In late February, "Serious Cases 4" will be broadcast after "Family with Children 6".
However, compared with the previous seasons, "Senior Crimes 4" has experienced a slight trough. Although the ratings are acceptable and basically breaking 2 is not a big problem, the downward trend in word-of-mouth is obvious.
It started at 8.2, then slowly declined, almost approaching 7.5 at the lowest point. Later it recovered slightly and only remained at around 7.7.
It has been a long time since a Shanhe drama had such a low rating. The last Shanhe drama with a score below 8.0 was Xue Jun's "The Story of the Health Team 2".
It's rare for Shanhe drama to stumble.
Good guy, those people who are usually suppressed by mountain and river dramas collectively fell into a climax.
When people who don't know the truth see this scene, they think Zuo Le has died or Shanhe has gone bankrupt.
However, just like the last time "Latent" "failed" at the Golden Phoenix Awards, most ordinary viewers were still very calm about it.
The ratings of "Serious Case Group 6 4" exceeded 2. Although its reputation has declined, it is definitely at a passing level.
Even among the TV series broadcast in 2023, its Douhua score of 7.7 is second only to "Family with Children 6", firmly beating other TV series broadcast in January and February, ranking second.
To put it bluntly, "Serious Cases Group 6 4" has problems, but it is not the turn of these colleagues to complain.
They haven't wiped their own butts yet. Even the performance and reputation of "Serious Case Group 6 4" is enough to defeat most of the dramas produced by these companies...
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Shanhe still attaches great importance to this matter, and the company even held a special meeting on this for this "shanhe drama with the worst reputation in recent years".
In this meeting, there was no intention to criticize and punish Wang Qian and the crew. The main purpose was to identify shortcomings, discover problems, and correct them.
The meeting was personally chaired by President Yan Kui, and was attended by Vice President and Director of Film and Television Production Department Ming Yan, Director of Screenwriting Department Shang Qianwu, some company executives, and the director and producer of "Serious Case Group 6 4".
In addition, there are three special guests.
Chairman Zuo Le took a half-day leave from the crew of "Mao Liar" and returned to the company to observe.
Kong Sheng, the creator of the "Serious Cases Group Six" series, also temporarily put aside his preparations for "Nirvana in Fire" to attend the meeting.
There is also Xue Jun, who is on temporary leave and comes here to learn from his experience and avoid making the same mistakes again. After all, the "Detective Detective Di Renjie" series he holds is similar in theme to "Serious Cases Group Six".
Frankly speaking, with so many heavyweight participants, it is considered a very high-level meeting in Shanhe.
When the Shanhe drama is a hit in terms of ratings, there are not so many Shanhe big guys gathering together for a meeting.
On the contrary, this time "Serious Case Group 6" stumbled, and a large group of people came over to have a meeting to study it. If you think about it carefully, it is quite interesting.
Although the meeting was said to be a discussion, it was actually mainly about the main creators of "Serious Case 4" reflecting on the mistakes made during the filming and production, as well as several famous creative directors Zuo Le and Kong Sheng analyzing the reasons for the decline in reputation based on online comments.
In fact, before "Crime 6" was aired, most people inside Sunward were optimistic about it. After all, last year's "Crime 3" had just achieved the best ratings in the series, and its reputation was no worse than the previous two films.
It stands to reason that the "Serious Cases Six" series is on an upward trend at this time. Even if the quality is poor and the results have declined, it should not have declined so much.
In this regard, Shanhe is very experienced.
The "Family with Children" series has been released for six consecutive installments. Although there are slight ups and downs, the overall performance is relatively stable.
Another series of more than three TV series, "College Student's Story", has seen a continuous step-by-step rise in ratings from the first one, with a reputation difference of no more than 0.2.
Stability has always been one of the greatest features of the Shanhe series.
Of course, now I am a bit slapped in the face by "Serious Case Group 6", but this is still secondary. The key is that Shanhe must understand how he was slapped in the face in order to prevent this situation from becoming a normal situation.
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In fact, the problems with "Crime 6: Part 4" are not difficult to find, and viewers have raised them when they left negative reviews.
It's just that ordinary viewers may be too general, or they may be entangled in a certain plot point, and cannot explain the actual problem.
What Zuo Le and the others have to do is to summarize and then summarize the loopholes in the creation of "Serious Case Group 6 4".
First, there is the plot rhythm.
Many viewers think that the filming of "Serious Case Group 4" is very slow, especially the main plot, and sometimes even feels a bit inexplicable.
This is unique in the first three parts.
Zuo Le and the others were in the conference room, watching several episodes and plots that the audience complained about, and found that this was indeed the case.
In the series "Six Serious Cases", the first three plot modes all set up a main line of major cases as the beginning and end. In addition to some main clues in the middle, the main content is still unit cases.
Of course, when Wang Qian took over "Serious Cases Group 6 3", she made certain changes to this model. It was still the main plot + unit, but the proportion of major cases in the main plot increased a lot.
For Wang Qian, who had just been in charge of the "Serious Case Group Six" series at the time, this was undoubtedly a gamble.
Fortunately, Wang Qian made the right bet at that time.
"Serious Case Group 3" was a great success. Although it may have been imitating the popularity of Duan Long's "The Actor Comes to PK", its good reputation also proved that the audience recognized it.
At the same time, it is precisely because of the success of "Serious Cases 3" that Wang Qian is determined that the "Senior 6" series will continue to follow this model, and even continue to share the plot of the main plot in "Senior 4"
Add more.
However, the ambitious Wang Qian and the crew ignored one thing.
That is to continue to increase the proportion of the main plot, which not only weakens the selling point of the unit cases that the "Serious Case Group Six" series is famous for, but also means that most of the "treasure" is bet on the main plot.
If the main plot is outstanding, then needless to say, everyone will be happy, but if the quality of the main plot is average, then there is a high possibility of backlash.
Obviously, the main plot selected for "Senior Crimes Group 6 4" belongs to the latter, especially when set against the backdrop of Wang Xianmin's case in "Serious Cases Group 6 3", it looks even more mediocre.
In addition to the mediocre quality of the main storyline, "Serious Crime Group 4" also made an attempt, that is, to include an internal police anti-corruption drama to clean up and eradicate internal moths.
This role did not appear suddenly. It had been foreshadowed before. It was briefly mentioned in the second part. There are also related unit cases in the third part, and the audience feedback was pretty good.
So in the fourth part, Wang Qian and the screenwriter added relevant plots to the main line.
However, they did not take into account that the first two films had similar plots, but only briefly touched on it, and did not revolve around the protagonist group. However, in "Senior Crime Group 4", this is not only half the main plot, but also the protagonist group.
Surgery.
As a result, the Sixth Serious Case Team almost became enemies within themselves. For many years, brothers and sisters, superiors and subordinates, had stalemates and cold wars.
From a practical point of view, the filming is very real, but with such a plot, for the old viewers who have been following the drama, how can they emotionally accept that the protagonist group, who are dependent on each other for life and death, suddenly starts an "internal struggle".
You just have to say that it was this theme from the beginning. The key point is that the first three films were all professional dramas about working together to solve crimes, but now it has simply "changed the style of painting."
Another point is that "Serious Cases Group 6 4" wants to talk about anti-corruption, but because of concerns about the review, it does not dare to talk too thoroughly, and the expression is very vague, which is another drawback.
These reasons are fine individually, but together they are too powerful, and "Serious Cases Group 6 4" was overturned because of this.
