"Tang Tan Universe", Lin Hei Quan, finally returns.
In the past few years, what genre has the most popular Chinese dramas appeared in? Answer: suspense drama.
The most popular drama in 2023 is the criminal investigation suspense drama "Hurry Up".
's most popular drama is the period suspense drama "The Long Season".
However, the audience will pick if they eat too much, and the suspense drama has not been a hit for a long time.
or, the lineup is gorgeous and the logic is insufficient.
Or, just fall in love under the guise of a suspense drama. Can
still satisfy suspense drama audiences?
It’s time for Chen Sicheng to take action.
Tang Tan Universe is a big game that he has planned for a long time.
"Tang Detective 1" started IP.
"Tang Detective 2" expands the universe, and for the first time, the detective ranking of Tang Detective appears.
"Tang Detective 3" reaped the box office.
But the one with the best reputation in the entire Tang Detective series, apart from the sudden appearance of "Tang Detective 1", is the first eight episodes of the first season of the web drama " Chinatown Detective ".
The first four episodes of "Dance of the Mandala" are thrilling and exciting to watch. The middle "Rose" contributed the excellent acting skills of Zhang Songwen and Zhang Junning. With these 8 episodes, the quality of "Tang Detective" is among the best in domestic online dramas. It is already at the top level and even has a breakthrough in the detective genre.
has been waiting for the second season for 4 years and finally returned last night. It shot to No. 1 on the soaring list overnight.
Actors, all the actors who can come are back.
Qiu Ze, Wang Baoqiang , Tony Jia, Xiao Yang ,
An old face in Tang Detective Universe, Zhang Junning, will also return next.
Directors have changed, and Ke Wenli and Dai Mo from the first film are no longer there.
But the chief screenwriter and producer are still Chen Sicheng. Does the show still have the same flavor as the first one?
I finished watching 3 episodes in one go. One word to describe it: enjoyable.
After watching it, I just want to say that even if there are flaws, the Tang Detective series is still the ceiling of this year's suspense dramas.
1. Story: Lin Hei Quan's "Leap Over the Madhouse", with three hooks at the beginning, and then the high-end game
"Tang Detective 2", which is still a unit of 4 episodes.
, led by Qiu Ze, is the first case "Angel's Melody" and the second case "Devil's Breath".
Another Kiko (played by Shang Yuxian) who ranked fifth on the crimaster list in "Tang Detective Universe" leads the last two units: "Amusement Park" and "Golden City".
At the beginning of the story, Lin Mo once again "paid off the debt" for his master Tang Ren (played by Wang Baoqiang) and was forced to enter the "Angel Nursing Home" alone.
The beginning of the plot buried three plot points, which made me completely attracted to the drama.
The first hook: the murder case in the bathroom of the mental hospital
Without further ado, the plot is a high-energy scene.
The so-called "angel sanatorium, human Shura field".
Never expected that , "Lin Hei Dog", ranked fourth in the crimaster detective rankings, would be attacked as soon as he entered the "Angel Nursing Home".
First of all, on the first night after entering the hospital, when he followed the piano clues left by the client's pianist on the phone and came to the bathroom, he found that the pianist had been hanged in the bathroom disguised as a suicide.
On the first day he came in, the client was gone. This was not the most terrifying thing. The most terrifying thing was that the murderer knew Lin Mo very well and knew that he had an amazing sense of smell, so he deliberately used water to isolate the smell.
Lin Mo not only fell into a personal battle in a confined space, but also lost his "dog nose" skill. Want to run away?
cannot run.
A chase with Patient No. 316 Shama not only made Lin Mo lose face again, but also had his nose cut by Shama.
can't leave, let alone call the police, so he stays to investigate. The only clue is a cherry blossom pattern carved on the pianist's hand.
Who carved it? What does the
pattern mean? Why do you have to leave clues when you kill someone, and clearly let him see it?
