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Severance is an American science fiction psychological thriller television series created by Dan Erickson and directed by Ben Stiller and Aoife McArdle. It stars Adam Scott, Zach Cherry, Britt Lower, Tramell Tillman, Jen Tullock, Dichen Lachman, Michael Chernus, John Turturro, Christopher Walken, and Patricia Arquette. The plot follows Mark (Scott), an employee of Lumon Industries who agrees to a "severance" program in which his non-work memories are separated from his work memories.

Severance
Title card
Genre	Psychological thriller Drama Mystery Science fiction Dystopia[1] Black comedy Workplace comedy
Created by	Dan Erickson
Directed by	Ben Stiller Aoife McArdle
Starring	Adam Scott Zach Cherry Britt Lower Tramell Tillman Jen Tullock Dichen Lachman Michael Chernus John Turturro Christopher Walken Patricia Arquette
Composer	Theodore Shapiro
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	9
Production
Executive producers	Ben Stiller Nicholas Weinstock Jackie Cohn Mark Friedman Dan Erickson Andrew Colville Chris Black John Cameron
Producers	Adam Scott Patricia Arquette Aoife McArdle Amanda Overton Gerry Robert Byrne
Cinematography	Jessica Lee Gagné Matt Mitchell
Editors	Geoffrey Richman Gershon Hinkson Erica Freed Marker
Running time	40–57 minutes
Production companies	Red Hour Productions Endeavor Content
Distributor	Apple Inc.
Release
Original network	Apple TV+
Picture format	4K UHDTV HDR / Dolby Vision
Audio format	Dolby Digital / Dolby Atmos
Original release	February 18, 2022 (2022-02-18) – present (present)

The series premiered on Apple TV+ on February 18, 2022. It received acclaim from critics and audiences, who praised its cinematography, production design, musical score, story, and performances (especially Scott). The series received 14 nominations at the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards including Outstanding Drama Series and acting nods for Scott, Turturro, Walken, and Arquette (winning for Main Title Design and score). In April 2022, the series was renewed for a second season.

Premise

A biotechnology corporation, Lumon Industries, uses a "severance" medical procedure to separate the non-work memories of some of their employees from their work memories. One severed employee, Mark, gradually uncovers a web of conspiracy from both sides of the division.

Cast and characters

Main

• Adam Scott as Mark Scout, a worker for Lumon Industries in the Macrodata Refinement division who is part of the "severance" program. He is grieving the death of his wife Gemma.
• Zach Cherry as Dylan George, Mark's severed co-worker who particularly enjoys company perks.[2]
• Britt Lower as Helena "Helly" Riggs, a new employee who replaces Petey.
• Tramell Tillman as Seth Milchick, the supervisor on the severed floor.
• Jen Tullock as Devon Hale, Mark's pregnant sister, who later gives birth to baby Eleanor.
• Dichen Lachman as Ms. Casey, the wellness counselor on the severed floor.
• Michael Chernus as Ricken Hale, Devon's husband, a self-help author.
• John Turturro as Irving Bailiff, Mark's severed co-worker who is a stickler for company policy and is drawn to Burt.[3]
• Christopher Walken as Burt Goodman, the severed chief of the Optics and Design division who is drawn to Irving.[3]
• Patricia Arquette as Harmony Cobel, Mark's boss and Mrs. Selvig, Mark's next-door neighbor.

Recurring

• Yul Vazquez as Peter "Petey" Kilmer, an ex-severed Lumon worker and Mark's best friend who was fired under mysterious circumstances.
• Michael Cumpsty as Doug Graner, the head of security on Lumon's severed floor.
• Nikki M. James as Alexa, Devon's midwife.
• Sydney Cole Alexander as Natalie, Lumon's PR representative and liaison for its board of trustees.
• Nora Dale as Gabby Arteta, a new mother married to Senator Angelo Arteta. She underwent severance to avoid the pain of childbirth.
• Claudia Robinson as Felicia, Optics employee at Lumon.
• Mark Kenneth Smaltz as Judd, security guard at Lumon.

