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Just a one off piece about a series I watched recently, Severance, directed by Ben Stiller and Aoife McArdle. Some spoilers, so you've been warned.      In a rare mood, I strayed from my typical diet of youtube content and decided to watch a series. Recommended by a friend with some refined taste for cinema, I decided to watch Severance while I worked on other things.       The story revolves around the protagonist, Mark who is played by Adam Scott. A seemingly average office worker, Mark exemplifies the white collar man. The series starts out with a rather strange opening to explain, Severance, a form of employment by Lumon, a mega corporation who dabbles in a little bit of everything. Severance is a procedure done to employees employed by Lumon, which separate their work-life by manually splitting the individual by inserting a capsule into their brain, a procedure which can be done in less than an hour. After the procedure is done, the new employee i...