it's on the healing route, the show magically makes me cry three or four times almost every episode because it's really too much like our lives.
How many girls are as inferior as kyle because of their imperfect figure and appearance; how many bright-looking adults are full of resentment about their unusually boring and repetitive mechanical lives;
Maybe there are people in big cities like Randall who endure the finger-pointing and eye-catching greetings of "locals".
However, their lives are sunny and warm, and when the screenwriter uses the "defamiliarization" way to lead us to watch outside the drama, time and space are naturally intertwined, laughter and tears are juxtaposed, not pretentious and not dull.
Such a bland, ordinary drama makes us unable to take our eyes off it.
Because they are who we are. Even though there are broken parts in our bodies, minds, and experiences, we know what exactly is the things in our lives that we give everything we have to protect.
Crown Douban 9.4 imbd 8.6 points
If you ask the editor which type of drama is the most "forced", the editor must answer "historical drama".
Of course, this is preceded by a series of qualifiers: elaborate, royal, orthodox, serious, retro, gorgeous.
For example... "The Crown"
The Crown tells the story of Elizabeth II and Churchill reinventing Britain after World War II.
The British writer Dickens said, "This is the best of times, and this is the worst of times." ”
Yes, The United Kingdom is such an old capitalist country full of fascinating sense of history, and it can also be said that the first mecca of feminism in the world.
The Queen has always been the most elegant and beautiful symbol of this ancient British Empire.
In this drama, you will see a queen who looks gorgeous and elegant and behaves modestly, and who is loaded with the world and her own troubles.
Maybe she has always been arrogant and kind, never bowing her head; but in the end she still has a woman's vulnerable side, the queen returns, the crown is heavy again, her husband cheats, is crowded with work, and worries about her old age and decline.
Let the contemporary us see it and smile.
When we are envious of the achievements of others, how can we think that there is no glory that is not dancing in shackles?
Not easy and great queen.
Super Sense Hunting Douban 9.1 points imbd 9.2 points
"Escape from loneliness" is a false proposition, our life is like Márquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude", always in a strange circle, trying to escape from loneliness but being ruthlessly entangled in loneliness.
Sometimes we even ask, do we want to escape this loneliness or immerse ourselves in it?
But there is no doubt that there is always a moment in our lives when we are in a lively crowd and surrounded by our closest and friendliest friends and family.
But we hope that someone will appear and tell you with firm and warm eyes: I understand you, and at this moment, I feel empathy for you.
"Super Sense Hunting" creates such a warm and broken world, wrapping their story in a science fiction shell - all over the world, with different identities and statuses, no intersection of life, and very different sexual orientation and hobby experiences;
But they experience similar human pain and happiness, regret and hope, struggle and sinking, destruction and rebirth.
When we talk about "Super Sense Hunting", we have gone beyond the plot, picture, camera language, and acting skills.
When we talk about Super Sense Hunting, we're talking about a common signal that humans are still pursuing.
The play is a signal that the things we want to believe in but often fall into self-doubt are not lonely and nihilistic.
Even if we can't sense our own group of super-sensory eights for the time being, they must have a real sense of existence.
Looking up at the same galaxy as us, looking up to see the same bright moon, warmed to the bones by the same sun, feeling the same feelings for each other.
It brought tears of joy to the point of tears.
"Super Sense Hunting" is such a drama that makes your soul resonate and shock after watching it.
Pursuit: Bomber Douban 8.9 points imbd 8.2 points
Crime dramas have always been the veteran masters of American dramas, and classic crime dramas such as "Prison Break", "Crime Night Run", "Ice Storm", "American Crime Story", and "Line of Fire" are simply countless.
This year's slightly niche crime genre bureau "Pursuit: Bomber" has taken a completely different path.
Instead of leaving the "murderer" and "bomber" until the end of the previous episodes, the first episode generously placed the decent villain in a small cell for soul dialogue and consideration.
After a lightly veiled antisocial monologue, the bomb suddenly explodes. This opening alone is enough to catch people's eyes and amaze four seats.
Not to mention the lines that can awaken people from the life of day after day, following the rules, and being manipulated by their superiors, the realistic and oppressive pictures, the exquisite set prop design and the labyrinth of complex but hidden suspense connotations.
The temperament of the play is the two words "high cold", the arrogant high IQ crime with an IQ of 167; the top profiler who challenges the bureaucracy.
"Whoever can become an opponent must be a confidant."
Of course, this drama has not reached 9.0 points on Douban, and there are many good dramas like this, such as "Big Little Lies" and so on.
Even American dramas such as "Twin Peaks" are not included in the list of the top ten American dramas this year, after all, the ranking in everyone's heart is not the same.