Many sitcoms from the 1980s and 1990s evoke warm memories of fuzzy colors on a staticky CRT monitor. So Netflix adding A Different World to its catalog seemed like a call to nostalgia and flip-up glasses, at least until the AI-assisted upscaling appeared on screen.
With this AI enhancement no one asked for, Hillman College sometimes looked like it was a little melted, with off-putting distortions of design all over, and text reworked into what looked like an alien language. Meanwhile, the faces and hands of the cast would occasionally warp like something was crawling underneath their skins.