Guest

• Marc Geller as Kier Eagan, the founder of Lumon Industries, who is worshipped with cult-like devotion within the company. Despite his death, he is represented though sculptures, paintings, and recordings.
• Michael Siberry as Jame Eagan, the current CEO of Lumon Industries.
• Joanne Kelly as Nina, Petey's ex-wife.
• Cassidy Layton as June, Petey's daughter.
• Ethan Flower as Angelo Arteta, a Lumon-backed state senator who supports legalizing the Severance procedure and is married to Gabby Arteta, with whom he has three children.
• Karen Aldridge as Reghabi, a former Lumon surgeon who reintegrated Petey.

Ben Stiller has an uncredited voice cameo as an animated version of Kier Eagan.[4]

Episodes

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date [5]
1	"Good News About Hell"	Ben Stiller	Dan Erickson	February 18, 2022 (2022-02-18)
A woman wakes up in a conference room with no memory of who or where she is. After being given a survey and learning she is Helly, a new hire at Lumon Industries, she is allowed to leave but finds she is unable to do so. She then sees a video explaining that she has undergone the "severance" procedure, which bifurcated her memories to create a version of herself that will only exist inside the workplace. Mark Scout, who works alongside Helly in Lumon's Macrodata Refinement division, discovers he is being promoted to department head in light of coworker Petey's sudden departure. The "outside" version of Mark, a former history professor grieving his wife's death and living in the Lumon-subsidized town of Kier, encounters a man claiming to be Petey who gives him a letter with cryptic instructions. Mark returns home and interacts with his neighbor Mrs. Selvig, unaware that she is his boss, senior manager Harmony Cobel.
2	"Half Loop"	Ben Stiller	Dan Erickson	February 18, 2022 (2022-02-18)
The previous day, Helly undergoes the severance procedure as a new employee, implanting a microchip inside her brain. At the office, the severed Helly is introduced to her new coworkers, Dylan and Irving, and is instructed that her job is to sort encrypted numbers into digital bins as part of "macrodata refinement". During a welcome party headed by floor manager Milchick, Helly becomes uncomfortable and attempts to escape by writing her outside self (or "outie") a note of resignation, but the elevator shuts down, which Mark claims is due to Lumon's built-in "code detectors" which prevent unauthorized communication between selves. Mark claims responsibility and is put into the "break room" as punishment. Later, Irving hallucinates a black liquid covering his desk and is administered a "wellness check", where counselor Ms. Casey recites various facts about Irving's outie, with Irving forced to react neutrally. At the wellness center, Irving also meets Burt, the head of the two-person Optics and Design department. Outside, Mark once again meets with Petey, who explains that he has "reintegration sickness" from reversing his severance. Petey tells Mark of the break room and plays a recording of himself repeatedly reading out a stringent apology, with Milchick forcing him to repeat the lines. Mark gives Petey shelter in his house. As he is taking a shower, Petey suffers hallucinations and collapses.
3	"In Perpetuity"	Ben Stiller	Andrew Colville	February 25, 2022 (2022-02-25)
Petey tells Mark that mysterious benefactors helped him undergo the reintegration procedure. While Mark is at work, his sister Devon and brother-in-law Ricken deliver a book authored by the latter to his doorstep, which Mrs. Selvig steals and takes to Lumon to check for hidden messages. As she searches Mark's house, Petey recognizes her as Cobel and flees the house, suffering more hallucinations and eventually collapsing at a convenience store. At the office, Helly learns her resignation request sent to her "outie" has been denied. Mark thwarts her various attempts to smuggle other messages to her outie. To help Helly understand why she is working at Lumon, Irving suggests they show her the office's Perpetuity Wing, which documents the history of Lumon's founder, Kier Eagan, and his succeeding dynasty. On the way to the Perpetuity Wing, Dylan rumors with the group of Optics and Design's failed "coup" years in the past, which Mark dismisses as fake. After attempting another escape, Helly is brought to the break room, where Milchick forces her to repeatedly recite an apologetic passage. After his shift, Mark follows ambulance traffic to the convenience store and witnesses Petey being carried away by paramedics after his breathing stops. Mark rushes home to remove evidence of Petey's stay, but is interrupted when Petey's abandoned cellphone rings.
