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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
Are you involved in this show at all? Replicating an historical era is a lot more work than simply doing a modern-era show. Season 1 was set in 2006 but I still noticed a lot of anachronisms like modern cars, computers, phones, and the frustration of showing the Bow, Chinatown, and other skyscrapers that don't belong in Minnesota.
I'm sure all the small town/rural shoots will be straightfoward but I wonder what kind of 1979 stuff they will do in Calgary. I guess there will be less landmarks and things to look out for when watching the show now as it will be hidden or masked.
What incentives does the show get to shoot here? I know that there being direct flights to L.A. is a plus. What are the economic benefits?
I also remember Keith Carradine mentioning in an interview about living in a downtown hotel for most of the shoot and getting intimate with the +15 system and wandering around when he had nothing to shoot.
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My aunt worked on the first season and said the directors absolutely loved everything about Calgary and the surrounding locations. Zero need to dress up any of the winter scenes because it was already so brutally cold (except that blizzard scene they did), every type of location they wanted was here with easy access (city, small towns, empty prairie roads, rural shots, etc), and it's just simply cheaper (which should become an even bigger factor with oil prices tanking driving our dollar down)
It's mostly location though, it's the same reason Christopher Nolan loves shooting in Alberta now (my aunt also worked on Inception and Interstellar). He loves how varied our geography is and how Alberta can stand in for so many different regions in the US