Severance Research and Development
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A Conversation with Sam Ellison, SOC By David Daut
WATCH THE TRAILER Camera operator Sam Ellison, SOC, with director Ben Stiller and Adam Scott on the set of SEVERANCE
Not content to merely coast on the merits of its clever conceit—namely a surgery that splits one’s consciousness between work and home—the first season of Severance ferociously pulled on the threads of that idea, unraveling as a twisty, existentially nightmarish, and often darkly funny reflection of our own fractured society.
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