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MINKIN2 t1_j9atlb5 wrote

Reply to comment by Knowlesdinho in Why did the 90's offer a larger variety of broadcast kids shows than the 2000's-present? by sgavary

Oh the end of Saturday morning TV hit me hard even as an adult. Born in 78 with older siblings, Saturday morning TV (in the UK) was a staple TV viewing before I could understand what it was. And as I grew older, I was their prime target audience as an 80s kid.

Then into the 90s it was just what we did. Even later, waking up still hung over from the night before it became something to sober up to. Come in to my 30s, it was background TV as we did the chores.

Then one day it was all gone, replaced with some shitty cooking magazine shows. For years after, I would still find myself waking up, head still clouded with sleep and putting on the TV out of pure muscle memory and being disappointed that the piece of my childhood was gone.

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mint_lint t1_j9argnq wrote

Reply to comment by The_Primate in Why is it that a lot of TV shows these days have really poor sound mixing by StarChild413

I think covid is the culprit.

You couldn’t physically get on the mix stage and review your show with the mixer because of covid protocols. If you were lucky the director could get on the mix stage during covid. But a lot of the studios forbade it. So you had directors, producers, and showrunners giving audio notes remotely.

Which was a disaster because there was no uniform way for all the people giving notes to monitor the audio.

Color was already dialed in for remote work ahead of covid. A lot of color houses send any remote participants an iPad Pro. There’s not a lot of color setting to tweak on an iPad Pro so it was easier for the color houses to know everyone was viewing the content in the same color space.

Also, a good number of sound mixers are still working from home. Everyone’s home office is a different shape. And has different acoustic properties. There’s no way to pink out all the different rooms to make sure everyone is calibrated the same way.

EDIT: Sound also isn’t given enough respect on set. It’s always image over audio. If the boom mic gets in the way, its gone for that set up. And production schedules are so tight now that crew will be off building or striking another set while action is being recorded nearby. So you constantly have people shouting for work to be stopped because all that work is getting picked up by the audio devices.

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StuffonBookshelfs t1_j9ar2nb wrote

Reply to is sopranos still popular?? by Water8ucket

You decided to start a conversation here. And yet you say you never hear anyone talking about The Sopranos?

I’m sorry hun, but you’re just not in the right place for this conversation. This place (rightfully so) just can’t shut up about Tony and the gang.

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QueasyStress0 t1_j9aqvpx wrote

Reply to comment by Low_Entertainment_96 in The Best TV Shows You Haven't Watched Yet by Mr_Tanan

I will forever be weirded out by the way the internet decided that Emerald Fennell with season 2 didn’t single-handedly take a good limited series(that let’s be honest, lost momentum after 4 episodes) and turn it into a suspenseful drama that elevated the chemistry between the leads to the sky.

I think people just had the wrong idea about what the show is. Anyone who thought the show is a thriller about catching Villanelle just hasn’t watched beyond episode 3.

The biggest strength of the show are the scenes between Eve and Villanelle, and it was season 2 that wrote those the best. Not season 1.

Phoebe set the tone perfectly but that whole prison storyline was such filler and she worked really hard to not have Eve and Villanelle together in scenes so that it becomes more suspenseful. Season 2 had them meet frequently and it was more suspenseful than ever.

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rougepenguin t1_j9aj89s wrote

Reply to Why did the 90's offer a larger variety of broadcast kids shows than the 2000's-present? by sgavary

There are other real reasons for this happening people laid out, but part of it is that...the prevalence of "kids" media in whatever forms are available is a generational trend that ebbs and flows. Not to say there wouldn't always be something kid-friendly, just how bigger picture trends shake out.

90s parents were bigger on "subversive" entertainment where the appeal was pushing boundaries they'd realistically not want kids in on. But my parents would scoff at a fellow adult watching Pokemon with their kids. This era's been more about legit "fun for the whole family" content like Marvel, etc.

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