As the investigation deepened, Lin Mo discovered that he had not only fallen into a pile of patients, but also fallen into the base of a criminal gang that resells human organs.
Good guy , it’s so big when you come up.
So it was really the female patient who did it? The answer obviously won't be that simple.
The second hook: The true purpose of the "female patient" Sakura
It is not difficult to follow the clue. In Angel Nursing Home, there is only one patient with a flower in his name, and that is Sakura.
A normal person who was abused for a long time and developed violent tendencies was sent to Angel Nursing Home because she bit off the little finger of the stepfather who harassed her.
Sakura asked Lin Mo to go to the back mountain to grab the pianist's little finger. Then she would tell him the cause of the pianist's death and the secret of Angel Nursing Home.
However, Lin Mo dug up another body in the wasteland at the back of the mountain, Patient No. 321, a patient who had been discharged from the hospital.
Not only was this patient missing a section of his little finger, there were sutures on his body and organs in his body were missing.
There is no need to talk nonsense when masters compete with each other. Sakura stopped pretending and admitted that she and Shama had killed the pianist. In the past three years, Sakura and Shama had cooperated to kill so many people that she could no longer remember.
But she was ordered to kill someone, and the person who instructed her was the dean of the hospital, on condition that she be let out.
But why did Sakura leave a mark on the pianist's body so that Lin Mo could find her?
There are far more secrets about her than that. Is she lying, or is she hiding something else? This is the second suspense buried in the plot.
The third hook: the secret of the critical illness area
The critical illness area of the sanatorium is not monitored.
The intensive care unit of a mental hospital has always been a horror addition to suspense genres, and this drama is no exception.
If it is said that the dean is running an organ trafficking business behind his back, because the patients are a group of marginalized figures in society, no one will care even if they disappear.
The critical area is the place where he died while requesting organs from living people.
There is no doubt that the key evidence is behind the gate of the critical area.
But even if he knew there was a ghost here, it would be difficult for Lin Mo to get out of the mental hospital, join forces with Sakura, instigate a chaos, and escape while taking advantage of the chaos?
But they also ignored a key figure: the ultimate boss.
is obviously not the dean who doesn't know anything about Lin Mo.
Who is this person? He knew that Lin Mo had entered the hospital and knew Lin Mo's abilities. He used water to cover up the smell, indicating that he knew Lin Mo well.
is the psychiatrist who always wants to hear Lin Mo’s stories and deliberately doesn’t leave any fingerprints?
Or is it the head nurse who seems to be controlling everything silently and carries the blood and hatred of her daughter?
The first three episodes that surprised me was the way it opened the story.
does not have a lot of narration to introduce, and there is no large-scale drama to lure you into the game.
gets right to the point. A madhouse-jumping puzzle.
seems to be calm. But the tension is quietly building up.
The audience followed Lin Mo and seemed to be trapped in an isolated and helpless Angel Nursing Home.
If it were you, being shocked every day and left alone, would you be able to get out?
It can be said that it was not until the screen switched and Kuntai appeared on the scene that he was taking the step of not recognizing his relatives...
I dared to land with my heart in my throat.
This is the high-end game.
2. Acting skills: Qiu Ze's stability, the coldness of "Little Jiangxi", Xiao Yang, Wang Baoqiang and Tony Jia's fun, give the series a soul
It can be said that the "Tang Detective" series is one of the few domestic dramas that can turn suspense into a movie. It is a touching drama, with both a thrilling and terrifying atmosphere and a confusing plot.
The performance of a group of actors becomes more and more addictive the more you watch it.
The first thing that attracted me was Qiu Ze
Qiu Ze's acting skills in the Tang Detective series have always been somewhere between genius and madman.
His acting skills have inspired domestic entertainment students that they should forget about being cool when acting.
Qiu Ze’s appearance is nothing short of amazing. He was called a cartoon face when he debuted. But in this drama, I won't pay special attention to his face. He is just doing his job as an actor and portraying the character of Lin Hei Quan.
