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My personal bar of what counts as AAA I guess? It actually started quite well, but second half of the series drags down the average in terms of story/screenwrit
by throwaway290 4y ago
My personal bar of what counts as AAA I guess? It actually started quite well, but second half of the series drags down the average in terms of story/screenwriting/camera/VFX. It doesn't stand near the likes of Foundation, Game of Thrones, Mrs. Maisel, Mr. Robot, The Wire
Doing TV is a marathon, perhaps Dark showrunners are more of sprinter people and should do movies instead.
- zerocrates 4y agoYou'd be hard-pressed to find much that's going to stand with Game of Thrones on production values. Dark, I'd agree, faded in terms of the plotting as it got kind of all twisted up in itself toward the end, but I still liked it quite a bit. And you could say similar things about some of your other picks, like Mr. Robot (or Game of Thrones for that matter). Sustained excellence season after season is really hard to achieve.
- throwaway290 4y agoNone of them went off the rails in visual quality, story, etc as dramatically as Dark...