4	"The You You Are"	Aoife McArdle	Kari Drake	March 4, 2022 (2022-03-04)
Mark misses the call on Petey's phone and stashes it, noticing several missed calls from the same blocked number. The next day, Irving visits Optics & Design, where he grows closer to Burt and discovers Ricken's book left behind by Milchick during Helly's attempted escape. Mark decides to keep the book despite promising to give it to management. Helly returns from the break room after being forced to read her apology over a thousand times; she finds a paper cutter and threatens Cobel with self-mutilation unless she is granted a recorded resignation request. However, her outie sends back a recording firmly denying the request. Later that night, Mark receives a news notification reporting that Petey died from an "unknown ailment"; Petey's phone rings shortly after. Cobel attends the funeral as Mrs. Selvig and extracts Petey's severance chip prior to his cremation. She then has Ms. Casey perform a "special" wellness check on Mark, which she watches remotely. Casey has Mark sculpt his emotional state out of clay; Mark sculpts a tree, which his outie visited in remembrance of his late wife Gemma after the funeral. Irving discovers that O&D actually has at least seven employees, working in a massive unlabelled back room. Dylan finds Ricken's book hidden in Mark's files. Helly smuggles out an extension cord and hangs herself in an elevator shaft.
5	"The Grim Barbarity of Optics and Design"	Aoife McArdle	Anna Ouyang Moench	March 11, 2022 (2022-03-11)
Helly is injured by her suicide attempt, but ultimately survives; she returns to work three days later. Mark continues to read Ricken's book, which carries strong anti-establishment sentiments. Outside work, Mark visits a lodge where Devon gives birth; he nearly tells her about his encounters with Petey, but is interrupted by her contractions. When Helly returns, Cobel orders Ms. Casey to watch her closely. Irving once again hallucinates black liquid in the office and decides to visit Burt to calm himself, but Mark tells him to print a second copy of the directions to O&D first; while doing so, Milchick runs a "266" on Irving, causing the copier to print out a painting of O&D employees viciously massacring MDR employees. Milchick arrives and claims it was meant as a joke for Cobel. Irving and Dylan confront Burt over the painting, who claims that he lied about the size of O&D because the MDR department is seen as untrustworthy. Meanwhile, Mark sneaks Helly out of MDR and reveals he has been recreating Petey's map. Helly agrees to help Mark with recreating the map after they discover a previously unknown department in which a single employee feeds baby goats. Meanwhile, Dylan and Irving walk Burt back to O&D; Dylan discovers a hidden copy of the massacre painting, but the trio notice that the painting instead depicts MDR employees massacring O&D employees. Burt takes Dylan and Irving to the unlabelled back room and introduces them as "friends".
6	"Hide and Seek"	Aoife McArdle	Amanda Overton	March 18, 2022 (2022-03-18)
Cobel is shown worshipping a shrine to Kier Eagan in her home. Graner calls to inform her that he has identified Reghabi, a former Lumon employee, as the person responsible for Petey's reintegration. Irving admits to Burt he is not ready to make their relationship romantic. Mark learns Ms. Casey has been sent to the break room for failing to monitor him and Helly; after a reprimand from Cobel, Mark has Irving take MDR to O&D's back room and makes a speech calling for the departments to work together to understand the inner workings of Lumon. However, Milchick finds them and Mark is sent to the break room; after work, Mark is seen with bruised knuckles. Milchick later briefly awakens Dylan's innie inside his outie's home to locate an infographic card Dylan stole from O&D, but Dylan's innie discovers in the process that he has a son. Outside, Devon runs into Gabby, a woman she met at the birthing lodge, but Gabby does not seem to recognize her. Devon later learns Gabby's husband Angelo Arteta is a Lumon-backed state senator who supports legalizing severance. Cobel, as Mrs. Selvig, gets close to Devon and Ricken by acting as their lactation consultant. Mark goes on a date with Alexa, Devon's midwife, to a concert by Petey's daughter's punk-rock band, and sings along to an anti-Lumon protest song. Later, Mark finally answers Petey's phone and is contacted by Reghabi to meet in person at a nearby university. Cobel orders for a keycard-locked door to be installed at the entrance to MDR.
