Who is better than the two dramas "Pi" VS "Taking Dad to Study Abroad"?

With the conclusion of the series of examinations such as the college entrance examination and the high school entrance examination, dramas about family and educational themes have also become particularly active on the screen, especially "Pi", which closed yesterday, and "Taking Dad to Study Abroad", which is still popular. Both dramas have recently received large traffic and exposure, and have received mixed praise and evaluation. When issues such as family, education, and life that directly hit the pain points of the audience are incorporated into TV dramas, what will the two dramas present to us? Phoenix Entertainment takes you closer to these two dramas to see what are the similarities and differences between them?

Yao Xiaofeng, director of "Juvenile Pi" and

"Taking Dad to Study Abroad"

, once expressed that the

drama originated from the creator's real experience

of "Taking Dad to Study Abroad", said that this drama originated from his own personal experience and accompanied his children overseas. During the process of studying, he also experienced many difficulties and troubles that the protagonist in the play was experiencing. With previous directing experience in "Tiger Mom, Cat Dad" and "Little Husband", he accumulated what he had personally experienced during the accompanying reading process to maximize the reality of the characters and plots in the play. At the same time, screenwriter Liuliu is also an experienced person in social realism. From "Dwelling House" and "Double-sided Tape" to today's "Juvenile Pi", she tells the inevitable things in our lives from the perspective of ordinary people. Liuliu once pointed out that the purpose of all her creations is to "discover problems, find problems, write problems, and solve your own problems." This play was also inspired by her when she listened to Jiu Meiyu talk about the problems faced by her high school daughter. After amplifying this theme into the perspective of the whole society, she presented such a work for us.

"Juvenile Pi"

2. The plot is controversial

. With the development of the plots of the two TV series, more and more viewers have begun to complain about the writers 'inaccurate views and distorted plots. The screenwriter of "Taking Dad to Study Abroad" seems to have some prejudice against the post-00s generation, as if every young lead is either a demon or a soft fan. Wu Dandan brings her grievances to the sky and earth every day; Zhu Lusha won the # Annoying Family C# hot search for her selfishness and huge baby girl; her parents regard Huang Xiaodong as a treasure, but Huang Xiaodong treats her parents as servants. It seems that everyone in the whole drama suffers from "anxiety disorder" and will often start arguing with relatives and friends. On the other hand, Lin Miaomiao, who was originally a little willful but still sensible in "Youth School", also achieved great heights in the last few episodes. Not only did he ridicule his friends, but he also shouted at his father because of career problems and even wanted to give up the college entrance examination for the live broadcast. In order to show resistance, he jumped off a building to faint his mother. All the audience couldn't help but shout that the character design would collapse and the drama would be abandoned!

"Taking Dad to Study Abroad"

3. Focus on describing family, education and growth

. There is a saying that the college entrance examination is not a battle for one person but a struggle for a family. Studying abroad is not just children who go abroad. From preparing for application to graduation, parents have also put in great efforts, and even family members have gone to accompany them. These two dramas are set in school and tell the story of children's process from rebellion to understanding. In this process, they will gradually understand the difficulty of their parents and gain real family affection, friendship or love while growing up.

At the same time, the same is true for parents in the family. The parents in the two dramas have sacrificed a lot of blood and sweat for their children. It was also the first time to be a parent. No one had any experience. While learning to "care", they also gradually learned to "let go". "Juvenile Pi" and "Taking Dad to Study Abroad" both tell the story of how children and parents learn from each other, make progress together, and gain growth through the tempering of life under such a study background.

"Juvenile Pi"

Differences

1. Different drama types.

Judging from the current drama series, Yan Ni and Zhang Jiayi have relatively limited appearance time. The main line of the plot is more arranged on the children's campus life, such as how Lin Miaomiao gets along with her classmates and establishes friendships, how she handles the relationship between interests and study, how she handles small conflicts in the dormitory, how she faces the division of arts and sciences, and how the school holds sports meetings... The main theme is not like a complex family drama, more like a portrait that highlights young people. A TV series that truly reflects the living conditions of the post-00s generation. The story of "Taking Dad to Study Abroad" depicts more stories that happened together between parents and children in several families, such as the love between Huang Xiaodong and Wu Dandan and the dispute between the two families over this matter, Lin Sa as stepmother and Wu Dandan fell in love and killed each other, Lin Sa and Wu Hanxiang quarreled and angry Huang Chengdong as the mediator, and Wu Hanxiang and Huang Chengdong beat Wu Dandan's boyfriend together. It can be seen that the main story of this play is evenly distributed between adults and children, more like a drama about urban life or family ethics.

