Severance Analysis

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Mysterious Work & Alienation of Labor in Severance by me (comment on Dreamwidth)

Severance employs a fantastical scenario at an imaginary company to depict a phenomenon that’s very real: the systematic alienation of labor. This theme has been widely remarked upon by those familiar with the framework, but not everyone is already familiar, and so it warrants explanation. To that end, this analysis presents a brief introduction to alienation as a concept, an in-depth exploration of how it applies to the characters of Severance, and some observations on how that theme relates to the real world.

The Brilliance of Severance's Disturbing Precision [video] by Thomas Flight

In an era where high-concept TV shows now feature impressive visual effects, sprawling fantasy worlds, and elaborate costume design and makeup, how does a show that mostly takes place in a white, windowless office end up being one of the most visually striking TV shows ever made?

A musical analysis of the Severance theme [video] by Charles Cornell

A tritone is very commonly thought of as one of the most dissonant intervals that you can play... So what we have here is consonance, dissonance, consonance, dissonance.