Legacies isn't afraid to let its imagination run wild when it comes to settings. So far, the supernatural CW drama has visited an alternate reality and…
, and in the March 12 installment, "There's a Place Where the Lost Things Go," it sends its characters into a film noir world to deal with their trauma.
When the writers started breaking the episode, they didn't intend to set it in film noir; however, that location ended up being the best fit for the episode thematically. "It was just a genre that stuck with me for a long time," said Matthews about choosing the film noir location. "Actually, we had the episode broken and we didn’t know conceptually what we wanted the world to be. There were a lot of ideas on the table. There was Western, there was steampunk, there was Victorian. Film noir just became the perfect storm of producible and fit the tone of the season and that particular episode.
Sideways adventures like this are what keep the show interesting for the cast. "It was a change of pace, which is nice," said Hope's portrayer Danielle Rose Russell. "I feel like a lot of our episodes gives us the go-ahead to break it up and so we’re never feeling super stuck, I feel like. Oddly, it felt like some of the most grounded stuff we’ve done because we were talking about real person things.
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