Dylan Severance has a secret connection with the creator

on Dan Erickson’s Strange Corporate Dystopia “Severance”, “Severance”, All major personalities have undergone medical procedures that allow them to “cut” their lives from their home life. In its brains, the cultivated chip prevents all its memories of the outside world when it enters into the office, then they suppress all the memories of the office when they go out to the world. The four leading characters of “Severance” works for a mysterious company called Lumon Industries, and no one is completely sure of what Lumon is doing. Outside Lumon, the four main characters do not know each other. Inside, they become friends and participants.

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One of these four basic characters is Dylan (Zak Cherry), a formal and confidence team player who, when we meet him for the first time, yearns for gathering golden stars and bonus points for strange and secondary prizes in the office; Sometimes, Lumon will throw sterile dance parties for Macrodata. However, like Dylan like his co -workers (played by Adam Scott, Brett Lu and John Tortoro), ultimately moves to detect mysterious losses.

In the second season of the show, “Outie” was launched from Dylan for a brief period of Lumon due to “Innie” actions. During the search for his next job, Dylan goes to have an interview at a doors factory in the city, hoping to become an average manager. However, he was rejected when the Al -Bab factory director learned that he had previously been cut in his last job.

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Although the scene may seem, the Dylan’s Door Factory Factory interview was based on a very real function that holds the “Severance” Dan Ericson. In fact, Ericsson said In an interview with IndiewireHe began to reach the idea of ​​”separation” while working at the door factory.

Ericsson said that there is nothing treachery or evil about working in a door factory, but he found that the monotony of the job is slightly counted. In his words:

“I was working in a company that makes doors and gates and distributed them in the Los Angeles Greater Region-I was really grateful for a job, and it was a small company run by good people. But I had finished school, I came here, I got a first work every time at work. I found myself I hope that I can skip the eight hours completely, and I can only separate.”

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This made him think about an imaginary perception that would allow him to work eight hours a day without the need to think about it. How eager will be if he could enter the office, flash, then go out again, as it was a fruitful magic (and pushed it) to turn completely. What if he could “cut” his mind from working in some way? Ericsson admitted that it was somewhat depressed to wish you wouldn’t remember eight hours every day, but he also felt that he would make a great story. He immediately started writing his imagination in a text, and replacing him here and there for several years. “Severance” began to appear.

Ericsson finally left his job at the door factory, and moved to the jobs of other companies’ office – which also informed “Severance”.

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Erickson used scenes of his “Severance” text as a writing sample while searching for other creative vehicles about Los Angeles. To meet their needs, work as a Wonk agency, and get to know the company’s culture specialists among the interlocutors. Anyone who worked in a job in an office for a large company knows the exotic language, close to depression, that such companies can use to describe themselves, and possibly motivating their employees. Ericsson said these office jobs were combined into Lumon. As it put it:

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“During most of that time, I was working in a series of office jobs, one of which was in particular in a company that was a large international chain. This is where many of this type of loss of companies, strange basic values ​​and things like those that ended up threatening to offer.”

Dylan, then, is the closest representation that the Erikson series must have, as he was subjected to companies while he was in Lomon, and also has a short clown of the door factory. More than anything else, although “Severance” is a criticism of corporate culture, and how many companies require hard work, but a strange sense of loyalty to their concern. Lumon exceeds one step by fully controlling people in their offices, knowing that they do not have life outside the office (as much as they can remember).

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“Severance” just completed its second season on Apple TV+. The star Adam Scott (MTV veterinarian from the way backIt is Shoo-in for Amy.