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the fact that reservation dogs wasn't predicted a single time is baffling

I think people greatly overestimate how popular Breaking Bad was during it's run. TLOU is already much more popular than Breaking Bad was until it's final episodes. BB never got more than 3 million viewers until S5 and the only episode to hit 10 million viewers was the series finale. TLOU had already hit 10 million viewers by episode 4.

Is it a good show? Yes. Masterpiece? No.

There is no way it dethrones GoT or BB tbh. And i think its not even close imo

Physics says that you're lying to yourself. The Relevant term is "depth of field". By heartedly recommend you google the term and do a little reading before you continue reading this reply.

In movies, the director and the cinematographer deliberately decide how much is and is not in focus.

This amount changes from scene to scene and is deliberately altered depending on what the director wants the audience to see and feel.

In the real world, as you move your eyes from point to point your eyes quickly refocus and your brain blocks out the transitions. In order to truly understand this phenomenon, you have to hold your thumb about 8 inches in front of your face stare at the tip of your upright thumb and do not move your eyes, but pay attention to what's behind your thumb .

And it can't be something 6 in away behind your thumb. Try it when you're 12 feet away from a bookcase and move your eyes back and forth between looking at the bookcase and looking at your thumb but always pay attention to the one you're not looking at.

And no it's not different for you, this is physics.

The blur that's motion blur comes from the fact that film only takes so many frames a second and the film can be fast or slow film, meaning fast film is more sensitive to light and so the aperture can be open for shorter amount of time and so there's less motion, blur, etc.. The blur that's focus blur is a combination of available light and what you're focusing on. The more light, the longer your depth of field because you're irises have shrunk down to be more pin prick like.

And then there's like the deal where you change the focal length of the lens while you move the camera closer or farther away from the person and it changes how much of the surroundings you can see. This film technique is used when they want to Make the audience feel a moment of disorientation or surprise. It has a very specific name like a push pull or something like that, but it's been a long time since my cinematography classes.

One of the reasons that you can get more out of a big and complex camera than you can get out of a phone camera is that the artist taking the picture can control what is and isn't out of focus. Be very small lens in the phone. Camera makes much more of the world being focused by default, and it makes a picture. That's much harder to screw up. That's why someone can be a very bad photographer with a good camera. But everybody is an okay photographer with their phone.

And then there's that effect, I think it's called tilt-shift, it's the thing where it makes everything look like it's tiny even though it's a picture of the real world. This is done by drawing a imaginary line through the image and keeping everything on that line in focus including the thing you want the person to be looking at (that line can't be horizontal or vertical) and then blurring everything above and below that line. You can take a picture of a city street and make it look like it's all made out of miniature models. This is because when something is close the depth of field takes things out of focus at shorter distances. So when the picture is deliberately blurred that way your brain tells you it's close and small.

Your brain restructures the image due to the forced alteration of focus.

I don't remember taxi driver that clearly. But when you got wide and establishing shots of interiors the camera is usually fairly far away and the depth of field can make the entire room look like it's in focus. But when you come into a two shot , or a close-up where the point of action is on one of the left or right third light of the screen. Your eye is naturally drawn to that and ignores the fact that everything on the other third-line is blurry. And virtually nothing is focused behind a near objective in an exterior scene.

The reason it's different from scene to scene is because the cinematographer wants your eyes to be in certain places and wants your brain to blot out certain signals. So they choose lenses and settings to tell your brain what to see. That may not actually be what you would see in real life.

The reason some movies feel cheap while you're watching them is because of bad cinematography. Too much in focus or too much out of focus At the same time Cheapish feeling movies are also a result of a whole bunch of terrible soun design as well.

Once you're sensitized to it, you can tell whether something was filmed with actual film or videotape or whatever. It becomes super obvious, and for the first year after you take a cinematography course, it's really hard to watch any sort of movie at all.

Lenses, iris size, amount of available light, these are facts of physics. In talented hands, you can be easily deceived. In inexperienced hands. You can miss everything.

Life is weird once you notice it. Movies are extra weird once you learn all the tricks.

The complete absence of field in an extremely zoomed in image can lead to some truly bizarre experiences. One of the more famous pictures in this area is an extreme zoom in to the distant end of a stadium. There are a bunch of students randomly positioned on a set of bleachers on a sunny day, but they look like they're directly on top of one another instead of on a surface that slants back away from the camera.

If you think I'm full of crazy well you can think that all you'd like. But if you take a course and cinematography you'll learn what to look for and life will look completely different to you.

I know you're saying to yourself that I'm wrong for you're different but the physics of lenses and refraction mean that you're not.

And if you take about half an hour of Google time and pursue focus and depth of field in cinematography, you'll discover many fascinating things.

It took forever to get a second and final season of the Patriot. That turned out amazing, hope this has as much luck

Theyre not going to jump 5-6 years ahead like part 2. With how successful the show is i think they milk the in-between years.

No one cares about the WWE anymore

Manchester United Market Cap: $4.3B with $1B of debt

Multiple offers of $6B+

Rare assets are going for a premium these days

I grew up in the 90s/2000s watching a ton of wrestling, still see random clips of it now and I have no idea what AEW is. Is that the league Pat Mcafee fought in for the memes? Pretty sure that was still the WWE though.

Peacock is farrrr worse

There is AEW, NJPW and others.

Until a Saudi buys it for bragging rights

This is going to be a controversial take but I think that Disney’s pursuit of presenting an ideal ideological universe in marvel and Star Wars has made the content fairly hollow. I mean to say that there is an emphasis on putting together multicultural cast, on female participation on the writing and directing side. This wouldn’t be problematic if those creatives earned their spot and weren’t just a story artist with a novel idea or if the characters in the shows/movies had a genuine background that brought them together. There is nothing wrong with women’s voices or diverse casts, but when you insist on framing the women characters as anti-establishment and against a patriarchal foe, or act like racism hasn’t created inequities that shape a characters experience and attitude, everything comes off as pandering and insincere

God of war could be done on a cheaper scale. Horizon, most the game is random mechanical animals. Too much cgi to make it worth watching and profitable.

The fucking CW does a better job of integrating their disparate superhero shows.

You can’t compare numbers vs quality. The Wire is and was a fucking force. People watched Sopranos and the lucky few who stayed up later watched the wire. It’s a pinnacle of story telling.

I think the major advantage the last of us has is being on a streaming platform that most people have access to. In comparison breaking bad was on a lesser known channel during it's show run. I think the last of us will get more viewership during it's run, but compared to breaking bad I don't expect as many people to watch after it ends.

WWE worth more than man U and you are malding, love it

reddit has a real issue with man hating and hating on things we love

Best of luck with that Vinnie, maybe they'll throw in another billion for the World Bodybuilding Federation 🤣

Lucha libre style my man. New Japan does a lot of that style. Or transport yourself back to late 90s wcw cruiserwelt matches. Those were the days. The hurricanrana is one of my favorite moves. So graceful.

Considering what six feet under is about it’s not cheap at all.

AMC+ is worse

>TLOU is def high quality but I don’t think it will have the same lasting impact as the shows you mentioned. Also look at westworld. It was extremely popular during season 1. It’s too early to make those claims of TLOU.

I agree it's too early to tell, OP might have a recency bias. But TLOU has more chances to have a lasting effect than Westworld. Westworld was a puzzle, more of an intellectual exercise, once the tricks got old and there was nothing more for viewers to cling to - the popularity fizzled. TLOU is tapping into emotional stuff, it speaks of the human condition on a similarly ambitious and grand scale to other great TV shows like Breaking Bad.