Bit of a sidenote on the aesthetic side, but it's nice to see a show produced by a streaming platform shot on 35mm film. Digital can look great but I'd argue it very rarely does unless its used by real masters. All too often it looks either flat and completely lacking in delineation or goes all the way in the other direction with a tac-sharp, high contrast, high frequency look that just overwhelms the senses. Film provides a wonderful, coherent baseline from the get go and aside from a touch too much vignette blur here and there (likely the lenses), they've built on it really nicely. There's even a little instability in the frame that makes it more organic.
Even though it's done with a DI direct from the Kodak Vision OCN, there are some shots that looked photochemically processed (like a timed Interpositive), some immediately reminded me of circa-2000 big budget movies. Even if it can't capture the same low light detail as digital, the actual aesthetic and fall off of darker scenes is so much easier on the eye rather than the slurry I see in most digitally shot shows.
Also, just in terms of the grade in general, it's nice to see a balance of warmer and neutral scenes that within themselves have distinctly coloured elements. Far too many shows now just throw on the cold blue/grey-filter or the piss-filter blanket tints and call it a day.
Further sidenote, if watching on Amazon Prime, the full rate 4K Dolby Vision stream is much better than HDR10 or SDR stream; not for the HDR but the chroma and encode is stronger. The film grain is really nicely done here but it clumps up on the encoder in the latter two.
