Anon OpinI am getting increasingly less tolerant of films that seem to take place entirely in the dark. This is a VISUAL FUCKING MEDIUM, guys. Light your set properly.
steeph 
🎆 ٩(˘◡˘)۶@anon_opin I've seen a lot of shows in recent years that seem to have been produced with the assumption that they're going to be watched on a state-of-the-art high-contrast TV and not my crappy old laptop or my 20 year old, cheap "HD ready" TV. Might look cool on a modern OLED screen or something. But I want to see what's happening, too.
toni 
@anon_opin @steeph Even on a modern OLED they look terrible, because they’re distributed digitally. Compression algorithms are bad with 60 Shades of Black.
@toni Oh, yes. I forgot to say 10 bit. That's probably the most important difference to my old screens when it comes to dark scenes. @anon_opin
@steeph Anyway, I think I’m being a wiseass, even though I’m trying not to be. Sorry about that.
@toni No, no problem. I think HDR should be a big improvement for pictures like that (if the source material provides the depth). But you have a point with film having more colour information than digital recordings. My DSLR has 10 bit so I know the limits. Relying on the ability to drive exposure up a step (whether it's for HDR or not) means other features suffer, like colour accuracy and brilliance. So film does have its advantages. But I don't know what a modern 200.000 € cinematic camera can do. Compression is the other thing. A streamed video of course looks different than a 40 GB UHD version.
@steeph I hear that modern digital cameras are better at filming dark scenes. That is why many producers/directors/cinematographers film with less light than they used to. In my opinion, that is just a mistake. Just because the cameras can do it, if you are shooting a Netflix series, most people are only seeing artefacts in your night scenes.