Ben Stiller and Adam Scott on their thriller ‘Severance’
nypost.comApple TV+.“I thought it was a really amazing concept,” said Stiller, 56, who’s directing the series. “Being able to go to work and forget everything about your life.
Do your work, come out, and then forget everything that happened in work. The questions that brings up of why we’re doing the work we do – why we spend our time in life busying ourselves and what the meaning of it all is – those greater questions are addressed in the metaphor of the show.”“Severance” stars Adam Scott, Patricia Arquette and John Turturro and is set at the mysterious company Lumen Industries, where employees on a certain floor opt to undergo a controversial “severance” procedure that turns the “work/life balance” into a reality and severs the two.Department head Mark (Scott), who’s had the procedure done — along with his colleagues Dylan (Zach Cherry), Irving (Turturro), fresh recruit Helly (Brit Lower) and his chilly manager, Harmony Cobel (Patricia Arquette) — has no idea what his home life is like when he’s at work.
When he enters his building after crying in the parking lot, he doesn’t remember the reason for his despair. Similarly, when he goes home each night, he has no idea what he’s been doing in his office all day.“[The show] was something that I would want to watch as an audience member,” Scott, 48, told The Post. “It’s this mix of dark humor and satire and thriller and suspense, all with this sinister undercurrent that’s really fun.
Just the idea of being at work and not knowing who you are to the outside world, and when you go home, you have no idea what your job is and what you do while you’re there had so many fun possibilities.
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