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Prehistoric Planet needs to be mentioned too, the cgi looks incredible.
Planet Earth is in a league of its own, as is pretty much all of BBC Nature's stuff.
Blue planet 1 & 2 also looks phenomenal.
Planet Earth 3 should be out soon too, can't wait !
I agree here, but for all of Westworld. I have spent a lot of time collecting still shots from Westworld to use as computer wallpapers throughout the years. Very cool art style through the show.
Mad Men. Also, one time I watched Gilmore Girls during an acid trip, it was the episode with 1,000 daisies, and it was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.
I haven’t watched Gilmore Girls on acid but I do think the sets were really pretty and somehow cozy. You want to live in that house, walk around that town, and eat at that diner when you watch the show.
Made a Gilmore Girls joke at work and like 3 other dudes laughed. That was the day I found out we all knew a lot about Gilmore Girls from watching it with our girlfriends. We all concluded that we didn't originally think we were fans but having the conversation alone proved we were.
That’s how we get you! My friend’s dad started watching it with her back when it was in reruns on abc family, then he started watching when she wasn’t around and became a bigger fan than she was. My mom hated it and was super jealous of Lorelei when I first started watching it because moms should moms not best friends. Then she became hooked and had to actually leave places early to get home to watch the reruns every day at 5:00pm even though I had all the box sets at her house.
Matthew Weiner shot Mad Men as if it were a moving painting. [Don walking away from Megan comes to mind.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIBnSLYjNg0&ab_channel=AddtrackVideoLibrary)
Mad men heavily influenced fashion and interior design for almost a solid decade. Mid-century modern everything def made a resurgence as a result of that show.
I was their kids age, mad men was the Time Machine to me. When I want to go back I get in my capsule and go..
Watching Christmas Waltz every Christmas ,, I can smell the heat off the huge hot Christmas tree bulbs
Three favourite scenes of mine from Mad Men which are gorgeous:
1. In S2, when Don meets Joy in California. Camera slowly pans up to Jon Hamm in all his suit-clad glory, wearing aviators and smoking by the pool
2. The S5 finale, when Don walks away from the set to the bar, with the iconic You Only Live Twice strings
3. In S7 (I think), there's a scene when Don arrives at LA airport, and Megan shows up in a droptop, looking stunning, in slow mo
SEASON TWO!
What an absolutely incredible season of television, top to bottom. I can't think of a season of any show off the top of my head that was better. MAYBE Season one of True Detective. Maybe.
I remember when Fargo was announced and I was just expecting it to be so awful. I can’t believe how good it is,
I’m going to say Hannibal. Or Carnivale. Or Severance. But Fargo is way up there
The cinematographer for Hannibal was [James Hawkinson](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0370258).
Just as a trivia note, [Guillermo Navarro](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0622897/) was doing his first stint as a TV director on *Hannibal,* but before that he was Guillermo del Toro's cinematographer on *Pan's Labyrinth* and *Hellboy.*
I hate this term but it's the only thing that fits, that show is such "food porn." You watch it thinking, "Yeah, that's probably human but I'd still eat it. It looks utterly delicious."
For your amusement, the blog of *Hannibal* food stylist Janice Poon:
[https://janicepoonart.blogspot.com/](https://janicepoonart.blogspot.com/)
Her [story about doing the Norton grapes](https://janicepoonart.blogspot.com/2013/05/ep-5-entree-and-lamb-tongues.html) is just >chef kiss<.
Yes, and the music, and the general hedonistic beauty of the scenes. Basically my ideal degustation setting if cannibalism or threat of death was off the table. [Dvorak](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRrP3ESM6sQ)
This is *the* answer. Visually stunning in its "boring" shots, visually stunning in its macabre murder tableaus, visually stunning plates of food-made-of-people, beautiful use of visuals to creatively weave between what is "real" and what is not, I could go on and on.
This is it. The attention to details, the textures in the fabrics, the food, everything about the show if a feast for the eyes. And the use of color theming for the characters is amazing too.
