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Just days before "True Detective" airs.
HBO still puts the huge billboards of "True Detective" at various subway entrances, buses, and bus stops and other places that can enter people's field of vision.
The poster is presented by Joy in a color full of religious rituals, that is, yellow and red, yellow represents the color of the wilderness, and red represents the strange blood.
The publicity gimmick of this TV series can be said to be very good. Originally, HBO only planned to make "True Detective" a high-scoring and unpopular work. As a result, because of Joey's joining, the show has obviously become unpopular.
But because the platform it puts on is just a paid mini-channel under HBO, and its audience is not particularly large. HBO is determined to make this station bigger, so it is very much looking forward to the results of this time.
But most film and television fans are not so impulsive, they will not because HBO will broadcast the screen of Hollywood director Joey Grande on a certain mini pay station.If you are a woman, you can directly pay the annual fee for the next year to buy the package of this toll station.
Most film and television fans are still in the wait-and-see stage. They will pay attention to the trends, word-of-mouth and trends of "True Detective", and then decide whether to buy the paid package of this station.
Of course, the term diehard fan exists in any country and any place, so Joey or a diehard fan of some actors will of course open this paid mini-channel package for this drama without hesitation.
However, the number is small after all. If HBO wants to make "True Detective" a success in one fell swoop, it still needs to rely on its follow-up high-quality word-of-mouth and recognition.
However, the most active and enthusiastic fans are often the diehard fans. Although the group is not huge, they are always paying attention to every move of "True Detective".
In many film and television forums, die-hard fans have already started to act as "tap water" to promote this "True Detective".
They posted posters of "True Detective" one after another, "I know you won't come in without pictures."
"Joy Grant's latest work, look at the fineness of this poster, look at these actors, and look at this trailer full of 'tune'."
"I mean, is anyone going to watch it with me?"
"Don't tell me, you don't know who Joey Grant is... But it's okay if you don't. After all, those who only watch TV series and not movies may really not be familiar with her."
"She is a great, great, **** and awesome director, a top Hollywood director."
Fans then post Joy's Wikipedia profile, a list of her credits, and box office successes.
"Let's have a look, you guys should like it~ Let's look forward to "True Detective"~"
The propaganda of diehard fans also incited some people, but because the subscription volume of this mini pay station owned by HBO is too low, it still did not bring in a large number of subscriptions.
HBO continued to build momentum for "True Detective". Before the broadcast, it also interviewed a series of main actors such as Joy and Bell, and of course the long-lost screenwriter Nick, although he has been swept out.
Before, everyone knew that Joey was the director of this TV series, but now, Joey actually appeared in front of the camera, was interviewed for this TV series, and promoted this TV series by the way, people have a different feeling .
Yes, Joy is a bit fatter on camera, and you can tell she had a lot of fun filming the show, talking about her love for the South, talking about her understanding of the script.
She even told the audience in detail how she operated some shots.
It can be seen that she is full of confidence, and her confident look has given fans unlimited confidence that Joey will not let them down this time.
Soon, it was the day when "True Detective" premiered.
HBO's mini pay station called STAR has indeed increased its subscriptions by a small level because of the presence of "True Detective", one of the most expensive TV series in history.
But it's not obvious, it still hasn't gotten rid of the embarrassing situation of low subscriptions to mini stations.
"True Detective" begins.
At the beginning, it was the opening song full of personality in the prelude.
This is a black-style opening song that is both eye-catching and artistic.From the hand of Oscar soundtrack master TBoneBur.
In the ethereal black melody, there is intriguing suspense and horror.
The lyrics are also very grueling, magical and exquisite, and fit the plot very well.
"From the gray mountains far away, her shadow stretches
Hiding there quietly, in the poisonous thickets
She lazily coiled her stinger, facing the scorching sun
And when I touch her skin, there's blood between my fingers
When the last light warms the rock and the rattlesnake unfurls
The lynx will come and drag your bones away
Rise with me forever, through the silent desert
The stars will be your eyes, and the wind will be my hands"
The lyrics of this song have a magical power of bewitching people's hearts, like spirit, effect, hallucination, and potion.
