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The season is, as creator Mike White put it to me, a sex comedy with teeth.
They took high-def photos of the intricate designs, then reworked and animated the details.
There are these incredible 16th-century frescoes in every room of the villa, Crawford said.
They have these trompe loeil designs, so its as if youre looking out into scenes in a countryside.
Theres this cool voyeuristic thing happening to fit the themes of the show.
(Is that Tanya, or is she the monkey?)
One HBO executive said, Is that what I think it is?
And we just left it at that, Crawford added.
By the time the beat drops, things are downright chaotic.
We liked the vibe of going back to the classic Italian for the finale, Bashore said.
The nymphs might have multiplied, but the cracks in the ceiling were there in the original villa.
Our still photographer was always trying to make things beautiful photographing this villa, Crawford said.
And we had to be like, No, keep the cracks!
They are a symbol for this whole thing.
