Home (Game of Thrones) to be very beautiful, but also fraught with tension. That's the main thing we were looking for." Podeswa also compared how he shot the scene to "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp" by Rembrandt, continuing, "It had a very rich, textual, moody, atmospheric quality. I think we were all in that space for a long time for this scene — while we were shooting all the scenes involving Jon Snow's body, really, but particularly the one where he's resurrected." In another interview Podeswa described how the resurrection would play out on screen, noting "There was much discussion about what
The Anatomy Lesson (Morley novel) dead-on portrait of inept parents and aimless youth,” concluded Joanne Wilkinson in Booklist. “Blackly funny,” wrote Alex Clark in "The Observer", “but breathtakingly bleak.” “John David Morley is known to European and American literary connoisseurs as a writer who merits serious attention”, Bettina Drew wrote in "The Washington Post", before hailing the author's latest work as “a serious meditation on despair and loss and our inability to really know the people we love.” After "Pictures from the Water Trade" in 1985 and "The Feast of Fools" in 1994, "The Anatomy Lesson" became the third of Morley's novels to be designated