Severance is laughing at you

The Office (in all its forms) recognises only how selfimportant it can be, but that dignity- and silly can be a living.

Severance is a show about how being a corporate drone is so unfulfilling, so empty of real experience, that in the first episode one character asks if they are in hell.

No-one is supposed to be happy in an office, but only for the “innies”.

Apple has spent decades promoting the idea that working on a computer can be glamorous and fulfilling.

It is frankly rude for that same company to spend (a reported) $ 200 m depicting knowledge work as the generic and ultimately pointless occupation of people who only half -exist.

Severance is so well made that it keeps the viewer watching, waiting for some plot to happen.