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It's not always CGI. They are using LED lighting panels to create the exact lighting conditions they want. Some movies and shows are using giant overhead panels to create hyper-focused idealized conditions.

A lot of times, it is overdone, but in a movie like Knives Out it helped with the indoor scenes.

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Knives Out wasn't a Netflix production, was it? I believe Netflix only acquired the rights to the planned sequels after the first movie's release.

I think GP was using Knives Out as an example of this effect done well in general, not specifically using it as an example of the Netflix case.

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