7	"Defiant Jazz"	Ben Stiller	Helen Leigh	March 25, 2022 (2022-03-25)
While Mark is meeting with Reghabi, Graner enters the building – following a tip from campus security – and tells Mark he works with him. Reghabi kills Graner and gives Mark his access card, telling him to bring it to his innie. Devon tells Cobel (posing as Mrs. Selvig) that she suspects Gabby severed her memories to avoid the pains of childbirth. Milchick engages in a "Music Dance Experience" with the department as a prize for Helly; Dylan refuses to participate and eventually attacks Milchick, enraged that he cannot know any more information about his child. Milchick leaves to report the incident to Cobel; Dylan, meanwhile, tells the department of Lumon's ability to wake them up outside the severed floor, known as an "overtime contingency". Mark and Helly scheme to find the security office; inside, they find Lumon strictly monitors all of its employees, and that the overtime contingency is activated using two levers. Dylan offers to stay behind after hours to wake Mark and Helly up on the outside. Irving departs to O&D, worried about Burt's safety. Upon arrival, he discovers that Burt is retiring, and openly berates the non-severed Milchick for exploiting the severed employees. After work, Alexa visits a drunken Mark, who scares her off after ripping up a photo of Gemma. After she leaves, Mark reassembles the photo, revealing it to be of Ms. Casey.
8	"What's for Dinner?"	Ben Stiller	Chris Black	April 1, 2022 (2022-04-01)
Irving's outie is shown to be living alone in an apartment, where he spends much of his time painting identical images of a dark corridor. Helly reaches 100% on her data refinement file, thereby meeting MDR's quota for the quarter. Cobel schedules Mark for a final wellness session with Ms. Casey, and appears disappointed when Mark and Ms. Casey fail to remember each other as husband and wife. She then orders Ms. Casey sent back down to the "testing floor", whose entrance is shown to be the same corridor in Irving's paintings. While MDR celebrates quota, Cobel is suspended by the board for withholding knowledge of Helly's suicide attempt and her extracurricular activities as "Mrs. Selvig". The MDR team prepares for Dylan to remotely awaken them on the outside; Helly kisses Mark before departing. Mark's outie attends Ricken's book-reading party and tells Cobel (as Mrs. Selvig) that he plans to quit Lumon; Cobel, herself feeling betrayed by the company, encourages him to do so. Dylan receives a "waffle party" as a reward for meeting quota, in which he dons a Kier Eagan head and sits within a replica of Kier's bedroom in the Perpetuity Wing while ritualistic and seductive dances are performed in front of him. Dylan leaves midway to access the security office and activates the overtime contingency to awaken Mark, Irving, and Helly's innies in the outside world.
9	"The We We Are"	Ben Stiller	Dan Erickson	April 8, 2022 (2022-04-08)
Mark's innie awakens in Devon's home and finds himself hugging Cobel. While excusing himself to find Devon, he calls Cobel by name, alerting her that the overtime contingency has been activated. Cobel calls Milchick and has him check the security office. Mark privately reveals to Devon that he is in innie form; Devon tells him of Gemma's death, and learns that "Mrs. Selvig" is Mark's boss. Mark encourages Devon to report Lumon's misdeeds to the press. Irving wakes up in his apartment, discovering his outie's paintings and background in the U.S. Navy, and finds a map and employee directory in the closet which he uses to locate Burt. Helly wakes up at a Lumon gala where she learns that her outie is Helena Eagan – daughter of Lumon CEO Jame Eagan – who underwent severance to build public support for legalizing the procedure. Cobel races to the gala and attempts to stop Helly from making a scheduled speech. Milchick reaches the security office and cuts his way through the makeshift restraints Dylan has placed on the door. Helly gets onstage and tells the crowd of the innies' subjugation and torment before being tackled by Natalie. Irving arrives at Burt's house only to find he is already in a relationship, bringing him to bang on Burt's door in anguish. Mark finds a photo of his and Gemma's wedding; he rushes to tell Devon, but is only able to say "She's alive!" before Milchick tackles Dylan, deactivating the overtime contingency and reverting the three to their outie state.

