Rebecca Alter, Vulture: ‘The Harry Potter TV Show Trailer Is Muggleslop’

I guess I don’t know what I was expecto-ing. The first teaser trailer for HBO’s TV adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone looks like the original Harry Potter movie, but much grayer. The sets — like Hogwarts, the Hogwarts Express, the Quidditch pitch, and Harry’s little room under the stairs — are just as you remember them, with slightly worse lighting and some tiny, unplaceable details altered. The characters are dressed and styled like they were in the movies, too, but their faces are all different[.]

Haven’t seen the trailer, and I wouldn’t feel good about watching this series, but this headline captures exactly what I’ve felt about pictures of the remake I’ve seen. It does look like someone asked an AI to generate a Harry Potter trailer.