is not a long (less than two years) history of American TV dramas, except for "House.MD", sci-fi dramas, crime dramas are my favorites- Probably because there is nothing more than science fiction to indulge people's imagination, and there is nothing more than crime to observe the world.
The first chase was "Criminal Minds" (Criminal Minds), chased the fourth season in one breath, and later added a dozen seasons of "Crime Scene Investigation" (Crime Scene Investigation). I like CM more than CSI, and I always thought the psychological level of struggle was more attractive than outward behavior. The CM detectives are all confronted with vicious serial killers, whose cunning and cold-blooded are beyond human nature. They must reproduce their criminal motives and habitual methods from the clues left at the scene, and fight with them, even in the nick of time. When the next victim is rescued, the process is naturally thrilling. What's more, Gideon, the old man with the same name as the Jewish warrior in the Bible in the first season, and the genius Doctor Reid (the actor is said to be a model) are my favorites. CSI is most well-known for those bloody autopsy scenes. The first contact was really horrifying. After a long time, I was able to drink coffee and eat cake while watching CSI, but I just squinted my eyes in a place that was too unacceptable. The most impressive set of shots is how to disassemble the car that was thrown in the abandoned car factory and was crushed and deformed to extract the highly corroded body of a pregnant woman. CSI has several series. Las Vegas and New York are dark tones, but Miami is the only one that I like. One is sunshine, beach and beauty, which dilutes the blood, and the other is male pig Horatio. Well, I always put it inexplicably. He is related to Horatio in "Hamlet", with a graceful chivalrous demeanor, and his eyes on ladies are so gentle that they can be drunk to death. But in general, CSI is just a choice when there is nothing to see and it is urgent to relax, and there is no intention to pursue it seriously.
"The Closer" is a recent catch-up -- forgive my sparks! When it premiered in its first season in 2005, it set a record of 10 million viewers and topped the list. The fourth season is currently in theaters.
According to my observation, the best American dramas are often in the second and third seasons, and it is inevitable to be discouraged if you chase them down. The mission of the first season is like God creating the world. God said, let there be light, and there was light. A show is good or bad, first of all depends on the setting of the background. No matter how bizarre the world is, a set of logic must be established for its operation. If it cannot be justified, the world will be desolate. So I quickly lose interest in shows where you're going to tinker with the background as you go down, like Lost and the like. After the second and third seasons, it was a job to create people. At this time, it is often meticulously crafted, and slowly penetrates into the heart of each character, extracting the most charming characteristics, so Adam, Eve, and snakes, each showing their intricate entanglements, is naturally the most interesting. head. From the beginning of the fourth season, the contradictions of the initial settings are often resolved almost. If the characters of the characters cannot continue to develop, they often have to rely on gimmicks to win, and the more they break, the more they lie. The fourth and fifth seasons of "House" could not escape this disaster. Of course, some backgrounds are particularly grand, relying on comics or old dramas, and Guaguamanman, which has established its own set of deeply rooted things, is not included in this list. Now that I have been chasing three seasons in one breath, it is not just in time for its good times, so I am completely fascinated.
Another pleasure of watching crime dramas is watching the writers slander each other. The butt decides that the head is the eternal truth. When you enter the CMD\ world, you will feel that the FBI agents, especially the vote of the behavior analysis department, are wise and powerful, and can do anything. The darkest and most secret places of any criminal are in front of them The shape makes the local police station very incompetent and jealous. Looking at CSI, you feel that technology conquers everything, forensics are paramount, behavior analysis and so on are all sideways. And after watching
Then why does Brenda have such great magic... I used "beautiful" on her earlier. "As an adjective, it's actually wrong. Actor Kyra heard that she is 42 years old. According to the first impression of a young male colleague who caught a glimpse of me secretly chasing dramas in the office - this woman is ugly! Her facial features are really not outstanding, with wide and big lips (it was even made fun of in one episode), slender eyes squeezed when she smiled, and her skin was still white and rosy, but she could not hide the corners of her eyes and her cheeks. wrinkle. However, when they are combined, they immediately look forward to Shenfei, and they are charming and charming. From time to time, her outfits show a little bit of rustic charm, such as matching a pink blouse with a peach cardigan, but she is lined with a slender figure, so there is no kind of love; the most wonderful thing is her southern Atlanta accent, which has been vividly imitated by her subordinates. Amused a group.