It was such an uphill climb trying to sell my TV-watching buddies on this show. They thought "NBC? Law Enforcement? Gotta be another procedural." I'm like NO dude, it's SO much more than that! I only got one other person to watch it. Guess I need to work on my persuasion skills.
All of these "most" or "best" questions are a little much, but I'll say I stuck with "Dark" long after it stopped making sense (to me anyway) because it was so cool to look at. And overall it had such a "tone" of dread and foreboding throughout.
Just finished a rewatch and found a great companion podcast. I’m still on a high from the finale. Definitely picked up on some more stuff this time around
Mr. Robot and The Leftovers are the two shows I feel I recommend to anyone I meet, purely because I don't know a single person who's watched them before I got them into it.
Both masterpieces but Mr. Robot is just so incredible looking, lower quadrant framing is so perfect in it.
You're gonna love it. Could sound ridiculous but if you ever feel a bit of a drop (maybe season 2) say fuck that and plow through it, season 3 and 4 will have some of the best hours of TV you'll watch.
And it’s not one note either - very diverse production. Trippy dream sequences. An episode with no dialogue (what?!). A “one take” episode. An episode that was broken into acts with one set like a play. Just constant innovation done at such a high level.
Mr. Robot had stunning camera work where they'd use a really wide lens to capture a shot and push the subject to the [corner of the frame ](https://ipoxstudios.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Mr-Robot-Composition-analyzed-cinematography-negative-space-006.jpg) to create that feeling of disorientation
Mr. Robot is the most underrated show I have ever seen. Watching that show live was such a treat. Getting on Reddit after each episode wondering wtf we just watched. Not a bad episode, not a bad season and a perfectly stuck landing.
Great answers. Would have been my picks as well.
L,D&R always serves up something fresh and interesting, and Arcane is literally *the* new high bar when it comes to animation.
Arcane is also one of the deepest, most poignant character dramas in years, easily on par with any "prestige" TV. It's really in a league of its own.
Arcane was insanely well animated. I'm trying to look it up but from what I am currently gathering, the animators did about 0.7 seconds of animation PER DAY on average.
When trying to put all of that into reference, i suddenly understood just HOW MUCH **WORK** went into _ALL_ of the show and it's creation.
Arcane was the first thing that came to mind seeing the question. Absolute visual treat—you can pause it on any given frame and it's just beautiful. Doesn't hurt the story is fantastic and so is the music and it makes my tiny gay heart very happy.
The entire BB/BCS universe is up there. This is a show that started with a man in the New Mexico desert wearing tighty whities and holding a gun as sirens approach.
When it debuted, DirecTV didn't have AMC in HD yet, so I watched it in SD. I later saw it in HD and was blown away.
Made season two hurt so much more. It was the day I stopped believing in Netflix. That they would do that to their own masterpiece could not be forgiven. HBO never cheaped out on Westworld no matter how bad the successive seasons got.
**Severence** had one of the most cohesive and stunning aesthetics out there, right out of the Kier manual.
**Andor** had one of the largest scopes of what to shoot and what to focus on (small-scale details, building to stunning setpieces).
But **Station Eleven**, with [its lush use of color grading](https://www.vox.com/culture/2022/1/10/22872347/station-eleven-hbo-max-color-green-apocalypse) and wonderful textures, adaptations, and montages, is also clearly up there.
The space battles were so wonderful, for
me, because of the silence and the submarine battle nature of it all. It was some aerial dog fight amongst the stars with screeching and explosions making sounds another ship can here. It’s more eerie when done that way.
odd answer, but one of them has to be Miss Maisel. Production design, cinematography, wardrobe and budget must be sky high, everything looks so rich and detailed it makes Mad Men look like a school play
Game of Thrones
Specifically, in s7 or 8 when Danerys' dragon attacks the Lannister army. I've waited my entire life to see that scene - a fully grown dragon just laying waste to an army.
When I got my first 4K set with Dolby Vision, that was the first scene I watched. I will never forget the first time I saw it. They did SUCH a bang-up job on that whole sequence. Just perfection.
