Severance season 2 downplayed work-life balance to focus on the true costs of being severed

“We’ve always used severance as a mechanism to look at power and to look at control,” Severance creator Dan Erickson told me in an interview in February. We were supposed to be talking about Irving B.’s melon-soaked “funeral” at the time, but I couldn’t resist asking him about the show’s intensifying power dynamics, which had come to a head midseason.








“We’ve always used severance as a mechanism to look at power and to look ...