Unwatchable

“I’m watching presumed innocent with Dolby vision on an OLED TV. It still looks like shit, washed out, Gray, hardly any contrast.”

“Agree – it’s washed out and so dark even on a very bright Mini – LED TV with Dolby vision it looks like shit.”

“Googled for this issue and lead me here. Brought daylight in the show and can’t see anything. Low contrast, insta filter and low saturation. It’s unwatchable.”

“Looks like shit on my new tv. I hate this grainy crap. I keep taking my glasses off and on.”

“This is just unwatchable DV, at first you think it will be dynamic range exploit “art style” coming out of it but it just keep on going 120 grey output everywhere, lets be honest, it looks like a garbage SDR grading outputted into a DV for commercial.”

“Hate the look chosen for this series. Flat, washed out, with hardly any contrast, and looks like you are viewing through gauze. This artsy effect is fine for 5 minutes but becomes unbearably annoying afterwards. (Watching through Apple TV on a big screen Sony).”

“This show looks like fuckin shit. Is there a conspiracy for streamers to make everything flat and grey? Is it to like dumb us down or something so we accept halfassed-looking stuff?”

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“Trying to watch Presumed Innocent on Apple TV+… the picture is so dark it’s hard to follow the show… and one episode at a time just so doesn’t do it for me… Jake Gyllenhall or not.”

“It makes me angry.. we’re paying for this and I can’t enjoy it when it’s always dark inside.” – Donna Gleason, Top Pix 2.0, Facebook

Vying for the most unpleasant grading of 2024 is Presumed Innocent on Apple TV+. There’s nothing whatsoever to be learned about what constitutes good photography or grading from this offensively dark, flat, desaturated abomination that repels the eye if not that the major studios – contrary to the brazen falsehoods spread on the Internet and elsewhere – do not dictate to colorists how bright to make their images.

thirdkind over at the AVSforums A95L owners thread writes:

“Presumed Innocent is a torture test for the A95L (or any OLED), where uniformity issues, desaturation, black crush, and posterization will come right to the forefront—a sad illustration of ugly contemporary digital cinematography, only made worse by streaming compression artifacts and the A95L’s particular issues. These creative decisions are common now. Presumed Innocent and Foundation on Apple TV have a lot of flat grading. Presumed Innocent is particularly egregious in this regard. Artists can do whatever they want obviously, but the results are often objectively ugly and detract from the viewing experience rather than add to the atmosphere, in my opinion.” – thirdkind, AVSforums

Presumed Innocent joins a growing list of pointless, poorly shot and graded pictures on Apple TV+.