Season 1 of the clever, absorbing show executive produced by Ben Stiller, who directed six of the nine episodes, introduced viewers to Lumon Industries and its “severed” workf

The first season of “Severance,” back in 2022, put a new spin on the concept of being your own boss. It took us inside the mysterious, blinding-white offices of Lumon Industries, where employees in the “macrodata refinement department” have chips implanted in their brains to partition them between a work self (the “innie”) and an out-of-office self (the “outie”).