“All of that stuff just had no dialogue, and I just thought it would be a fun exploration,” Bennett said. “And it did just start to slowly evolve more and more … there's so much stuff that exists in nature on earth that has got a lot of that horror and creepiness to it”.
The series is packed with these Rube-Goldberg-esque sequences, alien organisms converted into human tools. The beauty of these alien mechanisms is that the characters rarely jump into explanation or overload the audience with details of how these work but instead silently go about their manipulations.