Netflix viewers issue same complaint about visuals for bingeworthy new thriller series

Netflix viewers person complained astir nan dim, hard-to-see visuals successful nan streamer’s new bingeworthy scary series, Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen.

The series, executive produced by Stranger Things creators nan Duffer brothers, follows engaged mates Rachel (The Night Manager’s Camila Morrone) and Nicky (The White Lotus’s Adam DiMarco), successful nan days starring up to their wedding erstwhile Rachel discovers a sinister curse and chaos ensues.

While viewers person praised nan show’s spook-factor, plentifulness person lamented nan acheronian and gloomy visuals, which make it difficult to spot immoderate of nan action.

One spectator wrote connected X/Twitter: “Trying to watch Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen – why are films truthful dark? If you're releasing films connected Netflix, see nan assemblage are watching it connected a machine screen, not successful a f***ing IMAX.”

Another personification said they “couldn’t spot a thing” connected their at-home TV setup: “It’s not made for an aged TV!”

“Watching Something Bad Is Going to Happen connected Netflix and I can't spot s*** it's truthful dark!” said 1 viewer, arsenic different said: “The first mates of episodes were truthful acheronian I could hardly spot anything. But nan vibe was awesome and I loved really spooky nan family was.”

Another instrumentality remarked that nan lighting was only a mini rumor successful comparison to nan pacing of nan bid crossed 8 episodes. “I liked nan thought of a scary setup, but I conscionable thought it was clumsily executed (not helped by nan acheronian scenes),” they wrote connected Reddit. “Maybe pinch 10 eps they could person paced it better.”

The lighting rumor successful Something Bad Is Going To Happen has been raised by critics, too. In a two-star review, The Independent’s Louis Chilton highlighted that nan bid is “so acheronian and color-washed that it’s difficult to show what you’re moreover looking at.”

“The drab and colourless look of Something Very Bad undermines everything other astir it, neutering scary and play alike,” he added.

Netflix’s lighting problem has been a accordant rumor among critics. Projects arsenic caller arsenic nan streamer’s 2025 adjustment of Frankenstein, starring Jacob Elordi, saw reviewers reason that nan lighting was inconsistent pinch nan gothic taxable of nan script.

Decider’s reappraisal of Frankenstein recognized “that signature Netflix flatness successful its lighting and focus, a deficiency of opposition that makes nan surfaces instrumentality together crossed each focal length. Few elements on-screen consciousness existent and tangible, and for a movie astir humor and sinew, that’s a problem.”

In The Independent’s Something Bad review, Chilton remarked that critiquing Netflix’s lighting problem was for illustration pointing retired that “water is wet.”

“It’s a tedious axiom astatine this constituent to kick astir Netflix’s allergy to bully lighting set-ups,” he wrote. “The rumor pervades astir each of its shows, astir of its original films, and has been remarked upon endlessly by viewers and critics alike. To mention it is to constituent retired that h2o is wet, aliases that nan entity is blue.”

He continued: “(Except, of course, if it’s shown connected Netflix, successful which lawsuit nan entity is successful each likelihood much of a murky blueish grey.)”