The (Semi)Dystopian Answer to the Work/Life Balance Question

In this newsletter, I rarely make popular culture recommendations but while speaking on Cloudbusting (a podcast that tasks guests for recommendations as part of a discussion on the need for transformation in a cloud-native organisation) the other week, Alastair Kidd suggested Severance from Ben Stiller currently running on Apple TV and we need to speak about it.

While this article will discuss the series’ premise, I don’t suppose I need to warn you about any big spoilers no less because I haven’t yet finished it so I don’t know any.

In a synopsis of the series, IMDB describes the plot as “Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.”

While it fancies itself a thriller and there’s something to be discovered so it’s worth getting caught up in the story, I need us to talk about the concept.

• While it fancies itself a thriller and there’s something to be discovered so it’s worth getting caught up in the story, I need us to talk about the concept.
• The series wastes no time laying out the premise and we soon see a host of people in video recordings saying:
• Chilling doesn’t begin to describe it. This is awfully close to the bone for all of us watching, that’s why the series is rated insanely high - we all relate.

The series wastes no time laying out the premise and we soon see a host of people in video recordings saying: