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Comment by joe_the_user | Hacker News Reader

From the description, I gotta give Severance credit for a dystopia fully evocative of modern life. That said, it sounds far too stop on for me to want watch it and indeed it gives me the willies just thinking about it.

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The other awful thought is that millions if not billions of people would look at Macrodata Refinement and think, "That beats the hell out of my current working environment." And in many ways they would be right.

It certainly hits home, but it's wonderfully done and worth the watch.

Then start binging Silo, as it similarly terrifying and engaging (and book 2 of the series explores a Severance like theme).

It takes a while for action to pick up but well worth it (so far)

The season 1 finale is one of the best episodes of TV in a while.

I don't want to hype it too much but S2E7 beats it.

it's outrageously good, I couldn't recommend it more highly

As an Aussie, it terrifies me that it could be anywhere close to what working in America could be like. But having heard stories like the Walmart "smile" failure in Germany, I can only assume it's not too far off.

"The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated." ~ Mark Twain

I would describe it as being an improvement over corporate America in some ways because in Severance an employee's work cannot follow them home from the severed floor as they have no recollection of it whatsoever. But the perception of the "innies" of the work never ending, of the sisyphean nature of work, almost torturous, describes the experience of the average corporate drone who is burnt out.

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