Blood, distant mountains, poisonous flowers, bobcats, bones, stars, twilight, this is a poem like a song.
The opening song is nothing special on the screen, it is basically a mix of landscape and still life, but those blurred shots, paired with this song, can really blind people's eyes.
Then, the TV show started.
In the beginning, it was a long long shot.Not a single line.But it only took Joey 1 minute to let everyone fall into the plot.
The British filmed Sherlock so coquettishly, the audience thought it was a gem, and Joey might follow this coquettish pace.
After all, in her "Secret Gambler", this kind of enchanting coquettishness is even worse than that of the British.
But this time, Joey didn't.
She shoots a rare and hard style, slow and desperate.Every shot carries a sense of violence and depravity.
The protagonist group is also very weird. One cheated and lied and couldn't stand the accusation, and the other was decadent and mysterious.
In the hot and humid atmosphere of the south, "True Detective" shows a kind of coldness, despair, men and smoke from inside to outside.
If you are an audience familiar with the movie, you may quickly find this style, which seems a bit like the "12 House" mash-up "The Silence of the Lambs", along with the Polanski-style gloomy sense of despair that pervades from beginning to end.
How exactly is this done?
A TV series that combines the styles of three top Hollywood masters.
On the other hand, the audience's ability to quickly enter the play and immerse themselves in it is also closely related to Bell's neurotic and both divine and physical acting skills. If there is one word to describe Bell at this time, it is-extremely enchanting.
Christian Bale is definitely the biggest highlight and harvest of this show!
Christian Bale, who just won an Oscar, did not show the aesthetic beauty of men in Joey's previous shots in this movie, but looked sloppy and neurotic all day long.
However, the more this happened, the more the audience felt that he was really a god.
A person who is lonely and forces himself to stop being alone, a person who loves the world deeply but makes himself look like an enemy of the world, a person who hides his despair with a single muscle.
It can be said that the first episode of "True Detective" has managed to keep every viewer from the beginning to the end without a sudden increase in the number of subscriptions of this mini pay station. Progress, the ratings will climb up bit by bit.
Because any element of this show, even if it is put in a movie, will definitely appear in movies with extremely high-end art forms.
At the moment, HBO's ratings monitoring office is constantly monitoring the latest ratings data.
"How's the ratings for 'True Detective'?"
"Rating 1.8"
This data is not high at all.It is a very mediocre statistic. CBS TV's variety show "Survivor" is the ratings champion this week, with a rating of 3.8 and 1514 million viewers.
CBS's pillar program "Criminal Minds" has a 2.1 rating and 854 million viewers. "Basic Deduction" 1.8, with 547 million viewers.
One of CW's mainstay programs, "Supernatural", had a ratings of 1.6 last week and 316 million viewers. However, CW's ratings have always been at the bottom of this level, so 1.6 is a very poor ratings for other channels. A pass, for The CW, a pass...
For a pay station, with a rating of 3 or more, any program can be renewed without worry, but this kind of rating is generally only achieved by reality shows.
2 or more ratings.It is considered a pass, and the renewal is no problem.
1.5 or so is unqualified, and renewal is worrying, but if the TV series is valued by the TV station or wants to win it, it may be renewed.
The premiere rate of "True Detective" can only be said to be average, just passing the passing line.Compared with "24 Hours", a veteran evergreen tree that can reach 3.2 in the first broadcast of the restart series, the premiere of "True Detective" is actually not ugly. After all, the subscription rate of this station is there, and the subscription rate of this station itself is not very high. Great, HBO still wants to rely on "True Detective" to open up the subscriptions of this station.
But what's the rush? Except for the veteran evergreens, the ratings of many American dramas are rising steadily, instead of hitting as many points as possible with the first broadcast.