Production

Development

Ben Stiller first read the screenplay to the pilot episode at least five years before the show premiered, calling it "the longest thing I've ever worked on." The script was submitted by Dan Erickson as a writing sample to Stiller's production company Red Hour Productions, and passed to Stiller by development executive Jackie Cohn. Stiller said he enjoyed the story's contributions to the workplace comedy.[6] In January 2017, Stiller invited Adam Scott to star.[7] In November 2019, Apple TV+ gave Severance a series order, with Stiller directing and Scott cast in the leading role.[8] Stiller was only attached to direct the pilot but he decided to direct several more episodes as the series entered development.[9]

In January 2020, Patricia Arquette,[10] Britt Lower,[11] Jen Tullock, and Zach Cherry were added to the cast.[12] Tramell Tillman joined in February 2020,[13] and John Turturro and Christopher Walken were added in November 2020.[14][15] Dichen Lachman was cast in December 2020.[16] Turturro said he recommended Walken for the role of Burt because he had known him for "a long time and I don't have to really act like we're friends."[17] On April 6, 2022, Apple renewed the series for a second season.[18]

Modern media that influenced Severance include the online urban legend known as The Backrooms, the video game The Stanley Parable, films including Brazil, The Truman Show, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and the Dilbert comic strips.[19] Older influences include the existential hell in the Jean-Paul Sartre play No Exit and the totalitarian dystopia in the George Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.[20]

Filming

The COVID-19 pandemic postponed the initial production start of March 2020.[6] Principal photography for the first season started in New York City under the working title Tumwater on November 8, 2020, the day after the U.S. presidential election.[21][22] The opening scene of the show was shot on January 6, 2021.[22] The series filmed for a few days in Nyack in February and in Kingston and Beacon in March.[23][24] In April, filming moved to central New Jersey, mainly in the Bell Labs Holmdel Complex which stood in for Lumon HQ.[25][26] Filming was scheduled to conclude on June 23, 2021.[27] Production designer Jeremy Hindle blended corporate looks from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s for the show's distinctive look, and cited modernist architect Eero Saarinen as influential for the building design.[26] Stiller said the prop master reconstructed old computers so the actors could actually do the work presented on the show in order to get adjusted to the office setting.[28] These computers lacked an escape key, as a metaphor for the lack of control the Innies have while in Lumon's offices.[29]

The second season is set to begin filming on October 3, 2022, in New York City, and wrap on May 12, 2023. The second season will also shoot in New Jersey.[30]

Reception

Critical response

Severance was met with critical acclaim upon its release. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 97% of 100 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.5/10. The website's consensus reads, "Audacious, mysterious, and bringing fresh insight into the perils of corporate drudgery, Severance is the complete package."[31] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 83 out of 100 based on 36 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[32]

