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> We're going to look back on the era of prestige TV fondly. I don't think prestige TV is necesirely expensive though. The wire, breaking bad, Andor, the bea

> We're going to look back on the era of prestige TV fondly. I don't think prestige TV is necesirely expensive though. The wire, breaking bad, Andor, the bear, severance all can achieve incredible results without hollywood budgets. If anything big budgets have not translated into quality, see GoT, Rings of Power, Stranger Things all getting worse the more moeny thrown at them. prestigue tv is about talent, and having longer story lines, it just allows for more character work than a movie, but not because of that does it have to cost exponentially more.

starkparker 3y ago
> Andor ... severance all can achieve incredible results without hollywood budgets Severance S2 reportedly costs $15–20 million per episode to make, and Apple+'s average original series budget is ~$10M/ep.: https://www.gq.com/story/severance-season-2-delayed-behind-the-scenes-drama https://www.gq.com/story/severance-season-2-delayed-behind-t... Andor S1's budget was reportedly $250M for 12 episodes ($20.8M/ep): https://www.ign.com/articles/andor-season-1-reported-budget-250-million https://www.ign.com/articles/andor-season-1-reported-budget-... Which is more expensive than the combined budgets for The Mandalorian S1 and the upcoming Skeleton Crew S1. Tony Gilroy outright said: “We got lucky making this during the gold rush a few years ago. A lot of people now have cold feet, and you can’t do this show inexpensively.” https://fandomwire.com/we-got-lucky-you-cant-do-this-show-inexpensively-andor-beats-pedro-pascals-the-mandalorian-as-most-expensive-star-wars-show-ever-made-with-250m-budget/ https://fandomwire.com/we-got-lucky-you-cant-do-this-show-in...
- prepend 3y ago
  That’s weird about Andor’s budget. They don’t have complicated effects and no huge names in the cast. At least Severence had lots of named actors.
  - Apocryphon 3y ago
    Really lavish sets and impressive costuming, though.
    - prepend 3y ago
      Both were nice, but $250M nice surprises me. I expect you could spend $25M and I’d enjoy it as much.
      - kyriakos 3y ago
        It's 250M for the whole season
        prepend 3y ago
        I understand. I meant $25M for the whole season would have been ok for me. The parts I liked were all dialog and intrigue.
  - kyriakos 3y ago
    Andor had a big variety of settings, lots of outdoor scenes and the sfx were of better quality than mandalorian by far.

starkparker 3y ago

> Andor ... severance all can achieve incredible results without hollywood budgets Severance S2 reportedly costs $15–20 million per episode to make, and Apple+'s average original series budget is ~$10M/ep.: https://www.gq.com/story/severance-season-2-delayed-behind-the-scenes-drama https://www.gq.com/story/severance-season-2-delayed-behind-t... Andor S1's budget was reportedly $250M for 12 episodes ($20.8M/ep): https://www.ign.com/articles/andor-season-1-reported-budget-250-million https://www.ign.com/articles/andor-season-1-reported-budget-... Which is more expensive than the combined budgets for The Mandalorian S1 and the upcoming Skeleton Crew S1. Tony Gilroy outright said: “We got lucky making this during the gold rush a few years ago. A lot of people now have cold feet, and you can’t do this show inexpensively.” https://fandomwire.com/we-got-lucky-you-cant-do-this-show-inexpensively-andor-beats-pedro-pascals-the-mandalorian-as-most-expensive-star-wars-show-ever-made-with-250m-budget/ https://fandomwire.com/we-got-lucky-you-cant-do-this-show-in...

prepend 3y ago
That’s weird about Andor’s budget. They don’t have complicated effects and no huge names in the cast. At least Severence had lots of named actors.
- Apocryphon 3y ago
  Really lavish sets and impressive costuming, though.
  - prepend 3y ago
    Both were nice, but $250M nice surprises me. I expect you could spend $25M and I’d enjoy it as much.
    - kyriakos 3y ago
      It's 250M for the whole season
      - prepend 3y ago
        I understand. I meant $25M for the whole season would have been ok for me. The parts I liked were all dialog and intrigue.
- kyriakos 3y ago
  Andor had a big variety of settings, lots of outdoor scenes and the sfx were of better quality than mandalorian by far.