Yup. It is a great looking show.
Indeed.
If you take this for example. A lighting set-up used a lot throughout the show...
You got a highlighted side of Mahershala Ali's face, which almost burns out but makes for a nice contrast to the rest of the gradation of the light. After that, the light gives a few softer highlights on his more pronounced areas, like his nose and forehead, and then the gradation becomes much faster and heavier, but still with a small but prominent Rembrandt triangle on his left eye, so his expression doesn't disappear. His hair is lit nicely too and there's actually a tiny backlight making sure his left side, especially the suit, doesn't disappear completely.
The light on Carmen Ejogo also has a nice, long gradation leaving her clothing intact all the way and with her face still having a darker side and with the nose shadow kept minimal.
Beautiful.
And this set-up is kept as a fundament throughout most of the show, like seen here:
- And it was hard to find a proper image for it, but I really love the warm tones with a smal amount of blue. It's often used at the night scenes, when the characters are indoors in warm, tungsten, yellowish light and then the moonlight from the outside shines in.