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Is ‘Severance’ a Show about Unions?

Lawrence Smoot | Published on 1/26/2025

“Severance takes an extreme, sci-fi angle on a basic reality of the workplace,” writes labor textile artist Tabitha Arnold, “that when we clock in, we are not fully ourselves. This can be as subtle as a barista performing false emotions—a happy smile—at the register, or as jarring as a software engineer leaving his children at home to work on drones aimed at other families. Whatever the expectations, we transform ourselves to meet them.” Click here to read the rest of Arnold’s analysis of the popular show. 

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