“I would leave work at work for the first time,” he explained to Us. “I really needed to break from that world and be as ordinary and as kind of restful as possible so that I could come back the next day and throw myself back into that very, very dark, subterranean kind of hellscape that we were having to inhabit as these characters.”ĭaisy Edgar-Jones, who plays Brenda, said that downtime was very important during filming, which took place in Calgary, Canada, near the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. “We ate so much food!” she told Uproxx in April. Also … we did a lot of hiking, which, coming from London, I’m a city gal. But on the whole, it was a great bonding experience for all of us.”ĭustin Lance Black, who wrote the show’s first three episodes, grew up in the Mormon church and has revealed how Krakauer’s book inspired him to look more deeply at the religion. “For the first time, so much of my own history, my ancestry and the answers to why things were the way they were when they didn’t seem to fulfill the basic tenets of Mormonism - meaning they didn’t seem to make the family stronger - now I started to understand why and where that patriarchal structure came from,” he told IndieWire in April.