'Severance' Features Upstate New York Restaurant Phoenicia Diner

Fans in television series Severance And the people who spent time in Catskills will recognize a familiar restaurant in the latest phase of the Apple TV + Show. Phoenicia Dinerlocated in the beautiful remote Hamlet in Phenicia, New York, replicated its paper as Pip's Bar & Grille in the Fictional Northeast Kier city.

Severance a mystery satire About the Corporate work cultures, centered on Omnipentresent (and cultivated) company lumon powered by the Eagan family. Choose Lumon Employees – Like Adam Scott's Mark and Britt Lower's Helly – pass a method known as “Severance,” a self-offering (“Innies”) and a true world self (“OUTIES”). The PIP's restaurant takes its name from a member of the Eagan family, Phillip “Pip” Eagan. But the name also works as a game of performance improvement plans (aka pips), formal documentation provided by employees to correct the work course.

And the Phoenicia Diner was there. Before Emmy-winning premiere series, Courtney Malsatzki, restaurant's operation director, received an email saying a new Apple TV program is interested in filming the dining room And asked if they could visit. He agreed, and it happened Ben Stiller, the executive producer and director of Severance. He visited at the rest of the other person involved in the severance, and they sat down at the same booth later used in the show. “They spent some time there and they were like mapping scenes,” Malsatzki said. “So I'm right, 'I think they filmed here.'”

To goodwill to Apple

At that time, Malsatzki couldn't talk about what happened until the trailer is spottedBut it is difficult to hide the secret. The restaurant should close for filming and external changes and content clearly. “We have a lot of emails,” he said to the eater, especially if the temporary sign of PIP was placed. “I received 100 emails a day – 'I can't believe you're closed;' 'What do you think?' – Hate emails, sad emails, all alone.

Once the first trailer was broadcast on January 2022, “it was a great release of stress,” he said. “It's not only cold to see how they look and see in a place you want in big TV, so it's so, 'okay, all of you. Thank God.'” The result of God. The scene shows Mark eating at the restaurant because he got a Gift Card from Lumon to recover work.

For the second season of SeverancePhoenicia Diner returns my PIP's. At this point, it served a scene in a scene where Mark and his brother Devon (Jen Tullock) had an important discussion on a booth by the window while drinking mugs in hot coffee. At the same time, a lumonic alipores remained at the counter, which observed them.

The severance makes the throwback beauty of Phoenicia Diner on his own, which makes the dining room, an area of ​​comfort and familiarity with all, which is a more fragile backdrop in a city threatening to make people threaten with no thoughtful cogs.