So Deng Enxi said in front of Angel Nursing Home: Lin Mo, please start your performance.
Actor Lin Mo immediately entered the scene in one second.When
is used in domestic entertainment, this approach won’t work, because the reputation is important, and fans don’t need the brothers to be good actors, just being handsome is enough.
But what Qiu Ze needs is to make the character's appearance and status consistent with his character characteristics, such as a sloppy beard and dark skin. He will be distorted by fear when being slapped in the face by Shama.
Only when the audience believes in this character can they become involved in the story. Although Lin Mo in the play does not act handsome every minute, his IQ is very handsome when his glasses are on fire.
A person playing with Angel Sanatorium and a group of people are handsome.
It's even more cool to sort out the case in a desperate situation.
is not afraid of being ugly or trying to be cool. His acting skills serve the role, which is another kind of handsome acting.
The second place, "Little Jiangxi" Wang Yi
Chen Sicheng is really good at selecting people. When Wang Yi was asked to play the most outstanding role in the first unit, Wang Yi was not Xiao Jiangxi in " Blossoms ".
But her acting skills have blossomed in this drama.
My mother was killed and molested by her stepfather. She rebelled angrily and was sent to Angel Nursing Home. She was harassed by fellow residents, coerced by the director, and turned into a murder tool. The dragon slayer eventually becomes the evil dragon.
But Wang Yi did not play Sakura as a bitter character. On the contrary, she played her with a hint of frivolity and indifference.
What impressed me most was the scene where she confessed everything to Lin Mo. In the cold room, she had clear thoughts and a playful smile on her lips, as if she had already seen through everything. She was half crazy and seven parts cold, which was so right.
In the end, even though she did so many bad things, the audience couldn't help but sympathize with her at the moment of her fall.
I thought she did a great job.
The third place, Wang Baoqiang, Xiao Yang, Tony Jia
Put them together, of course it is not because these few are not important enough, but because their role functions are actually the same: they are just for fun.
Yes, you read that right, Chen Sicheng made Wang Zha's guest appearance in the first four episodes.
Wang Baoqiang's Tang Ren is still greasy and unreliable. He hired the pianist for two million and decisively "sold" his apprentice.
Although it is greasy, it is funny. Without him, there would be no Tang Tan internal flavor.
Detective Kuntai, who is still nonsensical but can occasionally play an important role, Chinatown , is now the deputy director.
As soon as Xiao Yang appeared on the stage, he carried a huge black umbrella, and for a while he seemed to be inadvertently boasting, but in fact he was deliberately boasting. The last sentence, "Are you so arrogant?" I couldn't help but laugh.
But the funniest thing this time is the super-powerful detective Jack Jia (played by Tony Jia). As a "violent patient", when he appeared wearing a hood and his hands and feet bound, the audience already knew it was him and started laughing. Not coming down.
When he beat up the nursing staff at Angel Nursing Home, he finally said to the frightened and trembling dean: Tonight, I will sleep with him!
Jack Jia made me laugh all day.
Finally, Xiong Dailin who plays the head nurse Daisy, Lou Xuexian who plays the dean and Ma Yuke who plays the psychiatrist are also very involved in the play. I can't tell who is the big boss of this unit.
The Tang Detective series is just like that. Some people are serious about comedy and some are serious about acting. It has the right taste.
3. It has both regrets and advantages. Is "Tang Detective 2" still the ceiling for domestic suspense dramas?
Of course, I can’t say that I have no regrets. Let me get straight to the point.
The first is Lin Mo’s wisdom.
I don’t think there is a problem with Lin Mo revealing his identity, because his opponents know him well in the dark, otherwise they would not use water to remove the smell. Since there is no point in hiding his identity, he might as well do the opposite by revealing his identity, muddy the water, and let his opponents see well.
What really makes me smart is that Lin Mo really has no backup plan at all!
If Deng Enxi’s character wasn’t so beautiful and smart, and got the distress signal from him playing the piano, how could he have gotten out?