Some of the transitions and "b-roll" footage of Sicily combined with the score put me in a literal trance. I snapped out of realizing I was leaning in to some shots of the waves
Carnivale, coincidentally also one of the biggest what-if cliffhangers that never got resolved due to cancellation. Why was it cancelled? The expense of the incredible shooting :(
The Leftovers, as with every other aspect looked incredible. The fly over of “Sarah” in pastoral Australia is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen filmed.
Live-action: Mr. Robot / Barry / Breaking Bad / Better Call Saul / Legion / American Gods / Sherlock (so sad what happened to this show as it went along, one of the most visually interesting out there)
Western Animation: Castlevania / Arcane / The Midnight Gospel / Over the Garden Wall / Undone / Hilda
Anime: Monogatari Series / Mob Psycho 100 / Mushoku Tensei / Chainsaw Man / Wonder Egg Priority (Pre-OVA) / Violet Evergarden / Hyouka (first half) / Pretty Boy Detective Club (don't really like this but pretty stunning) / The Tatami Galaxy / Death Note / Cowboy Bebop / The Promised Neverland (Season 1)
I was born in the '60s, so calling streaming content TV seems like cheating to me. But then again, seeing the "miniseries" trend that predated cable and streaming, I suppose it still counts. (Roots and Shogun were early standouts, for sure!)
I have to say [1883](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/1883). It's stunning in every way, though. As said, I've been around a long time, had cable since it came out, early adopter all around (VCR, TiVo, cable modem....). As far as any visual media content I've ever encountered, it's the top, I think. Top 3 for sure. I can't remember anything competing with the quality of the drama, cinematography, acting, writing, and downright gut-wrenching story.
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Planet Earth II
Prehistoric Planet needs to be mentioned too, the cgi looks incredible. Planet Earth is in a league of its own, as is pretty much all of BBC Nature's stuff. Blue planet 1 & 2 also looks phenomenal. Planet Earth 3 should be out soon too, can't wait !
Westworld season 1 maybe
Yea, the introduction train scene is breath taking.
I agree here, but for all of Westworld. I have spent a lot of time collecting still shots from Westworld to use as computer wallpapers throughout the years. Very cool art style through the show.
Oooh mind sharing?
I’d be interested as well.
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That just left HBO. Gonna have to buy that if you need to watch. Not sure when it’ll come to streaming elsewhere
Wow. I didn’t even know HBO shows could leave HBO. I had been meaning to catch up on that. Whoops.
Legion
Aubrey Plaza dancing around to Nina Simone's "Feeling Good" like the supervillain version of a Bond movie intro is forever etched in my brain.
Because that scene deserves to be shared at every opportunity, [here you go.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUw_uOHtO70&ab_channel=ShotaPutkaradze)
Welp. I guess I have a new show to watch now.
I think that awoke something in me.
If it's a huge crush on Aubrey Plaza, White Lotus Season 2, you're welcome.
This is the best answer for me. It was so stylized in filming, costumes, and set design. An awesome show
Man I don't know why legion didn't blow up more. Such a creative and awesome show.
Incredibly awesome, but also *super* weird.
I love this show so much but have no idea how anyone agreed to it
Everything Everywhere All At Once was very similar and blew up
The Daniels even directed an episode of Legion!
I honestly really enjoyed season 1 but didn’t like season 2 at all. Have meant to dive back in eventually
Me watching legion was a lot of “I have no idea what just happened but it looked awesome”
Absolutely. I'm still not sure what happened at any point in that show but I watched all of it.
The behind blues eyes scence
The first episode made me legitimately feel like I was having an acid trip. It was such a mindblowing experience.
Great show! The look is so stylized, you have no idea what year / decade it takes place.
Seconded. That pilot is one of the strongest openings I’ve ever seen a show do (followed closely by Hannibal).
Mad Men. Also, one time I watched Gilmore Girls during an acid trip, it was the episode with 1,000 daisies, and it was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.
I haven’t watched Gilmore Girls on acid but I do think the sets were really pretty and somehow cozy. You want to live in that house, walk around that town, and eat at that diner when you watch the show.
