I'm David Bianculli. Today, we feature our interview with Adam Scott, who stars in it. In "Severance," as Mark S. Unable to return to work as a professor because of his grief, he decides to work for the company Lumon, a mysterious conglomerate that performs a controversial surgery on some of its employees.
Workers can choose to get a chip implanted in their brain that makes them forget about their personal lives while they're at work and their work lives when they're at home. In the current season, there's some evidence that Mark's wife may not be dead after all, which only reinforces his desire to quit the company that severed his consciousness. But his sister Devon, played by Jen Tullock, urges him to stay put and investigate further. My thing is if we could just get, like, a half-step more confirmation, then it's not going to be something that continues to haunt us.
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Do you know what I mean? How about her students? How about this - did your sheets smell like her for weeks afterwards? Like, pre-pandemic, there was this fear that, you know, because of technology, people would be working all the time, you know, leaving little time for outside life.
And with the pandemic, those lines between the two have gone kind of beyond blurred. And people are really reconsidering what work means, how much time one should work, how much of their lives should be devoted to it. You know, this show goes dramatic in the other way, like, separating the two. And because it's so much about office culture, is that something that appealed to you and, you know, everyone who works on the show, like, thinking through those issues?
You know, while we were making "Severance," we shot it in New York. My family is in Los Angeles. So, you know, it was right in the heart of pre-vaccine pandemic.
