Severance — Apple TV Series

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Very creepy, very weird. On the inside, we have a sterile corporate environment with just a few people, endless hallways and apparently meaningless tasks. On the outside the world is normal. Problem is that people who have elected to be severed have no memory of the other side. Once inside, their only memories are of life on the inside. When they leave, a switch is thrown in their brain and now their only memories are of their life on the outside. Naturally, one guy has managed to reverse his severance and now we've got trouble.

Now that I think about it, most jobs require you to keep your work life and your private life separate, so this show is just pushing that idea to the extreme. Along with this we have all the worst aspects of corporate life, rewards that are less than trivial, opaque procedures, concealment of basic information behind alleged concerns for 'privacy', innocuous punishments that are apparently designed to drive people mad. Some of the characters thrive in this environment, others tolerate it, but Helly hates it and gets crosswise immediately.

Christopher Walken and Patricia Arquette are the actor's names I recognize. Britt Lower is a lovely woman.

Main cast:

Actor	Surname	Character	Surname	Severed	Lumon Employee	MDR Dept.	Notes
Adam	Scott	Mark	Scout	X	X	X	former history professor
Zach	Cherry	Dylan	George	X	X	X	enjoys company perks.
Britt	Lower	Helly	R.	X	X	X	rebellious
Tramell	Tillman	Seth	Milchick		X		Deputy Manager of the severed floor
Jen	Tullock	Devon	Scout-Hale				Mark's sister and Ricken's wife
Dichen	Lachman	Ms.	Casey		X		wellness counselor
Michael	Chernus	Ricken	Hale				author and Devon's husband
John	Turturro	Irving	Bailiff	X	X	X	stickler for company policy
Christopher	Walken	Burt	Goodman	X	X		head of Optics and Design (O&D)
Patricia	Arquette	Harmony	Cobel		X		Manager of the severed floor, outside of work uses the false identity of "Mrs. Selvig" and is Mark's next-door neighbor.

MDR is the Macrodata Refinement department

Severed employees only use the first letter of their last names when on the inside.

Spreadsheet here.

The SeveranceWiki cast list has over 100 entries.

Creepy atmospheric Soundtrack by Theodore Shapiro. No tunes as such.

Season 1 has 9 episodes about 50 minutes each. There is a second season.