Ascension: The Beach on a Spaceship

Having launched in a fictitious 1960s, Ascension's (2014) generation spaceship is a lipstick-and-glam midcentury time capsule, where period-accuracy means bringing a trophy beach on a hundred-year space voyage. The cyclorama-wrapped shore serves as leisure spot, a backdrop for moonlit talks and the site of the show's inciting incident: a mysterious nighttime murder.