Because american film and television dramas have a grading system, they are first known for their large scale, and a large number of very yellow and violent large scales make the audiences who are accustomed to watching the domineering president and small fresh love of domestic dramas seem to open up a new world, making people look like they can't stop.
Among them, HBO is definitely the gold medal team of large-scale American dramas, they launched "Game of Thrones", "True Love Is Like Blood", "Six Feet Below", "Underworld Family", "Prison Storm", "Atlantic Empire", "Rome" and other large-scale dramas, all of which made the audience breathtaking.
HBO Theater (hbo) is a cable television network media company headquartered in New York, USA, whose parent company is Time Warner Inc.
The HBO Television Network began broadcasting in 1972 and broadcasts movies, music, documentaries, sporting events and other entertainment programs around the clock.
In addition, Time Warner Group is the world's most well-known tv media company, with a series of well-known TV channels, such as CNN, HBO, TNT, Cartoon Network, TBS, etc., as well as Warner Bros. Film and Television Studios. So HBO should be a TV channel affiliated with the Warner Group.
The total number of HBO Max and HBO subscribers in the United States increased by 2.8 million, reaching 47 million in the United States and nearly 67.5 million users worldwide. It's like one out of ten Americans who has watched hbo episodes.
In 1983, HBO launched its first film of its own production, after which HBO began producing low-budget TV movies at a rate of one in a month (the average production cycle of TV movies on the National Television Network is 18 days).
This put hbo no longer racking their brains for high ratings, and HBO management was most interested in "tss" (total subscriber satisfaction), i.e. not how many people watched it, but the ratio of those who watched it.
HBO's strategy is to specialize in small, low-cost productions in order to boost HBO's brand while winning public acclaim.
In this field, HBO has achieved a lot of success, such as "True Woman Is Tangible", "Glory of the United States of America", "Elephant", etc., these films have won many honors including the Palme d'Or, the New York Criticism Award, the Writers Guild Award of the United States of America and many other honors.
When it comes to the HBO drama series "Sex and the City," it certainly can't be skipped, which began airing in 1998 and is adapted from the column of the same name by New York Observer columnist Candice Bushnell, revolving around the story of feelings columnist Kelly telling the story of four single women in Manhattan, New York, looking for true love and home.
Although the series has ended, and although it has been called feminism, or a representative of post-feminism, the sensationalism caused by the TV series has surpassed itself, showing a diverse world. The play also focuses on women's physiological problems, and one of its successes is the therapeutic effect on women's psychology.
In 2001, HBO invested $125 million in the series Company of Brothers, making it one of the most expensive productions in television history, costing almost twice as much as the movie "Saving Private Ryan," with famed actor Tom Hanks and big director Steven Spielberg as executive executive producers.
Not only did Company of Brothers generate great ratings, but it also sold nearly $100 million in DVD sales and made the History Channel pay the HBO network $7.5 million for replay rights.
In 2003, HBO's television series Angel in America won five Golden Globe Awards. Adapted from the stage musical of the same name, the film tells the story of Louis Edensen who is tormented by his conscience after abandoning his GAle lover, Pryor Walter, who has AIDS.
Big actors such as Meryl Streep, Ben Schenckman, and Al Pacino performed well, and taboo stories such as homosexuality and AIDS were still made with critical realism.
In 2011, HBO launched what was known as the first truly epic fantasy drama of all time, "A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones", and the first season was a great success, scoring a high score of 9.4 on imdb, and receiving both ratings and word-of-mouth.
Since then, "Game of Thrones" has been filmed for eight consecutive seasons, and although the last season is bad, it is definitely a popular American drama that has been a great success. Luxurious, bloody, dark, eccentric, and erotic, with the high posture of "creating miracles", it breaks the "curse" of American dramas that are difficult to succeed in magic dramas.
HBO also adapted the science fiction classic "Westworld" The drama tells the story of a giant high-tech Westworld-themed adult paradise that provides visitors with the satisfaction of killing and sexual desire, and as the receptionists have autonomous consciousness and thinking, they begin to doubt the nature of this world, and then awaken and rebel against humanity.
The idea is derived from the 1973 film of the same name, "Inception" director Nolan's brother Jonathan Nolan as the general director, Michael Clayton as the chief writer, Evan Rachel Wood, Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris starring the science fiction drama, has been filmed to the third season, is still hot.
