Escher’s Relativity Inspired the Stairs on the Show
The colorful and somewhat dizzying stairs shown in the series were inspired by a lithograph print titled Relativity by Dutch artist M.C. Escher. The print illustrates a world where the laws of gravity are radically different from those in the real world and include seven stairways arranged in a puzzling manner. This is nearly identical to the complexity of the maze-like stairs seen in the series. They were used to add to the unsettling ambience of the set.