This time, the Netflix Korean drama has completely fallen to the center of the earth. After waiting for a year, the ace is back, "Sweet Home 3". In terms of scale, it is directly full. The high-energy ending is crazy and crazy. Compared with the previous seaso

This time, the Netflix Korean drama has completely fallen to the center of the earth.

After waiting for a year, the ace is back, "Sweet Home 3".

scale is directly full.

has a high-energy ending that is crazy and insane.

Compared with the previous season, the three male protagonists have high-performance front, side and back appearances. It can be said that they are no less generous.

is back? Sorry, it doesn't exist.

No matter how handsome Song Jiang is, he can't stop his reputation from plummeting again. The first season of the

series was a hit, with an investment of up to 50 billion won (about 260 million yuan). The cost of a single episode of

was US$2.7 million (approximately 19 million yuan), breaking the Korean drama production record.

also invited the special effects teams from "Stranger Things" and "Avengers".

stars Song Jiang, Li Shiyin, Li Daoxi, Li Zhenyu, etc., with good acting and good looks.

directed by Li Yingfu. His representative works include high-scoring Korean dramas such as "Goblin" and "Descendants of the Sun". After the broadcast of

, the Douban score once reached 8 points.

also became the first Korean drama in the history of Netflix to enter the top 3 on Netflix in the United States. It’s a good start for the next “Squid Game”.

Netflix spent more money to turn it into a trilogy.

Unexpectedly, "Sweet Home 2" suffered a huge setback and received a one-sided negative reputation.

Some people say that the original team has been working for three years, and the biggest highlights are: Song Jiang who wears nothing, Li Zhenyu who wears nothing, and Li Daoxi who wears nothing!

The three handsome guys enlarged their moves, and the Douban score still dropped to 5.2 points.

Season 3, want to return to the top? Thinking too much.

Netizen comments: I originally thought that the second season was an accident, but it turned out that the first season was an accident.

Overturning is overturning, but the Korean dramas in recent years are not linked to the word "hot street".

Behind the prosperity, the crisis has already been laid.

When "annual expectations" once again become "annual bad dramas"?

You might as well feel what the consequences will be like if you mess up the hard work over and over again.

1 The King of Korean Dramas

The first season of "Sweet Home" in 2020 is undoubtedly the ace of Korean dramas in the hands of Internet users.

The drama is adapted from the popular Korean horror comic "sweet home" of the same name.

As a zombie drama with a post-apocalyptic monster theme, what attracted me most in the first season was not the large-scale horror scenes.

is the setting of "monster zombies".

The story takes place in an apartment called "Green Home".

Overnight, a virus began to spread, turning people into horrific zombie monsters after infection.

The apartment became the last refuge. Residents unite to deal with the monster invasion.

At the same time, you must always beware of the monster mutations in the apartment.

Because the monsters in "Sweet Home" are different from the common bites and infections in the past, but are swallowed up by inner desires, and they will turn into monsters instantly.

The protagonist Cha Xianxiu is played by Song Jiang. He has a strange self-healing ability. Although he is an infected person, he maintains his true nature and is often sent out to do the terrible work of collecting daily necessities.

The setting that the people in front of you are indistinguishable from good to evil and turn into monsters all the time makes the development of the plot full of variables.

The struggle between humans and monsters makes the battle between surviving humans in the apartment full of plot tension. The success of the first season of

was completely predictable, and it gave zombie dramas new tricks.

But the problem is that the story of the original comic has already come to an end in the first season. The finale of the original comic is that everyone escapes from the apartment.

Starting from the second season, the story no longer has the original background and becomes an original drama. This is where the rollover started.

The second season story is set 37 hours after the end of the first season story.

The villain possesses the scarred man and takes him to the experimental base where he was cut up by humans. The missile button was pressed, the world was razed to the ground, and humans went underground to survive.

The camera flashed, one year later.

Human beings took refuge underground, and the crow army composed of human soldiers took over everything.

The protagonist group was completely broken up, and the story was split into several lines.

The world has more special infected people like Cha Xianxiu. They call themselves "New Humanity".

I don’t know whether it’s because the story wasn’t written clearly or the director didn’t shoot it clearly. The entire second season is like an Easter egg from the first season + a trailer for the third season.

In the end, each branch line was not finished.

For example, the heroine Li Eunyou lost her brother Li Eunhyuk at the end of the first season.

She spent the entire second season looking for her brother because he said he would come back again.

In the final episode of the second season, Lee Eun Hyuk really hatched from an underground monster egg and emerged from the cocoon.

When he walked out of the ruined green home, the monsters around him retreated, but Li Daoxian smiled evilly.

There are more characters, and the world view has also expanded.

can see the creator’s greater ambition.

But what is disappointing is that the entire second season has made the same mistake, and in the third season, it continues to be made, that is -

2 The story is unclear

Watching the plot of the third season, you can feel that it is better than the first one. The second season has greater ambitions.

