The Mist Theater is a bit "lost": Why is the Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog rating so low

Source: Wen Wei Po

Reporter Wei Zhong

The "Mist Theater" of 2021 is a bit of a "fan" – a "fan" that confuses the audience. Starring Duan Yihong, Hao Lei, Zu Feng, Wu Yue and other powerful actors, "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" has been expected by countless audiences, as the opening work of the Mist Theater in 2021, the network rating of 5.7 points is far less than expected. Industry insiders pointed out that if you do not look at the suspense effect as the guide, "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" is actually a pearl in the low-scoring drama.

In the polarized evaluation of the show, most supporters believe that the actor's performance and the depth of the script are remarkable, while critics mostly complain about the lack of suspense in the play. As a "mist theater" with obvious vertical characteristics, its audience has clear requirements for suspense dramas, but the trend of the drama closer to family ethics dramas makes many viewers think that they have "misread the channel (column)". Therefore, the 5.7-point network rating does not necessarily mean that the show is really bad, and it is largely the show that has entered the wrong "theater".

Powerful actors gathered, acting skills so good that "suffocating"

18-year-old female high school student Xuan Nianmei was pestered in the discotheque by a wealthy but misbehaving student, and in the chaos she escaped but was followed by shadows in the darkness, and The nearly collapsed Nianmei shouted desperately: "Don't follow me anymore!" The girls of the Xuan family all have amazing beauty, 19 years ago, Xuan Nianmei's aunt Xuan Zhen was also 18 years old, disappeared on the way to school, and then the body was found floating in the cold water of the local river. The police concluded that he had killed him, but the killer had never been found. Xuan Liang, the father of Xuan Nianming, felt deeply guilty about his sister's death, and blamed himself for not being able to pick up his sister from school, so he picked up his daughter uninterruptedly for many years, and his daughter was ridiculed by her classmates, so that the relationship between father and daughter was tense, and fierce conflicts broke out from time to time... As the first work of the 2021 "Mist Theater", the TV series "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" has made suspense drama lovers quickly enter the "detective mode".

The cast of "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" can be described as "high match", and the performance of the actors is indeed remarkable. The father Xuan Liang, played by Zu Feng, plays a middle-aged man who has been tormented by regret and anxiety for many years, and his desire to control his daughter is so strong that the audience off the screen also feels "suffocated", such a character personality is real and reasonable; Duan Yihong plays the criminal police captain in the play, and is also Xuan Liang's brother-in-law, he is capable, responsible, and at the same time a good husband who is gentle and cares for the family, Duan Yihong switches freely between these different social roles, and is praised by many audiences; Hao Lei appears to be strong, indifferent, Independent, the bones reveal a cool unique charm, but as the plot develops the role is "opened layer by layer", the audience finds that she was a small gas bag at home. Surrounded by a number of powerful actors, Mira, a young actor who plays Xuan Nianmei, although slightly immature in acting, can also fully let the audience experience the inner wandering of a rebellious girl who hides many secrets and troubles.

The half of the "children of the Xuan family" under the cloak of "suspense" is a bit aggrieved

Although the playback data of "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" is acceptable, the audience's rating is irretrievably low. Some netizens criticized: "As a suspense film, the first six episodes are too 'water', if it is only for the sake of showing the actors' acting skills, it is better to delete it directly." Compared with the acclaimed actor's acting skills, the storytelling ability of "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" has been questioned a lot. Mist Theater is a vertical field of genre creation, and the audience originally wanted to watch a suspense drama, but felt that they were watching a family ethics drama, and this dislocation caused the reputation of the play to be far less than expected.

Halfway through the episode of "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog", there is still not much valid information for the audience to reason about solving the case, such as his father Xuan Liang and his memories of the death of Xuan Zhen occupy a lot of scenes, but when they see the last audience, they find that these have almost nothing to do with solving the case; the plot only begins to enter the detective plot of the suspect in the last four episodes, and the really effective key clues are not presented to the audience until the last two episodes - at this time, the audience has not yet had time to enter the beloved reasoning mode, and the finale has already come. The audience of suspense dramas likes to "burn their brains" and like the process of breaking through the fog to discover the truth. The "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" takes a mystery case as a clue, but the focus is on exploring and revealing the hearts and emotions of the characters in an ancient city family in a water town, deviating from the "suspense" attribute, and it is no wonder that the audience of the Mist Theater falls into the "fog" when watching.

However, if the drama is completely denied because of this, it seems biased. "The Mystery fog of the Octagonal Pavilion" meticulously depicts a group of group portraits with flesh and blood - Xuan Liang is trapped in his daily life in how to deal with his relationship with his daughter, Xuan Min's family is harmonious and happy but is troubled by childlessness and daughterlessness, Xuan Zhu is independent and capable but willful... Surrounded by multiple families in a small town in the water town, "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" not only depicts the temperature of family life, but also explores the depth of real problems; at the same time, the outstanding performances of many excellent actors also control these three-dimensional and plump characters. The "Life Flow" of "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" may not be suitable for the tastes of traditional suspense drama lovers, but it is really not bad.