After procrastinating for a long time, I finally finished watching this short drama with only 10 episodes. I was so lost in the middle that I wanted to give up the drama, but I still finished it.
After reading it, I briefly sorted out the context. It begins with horace & old pete & pete, who run a century-old tavern called horace & pete, daily comments on politics, comment on sex, comment on discrimination. In the second episode, horace's sister sylvia came to inform horace I got breast cancer myself, which paved the way for entering the liquor pipe. At the end of the fourth episode, old pete went out to save money and swallowed a gun to commit suicide. In the fifth episode, Sylvia came to the hotel, the sixth episode and the seventh episode, the tone of the whole play was the most relaxed It's been two episodes. horace finds a new girlfriend, slyvia knows that her breast cancer is curable, and she also finds a boyfriend, life seems to be back to normal, then pete is told about the drugs she is currently taking There are serious side effects, and the law stipulates that it can no longer be sold. Pete, who has no medicine, must go back to the mental hospital for treatment. Since then, the plot has taken a sharp turn. Pete disappears, Sylvia plans to leave the pub and live a good life after receiving a new life, horace, after accepting Pete was missing for a month and could be considered dead. Inspired by a crazy bartender who came to apply for a job, he was about to start a new life. Before he could say what he wanted to do, he was suddenly returned but his spirit was still there. The abnormal pete was stabbed to death. Since then, Horace & pete, this century-old tavern, has no more brothers horace and pete. The whole play is over. It seems that the director wants to give us an illusion that the tavern can continue to operate. However, the tavern that lost horace & pete will disappear under the torrent of history.
Every episode is very exciting, the third episode is about cheating, the whole episode of horace and his ex-wife who cheated on his close relatives, and the last part of the seventh episode is the dialogue between horace and his new girlfriend about transgender people, not to list them one by one. It is not a small shock to the three views that have been formed. The three views are one thing, and the facts are another.
Thinking of Guo Degang's cross talk for a while, I put Guo Degang's cross talk in the background almost no matter what I do. Guo Zeng said that the role of cross talk is to amuse people first, and education is what educators should do. At one time I thought it was true. After watching this play, I was shaken a lot. Most of the comedies that have been handed down from ancient to modern China and abroad are not just entertaining. It is a core role of comedy. It needs to bear the responsibility that it should bear, and this is also the responsibility that comedians should bear.
But this drama is really not a comedy, and those who are attracted by the label of comedy should not be fooled!!
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