Where were the Odessa parts filmed? Because...
...they filmed it NOWHERE REMOTELY CLOSE to Odessa, TX! That looks nothing like Odessa! Odessa is a friggin' desert! This is what the land around Odessa looks like, plus extra oil rigs and trash now:
http://www.americansouthwest.net/texas/photographs700/crater-view.jpg
We call it Slowdeatha for a reason. Anyway. Glad they seemed to have remedied that somewhat in the show proper. It's still obviously not Odessa, but at least it looks like the same biome.