HBO also launched the crime drama "The Sopranos", which was broadcast on the HBO TELEVISION network from January 10, 1999 to June 10, 2007, with a total of 6 seasons and 86 episodes.
The show has a large viewing group, and its pioneering realistic lens presents the gray area of mafia life, American family members, the Italian American community, the world of violent support and morality, winning many applause from audiences and film critics, and even creating a cultural phenomenon. The gloomy atmosphere in the play is breathless, the plot is tense, and it is fascinating.
There is also a large-scale masterpiece, Legend of Fallen Street, focusing on the development of the industry in New York in the 70s and 80s, and the rapid expansion of the industry turned Manhattan into a city of wind and moon, but with the rise of AIDS, the proliferation of drugs and violence, and the change of the real estate industry, the industry was gradually eliminated.
At the heyday of the industry, a pair of twin brothers became the hegemons of the industry and had absolute dominance. James Franco's wonderful performance has added a lot of color to this large-scale American drama.
Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks also produced the World War II-themed TV series Blood Pacific after the success of Company of Brothers. The series takes the entire Pacific Theater from the perspective of three Marines, Leckie (James Becky Dale), Sledge (Joseph Mézero), and Baslon (Jon Saida).
The war plot shown in the plot of the TV series covers the important battles of the US military in the Pacific War. It cost more than $200 million to build a huge amount of money, although the evaluation is not as high as "Company of Brothers", it is also a good series.
Atlantic Empire is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by author Nelson Johnson, written by Terence Winter, directed by Martin Scorsese, Timothy Van Paten, and starring Steve Bussemi, Kelly Macdonald, Michael Williams, and others.
Set in Atlantic City in the 1920s, after the federal government banned alcohol (1920-1933), the public sale of alcohol became an offence. Against this backdrop, various gangs have waged a life-and-death struggle for control of the black market.
According to the Wall Street Journal, despite the high licensing fee, the relevant media in 160 countries around the world have purchased the broadcast rights of the show, making the show the "best-selling" series in HBO history, surpassing "Company of Brothers" and "Blood Pacific" to become the "best-selling" series in HBO history, and it is also the TV winner of the 2011 Golden Globe Awards.
Launched in 2001, Six Feet Below focuses on the Fisher family, which runs the funeral society, depicting the lives of each family member after the death of his father. The story is mainly set in modern Los Angeles. This drama may be the first American drama to make death the main topic.
The series consisted of 5 seasons and 63 episodes, which premiered on the AMERICAN cable channel HBO from June 3, 2001 to August 21, 2005. At the major awards ceremonies, the show won a total of 46 awards, including 9 Emmy Awards and 3 Golden Globe Awards. The scale of the drama is very large, and it is also a high-quality American drama worth recommending.
HBO is not willing to be in the European and American markets, once took out the boldness of his own TV series big brother, and cooperated with Taiwan in a Chinese film "The Distance Between Us and Evil", based on local social events in Taiwan, a shot is the highest score of Chinese TV series that year, Douban score 9.3.imdb9.1.
The drama is different from other crime dramas, the screenwriter did not take the audience to re-walk the perpetrator's criminal road, but linked the victim's family, the perpetrator's family, the lawyer who defended the perpetrator, etc., and threw many social issues such as journalistic ethics, the original family, and family education on the stage to try to explore the distance between "good and evil" in human nature.
In addition, the 76-episode "Biography of Zhen Huan" was written by the American HBO team and compressed into 6 episodes of a TV movie, each episode of 90 minutes, mainly telling the life of Zhen Huan. The film's director, Zheng Xiaolong, will join forces with Lin Yibin, director of the "Fast and Furious" series of films, which also shows HBO's huge ambitions to expand the Asian market.
In addition, HBO also has "Big Little Lies", "Urban Girl", "Watch over the world", "Silicon Valley", "John Adams", "Sisters of Decline" and other high-quality dramas, which are must be chased by many American drama fans.
In December 2018, HBO Ding-class Theater was shortlisted for the 2018 Top 500 World Brands. At present, the HBO team is also the benchmark of high-quality American dramas, and we look forward to them contributing more large-scale classic masterpieces to us in the future.