Why is the first suspense web drama "Undocumented Crime" so highly rated?

The overall evaluation of "Undocumented Crime" is indeed good, not only because of the plot and character creation, but also one of the best among Chinese police and criminal suspense dramas.

"Undocumented Crime" also marks a step closer to British and American police dramas because of its production level, narrative mode, overall structure, and even broadcast method.

Police suspense dramas, or police and criminal investigation dramas, are the most widespread genre in major countries around the world. Whether it is the British police suspense drama where Western reasoning originated, or the American police drama where killers are rampant, or the Japanese police suspense drama, which is a powerful country in Asia.

Or maybe it has a poor history, but it learns from Europe, the United States and Japan, and also follows its own path. Korean police and gangster dramas are a big genre in various countries, and as a genre culture, they have been successfully spread around the world.

China’s police and criminal dramas also have a long history of development. Hong Kong dramas will not be mentioned, and the early stages of mainland police and criminal dramas will not be mentioned. After 2000, the only police drama left in the Mainland was "Serious Case Group Six".

But it is a pity that after "Serious Crimes Group 6" and after 2008, for some reasons in mainland China, it is difficult for political anti-corruption themes to appear on TV, and then to police and criminal investigation themes.

The theme of China's political anti-corruption was only lifted in 2017 by "In the Name of the People", but Chinese police and criminal suspense dramas are still extinct on TV stations.

However, China’s police and criminal dramas have caught up with a good time. China’s Internet has rapidly developed and matured. With the rapid development of video websites, police and criminal suspense dramas have been tied to the cart of video websites. Because supervision was not strict at first, achieved rapid development.

This history sounds long, but is actually very short. That is, in 2014, "The Dark One", led by Tencent and starring Guo Jingfei, was adapted from Zhou Haodong's novel, and ultimately became a great success.

The police and criminal suspense genre has not been available in domestic TV series for a long time. Chinese young audiences can only consume British dramas, British dramas, Japanese dramas and Korean dramas. There are many actual market and potential audience fans.

In 2015, China’s police suspense web dramas launched "Psychological Crime 1" and "Dark Man 2". Sure enough, it also achieved certain success in the market.

In 2016, Chinese web dramas launched "Psychological Crime 2", then "Yu Zui", "Forensic Qin Ming" and so on, web dramas related to police and criminal suspense.

Leave aside the policy reasons, such as "Psychological Crime" and "Remaining Crime", which were successively removed from the shelves and rectified. However, as one of the most popular dramas in the world, Chinese audiences are eager for this genre. In recent years, video websites have successively created many suspenseful police and gangster web dramas.

It can even be said that Chinese online dramas are the genre with the most investment, the largest number, and the fastest development. If you dare to say that police and criminal investigation dramas and suspense mystery dramas are second, then no genre dares to say that they are first.

But before 2017, although China's police suspense web dramas have made great progress, whether it is the "Psychological Crime" series, "Dark Man" series, "Yu Zui", "Forensic Qin Ming", etc. etc., it has more or less major disadvantages.

These dramas are either poorly produced, primitive and crude. Either the actors perform poorly, of course, the biggest problem is that in the police and criminal suspense web dramas, loopholes in the story and the lack of professional knowledge have become the biggest problems of these police and criminal web dramas.

So, why 2017?

I believe everyone knows that 2017 is a watershed year for Chinese online dramas. The production level of "White Night", which has almost become a god now, is completely close to that of American dramas. The actors' performances are very exciting, and the combination of story plot and professional knowledge is not inferior to the upper-middle-level British and American dramas.

This film "Undocumented Crime", produced by Han Sanping, starring Qin Hao and Deng Jiajia, adapted from Zijin Chen's novel, is also such a film, not inferior to the above-average British and American police dramas of China Net drama.

Yes, as a police suspense drama, "Undocumented Crime" received significantly less praise than "White Night". But "Undocumented Crime" also follows the pattern of many domestic police and gangster suspense dramas.

"White Night" is also produced in an American drama style, with composition, art, photography, soundtrack, service, etc. But the quality of "Undocumented Crime" is obviously higher, and it has the cold feeling of the movie.

If "White Night Chase" is a unit for several episodes, it will be a continuous crime-solving mode. Then "Undocumented Crime" tends to be in another direction of American dramas.

That is the story structure and narrative rhythm. The whole drama has 24 episodes, focusing only on two cases, one light and one dark, depicting the police, criminals, and family members in the cases. .

The model of "Undocumented Crime" is obviously based on the classic American police drama "Fargo". But it is completely integrated with localization and has a great breakthrough for Chinese police and criminal crime online dramas.

From this perspective, "Undocumented Crime" has the greatest impact on China's police and criminal online dramas, and even on the online drama and TV drama industries.

In contrast, the characters created by the actors in "Undocumented Crime", as well as the relatively strong storyline, professional knowledge, and significance are not that great, and there is no need to analyze it in detail.

The reason is also very simple. It was broadcast at the same time as "Undocumented Crime" and it was "White Night" that later became a god. In terms of story plot and professional knowledge, "Undocumented Crime" is indeed inferior to "Undocumented Crime" "White Night Chasing the Murderer" is a winner!

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