Most beautifully photographed episode of a Television Series, list 'em.
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Monday, September 25, 2006 00:25
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Firefly- Objects In Space A fluid, dreamlike quality that accentuated the mystery that is River.
Buffy- Once More With Feeling 30's and 40's musical grandure in a show about a singing demon? Unbelievable.
Dark Angel- Freak Nation The series finale looked like a freakin' movie, not a TV show. It defines 'slick'.
Kung Fu- ANY first season episode A wide lens and near mystical creativity ruled here.
I scraped the surface here, let's have some more!
DOP Chrisisall
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Band of Brothers - Any ep Great cinematography, it captured what many people perceive as the look and feel of WW2.
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I agree with spacelips Band of Brothers has to be in the top 5.
Also in the top 5 "From the Earth to the Moon."
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My favorite shows for cinematography looked great in every episode, but some of the stand-outs were...
Space: Above and Beyond
"The Angriest Angel"
Firefly
"Serenity"
"Out of Gas"
"Objects in Space"
dueSOUTH
"Victoria's Secret"
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I would have to say, along with all of the ones that are already listed above, one of my alltime favorites would have to be:
Angel
Apocalypse Nowish
....especially the fight scene at the end....BEEUUTEEFULL!!
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Hey Chris :)
I'd have to go with a few episodes of Norther Exposure - they were awesome.
Plus to add to your Buffy: Restless the dream sequences were very evocative.
Also the Angel episode were we go back to the 50's when angel first was in the Hyperion hotel. Don't remember the epiosde.
Will try and think of others later - but I can't always access the site :(
Laters Big C
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Pretty much any episode of Supernatural. Great at getting the atmosphere of an hour-long horror movie every week.
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Definitely Band of Brothers and FF…
I'd have to add the any ep. of the current and last season of "The Wire". 'cause that’s all I have seen.
Talkin' about capturing the essence of “real” people. They always give u several shots throughout the show that, as a still, define unpolished, “day-to-day” society. 
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Way too hard. This question is WAY too hard.
But, I'll try.
I'm going to seconf Once More With Feeling and Objects in space. I watch OMWF last night and I must say, I love the way they have characters walk unto Extreme Close-ups -- such as during "Wish I could Stay", with Tara in her ECU at the far left and Giles walking into the frame, but its a wide-angle shot so they're both infocus, which is so cool.
Hmm... Alias Phase One was really well done, and featured a far number of pretty cool shots. The whole show is shot very well. Its one of the things that makes season four so frustrating. The scripts? So bad. Or at least, not as good as they used to be. The filming? So good. So I keep looking at it, expecting it to be good, but its not good...
Okay, that's three, right? Two mone...
Lost's season 2 finale Live Together, Die Alone. It was utterly amazing, especially the later flashbacks and
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the strange purple-ish light
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And... hmm... Arrested Development Motherboy XXX, if only for the scene where Buster is haunted by reminders of his hand.
Arcadia (aka Greyfable and/or Katie)
www.stillflying.net -- picking up Firefly were Joss left off. We will hold 'til he gets back.
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Goodgrief!!!
I'm able to login here at my flat!!!! 
(Sorry I'm so excited! I've not been able to open this forum here on my minimac for about three months. For some reason now it's fixed itself!)
FANTASTIC! *Does the Xander style Snoopy dance*
Ok Big "C" to answer your question in greater depth.
Beautifully Photograped episodes on TV
1. BRIMSTONE : This short lived yet very profound
show did something unique in terms of photography. Basically they knocked out all the reds. So that you were left with very cold hues. Any reds/oranges or warmth would only be used to further express the narrative. It was awesome to look at! Almost every episode was mesmerising.
2.ANGEL : 'Are you now, or have you ever been'
3.BUFFY : 'Hush'
4.FIREFLY 'Out of Gas & Objects in space'
5. Northern Exposure -- almost every single episode.
6.LOST 'Pilot episode & Walkabout' That plane crash was sublime!
That's it for now. It's gooooood to be back! Woohooo!!!
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