Is Severance one of the most unlikely TV hits ever?

 

  "What I underestimated was Severance’s ability to appeal to completely different audiences at the same time. There’s the puzzle box mystery crowd, of course, the people on forums feverishly speculating about goat symbolism and what exactly goes on in the elevator, but –unlike, say, Westworld – it’s light enough on the lore for anyone not willing to go fully down the rabbit hole to engage with. And the fact that the show is so thick with ideas means that different cohorts engage with different aspects of it: the politically minded, enjoying its satirical skewering of corporate America; the psychoanalysts, drawing parallels with Jungian theory; the religious allegory types, considering what it says about Mormonism or Jesus, or cultish behaviour; the people intrigued by what it has to say about our relationship with the office in the 21st century; or those simply fascinated by its retrofuturistic design (and wondering where they can buy that lampshade)."

read review by Gwilym Mumford

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