Lin Mo is a detective who is relatively impulsive and makes small mistakes. In the first film, he was led by the femme fatale Ivy again and again.
He is not as strong as Qin Feng, not as calm. He is Lin Hei Quan, but the Lin Hei Quan the audience knows must have a backup plan.
The second is reasoning downgrade.
The first season of Tang Detective was well received. The key is that the reasoning is tenable. This series is essentially a suspense drama rather than a comedy. It cannot be said that the plot of the first unit of
Season 2 is not suspenseful, but the reversal and battle of wits are indeed too simple. Experienced viewers can guess the final villain from the beginning.
For ordinary domestic suspense dramas, it may be okay, but it is Tang Detective.
But I still think that "Tang Detective 2" is still the ceiling for domestic suspense.
three reasons.
1, "Suspense"
Since it is a suspense drama, one suspense after another is naturally inevitable. Although the reasoning of the first case in the second season is not as rigorous as "Dance of the Mandala", the final twist is probably not as good as "The Story of the Rose" by Zhang Songwen as the finishing touch.
But the suspense is still not weak.
Ever since Lin Mo was "sold out" by Tang Ren and entered the hospital, the whole story has never been told.
instead peels off the cocoon, slowly building up a sense of suspense.
Like a calm sea, it is full of whirlpools and hidden reefs
Good suspense, all calm.
Therefore, even if the reasoning declines, the way of laying hooks and the exquisite narrative rhythm can still arouse the audience's interest, while ensuring the perception, allowing people to follow the plot to explore the truth.
The casual lines are also very good, "The abnormal death rate here is too high" "This is an abnormal place to begin with". In the end, this Tang Detective version of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" can still make the audience want to watch it The fuse is lit, waiting for the moment of detonation.
2, "shadow"
cinematic feel.
Judging from the three episodes currently aired, the reasoning and foreshadowing may not be as good as "Dance of the Mandala", but the atmosphere created by the image is not inferior. The contrast between light and dark inside the mental hospital is also intertwined. All create a sense of "isolated island" investigation.
Many daily scenes under the sun may seem ordinary, but are horrifying if you think about them carefully.
Keep reading, many secrets of the story are hidden in the picture.
's lens aesthetics are also good. For example, the scene of cherry blossoms falling from a building has a cruel, sad and poetic beauty.
"Tang Detective 2" still provides a rare visual feast for domestic online dramas. Every frame of the series is tempting you to get involved -
3, "human"
Since the first season, Chen Sicheng has tried to use this series to explore complex human nature.
In "Angel's Melody", the undercurrents of the isolated sanatorium are surging, and the blurred boundaries between normal people and madmen are erased.
In an area where good and evil and right and wrong have become blurred, the reality of human nature is even more unpredictable.
Judging from the trailer, this is just the beginning. Ignorance and delusion, greed and anger, lust and desire will still be the themes of this season.
Overall, "Tang Detective" still has the taste of Tang Detective.
Comedy, crime drama, detective drama, suspense drama... a mixture of many genres.
As Chen Sicheng said, "Elegance and popular taste are both appreciated."
has the horse-grabbing, exaggerated suspense and wonderful twists of Tang Detective World, as well as suspenseful scenes that can arouse people's emotions. It still has the flavor of the year.
Because of the background setting of Chinatown, the series can tell more large-scale crime stories and tell about the crimes hidden in the real and fake. Among domestic suspense dramas, it is still unique.
I still remember that Tang Tan 1's "Dance of the Mandala" quoted a sentence from the Avatamsaka Sutra: "All the evil deeds I have done in the past were all caused by greed, anger and ignorance without beginning."
Crimes are not committed by evil people.
Everyone can become a villain.
At least there is a series in the Chinese drama that also allows detectives to return to detectives.
Let the character return to "human".
allows characters to show their "humanity". The
series is worth continuing to follow after all.
