Jessica Derschowitz No one had to get a chip implanted in their brain to enjoy “Severance,” but fans of the show experienced their own version of Innies and Outies this year: The moment before they tuned in for the mind-bending Apple TV+ series, and everything that came after.Executive producer and director Ben Stiller, who helmed the majority of Season 1, found a way to nail down the show’s complex tone and life inside the its Lumon corporation.
So what’s on his mind as the show moves beyond that shocker of a finale?The show has such a unique tone to it — there’s this commentary on workplace culture, elements of mystery and all these different parts that are weird and funny and sad.What were your conversations like with series creator Dan Erickson about making sure all of that was represented fully? Dan and I talked about the reality level of the show a lot, in terms of being able to believe this world that they were in.
But tonally, it was all there on the page in terms of the feeling of these characters in this place and the basic idea that he had set up, which is that [the Innies] don’t really know who they are, and they don’t really question it.
They know they’ve been told that they have Outies and they’ve been told that they’re working at this place and their Outies put them there.
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