Apple has worked consistently to expand the world of the Apple TV+ “Severance” series, through online materials, electronic books, podcasts and other contents-so have its fans. Taking advantage of its platform power, the Cupertino technology giant has been able to easily distribute supplementary materials that add to the show’s narrative skills, providing viewers more data on the mysterious employer at the heart of the series, Lumon Industries and characters of others.
And for the fans of production themselves, a accompanying podcast with creator Ben Stiller and star Adam Scott comes out in nuts and bolts of how the scenes and other back-scenes content were filmed.
Currently the most popular Apple TV+ Ever series, “Severance” has won attention and awards for its cinematic techniques, direction, production model, and more, but it also sounds with viewers because it reflects a certain dissatisfaction with American society.
With the border line the absurd takes themes like the dangers of capitalism, the length of the people will go to achieve the balance of work-life, the printing of corporates, the classicism and the bad technology, the “secession” is reaching a wider group than those who normally look at Sci -Fi.
Marketing about the TV series “Puzzle Box Style”, where online content becomes a part of the show itself, is something that brings to mind the work that has been done in previous years about the classic “Lost”, where website connecting -ins provided further data on the mysteries of the show, such as the Dharma initiative.
Unlike “Lost”, however, the creators of “Severance’s” have promised that they know where the series is going and how it will end – which makes it more fun to subtract the rabbit holes following data online.
Below are some of the complementary materials that expand the “Severance’s” universe and offer suggestions for what will come.
Official friends
- “Severance: Lexington letters”, published by Apple Books. This accompanying story and all stories are told from the point of view of a divided employee of Lumon Margaret PEG KINCAID industries, which reveals some of the dark truths about its employer.
- Included in this download is also the macrodate refiner orientation brochure for the separately divided workers, which contains a Lumon version of Microsoft’s Clippy except that it is a chip of anthropomorphic detachment, not a paper clip.
- “You are”, published by Apple Books. In the series, this book is written by the character “Severance” Dr. Rocket Lazlo Hale, PhD, and ends up playing a role in the awakening of detached employees. The accompanying book, which is available as an electronic book and a transmitted audiobook, offers the first 8 chapters of Oeeuvre dedicated to self-disclosure and strange anecdotes.
- Podcast Severance with Ben Stiller & Adam Scott. Produced by Audacy, the creator’s official podcast recovers and reveals details of the backbone along with the actors’ interviews.
- Profile Lumon Industries’ Linkedin. By researching your future work at LinkedIn and you may encounter the business profile Lumon Industries, which presents fans with the concepts of founder Kier Eagan, including its 9 essential principles of vision, verb, cleverness, humility, kindness , versatility, problem and wiles. The site often posts difficult evidence of corporate fulfillment and self-improvement along with its efforts to recruit new workers to join Lumo, based in the fictional city of Kier. The worst enterprises of its content are not so different from some of the corporations that speak that surround it in LinkedIn, surprisingly.
- Capture with the creator of “Severance” Dan Erickson in his Reddit AMA. It is a few years old, but it is still worth reading to any fan seeking “official” answer – if limited – to their questions. (For example, Erickson rejected “is all a simulation theory” replying, “Yes, the office is true. It exists physically and all that we see is actually happening.”)
- Free Roku fans experience. Media player and broadcast TV creator were partned with Apple TV+ to offer “Severance” fans a free season 2 observation that included the intros characters for Mark S., Helly R., and others, plus content of Other back-scars, including an exclusive exclusive interview cast. (As the premiere has passed now, you can access the fan experience through rock research instead of the initial screen menu.)
- Lumon’s industries in Tiktok. This Tiktok account awaits the content of the video produced by Lumon (AKA Apple’s marketing team), but seems to be run independently. On the site, you will find the retro-view of the city’s view called Kier and additional excerpts from the Lumon Management Program (“Gunga”)-as what to do when low morals injure your team. For example, it recommends that you clean all the distractions so that employees can focus on their “important and mysterious” work.
- There are also social media accounts for Lumon Industries on X, Instagram, Threads and YouTube, but these are also not verified or run by Apple.
- Reddit users can research in “detachment” theory and share ideas into communities such as R/Severanceappletvplus, R/Severancesvshow, R/Welcometolumon, or can divide Shitposts to R/Undess Invisiveness,
- Tumblr users can join the community online tumblr dedicated “detachment”, where you can find posts on fan blog and art made by fans.
- Since it is a “real” book, you can leave “you are” a collection of goodreads. A chosen summary reads: “Bullists are nothing but bull and lies. I am looking forward to reading the book as a whole, but whenever I order a copy, it steals my front steps. So disappointing. ”
Fun made by fans
- The website of Lumon Industries. Designed by programmer Daniel Shififman and some of his Youtube series viewers, this fans-created website allows you to pretend to be a MDR employee, refining scary and different numbers-joining them in boxes in the box bottom of the screen. While the fan version does not look like the first software on TV – the bins are not labeled with different “temps” such as in the show, for example – there is a small Easter egg refers to the screen with season 2, Episode 1 on the website.
- Also from Shififman, you are bot in Bluesky and X Auto-Posts excerpts from Dr. Rocket Hale, such as “An Adrift Dines Society over illusions, but the famous mind celebrates the depth hidden within the kaleidoscope of reality.” Shififman also set the Bot source code in GitHub.
- Wiki of detachment. This wiki made by fans dedicated to all things “detachment”, allows you to research characters, music, locations, episodes, events, theory and more, all in one destination. (There are also wikis available in coincidence and Wikiwand.)
- An office made by fans Lumon is available for Sims 4 game.
“Severance ”Season 2 is on Apple TV+, which recently reached android mobile devices. Season 2 began broadcasting on January 17, 2025, and will include 10 episodes, ending on March 21, 2025.
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