The American CBS television network is really out of tune. This TV station, which is well-known for its production of crime dramas, has now come up with works like CSI: Cyber that have no sincerity to fool the audience. As a loyal fan of CBS, I feel very hurt.
Back in the fourteenth season of "CSI: Las Vegas", CBS had already laid the groundwork for a new spinoff of the "CSI" (Crime Scene Investigation) series, "CSI: Network." CBS's strategic intentions are clear: After "CSI: Miami" and "CSI: New York" have ended and been discontinued, CBS desperately needs a new spinoff to maintain the declining CSI series that have been on the air for fifteen years. Popularity, and what could be more suitable for developing a new drama than "cybercrime", a new thing in the crime scene that is in the limelight? And so, a new series following the longest-running crime series in history, CSI: Las Vegas, was born.
CBS's wishful thinking is doing well, and cybercrime is indeed a subject worthy of development. After all, no one can do without mobile phones, computers, and the Internet these days. This general resonance itself is a very optimistic ratings. Luck also seems to take care of CBS. Just a week before the premiere of "CSI: Network", the actress Patricia Arquette has just won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. With the addition of a golden person, the new drama will attract more attention. upper level. However, under such a favorable time and place, "CSI: Network" still disappointed me and other audiences because of the lack of standard production.
Negative review 1: The plot is patchwork
Any viewer who has been immersed in crime dramas for more than five years can easily point out the Achilles heel of the series - patchwork. After four episodes, I've been watching all the crime dramas I've watched over the years in a hundred times fast forward speed.
The confession at the beginning of the film is very similar to "Suspect Tracking". The key points in the film remind the subtitles such as "24 Hours" replay. The heroine's ability to interpret facial expressions comes from "Don't Lie to Me", the team members' psychological analysis of criminals and "Criminal Minds". ” and “Super Sense Detective” are no different. We have seen all kinds of cool technical equipment and hacking skills in “Suspect Tracker”, “City Robber” and even “Wonderful Detective”, and they are widely used. The core orientation of "Speak with Evidence" in the three series of CSI series is only superficial and weakened to the point of being almost unconvincing.
The main creative team made it clear that they didn't put much effort into researching and creating the script at all, but a very chicken thief's attempt to "stew the Northeast" with various popular criminal elements, and then expect the audience to swallow it all. The problem is that I swallowed it, but who will reimburse the medical expenses for later indigestion, vomiting and diarrhea? Since when did CBS start to fool the audience as fools?
Negative review 2: The character setting failed.
Since ancient times, the character settings of crime dramas have a set of standard settings: a Leader (boss), a Muscle (thug), a Hacker (hacker), a Pretty face (face-seeing), and then another Trouble maker. "CSI: Network" also continues this ancient tradition, with a slight difference that everyone in this team is proficient in hacking technology, after all, this is the basic threshold for entering the cybercrime department.
Sadly, with the exception of the heroine Ryan, played by Patricia Arquette, several other characters in the department are either overworked or nonexistent.
The troublemaker in the team is a black guy who was arrested for cybercrime and entered the cybercrime department as a CI to serve his sentence and work. Originally, this kind of role is easy to shine, because the screenwriter will deliberately put many dramatic conflicts on this role. .
Helpless, the little brother didn't have the temperament of a hacker technology house. He put on that custom-made suit and vest, and was stunned to carry out the yuppie style to the end. But after all, not everyone has the charming temperament of Neal Caffrey (from "The Wonderful Detective"). Although the little brother is wearing a satin blue suit and vest, his mouth is a standard "Yoyo check", Does this mean from the negative side that technical men don't know how to dress well?
Since the first appearance of my brother, I always felt that something was wrong with his face. After watching a few episodes, I finally succeeded in finding the fault - it turned out that the black eyeliner of the younger brother was too coquettish. In contrast to this watery transvestite temperament, how amiable and amiable is the plaid shirt chubby in the department!
The other extreme in the department is the Asian yellow-haired woman. I guess the producers wanted to highlight a female geek's unconventional aesthetic, so they dyed a typical Asian face with blond waist-length hair, and occasionally made a few upside-down braids on top of her head. However, this setting not only didn't make me think she was a female geek, but instead made me think of this character, with yellow hair in front of me. After four episodes, I didn't even remember what her face looked like or what the character's name was.
The most terrible thing is, after watching the fourth episode, I suddenly remembered why the yellow-haired girl didn't appear. At first I thought the actor was going to be cut off. Later, I fast-forwarded and watched the fourth episode again, only to realize that she had been on the show all the time. middle! I have been in the American drama industry for more than ten years, and this is the first time I have encountered such a resident character who has no sense of existence. When I think about it carefully, it is definitely the fault of the wrong and yellow hair. I said that the producer, can't let people be quiet and be an Asian beauty?
Negative Comment 3: Value-oriented, simple and rude
. Before the fourth episode aired, I was very disappointed with the show, but I was willing to continue watching it. After the fourth episode aired, I decided to give up the show. The reason lies in a plot in the fourth episode: The little black brother found out that the cybercriminal the FBI was chasing was his former good buddy, so he decided to persuade him to surrender before the FBI. Of course, the good buddy didn't want to give up, so the younger brother immediately staged a drama of righteous killing of relatives. Not only did he fight, but he also helped the FBI track and arrest the good buddy who once preferred to go to jail rather than betray him in minutes. The urgency of the younger brother to abandon his past identity, and the speed with which he turned against each other for "justice" is simply outrageous.
This kind of simple and rude value orientation of "criminals are bad people, we have to defeat the bad people" is very common in mainland dramas, but I really didn't expect CBS to arrange such an inhumane plot in the drama. How can a person who has been a criminal for more than ten years accept the values advocated by the FBI without hesitation? How could it be so easy to deny the past self, and to fight when you say something to your former comrade-in-arms? As long as the producer has the slightest brain to write the script, it is impossible to shoot such a low-level plot.
In short, it is forgiven if the script is not well written, but it is unforgivable if you don’t bother to write the script because you are a leader in the industry. Since the producers are too lazy to work hard to please the audience, then I am too lazy to continue chasing dramas to increase the ratings. Good to go, no delivery.
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