Had to stop watching Outer Range

I chose to stop watching because it was a bad show. I didn’t have a problem seeing it though.

I feel the same way about the new season of Better Call Saul. The season has been great overall but not only is it shot with really dark filters, or darkened in post, but nobody ever turns on a damn light.

I rewatched the first 5 seasons of Saul and it wasn't nearly as dark.

I was open to reading any number of criticisms about the show when I opened this thread, but the picture being too dark certainly wasn’t one of them.

My guess is directors shoot dark because they think it makes things more serious. It's the illumination version of whisper talking. Maybe it works for short periods but having everything so dark or making everyone talk in a whisper gets old after a while.

Man in the High Castle was the worst with whisper talking. Everybody sounded like Batman.

Looks perfectly fine on an OLED.

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Shot WAY too dark. I hate when these supposed artsy ideas try to be different and cool, when in reality it’s just annoying as hell. Can’t see a fricking thing on the screen.

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I never noticed this, and had I , I cannot imagine stopping for this reason.

I had zero problems with it.

I finished it out, but damn I thought it was just me. I couldnt see shite the first half but it did seem to get better as the show went on.

Sometimes it’s visual relief to watch a top-notch epic from the 50s and 60s when lighting did just that, lit the scene.

Rich color production by today’s high end TVs are often wasted in a lot of modern movie making.