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    Nina Metz: ‘Severance’ is the latest TV series that would have worked better as a 2-hour film. Here’s why

    by Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune Feb 18, 2022 4 minutes
    Adam Scott stars as Mark S, an employee of Lumon Industries who knows nothing of his life outside the office, in "Severance."

    In “Severance,” the creepy-sardonic workplace drama on Apple TV+ starring Adam Scott, employees at a company called Lumon Industries submit to having a chip implanted in their brains that “severs” their memory in two: Whatever happens at the office stays at the office (where they have zero knowledge of their life outside of work) and once they leave the building they have no recollection of anything that happened over the last eight hours under the fluorescent lights of their cubicles. As far as their memories are concerned, they might as well be two different people.

    Imagine how thrilled a company would be knowing its labor force is free from outside distractions. Never again will executives have to contend with demands

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