Severance review: It's not funny but you won't be able to stop watching

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The first thing I need to tell you about Severance, which launched on Apple TV+ this week, is it's not funny. Really not funny.

Don't be lulled into a false sense of security because it's directed by Ben Stiller and stars Adam Scott who, as Ben Wyatt, played one of the funniest characters in Parks and Recreation, a show jam-packed with funny characters.

Severance is Black Mirror meets The Office in a dystopian sci-fi thriller that defies description. But not the American version of The Office, which at its heart was sweet and actually a bit lovely and sometimes actively hilarious.

More the Ricky Gervais original - full of awkward moments and an overarching feeling that you're watching souls dying in the purgatory of a bleak-looking office building in Slough.