Severance
Scientists, philosophers and religionists have also noted that, what really sets us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom, is the human capacity to be aware of being aware. In the haunting television series Severance, the company’s founder, Kier Egan, describes what he calls the tempers as woe, frolic, dread, and malice. In his dark philosophy the precise ratios between the four tempers define the soul. The plot line that runs throughout the series is based upon the effect of brain implants that gave employees a bifurcated mind whereby the world of the individual worker is so completely walled off from the person’s home life that the one has no knowledge of the other. The viewer is left to guess why the employer thought this is necessary. (Excerpt- Profitable Intelligence)
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SEVERANCE centers on Mark Scout (Adam Scott), leading a team of office workers whose memories are surgically split between work and personal lives. This ‘work-life balance’ experiment is questioned as Mark faces a mystery forcing him to confront the true nature of his work and himself.
Created by Dan Erickson, SEVERANCE comes from executive producers Ben Stiller (Dinner in America, Alex Strangelove), Nicky Weinstock, Dan Erickson, Mark Friedman (Dispatches from Elsewhere), Jackie Cohn (Plus One, High Desert), Chris Black (Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Outcast), Andrew Colville (Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Turn: Washington’s Spies) and John Cameron (Lars and the Real Girl, Friday Night Lights).
