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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/SUBLIMEskillz on 2025-11-10 17:52:29+00:00.
Actually happened last night, but it’s within 24 hours.
Sat down to watch the first two episodes of Pluribus last night with my girlfriend. I love BB and BCS and was excited for this and tried to do my best to not see any clips or anything to go in as close to blind as possible. GF has never seen any of Gilligan’s other shows.
We’re watching it and we thought it was odd that there was almost no dialogue. There was sound such as music and sound effects. There was the occasional words spoken, one in an early scene and maybe a few other lines from a character or a voice from a speaker.
We thought it was stylistic to draw you into the atmosphere or to make you focus on other stuff. There is also a timer and I thought it was somehow related. However, there are a few scenes where it seemed like it dragged on too long without dialogue, to the point where I even got a little sleepy.
There is a scene where a character is talking to a tv screen but there is some images on the screen that could be construed as giving you info as to what they are talking about.
We went the entire first episode like this. We made small talk in between episodes starting about when the dialogue would kick in. After the cold open and title, the next scene we figured there would be dialogue. Nope. This bothered me and I started googling, but nothing really mentioned the odd dialogue quirk which seemed like it would be a big stylistic talking point.
I checked to make sure I wasn’t on an odd audio setting in the apple app and then clicked on subtitles. Sure enough there was dialogue we were missing. I felt like an idiot.
Turned out I had an audio setting on my LG TV to try to help with hearing clear voices in movies like blue rays where the spoken audio always seems so quiet compared to the action. Somehow this took out like 95% of the dialogue track. We had to go back and re-watch most of the first episode and had a good laugh.
TL;DR: Watched a new show and didn’t realize we had somehow removed most of the dialogue via a sound option on my TV and didn’t realize it until the start of the 2nd episode.