It's so ugly... Desaturated, underexposed, underlit, blue tinted, flat and bland... and it's like that the whole show (I've only seen season one)...
It's not moody, it just looks badly shot... There is no chiaroscuro modelling or anything of that nature like a Caravaggio or Rembrandt... This isn't Godfather dark... or Film noir dark like John Alton... Just flat, underlit and blue tinted...
maybe that's intentional?
shareI think it was intentional... the scenes in the American Reich looks different, if a bit padestrian, and the San Fransico exterior scenes in the first episode look good... There is also a dream sequence that looks very USA 1950s that full of colour and pop...
The thing is, it seems that they had a bigger budget for that first episode and that for most of the series were content in making the imagery murky, perhaps partly to make it easier, faster and cheaper to shoot and partly for the mood...
The Germany scenes are lacking polish as they rely on special effects that most TV shows can't deliver fully yet...
Maybe if they had made it a mini series or made the seasons shorter they'd be able to do more.. I don't know.. it just seemed compromised in a way that a three hour movie version wouldn't be.
I swear all these streaming shows are shot on cell phones.
shareyes its too dark for many of the scenes. it would be dumb for them to intentionally do that.
shareI kind of agree with you on that. It doesn't bother me that much, but I see a lot of movies, now that they have tools and computer programs manipulate the picture to try to add art-siness to the story, I think mainly because either they do not know how to write or do not want to pay good writers to come up with a really good story.
There was a movie several years back called "Other People's Lives" about East Germany and the secret police. In the movie they processed out all the reds and yellows because they wanted to East Germany to look drab and unhappy. I don't know ... I don't really like this level of interference in a movie, of trying to manipulate everything the user sees in some kind of quest to make the movie better.
What really makes a show better is good characters and writing, and of course directing ... not all these overbearing things they do ... like exaggerating everything, changing the colors, special effects. Shouldn't they be able to get the effects they need by setting up the shots and moods and lighting? Sometimes it ends up hurting my eyes some shows are so drab and always filmed in the dark.