HBO is clearly in no rush.
With the pilot episode of the first episode of "True Detective" airing, HBO began to take audience opinions on this series on a large scale.
It is not just HBO that pays attention to "True Detective", but also major media magazines in the American film and television industry. The reporter of the American drama column of "Variety Show" logged into the IMDB page a few days after "True Detective" aired, Because he will soon need to write a general overview of the latest series of those TV stations in the new season.
To write an overview of so many new TV dramas, it is impossible for him to watch all of them. For example, he has not watched the "True Detective" that will be written soon.
The quality of the TV dramas in this season is obviously very high. Martin Scorsese's "Boardwalk Empire" bears the brunt, and scored a high score of more than 9 points on IMDB. Both the ratings and word-of-mouth are sky-high.
He browsed the "True Detective" IMDB page for just 1 minute. During this period, he stared at its rating on IMDB, and checked it back and forth about ten times.
Then, as if he had been stimulated by something, he turned around and asked a colleague beside him, and said in a ghostly tone: "I said Jim, you..."
"what?"
"Have you ever seen an episode with an IMDB rating of 9.9..."
"I've never seen it before. Is it really there? Are you sure it wasn't made by the navy? But IMDB has a waterproof army brush system, so it shouldn't be. Is there something wrong with the system?"
"No... look at this..." He pointed to the screen.
Jim leaned in for a look, then stood there with his mouth open.
The TV series "True Detective" on IMDB, the score of the first episode is really as high as 9.9 points? !
is this real?He didn't know if it was the first time in history that such a situation had occurred, but he was certain that it was the first time he had seen such a situation in his decades of watching movies!
But he thought he could probably explain that the score of 9.9 in the first episode must be because this first episode conquered all the diehard fans.
Because any film and television work, those who rush to watch it at the beginning must be diehard fans, so any film and television work will have a very high score at the beginning, and then as the number of viewers gradually expands, the score will basically be high. Gradually getting lower, but the initial rating has basically indicated the final rating of the show.
In this "True Detective", your sister's score reached 9.9 in the first episode. Even if it is lower in the later period, how low can he and mother go? !
According to experience, even if the number of viewers expands and the score drops later, it will definitely be a high score of 9.5 or higher!
what does this mean?
There are absolutely no more than ten TV dramas with ratings above 9.5 on IMDB!
This TV series has been booked in the top ten of IMDB ratings!
He hurriedly scrolled to the bottom, wanting to read the comments from the audience. What's going on?Are the audience crazy?
He wanted to know where the show is so awesome through the message, but the message and comments obviously didn't tell him the answer.
Because the comments are all——
"I asked heaven, why is this first episode so fucking?"
"This drama met all my expectations for American dramas."
"It's an out-and-out masterpiece, breaking me piece by piece."
After reading these praiseworthy words, Jim made a decision, went back that day and immediately subscribed to the mini-channel under HBO, and then watched the rerun of "True Detective" in time.
HBO was also surprised to find that the ratings of the rerun of "True Detective" almost caught up with the ratings of the premiere. What a wonderful index!
In the first 40 minutes, Jim almost knelt down to the story and the camera.
Soon, it reached the last 8 minutes of the long shot that would make Joey Grant famous all over the world.
It was the second minute after Jim saw this shot that he realized something was wrong.
When he saw that the shot continued continuously from the beginning of the film, he started to growl in his heart: WTF!This turned out to be a long shot.
Then he looked down, and the more he watched, the more excited he became, and finally he was overjoyed!
8 minutes, a full 8 minutes, this sports long shot followed Bell for more than half a block.
Joey Grant never gives up surprising people.
Right after Jim watched reruns of "True Detective," he plunged into the overnight draft for a column that would appear in the weekend issue of Variety.
"The magic drama with an Imdb score of 9.9 is so popular that it explodes. Is there any TV series like this?"
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