Series creator Nathaniel Halpern spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about how he brought Stålenhag's pictures to life on the small screen. "He has this wonderful marriage between the ordinary and the extraordinary and it's very hard and rare to find a unique aesthetic within science fiction these days. Usually it reminds you of something else. Here it really just stands on its own," Halpern said. 

Adding: "So I was really taken by the quality of the paintings, but also I felt they were quite emotional. There's a poignancy to the image that I responded to. So then the notion of adapting paintings into a TV series on top of that felt wonderfully unique, and it just felt like a wonderful opportunity."  

Nathaniel also revealed to the outlet that one painting will correspond with each of the eight episodes, but viewers may notice some differences. "There's a lot of imagery that is strewn throughout the season, but there are these core images that we really try to be faithful to," he said. 

The show creator continued: "The episode with the sphere, there was a painting of what seemed to me a grandfather and grandson walking out to that sphere. That was the painting and the story was born. If you've seen that image, that painting takes place in winter. We just happened to be shooting during summer at that point, so I couldn't be faithful to the season. But we built that structure and tried to be as faithful as possible in that regard."