Tim Ives, the director of photography of Stranger Things, has said that the nighttime photography of Gregory Crewdson has “inspired me with its heightened reality.” Eric Messerschmidt, the DP of Mindhunter and a former assistant of Crewdson’s, has stated that the artist’s work “lives right on the edge between reality and surrealism.” A number of observers have noted that the look of Ozark can often feel like a Crewsdon photo.