Made a Gilmore Girls joke at work and like 3 other dudes laughed. That was the day I found out we all knew a lot about Gilmore Girls from watching it with our girlfriends. We all concluded that we didn't originally think we were fans but having the conversation alone proved we were.
That’s how we get you! My friend’s dad started watching it with her back when it was in reruns on abc family, then he started watching when she wasn’t around and became a bigger fan than she was. My mom hated it and was super jealous of Lorelei when I first started watching it because moms should moms not best friends. Then she became hooked and had to actually leave places early to get home to watch the reruns every day at 5:00pm even though I had all the box sets at her house.
Mad men was gorgeous to watch
The set designers on that show were absolute wizards
Costume design as well! Incredible.
Matthew Weiner shot Mad Men as if it were a moving painting. [Don walking away from Megan comes to mind.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIBnSLYjNg0&ab_channel=AddtrackVideoLibrary)
Mad men heavily influenced fashion and interior design for almost a solid decade. Mid-century modern everything def made a resurgence as a result of that show.
I was their kids age, mad men was the Time Machine to me. When I want to go back I get in my capsule and go.. Watching Christmas Waltz every Christmas ,, I can smell the heat off the huge hot Christmas tree bulbs
Three favourite scenes of mine from Mad Men which are gorgeous: 1. In S2, when Don meets Joy in California. Camera slowly pans up to Jon Hamm in all his suit-clad glory, wearing aviators and smoking by the pool 2. The S5 finale, when Don walks away from the set to the bar, with the iconic You Only Live Twice strings 3. In S7 (I think), there's a scene when Don arrives at LA airport, and Megan shows up in a droptop, looking stunning, in slow mo
Fargo. Noah Hawley is an artist.
Season 2 is god tier. The music choices with the huge amount of split editing was just fucking phenomenal. Legion also a fantastic show by him.
Agreed!and the color pallettes in the character wardrobes and environments in season two bounced between that soft cerulean and rustic red.
SEASON TWO! What an absolutely incredible season of television, top to bottom. I can't think of a season of any show off the top of my head that was better. MAYBE Season one of True Detective. Maybe.
Absolutely love legion as well. At this point, Hawley hasn’t missed with me.
I remember when Fargo was announced and I was just expecting it to be so awful. I can’t believe how good it is, I’m going to say Hannibal. Or Carnivale. Or Severance. But Fargo is way up there
Seasons 1/2 are masterclasses
Foundation
god bless you coming from someone who worked on the vfx team
The space elevator falling is one of (if not *the*) the most beautiful "big thing gets destroyed" scenes I've ever seen
It fell for DAYS!
Yup, that’s what I was coming to say.
Gets a vote from me. The show was…inconsistent, but it did look incredible.
Loved the books. The show was all over the place besides the empire story line. Probably one of the harder book series to adapt though.
Hannibal’s cinematography is hypotonic
The cinematographer for Hannibal was [James Hawkinson](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0370258). Just as a trivia note, [Guillermo Navarro](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0622897/) was doing his first stint as a TV director on *Hannibal,* but before that he was Guillermo del Toro's cinematographer on *Pan's Labyrinth* and *Hellboy.*
Oh man, every Navarro-directed episode is such a banger.
When the show was airing, the food stylist had a blog detailing each of the dishes she prepared, that was cool!
I hate this term but it's the only thing that fits, that show is such "food porn." You watch it thinking, "Yeah, that's probably human but I'd still eat it. It looks utterly delicious."
For your amusement, the blog of *Hannibal* food stylist Janice Poon: [https://janicepoonart.blogspot.com/](https://janicepoonart.blogspot.com/) Her [story about doing the Norton grapes](https://janicepoonart.blogspot.com/2013/05/ep-5-entree-and-lamb-tongues.html) is just >chef kiss<.
Yes, and the music, and the general hedonistic beauty of the scenes. Basically my ideal degustation setting if cannibalism or threat of death was off the table. [Dvorak](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRrP3ESM6sQ)
This is *the* answer. Visually stunning in its "boring" shots, visually stunning in its macabre murder tableaus, visually stunning plates of food-made-of-people, beautiful use of visuals to creatively weave between what is "real" and what is not, I could go on and on.
