Winter TV Watch List: Mickey Mouse and Mrs. Maisel Return (And So Does Leatherface)
thewrap.com“Severance”Friday, February 18, Apple TV+After directing 2018’s Emmy-nominated limited series for Showtime, “Escape at Dannemora,” Ben Stiller returns to helm six of the nine episodes of Apple TV+’s trippy new prestige series “Severance.” Created by Dan Erickson, the series stars Adam Scott as a man who works for a mysterious company called Lumon Industries.
In an effort to keep the business’ operations a secret, employees go through a process called “severance,” wherein memories of their everyday life are sliced away once they enter the building (and vice versa when they leave).
Consider this another reason why work-from-home is way better! With a gripping, eerie premise (we’d say more but we’d have to have our memories wiped), stark direction from Stiller and an eclectic, all-star cast (which also includes John Turturro, Britt Lower and Christopher Walken), “Severance” could be a sleeper sensation.
That is, of course, if you remember to watch. [INTERVIEW]“Peacemaker”Thursday, February 17, HBO MaxWho would have thought that a DC also-ran character (played by none other than John Cena), based on a movie nobody watched (last summer’s “The Suicide Squad”), would inspire one of the most fun and irreverent series of the new year?
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