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3 2 P E R S P E C T I V E | J U L Y / A U G U S T 2 0 2 4 In Hulu's Death and Other Details, the murder mystery transports viewers to a restored 1930s ocean liner that entangles love and death in the most scandalous and stylish ways while still existing in our contemporary time. After hiding just enough from the audience to keep everyone on their toes, showrunners Mike Weiss and Heidi Cole McAdams shuffle the discovery of details by jumbling the chronology of the story, examining the idea that everyone's truth is not the same and appearances are deceptive, thus shifting audience perspectives on the stakes behind the murder. The showrunners wanted to make a classic Agatha Christie-inspired locked-room murder mystery but with a modern take. So, our principal location for this mystery had to embody this classic world and, as such, became a character in its own right. The opulent world of the grand ocean liner reminiscent of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile is combined with the world of the present-day elite. D e t a i l s M a t t e r D E A T H A N D O T H E R D E T A I L S B Y J A M E S P H I L P O T T, P R O D U C T I O N D E S I G N E R A. CONCEPT ILLUSTRATION BY PAOLO VENTURI OF THE OUTER DECK OF THE SS VARUNA. THIS ILLUSTRATION WAS THE BASIS FOR A STAGE BUILD AT SKYDANCE STUDIO IN VANCOUVER AND THE CGI SS VARUNA MODEL. A