I don't understand how gold earphones would help but I watched about 5 minutes and couldn't get into it because I hardly could tell what they were saying.
subtitles yo. my mom had the same issue and it kind of put her off, but I told her to watch it with subtitles. guess what: it helped her.
tom is perhaps my most admired fictional character. he's definitely not perfect, and at times, he does downright evil things, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't respect him.