Detroit native John Paesano received the sort of on-the-job training most budding film composers would kill for, having worked under John Williams and for Hans Zimmer’s studio in the early 2000s. Over the following decade, he would become an equally pervasive presence in the worlds of sci-fi and fantasy. Paesano’s tense but sweeping orchestrations thrust moviegoers into the dystopian underworld of The Maze Runner, while millions of gamers have absorbed the swelling symphonic soundscapes he contributed to PlayStation’s 2018 Spider-Man video game. But Paesano can also deliver the drama with a more subtle touch, as with his folk-inflected score for the Showtime horror series Penny Dreadful.