The original post: /r/television by /u/Intelligent_Flan_178 on 2025-11-28 02:47:40+00:00.
So after they hyped season 5 as “the biggest one so far” it ends up being shorter than season 4, which wouldn’t be an issue if was a situation of quality over quantity, I just rewatched the whole show for season 5’s release and season 4 was def a bit too long imo, but it was still very good. So that wouldn’t be a big deal, but watching season 5 now, after just re-seeing the whole season 1, 2, 3 and 4, it looks bad? Way cheaper visually, like they’re filming on sets instead of on-site, making scenes lacking background and clearly being cgi-ed in with greenscreens. The actor’s (more so the kid and teenager groupes and less the adults) acting seems off too. The fact that they’ve all aged so much while in-universe barely anytime passed also plays into that. It looks uncanny, stiff and like it lacks the budget of previous seasons, it even looks kinda grey-ish compared to previous seasons where the color grading seemed better, even the costumes looks worse in some cases, like some of the wigs/haircuts are just horrible? idk…
I’m just starting out, so maybe it gets better, but it is weird that it took so long to make, it was hyped so much as being more ambitious, but it ends up shorter and looking cheaper than previous season, hell, the eleven de-aging cgi in season 4 now looks better than the Will’s de-aging we got at the beginning of season 5 for an (apparently) unnecessary flashback.