Anyone watching the hit series "Apple TV+" "North" knows that inspiration is needed by many, a lot Juggernauts of pop culture that came before. "Lost" is an absolutely reference point for the creator of the Dan Erikson show (And his creative partner, executive producer Ben Stiller), as well as the famous Anthology series "The Twilight Zone" - and apparently, a very specific installment of another Anthological show, "Black Mirror", helped Ericsson come up with the idea of ​​"overturning".

In which it is "White Christmas", Independent episode of "Black Mirror" It aired on the British Network Channel 4 and aired in the United States shortly before the entire series moved to Netflix for all future seasons. In an interview with Theujork Times In 2022 after the first season of Neeverans locked, Ericsson said that "White Christmas", which came out in 2014, was such a disturbing episode that he gave him some ideas for "cutting off" - specifically thanks to the fact that in the "white Christmas", the characters were trapped in the ".

"I remember I felt so cold and I was afraid of seeing it, this fatal idea had to experience this endless solitude," Ericsson said, also telling the exit that he directly links this episode to the moment of season 1 in "Grade" when Heli R. (Brit Lower), "Indji", tries to escape the cutting floor. "It's this nightmare to run the door and then you just run back, and you realize that you are really stuck in this criminal space with this kind of nightmare logic," he concluded.

Let's go back for a second: What happens in the "White Christmas", And how is it tied to "separation?" The episode obviously takes place in Christmastime, and immediately, we meet two men - Matt Trent (Jonon Ham) and OEO Potter (Rafe Spal) who have been stuck in a remote cabin together for five years, though we have not been told why at first. Despite the nearby quarters, they were not really tied when Matt began to explain why it was there, the floods were open, so to speak. As it turns out, Matt used to work with a technology called "Z-Ochi", where he helped the coach shame on men without much self-confidence while approaching women; Not only was Matt in the heads of these men, but he also invited the audience to Gauck as the guys tried to gather women who have no doubt. After a terrible incident that leaves one of Matt's clients dead, he has been punished. Matt, as it happens, also worked with "cookies" and stored digital versions of real people inside a small contraction in the form of eggs and to say that he was cruel to those clones is an underestimation.

That is when Joe opened and reveals that he was "blocked" by his former fiancée Beth (Etnet Montgomery) while she was pregnant with her child (when I say "blocked", I think he could see a gray, vague silhouette in the public) and ended up with her father. The twist at the end of "White Christmas" is honestly too good to spoil here, but everything I say is that we know that both OEO and Matt are punished for their crimes, and it is easy to draw a direct line between "White Christmas", where technology has entered two men and "tech".

Well, what other influences does Dan Erikson talk about that feature in the Yorkyor Times? There are a few, and they probably won't be surprising - especially the SPike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman's surreal film, "Yes Johnon Malkovich". Talking about how Lumon cut off the floor feels like a much more wicked office space than in the real world, Ericsson said: "I think the idea of ​​seeing a familiar space that is a kind of distorted and distorted probably originating directly from" to be Johnon Malkovich ". They have this extremely low ceiling; We got the wide open space for the MDR with the central island of cabins that look too small for the space. " (In particular, in Season 2 of "Grade", Mark S. Adam Scott encounters too little door as he enters the "goat room", Who Definitely There is vibrations "Being Johnon Malkovich".)

Ericsson also told the exit that Terry Gilliam's 1985 film "Brazil" is one of his favorite thanks to a great extent to his dystopian vibration, which makes sense; That film focuses on workers who control machines under a totalitarian government. "There was a sense of the retro future, but Ben (Stiller) was always very unstable to based it in logic and in psychology where Lumon was trying to disorient workers in time and space," Ericsson said. "They have no idea where they could be, they are not sure exactly what year it is. There is a little strange sense of timeless, or a combination of different periods, and for me, it tells me that we are not in Lumon, but we are still in Lumon."

Outside that, Ericsson cited Kurt's novel "Cat Cat", the cult favorite in 1999 "Dark City", and, incredible, an ad for Silzers Stayhus since 1991 (that is, until Ericsson's point, It's amazingly weird strange). In any case, Severance is available to be transferred to Apple TV+, and "White Christmas" is available to transfer to Netflix.