"Taking Dad to Study Abroad"

2. Focus on the highlights of the story.

Different highlights of the story line of "Juvenile Pi" focus on a group of families. Zhang Jiayi and Ni Ni vividly show us the image of a tiger mother and a cat father. Lin Dawei is a daughter slave and a super warm father. He plays an important regulating role between two powerful women in the family. Wang Shengnan is a strict mother in the traditional sense. He has to manage both this and that. His emotion towards Lin Miaomiao, who is "annoyed and reluctant to part with him" caused the audience to burst into laughter. The sweet emotional throbbing between Lin Miaomiao and Qian Sany made the audience cry that they weren't enough. However, the ones who have strong chemical reactions in "Taking Dad to Study Abroad" are Huang Chengdong and his son and Lin Sa's daughter. Huang Chengdong's "meticulous" care of his son as Huang Xiaodong's reading companion father always brings a lot of woes and laughter; the scene of Lin Sa and his stepdaughter Wu Dandan, who is not a few years younger than himself, falling in love and fighting for love has also aroused everyone's heated discussion; the "love" between Wu Dandan and Huang Xiaodong is somewhat confusing. If "Pi" tells the story of high school students and their parents growing up together in the intertwining of sorrow and joy in four different family backgrounds, the play "Taking Dad to Study Abroad" describes more about the things of foreign students. Compared with the boring and simple family education in China, this play injects some novelty and unusual things.

"Juvenile Pi"

3. The degree of closeness to audience life is different

. First, in the context of the story,"Juvenile Pi" focuses on domestic high school education. As their daughter Lin Miaomiao (Zhao Jinmai) enters a key high school, the middle-aged couple Lin Dawei (Zhang Jiayi) and Wang Shengnan (Yan Ni) worry about their daughter's education and family trivial matters, and they constantly talk about each other every day. "Taking Dad to Study Abroad" mainly tells the story of some ironic stories that happened when Huang Chengdong (Sun Honglei) met Lin Sa (Xin Zhilei) and Wu Dandan (Jiang Yiyi), who were also going overseas to study. The vast majority of children from families in the audience have experiences from their children's high school years. They will have greater recognition and affinity for "Juvenile Pi" in terms of plot content, while the story behind the background of "Taking Dad to Study Abroad" is just something that a small number of families have experienced, and they will lack a sense of substitution and intimacy, and have a mentality of staying out of it.

In addition to the big story background of "Taking Dad to Study Abroad"

, many detailed plots in the play also aroused heated discussions among everyone. When netizens see Wang Shengnan's behavior and words when he educates his daughter every day, they will suspect whether the screenwriter and director have installed cameras in their homes, which is exactly like their mother! For example: "The little girl stands and sits with a sitting appearance." "Have you done your homework?" "Don't check your phone or play games in the toilet!" It will make young audiences instantly recall what it was like when their mother educated them. On the contrary, the plot and content of "Taking Dad to Study Abroad" aroused serious complaints from audiences who had studied abroad. For example, going through customs in the first episode was like a joke. In the second episode, Lin Sa and Dandan went out to play directly the day after they arrived overseas, without considering the jet lag. As well as international students who have just arrived abroad, it will be hard for a long time to adapt to life, but the two young couples actually showed signs of falling in love immediately. It is unbelievable. Many plots in the play leave the impression of being fake and empty.

4. Differences in popularity and word-of-mouth evaluation

When the trailer of "Taking Dad to Study Abroad" was first released, the scene of Xin Zhilei's young and beautiful stepmother arguing with her daughter, who was not a few years younger than herself, aroused great interest and curiosity from the audience. In addition, Sun Honglei's role as a "cat father" as a very popular actor is in sharp contrast to Xin Zhilei's domineering demeanor. Everyone moved to the bench and was ready to follow the drama. "Juvenile Pi" tells the story of the family life of ordinary people in an ordinary way. The early publicity and gimmicks are not as good as the former, so some changes in ratings and popularity can also be seen.

First of all,"Taking Dad to Study Abroad", which was broadcast later, achieved the number one popularity on the fifth day of its launch. This score lasted for two days and fell to second place. After that, the popularity and number of views remained flat and did not change much. At the same time,"Pi" has been steadily rising, achieving double first place in popularity and number of views on the 11th day of launch. This popularity and achievement have remained until now. And its average viewing rating has reached 1.36, becoming the top viewing drama in the first half of the year.

"Taking Dad to Study Abroad" has a cat-eye popularity

and "Juvenile Pi" has

a cat-eye popularity. Looking at the Douban scores, the two dramas are also different. The score of "Taking Dad to Study Abroad" is 3.6, and the total score of "Juvenile Pi" is 6.5.

"Taking Dad to Study Abroad" Douban Score

"Youth Pi" Douban Score

No matter what the scores of the two dramas are, who is higher and who is lower, we all hope to see better works. The highlight of life dramas is the refinement of details and the portrayal of characters, especially parent-child family dramas, how to express parents 'love for their children, and how to think about life in today's environment, are probably what the audience wants to see most.