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Severance

Disciplines:
science fiction
crime thriller/television thriller
crime drama/workplace drama

Summary

Apple TV+ science fiction thriller created by Dan Erickson, in which employees of a biotech company have their work and personal memories surgically separated, exploring corporate control, identity, and consciousness.

Core Contribution

Used a high-concept science fiction premise — the severed mind — as a lens for examining corporate dehumanization and questions of personal identity, executed with a distinctive visual grammar of sterile office architecture.

Historical Influences

Dan Erickson Ben Stiller

Intellectual Lineage

Kafkaesque Office Satire TraditionPsychological Science FictionPrestige Television Auteurism

Allied Works

Andor Silo Fallout DarkThe Leftovers

Contemporaries & Peers

Andor Silo Fallout The Rehearsal The Bear

Minds Influenced

No recorded minds influenced.

Intellectual Posterity

No conceptual posterity found.

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