Harry Potter Fans All Have The Same Complaint About The Trailer For The Hbo Tv Series

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No, you're not imagining things: Today's films and TV shows really do look different, and not successful a bully way. As noted successful nan viral deed YouTube video effort "Why Movies Just Don't Feel 'Real' Anymore," this tin beryllium attributed to a number of factors. For example, a batch of nan unspeakable CGI you've undoubtedly noticed lately stems from overworked ocular effects artists being forced to meet unrealistic deadlines. Perhaps much than anything, though, modern big-budget projects thin to debar melodramatic colour grading successful favour of flatter and murkier visuals. It tin beryllium a imaginative choice, but this is excessively often done for reasons that are acold little defendable.

Enter HBO's "Harry Potter and nan Philosopher's Stone," arsenic it's officially titled. The first trailer for nan "Harry Potter" reboot TV series has arrived, and fans person been speedy to constituent retired that nan imagery contained therein is noticeably lacking erstwhile it comes to nan whimsical colors and crisp lighting of head Chris Columbus' 2001 movie of nan aforesaid sanction (itself based connected nan first book to characteristic "The Boy Who Lived"). "A Fresh Breath of TV" podcast big Ayana Monique nicely summed that sentiment up by utilizing a gif of Ken Leung's Eric Tao connected "Industry" (another HBO show, fittingly) gesturing "no" to remark connected "the colour grading of nan 'Harry Potter' reboot" connected Twitter/X. The YouTube video creator "EndymionTV" likewise questioned this connected nan societal media platform, writing, "Why is nan caller 'Harry Potter' truthful dark? Where's nan whimsical color?"

They're acold from nan only ones who consciousness that way. As Twitter/X personification "abby" put it:

"[T]he world of '[H]arry [P]otter' is truthful magical and whimsical, and you can't moreover springiness it immoderate colour ... ? [S]omeone please explicate what [H]ollywood's rumor is pinch colour grading please??"

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Not to support piling on, but the "Harry Potter" TV show trailer much aliases little confirmed our biggest fears astir nan series ... and by that we mean it mostly looks for illustration an uncanny retread of nan "Harry Potter" movie adaptations that came retired earlier it. Then there's nan truth that Wizarding World creator and "Harry Potter" TV show executive shaper Joanne "J.K." Rowling has a well-documented history of denigrating nan transgender community, connected apical of utilizing nan wealthiness she's amassed from this franchise to directly money anti-trans organizations. Add it up, and it's nary wonderment this task is arsenic profoundly arguable arsenic it is.

And yet, successful spite of each that, it seems everyone yet agrees connected something: This sucker looks way excessively dang acheronian (literally). Even Pop Culture Crisis big Brett Dasovic, who appears a spot much upbeat connected nan "Harry Potter" reboot bid than others, has admitted there's thing to this critique. Indeed, successful a station connected Twitter/X, Dasovic described nan colour grading astatine "the castle" (i.e. nan world celebrated Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry) arsenic emotion for illustration "classic 'Harry Potter,'" but acknowledged that nan "washed retired bluish of nan colour grading everyplace other feels depressingly modern."

Compare that to Twitter/X personification "Samantha Josephine Stockings," who based on nan "current inclination successful lighting and colour grading" embraced by nan "Harry Potter" TV show "should beryllium considered a crime against humanity." If thing else, this darker and grittier ocular style lends credence to nan thought that this bid is targeting millennials much than Gen Z aliases Alpha (aka the adjacent procreation of cinephiles), and that feels for illustration a questionable determination astatine best.

HBO's "Harry Potter" bid will premiere astir Christmas 2026.