@PegasusActual93 Perry Mason was brilliant, I’m looking forward to season 2. Probably one of the very few gritty reboots of old properties to actually work.
@nessisonett
Agreed on the point of it being a good reboot (although i think it serves more as a prequel than anything else) as It keeps alot of the originals spirit while making everything much more realistic. Aka: a portrayal of the courtroom now that doesn't make real lawyers have a borderline brain aneurysm while watching.
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...Hell or High Water or There Will Be Blood. With TV getting this expensive, I sometimes despair of the increasingly sterile visuals.
I'd be super grateful if the show looked like either of those examples. Both fantastic visually. But yeah, sterile is a great word for it. I almost feel like it's a product of streaming. Like it cuts costs in some way, I just don't see how.
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@zupertramp
I have always suspected the thing with streaming is that the visuals don't pop as well when you are streaming as it does through other mediums. I am no expert on this kind of thing but I suspect it has to do with video compression, similar to Youtube videos. For example I watched Stranger Things on Netflix as did most people and then I watched it on Bluray not long after and wow do the visuals pop much better on my 4K TV then it did through streaming. Same thing happened when I watched both Penny Dreadful and Black Sails on Bluray. Maybe it's just issues on my end but I have the feeling streaming technology just isn't quite there yet in terms of native resolution. Just a theory though.
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Finished watching season 1 of Yellowstone. Great show thus far! It started off a bit slow but then it kept getting better and better. I tend to not watch more than one episode each day with TV shows in general but this one made we want to watch more. It's great that there are four more seasons, as well as the two prequel shows. Lots to watch!
@LN78 hmmm, I’d actually heard good things about The Offer… still I’d probably rather just re-watch The Godfather and The Godfather part 2 if I’m honest.
@LN78 I guess I was going off the reviews… which aren’t always worth listening too I’ll give you. More than anything, I guess I was just hoping it’d live up to the great The Kid Stays in the Picture… oh well, it’s a good job that I have more things to watch than I have time to do so I suppose 🤔
@colonelkilgore How much stuff is there even on Paramount+ alone? Considering SkyShowtime (that I'm watching Yellowstone on) has like over half a dozen different content makers, including Paramount+, and there's very little worth watching on there, I'd imagine there'd be even less on Paramount+.
@LtSarge yeah I don’t think that Sky showtime is available in the uk. Pretty sure that the only way to get Yellowstone et al over here is if you sign up for Paramount+. As you say, I can’t imagine that there is enough content atm to make a constant subscription worthwhile… but there’s definitely enough for a month’s worth I reckon.
@LtSarge
I'm frankly surprised Paramount even bothered with a streaming service. They have always been a mid tier company at best and don't have nearly the amount of content as major players like Disney or Warner Bros to fill up a streaming service. Not to mention alot of Paramount movies are still exclusively on other streaming services like Netflix and Hbomax.
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@LN78
South Park isn't even exclusive to Paramount Plus though. At least here in the states it's on Hbomax as well and will stay on it for at least a couple more years. Right now almost all of the Star Trek movies are on Hbomax as well and are none of those are even on Paramount at this time. I don't get their long term strategy here.
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@PegasusActual93 Yeah, in all honesty I'd rank Netflix, Disney+ and HBO Max on the highest tier in terms of subscription services while services like SkyShowtime and Prime Video would barely be mid-tier. The content that's on there (like Yellowstone and The Boys respectively) are great but the offerings are so slim in general.
@LN78
I could see a merger of the two entities and that would make it a more competitive service for sure considering Peacock is Universal and that means Paramount and Universal would be combined. That means two somewhat reputable companies working in tandem, whether that would put it on the S-tier of the streaming service tier list though is yet to be known.
@PegasusActual93 yeah it's not so much the colors for me but I don't doubt there's probably a difference like you say, in the mediums. I feel like I don't even have much of an eye for this kind of thing which is why I find it odd, like with the TLoU, when the picture is so noticably bland and no one says anything about it. Oh well.
@nessisonett watched Banshees of Inisherin and it's the same thing there as well, no diffusion at all, just a crisp clean digitally shot look, only for whatever reason it didn't work against it in the same way. Maybe because the setting is just so naturally lush and gorgeous or maybe it just doesn't play against the themes, or the realism, with it already being quite rooted in reality already. Idk. Also attempted to watch The Fallout. Also very similar visually. All HBO, guess you were on to something there.
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@LN78
I'm strictly theorizing here but I have three possible reasons:
1. There's different rules between what are usually strictly gaming review sites and places that review tv shows and movies much more often.
2. Some outlet way more well known to the general public like say the New York Times is just inherently going to have those privileges.
3. It's an American tv show made by an American network so a British outlet like this might not be top priority.
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The new Marie Antoinette show is very, very good. From the writer behind The Favourite, so it does a great job at presenting these larger-than-life characters from history as actual people, with very base motivations despite what they’re born into.
@Kidfried
It will be interesting to see how they portray the characters traveling around the rest of series be it on foot or vehicle. Having characters walk around for several minutes at a time works fine in a game but usually wouldn't translate well to the screen. We already kind of saw this in action as they cut out their travel through the hotel that took about 20 minutes of the game to just a couple minutes of screen time but I wonder how they will handle say the entire Pittsburgh section for example. Another point was how much faster this episode was. I had to pause at one point to use the bathroom and was surprised I was already half way through the whole thing.
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