If you want to say which domestic drama was the most popular last year, there is no doubt that it must be "Hurricane". With the explosion of the series, a number of actors in the drama have also successfully come out of the circle, and Zhang Songwen, who plays the villain Gao Qiqiang, is one of them. In the play, Zhang Songwen uses superb acting skills to perfectly interpret the life of the villain Gao Qiqiang. Whether it is the submissive promise when selling fish in the early stage, or the arrogant and ruthless black boss in the later stage, Zhang Songwen has performed extremely brilliantly. With the role of Gao Qiqiang, Zhang Songwen, who was not famous before, also became popular overnight and became the first top actor in 2023. 
And since "Hurricane" became popular, everyone is also waiting for Zhang Songwen's next new drama. After a year, Zhang Songwen's first TV series "Ice Hunting" was finally ushered in. 
Ice Hunting was filmed in 2022, when Zhang Songwen was not yet popular, and the drama was full of highlights. In terms of the production lineup, Gao Qunshu, the director of the play, is known as a titan in the field of Chinese police and bandit dramas. He directed "Conquest", "*Thirteen Sects" and other police and bandit-themed works, each of which fully demonstrates his deep understanding and exquisite skills of police and bandit themes. 
In terms of story theme, "Ice Hunting" is an anti-drug criminal investigation drama, and the main characters in the play also have prototypes. Therefore, this drama is regarded as the "Chinese version of Breaking Bad", and even netizens said that the excitement of the prototype story threw "Breaking Bad" ten streets. 
Anti-drug themes, police and bandit duels, villain male protagonists and other hot elements, coupled with Gao Qunshu and Zhang Songwen, made "Ice Hunting" popular before it was broadcast. Before the show was broadcast, the number of reservations on the platform exceeded 1 million. 
The premiere achieved good results, ranking first on the platform's hot search list for 2 consecutive days, and the number of live broadcasts exceeded 1.61 million. The popularity broke 20,000 and broke the record, becoming the fastest drama on the goose platform to break 20,000 in 2024, and then the popularity broke 280 thousand. 
It can be said that judging from the popularity alone, "Ice Hunting" is already a proper "king bomb drama". Can "Ice Hunting" become the next "Hurricane"? After brushing the 5 episodes broadcast in one go, Qingshi's perception is a bit mixed. In a nutshell, there are "2 advantages" and "3 disadvantages". 
Let's start with "two advantages". 1. "Breaking Bad" became "Breaking Bad", Zhang Songwen reproduced the acting feast. The drama "Ice Hunting" has attracted the most attention and is definitely the male advocate ode. Like "Hurricane", Zhang Songwen played the villain in "Ice Hunting", and also did the drug dealer he hated the most. 
In the poster, the scene of Zhang Songwen holding "Advanced Organic Chemistry" and reading it also made many viewers dream back to "Hurricane". 
But they are also villains, and this time he plays Huang Zongwei is different from Gao Qiqiang in "Hurricane". 
Gao Qiqiang is a low-level little man who has become a villain through blackening, and he has a transformation from humiliation to blackening by fate. The audience will not approve of his choice, but they will definitely empathize with his past suffering and experience. However, Huang Zongwei in "Ice Hunting" is an active criminal, and he is a ruthless villain as soon as he appears.
On the surface, he is a good old man with a polite manner, extremely gentle with his wife and children, and considerate and caring for his employees.
But secretly, he is a big drug lord who uses chemical knowledge to make and sell drugs, and he is more ruthless and poisonous than Gao Qiqiang.
Zhang Songwen also relied on his superb acting skills to portray such a contrasting role very well, and contributed a lot of famous acting scenes. For example, in the play, Zhang Songwen's two changes of face make people's scalp tingle.
The first time was to do business with a customer. When facing customers, he clenched his hands into fists and greeted each other with a smile, even with a little caution when raising the price.
But when the customer casually says that there is a new type of ** on the market, which is very pure but no one has seen it, will it be when you use onion essence to produce. Although Huang Zongwei was full of smiles, his expression had changed slightly, and after the customer left, Huang Zongwei immediately put away his smile.
After that, he bent down and picked up the cigarette butt thrown by the customer on the ground and snuffed it out with his bare hands. Although his expression was calm, Zhang Songwen's move showed Huang Zongwei's forbearance and ruthlessness to the fullest.
The second time was when an employee was found stealing drugs. When Wong Chong Wei heard that ** had noticed the drugs he had made, he discussed with his subordinates to temporarily close the factory. Unexpectedly, he found that a worker had stolen a package of drugs, but in the face of the employee's mistake, Huang Zongwei was not angry at all.
not only asked the other party about his future plans, but also instructed his subordinates to follow the rules of his hometown, and give him a red envelope on the road tomorrow. And "Uncle Zhong, send him a red envelope" here is also reminiscent of the famous line in "Hurricane", Lao Mo, I want to eat fish.
Then Huang Zongwei turned around and walked out of the factory gate, his expression became irritable and indifferent, and the employees inside were also dying. With the switching of Zhang Songwen's expressions before and after, a hypocritical and ruthless drug lord's face jumped in front of him.
Second, the rhythm is tight, 3 people are offline in 2 episodes, and it has the temperament of an old-school criminal investigation drama. For a criminal investigation drama, the most important point is truthfulness. In terms of story, "Ice Hunting" is based on real prototypes, and many plots in the play reveal truth in the coldness.
For example, the heroine Yao Anna's dress up in an undercover village, to the investigation scene of *** and the hotel, and then to the plot of using steel pipes to make and assemble guns. In terms of shooting techniques, the director also follows a realistic image style, giving the audience the impression that they are watching a documentary.
