“Characters in the show call them ‘innies’ and ‘outies.’ The ‘outies’ don’t remember the classified work they do all day, but the ‘innies’ have it much harder. “This isn’t just a neat trick to turn people into focused worker bees it essentially turns them into two people,” explains Film School Rejects. READ MORE: ‘Severance’ Director Ben Stiller And Stars Adam Scott & Patricia Arquette Dissect Their New Apple TV+ Series (Forbes) Adam Scott as Mark and Britt Lower as Helly in season 1 episode 1 of “Severance.” Cr: Apple TV+īen Stiller, who directs six of the nine episodes, optioned the script by Dan Erickson through his production company Red Hour, telling Forbes, “The idea of going to work where you have a chip put in your head and you forget everything about your life when you’re at work and when you leave work, you don’t remember what happened was just such an interesting and kind of tantalizing idea.” Each of the series’ main characters willingly underwent a procedure called severance, which involves implanting a device in one’s brain that will wall off work memories while at home, and home memories while at work. The enigmatic series follows the lives of a pod of workers who are employed by Lumon Industries, a powerful company with a long and corporate cult-like history. Or, rather, their work is a perfectly bisected portion of their lives. A mix of sci-fi and social satire, Severance is gaining plaudits for its vision of a corporate world that’s as sinister as it is sterile.Īs Film School Rejects puts it, the people in Severance can’t simply clock out of work because their work is their life. The Apple TV+ series Severance puts a new spin on the work-life balance.
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