TV Series· 2022· Thriller

Severance

by Dan Erickson

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What influenced Severance

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Black Mirror

TV Series · 2011

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Dan Erickson has said Severance was partly inspired by Black Mirror's "White Christmas", in which a copy of a person's consciousness is trapped and made to work, unaware of the life outside.

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Twin Peaks

TV Series · 1990

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Dan Erickson has said Twin Peaks was instrumental in crafting Severance's tone, above all the company town of Kier, where the corporation's eerie influence reaches well beyond the office.

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Severance

The series follows employees at Lumon Industries, a sinister biotechnology corporation, that have undergone "severance"—a procedure that splits a person's memories between work and their personal life. This creates two separate identities for employees: the "innie", who has no knowledge of the outside world, and the "outie", who lives their life outside without any knowledge of their job.

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