How would it take the company we work for? We would like to be attentive and prompt in carrying out our duties, relaxed from a friendly environment, calm and free of thoughts that distract us from our duties. The work and everything else outside.
No thoughts about existential, sentimental or economic problems, about the progress of the house or the care of the children. When you are at work, your head has to be there. So much so, that the mysterious company Lumon Industries, during the recruitment interviews, proposes the voluntary insertion of a chip in the brain, which will be activated only at the entrance to the office and will be deactivated at the exit, which will ensure that at work you do not remember anything about your private life, while when you are at rest you will have no idea what happened during the working day.
The instantaneous process of splitting (Severance) will cause some initial problems of adaptation, but this step will be done by the special office, which is assigned to Mark (Adam Scott), who has two colleagues with a somewhat bizarre character (John Turturro and Zach Chery). Everyone is laboriously sorting through the numbers and numbers that scroll across their retro-looking computer screens, and Mark has to respond to a cold manager (Patricia Arquette) and a supervisor who seems to know more (Tramell Tillman).
At the beginning of the narration, however, we see that things do not go very smoothly: Mark does not seem as serene as he should be, insecure at work, dissatisfied with the domestic situation and moreover one night he sees an unknown individual observing him from afar. Meanwhile, in the gigantic atrium that leads to a maze of labyrinthine and aseptic corridors of offices, worthy of a spaceship, stands a gigantic bas-relief of a paternal and reliable male face, the revered founder of everything, a benevolent presence that dominates the employees.
Adding to Mark’s crisis are the disappearance of Petey, a colleague with whom he had really made friends at work, and the arrival of a new employee (Britt Lower), somewhat rebellious even if subjected to the procedure, who needs the adequate insertion, but strangely immediately manifests the desire to leave, even if he doesn’t know where.
What activity does Lumen really carry out, which manages, controls and punishes with methods worthy of Big Brother, that of Orwell, not reality, the split works just so well and is it really advisable, for the purpose for which it is carried out? And what reasons are there really behind the drastic choice of candidates for employment? Meanwhile, outside the company, whose methods are known, a certain popular disapproval mounts and Mark’s doubts increase.
The TV series promises very well, right from the elegantly disturbing opening credits on the notes of the beautiful theme by Theodore Shapiro, written and produced by the newcomer Dan Erickson, of which Ben Stiller directs six of the nine episodes, and we will see which metaphors the story relates to. will do bearer.
In the disturbing aura of mystery that surrounds the company, it is inevitable to catch the echoes of Devs, an underrated series of a couple of years ago, produced by Hulu. But we will see where it ends, what is clear is that it should not be confused with the film of the same name, which also spoke of crazy corporate drifts and where the title meant dismissal rather than separation.
It should be emphasized that the Apple productions are enormously inferior in quantity to the competitors (Netflix, Prime, Disney) but of superior quality (few stuff but good, in short). The amount of things to see that we are downloaded every week from other platforms, of too fluctuating level, now generates a sense of frustration in an area that should only cause entertainment, because there is a constant feeling of waste. How many valid things will we get lost in all that mess?
Apple also does not publish all episodes at the same time and thus does not throw the subscriber into the deadly maelstrom of binge watching. For all this, we are grateful to him.
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