"You can always trust TVB workplace dramas"
This is a widely circulated saying in the field of Hong Kong dramas, which shows how high TVB workplace dramas are in the hearts of the audience.
"Royal Court No. 1", "Sister Tuoqiang", "Forensic Records", "Wonderful Hands and Kindness", "Criminal Investigation Files"...
Each one of them firmly controls the audience's remote control Tools, every profession is photographed sparklingly.
Compared with the current domestic dramas that are troublesome and cover love in the workplace, these early TVB workplace dramas can be called the ceiling.
However, in recent years, as TVB artists have left the nest one after another, there have been fewer and fewer good TVB workplace dramas.
Although the 2019 "White Strong Man" is popular and has a good reputation, it cannot escape the "sequel curse".
This year, there are several movies in a row. Fortunately, there is a Taiwan celebration drama to back it up.
Finally, the TVB we are familiar with is back - "News Queen"
The drama is directed by Zhong Shujia, starring Charmaine Sheh, Ma Guoming, Li Shiwei, Gao Haining, He Yiting, Tan Junyan, Wang Minyi, etc., focusing on is the story of the workplace in journalism.
has been released on Douban with a rating of 7.9, entering the upper reaches of this year's Chinese word-of-mouth drama series.
The short comment section received rave reviews from the audience, making people eager to follow the show:
"It can be said to be the ceiling of Hong Kong dramas in recent years. Charmaine Sheh's acting skills are outstanding, and the image of a strong woman is so charming."
"This is called a drama with a female protagonist! If you look at domestic dramas, they are either silly or nonsensical!"
"I can see the shadow of TVB in the golden era. I watched five episodes in a row. It's great!"
So what makes this drama so good? Where? Next, let Qingshi, who finished 6 episodes in one go, talk about it.
01, TVB Queen Charmaine Sheh returns to
after 6 years. From the title of the drama, you can tell that this is a typical drama with a female protagonist.
The heroine role is very suitable for Charmaine Sheh, and this is her return to TVB after 6 years.
During the TVB period, she left many classic roles with her very online acting skills.
Whether it is Zhou Zhiruo in "The Legend of Heaven and Sword of the Dragon", Er Chun in "The Golden Branch", Liu Sanhao in "The Palace", or Sister Ding in "The Apostle Walker", every character is impressive. profound.
After leaving TVB, she entered the mainland market. She was not acclimated, but thrived.
Concubine Xian in "Story of Yanxi Palace" and Fan Xianger in "The Sideburns Are Not Begonia Red" amazed the audience.
In "News Queen", the heroine Wen Huixin played by Charmaine Sheh is even more impressive.
is the ace anchor of Star Network News. She is extremely capable and ambitious. She is known as Sister Man in the world.
made the audience feel her elite feeling as soon as she appeared on the stage. The first layer of
comes from the external image.
Charmaine Sheh mostly appears in black and white suits in the drama, with neat short hair and low-key but luxurious accessories.
Judging from the shape, it is simple and textured, which indeed fits the image of Wen Huixin as a capable, decisive and tasteful strong woman.
Compared with the heroine of the next door "Love as a Camp", she is also a township entrepreneur who is an elite in the news industry.
The second level comes from the inner temperament.
Regardless of acting skills, some actresses are determined not to be destined for the elite based on their temperament alone.
And Charmaine Sheh not only achieves the "female elite" in clothing.
She is full of urban temperament and has the confidence to not rely on clothes to show off her identity and qualifications. She is completely OK to play a capable professional woman.
Moreover, she graduated from the Swiss International University of Hotel Management and is much more "intelligent", which complements this type of character with a "sense of experience".
The third level comes from acting.
The first episode of "News Queen" begins with an alumni sharing session. In just a few minutes, the career and personality of the heroine Wen Huixin are explained.
During the sharing session, Dr. Lu, who was sitting next to him, was very angry with Wen Hui and asked the audience to ask her questions so that he would not be too bored and could only scroll through his mobile phone.
Wen Huixin was calm and composed, and she could hear the bad intentions in the other party's words.
not only answered a question from a journalism college student with a professional perspective, but also directly revealed the bombshell news, exposing the fact that Dr. Lu's company's business was declining but concealing the fact from shareholders, and turned against customers at once.
