Chapter 383 The second-highest viewership of mountain and river sitcoms
The series "Stories of College Students" will premiere in the summer of 2020.
At that time, director Xue Jun was not yet a famous director, but he had just officially become the contracted director of Shanhe with "The Story of the Health Team".
The drama "The Story of a College Student" is the first major company project that Zuo Le has given him.
Among the four leading actors in the TV series, except for Jiang Chao, who played Lu Pangpang, who was still somewhat famous at the time, the remaining three, Shen Teng, were basically little transparent people in the film and television industry.
With such a young team, the first part of "The Story of a College Student" scored a ratings score of 1.75 and a Douhua score of 8.5, continuing the glory of the Shanhe sitcom.
Several of Shen Teng's leading actors also started to become popular.
A year later, when "The Story of a College Student 2" was released, the whole crew continued their efforts and set new highs based on the first part, with the ratings successfully breaking 2.
The "Story of a College Student" series has also become a masterpiece of sitcoms together with dramas such as "Family with Children", "Underground Traffic Station" and "Story of the Cooking Class".
The only pity is that in the past two years, the number of Shan He dramas has exploded. Popular dramas have broken 2 and 3, and phenomenal works have broken 3 and 4. There are even "Bright Sword" that has broken 6.
Leng has single-handedly brought the already declining TV platform back to its golden age.
The "Story of a College Student" series originally had very good results, but it was squeezed into the middle of many perverted mountain and river dramas, with a pitifully low sense of presence.
But even so, "Story of a College Student" is, after all, the sitcom with the highest ratings after "Family with Children" in the past two years, and the former even has a higher reputation.
Therefore, this series still has many die-hard fans.
Especially the younger generation is very fond of the "Stories of College Students" series, and it has always been a hot topic online.
It is recognized as the home base of sitcoms in China and is also known as a currency site where young users gather.
The sitcom with the best reputation is definitely "Wulin Gaiden", followed by the old station drama "Underground Traffic Station".
Then there are three dramas competing: "The Story of a College Student", "The Story of the Cooking Class" and "Family with Children".
And "The Story of a College Student" even vaguely has the upper hand in this competition, which shows the position of this drama in the minds of sitcom viewers and young netizens on the currency website.
This year, the rapid popularity of the starring roles such as Shen Teng, and the fact that "College Student Story 3" is the series finale, have attracted great attention from the audience.
"College Story 3" just premiered, and it immediately started to explode. The ratings have been rising all the way, and it successfully exceeded 2 in just 4 days.
The momentum of victory has made some fanatic fans even shout out the heroic words of catching up with "Wulin Gaiden" and breaking the 5 myth.
Of course, most people don't take this seriously.
Break 5?
If you ask Zuo Le to call him now, you feel guilty. If you expect a low-cost campus sitcom, you may be blind.
However, I don’t dare to think about breaking 5. Many people are looking forward to breaking 3.
You know, aside from those sitcoms in the early years, since the advent of the Internet era, except for "Wulin Gaiden", no sitcom has been able to break the 3.
At present, among the sitcoms produced by Shanhe, excluding "Wulin Gaiden", the one with the highest ratings is "The Story of Cooking Class 2".
This final work of Zuo Le's current sitcom scored a ratings of 2.6 and a Douhua score of 9.0.
Admittedly, there are elements of taking advantage of "Wulin Gaiden", but the results are here. None of Gao Xinjian's four "Family with Children" has broken through this mark.
Not to mention surpassing "Cooking Class Story 2", "Family with Children" has produced five films, but none of them has a ratings of more than 2.5 so far.
Previously, the goal of the creators of "College Story 3" was to have a ratings rating of over 2.5 and to show off on "Family with Children". Now that they have seen such good growth, their ambitions have become much bigger.
It surpassed "Cooking Class Story 2" and took the second place in the ratings of Shanhe sitcoms.
With this wish in mind, director Xue Jun and the main creators such as Shen Teng, Guo Jinfei, Lei Jiayin, Mao Tong, etc. have been constantly promoting the film.
Shen Teng, in particular, has changed from his somewhat lazy and Buddhist-like work attitude in the past and has become particularly diligent.
In addition to his deep affection for the "Stories of College Students" series, there is also another personal reason.
"The Prequel of the Lotus Lantern" became a hit. Shen Teng, who played the male third and fifth brother in it, received a lot of scolding for his role, but he also gained a lot of popularity and attention.
Right now, he is only one step away from becoming a first-line artist.
And "The Story of a College Student 3" is about whether he can step into the front door and how far he can go in.
This matter is of great importance, how dare Shen Teng neglect it.
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Of course, no matter how intense the promotion of the main creator is, the quality of the TV series itself must be strong. Otherwise, the audience's stickiness will be too weak and the ratings will not be supported no matter how popular it is.
And it just so happens that "College Student's Story 3" is the one with the best quality in the series.
This one has the best quality, but it’s not actually that the plot design is any better than the previous two. The main reason is that “Story of College Students 3” is the final chapter, and many characters and plots in it have their own endings.
From the perspective of the audience's subjective feelings, "College Student Story 3" undoubtedly has a different flavor than before, and it also touched them the most.
As mentioned before, the "Stories of College Students" series begins with the sophomore year in dormitory 222. Thereafter, one film is released every year, which is also the new school year for the protagonists.
Therefore, in "College Student Story 3", the protagonist group in the play also entered their senior year and entered the graduation season.
The first half of the entire drama mainly revolves around campus life and the relationship between the protagonists, but in the middle and later stages, it begins to incorporate the essential plot points of senior year - finding a job and separation.
Although the president, Lin Dachong, is a bit expensive, he is smart and capable. He likes to do private work in his daily life. In his junior year, he even had a successful internship experience in a large company.
Now that graduation season is approaching, he is also one of the most well-planned among the protagonists. He is preparing to start his own business. His career is short video self-media.
Even in the play, Lin Dachong has already established himself as a well-known Internet celebrity, and is ready to start monetizing his fortune next.
The first protagonist, Li Fanda, is usually a girly and mean-spirited person, but with the support of his lover Yao Meng, he successfully escaped from the hardships of being a scumbag and took the postgraduate entrance examination.
After that, he plans to go all the way to graduate school, master's degree, and doctorate, and become a well-deserved academic god.
The idle Lu Pangpang is the most ordinary person. After being teased by his girlfriend Wang Xiaotang, he joined the advertising company where Wang Xiaotang worked as an ordinary white-collar worker and became a glorious part-time worker.
As for the last Liu Xiaodao, with the support of his family, he opened a small restaurant in Quancheng, and he and his girlfriend obtained the marriage certificate and were the first to get married.
Watching the previously lively and funny protagonists in the play, one by one enter the society, losing their youthfulness, and their faces are covered with maturity bit by bit.
The audiences who have watched them perform tricks for three years have mixed feelings.
In the penultimate episode of "College Student's Story 3", as graduation approaches, the four people in dormitory 222 gather for a dinner at Liu Xiaodao's restaurant.
A few people hugging their shoulders, crying and laughing, recalling the past under the light of the cup, and the lyrical BGM set off, which became the biggest tear point of the show.
And in the finale, the four of them silently packed up their dormitory, saluted, and left separately, accompanied by their respective girlfriends, which made countless die-hard fans feel uncomfortable.
Many fresh graduates who have just experienced their graduation season burst into tears thinking of their classmates and friends.
That night, the topic "Every banquet in the world must come to an end" derived from this topic topped the trending headlines of scarf searches.
And with the continuous climax of the last few episodes, the ratings of "College Student Story 3" successfully exceeded 2.67, becoming the second highest rating of Shanhe sitcom...
