‘Severance’ Creator Dan Erickson on Those Finale Twists and the ‘Cultism’ of Lumon

Erickson tells TheWrap about creating a show that speaks to the current cultural moment, and “what we owe to our employers and what we owe to ourselves”

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Spoiler Alert: The following contains spoilers for the “Severance” Season 1 finale.

Believe it or not, “Severance” executive producer, writer and creator Dan Erickson was nervous that the pandemic — with its erasure of The Workplace and Office Setting — would “destroy” the relevance of his series, about employees at a sinister conglomerate who have chosen to cognitively bifurcate their work and personal lives via a brain procedure. 

“We’re all in this amorphous home office world,” Erickson told TheWrap in a recent interview tied to the show’s Season 1 finale (and conducted before the show was renewed for Season 2).

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