2024 is already halfway through, and a lot of dramas have been broadcast in half a year.
Some dramas are predictably good-looking, such as "South to North", "My Altay", "Wind Chaser", etc., and they all lived up to the high expectations of the audience.
Some dramas have become dark horses. The most representative one is Yu Zheng's " Mo Yuyunjian ", which became Wu Jinyan's turnaround.
There are also some dramas that either have a luxurious cast, or are adapted from a big IP with a lot of fans of the original work, or have a blockbuster first one as the basis. The common point is that before the broadcast, everyone thought it would be the biggest drama of the year. , but it surprised people after it aired.
Because either the plot is lame or the actors' acting skills are terrible. In short, the greater the expectations, the greater the disappointment.
Today, Mr. Tomato will talk about those dramas that I think have been a trap in the first half of 2024.
1, " Sauvignon Blanc 2": It seems to be two dramas with the first season
Last summer, " Sauvignon Blanc " was so popular that when the second part was announced to be released this summer, almost Everyone is waiting for it to continue last year's glory.
As a result, as soon as the second season aired, many people felt that the two seasons were not the same show.
First of all, the tone of the show has changed. The first season had a lot of comedy elements, which was light-hearted and enjoyable. The heroine's dealings with several male protagonists also made people feel that they all had their own tastes.
But as soon as the second season started airing, there was an air of "hateful woman".
Xuanxuan looks at Xiaoyao with a drooped face every day; Xiaoyao has a crying face every day, not knowing whether she is thinking about Jing or Xiangliu; Jing has a sad face every day, thinking about herself Suddenly having a son, I blame myself and regret;
In short, everyone is unhappy, and it is all for love, which makes people feel that they are looking for trouble and asking for trouble.
And in the second season, Xiaoyao's growth line is almost gone. She is entangled between four men and completely reduced to a tool in polyamory. This kind of old and vulgar plot is really unbearable. .
In addition, the protagonists also have their own collapse performances.
Zhang Wanyi 's performance of the post-closing ceremony was expressionless and too dull; Tan Jianci 's clip of playing the guqin was criticized as greasy; Yang Zi 's performance of Xiao Yao was a bit half-hearted, making it difficult to tell who she was. He still has a soft spot for Jing despite his friendship with Xiang Liu.
It’s no wonder that the score of this drama plummeted from 7.8 points in the first part to .6 points in the second part .
2, "Harbin 1944": The strongest lineup produced an unsatisfactory drama
Just looking at the lineup of "Harbin 1944" is a must-have drama. After all, the director has produced dramas such as "The Ming Dynasty 1566" With a well-known director and actors as talented as Qin Hao, as well as popular actors like Yang Mi, this drama will not be bad no matter how you watch it.
But after the show was aired, the audience discovered that the director and actors both stretched their crotches. The director
seems to be a different person and can no longer tell stories. The plot frequently inserts a scene where Guan Xue recalls being rescued by Jiang Zhuowu. However, this memory actually has little effect on the plot but appears repeatedly, making people doubt the length of the water. suspicion.
In addition to the watery plot, the biggest problem with this drama is that the logic is not smooth and there are many low-level errors.
For example, the Secret Service used torture to extract confessions from prisoners, and even temporarily went to the street to find an unknown Chinese medicine doctor to give the criminal acupuncture. In the end, of course, the Chinese medicine doctor used deception and rescued the criminal.
And every time Guan Xue tracked the prisoners, these prisoners either escaped or died. Jiang Zhuowen was at the scene every time, and he knew with his toes that there was a big problem with this person, but Guan Xue was like a man in a daze. , completely ignored this problem, and completely trusted Jiang Zhuowen just because he mistook Jiang Zhuowen as his savior. How can one follow a plot like
?
What's more, the actors' acting skills are even more embarrassing.
Yang Mi has always acted in costume dramas or urban dramas. This is the first time she has participated in such serious themes, but the performance style is not suitable for her.
She expresses her anger by glaring and roaring. Her acting skills are superficial, completely inconsistent with the undercurrent style of spy dramas, and she looks particularly dramatic.
Because this drama was her transformation, Yang Mi acted particularly hard, and as a result, she accidentally contributed a lot of emoticons.
As for Qin Hao, it may be because the opponent actor failed to mobilize his emotions, so his acting skills have always been good, and his performance this time can only be said to be lackluster and without highlights.
The director and the heroine are crotchless, and the male protagonist is not outstanding, which is destined to not have a good reputation for this drama.
3, "Jin Yong's Martial Arts World": It's so bad that the protagonist himself despises it.