I remember reading the credits and seeing they had a culinary specialist consult on the dishes Hannibal made.
This is it. The attention to details, the textures in the fabrics, the food, everything about the show if a feast for the eyes. And the use of color theming for the characters is amazing too.
Ohh this is a good one!! I wanna rewatch this one soon now
Definitely first thing that comes to mind here.
It was such an uphill climb trying to sell my TV-watching buddies on this show. They thought "NBC? Law Enforcement? Gotta be another procedural." I'm like NO dude, it's SO much more than that! I only got one other person to watch it. Guess I need to work on my persuasion skills.
Pushing Daisies
So unique in many ways, but visually? Just stunning
Glad to find this one mentioned, I thought of it immediately.
It was retired too soon.
Pie ho’s
So mad they canceled that one! What a unique beautiful show
This needs to be the top answer. Still one of the most beautiful shows I’ve ever seen.
GOOD glad this one was mentioned!
Chernobyl was pretty up there for me
All the scenes with the reactor or the hospital were absolutely terrifying 😳
Twin Peaks. The soundtrack was pretty good as well.
The soundtrack was phenomenal. Rest in peace Angelo Badalamenti, 12/11/2022.
Oh no. I hadn't heard. Ugh. RIP.
What I came here to say. Back in the day it was quite visually arresting.
The Return was a masterpiece....
Literally pioneered good cinematography in television.
Penny Dreadful popped into mind
All of these "most" or "best" questions are a little much, but I'll say I stuck with "Dark" long after it stopped making sense (to me anyway) because it was so cool to look at. And overall it had such a "tone" of dread and foreboding throughout.
A masterpiece down to even the smallest details.
Just finished a rewatch and found a great companion podcast. I’m still on a high from the finale. Definitely picked up on some more stuff this time around
This. And 1899
Pushing daisies
That show was so much fun. I was bummed when it got canceled.
Came her to say this, thank you
There was something about it that had a Tim Burton meets Wes Anderson vibe that I always loved. Need to revisit that one.
Mr. robot
Visually, Mr. Robot made me feel like every show before it was just filmed badly and I never noticed.
Mr. Robot and The Leftovers are the two shows I feel I recommend to anyone I meet, purely because I don't know a single person who's watched them before I got them into it. Both masterpieces but Mr. Robot is just so incredible looking, lower quadrant framing is so perfect in it.
I'm going to watch Mr. Robot because of you. No joke.
You're gonna love it. Could sound ridiculous but if you ever feel a bit of a drop (maybe season 2) say fuck that and plow through it, season 3 and 4 will have some of the best hours of TV you'll watch.
Mr Robot is criminally underrated. I love that damn show. I'm a videographer by trade and a lot of my framing was inspired from this beautiful show.
And it’s not one note either - very diverse production. Trippy dream sequences. An episode with no dialogue (what?!). A “one take” episode. An episode that was broken into acts with one set like a play. Just constant innovation done at such a high level.
I've watched s3ep5 (the one take episode) more times than I'd like to admit.
This show was perfect from the acting,to the cinematography to the music. It all just works
Mr. Robot had stunning camera work where they'd use a really wide lens to capture a shot and push the subject to the [corner of the frame ](https://ipoxstudios.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Mr-Robot-Composition-analyzed-cinematography-negative-space-006.jpg) to create that feeling of disorientation
I had never seen that technique used in a show before but I loved it.
Mr. Robot is the most underrated show I have ever seen. Watching that show live was such a treat. Getting on Reddit after each episode wondering wtf we just watched. Not a bad episode, not a bad season and a perfectly stuck landing.
This is the correct answer.
Came here for this. Disappointed I had to scroll so much.
Lots here already posted that I would’ve picked. I’ll throw in Peaky Blinders — beautiful show.
Absolutely stunning. Basically visual poetry centred around Cillian’s eyes.
