This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Severance, “Chikhai Bardo,” which is now streaming on Apple TV+. Lumon management has spent much of Severance Season Two letting the innies get away with everything short of murder. They are largely unsupervised. They barely do any work. They were granted …
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This post contains spoilers for this week’s Severance episode, “Attila,” which is now streaming on Apple TV+. Midway through “Attila,” Gretchen impulsively kisses Dylan during her latest trip to the severed floor. Dylan, awestruck by this wonderful woman and this romantic gesture, laments that he can’t be with her all …
Read More »'Severance' Episode 5: Funeral for a Friend
This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Severance, “Trojan’s Horse,” which is now streaming on Apple TV+. Among the most disorienting aspects of last week’s spectacularly weird field trip was that it came immediately after an episode that ended with Reghabi reintegrating Mark’s innie and outie selves. Why …
Read More »Praise Kier: 'Severance' Is Back and It's Still Great
In the modern labor economy, when every worker in every industry is being asked to do more with less, when getting a work text or Slack message at 9 p.m. doesn’t seem improbable, when the capriciousness of the powers that be seems to be growing at the same exponential rate …
Read More »'Severance' Season Two Trailer Ups the Tension for the Innies
A teaser for the second season of Severance previews more tension and regret for Adam Scott, Zach Cherry, Britt Lower, and John Turturro. Although not much happens in the half-minute or so clip, it gives a sense of how Apple TV+’s pseudo-serious satire of Americans’ inability to achieve a work-life …
Read More »'Welcome Back': 'Severance' Season 2 Teaser Is Finally Here
Lumon employees in the work-life balance thriller Severance are clocking back in. As Adam Scott‘s Mark returns to work, a grinning Mr. Milchick (Tramell Tillman) greets him with balloons that appear to have Mark’s face printed on them, according to an Apple TV+ teaser. “Welcome back,” Milchick says in the …
Read More »John Turturro: An Illegal Abortion Killed My Grandmother
Decades before the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, John Turturro’s maternal grandmother Rosa died as a result of an illegal abortion, a tragic event that sparked reverberations for the actor to this day. “I lost my grandmother because she died during an illegal botched abortion,” Turturro tells Rolling …
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