Discover the net world of Apple TV's 'Severance'

Apple has been steadily working to broaden the world of the Apple TV+ series “Severance,” via on-line supplies, e-books, podcasts, and different content material – and so have its followers. Benefiting from its platform energy, the Cupertino tech large has been in a position to simply distribute supplemental materials that provides to the present’s storytelling skills, providing viewers extra clues concerning the mysterious employer on the coronary heart of the sequence, Lumon Industries, and different characters.

And for followers of the manufacturing itself, a companion podcast with creator Ben Stiller and star Adam Scott delves into the nuts and bolts of how scenes had been filmed and different behind-the-scenes content material.

At the moment the most popular Apple TV+ series ever, “Severance” has gained consideration and awards for its cinematic methods, route, manufacturing design, and extra, however can also be resonating with viewers as a result of it displays a sure discontent with American society.

With its borderline absurdist takes on matters just like the perils of capitalism, the lengths folks will go to realize work-life stability, company oppression, classism, and the evils of know-how, “Severance” is reaching a broader group than those that usually watch sci-fi.

The advertising and marketing across the “puzzle box-style” TV sequence, the place on-line content material turns into part of the present itself, is one thing that brings to thoughts the work that was achieved in earlier years across the cult traditional, “Misplaced,” the place web site tie-ins provided additional clues concerning the present’s mysteries, just like the Dharma Initiative.

Not like “Misplaced,” nevertheless, “Severance’s” creators have promised that they know the place the sequence goes and the way it will finish – which makes it extra enjoyable to go down the rabbit gap chasing on-line clues.

Beneath are among the supplemental supplies that broaden “Severance’s” universe and provide hints at what’s to come back.

Official Companions

“Severance: The Lexington Letter,” printed by Apple Books. This companion story and tell-all is advised from the angle of a severed Lumon Industries worker Margaret “Peg” Kincaid, who discovers among the darkish truths about her employer.

Included on this download can also be the Macrodate Refiner’s Orientation Booklet for newly-severed staff, which includes a Lumon model of Microsoft’s Clippy — besides he’s an anthropomorphized severance chip, not a paperclip.

“The You You Are,” printed by Apple Books. Within the sequence, this e book is penned by “Severance” character Dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale, PhD, and finally ends up enjoying a job within the severed staff’ awakening. The companion e book, which is on the market as each an e-book and a narrated audiobook, presents the primary 8 chapters of Ricken’s oeuvre dedicated to self-discovery and weird anecdotes.

The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller & Adam Scott. Produced by Audacy, the creator’s official podcast recaps and divulges behind-the-scenes particulars alongside actor interviews.
Lumon Industires’ LinkedIn profile. Researching your subsequent job on LinkedIn and you might come across the Lumon Industries enterprise profile, which introduces followers to founder Kier Eagan’s ideas, together with his 9 core ideas of Imaginative and prescient, Verve, Wit, Cheer, Humility, Benevolence, Nimbleness, Probity, and Wiles. The web page typically posts try-hard odes to company achievement and self-improvement alongside its makes an attempt to recruit new employees to affix Lumon, headquartered within the fictional city of Kier. The sinister undertones of its content material aren’t all that completely different from among the company communicate that surrounds it on LinkedIn, oddly.