Charmaine Sheh's eyes here are steady and powerful. Although she is smiling, there is cruelty in the corners of her eyes and eyebrows.
The image of a strong woman who is smart, straightforward and domineering and has been in the news industry for many years has been established.
Charmaine Sheh did her homework well before the filming started. Many of the broadcast scenes in the drama looked so professional that she really thought she was a female anchor.
02, the business line is fast-paced, and the layers are reversed, firmly catching the audience's attention
The plot background of "News Queen" is set in Star News, the largest news organization in Hong Kong. Overall, the whole drama is It is mainly divided into two lines: business line and struggle line. The
business line focuses on various breaking hot news and revolves around the working life of journalists.
In the first six episodes alone, there were four breaking news items, one in two episodes on average, and the twists came one after another.
includes highly conflicting events such as bus rollover, foundation scandal, mental patient attacking police, illegal building fire, etc. The truth is hidden behind the layers of reversal.
The plot is high-energy and fast-paced. Netizens who have watched domestic workplace dramas are deeply impressed:
"These 6 episodes are enough for 60 episodes of domestic entertainment."
One incident after another happened Events can easily arouse the emotions of the audience, giving them an immersive experience of watching live news.
For example, the event involving "Jiumozhi" Li Guolin was quite exciting.
At first, this was news that no one in the station wanted to run away from, and was deliberately thrown to the newcomers, thinking it was just noise to disturb people.
However, as the investigation progressed, new reporter Liu Yan discovered that the incident was far from simple.
It turned out that the middle-aged man who was complained by the villagers was Uncle Sijue, a well-known Internet celebrity.
In order to find out the truth, she took a risk and entered her uncle's house with her mobile phone.
As a result, when I entered the door, I was so frightened by the scene in front of me that I collapsed to the ground.
A policeman was lying in a pool of blood, and Uncle Sijue was holding a knife in his hand and walking towards him.
People's livelihood news that no one paid attention to originally was upgraded to a hot topic of public opinion that attracted the attention of the whole of Hong Kong in less than half an episode.
As the media digs deeper, Uncle Sijue's identity gradually becomes clear -
A policeman who once lost his police gun, his daughter is a new singer who is involved in a third-party scandal in the entertainment industry.
After being surrounded by the police, his mentally unstable state went from confronting people with a knife to threatening him with something that looked like a pistol.
At this point in the investigation, the matter seems to have become clear - an incident in which a mentally ill patient attacked a police officer.
However, the truth is unexpected.
When Liu Yan looked back at the footage of the scene, she found that there was no stab wound on the policeman's body. The wound was on the back of his head. He concluded that he accidentally hit the glass behind the wall.
This means that Uncle Sijue did not hurt anyone with a knife.
Although things have turned around, the station is not willing to broadcast the video she took.
Because of the media's exaggeration, the uncle Sijue involved in the incident has become a manic and restless "ticking time bomb."
Liu Yan's superior Zhang Jiayan adheres to the principles of news reporting. In order to pursue the truth, she has no choice but to join forces with Wen Huixin.
Wen Huixin was experienced and keen, guiding Zhang Jiayan and the others to search around the scene, and discovered other truths that had been ignored.
It turns out that the reason why the uncle was mentally unstable was because of the illegally installed radio transmitting device nearby.
The high-frequency electromagnetic waves gave him headaches and hallucinations. As a result, his temperament changed drastically and he became manic and restless.
The scandal in the entertainment industry about Uncle Sijue's daughter was eventually confirmed to be a rumor. The Hong Kong bus rollover incident in the first episode of
is also thought-provoking.
On the surface, it appears that the car accident was caused by a passenger who had an argument with the driver after sitting at the station and grabbed the steering wheel.
But in fact, it was not just the passenger who was responsible. Problems with the internal parts of the bus were also a major cause. The combination of the two eventually led to a catastrophe.
Putting aside some unreasonable plots, the news events chosen by the show are quite meaningful and typical.
Every piece of news is explained very clearly, and the scene where the protagonist reports the news can withstand careful scrutiny and is not childish.
allows the audience to see not only how reporters report news, but also the real and slightly dirty side of the news industry.