Season 3 revolves around the showdown between the upper body scarred uncle Nam Sang-won (played by Lee Jin-wook) and the new human being represented by Lee Eun-hyuk and the special infected person represented by Cha Hyun-soo.

The difference between Nam Sang-won and Lee Eun-hyuk's new humans is that the former was transformed, while the latter's new humans are the product of natural evolution and retain the memories of human beings, but are no longer human and no longer have emotions.

seems to have quite a lot of plot ideas.

has a zombie universe and apocalyptic science fiction. Can we get things back together?

The result was that I was completely confused.

The beginning of the story shows a more terrifying end of the world.

Dead humans have monster tentacles growing out of their bodies, and then begin to "monsterize", hatching new humans with extremely powerful abilities.

Uncle Scar, played by Lee Jin-wook, was shot and killed while carrying Yuri to find medicine in the first season, and was possessed by the big devil. In the new season, he is also possessed by the firefighter sister's husband "Minami Sangwon", who is the real third A generation of "special infected persons" has taken over.

Minami Aihara found the doctor played by Wu Zhengshi who transformed him. Not only did he not kill him, he also asked him to turn the whole world into a world of specially infected people.

Minami Aihara himself is desperately looking for his daughter, not for reunion, but for possession.

The daughter who is the monster in the second season finale, in order to prevent the fireman sister from dying, she turns her mother into a monster with just a touch of her hand, because she has the strongest ability to turn others into "monsters" by touching them with her hands. "And obeyed her orders. No wonder Minami Xiangyuan wanted to desperately possess his daughter.

But in order to possess his daughter, he first has to pass the fireman sister who is awakened by the male protagonist Song Jiang and transformed into a human being.

Isn’t it quite high concept at first glance?

I also thought at first that this was not a design with any special meaning.

Hey, not at all.

This story line uses "monsters" to talk about family ties.

The real showdown will be left to the demon king Li Daoxi, who emerged from his cocoon, and the "one-winged Song Jiang" who emerged as the blue-eyed monster. Although the two had a fight on the bus, all the viewers knew that sooner or later the two would join forces, and sure enough, they did.

What they have to deal with is the current super monster Minami Aihara. When he finally killed his wife, the firefighter sister, and officially possessed his own daughter, the two male protagonists also killed him.

At this point, the four super powerful monsters in the show staged an epic decisive battle at the end of the third season.

Although, this decisive battle did not look very epic.

But justice will definitely defeat evil. The finale of

is that the surviving humans go to the surface world. The two male protagonists smile and look at the grace of becoming new humans. Human beings, special infected people and new humans finally coexist together.

The protagonist has returned to Sweet Home, and all the story lines that need to be explained have been explained.

looked at each other in tears and finished the show.

And I just said one thing in my mind: I think your Korean zombie dramas treat people as fools if they don’t get angry. The finale of

combines fantasy, science fiction, action, nonsense and the zombie version of Ran Dong. Is

a spoof? Instead, the show is full of ambition.

But it was excessive ambition that ruined Sweet Home.

3 The ruined "home"

With the top lineup, this drama still overturned.

The Chinese and Korean audiences reached an agreement on the reason for the overturn.

From a visual point of view, the whole drama is slow and dull, and the separation of the plot before and after also makes the audience completely confused about the settings of some details.

Some people say it is a science fiction horror drama, and it is understandable that the setting is bizarre.

can be bizarre, but not outrageous.

The series spends a considerable amount of space preparing for the finale of the big showdown between new humans and special infected people.

But when the battle started at the end, I was confused, as if the screenwriter was deliberately challenging the audience's bottom line of IQ.

For example, in the finale, Lee Eun-hyuk descended from the sky with the big wings of "One-Wing Song Jiang" and launched a surprise attack, inserting a knife into the chest of the fireman's sister's daughter. The sense of imminent death made Nam Aihara have no choice but to run away, only to be forked and roasted by "Du Yi Song Jiang" again,

Half-roasted and then escaped, this section is not exciting but still logical.

In the end, he came out in the form of Uncle Scar again, and I immediately covered him in his body - wasn't Uncle Scar's body already burned to ashes in order to possess my daughter? Why did he suddenly appear without even a single burn?

This is equivalent to the kebabs eaten at the barbecue suddenly returning to the same place. You say it is scary or not.

Forget it if you don’t take the big scenes seriously. The problem is that the entire storyline is suspended, dry and unconvincing. The ambition of the director and screenwriter

is to make a science fiction zombie epic.

So there was a showdown between "human beings", "new humans" and "special infected people".

thus abandoned the past story line in one fell swoop and inserted a group of new characters. A wave has been added in the second season and will continue to be added in the third season.

The result is that every line is messy, the relationship is too complicated, and the fighting scenes are bloodier, but not much more interesting.

The story foreshadows the new abilities of the protagonist Song Jiang and the firefighter sister’s daughter. One is to turn monsters into humans, and the other is to turn people into monsters.

looks very cool, right? I thought we were going to arrange a duel between two people. This one turns into a human and the other turns into a monster. Both sides fight for time. How exciting?

results, absolutely nothing.

