If you’ve been watching HBO’s House of the Dragon and felt the need to close all your shades and turn off all your lights to see the action, you’re not alone, and it’s not your fault. The show is dark by design, this much the key creatives have discussed already. In a new interview with Variety, series co-creator Ryan Condal said the production team behind House of the Dragon had the challenge of creating a cinematic-quality TV show that would be seen in a home, as opposed to a dark theater–and this wasn’t easy.

“The unique challenge of making television post-production is that you’re making it in this highly calibrated facility with millions of dollars’ worth of equipment and high-end professionals. At the end, if you’re making a movie, you turn over those files to movie theaters, where you know that there’s a reasonable sameness in quality in terms of the way the media is going to be exported and the equipment that it’s being seen on,” he said. “When you’re making televis…