Funnily sufficient, the present that everybody appears to be speaking about on the water cooler this 12 months takes place in … an workplace. Nevertheless it’s no abnormal workplace. On this darkly humorous present, Adam Scott (Parks and Recreation) performs an worker at biotechnology company Lumon Industries. Scott’s character, and everybody else who works at Lumon, has undergone a medical process referred to as “severance,” which separates one’s recollections of life within the workplace from these of the skin world.
Consequently, many of the characters have two distinct personalities: the “innie,” who exists solely within the workplace, and the “outie” who interacts with the remainder of the world. This technique is quickly revealed to be darker and extra complicated than any Lumon worker may have anticipated.
Followers love Severance for its good critique of company tradition, the thrilling mysteries that drive the story, and the thought-provoking questions it raises in regards to the nature of identification.
Severance is streaming on Apple TV.