At noon on December 27th, the TV series "Joyful Family: Stir-fried Life" was launched in 4 episodes on Mango TV. This TV series is starring Liu Ye, Zhang Xiaoqian and other actors, and it is about the content of sitcom family life dramas that middle-aged and elderly audiences are more familiar with. At present, this TV series is destined to be polarized by word-of-mouth.
There will definitely be some young viewers who don't like it. Because this group of young audiences saw their parents when they were young, they were this kind of sitcom. "Happy Family" focuses on the family life model that middle-aged and elderly audiences are more recognized. This model itself is different from the sense of independence of young people. Therefore, this group of viewers will think that this kind of TV series is embarrassing.
And middle-aged and elderly audiences like the old editor me may like sitcoms under this type of model very much. The reason is simple, we grew up watching this kind of sitcom when we were teenagers. And the concept of family life in this kind of sitcom is also in line with the family cognition of our group of middle-aged and elderly audiences.
Based on this, I believe that this TV series should be recommended to middle-aged and elderly audiences, especially those who have the ability to access the Internet. In other words, if this "Happy Family" was broadcast on the Shangxing Satellite TV platform 20 years ago, it is estimated that it will be a phenomenal work. However, today, maybe the audience's tastes will really change.
The content of the first 4 episodes of "Happy Family" is reasonable. In the first episode, Liu Ye and Zhang Xiaoqian, husband and wife, returned from entrepreneurship and owed a lot of debts, at this time, the male protagonist still wanted to brag to himself as an entrepreneur, but as a result, everyone thought he was rich, so they hoped to borrow money from him. At the end of the first episode, after the truth is revealed, both parents have to help the little couple and take out their savings.
This happy mode is basically the universal mode of every episode of "Happy Family". This is a big joy, which may be the reason why many young viewers don't like it, everyone will think that this model is too dull and can be guessed with their eyes closed. For example, in the second episode, the two children of the male and female protagonists, one feels that his family is already poor, and the other feels that he is a rich family, and then makes jokes at school.
The audience can think of it with their eyes closed, the ending must be that the misunderstanding must be resolved, and the two teachers who visited the home and the male protagonist were happy. This sitcom, in terms of narrative trends, does lack some tricks that turn over and shake. The reason why sitcoms are not easy to create is because this three-fold and four-shake needs to exceed the imagination of the audience. However, the current audience is better than Sun Monkey, how can it exceed everyone's expectations?
In the plot content of the third episode, the misunderstanding mode is still adopted, the male protagonist's father-in-law misheard the message and thought that his old partner had died, and then, the old man began to feel that he was not good anymore and was about to die. The children had to take the elderly to the hospital for various examinations. And misunderstandings, one after another. Seeing this, the old man was about to be scared to death by himself.
This kind of misunderstanding escalation method is also an old method in the creation of sitcoms. Therefore, the audience who likes to watch it will see a familiar flavor coming out. The audience who doesn't like to watch it will reprimand this kind of creative technique for being outdated, reducing intelligence and so on. Of course, under the old technique, the final solution to the problem must be a misunderstanding.
In the content of the fourth episode, it is closely related to the current social development trend, and the heroine is suspected of being pregnant, whether to have a third child. In this episode, in order to increase the highlights, two groups of people are opposed. In the eyes of some of our young audiences, whether to have a child or not is their own business, and both parents have no right to participate. Therefore, some young audiences will not like this model in the play.
In this "Happy Family", both parents are involved. Our group of middle-aged and elderly audiences will like it very much. As we get older, it's easy to ask for a sense of involvement in these things. Sitcoms, too, have their own narrative values. This "Happy Family" is to meet our needs for these values. And whether to have three children or not is actually an unsolvable question in the family narrative. Therefore, the final ending of this episode of the show must be that the heroine is not pregnant.
"Happy Family" belongs to a more typical sitcom model, which is the old taste of twenty years ago. Of course, whether it is the current one, or some sitcoms twenty years ago, they all have a common problem, which over-glorifies our lives, and it is not easy to touch the real pain points in our lives. When a life drama lacks real and effective life pain points, its backwardness becomes inevitable.
A counter-example. In "Happy Family", the male protagonist, as a son-in-law, lives in his father-in-law's house and is carefully taken care of by his father-in-law. This is certainly a beautiful thing. However, for the current audience, the relationship between the son-in-law and the father-in-law and mother-in-law, everyone may think that Yu Huanshui is more real. Therefore, the drama "I Am Yu Huanshui" is even more popular. (Wen Ma Qingyun).