On April 7, the TV series (micro-short drama) "I Became a Stepmother in the 1980s" was launched on Hunan Satellite TV's official video platform, Mango TV. This micro-short drama, which once gained great popularity on video platforms, has officially entered the four major genuine video platforms and can be seen by more people.
Currently, 29 episodes of this TV series are available for members to watch on Mango TV. The later parts, up to the 82nd episode of the finale, require payment to watch. The package payment amount is 20 yuan, which is a bit expensive. Based only on the parts that are currently available for free viewing, I think this TV series seems bloody, seems to be blaming the sky and the ground, and seems like the heroine is tearing everything apart with her hands. However, it also has a tender side and a realistic side.
Maybe, the reason why many viewers are interested in watching this short drama is actually because of its temperament of defying the sky and the earth, especially the heroine's temperament in the drama, as long as she is offended, she dares to fight back. This kind of reply mode can make many women feel "pleasant". In fact, in recent years, a large number of Thai dramas have also adopted this plot model in which the heroine dares to challenge everything.
Many micro-short dramas nowadays are actually based on the Thai drama model, which does not pay much attention to the transmission of correct values, but only focuses on how to make it look good and how to arouse the audience's emotions. There seems to be no need to be sarcastic about such a work. In recent years, Thai dramas have swept across Southeast Asia with this low-end model. At present, this kind of Thai dramas are still being dumped in China in large quantities. Among our satellite TV stations, there are some that broadcast Thai dramas after the late Huang Dynasty, and the copyright fees are so low that they are "outrageous".
is a bloody and tearful model. If our own micro-short dramas don’t occupy the market, Thai dramas will definitely do so. You may not know that a large number of Thai dramas are now broadcast on our platform, and many of them do not require copyright fees, or even give us money. They just want to promote Thai celebrities and make money from our traffic fans. Therefore, this kind of bloody and tearful drama mode is not as good as our own micro-short drama.
Back to "I Became a Stepmother in the 1980s". Some viewers may think that the narrative of this TV series is very bloody, especially the tearing part, which is simply vulgar. In fact, this TV series is "exaggeratedly realistic". For example, in this TV series, after the heroine arrived in the countryside, a rural woman immediately appeared and started a war mode with her.
The appearance of a rural woman is of course exaggerated, but at the same time, it is indeed realistic. I think that the screenwriter of this TV series understands the reality of farmers, and the screenwriter is able to carry out exaggerated narratives based on reality, and through this exaggeration, a feeling of "likeness" can be obtained. When this kind of rural women are shameless, they can surpass the image of women in TV dramas.
Even more, it was said that the male protagonist married a daughter-in-law, and this daughter-in-law actually poisoned the two children. Do you think this is an exaggeration? On the contrary, I think this is a huge realistic picture of the countryside back then. This kind of content is presented in a humorous way and is not very harmful to the audience. To put it another way, if this content is told to movie fans in the form of a literary film, will everyone be shocked? This kind of thing, editor, I saw a lot of similar things when I was receiving education from poor and lower-middle peasants in rural areas.
For another example, in the play, the restaurant owner was not so polite when he saw the son of the director of a state-owned factory. This is also relatively realistic. It's the 1980s, and many state-owned factories are no longer effective. They eat and drink too much. It's normal for them to owe people hundreds of yuan for meals in restaurants. The more desperate you are, the more you spend randomly. Anyway, you are not spending your own money. My old editor, I have seen people in state-owned factories go out to eat, and in the end the restaurants would not give them credit, and they had to settle the accounts one by one. In this TV series, this part is also realistic.
Therefore, I feel that the screenwriter and director of the TV series "I Became a Stepmother in the 1980s" have real life skills, but they did not use the narrative method of an art film. That way, using a bloody drama to cover up the purpose of the drama.
In this TV series, the core emotions are between the heroine and the hero, and between the heroine and the children. These emotions are all kind and positive. This also constitutes the core value of this TV series, which is to promote love and affirm love. Therefore, I don’t think this TV series is crude, I don’t think it is unrealistic, and I don’t think it is so bloody. (Text/Ma Qingyun)
