From Story of Editorial Department to I Love My Family, from Family with Children to Legend of Wulin, these sitcoms are simply memories of TV dramas from generation to generation. These sitcoms have been well received by the audience, and when they were broadcast on the satellite platform that year, the ratings frequently showed peak data. It can be said that more than ten years ago, sitcoms were very popular in the TV market. Even after several rounds of broadcasting, the ratings of "Off the charts" are still very high. However, since the legend of Wulin, that is, after 2006, among domestic sitcoms, high-box office works with both audience reputation and star ratings are rare. After that, a lot of sitcoms were actually produced, but the audience was not interested in this type. After many works came out, they didn't even have a chance to be a star. For example, you may not know that at the beginning of 2022, Mr. Ying Da launched a sitcom called Home and Everything. This work can't even enter the prime time of Beijing Satellite TV at night, so it can only be broadcast in the afternoon.
There are external and internal reasons why sitcoms can't work. Externally, it's like "broadcasting! Many practitioners of sitcoms say that the production cost of sitcoms is very low, which makes the pictures, special effects and actors' coffee spots unable to keep up. In an era of big production, the pictures and the actors' coffee spots can't keep up, and it's really easy to lose the audience. But these external reasons are not enough to cover up the internal problems of sitcoms. What really deserves attention is its internal reasons. That is, the script of sitcom is getting younger and farce, and it is entering a state of no sense of reality. The problems of younger age and farce have been clearly reflected in "A Family in Northeast China" and "The Story of Cooking Class". However, in many subsequent sitcoms, even The Northeast Family and The Story of the Cooking Squad could not maintain the standard. The real root cause is that the screenwriter is not good. The reason why screenwriters can't do it is because in recent years, the status of screenwriters in China's film and television dramas is getting lower and lower, and it has reached a state of "separability".
The creation of sitcoms should be based on a scriptwriter-centered system. Only in this way can we unite writers, reach the peak of creation, and avoid the problems of younger age and farce. But now the TV drama creation, who is the big name, who is the center system, the voice of the star has already surpassed the work. Therefore, the writers of sitcoms are all qualified "children" in succession, and their works can only struggle in a farce state. "Start broadcasting! Among the works of the fourth stage of sitcom, from YCY to Li Xueqin, these works are all comedies, and they are all young, which is evidence. YCY's team brought Sisters at Home. The work brought by this program is that my sister is the master at home and runs the family in the company mode. As a result, chickens fly and dogs jump. Everyone wants her sister to go out to work. There is a basic principle in those classic sitcoms in the early days, that is, they should not be distorted for the sake of being funny. For example, in "Family with Children", it is true to take care of children, but it is really anxious when you hit Liu Xing. Really, it's important. It's so fake in Sisters at Home that the whole people play house and suddenly lose the real sitcom audience. People will think that playing house is an insult to their aesthetic IQ.
For another example, Li Xueqin's "Is there a performance today" lacks a truly effective real space dimension, and everyone just plays low-end jokes in a false farce environment. There is something wrong with the premise of this work, and the audience does not believe that the premise environment of this play is real. On the other hand, the legend of Wulin is not a construction in the real space dimension, but everyone is willing to believe it is true. Why? Because the legend of Wulin is the disintegration of the traditional "Wulin" and is based on the cognition of the real audience. Is there a performance today? Based on a false entrepreneurial story in a circle, it is too thin and has a problem with the foundation, leaving only farce and youth.
The small Shenyang team brought "The Shenyang Family", which has one advantage, that is, it dares to use irony, and the intensity of irony is relatively strong. Ironically, women have plastic surgery, make-up, slimming and so on. , have social * * * emotional influence. Because the satirical content is valuable, the works in this episode are not floating. Of course, if you have seen the Korean drama "Funny Family", you may think that the story of Xiao Shenyang is too similar, but it is nothing new. The low-level stage of comedy must be a farce. Many of our sitcoms give the audience the impression that they are young and farcical, mainly because the writers in the industry are not good enough. The reason why this industry can't attract excellent screenwriters is because it doesn't give screenwriters the treatment and the right to speak. All the people with backbone are gone. The rest of those struggling can't create anything good.