On the Pervasiveness of Teal and Orange In Film:

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Just now seeing this brilliant post by Todd Miro about the trends towards ”color-grading every movie with a simplified, distilled palette of teal and orange” -

You see, flesh tones exist mostly in the orange range and when you look to the opposite end of the color wheel from that, where does one land?  Why looky here, we have our old friend Mr. Teal.  And anyone who has ever taken color theory 101 knows that if you take two complementary colors and put them next to each other, they will “pop”, and sometimes even vibrate.  So, since people (flesh-tones) exist in almost every frame of every movie ever made, what could be better than applying complementary color theory to make people seem to “pop” from the background.

Digital Intermediate color grading is a recent process that offers unlimited possibilities to the colorist.  When artists are offered a world without boundaries or restrictions, they do some of their worst work; they tend to go more conservative and not less, which is what I believe you are seeing here.