“On Will Trent, renewed for a second season in April, [series cinematographer Eduardo Mayén] enjoys working with light and shadows to bring a ’50s film noir look to TV. One of his favorite scenes to date is in episode eight, when a woman enters a hospital room to kill a witness.

“We see the killer in silhouette, in low light, and at the last moment, Will Trent turns on the light,” Mayén says with a flourish. Invoking Orson Welles’s 1958 classic, he adds, “It was like Touch of Evil, how they made scenes very stylized.”

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