Casey-with the burgeoning romance between Mark S. Severance balances the compelling mysteries-like the true identity of wellness counselor Ms. New employee Lincoln is assigned to read newsroom emails that get flagged for salty language or non-work forwards, but instead, he finds himself reading the daily correspondence between friends Beth and Jennifer… so much so that he starts to fall for Beth before he can explain why he knows so much about the ups and downs of her life. But the personal and the professional dovetail in this contemporary romance about email surveillance in a Chicago newsroom. Rainbow Rowell’s charming first novel was written a decade ago, but it has a “retro” feel insofar as it’s set during the early days of e-mail-yep, complete with the hyphen when it was still a mysterious and often awkward part of our workplaces, not yet our personal lives. There are even some forbidden Lumon reading materials smuggled up the Severed floor’s elevator, to provide fodder for season 2 theories. These books (interestingly, most of them debuts) tackle, sweetly and sardonically, the absurdity of work “families” interoffice romances and odes to Zoom calls and the strange feeling of knowing your work is very important without actually knowing what it is that you do. Short of throwing a waffle party, what we can offer for the wait is a reading list that doesn’t have to be hidden in MDR’s toilets: workplace books that hit the same notes as the series.
Despite the series’ premise of Lumon Industries’ radical procedure that cleanly separates its employees into their work/life selves, we couldn’t help but root for the Macro Data Refinement team’s innies and outies.
Apple TV’s existential office dystopian drama Severance ended on a tension-exploding note (“SHE’S ALIIIIVE!”), which means basically all of us viewers will be holding our breaths until season 2 picks up on the fates of Mark (Adam Scott), Helly (Britt Lower), Irving (John Turturro), and Dylan (Zach Cherry).
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