Explore the online world of Apple TV’s ‘Severance’

Apple has been steadily working to increase the world of the Apple TV+ series “Severance,” by way of on-line supplies, e-books, podcasts, and different content material – and so have its followers. Making the most of its platform energy, the Cupertino tech large has been capable of simply distribute supplemental materials that provides to the present’s storytelling talents, 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 have 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 strategies, course, 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 subjects just like the perils of capitalism, the lengths individuals will go to attain 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 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 finished in earlier years across the cult basic, “Misplaced,” the place web site tie-ins provided additional clues concerning the present’s mysteries, just like the Dharma Initiative.

In contrast to “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 a few of the supplemental supplies that increase “Severance’s” universe and supply hints at what’s to come back.

Official Companions

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

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

“The You You Are,” revealed by Apple Books. Within the sequence, this ebook is penned by “Severance” character Dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale, PhD, and finally ends up taking part in a job within the severed workers’ awakening. The companion ebook, which is out there as each an e-book and a narrated audiobook, provides 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 staff to affix Lumon, headquartered within the fictional city of Kier. The sinister undertones of its content material aren’t all that totally different from a few of the company converse that surrounds it on LinkedIn, oddly.