Moreover, Song Jiang’s super power was used once in total, which was to turn the fireman’s sister into a human. It didn’t change, but after she changed, her sister was stabbed by Minami Aihara and died, and her daughter couldn’t save her even if she wanted to.

The fireman’s sister’s daughter’s superpower transformed two people, and they were immediately killed by Minami Aihara.

So what is the significance of these settings?

Also, Minami Aihara was a good person when he was a person, but how did he become so bad that he killed his wife and daughter after being infected?

These have no explanation and it is difficult for the audience to empathize with them.

The drama is filmed like this, why not fight? But the big special effects scenes are not that exciting either.

The most direct thing is that the treatment of monsters is extremely perfunctory.

The characteristic settings in the first season that connect the monster form with human desires have been completely reduced to scraps.

Even the level of special effects is hard to describe.

The fight scenes between the protagonists also became boring.

The bus fight between the two new humans Song Jiang and Lee Eun Hyuk,

There is not even a fight between flesh and blood, just a few poses and it's done.

Is that a superhuman fight? It's not even as good as dancing in the rain.

The final showdown was even less exciting than expected. Question: How did the male protagonist defeat Minami Aihara? The answer is that Uncle Scar regained consciousness and forced Minami Aihara to climb into the fire and burn himself. Ah, that's it... it's over?

If these can be tolerated, the most intolerable thing is the failure in character creation.

Because if you lose the characterization, you lose the soul of the show.

The best thing about the first season is the portrayal of the group portraits. Everyone has the complexity of human nature. They can be selfish, selfless, kill, and save others. So the characters are also very distinct.

In the third season, apart from Song Jiang’s appearance, there is nothing to watch.

The character creation can be said to be an extreme failure. The new characters are like dumplings. The behavior of each character has no logic. There are many characters, but in fact they are just tool people.

Even the characters that were well created in the first season, such as the firefighter sister, were inexplicably offline.

Brother Li Eunhyuk also did not explain clearly what happened. He kept saying that he was inhumane, and secretly took a photo of the family, and finally looked at his sister and giggled. So, are the new humans humane or inhumane?

In the end, it was purely entertaining for us to watch.

The whole plot is like a screenwriter who comes up with it as he comes up with it, and writes wherever he thinks. The end result is that the originally attractive characters lose their appeal.

Regardless of plot or special effects, "Sweet Home 3" is undoubtedly a failure.

has lost the core support of a good story, and the whole drama will inevitably be disappointing.

And the situation of Korean dramas as a whole is not much better.

4 Korean dramas have completely regressed

Looking back at the major Korean drama productions in recent years, "Sweet Home" is not the only one that has overturned.

And the foreshadowing of the crisis has actually been laid long ago.

In 2019, "Kingdom" kicked off the Netflixization of Korean dramas. The

series was invested by Netflix and created by the screenwriters of "The Signal". It was launched globally using the Netflix platform, creating a miracle of Korean zombie dramas and ushering in the "big drama era" of Korean dramas.

In the following years, major platforms such as Netflix and Disney entered the market one after another. Darker and more dramatic Korean dramas such as "Dark Glory" and "Squid Game" continued to set new ratings records.

The Korean television industry has used foreign capital to achieve industrial upgrading, and it seems to be extremely prosperous.

However, "big dramas" and investment in Netflix are also double-edged swords.

One drawback of doing so is that overseas capital has begun to dominate.

In the mediation between creators and capital, the latter gradually gained the upper hand and formed a monopoly over time.

Netflix and Disney blindly bet on big productions. The scenes are getting bigger and bigger, and the stories are getting more exaggerated. This mentality of eager for quick success has also given rise to the phenomenon of "dying for happiness".

Works dedicated to the international market will inevitably lose the local characteristics of Korean dramas.

The new generation of large-scale Korean dramas also seems to have fallen into a misunderstanding. For example, Netflix's "Sea of ​​Silence", Douban 6.4.

has a mediocre reputation despite having famous actors such as Bae Doona and Gong Yoo.

Jun Ji-hyun's comeback "Jirisan" has a huge investment and a strong lineup. It scored 6.6 on Douban, but it was a big hit but not a rainy one.

These dramas generally have one characteristic. They seem to be full of gimmicks in concept, but not only are the plot logic riddled with holes, but the characters’ behavior is also dumb and speechless. Keen on imitating genres, but ignoring the unique story style.

As a result, the works have become more and more homogeneous and more Hollywood-like.

I have summarized the popular Korean dramas in recent years, all of which are adapted from comics:

"Model Taxi" series, "Sweet Home" series, "Superpowers" and "Masked Girl".

This is still a successful work, and there are many failed works that the audience cannot even name.

Soil that has lost its characteristics will be difficult to produce long-lasting and gorgeous flowers.

With the help of foreign capital, it is difficult to create a sweet home.

"Sweet Home 1" was successful because of the visual special effects, which did not overwhelm the show and suppress the plot logic.

Looking back, maybe the end of the first season was the best finale of "Sweet Home".