Explore the online world of Apple TV’s ‘Severance’

Apple worked gradually to expand the world of the Apple TV+ Series “Severance,‘Through online materials, e-books, podcasts and other content-and so are his fans. With the benefit of its platform power, the Cupertino Tech giant can easily spread supplemental material that contributes to the storytelling of the show, which provides viewers to more clues about the mysterious employer at the heart of the series, Lumon Industries and other characters.

And for fans of the production itself, a companion podcast With Creator Ben quieter and star Adam Scott delve into the nuts and bolts of how scenes were filmed and other content behind the scenes.

Currently the most popular Apple TV+ series ‘Severance’ has ever received attention and awards For his film techniques, direction, production design and more, but also echo with viewers because it reflects a certain dissatisfaction with American society.

With its borderline absurdist topics such as the dangers of capitalism, the lengths that people will bring about to achieve balance between work and life, corporate oppression, classism and the evils of technology will reach a broader group than those who normally look at -fi.

The marketing around the “puzzle box style‘TV series, where online content becomes part of the program itself, is something that brings in mind the work done in previous years about the cult classic,’ Lost ‘, where the websites insisted on the lines of further clues on the Riddles’ riddles. , like the Dharma initiative.

Unlike ‘lost’, however, the creators of ‘Severance have promise That they know where the series is going and how it will end – which makes it more fun to get off the rabbit hole, chasing online clues.

Below are some of the supplementary materials that expand ‘Severance’ universum and offer tips on what’s coming.

Official companions

  • Severance: The Lexington letter”Published by Apple Books. This companion story and narrative are told from the perspective of a cut off Lumon Industries employee Margaret “Peg” Kincaid, who discovers some of the dark truths about her employer.
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  • Included unload is also the orientation booklet of the Makdraffinandery for newly beaten employees, with a Lumon version of Microsoft’s Clippy except that he is an anthropomorphized separation disc, not a paper clip.
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  • The you are you”Published by Apple Books. In the series, this book is made by the “Severance” character, dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale, PhD, tied up and played a role in awakening the employees of the employees. The companion book, which is available as an e-book and a narrated audio book, offers the first 8 chapters of Ricken’s oeuvre devoted to self-discovery and bizarre anecdotes.
ScreenshotImage Credits:Apple Books
  • The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller and Adam Scott. The Creator’s official podcast is manufactured by Audacy and reveals and reveals details behind the scenes with actor interviews.
  • Lumon Industires’ LinkedIn profile. Investigating your next work on LinkedIn and You may encounter The Lumon Industries Business Profile, which introduces fans to the concepts of founder Kier Eagan, including its 9 core principles of vision, bustle, mind, cheering, humility, goodwill, fluency, probability, probability and willes. The page often puts an effort with corporate fulfillment and self -improvement, along with its efforts to recruit new workers to join Lumon, with its headquarters in the fictional city of Kier. Its sinister undertones does not differ from some of the corporate talks that surround it on LinkedIn.
ScreenshotImage Credits:Lumon Industries on LinkedIn (Apple)
  • Catch up with ‘Severance’ creator Dan Erickson in his Reddit Ama. It is several years old, but is still worth reading for any fans looking for ‘official’ – if limited – answers to their questions. (For example, Erickson rejected the “it’s all a simulation theory” by responding: “Yes, the office is genuine. It exists physically and everything we see actually happens.”)
  • Roku’s free fan experience. The Streaming Media Player and TV producer worked with Apple TV+ to offer ‘Severance’ fans a free season 2 preview that includes character tros for Mark S., Helly R. and others, plus other rear-the-screens- Content, including an exclusive cast maintenance. (Since the premiere is now over, you can access the fan experience via Roku search instead of the home screen menu.)
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  • Lumon Industries on Tiktok. This Tiktok account hosts the video content produced by Lumon (also Apple’s marketing team), but it seems to be managed independently. On the page you will find the retro look of video footage of the city called Kier and additional extracts from Lumon’s management program (‘Knob’)-such as what to do if you bother a low morale your team. For example, it recommends that you purify all deductions so that employees can focus on their ‘important and mysterious’ work.
  • There are also social media accounts for Lumon Industries on X, Instagram, Wiresand YouTube, but it is also not verified or managed by Apple.
  • Reddit users can delve ‘separations’ theories and share ideas in communities like R/SeveranceAppletVPLUS, R/Severancetvshow, R/welcometolumonor may be shit posts in R/okbuddyseverance,
  • Tumblr users can join the online Tumblr community devoted to ‘Severance’, where you can find fans’ blog placements and fan-made art.
  • Since this is a ‘real’ book, you can leave ‘The You Are’ Tome A Goodreads Review. One selected review reads: “Bullying is nothing but bull and lies. I look forward to reading the book as a whole, but every time I order a copy, it is stolen from my front stairs. So frustrating. “

Fan-made fun

Image Credits:Daniel Shiffman (Open in a new window)
  • Lumon Industries Website. Designed by programmer Daniel Shiffman And several of his YouTube -Series Viewers, with this fan-made website, you can pretend to be an MDR employee, and the numbers-mix and otherwise refine by binding it in boxes at the bottom of the screen. Although the fan version does not look like the software seen on TV – the bowls do not become like the program with the various “tempers”, for example – there is a bit Easter With reference to the screen drawn from Season 2, Deletion 1 on the website.
  • Also from shiffman the you are you bot Bluesy and X Auto-Posts extracts from the book of Dr. Ricken Hale, such as: “A society Diners about illusions, but the famine festivals about the dominance of the kaleidoscope of reality.” Shiffman also put the bot Source code on github.
  • Severance wiki. With this fan-made wiki devoted to all things that Severance, your characters, music, locations, episodes, events, theories and more can explore in one destination. (There are also wikis available on Fandom and wikiwand.)
  • A fan-made Lumon office is available for The Sims 4 game.
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Severance ”Season 2 is on Apple TV+, which also recently arrived on Android Mobile devices. Season 2 started broadcasting on January 17, 2025 and will include 10 episodes that end on March 21, 2025.

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