The perks are great. Once you clock in, your “work-self” wakes up and completes whatever your company asks of them for the typical eight office hours and once they clock out, you wake up to continue the rest of the day.
They are corporate slaves. Their world is the workplace. Their religion is their company’s dogma. Their gods are their bosses.
Dark, twisted narrative
The second season goes further into the history of Lumon Industries, their inner workings and what the shady corporation wants from Mark Scout’s (Adam Scott) Macrodata Refinement team, comprising Helly Riggs (Britt Lower), Irving Bailiff (John Turturro) and Dylan George (Zach Cherry).
Severance’s second season has one extra episode compared with the first season and show creator Dan Erickson somehow pulls off the Herculean feat of proportionally expanding on all the main characters even more than he and the writers did for the previous season, all while still satirising corporate culture.
A minor complaint with the first season, in relation to Helly and Dylan not receiving much development, is rectified in this season. For example, while the big mystery of who is Helly’s “outie” was solved in the first season’s finale, this season goes into how different they are and it gives a lot of room for Lower to demonstrate masterclass acting, shifting and contorting the subtlest changes from body posture to the way her face structurally changes between Helly and Helena.
If the first season saw a lot of naturally comedic talent turning in a spellbinding dramatic, serious performance, Severance’s latest season is no different. This also applies to the direction, with Ben Stiller once again directing a bulk of the season’s episodes.
Though the second season thankfully does not end on a massive cliffhanger, it certainly leaves several doors open for how Erickson will progress the story particularly as Severance needs to end with the fall of Lumon, which is the only logical end to the show’s satire of greedy, inhuman corporations.
Severance is streaming on Apple TV+.
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