Severance Season-Premiere Recap: It’s Been a Minute
Severnace is grappling with many of the same questions swirling around contemporary work and labor as those other shows, but it’s pursuing them in a way that’s at once thrilling and haunting.
Anne Helen Petersen • The Feast of Severance
The work is important and mysterious. The hit Apple TV show Severance resonates so deeply because it literalizes what millions already experience: the splitting of self required by modern work culture. Its fictional brain procedure makes hyper visible the dissociation we've normalized as "professionalism"—that daily transformation where we suppress... See more
