‘Severance’ Team Answers Burning Questions From the Premiere: What Is Allentown? What’s [SPOILER] Doing? And More
variety.comJennifer Maas TV Business WriterSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Good News About Hell” and “Half Loop,” the first two episodes of “Severance,” which premiered Friday on Apple TV Plus.The Ben Stiller-directed “Severance” debuted its first two episodes Friday, revealing a fictional world where people, like Adam Scott’s Mark Scout, are able to undergo a procedure that allows them to mentally separate their work and home lives.
Why a person would choose to do this and why Lumon, the company that created the process, would require it of some of its employees is just the start of the questions posed by the initial pair of “Severance” episodes.“What we know of them is that they are a med-tech company.
So they created the severance chip,” “Severance” creator and showrunner Dan Erickson told Variety. “But we talk about them sort of like Johnson & Johnson, or one of those companies, where they make Band-Aids but then if you research, it turns out they make artificial limbs, too. “Then the question of what they’re doing down on that severed floor, that’s something that we still don’t know.
I mean, I know.”But Erickson has no plans to tell viewers what that is just yet, however he promises it’s in service of Lumon’s mysterious founder, the late Kier Eagan, whose descendants still run the company.“It’s all comes back to Kier Eagan, who is the founder of the company, and basically this idea that everything they’re doing is to fulfill this vision that he had, that he wanted to enact,” Erickson said.
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