They say that Mrs. Wang is a self-proclaimer, but have you ever seen a drama that is so bad that the protagonist himself despises it?
"Jin Yong's Martial Arts World" is it.
This year coincides with the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jin Yong, so many people looked forward to it when they learned that a drama called "Jin Yong's Martial Arts World" would be broadcast this year.
Moreover, this drama claims that it is not just a piece of cake, but an adaptation of Jin Yong's works. It is divided into 5 units. In addition to the most familiar Guo Jing and Huang Rong, it also focuses on Huang Yaoshi and his wife, Mei Chaofeng and Dong Dong. The stories of the main characters such as Xie Xidu have been expanded, and it sounds like a very good work.
However, it turns out that the pie-in-the-sky trend has spread to the TV drama industry, and none of the directors' words can be realized.
After this drama was aired, everyone realized that it was ruining a classic.
First of all, the filter of the entire drama is yellow, as if all the scenes were shot in sandstorm weather.
Secondly, the casting of this drama has also caused widespread complaints.
plays Guo Jing's this sand was accused of having too long face and unsightly appearance. Moreover, Guo Jing's character should be naturally naive. Zhang Zhilin in the 1994 version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" performed this feeling. However, the naiveness here has heavy traces of acting. At first glance, he is pretending to be stupid. He acted well Tired, the audience is also tired.
and Huang Rong, actors are also not suitable. Although Baoshang En is quite beautiful, her acting skills are really not up to par, especially her facial expressions are not well managed, and her mouth is crooked when speaking lines.
Because of her crooked mouth, this version of Huang Rong does not look playful and smart, but rather scoundrel. As for the other actors, you can see for yourself. Ming Dao and Peter Ho look very modern at first glance, without any charm of the ancients.
In addition, this drama claims to be a "martial arts world", but in fact it is a costumed idol drama dressed in martial arts. All the plots serve the "love" of Guo Jing and Huang Rong, and do not reflect the proper chivalry at all.
Even Zhou Yiwei , who plays Huang Laoxie, couldn't help complaining. He said that when he was approached about this drama, the script he was shown was completely different from what was finally presented, and the heroic spirit that attracted him was gone. , instead became the tool of the love drama between Sha Sha and Bao Shang En.
How disappointed is Zhou Yiwei with this drama? Even when netizens express their expectations, he will personally pour cold water on them and say not to expect anything.
The audience said that he was not disappointed yet, but he continued to hit again and said that he would be disappointed if he waited a little longer.
This is really the first time I have seen an actor dislike his own work so much. This shows that "Jin Yong's Martial Arts World" is really not good to watch.
As for the drama that aired until the end, it ended prematurely because of its poor reputation. Only the chapter " Iron-Blooded Heart " was aired and the drama was temporarily ended. The other four chapters are probably far away.
4, " Little Days ": Please don't equate bloody dramas with life dramas
Before "Little Days" was broadcast, people were really looking forward to it. After all, " Only Thirty " and "Heart Residence" were popular It has established Tong Yao 's status as the queen of life dramas in the eyes of the audience. Many people are interested in the life dramas starring her.
What's more, this drama also has Chen Xiao, Sarina, Yue Hong, Qiao Zhenyu and others. It is a gathering of big names. In the eyes of drama fans, it is a standard drama.
However, when the show started airing, there were a lot of complaints. The main reason was that the show was completely divorced from reality and was too suspended.
The beginning of the play explains the main conflict of the young couple Gu Moli and Zhu Jincao - they want to exchange their small house for a bigger one.
This is originally a very realistic family need, but when you see the two protagonists crying that they are poor and cannot afford a big house, at the same time they have two Cadillacs at home, spend 800 yuan a week to open a house, and buy two of them on Mother's Day. When I was given Wanwu bags as gifts and Moutai bottles as gifts, I suddenly felt that they were just moaning for no reason.
And the parents in the show are completely demonized.
Zhu Jincao's father actually set up family rules for his son's family and even framed them. Such a plot has no contradiction at all but creates contradictions.
The forced happy ending at the end is also annoying.
In the early days, the daughter-in-law and the parents-in-law were having such troubles, and the husband was cheating on her. In the end, it didn’t happen because the mistress was not a good person, otherwise the cheating would definitely turn into real cheating.
Under such circumstances, Gu Moli finally chose to forgive, and the family lived a harmonious and beautiful life.
In Mr. Tomato’s opinion, “Little Days” shouldn’t call itself a life drama, but a fairy tale drama. After all, only fairy tales can be so deceptive!
