Marc used to be a history lecturer at the university. Now he has the dullest job imaginable: sorting numbers back and forth on a monochrome computer screen without knowing why. One of his colleagues believes that they use such coded series of numbers to clean the seabed, while another is convinced that this is how they remove swear words from films. What is really behind it, nobody knows. But that doesn’t really matter to the people who work at Lumon Industries. Because every time they leave the office, they become a different person and forget about their job: they voluntarily had their brain split in two.
Private person Marc doesn’t know what his working self does all day. Everyone is talking about work-life balance, Lumon Industries implements it consistently. But are you still human in the self-imposed schizophrenia? What is happening in the mysterious break room? And what do all those numbers actually stand for? “Severance” is a whimsically vicious workplace thriller – superbly cast, set and photographed and stylishly staged by Ben Stiller. (AppleTV+)
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