She is indeed a wonderful person, and the more she looks, the more delicious she is. At the beginning of a certain episode, her boyfriend woke up early in the morning, hugged her from behind, the sun was shining on her face, she blinked her slender eyes, her big mouth revealed a brilliant smile, and said with a heavy accent " Good morning", which makes people laugh and love.
Having said that, my head took another strange turn. In the 2008 general election, although McCain was not destined to be out of luck, it was a big failure to choose the female partner Palin. Whether it is the reaction of the American people or the perceptions of the people around them, it seems that there are not many people who like Palin. A friend once commented: When the facial features are taken apart, it should be a beautiful woman, why does it make people uncomfortable when combined? As far as I see it, Palin's image (let's not talk about politics, just image) is not strong enough to make people trust like Hillary, easy-going but not easy enough to make people friendly like Laura, or, She is neither a "big woman" nor a "little woman," conservative or radical, male or female, not very appreciated.
Brenda seems to be her counter-example, and the ratings have proved that her charm is all men and women. In the first episode of the first season, she broke into the crime scene with a super tough attitude and quickly offended everyone. She came "airborne", and her love for a more genuine personality and aggressive attitude made her numerous enemies. In addition to having an ambiguous relationship with her, the boss covered her, and Taylor, who was unwilling to be in the lower position, was elbowing everywhere, and a group of subordinates were just waiting to see her laugh; the procuratorate, the FBI, and the CIA all regarded it as a hatred, but Brenda used Sharp intuition, wise judgment, sharp words, and perseverance have proved her excellence time and time again, and slowly conquered them. Feminism is nothing but a gesture, and ultimately what it takes to gain respect is competence, both men and women. In TNT, Brenda's encounter with "office politics" is indeed related to her female identity, but the more she goes on, the more it is gradually diluted, and it is more a contradiction between her personality style and the system. As a "big woman", Brenda was successful.
Contrary to her shrewdness at work, Brenda in life is a confused "little woman": absent-minded, tossing around, making a mess in the room, getting lost while driving, washing dishes, keeping an old quilt. The female cat she calls "he" is a little depressed and a little nervous. Seeing her father is like a mouse meeting a cat, she has been divorced once, and she is just as afraid of being known by her parents about the shocking secret of her cohabitation as a little girl in love. ...and an "indecent" habit that can't be resisted by sweets. From time to time, I saw her tangled expression in front of the vending machine, and the panicked movement of taking a piece of chocolate from the drawer and stuffing it into her mouth before entering the interrogation room. But she bullied her cohabiting boyfriend. FBI agent Fritz came here without any ambiguity. Not only did he extract information from him, but he also played tricks on him several times in order to close the case. She is still very self-centered, making excuses for everything, stubbornly refusing to admit mistakes, but no matter what troubles or bad things she has done, as long as she acts like a spoiled child, and occasionally does a "painful" self-examination, everything disappears, and everyone has no choice but to forgive her. She...
as a crime drama,
So Brenda, this woman, has the fortitude and mightiness of a lion, the cunning and sweetness of a fox, and the innocence and cuteness of a sheep, and can change at any time.
But this show or Brenda attracted me the most, I'm afraid it's not there yet. Friends said that the male lead of CSI Las Vegas is very rational and calm, and this kind of person can only get my respect instead of closeness. The male protagonist of the Miami chapter likes to put on a "I will take revenge" POSE, which is much cuter.
That's not it, watching TV shows, just having fun, who is going to listen to Lao Shizi's admonitions and learn Lao Shizi's rules?
