Text/Ai Xiuyu

Identification object: "Benevolence Club"

Broadcast platform: Mango TV, Hunan Satellite TV

In recent years, many dramas focusing on "urban life stream" have been well received. The recently aired TV series "Benevolence Club" continued this successful path and expanded - combining urban life and medical professions to create a light comedy that pays equal attention to workplace and life.

It is not easy to shape the content of the profession, it is easy to be boring if it is too "real", and it is suspended if it is too "virtual". Objectively speaking, there are many problems in "Benevolence Club", such as the excessive intensity of dramatic conflicts, which makes the protagonists all have a "Conan" physique - there are constant emergencies everywhere they go, and almost all of their relatives and friends and even themselves are injured, sick or dead. The suspended bridge section also pops up from time to time - after Gu Shiyi (Yao Anna) fell ill, she traveled all over the world for several months; The dean, who received the operation due to epilepsy, "parachuted" into the operating room when the operation fell into a stalemate, and tried his best to turn the tide...... In addition, "Benevolence Club" cannot escape the common problems of medical dramas with the protagonist's excessive halo, excessive elevation of the protagonist's medical skills and idealized presentation of the doctor-patient relationship, and small flaws in medical common sense are inevitable.

However, to be able to achieve the good result of "ranking first in the provincial satellite TV in real-time ratings for 17 consecutive days during the broadcast", "Benevolence Club" naturally has merit. The reason for this is probably that the characters are down-to-earth and the details are very vivid - the play has as many as six signed screenwriters, who have enough insight into life, write the characters vividly and believably, and the logic of the characters' behaviors is unified and smooth.

The difficulty and "pitfall" of group dramas often lie in the fact that it is easy to present a group of characters in a big and large place - each character is balanced and hard, but the shaping is superficial, resulting in the characters not being vivid enough, "Benevolence Club" basically avoids this, not only the protagonists have their own personalities, but even the supporting roles like the security guard Xiaohu are full of humanity.

The performance of the actors also added a lot of color to the play. Actor Xin Zhilei, who plays Liu Ziyi, admitted frankly in an interview, "I suspect that the director and screenwriter are according to the script I wrote", "I have never encountered such a suitable role", and acting in her true colors will naturally get twice the result with half the effort. The actor Bai Ke, who plays Qin Wenbin, continues to gallop in the comfort zone of "husband feeling".

What is particularly appreciated is the performance of actors Zhang Zixian and Shi Mingze. In the play, the role of Wang Gaosheng is a general surgeon, who is middle-aged, encountering career bottlenecks and suffering from professional title evaluation, he is not only a "strict wife" who has to support his family, but also a "phoenix man" who bears the burden of his original family. Multiple identities and experiences determine that Wang Gaosheng has the characteristics of being greedy for small and cheap, good at sycophancy, and rudder when he sees the wind, but he is also full of the survival wisdom of a little person who is happy in suffering, showing the life resilience of ordinary middle-aged men. Actor Zhang Zixian reasonably demonstrated Wang Gaosheng's psychology and motivation through extremely natural and meticulous acting skills, making him a key character and funny point in the whole play, which not only did not annoy the audience, but also made people full of interest.

The new generation of actor Shi Mingze is known to many people because of the idol trainee program "Youth with You", he will grow up in a big family in Chaoshan, Guangdong, grew up surrounded by three sisters, and is socially afraid and introverted "Beef Ball Rich Second Generation" Jiang Yu, who is free and convincing, showing the plasticity of his professional background.

It is worth mentioning that in "Benevolence Club", the male characters collectively show a gentle and delicate soft side, while the female characters collectively show a sassy and neat rigid side. This not only jumps out of the stereotype of male and female roles in most film and television dramas, but also is more in line with the real appearance of current urban men and women, and increases the reality of the characters.

In addition, while shaping the main characters and showing the medical industry, "Benevolence Club" also pays attention to a wider range of social issues, such as the emotional needs of the elderly and marriage and love issues, adding breadth to the series.