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Severance: Ben Stiller & Adam Scott talk Severance, Corporate Abuse and Keeping our Humanity

Severance: Ben Stiller & Adam Scott talk Severance, Corporate Abuse and Keeping our Humanity

Update: 2025-03-20
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Host Gabe González takes a dive into the unsettling corporate world of the Peabody award-winning show Severance. Through the dystopian and satirical concept of splitting one’s consciousness into an “innie” (work self) and “outie” (home self), Severance explores the lengths corporations will go to dehumanize its workforce and the ways in which workers alternate between accepting these degradations and fighting back. To take a closer look at these themes, Gabe chats with Severance executive producer and director Ben Stiller, in addition to actor Adam Scott, who portrays Severance’s protagonist Mark. Finally, to break down the theme of a dehumanized workplace, Peabody Awards executive director Jeffrey Jones speaks with professor of sociology Dr. Allison Pugh about her book The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World. 

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Severance: Ben Stiller & Adam Scott talk Severance, Corporate Abuse and Keeping our Humanity

Severance: Ben Stiller & Adam Scott talk Severance, Corporate Abuse and Keeping our Humanity

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