The Incredible Sets for Netflix’s Dark
Baron bo Odar’s critically acclaimed science fiction series Dark recently finished its third and final season on Netflix. The show’s mind-bending exploration of time travel in a small German town could read as almost anywhere, a consideration that was completely by design. Though many of the settings of Dark are actually filmed in or near Berlin, Udo Kramer, the show’s production designer explains that “the idea was to create a place that was more of a fantasy, rather than to recreate a realistic German town.” Indeed, his greatest inspiration for the show’s sets came from David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, where Kramer saw sets as backdrops that accented characters rather than taking on a life of their own.
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