10/36
The computer terminals used by the Macro Data Refinement team have no "escape" key
Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs..
Featured in Late Night with Seth Meyers: Ben Stiller/Rose Matafeo/Brooke Colucci (2022)
This is normal for terminals in the Data General Dasher D2 series, which these appear to be.. How I would love to go home after work and not remember a damn thing!
If that were the case, work attendance would be at an all time high
With no stress or anxiousness about work, you'll just show up, because that's what you are paid to do. But that's the pros, as for the cons…Without giving away too much, the first 2 episodes achieve putting the viewer into the mind frame of the characters who take on the bizarre act of Severance for a large secretive corporation .
The perfect ingredient for a modern trippy journey into the unknown corporate dystopian…
The viewer is then given enough interest and mystery to latch onto with a drip-feed of vital information in this beauty of a slow-burner. Overall it is an Orwellian-Kafkaesque mind teaser with a hint of Beckett's Godot dialogue.
