
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


The Apple TV+ dystopian thriller Severance is one of the most acclaimed shows of the year. Its grim take on the furthest extreme of "work-life balance" speaks to our strained pandemic-era relationship with the workplace and, according to our critics, offers a gripping throwback to an era of prestige TV before (as David Sims sees it) Netflix ruined everything.
Spencer Kornhaber, Sophie Gilbert, and David Sims go down the elevator to Lumon’s basement to talk waffle parties, real-life workplace anxieties, and what dystopian sci-fis they recommend besides Severance.
Further reading:
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
By The Atlantic3.9
137137 ratings
The Apple TV+ dystopian thriller Severance is one of the most acclaimed shows of the year. Its grim take on the furthest extreme of "work-life balance" speaks to our strained pandemic-era relationship with the workplace and, according to our critics, offers a gripping throwback to an era of prestige TV before (as David Sims sees it) Netflix ruined everything.
Spencer Kornhaber, Sophie Gilbert, and David Sims go down the elevator to Lumon’s basement to talk waffle parties, real-life workplace anxieties, and what dystopian sci-fis they recommend besides Severance.
Further reading:
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

38,153 Listeners

6,760 Listeners

3,333 Listeners

3,958 Listeners

2,877 Listeners

9,223 Listeners

4,053 Listeners

2,122 Listeners

1,124 Listeners

2,365 Listeners

20 Listeners

1,084 Listeners

8,473 Listeners

3,398 Listeners

916 Listeners

16,172 Listeners

1,430 Listeners

671 Listeners

297 Listeners

655 Listeners

360 Listeners

1,411 Listeners

228 Listeners