This is what a workplace drama should be like.
03. All members of the struggle line are ruthless, which can be called a modern version of palace fighting.
As mentioned earlier, this drama has two lines.
Another line of power struggle can be called a modern version of palace fighting. It can be said that all the members are ruthless and work hard for their careers. This line is also the most enjoyable part for the audience when they first watched "News Queen".
In the drama, Star Network News is divided into three major factions, and there are often open and secret fights in the office.
The first one is Wen Jiajun led by Wen Huixin played by Charmaine Sheh.
Although she has a high professional level and a strong sense of professionalism, Wen Huixin's character is not the always upright little white flower heroine in the past, nor is she an ideal media person.
She will not look forward or backward, and miss old relationships, but is very pragmatic and quick-witted.
Take the alumni sharing session at the beginning as an example. She revealed the truth not only for the sake of stock investors, but also had her own plans.
The purpose is to win over the other party so that she can get in touch with this alumnus who may become an advertising sponsor in the future.
Another example is the use of subordinate Tang Zhiyao in the bus rollover case.
Tang Zhiyao took the risk of breaking the law and stole the driving recorder, which helped her get exclusive clues and won her opponent's victory.
In the blink of an eye, Wen Huixin gave up her job and fired the person. She even announced it when Tang Zhiyao was inviting her colleagues to eat cake.
You can feel the despair of the workers through the screen. This scene can be said to express the crushing feeling of the superiors.
Although Wen Huixin seems to have great success, it is not that easy in fact. As a middle-level leader, she also faces a mid-life workplace crisis. There is news director Fei Ye on
.
seems to be a good leader, but in fact he is an old fox who likes to see his subordinates fighting among themselves to prevent one family from becoming the dominant one and overpowering the leader.
has a successor named Xu Xiaowei.
seems to be obedient and well-behaved, but in fact he has long been dissatisfied with Wen Huixin's high-pressure training method, and has betrayed his opponent early on.
The male protagonist Liang Jingren (played by Ma Guoming) is the colleague who competes with her in the middle. The Georgian Party led by him is the second largest faction of Star Network News.
Liang Jingren was also the male anchor promoted by Wen Huixin, but they parted ways due to a misunderstanding. The role of
is the kind of leader that is common in reality, playing both sides and opportunistically.
For the sake of traffic and gimmicks, they don’t care about the truth of the news. For the sake of their future, they don’t hesitate to step on their predecessors to get the upper hand.
When dealing with two female subordinates, he behaved one way in front of others and another behind the scenes.
The two female subordinates are not simple either.
Female apprentice Xu Shiqing is not a simple little white flower. Her career ambitions and desires are written all over her face.
Sometimes in order to get exclusive clues, you can even sacrifice hue.
Xu Xiaowei defected to Liang Jingren, and her thoughts were not simple. She wanted to be the prime time anchor.
It can be said that "News Queen" has constructed an illustration of career ambitions. Although it looks morbid, the overt and covert struggles it presents are somewhat real.
Of course, as a workplace drama, "News Queen" is not just to create the feeling of workers counterattacking or fighting.
also presents the unspeakable dilemma common to journalists through the progress and struggles of the neutral faction represented by Zhang Jiayan (played by Li Shiwei) and new reporter Liu Yan in the media industry.
As a middle-level person in the company, Zhang Jiayan is the kind of good leader that every unit has, a good leader who neither competes nor robs.
She doesn't want to get involved in the company's infighting. She needs to be independent, have outstanding abilities, and pursue the truth wholeheartedly.
From beginning to end, Zhang Jiayan used her professionalism to report news.
Judging from the content currently broadcast, "News Queen" can indeed be regarded as a trump card played by TVB this year.
Although there is still a gap between "The Newsroom" and the highly praised American drama "The Newsroom" with similar themes, it is still worth watching.
Especially when there are several Hong Kong dramas this year with no splash at all, the appearance of "News Queen" can be said to have rekindled people's hopes and made people miss the classic TVB workplace dramas.
The story of the play has just begun, and people are looking forward to what kind of reversal the plot will have in the future.
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