i think stylistically they've made it look very cool and full of references for international audiences to identify with.
My girlfriend thought it was set in the eighties whilst watching the first episode before the kids were shown using their mobiles. All the cars were 80s or thereabouts and...
Murder Mountain on Netflix is a great watch.
It is about the Outlaw marijuana growers of Humboldt County and how many hippy trail tourists that got there to work on the dope harvests disapear, with law enforcement seemingly unwilling to investigate.
The original gentle isolated hippy community...