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Three watchtowers loom overhead, a searchlight affixed to each.
Ten-foot-high barbed-wire fences corral the grounds.
Shes an alien presence even within this community of Japanese-Americans, Woo says.
We dont exactly root for her, but we understand where her rage comes from.
At the end of the first episode, the Terminal Island residents are treated like aliens, too.
Behind the scenes, the story was personal for some of the cast, too.
Mios grandfather was from Terminal Island and was sent to Manzanar internment camp in California.
It wasnt like, What can we do to make this scarier?
(A green-screen and visual effects then made the camps look larger in scale onscreen.)
But if you look closely, theres warmth in the surroundings, too.
Woo says the team talked to internment-camp survivors from places such as Heart Mountain in Wyoming.
The teams also studied renderings from Manzanar internment camp in California.
The barracks were designed to show that about 50 people were living within one unit.
We were at the 11th hour when we finally found this location, McKinstry said.
The team started working on the camp location last December but began pre-fabricating in September.
The crew also had to contend with Vancouver weather.
(It was a success.)
A period-specific color palette.
Theyre both sort of period colors that work for the 1940s, McKinstry said.
In the 1940s, they didnt have the color range we have today.
Paint manufacturing was much more complex, so there was much more limited range of colors available.
So quite often if you use a color thats not period correct, it doesnt feel right.
Guard towers had spotlights and patrol windows to keep an eye on the camp.
There are offcuts of timber lying around, set against empty sheds.
With people detained against their will all over, he said, this story is always relevant.
Viewers are living with it for three months.
A series was a closer analog for what really happened to them.
