Best High-Quality Chinese Dramas of 2023: A Review

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2023 drama review: good shows are coming

China News Service, Beijing, December 30 (Reporter Gao Kai) 2023 is coming to an end. Looking back on the past year, a number of high-quality dramas of different types have been launched, which outlines a new picture on the big and small screens here.

Lots of fun

The “2023 Drama Market Report” released by Beacon Professional Edition shows that the number of effective dramas in the online drama market in 2023 is 294, a decrease of 10.6% from last year. The number of high-reputation dramas has exploded, and works with a Douban score of 8 or above are as high as 23, the number is nearly four times that of last year. This year, masterpieces of good quality appeared in many categories.

The top scorer “The Long Season” is the first domestic drama to reach a rating of 9.4 on Douban in the past five years. This drama starts with suspenseful events, but gives up on curiosity, allowing the audience to follow the characters to think about existence and time, life and destiny. The play is considered to have achieved a creative breakthrough with high-quality aesthetic expression and content presentation.

As a milestone in Chinese science fiction, the film and television adaptation of “The Three-Body Problem” has attracted much attention. The drama version of “The Three-Body Problem” to be broadcast in 2023 uses realism to break the theme and unfold the narrative about the universe layer by layer. As China’s first true live-action science fiction series, this drama not only presents the spirit and core of the original work in audio-visual form, but also popularizes profound science fiction knowledge.

Also worth mentioning is “Horse”. As this year’s “hit drama”, “Kurst” uses the destiny of the characters to drive the development of the plot in a huge narrative that intersects forward and flashbacks, achieving a wonderful “anti-routine” creation in related genre works.

In addition, from “Going to Where the Wind Winds”, which reached a new level of healing emotional drama, to “The Road of Life”, which successfully completed a new interpretation of classic literary works, to “The Pretending Revelation”, which details the emotional life of urban men and women in the workplace… …Many good dramas in various categories will be released one after another in 2023. Facts have shown that domestic dramas have continued to become high-quality in recent years.

Realistic style

Domestic dramas in 2023 each have their own beauty, but the good dramas that are truly recognized by the audience also have similar characteristics – realism and truth-seeking.

From the stalls of the “Jiuchang Street Vegetable Market” to the steaming “Pig’s Knuckle Noodles”, the appeal of “Hurry” to the audience not only comes from the harshness of the black and white struggle in it, but also the real-life aesthetics presented by the creator with details , and also become an excellent help to arouse the audience’s sense of identity. The play’s realistic depiction of various characters and life encounters resonated with the audience and the creator.

“The Three-Body Problem”, which tells a science fiction story, also chooses to use realism to present a grand imaginative space. The play relies on the details and character creation to be in line with real life, and has won the recognition of the audience.

In “The Long Season”, the scenes in the play that are full of life reflect the creator’s original intention of taking “people and life” as the starting point of the narrative.

This year, high-quality emotional dramas are also surprisingly realistic. “Go Where the Wind Is”, labeled as “healing”, while maintaining a relaxed and comfortable narrative, explores young people’s inner confusion about emotions and ideals, and the handling of the protagonist’s emotional line does not deviate from reality; “Apocalypse of Pretending” “focuses on the real workplace. Realistic competition, anxiety, and dilemmas always accompany the characters. The depiction of love also avoids deliberately “spreading sugar”, and the emotional development of the hero and heroine always takes reality into account.

Only truth is unbreakable, love is moving. In 2023, the strong wind of realism will blow across almost all types of excellent works. While these works present the fate of the characters in the play, they never forget to pick up the glimmer of humanity and impress the audience with “truth”.

Dancing with the “new”

The word “new” appears every year, but for the 2023 drama series, this “new” seems to carry more.

This year, the “brainless sweet pet” drama series that once easily gained popularity has become increasingly declining, and reality-themed dramas have opened up a new creative dimension. From “Where the Wind Goes” to “It’s Just Love” and “Pretending to Be Revelation”, emotional dramas not only further pursue the realism of social scenes and the authenticity of emotional logic, but also pursue independent and complete character creation, making the drama series as a whole more solid and solid. .

What is particularly noteworthy is that in 2023, actors will no longer be the only ones to accompany high-quality dramas “out of the circle”. “The Three-Body Problem” director Yang Lei, “The Long Season” director Xin Shuang, “Go Where the Wind Is” director Ding Ziguang, “Traditional” director The names of directors such as Wang Zheng, director of “Under the City” and Li Mo, director of “The Pretender Revelation” have attracted the attention of the audience. They have begun to come from behind the scenes to the stage and have become new “footnotes to good dramas” in people’s minds. . This is proof that the audience’s aesthetic level has improved, and it is also an affirmation of high-quality drama content.

Just a few days ago, “Flowers”, the famous film director Wong Kar-wai’s first “test” TV series, will be broadcast here. As 2023 approaches the end of the year, the fun may still continue.