Recently, I have watched the two TV series "The Long Season" and "Thirteen Years in the Dust", and I feel that the two dramas are the same suspenseful, thrilling, tense and exciting. However, if you taste it carefully, the feeling of the two plays seems to be distinct, but they have different heaviness. "Thirteen Years in the Dust" brings the audience more of the depression and horror of the ** case, while "The Long Season" brings the audience more heaviness and reflection.
The Long Season is directed by Xin Shuang, starring Fan Wei, Qin Hao, and Chen Minghao, and premieres on Tencent** on April 22, 2023, with a total of 12 episodes, each episode is about 107 minutes long, which is different from the broadcast of most 45-minute TV series.
The storyline of "The Long Season" mainly takes place in the northeastern heavy industry town "Birch Forest" in the 90s of the 20th century. The plot is divided into two time threads from 1997 to 1998 and 2016, from the current bustling city's "fake-licensed car accident case" to the corpse crushing case that caused a huge social sensation in the town 18 years ago. The bright line of the plot is the fate of taxi driver Wang Xiang and brother-in-law Gong Biao, as well as the fate of Ma Desheng, the former captain of the criminal police team, and others, they met and intertwined in that short and long autumn, and in the difficult and difficult living situation, for their own purposes, consciously formed a civil criminal investigation team, and finally, the sensational corpse shredding case related to Wang Xiang's son Wang Yang was detected, and the story of Wang Yang's girlfriend Shen Mo, a group of vulnerable groups, and social ** forces was slowly displayed. Deeply reveal the humanization of social problems.
Strictly speaking, "The Long Season" cannot be regarded as a criminal investigation drama, and it can barely be included in the suspense drama. In my opinion, because of the highly life-like performances of the characters in the play, "The Long Season" has subtly interpreted tragedy into comedy, and crushed comedy into tragedy.
"Thirteen Years in the Dust" is directed by Liu Haibo, starring Chen Jianbin , Chen Xiao , and Tini , and will premiere on iQiyi on April 6, 2023. The main plot of this 24-episode TV series is criminal investigation.
In 1997, there was a ** mystery case in Nandu, and in the next 13 years, ** cases continued one after another. Back then, the experienced criminal guard Zhengrong and the fledgling new policeman Lu Xingzhi joined hands to investigate the Nandu murder case, however, not only did the case not be solved, but it continued one after another, and it seemed to form a series of ** cases. During this period, a series of accidents and the supervision of the superiors to solve the case prompted Wei Zhengrong to be hit hard and had to leave the front line of criminal investigation. 13 years later, a similar murder reappeared, and ** whereabouts reappeared. The evidence of the case is full of coincidences, so that Lu Xingzhi, who has long faded from immaturity and youth and has become a meticulous and meticulous criminal investigation expert, and his master Wei Zhengrong thirteen years ago came together again. The pair of criminal police masters and apprentices, faced with many doubts, peeled off the cocoon, and finally worked together to track down the real culprit, so that a series of unsolved cases were finally solved.
The plot span of "The Long Season" is eighteen years, and the behavior of most of the characters in the play is closely related to social conditions, and the fate, suffering, and even crimes of the characters in the play are mostly rooted not in human greed, darkness, and crime, but mainly due to coincidence. In this way, the true nature of the deep human nature revealed in the story is deeper, the fate of the characters in the play is more epochal, and the social tragedy of the story is stronger.
Some people say that "The Long Season" makes people look real and intimate, and its core is true life. When watching this drama with the mentality of watching a suspense drama, people are likely to suspect that it is a comedy, but laughing and laughing, people are prone to tears. Life is too harsh on the people in the play, and fate does not favor anyone, and those hole cards marked with ** have been taken back one by one. After everyone's tears dried up, they realized that this is life. Therefore, "The Long Season" leaves people not with suspense, but heaviness!
It should be said that "Thirteen Years in the Dust" is a quite brilliant "fog drama", and among several "fog dramas" in 2023, it can also be regarded as a top work, and it definitely belongs to a high-level level.
"Thirteen Years in the Dust" is indeed based on suspense plots, paying more attention to the skills and artistry of criminal investigation, highlighting the persistence of the criminal investigation police to crack the case, the persistence of arresting crimes, and more attention to revealing the criminal psychology of a series of criminals, highlighting the investigation and counter-investigation between the police and criminals, and the mutual speculation, confrontation and struggle between the police and criminals.
Although there is a time gap of thirteen years between the beginning of the first case or plot and the end of the plot, the plot focuses on the interval of physical time and space, and does not associate the criminal with major social changes, or the connection is very sparse, so the ideology of the play is not strong and the social nature is diluted.
Comparatively speaking, "The Long Season" is intriguing, while "Thirteen Years in the Dust" is just exciting, it can only be regarded as a good drama, and it is difficult to call it an excellent drama.
Of course, both TV series are worth watching, but when you watch them, you must pay attention to seeking benevolence and wisdom.