TV Series - Severance s1 (2022) [/]
Oct 19 2022
Severance is a modern-day drama from Apple TV+ about four co-workers who work in the severed floor of Lumon Industries. Lumon developed the severance program where they implant a device in your brain that severs your work and non-work personas -- the Innie (work) has no memories outside work and the Outies have no memories of their work.
Mark Scout (Adam Scott) - the main character of the show, newly promoted to the head of Macrodata Refinement
Helena Riggs (Britt Lower) - a new employee so we get to see how a recruit intake occurs (you wake up in a room with no memories and a voice tells you this is your new life)
Dylan George (Zach Cherry) and Irving Bailiff (John Torturro) - two veteran Macrodata Refinement workers (there are only four people in the group)
The series starts out in the work environment showing the severed floor as a maze with big white rooms that have a few cubicles. Each division is kept isolated and the work environment is kept very bland with no stimulus other than company-approved cupcake parties and such.
Later on we get to see Mark's real life and how it's basically a night-time life. He underwent severance so he could work without having to think about his recently deceased wife. We get to see how the outside world sees the severance procedure. And we get to see that maybe Lumon Industries and severance is not as benign when Mark's Lumon co-workers shows up with some of his severed work memories and maybe a bit psychotic because of that.
Meanwhile back at work Helena really hates the job and her rebellious acts gets Mark into thinking more about what is their actual jobs and what Is Lumon Industries up to and also that work conditions are pretty barbaric. For example the Innie leave for home and in the elevator but the next thing they know they're arriving at work the next day so there is no break for them. An Innie can be physically rested but not mentally and I guess maybe that eventually drives them insane -- although there are older workers it's unclear if anybody has been working in the severed floor for years.
The MDRs discover that security can activate their work personas at any time so come up with a plan to free themselves long enough to expose Lumon Industries...
A lot of people love this show. It's interesting but a bit too dystopian for me.
Mark Scout (Adam Scott) - the main character of the show, newly promoted to the head of Macrodata Refinement
Helena Riggs (Britt Lower) - a new employee so we get to see how a recruit intake occurs (you wake up in a room with no memories and a voice tells you this is your new life)
Dylan George (Zach Cherry) and Irving Bailiff (John Torturro) - two veteran Macrodata Refinement workers (there are only four people in the group)
The series starts out in the work environment showing the severed floor as a maze with big white rooms that have a few cubicles. Each division is kept isolated and the work environment is kept very bland with no stimulus other than company-approved cupcake parties and such.
Later on we get to see Mark's real life and how it's basically a night-time life. He underwent severance so he could work without having to think about his recently deceased wife. We get to see how the outside world sees the severance procedure. And we get to see that maybe Lumon Industries and severance is not as benign when Mark's Lumon co-workers shows up with some of his severed work memories and maybe a bit psychotic because of that.
Meanwhile back at work Helena really hates the job and her rebellious acts gets Mark into thinking more about what is their actual jobs and what Is Lumon Industries up to and also that work conditions are pretty barbaric. For example the Innie leave for home and in the elevator but the next thing they know they're arriving at work the next day so there is no break for them. An Innie can be physically rested but not mentally and I guess maybe that eventually drives them insane -- although there are older workers it's unclear if anybody has been working in the severed floor for years.
The MDRs discover that security can activate their work personas at any time so come up with a plan to free themselves long enough to expose Lumon Industries...
A lot of people love this show. It's interesting but a bit too dystopian for me.