But to put the magic shop in and the pub and the record shop? Good Lord! The coffee shop looked like an interior, but it was really not deep enough, and it will only serve people walking in and out the door.īut what a joy to be able to do something like the French restaurant! And the alleyway always existed to the music shop, I just put it as an entrance to the music shop because I wanted the music shop to be away from the street as well. That was my first opening concept of how I could make the set work because we only had one interior set-well, we had the interior of the coffee shop-but we only had one interior set, and that was the one in the bookshop on Season 1.

But to find something big enough, and then to grow it– I think very early in the piece, Neil said to me that he needs eyeline from the record shop interior counter to the counter in the coffee shop, and from the counter in the coffee shop to the window where Aziraphale is sitting, and then that triangulated point of view needs to be incorporated. Then to have a beautiful set like that out on an airfield in the middle of nowhere in that weather is strange.

Then we obviously had everything that, on Season 1, had to stand up to a lot of weather and unfortunate snowstorm and a few other things. I mean, originally, we only had the ground floor of most of the street and no pub, no corner on one corner of the crossroads at all, and we had no upper levels. The decision was whether we went inside, and how we could expand it if we did go inside, and how big would it have to be, and how could we play with it when it was inside? And it got bigger, a lot bigger. What happened really was deciding that the bookshop was always a visual anchor to the show, and the street and the crossroads and what has been established in the street in Season 1 still existed. MICHAEL RALPH: Well, it didn't go down that way.

When you were told, “Okay, we're gonna move beyond the novel,” what was your process for saying, “Okay, this is how we're gonna expand this world?” Obviously, you were the production designer on Season 1, but this season expands this world quite a bit. Getting to watch Season 2 and getting to watch this world expand was really interesting for me.

COLLIDER: I absolutely love this show, and I really love the look of it.

Dead space 2 interior concept art