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Severance (TV Series)

Severance

2022

Dan Erickson (Creator), Ben Stiller ...

Adam Scott, Patricia Arquette, John Turturro, Britt Lower ...

7.9

10,363

TV Series. Sci-Fi. Thriller. Mystery. Drama 9 Episodes. Mark Scout (Adam Scott) leads a team at Lumon Industries, where a "severance" program is used to separate the non-work memories of their employees from their work memories.

April 2022: Renewed for a Second Season.

	Author	Review
United States	Stephen Robinson AV Club	"Stiller deftly balances absurd comic moments with genuine character development (...) Like all the best sci-fi and social satire, Severance is our current reality, just dialed up to 11."	POS
United States	Alan Sepinwall Rolling Stone	"The show literalizes the struggle for work-life balance in a way that feels equal parts Charlie Kaufman-esque sci-fi whimsy, paranoid Seventies thriller and end-stage capitalism satire (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Kristen Baldwin Entertainment Weekly	"A sleek sci-fi psychodrama that slowly reveals its own beating heart under an extensively stylized exterior."	POS
Canada	Alex Maidy JoBlo	"Severance which is a disturbingly dark cross between Black Mirror and Office Space. This series is by far one of the most original I have seen in some time"	POS
United States	Carly Lane Collider	"The most engrossing element of Severance is the many mysteries it presents, wrapped up in silent overarching questions of philosophy, morality, and free will versus choice"	POS
United Kingdom	Huw Fullerton Radio Times	"An impressive creation. It’s a sci-fi mystery, an quasi-religious thriller and much more besides – but more than anything it really is a portrait of work and how we let it take over our lives (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Ben Travers IndieWire	"Whether you invest in the allegory, character arcs, or both, 'Severance' hits its marks. Compulsive on an episode-to-episode basis and unshakeable in between sittings"	POS
United States	Will Ashton The Playlist	"Thanks to its smart, sophisticated direction and sharp performances, Apple TV+’s Severance mercifully doesn’t feel like work (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter	"Builds a fascinating speculative world and then takes it to a thrilling climax (...) None of this would work without an undercurrent of emotion that comes from the cast"	POS
Canada	Alex Hudson Exclaim!	"Severance is the best kind of sci-fi, as it takes a plausible futuristic concept and warps it in unexpected new ways, showing the wild future that could conceivably await humanity."	POS
Canada	Peter Martin Screen Anarchy	"The lure of 'Severance' is watching actors I enjoy figuring out how to fight their way out of a paper box that grows more mysterious, and possibly even completely inscrutable, as time passes"	POS
United States	Vanessa Armstrong SlashFilm	"This mind-blowing, unpredictable series is a must-watch (...) A show that gets more mysterious the more it reveals, and the last two episodes of the season had me so anxious that my dog started whining at me in concern"	POS
United States	Patrick Ryan USA Today	"Unnerving thriller (...) In 'Severance', as in life, you halve to have pain in order to truly appreciate happiness (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS

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