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do you mean you started season 2, or it lost you after you finished 1? The second is where it gets good imo, much funnier and aware of what it’s trying to do.
Season 1 seemed focused and almost self contained. When it picked up again for season 2, it felt like it was too campy and less intense.
Obviously you haven’t seen Stalone’s Driven. One of the finest movies ever made.
The problem with The Morning Show is that there is not one character who is the least bit likable. Billy Crudup is charismatic and interesting, and Steve Carell made his creepy character at least somewhat sympathetic. But could you actually name their characters? I can't.
It's a room completely full of loathsome people who all deserve failure and misery.
Plus, seeing that it's based on a book by CNN's Brian Stelter, who has a producer credit, is a real turnoff.
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Loved that movie! Would love to see more into the psyche of human nature in real daily events like this. The real star of that show was Canadian Kiefer Sutherland (only 3 mins on screen, but his voice really sold the villain).
Ooh wow you went there lol. Too much of a reminder of his ex-wife, especially consider Eyes Wide Shut na-uh Tommie is not going there again.
Ha, fair enough. I think we have the same general impressions of the show but I liked what you didn’t and vice-versa, which is great!
Looking forward to the new shows on Apple TV+. Black Bird might be good.
Watched the trailer. It's not "rotoscoping" it's just some truly rubbish matte/green-screen/CGI work in the "speedboat" sequence followed by one brief interior shot that looks over-sharpened. Probably because the trailer would have been put together while the show was still in pre-production (edit: post-production, duh!). Probably not a show I'd be interested in (other than featuring a Good Place alumni...) but dismissing the whole show on that basis is kinda petty (it's a sitcom, not a SciFi epic that's going to lean on effects shots).
If you want to see what "rotoscoping" really is (when used for artistic effect), try Undone on Amazon (S1 brilliant, S2 OK), "The Witness" in Netflix's Love Death and Robots or the movie "A Scanner Darkly". If you want to see where rotoscoping gets a bad name, dig out the old animated version of The Lord of The Rings.
Where? I rarely see anything worth watching. Everyone has different tastes of course, but TV+ really isn't even worth $4.99 IMO. I only get it because I have the Apple + package. Just because they sign up major stars doesn't mean the content is good. They need way more than popular actors to save that service...
You mean they aren’t really on that boat? That’s funny, I can’t see anything amiss. You must have a keen eye for these things.
You think there's a boat...?
Seriously, that type of shot would typically be done with back projection even in the analogue days so that would be my first assumption. If they've gone to all the time, expense and risk of actually putting the actors in a boat* it's kinda ironic that the result looks fake. If you look at around 0:05 where the actress's head is against the blue sky, the outline looks "wrong" and there's an outline/light halo around it that makes it look like a matte.
* Thinking about it, the OP could have been on the money when they asked if it was shot on an iPhone - that would obviously make shooting on a boat easier - but one of the problems with tiny lenses/sensors is that you get a huge depth of field and have to rely on digital trickery to get a "bokeh" effect (subject in sharp focus against a blurred background). So it could be a genuine shot mucked up by a "digital bokeh" effect. Could also be a video compression artefact.
Anyway, my point was that it's silly to reject a whole show because of one shot in a trailer which strayed into "uncanny valley" and could probably be "fixed in post".
...but the big yacht they're heading for looks like a render to me, too...
I can see that being the case for some viewers however the plot twists and backstabbing etc can be very dramatic and riveting. Working in tv I can tell you now that it really does hit the mark with regard to the narcissistic career backstabbing nature of the industry. It’s loathsome. And it captures it perfectly.
I work in finance. I get enough loathsome people for a lifetime in a single day at work.
Speaking of LOOT....
Watched the first episode and it was pretty meh, I thought. Does it improve? There doesn't seem to be a dedicated thread for it on the site here, which makes me think it's not getting a lot of interest.
Yup. Although I worked in the newspaper industry for a long time, Morning Show seems like it's pretty much a documentary of what the TV news business is like, especially based on what I know from people who worked in it.