The most annoying thing about the old American lawyer drama is that in a society of "freedom, democracy, and the rule of law", the key to winning or losing a lawsuit and the severity of the judgment is not whether the crime is committed or the size of the crime, but whether there is a good lawyer, or Tell me if you have the money to hire a good lawyer. This impression culminated in "Justice" ("Justice"). Relying on a high-tech, watertight defense process, the purpose is to play the jury round and round and make a verdict in your favor. The little bit of justice the handsome lawyer showed in defending the innocent did nothing to save my distaste for the whole set of rules of the game. Although I don't take this as a reality, I can't help but think: Is there any essential difference between chasing the law with "text" and chasing the law with power?
Brenda is obsessed with "doing the right thing", but she is more concerned with "justice" than "law". In other words, although she has carried out "procedural justice" flawlessly (Xiao Hei once couldn't resist beating a child sexual abuse suspect to obtain a confession, and she was punished), but what filled her heart was a set of ancient worldly laws. In Old Testament parlance, it is an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Change it to the Eastern saying: let the murderer die, and the wounded and theft will be punished. Or: Good is rewarded with good, and evil is rewarded with evil. It is not that there is no reward, the time has not yet come. As long as she makes a judgment, she insists that the criminals get the punishment they deserve, and no one can stand in her way. As a result, she did a lot of "politically incorrect" things. She simply ignores the spirit of "can't force the suspect to testify against himself", and her specialty is not to induce confessions. In order to find out the truth and punish the criminals, her methods can be described as tough.
Sometimes I can't help but wonder: Does this kind of inducement conform to the principle of "doubtful and never guilty"? Is there no time for her wiseness and martial arts to go wrong? But the thrill of the sinner being punished quickly overwhelms this doubt. Still the same sentence, watching TV shows, I didn't intend to speak in a sloppy way. If someone hits you on the left cheek and stretches out the right cheek, let him hit you too.
In one episode, a wealthy boy sexually assaulted the maid's 13-year-old daughter, causing her death (and a repeat offender). His father helped him throw his body, and his mother simply took him out of the country to flee. After finding out the truth, Brenda was extremely angry and traced it all the way to Mexico. She negotiated with him first and asked him to return with her, otherwise he would be charged with a felony by his parents. But the arrogant big boy was unmoved. So she used the cancellation of the freezing of his family's assets as bait and asked him to tell the truth about the girl's murder. Although the boy denied the reasons for the crime in every possible way, he was also convincing about the process. Brenda told him that he happened to escape to the place where the victim was born, so he would be charged here for the murder of a citizen of his own country - it wasn't that she didn't give him a chance. The boy was caught on the spot by the wolf-like Mexican police (?). That heart-to-heart contest was really thrilling. At the end, when I heard the boy screaming "Mom", I couldn't help but feel a little bit unbearable, but apart from that, what can I do in the face of a white "elite" family who behaved extremely filthy from beginning to end Do you want justice for the little girl who died wrongly? In another episode, she used the trick of "invite you into the urn" to send the Mexican sheriff, who colluded with the underworld to brutally kill his former colleague's nephew, and sent him to prison with the name on the fake passport. Witnesses are protected. This "legal" killing two birds with one stone is equally horrifying, but heartening. TNT involves many social issues. The spirit of punishing evil and promoting goodness has been publicized to the greatest extent in TNT, and Brenda's personality is also very distinctive. Her weak little woman's heart and abundant sympathy can be regarded as added value.
TNT also deserves a sense of humor. In contrast, CMD and CSI are too heavy, and one case is gloomy from beginning to end. Speaking of which, I have always been opposed to Lao Mei's humor. Where the screenwriter finds humorous, I probably feel mentally retarded, so I prefer to be more gloomy. alone
Halfway through the show of the fourth season, it seems that the screenwriter is still very strong, and there is no embarrassment to remove sleeves and make up clothes. I hope it can continue to entertain us. Although there are so many American dramas, we can find a good drama that is worth chasing and escaping the fate of premature death. It's not easy to set.
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