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The first two episodes of Apple's Severance have launched. Director Ben Stiller says the story is “reminiscent of certain workplace, office comedies, but then it also had this other strange, dark undertone to it, too'
’s Mark Scout, are able to undergo a procedure that allows them to mentally separate their work and home lives. Why a person would choose to do this and why Lumon, the company that created the process, would require it of some of its employees is just the start of the questions posed by the initial pair of “Severance” episodes.
“It’s all comes back to Kier Eagan, who is the founder of the company, and basically this idea that everything they’re doing is to fulfill this vision that he had, that he wanted to enact,” Erickson said. “And so it all comes back to this weird quasi-religious, quasi-cult like reverence that everyone has for the late founder of the company.”
“We don’t really know the status of Cobel’s character and how that relates to Mrs. Selvig; I think you learn more during the course of the season,” Stiller said, adding he enjoyed watching Arquette “play this other aspect of her character and figure out why she’s up to it.” What Erickson is referring to here might require a bit more explanation, even for the most eagle-eyed “Severance” premiere viewers who know that, yes, Mark has a glass “Mark’s Allentown” tchotchke on his desk. As Dylan tells Helly in Episode 2, that’s not one of Lumon’s standard prizes for its Macro-Data Refiners team, it’s something Mark was awarded specifically.
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