MBC entertainment <I live Alone>, which celebrates its 9th anniversary, is doing well. The audience rating of 6 ~ 8% was less than the peak of the year and the topic was lost, but it still occupies the top spot in 2049 ratings and Friday entertainment ratings. The 'Rainbow' team, which had been able to finish the various wanderings that had been done over the past two years, reconsidered the direction of 'Yeon-pa' and rebuilt it to some extent. Jun Hyun-moo, who has returned to Park Na-rae's shoulder, who has become increasingly role and weighted, is carrying the burden, and the humanity and sense of life that has been emptied as Lee Si-eon, Henry and other idiot brothers are missing are filled with the discovery of Kim Kwang-kyu's return,
Now, the reality like a friendly neighbor has become a broadcast of artificial settings and episodes that are hard to find, but despite the fixation of the format, it is making the atmosphere again through a slow but proper human renewal. The controversy over the crew's deception of Kian84, a key member who created the most profound crisis, was completely forgotten by Kian84's human charm and various episodes that reveal the present.
Meanwhile, the seats of the members of the group, centered on Han Hye-jin and Park Na-rae, were reorganized again, with Kian84, Park Na-rae and Jun Hyun-moo. Song Min-ho and Kian84, who have been watching for the first time in their lives, went camping together, and Park Na-rae played a bigger role outside the studio.
But it can't be the same for nine years. The biggest change that has occurred since the program has long been loved and the people who have actually grown up again have been the main players, unlike in 2017, when they were heading up to a higher place together, they deal with success beyond growth. It is a symbolic episode of Jun Hyun-moo's New Year's Mt. Halla climbing, which came down for a while due to burnout, etc., while climbing the top of MC with the heyday of <I live Alone>.
The best part of this changed code is the new house that became the representative menu of Baro <I live Alone>. Recently, I have been watching the house of rainbow members almost every time. The visit to the house of others is always a curious material, but it is also the easiest setting to capture the present of the members who are no longer able to operate the growth Remady. From Sungsan-dong Villa to Hannam-dong, I watched Park Na-rae's growth Remady together. Likewise, I moved from Jangan-dong Turum Villa to Hannam-dong Villa, Kyung Soo-jin, Kian84, who became a landlord, and Kim Kwang-kyu, who was also a character of sadness, finally watched the peak of the slow growth Remady, which finally set up a 60-pyeong car.
It is true that the aspect of the home shown by the "Rainbow Membership" cast is far from the success period of living in a small villa as a young man, preparing an apartment through subscription and starting a honeymoon (so sometimes criticized as "I am well alive"), but it is more natural to note the success after, not the growth of the position, such as the age or business of the major cast members. And this code is the one who leads the front line, Baro, who is in charge of the main episode in succession.
His episodes are now shifting their focus to human maturity, self-search, rather than focusing on the down-to-the-down travel. Especially, the episode of the first solo exhibition, which was held for 8 months on the 15th broadcast, was an extension of the character Kian84, which was the effort to find himself as an artist beyond the identity of a webtoon writer who had to work with the public response and the closeness of the episode.
But the change in seeing this new look is good, but it remains to be wondered how popular and universal the code that deals with the success after growth is over. For example, about the human growth of Kian84 84, which can achieve India stability and enjoy India's freedom in terms of so-called career or assets, it is doubtful how many viewers will share romance and sympathize with Kyung Soo-jin's episode, which saves a private space for a studio of 1 million won per month.
If Yolo was a topic five to six years ago, Young & Rich, who showed a successful life until recently, was a romantic romance. I live Alone may have been conscious of this, but it is a lot of Tian Shi, but now it is getting a little farther away. How much romance can be administered to save the workshop beyond saving the house today? How much empathy can it reach the public to put the troubles and life after success beyond Tian Shi of wealth and success?
I do not think that the reason why the recent wave of I live Alone has been quiet is far from this worry. In order to sync with the departing viewers and new viewers who are not flowing in, it is necessary to catch a code of a kind of zeitgeist as it has been so far, not to see the game with a one-time casting that sometimes bursts.
columnist Kim Kyo-seok