{"id":162,"date":"2016-09-06T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T14:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/09\/06\/can-someone-give-mr-robot-a-lamp\/"},"modified":"2016-09-06T10:57:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T14:57:00","slug":"can-someone-give-mr-robot-a-lamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/09\/06\/can-someone-give-mr-robot-a-lamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Can someone give Mr. Robot a lamp?"},"content":{"rendered":"<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2016\/08\/tv-dramas-are-literally-too-dark.html\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"221\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-NrGV0ENTvow\/V87ZAgL8wWI\/AAAAAAAACkM\/Qjd2HBBiNKMHoB07z0GunSgyt7i5dfk2QCLcB\/s400\/americans4.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">from the trailer for season 4 of <i>The Americans<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Current great television dramas are dark. We don&#8217;t just mean in terms of content, like <i>Mr. Robot<\/i> or the extremely tense <i>The Americans<\/i>. They are, literally, dark.<\/p>\n<p><i>Vulture<\/i>&#8216;s Kathryn VanArendonk <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2016\/08\/tv-dramas-are-literally-too-dark.html\">wrote a great column about this phenomenon<\/a> and how this impacts our perception of the shows. VanArendonk compares <i>Halt and Catch Fire<\/i> and <i>Silicon Valley<\/i>: both shows are set in the same sunny California region, but because <i>Halt and Catch Fire<\/i> looks constantly gloomier even in daytime, it registers as a more serious show. This problem compounds itself. We associate bright colors with comedy, and so dramas are rarely brightly colored anymore. Compare this with <i>Mad Men<\/i> even a few years ago \u2013 or any of the USA Network&#8217;s former crime shows with extremely bright skies.<\/p>\n<p>This seems like a problem from the same well as <a href=\"https:\/\/priceonomics.com\/why-every-movie-looks-sort-of-orange-and-blue\/\">the orange-and-teal color correction of blockbuster movies<\/a>. Audiences want dramas and comedies, and the presentation of those genres becomes polarized and exaggerated.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the trailer for season 4 of The Americans Current great television dramas are dark. We don&#8217;t just mean in terms of content, like Mr. Robot or the extremely tense The Americans. They are, literally, dark. Vulture&#8216;s Kathryn VanArendonk wrote a great column about this phenomenon and how this impacts our perception of the shows. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[80,212],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-cinematography","tag-links-of-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}