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5 8 P E R S P E C T I V E | M AY / J U N E 2 0 2 4 I had the extreme good fortune of first meeting David Benioff and Dan Weiss back in March of 2013 on season four of Game of Thrones and then working with them until the show wrapped in July 2018. Those were the best of times. When they called me about designing 3 Body Problem, based on the wildly popular Chinese sci-fi novels by Liu Cixin, Remembrance of Earth's Past, during the prolonged isolation of the pandemic, it felt like the most natural thing in the world to pick up where we left off and thankfully, without a single muddy field or medieval barrel anywhere to be found. Instead, they promised, "a journey from China during the darkest hours of the Cultural Revolution all the way to the farthest fringes of the universe, in both time and space." It was then that I officially traded dragons for fictional science and aliens. It became immediately clear that we were embarking on a project unlike anything else on television. We would lurch from the domestic to the cosmic and from the stable to the chaotic, from the past, the present and well into the future. The first job was the most important: to surround myself with a team who would be able to deliver an epic show on a TV schedule but with A P r o j e c t o f B r e a t h t a k i n g S c o p e 3 B O D Y P R O B L E M B Y D E B O R A H R I L E Y, P R O D U C T I O N D E S I G N E R A