Ben Stiller and Dan Erickson (Severance)

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Ben Stiller and Dan Erickson are here to talk about Severance, their Apple TV+ series about a group of office workers for a mysterious company called Lumen. As part of a bizarre security protocol, they agree to separate their work and home lives completely, so they can't remember home at work, or work at home. They keep things so separate that they can't even recognize co-workers outside of work.

Adam Scott plays Mark, who receives a promotion just as the show starts, and has to onboard a brand-new employee named Helly, played by Britt Lower. The rest of the cast includes frequent Stiller collaborator Patricia Arquette, John Turturro and Christopher Walken.

Erickson wrote Severance as a spec script and a writing sample, hoping to get TV writing jobs after a series of unsatisfying office jobs, some TV work, including at Spike TV, and even delivering for Postmates. When the Severance script reached Stiller's production company, Red Hour Films, Stiller thought that instead of just being a writing sample, it should be a show. It's already been renewed for Season 2.

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Photo credits: Ben Stiller by Mark Seliger; Dan Erickson by Frazer Harrison.

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