5, "The Little Matchmaker of the Fox Demon": Falling below the high-traffic drama base
This year is really a bit bleak for Yang Mi. After the broadcast of "Harbin 1944", I thought that "The Little Matchmaker of the Fox Demon" "The Matchmaker Yue Hong Chapter" can find some opportunities for her.
After all, ancient puppets are her specialty, and " Fox Fairy Matchmaker " is a big IP in the first echelon of Chinese comics. The original play volume has exceeded 0 billion , and it has a super wide audience. What's more, in addition to Yang Mi, this drama also includes Gong Jun, Chen Duling, Zhang Linghe, and Chen Yao. can be said to be a hodgepodge of traffic stars.
But it is such a drama that should be very lively no matter how you watch it. By the end of it, you don’t even have the desire to complain because it is so boring.
First of all, the performance style of the male and female protagonists was criticized.
Tushan Honghong played by Yang Mi is a fox demon with a cold face and a warm heart. It turns out that it’s already 2024. Yang Mi’s understanding of aloofness is still stern and he finished the performance without a single expression. I still don’t know. I thought she was playing an emotionless Ex Machina.
And Gong Jun's acting skills are equally unflattering. The Bai Yuechu he played was still a child in the original work, so his personality was quite out of touch. As a result, he did not re-create the character, but carried a picture It's really embarrassing for a 30-year-old face to act like an eighty-nine-year-old child.
Secondly, as the original work is an anime, some of the plots and lines are relatively middle-of-the-road. It may not be out of place in the two-dimensional world, but copying it into a TV series will make people feel uncomfortable.
For example, Tu Shan Honghong tilted her head expressionlessly and said: "Tu Shan, I covered it, you know?" It was so embarrassing that it made people dig their toes on the ground, and this sentence has become a joke among netizens.
The last episode of this drama had an average of less than 20 million views. It can be said that it has fallen below the bottom line of high-traffic ancient puppet dramas.
6, " Ice Hunting " almost made Zhang Songwen fall from the altar
This is Zhang Songwen's first male protagonist drama after the explosion of "Hurry Up". Based on the filter of Gao Qiqiang, the audience's expectations for this drama are high One can imagine.
As a result, this drama not only failed to continue the popularity of "Hurry Up", it even almost caused Zhang Songwen to fall from the altar.
Actually there is no problem with Zhang Songwen's performance in this drama, but he has a heroine who is holding him back, that is Anna Yao .
In the drama "Hunting Ice", when it was broadcast to Zhang Songwen, it felt like a well-made quality drama, but when the camera cut to Yao Anna, it made people feel like it was a college student's graduation work, and the performance was childish. And rough.
After watching the drama, I feel that Yao Anna still enjoys certain "privileges", such as the plot crazy giving her "gold fingers".
is similar to: After Ho Hongzhang killed someone, other experienced criminal police officers were staring at the crime scene. Only she, a newcomer, discovered the footprints left by the suspect.
For example: She solved the facial details that even professional profilers couldn't figure out in a few words.
Another example: She and the vice-captain were watching, and someone looked back when he passed by. The vice-captain didn't even notice that there was something wrong, but she did.
But even with so many highlight scenes, the audience still doesn't like this character because her acting skills are too stiff. The most impressive thing about
is the section where you break into the door, just like a child crossing the road, looking left, then right, and finally down. It is very formulaic and mechanical. The paragraph
was also made into an emoticon package by netizens, and it once became popular in the comment areas of major social platforms.
After watching "Hunting for Ice", I really had the urge to persuade Anna Yao to give up chasing her dreams and go home to inherit the family business. People have to act like salted fish occasionally, so they don't have to work so hard.
The above dramas are the six dramas that Mr. Tomato believes will live up to the audience's expectations in 2024. Although they all have famous actors, great directors, and great IPs, they are indeed not good-looking.
Of course, there are more than just these six similar dramas. For example, "The Case of Di Gong of the Tang Dynasty", which took advantage of the popularity of "Detective Di Renjie" and "Tang Dynasty Strange Stories", was also a big hit but not a raindrop, and was completely different from the first two. Compared with;
"Sword and Fairy 4" and " pray for the present " are backed by the big IP of "Legend of Sword and Fairy", but the result is no splash;
Charmaine Sheh competes again in TVB's " The Successor of Family Glory " and last year Compared with the popular "News Queen", it is nothing like clouds and mud.
Finally, let’s talk about which dramas have you stepped on?
(movie Rotten Tomatoes Editorial Department: Sunview)
