The First Lady S01 — Openh264 [hot]

When we think of The First Lady —Showtime’s anthology drama depicting the White House tenures of Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Ford, and Michelle Obama—we usually talk about the performances. Viola Davis’s quiet fury, Michelle Pfeiffer’s tragic elegance, or Gillian Anderson’s stoic resolve.

★★★★☆ (Deduct one star because the macroblocking in Episode 4’s garden party actually gave me a headache. But maybe that was the point.) Have you noticed the compression artifacts in The First Lady? Or did you watch it on a Blu-ray (which uses a different codec) and think I’m crazy? Let me know in the comments. the first lady s01 openh264

But there is a ghost in the machine. A technical credit that most viewers scroll past but which fundamentally shaped the show’s claustrophobic, intimate aesthetic: . When we think of The First Lady —Showtime’s