Severance Captures the Spirit of the Great Resignation
, a grimly hilarious ode to the horrors of professional life, imagines a world in which thedream is reality: You can come home from work each day and forget everything about what went on in the office. The show is a stylish and endlessly thrilling, even if the world it depicts is both deeply frightening and much too like our own.s Adam Scott as Mark, a widower who works in the macrodata refinery department of a shadowy corporation called Lumon.
It’s all a little heady, but delivered with a hefty amount of style to help the world building go down. Most of the series is directed by Ben Stiller, and imbued with a quiet, odd-ball humor.
when Mark takes her up on the offer. Mark and his fellow severed refiners engage in chirpy banter that’s funny enough until you realize that they’re the only conversations that these “innies” have ever had. Their memories are a sea of fluorescent lighting and stain-resistant carpets, their whole world is coffee breaks and legal pads. In short, they live in hell.
Mark’s monotonous existence is shaken up when he encounters members of the anti-severance movement, and as each of his colleagues discover reasons of their own to attempt to disrupt the Lumon status quo. Still, there’s something lovely about the world the severed refiners create out of their tiny cubicle farm. Too many shows give their characters circumstances instead of personalities. At their workplace, the characters inhave no biographies.
Occasionally, the show’s artfulness feels a tad trite. Again and again, the color blue symbolizes Lumon and all its corporate control while red represents the vibrance of “outie” life. Helly, the rebelhas bright red hair; in his blue corporate housing, Mark has an aquarium that holds two fish, each a vivid shade of red and blue, respectively. A book that makes its way into the office from the outside world and eventually revolutionizes Mark’s thinking about his role as an employee is bright red.
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