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Drive
2007 · TV series · 60 min episodes · 1 season
Created by Tim Minear, Ben Queen
An American action drama television series set against the backdrop of an illegal cross-country automobile road race, focusing on the willing and unwilling competitors and, as the plot develops, the unseen puppet masters who sponsor the race.
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Haha, why did I know this was going to be a Critical Drinker video.
For real though, I think the best CGI has always been when it's a light touch, providing only slight enhancements to an otherwise mostly-practical scene. And that's also when it's most invisible— so while superhero movies are obvious CGI-fests and can be clearly said to have been "ruined" by it, I think the most interesting modern CGI use is in lower-budget productions like TV shows, enabling the insertion of fantasy- or period-themed backdrops that would never be possible if you had to actually come up with all those props and extras in real life.
And I think to the extent that this is already happening, it's a lot harder to track because it's so much more subtle than the bombastic in-your-face effects of a Marvel movie showdown.
It would be interesting to see a revival of a show like Drive [0] as that was pretty ambitious and expensive for its time, but might be a lot more possible to do now.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_(2007_TV_series)
I had something similar happen on a show, I believe this one titled Drive:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0770521/
They had a scene that was "outside Gainesville, FL". That's where I went to university and from the highway it's basically flat forests. The scene instead looked semi-arid with mountains in the background...
Ah, looks like my exact story is documented exactly on IMDB!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0770521/goofs?item=gf0809526
The show only lasted 6 episodes, so...