“S1 was shot so beautifully. S2 as well but s2 was a bit less grand and more intimate but it worked for the story. S3 felt visually monotonous.”
“This season was lacking the almost magical enchanting feeling from earlier seasons.”
“Not what S1 and S2 were like. It’s drastically different and not in a good way.”
“The new show runner dropped the ball on a lot of things this season. She doesn’t hold up to the last one.”
“I just rewatched the very first episode of S1 to see if I could catch what I felt was so missing about S3 and there are SO MANY outdoor and on-location scenes! I feel like pretty much all of S3 was shot either indoors on a set or in front of a green screen. S3 feels almost like a soap opera looks-wise whereas S1 truly felt like a slightly more colourful period drama. The visual aesthetic of the show has really gone down so much, it is a shame.”
“The first two seasons were much more refined, feeling rich and beautiful, making me long to be part of that society. This season, however, felt like a theme park set.”
Watching season 3 of the Netflix period drama Bridgerton, we were stunned to see how racially, culturally and ethnically diverse high society in 1820s England was portrayed and how the show’s producer had perverted history. But that’s not what this post is about, which is Netflix’s shoddy practice of passing off SDR grades as HDR, all the while charging subscribers 50% more for the premium plan – the only one that offers Dolby Vision.
To begin with, everything in season 3 of Bridgerton is uniformly lit like a 1950s television show. Pankaj Bajpai, Sr. Colorist, Picture Shop, anxious not to offend viewers’ sensibilities, labored to ensure that color and brightness did not fundamentally depart from the putrid low con image seen on the SDR monitor during production:
“The HDR version was delivered in Dolby Vision, and Bajpai worked hard to be sure not to alter the viewer experience in HDR compared to SDR.” – source
It’s time to put an end to the fiction that anything in a P3 ST2084 container is HDR. HDR grades that don’t offer any benefit over SDR should be rejected by Netflix.
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