The series received a rating of 5 out of 5 stars from Lucy Mangan of The Guardian and Rachael Sigee of I,[33][34] 4 out of 5 stars from Huw Fullerton of Radio Times, John Nugent of Empire, Alan Sepinwall of Rolling Stone and Anita Singh of The Telegraph,[35][36][37][38] and 3.5 out of 4 stars from Patrick Ryan of USA Today.[39] In her review, Mangan praised Stiller's direction, the writing, and the performances of the cast (particularly that of Arquette, Turturro, Walken and Tillman).[33] Sigee also praised the performances, especially Scott's, Arquette's, Turturro's and Walken's, and wrote, "Severance moves slowly but surely, allowing time to absorb both the impressive world-building and stunning visuals, [...] [and] its breathtaking cinematography and design. With an exceptional cast [...], this is an original, weird, thought-provoking and beautifully crafted story that asks just how much of ourselves we should give over to our jobs." Fullerton also praised Scott's performance and called the series "an impressive creation."[34] Nugent praised the direction, performances of Scott, Arquette, Turturro and Walken, and chemistry between the latter two.[36] Sepinwall also praised Stiller's direction and the cast's performances (most notably that of Scott, Turturro, Walken, Lower and Tillman), in addition to the production design, tone, and season finale.[38]

Grading the series with an "A", Carly Lane of Collider stated that "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, and as the series demonstrates, some of those questions aren't so easily solved, but some issues aren't as black-and-white as initially presented either."[40] Also grading it with an "A", Ben Travers of IndieWire said, "Whether you invest in the allegory, character arcs, or both, 'Severance' hits its marks. [...] Erickson and his writing staff deserve a ton of credit. The season plays out cleanly and efficiently; episodes range from nearly 60 minutes to a crisp 40; cliffhangers abound, but they’re earned. [...] This is serialized storytelling that knows how to make the most of its episodic format."[41] Stephen Robinson of The A.V. Club gave it an "A-" grade and praised Stiller's direction and the cast, with the performances of Lower, Scott, Tillman, Turturro, Walken, Tullock and Cherry being singled out.[42] From Entertainment Weekly, Kristen Baldwin graded it with a "B+" and highlighted the performances of Scott, Lower and Tillman, saying that "Scott is a superb fit for Severance's central everyman, [...] Lower brings an effective vulnerability to the acerbic Helly, and Tramell Tillman is an absolute force of charisma as Milchick."[43]

Giving the series an "amazing" score of 9 out of 10, Samantha Nelson of IGN wrote in her verdict, "Severance [...] uses a clever premise and excellent cast to set up an intriguing mystery that leaves plenty of room for the characters to evolve."[44] Writing for Paste, Shane Ryan gave it an 8.1 out of 10 and praised the performances of Scott, Arquette and Tillman as well as Stiller and McArdle's direction.[45] Kyle Mullin of Under the Radar gave it an 8 out of 10 and said. "Severance's writer/creator Dan Erickson is another newcomer who pens scenes with veteran-level aplomb. Every scene is a Golden Age of TV gem in its own right. But Severance's dramatic heart resides at the workplace, where it also becomes a white-knuckle thriller. This is where director Ben Stiller especially shines, training his lens and setting the scenes [...]. He certainly brings the best out of his cast."[46]

