The truth about severing

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Mar 26, 2025

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Adam Scott in the promo shot for the Apple TV Plus show Severance, showing his character Mark whose head seems to be open and housing a miniaturised version of himself at a desk — How it feels in my head when I score off one thing from the to-do list in my Notes app. [Apple]

Like many terminally online men tobogganing toward the conclusion of their forties, I have been watching Severance, Apple’s sleek, dark, and witty workplace drama/sci-fi concoction helmed by Ben Stiller and starring the rhombically charismatic Adam Scott. For …

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