At the same time, the pace of this drama is very fast, and the series is an arrest operation as soon as it comes up. In the small coastal city of Sanping City, the anti-narcotics brigade accidentally discovered a batch of new clues in an operation, the scale and purity of which are extremely rare.
The Sanping police immediately launched an investigation and soon targeted a boss named Xia Hongzhang. Immediately afterwards, Xia Hongzhang was arrested by the police, and learned from him that the ** of drugs was the male protagonist Huang Zongwei.
* The immediate manhunt for Wong Chong Wei began, and a battle between the police and the drug lord officially began. From the discovery of drugs, the locking of targets to the launch of the search, it only took 4 episodes, and the pace of the story is not fast.
At the same time, the scale of this drama is also very violent, and the most intuitive thing is the speed of "sending a box lunch". Qingshi counted it, and in just 2 episodes, 3 characters were directly offline. The first two offline characters are drug dealers and escort girls.
Huang Zongwei learned from the customer that his drugs were sold in China, so he asked Xia Hongzhang to meet and tell the other party about it. Then he said something that seemed to be a warning but was actually a threat: We earn this money, it is easy to get sick, and if we can't cure it, we will even lose our lives.
So Xia Hongzhang directly took the gun to end the lives of the people who flowed the goods to the market, and also solved the escort girl sitting on the side.
After that, it was the employees of the male owner's factory who went offline. After the male protagonist realized that his drug production was about to be exposed, he and his subordinates shut down the factory.
At this time, they noticed that there was movement outside the door, and their men hurriedly ran out to check and found a worker who was stealing drugs. Huang Zongwei comforted the workers with a pleasant face, but turned around and hinted that his subordinates killed the workers. Whether it is a realistic shooting style or a high-energy and compact plot, this drama has the temperament of an old-school criminal investigation drama and firmly catches people's attention.
Next, let's talk about the "3 major shortcomings": First, the police solve the case by coincidence. In the criminal investigation drama, the police solve the case and arrest people is a major attraction, but the handling of the investigation and solving the plot in this drama is very rough. For example, during the investigation of the KTV shooting murder, the heroine chased out through the footprints at the scene and came directly to one of the other party's restaurants.
Asked the boss if he had seen a 1.8 meter male coming out of the alley opposite, theoretically so many people on the road couldn't remember it at all. But it was such a coincidence that this boss not only said that he saw it, but also remembered that the other party was wearing red clothes.
After that, ** easily investigated the ** information, and coincidentally found the male protagonist who ate with **.
It can be said that the clues to solve the case can find the key points almost every time, and the key information can be obtained in minutes. This kind of investigation relies on a coincidental plot, which not only reduces the excitement of the episode, but also makes the decent group portrait not stand up well.
2. There are too many bugs in the story logicThe logic of a criminal investigation drama is very important, and only stories with consistent logic can immerse the audience in it. But the plot of "Ice Hunting" currently aired obviously has a lot of logical bugs. At the beginning of the story, the capture task is arranged, and a person needs to be disguised to sneak in.
The leader asked his subordinates whether they had taken drugs, and said that if they took drugs, the drug dealer could see it at a glance, and then he actually said that it was best to be a woman. According to the leadership, men who don't take drugs can see it, but women can't see it, what kind of brain circuit is this.
The subsequent arrest operation is also a variety of loopholes, before** said that this drug dealer was very vigilant, but the heroine found a place in minutes after entering the village. And after mentioning the name to the other party, he was not suspected, and he started trading directly.
What's even more childish is that the people who sell goods in the back actually get interested in it, and this character is really too inconsistent and unruly. When arresting He Hongzhang, the police asked the boss who made the gun for He Hongzhang to ask where He Hongzhang was, but it was clear that He Hongzhang gave the other party a reply. Can't the police go and find out if ** is calling?
There are also police officers who find portrait clues to lock Zhang Songwen, and at this time, normal criminal investigation dramas are all about stalking and in-depth investigation. As a result, in this drama, the heroine actually talked to Zhang Songwen with a leader, obviously wanting to startle the snake.
When Zhang Songwen was arrested in the back, personnel were obviously set up at important places such as the station, but Zhang Songwen still took a family of 4 and ran away by train. Such an illogical plot is really hard to explain.
3. The heroine's acting skills are controversial After the broadcast of this drama, the heroine Yao Anna vomited the most on the Internet. The audience even joked that Huawei, such a big company, couldn't find a position for Yao Anna?
Although she is a rookie actor, this time Yao Anna took the lead and played the female number one Zhao Younan in "Ice Hunting". As soon as this character appeared, he had good strength, was born in the military, and had made many third-class merits, with excellent marksmanship.
And what is surprising is that Yao Anna also sacrificed a lot this time. When handling the case, she turned into a dust girl, and her clothes were very exaggerated, and she was almost taken advantage of.
Because she plays a police officer, there are a lot of action scenes in the play, and Yao Anna also went into battle in person, and it can be seen from the filming footage that she is very dedicated. In order to make the movements more smooth, Yao Anna kept trying, and after a few scenes, sweat soaked her clothes.
But after all, she is a newcomer, Yao Anna's level of performance is limited, and it is obviously difficult to interpret such a police role. At first, he disguised himself as a drug dealer and infiltrated the village to buy drugs, and his posture was staggering and full of manliness.
When interpreting the role, the performance is almost expressionless, and sometimes even too dull, and the eyes are very empty.
The lines are also soft and weak, more like reading the lines than acting in the situation.
Not to mention compared with Zhang Songwen, just compared with the policemen around her, Yao Anna's performance is extremely immature. So if you want to become a qualified actor, Yao Anna still has a long way to go.
And these three regrets also make this "Ice Hunting" unable to reach the level of "Hurricane" in terms of popularity and word-of-mouth. I'm afraid that many viewers who went to Zhang Songwen will be disappointed this time.