When work is a nightmare
With a new Apple TV series, Severance, writer Dan Erickson and director Ben Stiller sketch a nightmare version of the future of labor that looks a little too close to work as we have it now. In its near-future, Adam Scott plays Mark, an employee at Lumon Industries who has undergone a medical procedure known as “severance.” This surgery split his mind such that while he’s at work in the company’s Macrodata Refinement division, he has no memory of his personal life. Likewise, as soon as he leaves the massive, grim headquarters, he loses all memories of his work self. He leads a dualisti...
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