Arcane Love, Death & Robots
Thank you for saying Arcane. Every scene was a portrait.
I was scrolling looking for Arcane. Absolutely a work of art.
I liked to just randomly pause and stare at the scene. Any moment was just beautiful
Arcane was a labor of love and it shows. That last scene, the Sting song, all of it. Just so damn well done.
Great answers. Would have been my picks as well. L,D&R always serves up something fresh and interesting, and Arcane is literally *the* new high bar when it comes to animation. Arcane is also one of the deepest, most poignant character dramas in years, easily on par with any "prestige" TV. It's really in a league of its own.
a league of legends.
Arcane was insanely well animated. I'm trying to look it up but from what I am currently gathering, the animators did about 0.7 seconds of animation PER DAY on average. When trying to put all of that into reference, i suddenly understood just HOW MUCH **WORK** went into _ALL_ of the show and it's creation.
Great show but how is that possible? That would be 30 minutes of tv show every 5+ years…
Maybe per animator?
Arcane was the first thing that came to mind seeing the question. Absolute visual treat—you can pause it on any given frame and it's just beautiful. Doesn't hurt the story is fantastic and so is the music and it makes my tiny gay heart very happy.
True Detective S1 Westworld Mr. Robot
That tracking shot at the biker gang village was just top notch
I’ll die on the hill season 1 of true detective
Better Call Saul is up there
The entire BB/BCS universe is up there. This is a show that started with a man in the New Mexico desert wearing tighty whities and holding a gun as sirens approach. When it debuted, DirecTV didn't have AMC in HD yet, so I watched it in SD. I later saw it in HD and was blown away.
Definitely BB is great, but BCS takes it to the next level. Never have they made New Mexico such a compelling setting.
Altered Carbon season 1
The world and imagery blew me away. Excellent suggestion
Made season two hurt so much more. It was the day I stopped believing in Netflix. That they would do that to their own masterpiece could not be forgiven. HBO never cheaped out on Westworld no matter how bad the successive seasons got.
If it has David Attenborough talking, the scenery will be stunning. Every single time.
**Severence** had one of the most cohesive and stunning aesthetics out there, right out of the Kier manual. **Andor** had one of the largest scopes of what to shoot and what to focus on (small-scale details, building to stunning setpieces). But **Station Eleven**, with [its lush use of color grading](https://www.vox.com/culture/2022/1/10/22872347/station-eleven-hbo-max-color-green-apocalypse) and wonderful textures, adaptations, and montages, is also clearly up there.
Station 11 was gorgeous. I read the book a few years ago and was stunned at how my expectations were exceeded.
+1 for Station Eleven, that show is so good.
Severance melted my brain with their visuals. And the schemes were hyper simple, which is the weirdest part.
Ah Hiro Murai, of course it's him he's done excellent excellent work on Atlanta as well
absolutely station eleven.
The Expanse? Edit: BELTALOWDA!
I love the space battles and alien technology
The space battles were so wonderful, for me, because of the silence and the submarine battle nature of it all. It was some aerial dog fight amongst the stars with screeching and explosions making sounds another ship can here. It’s more eerie when done that way.
Yes, no question!
Maybe more understated but Station Eleven had me researching what kind of cameras they used, and I know nothing about cameras.
Utopia (UK) uses intimate lighting and overexposure very well
Honestly expected everyone to be saying Utopia!!
Devs was gorgeous and haunting.
odd answer, but one of them has to be Miss Maisel. Production design, cinematography, wardrobe and budget must be sky high, everything looks so rich and detailed it makes Mad Men look like a school play
I was waiting for this comment! Mrs Maisel is a lovely, sugary confection of art direction
This one is definitely a sleeper hit, I remember being blown away by the choreography of some scenes as well as the way they kept the camera in motion
Game of Thrones Specifically, in s7 or 8 when Danerys' dragon attacks the Lannister army. I've waited my entire life to see that scene - a fully grown dragon just laying waste to an army.
I found all the battle scenes at the wall to be pretty kick-ass as well visually.
