Season Finale Is a Culmination of Workplace Angst
Halfway into the eighth episode of Severance, one of the show's main characters is rewarded with a 'Waffle Party' for being a top performer. It's the highest perk available to the staff of Macrodata Refinement — the Lumon Industries department that employs the series's protagonists — and includes both fresh waffles and a sensuous dance performed by figures dressed as the four tempers: dread, woe, frolic and malice. Modern work, Severance seems to argue, is both a prison of pressure and a theater of the absurd.
The artful exploration of that dichotomy has earned Severance, which airs its Season Two finale on Apple TV+ on Thursday, glowing reviews and several Emmys. But the show's true genius is in how it builds on the history of office life in fiction, television and movies — revealing a growing mistrust between employees and the executives who define their worth and dictate their work/life balance.
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