The Strange Corporate Dystopia Series of Dan Erikson "North", The main characters all have undergone medical action that allows them to "separate" their work lives on their domestic lives. A chip embedded in their brains suppresses all their memories of the outside world when they step into the office, and then suppress all the memories of the office when they go back to the world. Severance's four leading characters work for a mysterious company called Lumon Industries and no one is completely sure what Lumon is doing. Outside Lumon, the four main characters are not known. Inside, they become friends and interlocutors.

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One of these four basic Lika is Dylan (Zack Cherry), a foul and confident team player who, when we first meet, is looking forward to gathering golden stars and awarded points for strange, tiny office awards; Sometimes Lumon will throw sterile dancing parties for the Macrodata refining team. However, Dylan, as well as his associates (played by Adam Scott, Brit Doul and Johnon Thururo), eventually makes moves to discover Lumon's mysterious abuse.

In the second season of the show, Dylan's "Outie" is briefly fired by Lumon for his "Ini" actions. During his work hunt, Dylan goes to an interview at the city's door factory, hoping to become a middle manager. However, he was rejected when the director of the door factory learned that he had previously been cut off at the last job.

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As bizarre as the scene seems, Dylan's door -to -door interview was based on a very real thing that "cut off" creator Dan Erikson. Indeed, Ericsson said In an interview with IndiaWireThat he began to appear with the idea of ​​"cutting off" while working in front of the door factory.

Ericsson said there was nothing insidious or evil working at the door factory, but he thought the monotony of work was a little powerless. According to his words:

"I worked in a company that was doing and distributing doors and gates in the area of ​​the big Los Angeles-really, it was really grateful that I had a job, and it was a small business driven by good people. But I finished school, I came here, I got the first job of crispers.

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It made him think about a fantastic sense that would allow him to work eight hours a day without thinking about it. How interested he would be if he could enter the office, blink, and then turn out immediately, magically, after being productive (and paid) for a complete shift. What if he could somehow "cut" his mind from work? Ericsson admitted that he was depressed and wished to not remember eight hours every day, but he also thought it would make a great story. He immediately began writing his imagination in the script, mixing it here and there for several years. "Separation" began to appear.

Ericsson eventually left his work at the door factory, switching to other jobs in corporate offices - which also informed her "severance".

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Ericsson used scenes from his "hidden" script as a specimen of writing while looking for other creative gigs around Los Angeles. To meet the end end, he worked as an office winner and met the corporate culture finers. Anyone who has done office work for a large corporation knows about the eerie, near-darling, self-axing language that such companies can use to describe themselves and, perhaps, motivate their employees. Ericsson said those office jobs were joined in Lumon. As he said:

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"During most of the time, I worked in a series of office jobs, and one of them was particularly in a company that was a big international chain. It is where a very kind of corporate couples originated, and the strange basic values ​​and the like that ended up with the show's omission."

Then, Dylan is Ericsson's closest analogue series, with he is subject to corporate double time while in Lumon, and is also short importance with the door factory. However, more than anything, "separation" is a criticism of corporate culture and how many companies are looking for not only hard work, but a strange sense of loyalty from their charges. Lumon goes one step further by taking full control of people in their offices, knowing that they literally have no lives outside the office (as far as they can remember).

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"Separation" has just finished its second season of Apple TV+. Starward Adam Scott (Veterinarian on MTV from the Road Back) is shoo-in for EMI.