Accolades

Year	Award	Category	Nominee(s)	Result	Ref.
2022	Dorian Awards	Best TV Drama	Severance	Pending	[47]
		Most Visually Striking Show		Pending
	Hollywood Critics Association TV Awards	Best Streaming Series, Drama		Won	[48]
		Best Actor in a Streaming Series, Drama	Adam Scott	Nominated
		Best Actress in a Streaming Series, Drama	Britt Lower	Won[lower-alpha 1]
		Best Supporting Actor in a Streaming Series, Drama	Zach Cherry	Nominated
			Tramell Tillman	Nominated
			John Turturro	Won
			Christopher Walken	Nominated
		Best Supporting Actress in a Streaming Series, Drama	Patricia Arquette	Nominated
			Dichen Lachman	Nominated
		Best Directing in a Streaming Series, Drama	Aoife McArdle (for "The You You Are")	Nominated
			Ben Stiller (for "The We We Are")	Won
		Best Writing in a Streaming Series, Drama	Dan Erickson (for "The We We Are")	Won
	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Drama Series	Ben Stiller, Nicholas Weinstock, Jackie Cohn, Mark Friedman, Dan Erickson, Andrew Colville, Chris Black, John Cameron, Jill Footlick, Kari Drake, Adam Scott, Patricia Arquette, Aoife McArdle, Amanda Overton, and Gerry Robert Bryne	Nominated	[49]
		Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series	Adam Scott	Nominated
		Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series	John Turturro	Nominated
			Christopher Walken	Nominated
		Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series	Patricia Arquette	Nominated
		Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series	Ben Stiller (for "The We We Are")	Nominated
		Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series	Dan Erickson (for "The We We Are")	Nominated
	Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards	Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series	Rachel Tenner and Bess Fifer	Nominated
		Outstanding Main Title Design	Oliver Latta and Teddy Blanks	Won
		Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score)	Theodore Shapiro (for "The We We Are")	Won
		Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music	Theodore Shapiro	Nominated
		Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Contemporary Program (One Hour or More)	Jeremy Hindle, Nick Francone, Angelica Borrero-Fortier, and Andrew Baseman (for "Good News About Hell")	Nominated
		Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series	Erica Freed Marker and Geoffrey Richman (for "In Perpetuity")	Nominated
			Geoffrey Richman (for "The We We Are")	Nominated
	Saturn Awards	Best Streaming Horror/Thriller Television Series	Severance	Pending	[50]
		Best Actor in a Streaming Television Series	Adam Scott	Pending
		Best Actress in a Streaming Television Series	Britt Lower	Pending
		Best Supporting Actor in a Streaming Television Series	Zach Cherry	Pending
			John Turturro	Pending
		Best Supporting Actress in a Streaming Television Series	Patricia Arquette	Pending
	Set Decorators Society of America Awards	Best Achievement in Décor/Design of a One Hour Contemporary Series	Andrew Baseman and Jeremy Hindle	Nominated	[51]
	Television Critics Association Awards	Program of the Year	Severance	Nominated	[52]
		Outstanding Achievement in Drama		Nominated
		Outstanding New Program		Nominated
		Individual Achievement in Drama	Adam Scott	Nominated
	Webby Awards	Best Actor		Won	[53]

Marketing

The second season was teased during the Apple Event that took place on September 7, 2022, which featured Helly (Britt Lower).[54]

See also

• Cypher, a 2002 thriller with similar themes of memory erasure and separate identities in a mysterious workplace setting.
• Drug-induced amnesia § In popular culture
• Greg Egan, a science fiction author known for writings about consciousness, and whose surname may be referenced in Severance
• Mind control in popular culture
• My Own Worst Enemy, a 2008 TV series about a secret agent and his cover, who has no knowledge of his own double life.
• Paycheck, a 1952 novelette by Philip K. Dick, that explores a theme of erasing memory of the time spent on a contract.

Notes

References

External links

• Official website
• Severance at IMDb

На других языках

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- [en] Severance (TV series)

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[ru] Разделение (телесериал, 2022)

«Разделе́ние» (англ. Severance) — американский научно-фантастический телевизионный сериал в жанре психологического триллера, созданный Дэном Эриксоном и снятый режиссёрами Беном Стиллером и Ифой Макардлruen. В сериале сыграли Адам Скотт, Зак Черриruen, Бритт Лауэрruen, Трамелл Тиллманruen, Джен Таллокruen, Дичен Лакмэн, Майкл Чернусruen, Джон Туртурро, Кристофер Уокен и Патрисия Аркетт. Сюжет рассказывает о Марке, сотруднике компании Lumon Industries, который соглашается на процедуру «разделения», в рамках которой его нерабочие воспоминания отделяются от рабочих.

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