5 Chinese TV Series worth watching in 2020（Part 1）
In the past five years, many media workers in China have said that China’s film and television nights have entered a cold winter. This is mainly reflected in the fact that with the help of the Internet, more and more excellent foreign films and television programs are paid attention to by more and more audiences. Meanwhile, China’s State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television has continuously made the censorship system of films and television programs stricter. But also because of this, only the real intention to create the film and television works can stand out in the film and television market. Here I will recommend five Chinese TV series worth watching in different genres in 2020.
NO.1 The Bad Kids
The Bad Kids is a crime suspense TV in China this year. It tells the story of three children (Zhu, Yan, and Yue) who lack family care, after meeting each other, they happily go hiking. However, they accidentally shoot a video of Zhang, a math surrogate teacher in The Children’s Palace, pushing their in-laws down the mountain. And the fortunes of all have been turned upside down…
This series has an 8.9 rating on China’s douban.com website, making it the highest-rated TV made in China series in recent years. What the series presents to the audience is not simply a fight between three children and a criminal, but also a vivid description of the misfortunes of different characters in their lives that make them have different personalities and make different decisions. In constantly pushing the plot to the truth is about to emerge at the same time so that each character’s characteristics are richer. The criminal Zhang personality is a intertwine of evil, acridity with some humanity and conscience. Three kids are forced by life to mature prematurely but are still torn between childhood ignorance and fear.
The TV series has only 12 episodes in all. Each episode is tight and detailed, without any extra drama. But both the pacing and the actors’ interpretation of the story are well done. The emotions of the audience can always be easily moved by the characters in the play. People are happy for the innocence of the three children, but also sad for their forced maturity and distress; While people fear Zhang’s relentless cruelty that continues to take the lives of others, they also feel sorry for the oppression he suffers from his parents-in-law and the indifference of his wife. People watch TV shows, but they also get to see their own lives — the children of divorced parents, the stressful love from parents and the constant demands of their wives’ parents on their husbands, etc. The TV is named after The Bad Kids because Zhu, who owns the video of Zhang’s crime, is supposed to represent the side of justice. Instead, Zhu USES The evidence to threaten Zhang and make a deal with him, becoming another Zhang himself.
Excellent crime suspense type of film and television works are always in the wonderful suspense drama to depict the human complex human nature incisively and vividly. Bad Kids is undoubtedly successful. It focuses on promoting the changes of characters’ personality and inner activities with the development of the plot, and on the premise of ensuring the plot logic, makes each character’s image more three-dimensional. Under such a complementary effect, the plot appears more reliable and attractive.
NO.2 The Hikaru No Go
When a classic anime is remastered into a live-action TV series, there are always millions of anime fans going crazy for it. They are waiting to see if the second-dimension story in the third-dimension world will make them feel closer to the original anime while wondering if the live-action remake will ruin their beautiful fantasy of the original anime. However, The Hikaru No Go has done a very good job of protecting the fans’ feelings towards the original anime, making their dreams of the second-dimensional world of Go come true in the three-dimensional world.
The Hikaru No Go is a live-action TV series based on an anime of the same name that was released in Japan from 2001 to 2003. What tells about is 1997, Shiguang discovers an old Go board in the attic of grandfather’s home, awakened inadvertently among them the soul that sleeps thousands of years — Chu Yin. The story sets Chu Yin as the first person of Go in the emperor of Liang Wudi times, he loves playing Go extremely but was framed by the villain cheating, drowning himself. His soul is wandering in the world because he has not yet pursued the highest level of Go “one of the hands of god.” Shi Guang and Chu Yin agreed to help him complete his long-cherished wish. In this process, Shi Guang also fell in love with Go and worked hard to become a professional Go player. The original animation is divided into two episodes, 75 episodes in total, and the reality TV series has reduced the number of episodes to 36, which makes the overall plot more compact, accelerates the growth and progress of the protagonist Shi Guang, and makes it easier for the audience to get excited with the steps of Shi Guang.
The show’s initial rating on China’s Douban.com website was 7.2 but rose to 8.4 as the series continued to play, and reviews have gone from initially negative to widely positive. But it all seems reasonable. Most Chinese comic-book TV series, such as the Tennis Prince, always fail due to multi-dimensional problems. The most attractive feature of animation is that anything that can’t be done in real life can be achieved in the second world. The movement of objects can be anti-physical, the appearance of characters can be extreme, the character can be exaggerated, and so on. This is precisely the animation adaptation into a reality TV series the most difficult. When the story characters become three-dimensional, some of the qualities that seem normal in the comics become very strange in the third-dimensional world.