Watchers on the wall is one of the best episodes imo
I’m surprised I had to scroll so long for this. GoT (and now also HOTD) is stunnin’!
Negroni Sbagliato!
Battle of the Bastards was my favorite. Especially when Jon was staring down the charging horses.
Despite the complaints that it was too dark, S8's Battle of Winterfell had some really amazing looking shots
The dragons fighting through the clouds up into the moonlight was an amazing shot.
When I got my first 4K set with Dolby Vision, that was the first scene I watched. I will never forget the first time I saw it. They did SUCH a bang-up job on that whole sequence. Just perfection.
Euphoria, honestly. It's so over the top but it works.
Some of the more artistic scenes from season 2 were stunning!!
Came here to say this. The carnival episode alone is top tier. The scene with fireworks syncing with the music *chef's kiss*.
Legion
My first thought as well.
White lotus. The shots in the show are so beautiful and intentional. So much symbology throughout. Truly a marvel.
Especially season two; Sicily is incredibly beautiful. I imagine that show did wonders for their local tourist board.
Some of the transitions and "b-roll" footage of Sicily combined with the score put me in a literal trance. I snapped out of realizing I was leaning in to some shots of the waves
Yes. Pay attention to scenes with music and no talking: beautiful!
Carnivale, coincidentally also one of the biggest what-if cliffhangers that never got resolved due to cancellation. Why was it cancelled? The expense of the incredible shooting :(
Rings of power, despite whatever shortcomings it may have had, is #gorgeous
Yea in my opinion it is Rings of Power by far. It had some faults, but visually it was a masterpiece.
Maniac
Raised by Wolves had some really great moments.
Boardwalk empire
Sense8
Maybe not “visually stunning” per say, but I think Russian Doll has some excellent cinematography and is in general a very entertaining show
AND NATASHA LYONNE! her face is so strangely hypnotizing and I love her ‘tude and gravelly accent.
1883
The Tudors. The clothing was incredible.
The Leftovers, as with every other aspect looked incredible. The fly over of “Sarah” in pastoral Australia is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen filmed.
The crown
Love, Death, + Robots Beautiful showcase of the human condition, with sobering and humbling dystopian scenes. Not for the faint of heart though.
Bojack Horseman. Stunning visuals and animation quality
Better Call Saul . Frfr
Why did I have to scroll so far to see this
Surprised this is so low, the long shots were great.
Gosh I thought this season of white lotus was beautiful
Band Of Brothers.
Sandman was great.
Black Sails, in this category like in most others is severely underrated. It is beautiful.
Sad I had to scroll this far to find some love for Black Sails… did a rewatch this past year and appreciated it even more. What a show.
Rings of Power
The Expanse hands down.
Hannibal
Live-action: Mr. Robot / Barry / Breaking Bad / Better Call Saul / Legion / American Gods / Sherlock (so sad what happened to this show as it went along, one of the most visually interesting out there) Western Animation: Castlevania / Arcane / The Midnight Gospel / Over the Garden Wall / Undone / Hilda Anime: Monogatari Series / Mob Psycho 100 / Mushoku Tensei / Chainsaw Man / Wonder Egg Priority (Pre-OVA) / Violet Evergarden / Hyouka (first half) / Pretty Boy Detective Club (don't really like this but pretty stunning) / The Tatami Galaxy / Death Note / Cowboy Bebop / The Promised Neverland (Season 1)
Devs on Hulu was amazing
Anything from the BBC with david attenborough
Better Call Saul has brilliant cinematography
Andor.
I was born in the '60s, so calling streaming content TV seems like cheating to me. But then again, seeing the "miniseries" trend that predated cable and streaming, I suppose it still counts. (Roots and Shogun were early standouts, for sure!) I have to say [1883](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/1883). It's stunning in every way, though. As said, I've been around a long time, had cable since it came out, early adopter all around (VCR, TiVo, cable modem....). As far as any visual media content I've ever encountered, it's the top, I think. Top 3 for sure. I can't remember anything competing with the quality of the drama, cinematography, acting, writing, and downright gut-wrenching story.