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Why You Should Watch Severance

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4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Why You Should Watch Severance
Welcome back to We Know Scripted TV where We Know Severance! Severance is an Apple TV+ psychological thriller about employees at Lumon Industries who undergo a procedure that separates their work memories from their personal lives. When one employee, Mark, begins to question the true purpose behind “severance,” he uncovers disturbing secrets about his employer and the nature of identity itself. Every week, hosts Josh Wigler (@roundhoward), Melissa Woodward (@MelissaW28), and Amanda Rabinowitz (@DrAmandaR) will break down an episode of Season 1 of Severance leading up to the Season 2 premiere on January 17th!
Step into the eerie world of Severance, where work-life balance takes on a chilling new meaning, and every twist pulls you deeper into Lumon’s mysterious grip. In this video, Josh Wigler breaks down why this masterful blend of psychological thriller, corporate satire, and heartfelt humanity is the must-watch show you didn’t know you needed.
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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, what's going on? Josh Wiggler here with some very exciting news that perhaps your podcast

0:11.9

Audi is unaware of. That's right. Severance, Severance Season 2, it is finally almost here.

0:26.4

January 17th, 2025 is the return of Apple TV Plus's Severance. One of my very favorite shows on TV. It's almost three years exactly since Severance

0:33.6

premiered. So if you don't remember the show at all, totally understandable. If you've

0:37.8

never seen the show at all, I highly advise you to check it out. The elevator pitch that I

0:43.6

would give you is think about lost with all of its desert island mysteries and then think about

0:48.7

the office with all of its crazy corporate shenanigans and then sandwich those two guys together, throw Adam Scott

0:56.8

from Parks and Recreation into it. Christopher Walken, you could throw him in here too for some reason

1:02.2

and have it all be directed by none other than Ben Stiller and suddenly we're talking about severance.

1:08.8

As for the plot, it's convoluted and really, really fun.

1:13.0

But the basic premise is it's about a bunch of people who decide to sever themselves.

1:19.2

It's a procedure that one can undergo where you will not have any access to your work memories.

1:25.6

You basically go to work, you shut your brain off, you leave work, and your brain's back

1:30.2

on.

1:31.2

That sounds fun, right?

1:32.2

You don't remember anything about your nine to five.

1:34.7

There's just one twist.

1:36.7

Who's the person who's going to work?

1:39.1

And so the show really explores that, that the any, that's the name of the person who goes to work, is going through

1:46.0

a lot at Lumen Industries, this very mysterious, shady corporation that the show is all about.

1:53.8

Adam Scott plays Mark Scout and also plays Mark S, that's his Audi, that's his inny, and both of these versions of the character

2:02.5

are trying to figure out what's up with Lumen, why are they so shady, what is it that they

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