Today we will talk about the American TV series "The First Season of the Strange Maid".
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The rapid development of the Internet has brought changes in watching movies and TV series. In the past, TV stations that followed American TV series were ABC, NBC, CBS, HBO, etc. In recent years, streaming media such as Netflix, HULU, and Amazon have quickly caught up and formed a trend of catching up from behind. Streaming media platforms continue to explode, their reputations are getting better and better, and audiences’ viewing habits are also changing.
In 2019, Apple launched its Apple TV+ platform, first to grab food and seize a market in streaming media.
"Amazing Maid" is the first batch of original dramas launched on the Apple TV+ platform. Also on line are "The Morning Show", "For All Mankind", "See" and "Dickinson" at the same time. "(Dickinson), "Truth Be Told" (Truth Be Told) and other dramas.
And before these dramas were broadcast, the official announcement was made to renew the second season. It can be seen that the Apple TV+ platform has already made a long-term plan and vowed to take a share in the streaming media war.
"Amazing Maid" is adapted from the 10-minute horror short film "The Dollmaker" (The Dollmaker, 2017).
The story of the short film is a couple who lost their young child. In the infinite grief, did they find a doll craftsman and recreate a "child".
After expanding into a 1 season and 10 episodes version, the main storyline remains the same. It is still a couple who lost their baby. In order to maintain their spiritual sustenance, they placed a simulation doll to pretend to be a child, and even hired a nanny to take care of them daily. Doll doll. After the little nanny came to the door, a series of strange things also followed.
The producer and director of the show, M.Night Shyamalan (M.Night Shyamalan) said early on that he expects the show to last for four seasons.
Based on this, you can imagine how much new content needs to be added to the original 10-minute horror short film to expand into a 4-season story, and how slow the narrative will be.
Although the length of each episode of "Amazing Maid" is very short, it is less than 30 minutes, and 10 episodes in a season are only 300 minutes. If there are 40 episodes in 4 seasons, it is 1200 minutes. According to the length of the conventional American TV series, it is not too long, but compared to the 10-minute volume of the original film, it can be said to have expanded 120 times.
It's no wonder that the criticism of this play mainly focuses on the slow pace.
Interestingly, the director Francesca Gregorini once filed a lawsuit against M. Knight Shamaran and Tony Basgallop, accusing the latter of plagiarizing his own in the film. Creativity.
Francesca Gregorini has directed "The Truth About Emanuel" (The Truth About Emanuel, 2013), "Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams" (Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams, 2017), "Killing Iraq" "Killing Eve Season 2, 2019".
Both Shamaran and Basgalop denied the accusation, saying that they had never seen her movie, which was just a coincidence.
Objectively speaking, "The Truth of Emanuel" and "The Strange Maid" have little to do with each other.
The background of the story of "Amazing Maid" was a place without a name, then it was changed to London, and then to New York. When M. Knight Samaran joined, the background of the story was set in Philadelphia.
M. Knight Shamaran also played a delivery man in this play, which is considered a play addiction.
As the director said, "Amazing Maid" is expected to have a volume of 4 seasons. So a simple story is divided into four seasons, and the rhythm can be imagined.
The first season only made the beginning of the whole story, the main job is to ambush. Many things just show the phenomenon without giving reasons. The connection behind it depends entirely on the audience's brain to make up.
It can be said that if you don't wait for the official interpretation of the next three seasons, the first season actually didn't say anything, everything is smoke bombs. The conjecture about the setting is left to the next article.
The setting of "Amazing Maid" can be said to be extremely simple. The whole story only takes place in one house. All the actors are no more than the couple, the babysitter, the wife's younger brother, and at most a few guest roles that appear from time to time.
The whole drama is completely supported by the mysterious script, coupled with the superb performances of the actors and a large number of sports shots, creating an intimidating feeling.
The landlord of the filming location of this drama rejected the normal location fee of the production company. As a condition of allowing filming at home, the landlord asked the producer to donate this fee to the Pediatric Brain Tumor Research at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The producer agreed and added an additional donation to the regular expenses.
Say a few tidbits:
1. The first recycled doll used for filming in the show was modified by the crew because it was too realistic. This way the audience will not mistake it for a real baby.
2. The male host of this play is a senior chef and a consultant chef who makes recipes for the restaurant. The food production process appears many times in the play, and there is a feeling of seeing Philadelphia on the tip of the tongue in a trance. The last American drama about food was "Hannibal". For the sake of rigor, the show specially hires Italian chef Marc Vetri as a food consultant.
A stunning start to the thriller adaptation,
The foreshadowing of the whole story is all based on brain supplement.
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